A comprehensive toolset for tracking, versioning, and managing the entire evolution of autonomous agents and their capabilities.
Install & Download
1. ClawHub CLI
The fastest way to install a skill directly from the registry.
npx clawhub@latest install arc-agent-lifecycle
2. Manual Installation
Copy the skill folder to one of these locations
~/.openclaw/skills/ <project>/skills/ Priority: Workspace > Local > Bundled
3. Prompt Installation
Copy this prompt to OpenClaw to install it automatically.
Help me install arc-agent-lifecycle using Clawhub. If Clawhub is not installed, install it first (npm i -g clawhub).
Prefer to download?
Get the raw skill files in a ZIP archive.
What is Agent Lifecycle Manager?
Agent Lifecycle Manager provides a robust framework for managing the evolution of autonomous agents. It addresses the critical need for version control in agentic environments, where skills, configurations, and models change frequently. By integrating this capability with Openclaw Skills, developers can maintain a clear audit trail of their agent state, ensuring reproducibility and easier debugging when updates occur.
This skill enables users to capture snapshots of their agent configuration, compare different states to identify breaking changes, and safely retire old skills with logged reasons. It ensures that you never lose track of what your agent was running at any specific point in time, bringing professional DevOps-style management to the world of AI agents.
Agent Lifecycle Manager Use Cases
- Tracking changes in agent configuration before and after upgrading model versions.
- Debugging performance regressions by comparing current agent state with historical snapshots.
- Maintaining an audit log for skill retirement to document why certain capabilities were replaced.
- Rolling back to a known stable configuration using Openclaw Skills during experimental development.
- Managing multiple agent environments with distinct skill sets and version histories.
How Agent Lifecycle Manager Works
- Initialize the manager to start tracking the agent current set of installed skills and active configurations.
- Create a snapshot using the CLI to record a point-in-time state of the agent environment.
- Perform updates, install new skills, or modify environment variables as needed during development.
- Use the diff command to compare the new state against previous snapshots to verify changes.
- Log the retirement of obsolete skills to maintain a clean and documented workspace within the Openclaw Skills ecosystem.
- Review the complete change history or rollback to previous versions if issues are detected.
Agent Lifecycle Manager Setup
To set up the Agent Lifecycle Manager, ensure you have Python 3 installed on your system (Darwin or Linux). You can then use the following commands to manage your Openclaw Skills state:
# Snapshot the current agent state
python3 scripts/lifecycle.py snapshot --name "initial-setup"
# List all saved states
python3 scripts/lifecycle.py list
Agent Lifecycle Manager Data Schema & Taxonomy
The skill organizes its data within the user home directory to ensure persistence across sessions. The primary storage structure is as follows:
| File/Folder | Description |
|---|---|
~/.openclaw/lifecycle/ |
Root directory for all lifecycle metadata. |
snapshots/ |
Contains JSON files representing point-in-time captures of skill versions and config. |
history.json |
A sequential log of all install, update, and removal events. |
retirement_log.json |
Detailed records of why specific Openclaw Skills were removed. |
Tracked metadata includes skill names, version strings, environment variables, and specific model assignments.
Agent Lifecycle Manager Advanced Features
- Dry-run support for rollbacks to preview changes before they are applied to the production environment.
- Comparative diffing between snapshots to isolate configuration drift and identify exactly what changed.
- Automated retirement logging with detailed reasoning for better long-term knowledge management.
- Persistent state tracking across different operating systems including Darwin and Linux.
- High-granularity history tracking with configurable limit filters for auditing large, complex environments.
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