OpenClaw Guardian

A standalone watchdog that keeps your OpenClaw Gateway alive 24/7. Built from MyClaw.ai's production infrastructure and open-sourced for the community.

Powered by MyClaw.ai — https://myclaw.ai

What It Does

Checks Gateway health every 30 seconds (GUARDIAN_CHECK_INTERVAL, default: 30)
On failure: runs openclaw doctor --fix up to 3 times (GUARDIAN_MAX_REPAIR, default: 3)
If still down: git reset --hard to last stable commit, restart Gateway
Daily automatic git commit snapshot of workspace
Optional Discord webhook alerts (DISCORD_WEBHOOK_URL)

Environment Variables

All optional — defaults work out of the box:

Variable	Default	Description
`GUARDIAN_WORKSPACE`	`$HOME/.openclaw/workspace`	Workspace path (must be a git repo)
`GUARDIAN_LOG`	`/tmp/openclaw-guardian.log`	Log file path
`GUARDIAN_CHECK_INTERVAL`	`30`	Health check interval (seconds)
`GUARDIAN_MAX_REPAIR`	`3`	Max doctor --fix attempts before rollback
`GUARDIAN_COOLDOWN`	`300`	Cooldown period after all repairs fail (seconds)
`OPENCLAW_CMD`	`openclaw`	OpenClaw CLI command
`DISCORD_WEBHOOK_URL`	(unset)	Discord webhook URL for alerts (optional)

Required System Tools

git — for workspace rollback and daily snapshots
pgrep / pkill — for process detection
curl — for Discord webhook alerts (only if DISCORD_WEBHOOK_URL is set)
openclaw — the OpenClaw CLI

Quick Start

Tell your OpenClaw agent:

"Help me install openclaw-guardian to harden my gateway"

Or manually:

# 1. Init git in workspace (required for rollback)
cd ~/.openclaw/workspace
git init && git add -A && git commit -m "initial"

# 2. Install
cp scripts/guardian.sh ~/.openclaw/guardian.sh
chmod +x ~/.openclaw/guardian.sh

# 3. Start
nohup ~/.openclaw/guardian.sh >> /tmp/openclaw-guardian.log 2>&1 &

Note: Use repository-level git config, not --global:

git -C ~/.openclaw/workspace config user.email "guardian@example.com"
git -C ~/.openclaw/workspace config user.name "Guardian"

Auto-start on Container Restart

Add to ~/.openclaw/start-gateway.sh before the final exec line:

pkill -f "guardian.sh" 2>/dev/null || true
nohup /home/ubuntu/.openclaw/guardian.sh >> /tmp/openclaw-guardian.log 2>&1 &