Restart Guard

What it does

The restart-guard skill provides a deterministic way to restart an OpenClaw gateway while preserving the existing context and proactively reporting results back to the originating session. It ensures a controlled restart process, handling the transition with a guardian script that monitors the gateway's health and confirms successful resumption. The user experience focuses on simplicity – just expressing the intent to restart is sufficient.

When to use it

• Configuration Changes: After making changes to the OpenClaw configuration, use restart-guard to ensure a clean and controlled restart.
• Troubleshooting Issues: If experiencing unexpected behavior or errors within the gateway, a restart initiated by this skill can help resolve underlying problems.
• Scheduled Maintenance: Implement restarts as part of regular maintenance routines without disrupting user sessions significantly.
• Automated Restart Flows: Integrate restart-guard into automated workflows to handle restarts based on specific triggers or conditions.

Key capabilities

• Deterministic OpenClaw gateway restart.
• Context preservation during the restart process.
• Proactive reporting of results back to the originating session.
• Automatic discovery of enabled channels for notifications.
• Supports generic channel passthrough (e.g., Feishu).
• Uses a disaster route (origin -> agent:main:main -> external broadcast) with retry budget.

Example prompts

• "可以重启了" (Can I restart?)
• "restart now"
• “Please restart the gateway”

Tips & gotchas

The skill automatically discovers enabled channels from openclaw.json and the skill configuration, so no manual channel arguments are typically required for basic usage. Ensure that the necessary configurations in ~/.openclaw/custom/config/restart-guard.yaml are set up correctly before attempting to use the skill.