A robust diagnostic utility that audits OpenClaw environments against 12 production primitives and 8 common setup footguns to prevent data leaks and performance degradation.
Install & Download
1. ClawHub CLI
The fastest way to install a skill directly from the registry.
npx clawhub@latest install openclaw-audit
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 openclaw-audit using Clawhub. If Clawhub is not installed, install it first (npm i -g clawhub).
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Get the raw skill files in a ZIP archive.
What is OpenClaw Config Audit?
The OpenClaw Config Audit is a technical diagnostic tool developed to ensure that your Openclaw Skills are running in a secure, cost-effective, and highly reliable environment. It goes beyond basic checks by evaluating your setup against twenty specific benchmarks, including Tier 1 non-negotiables like tiered trust permission systems and Tier 3 footguns such as inlined API keys or zombie session states. This skill is essential for developers who need to move from a local sandbox to a production-ready agentic workflow without silent failures.
By leveraging this tool, users can identify high-risk issues like dead-auth fallback chains and Slack tool-progress leaks that could expose sensitive system data. It provides a structured, severity-ranked assessment that offers clear, actionable fixes for every detected vulnerability or inefficiency.
OpenClaw Config Audit Use Cases
- Validate the integrity of your environment immediately after the initial setup process.
- Audit your configuration before and after migrating Openclaw Skills to a new machine or server.
- Perform mandatory monthly health checks to catch silent cost leaks and stale ACP session files.
- Troubleshoot unpredictable agent behavior or amnesiac responses caused by active-memory timeouts.
How OpenClaw Config Audit Works
- The skill parses core configuration files including openclaw.json, secrets.json (paths only), and cron jobs.
- It analyzes the agent workspace for structural metadata in AGENTS.md and HEARTBEAT.md files.
- It executes status probes across all enabled channels and plugins to ensure connectivity.
- The system runs a built-in security audit to detect unencrypted secrets or improper permission gating.
- It scans for zombie processes and stale session state files that lead to resource exhaustion.
- It cross-references fallback model chains against authenticated profiles to ensure no hang-ups occur during provider outages.
- It generates a comprehensive report with a numerical score and ranked remediation steps.
OpenClaw Config Audit Setup
To integrate this audit into your existing Openclaw Skills library, ensure the audit package is registered in your local registry. You can run the audit and check your environment status using the following commands:
# Review the status of all plugins and channels
openclaw status
openclaw channels status --probe
# Execute the specialized security audit
openclaw security audit
Ensure that your configuration files are located in the standard ~/.openclaw/ directory for the audit to correctly discover your settings.
OpenClaw Config Audit Data Schema & Taxonomy
The audit organizes its findings into a clear taxonomy to help developers prioritize fixes for their Openclaw Skills:
| Data Point | Description |
|---|---|
| Tier 1 Primitives | Core security and persistence requirements (Registry, Permissions, Budget Tracking). |
| Tier 2 Primitives | Operational maturity metrics (Compaction, Audit Trails, Agent Type Systems). |
| Tier 3 Footguns | High-risk silent failures (Secret leaks, Zombie sessions, Model allowlist mismatches). |
| Severity Ranking | Critical (immediate action), Warn (near-term action), and Info (suggestions). |
| Score | A final score out of 20 based on the presence of primitives and absence of footguns. |
OpenClaw Config Audit Advanced Features
- Secret Leak Detection: Scans for inlined plaintext API keys in your variables and provider configurations.
- Zombie Session Remediation: Identifies and provides instructions for cleaning up stale ACP processes and thread-bindings.
- Cron Safety Checks: Detects if your cron jobs are at risk of shipping prompt templates to users instead of actual results.
- Conflict Resolution: Detects overlapping routing logic between bundled skills and custom workspace skills.
- Model Fallback Verification: Ensures that every model in your fallback chain has an associated auth profile to prevent silent hangs.
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