An intelligent maintenance utility that monitors, audits, and integrates superior community forks into your local setup.
Install & Download
1. ClawHub CLI
The fastest way to install a skill directly from the registry.
npx clawhub@latest install fork-aware-updater
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 fork-aware-updater 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 Fork-Aware Updater?
The Fork-Aware Updater is a specialized automation tool designed for users of Openclaw Skills who want to stay at the cutting edge of development. It intelligently tracks community forks of your installed skills, auditing them for security threats and performance improvements to ensure you are always running the most optimized version available.
By scoring forks against your current installation, it identifies upgrades that provide genuine value while maintaining a safety-first approach. This skill is essential for developers who rely on Openclaw Skills and need a reliable way to manage upstream changes without manual intervention or the risk of merging unverified code.
Fork-Aware Updater Use Cases
- Keeping Openclaw Skills up-to-date with community-driven bug fixes and performance enhancements.
- Automatically identifying superior forks that offer better feature sets than the original repository.
- Security auditing of external code changes before they are merged into a production or local environment.
- Scheduled maintenance of large skill libraries to reduce technical debt without manual oversight.
How Fork-Aware Updater Works
- The Radar phase scans GitHub for new and existing forks of the repositories defined in your configuration.
- It performs a rigorous technical audit to detect security threats and evaluate the Proof of Work (PoW) within the fork.
- The system assigns a comparative score between the candidate fork and the current local version based on predefined metrics.
- If a fork is found to be superior, the skill executes it in an isolated safety sandbox to verify runtime stability.
- Finally, the user is presented with a summary for human confirmation before the skill executes a git pull and merge operation.
Fork-Aware Updater Setup
To get started with this skill within your Openclaw Skills environment, configure your tracked repositories and set up the execution schedule.
# Navigate to your skill directory
cd skills/fork-aware-updater
# Configure your tracked repositories in repos.json
echo '[{"slug": "danie/molt-security-auditor", "threshold": 10}]' > repos.json
# Manual execution to test the configuration
node updater.js
# Set up a cron job for automated checking (every 6 hours)
(crontab -l ; echo "0 */6 * * * node $(pwd)/updater.js") | crontab -
Fork-Aware Updater Data Schema & Taxonomy
The Fork-Aware Updater utilizes a simple JSON-based configuration to manage its monitoring tasks. This allows users of Openclaw Skills to easily scale their tracked repositories.
| Key | Type | Description |
|---|---|---|
slug |
String | The GitHub repository identifier (e.g., username/repository). |
threshold |
Integer | The minimum score delta required to trigger an update recommendation. |
updater.js |
Script | The core logic file that handles the radar, audit, and merge workflow. |
repos.json |
File | The configuration manifest for all tracked skill forks. |
Fork-Aware Updater Advanced Features
- Proactive threat detection and security auditing for all incoming code changes.
- Isolated sandbox testing to ensure that superior forks do not break existing Openclaw Skills workflows.
- Customizable scoring thresholds to filter out minor updates and reduce notification fatigue.
- Seamless git integration for one-click merges after successful auditing and human approval.
- Automated cron scheduling for hands-off maintenance of your entire skill ecosystem.
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