ClawSweeper

ClawSweeper lives at ~/Projects/clawsweeper. It is the one OpenClaw maintenance bot for sweeping, repair jobs, and guarded fix PRs. Use this skill whenever asked about reports, findings, dispatch health, repair/cloud PR creation, comment commands, automerge, permissions, or gates.

Start

Inspect git status --short --branch in the ClawSweeper checkout. Status and report requests stay read-only: use current reports and live read APIs when freshness matters, without pulling or building just to inspect them.

For authorized implementation or execution, update a clean task-owned checkout and build only when the selected command needs it. Preserve unrelated edits and other operators' active workflows.

One Bot, One App

Use the ClawSweeper repo and the clawsweeper GitHub App. Use only CLAWSWEEPER_* configuration for this automation. Do not use legacy apps, variables, labels, or skills.

Required app setup:

• CLAWSWEEPER_APP_CLIENT_ID: public app client ID for clawsweeper.
• CLAWSWEEPER_APP_PRIVATE_KEY: private key used only inside actions/create-github-app-token steps.
• Target app permissions: read target scan context; write issues and pull requests; contents write for report commits, repair branches, and workflow inputs; Actions write on openclaw/clawsweeper for comment-router re-review dispatch, workflow dispatch, run cancellation, and self-heal.

Token boundary:

• Codex workers do not get mutation credentials.
• Review workers run with stripped secret/token env.
• Deterministic scripts own comments, labels, branch pushes, PR creation, closes, and merges through short-lived GitHub App tokens.
• Merge and write gates default closed.

Hosted Commit Reviews

Hosted per-commit reports and commit Check Runs are retired. For the retained offline review of a committed branch, use pnpm local-review -- --base main. $autoreview --mode commit --commit <sha> remains a separate general-purpose review path.

Sweep Reports

Issue/PR reports live at:

records/<repo-slug>/items/<number>.md
records/<repo-slug>/closed/<number>.md

Lead with counts, concrete findings, and report links. Do not post unsolicited GitHub comments from report-reading work. Public surfaces are markdown reports, durable ClawSweeper review comments, and optional checks.

PR reports include Codex /review-style reviewFindings with priority, confidence, repository-relative file, and line range. Public PR comments show a short Review findings: list when findings exist; full review comments, evidence links, likely owners, and runtime details stay inside the collapsed Review details block.

For a simple status request, read existing reports and bounded live workflow state. Use pnpm run audit only for a requested full audit.

Reconciliation is a separate authorized mutation: bare pnpm run reconcile moves/deletes report and work-plan files. Inspect its dry-run only when that maintenance task is requested; do not run reconciliation during status/report reads. Likewise, apply-decisions belongs to an explicitly authorized apply workflow, beginning with its dry-run.

Create One Repair Job

Create a job from issue/PR refs and a maintainer prompt:

pnpm run repair:create-job -- \
  --repo openclaw/openclaw \
  --refs 123,456 \
  --prompt-file /tmp/clawsweeper-prompt.md

Create from an existing ClawSweeper report:

pnpm run repair:create-job -- \
  --from-report ../clawsweeper/records/openclaw-openclaw/items/123.md

The job creator checks for an existing open PR, body match, or remote clawsweeper/<cluster-id> branch before writing another job. Use --dry-run to inspect. Use --force only after deciding the duplicate guard is stale.

Validate, commit, then dispatch:

pnpm run repair:validate-job -- jobs/openclaw/inbox/clawsweeper-openclaw-openclaw-123.md
pnpm run repair:dispatch -- jobs/openclaw/inbox/clawsweeper-openclaw-openclaw-123.md \
  --mode autonomous \
  --runner blacksmith-4vcpu-ubuntu-2404 \
  --execution-runner blacksmith-16vcpu-ubuntu-2404 \
  --model gpt-6-astra

Do not dispatch a just-created job before the job file is committed and pushed; the workflow reads the job path from GitHub.

Replacement PRs

For a useful but uneditable/stale/unsafe source PR, make the maintainer prompt explicit:

Treat #123 as useful source work. If the source branch cannot be safely updated
because it is uneditable, stale, draft-only, unmergeable, or unsafe, create a
narrow ClawSweeper replacement PR instead of waiting. Preserve the source PR
author as co-author, credit the source PR in the replacement PR body, and close
only that source PR after the replacement PR is opened.

The worker should emit repair_strategy=replace_uneditable_branch and list the source PR URL in source_prs. The deterministic executor opens or updates clawsweeper/<cluster-id>, adds non-bot source authors as Co-authored-by trailers, and closes superseded source PRs only after replacement exists.

Gates

Change execution gates only under explicit authority for that window. Record the original state and any agreed restoration before changing it:

gh variable set CLAWSWEEPER_ALLOW_EXECUTE --repo openclaw/clawsweeper --body 1
gh variable set CLAWSWEEPER_ALLOW_FIX_PR --repo openclaw/clawsweeper --body 1
gh variable set CLAWSWEEPER_ALLOW_MERGE --repo openclaw/clawsweeper --body 1
gh variable set CLAWSWEEPER_ALLOW_AUTOMERGE --repo openclaw/clawsweeper --body 1

Restore a gate only when the authorized window includes that restoration and its ownership/state still match. Otherwise leave it unchanged; another active maintainer window may intentionally keep it at 1. Never reset all gates as generic cleanup.

Important gates:

• CLAWSWEEPER_ALLOW_EXECUTE: allows deterministic write lanes.
• CLAWSWEEPER_ALLOW_FIX_PR: allows branch repair/replacement PRs.
• CLAWSWEEPER_ALLOW_MERGE: allows merge-capable applicators.
• CLAWSWEEPER_ALLOW_AUTOMERGE: allows comment-router automerge.
• CLAWSWEEPER_COMMENT_ROUTER_EXECUTE: lets scheduled comment routing post replies and dispatch repair.

