A safe, cross-platform workflow for managing system power states including shutdowns, reboots, and cancellations through your AI agent.
Install & Download
1. ClawHub CLI
The fastest way to install a skill directly from the registry.
npx clawhub@latest install shutdown
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 shutdown 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 Shutdown?
The Shutdown skill provides a robust framework for managing system power states across Linux, macOS, and Windows environments. Designed for reliability and safety, this Openclaw Skills entry focuses on session integrity, ensuring that power-off or restart commands are never executed without explicit user confirmation and pre-execution checks. It acts as a protective layer between the user and system-level commands, preventing accidental data loss or disconnected remote sessions.
By leveraging platform-specific binaries like systemctl, shutdown, and PowerShell, the skill adapts to the environment it is running in. Whether you are managing a local workstation or a remote server, this skill prioritizes delayed actions (such as +1 minute shutdowns) to allow for last-minute cancellations, making it an essential tool for developers and sysadmins using Openclaw Skills.
Shutdown Use Cases
- Scheduling a system shutdown after a long-running build or data processing task completes.
- Safely rebooting a remote server while receiving warnings about potential session disconnects.
- Canceling an accidental shutdown command before it executes using the cancel workflow.
- Performing pre-shutdown system health checks to identify active users or critical processes.
How Shutdown Works
- The AI agent clarifies the user intent, identifying the target machine (local or remote), the specific action (shutdown or reboot), and the desired timing.
- Read-only pre-checks are performed using system tools like uptime, who, or systemctl to identify active users and potential risks.
- The skill selects the appropriate platform-specific command based on the operating system metadata (Darwin, Linux, or Win32).
- A mandatory confirmation prompt is presented to the user, detailing the exact command and its expected impact on the session.
- Upon clear confirmation, the command is executed, and the agent verifies the scheduled state or provides post-action verification steps.
Shutdown Setup
To use this skill within the Openclaw Skills framework, ensure your environment has the necessary permissions to execute power management commands.
# For Linux and macOS, the user must have sudo privileges
sudo -v
# For Windows, Ensure PowerShell is running with appropriate execution policies
# No additional binary installation is required as it uses native system tools.
Shutdown Data Schema & Taxonomy
The Shutdown skill interacts directly with system binaries and does not maintain a persistent database, but it organizes its execution logic based on the following taxonomy:
| Attribute | Description |
|---|---|
| Action Type | shutdown, reboot, schedule, or cancel |
| Target Host | Identifies if the command applies to a local machine or remote host |
| OS Metadata | Detects darwin, linux, or win32 to choose the correct syntax |
| Timing Parameter | Supports immediate execution or relative offsets (e.g., +1, +10, 60s) |
| Confirmation Status | Tracks explicit user approval before state-changing execution |
Shutdown Advanced Features
- Intelligent platform detection to switch between systemd, BSD-style shutdown, and Windows CMD/PowerShell commands.
- Remote session awareness that issues specific warnings when a shutdown might terminate the AI agent's own connection.
- Integrated pre-shutdown checks that report system uptime and active user counts to prevent interrupting other users.
- Built-in cancellation logic specifically designed to reverse scheduled power actions across all supported platforms.
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