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Config-Sentinel

by @mike-alford

A strict guardrail for OpenClaw config changes. Snapshot before editing, validate after editing, and rollback immediately when config health fails. Built to...

Versionv1.0.1
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πŸ“‹ Tips & Best Practices

This skill does not run continuously. It is an on-demand guardrail for risky config operations.

Use it whenever config integrity matters more than speed. If you are about to patch or rewrite config and you are tempted to skip the snapshot step, that is exactly when you should not skip it.

πŸ”’ Constraints

After a config change, validate:

  • JSON parseability
  • presence of expected high-level keys
  • minimum agent count threshold
  • bindings referencing real agent ids
  • optional required workspace files
  • optional provider-specific checks

    • Rollback

    Restore the last-known-good config snapshot if a change breaks structure or validation.

    Health check

    Run validation without making changes to assess config health.

    Strict posture

    This skill is intentionally strict. Config changes are one of the easiest ways to break a working OpenClaw setup.

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    TERMINAL
    clawhub install config-sentinel

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