Maintainer Mentions

Prefer @clawsweeper comments for all maintainer-facing control. Slash commands still parse as compatibility aliases, but examples and live guidance should use mentions.

@clawsweeper status
@clawsweeper re-review
@clawsweeper review
@clawsweeper fix ci
@clawsweeper address review
@clawsweeper rebase
@clawsweeper autofix
@clawsweeper automerge
@clawsweeper approve
@clawsweeper explain
@clawsweeper stop
@clawsweeper <question or safe action request>
@clawsweeper[bot] re-review
@openclaw-clawsweeper fix ci
@openclaw-clawsweeper[bot] fix ci

Accepted aliases: review, re-review, rereview, review again, rerun review, and run review. review and re-review dispatch a fresh ClawSweeper issue/PR review without starting repair. fix ci, address review, and rebase dispatch the repair worker only for ClawSweeper PRs or PRs opted into clawsweeper:autofix or clawsweeper:automerge. autofix runs the bounded review/fix loop without merging. automerge runs the bounded review/fix/merge loop, but draft PRs stay fix-only until GitHub marks them ready for review.

Freeform maintainer mentions such as @clawsweeper why did automerge stop? or @clawsweeper: can you explain this failure? dispatch a read-only assist review with the mention text as one-off instructions. The answer lands in the next public ClawSweeper review comment. Action-looking prose does not directly mutate GitHub; it must map to existing structured recommendations and pass the normal deterministic gates.

Default accepted maintainers: OWNER, MEMBER, COLLABORATOR; fallback repository permission accepts admin, maintain, or write. Contributor comments are ignored without a reply.

Run router manually:

pnpm run repair:comment-router -- --repo openclaw/openclaw --lookback-minutes 180
pnpm run repair:comment-router -- --repo openclaw/openclaw --execute --wait-for-capacity

Scheduled routing stays dry unless CLAWSWEEPER_COMMENT_ROUTER_EXECUTE=1.

Trusted Autofix And Automerge

@clawsweeper autofix opts an existing PR into the bounded review/fix loop. @clawsweeper automerge opts an existing PR into the bounded review/fix/merge loop. The router:

• verifies maintainer authorization;
• labels the PR clawsweeper:autofix or clawsweeper:automerge;
• dispatches ClawSweeper review for the current head SHA;
• creates or reuses a durable adopted job;
• repairs at most the configured caps;
• never merges autofix PRs or draft PRs;
• merges automerge PRs only when ClawSweeper passed the exact current head, checks are green, GitHub says mergeable, no human-review label is present, the PR is not draft, and both merge gates are open.

Missing changelog is never a review finding or merge blocker. CHANGELOG.md is release-only; record user-facing release-note context in the PR body or squash message, never edit the changelog for normal repairs.

If ClawSweeper passes while merge gates are closed, it labels clawsweeper:merge-ready and comments instead of merging. @clawsweeper stop adds clawsweeper:human-review.

When asked to create a PR and enable ClawSweeper automerge, do not leave the local OpenClaw checkout on the PR branch. After the PR is created, pushed, and the @clawsweeper automerge request is posted or otherwise confirmed, return the local checkout to main and fast-forward it when the working tree is clean:

git switch main
git pull --ff-only

If unrelated local edits or an in-progress rebase prevent switching, report the blocker instead of stashing, deleting, or overwriting work.

Repair caps:

CLAWSWEEPER_MAX_REPAIRS_PER_PR=10
CLAWSWEEPER_MAX_REPAIRS_PER_HEAD=1

Security Boundary

Do not stage unapproved security-sensitive work for ClawSweeper Repair. Route vulnerability reports, CVE/GHSA/advisory work, leaked secrets/tokens/keys, plaintext secret storage, SSRF, XSS, CSRF, RCE, auth bypass, privilege escalation, and sensitive data exposure to central OpenClaw security handling.

For PRs explicitly opted into clawsweeper:autofix or clawsweeper:automerge, security-sensitive review findings may dispatch bounded repair, but merge remains blocked until a later exact-head review is clean and the normal merge gates pass. Trust deterministic ClawSweeper security markers, labels, and job frontmatter; do not infer security handling from vague prose.

Monitoring

Receiver workflows:

gh run list --repo openclaw/clawsweeper --workflow sweep.yml \
  --limit 12 --json databaseId,displayTitle,event,status,conclusion,createdAt,updatedAt,url
gh run list --repo openclaw/clawsweeper --workflow repair-cluster-worker.yml \
  --limit 12 --json databaseId,displayTitle,event,status,conclusion,createdAt,updatedAt,url
gh run list --repo openclaw/clawsweeper --workflow repair-comment-router.yml \
  --limit 12 --json databaseId,displayTitle,event,status,conclusion,createdAt,updatedAt,url
gh run list --repo openclaw/clawsweeper --workflow github-activity.yml \
  --limit 12 --json databaseId,displayTitle,event,status,conclusion,createdAt,updatedAt,url

Target dispatcher:

gh run list --repo openclaw/openclaw --workflow "ClawSweeper Dispatch" \
  --limit 8 --json databaseId,displayTitle,event,status,conclusion,headSha,url

Reading Output

For findings or failures, summarize:

• target repo, item/PR, run, report path
• result, confidence, severity, and exact blocker
• affected files or cluster refs
• validation commands and whether they passed
• whether mutation gates were open or closed
• next deterministic action

Keep the broom small: one cluster, one branch, one PR, narrow proof, clear owner-visible evidence.