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

cd ~/Projects/clawsweeper
git status --short --branch
git pull --ff-only
pnpm run build:all

Do not overwrite unrelated edits. If the tree is dirty, inspect first and keep read-only report work read-only unless the requester asked to commit.

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.

Useful commands:

pnpm run status
pnpm run audit
pnpm run reconcile
pnpm run apply-decisions -- --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-5.6-sol

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

Open execution windows intentionally and close them after the run:

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

Reset gates only when explicitly requested; the active maintainer window may intentionally leave them at 1.

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.