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Watchdog Heartbeat
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sunbinnju-star
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· v1.0.0
· MIT-0
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/install watchdog-heartbeat
Description
Monitor service health, heartbeat freshness, stuck workflows, and trigger recovery or degraded mode. Use on: high-frequency schedule, after system startup, w...
Usage Guidance
This skill is a specification for monitoring and recovery recommendations and by itself does not access your system or secrets. Before installing: (1) Confirm where the declared inputs (heartbeat and workflow records, health endpoints, restart history) will come from and ensure they are accurate and read-only for the skill. (2) Decide whether automatic actions (restart, degraded_mode, escalate) should require human confirmation — the skill returns recommendations but an agent with execution rights could act on them. (3) Ensure the agent or environment that supplies inputs/acts on outputs follows least privilege (e.g., separate runbooks/credentials for restarts) to avoid accidental or automated disruptive changes. (4) If you plan to wire this into automated recovery, add safeguards (rate limits, approvals, escalation policies) so recommendations cannot cause cascading restarts.
Capability Analysis
Type: OpenClaw Skill
Name: watchdog-heartbeat
Version: 1.0.0
The watchdog-heartbeat skill is a standard monitoring and observability tool designed to evaluate service health, heartbeat freshness, and workflow integrity. The instructions in SKILL.md provide logical thresholds for health states and recovery recommendations (e.g., restart, notify, escalate) without any evidence of malicious intent, data exfiltration, or unauthorized command execution.
Capability Assessment
Purpose & Capability
The name/description (monitor heartbeats, stuck workflows, recovery recommendations) match the SKILL.md inputs and outputs. All required inputs (service_list, health_endpoints, heartbeat_records, workflow_status_records, restart_records) are appropriate and expected for this purpose.
Instruction Scope
SKILL.md is a self-contained specification for evaluating health and producing recommendations. It does not instruct the agent to read unrelated system files, access extraneous environment variables, or call unexpected external endpoints. It only declares the inputs the skill expects.
Install Mechanism
No install spec or code files are present; this is instruction-only and therefore does not write code to disk or download artifacts.
Credentials
The skill requests no environment variables, credentials, or config paths. The declared inputs are reasonable for the stated purpose and there are no disproportionate secret/credential requests.
Persistence & Privilege
The skill is not always-enabled and has no install footprint. However, it returns actionable recommendations (restart, escalate, degraded_mode). Consider that if the agent invoking this skill has autonomous execution privileges (the platform default), downstream automation could act on those recommendations (e.g., trigger restarts) — that is an operational risk to manage outside the skill.
How to Use
- Make sure OpenClaw is installed (local or Docker)
- Run the install command in chat:
/install watchdog-heartbeat - After installation, invoke the skill by name or use
/watchdog-heartbeat - Provide required inputs per the skill's parameter spec and get structured output
Version History
v1.0.0
Initial release: monitor service health, heartbeat freshness, stuck workflows
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Frequently Asked Questions
What is Watchdog Heartbeat?
Monitor service health, heartbeat freshness, stuck workflows, and trigger recovery or degraded mode. Use on: high-frequency schedule, after system startup, w... It is an AI Agent Skill for Claude Code / OpenClaw, with 120 downloads so far.
How do I install Watchdog Heartbeat?
Run "/install watchdog-heartbeat" in the OpenClaw or Claude Code chat to install it in one step — no extra setup required.
Is Watchdog Heartbeat free?
Yes, Watchdog Heartbeat is completely free, licensed under MIT-0. You can download, install and use it at no cost.
Which platforms does Watchdog Heartbeat support?
Watchdog Heartbeat is cross-platform and runs anywhere OpenClaw / Claude Code is available (cross-platform).
Who created Watchdog Heartbeat?
It is built and maintained by sunbinnju-star (@sunbinnju-star); the current version is v1.0.0.
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