by LeoYeAI
🛡️ Guardian watchdog for OpenClaw Gateway — auto-monitor, self-repair via doctor --fix, git-based rollback, daily snapshots, and Discord alerts. Powered by MyClaw.ai
# Add to your Claude Code skills
git clone https://github.com/LeoYeAI/openclaw-guardianGuides for using ai agents skills like openclaw-guardian.
Last scanned: 5/11/2026
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}openclaw-guardian is an open-source ai agents skill for AI coding assistants such as Claude Code, Codex CLI, and ChatGPT, built by LeoYeAI. 🛡️ Guardian watchdog for OpenClaw Gateway — auto-monitor, self-repair via doctor --fix, git-based rollback, daily snapshots, and Discord alerts. Powered by MyClaw.ai. It has 579 GitHub stars.
Yes. openclaw-guardian passed SkillsLLM's automated security scan — a dependency vulnerability audit plus prompt-injection heuristics — with no high-severity issues. You can read the full report in the Security Report section on this page.
Clone the repository with "git clone https://github.com/LeoYeAI/openclaw-guardian" and add it to your Claude Code skills directory (see the Installation section above). openclaw-guardian ships a SKILL.md manifest, so compatible agents can discover and load it automatically.
openclaw-guardian is primarily written in Shell. It is open-source under LeoYeAI on GitHub, so you can review or fork the full source.
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A standalone watchdog that keeps your OpenClaw Gateway alive 24/7. Built from MyClaw.ai's production infrastructure and open-sourced for the community.
Powered by MyClaw.ai — https://myclaw.ai
GUARDIAN_CHECK_INTERVAL, default: 30)openclaw doctor --fix up to 3 times (GUARDIAN_MAX_REPAIR, default: 3)git reset --hard to last stable commit, restart Gatewaygit commit snapshot of workspaceDISCORD_WEBHOOK_URL)All optional — defaults work out of the box:
| Variable | Default | Description |
|---|---|---|
GUARDIAN_WORKSPACE |
$HOME/.openclaw/workspace |
Workspace path (must be a git repo) |
GUARDIAN_LOG |
/tmp/openclaw-guardian.log |
Log file path |
GUARDIAN_CHECK_INTERVAL |
30 |
Health check interval (seconds) |
GUARDIAN_MAX_REPAIR |
3 |
Max doctor --fix attempts before rollback |
GUARDIAN_COOLDOWN |
300 |
Cooldown period after all repairs fail (seconds) |
OPENCLAW_CMD |
openclaw |
OpenClaw CLI command |
DISCORD_WEBHOOK_URL |
(unset) | Discord webhook URL for alerts (optional) |
git — for workspace rollback and daily snapshotspgrep / pkill — for process detectioncurl — for Discord webhook alerts (only if DISCORD_WEBHOOK_URL is set)openclaw — the OpenClaw CLITell your OpenClaw agent:
"Help me install openclaw-guardian to harden my gateway"
Or manually:
# 1. Init git in workspace (required for rollback)
cd ~/.openclaw/workspace
git init && git add -A && git commit -m "initial"
# 2. Install
cp scripts/guardian.sh ~/.openclaw/guardian.sh
chmod +x ~/.openclaw/guardian.sh
# 3. Start
nohup ~/.openclaw/guardian.sh >> /tmp/openclaw-guardian.log 2>&1 &
Note: Use repository-level git config, not --global:
git -C ~/.openclaw/workspace config user.email "guardian@example.com"
git -C ~/.openclaw/workspace config user.name "Guardian"
Add to ~/.openclaw/start-gateway.sh before the final exec line:
pkill -f "guardian.sh" 2>/dev/null || true
nohup /home/ubuntu/.openclaw/guardian.sh >> /tmp/openclaw-guardian.log 2>&1 &
Full docs: https://github.com/LeoYeAI/openclaw-guardian
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openclaw doctor --fix on failure (up to 3 attempts)git commit of your workspaceGateway down detected
│
▼
doctor --fix ──→ success? ──→ ✅ Done
(up to 3x)
│ all failed
▼
git rollback ──→ success? ──→ ✅ Done
│ failed
▼
cooldown 300s → resume monitoring
Already using OpenClaw? Just tell your AI agent:
"Help me install openclaw-guardian to harden my gateway"
Your agent will handle everything automatically — git init, script install, and auto-start. No terminal needed.
# 1. Initialize git in workspace
cd ~/.openclaw/workspace
git init && git add -A && git commit -m "initial"
# 2. Install
cp scripts/guardian.sh ~/.openclaw/guardian.sh
chmod +x ~/.openclaw/guardian.sh
# 3. Start
nohup ~/.openclaw/guardian.sh >> /tmp/openclaw-guardian.log 2>&1 &
| Variable | Default | Description |
|---|---|---|
GUARDIAN_WORKSPACE |
$HOME/.openclaw/workspace |
Workspace git repo path |
GUARDIAN_CHECK_INTERVAL |
30 |
Health check interval (seconds) |
GUARDIAN_MAX_REPAIR |
3 |
Max repair attempts before rollback |
GUARDIAN_COOLDOWN |
300 |
Cooldown after all repairs fail (seconds) |
DISCORD_WEBHOOK_URL |
(unset) | Discord webhook for alerts (optional) |
| gw-watchdog | Guardian | |
|---|---|---|
| Check interval | 15s | 30s |
| Action | Fast restart | doctor --fix → rollback |
| Git rollback | ❌ | ✅ |
| Discord alerts | ❌ | ✅ |
| Daily backup | ❌ | ✅ |
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