clawsweeper

name	clawsweeper
description	Use for all ClawSweeper work: OpenClaw issue/PR sweep reports, commit-review reports, repair jobs, cloud fix PRs, comment commands, trusted ClawSweeper-reviewed automerge, GitHub Actions monitoring, permissions, gates, and manual backfills.

ClawSweeper

ClawSweeper lives at ~/Projects/clawsweeper. It is the one OpenClaw maintenance bot for sweeping, commit review, repair jobs, and guarded fix PRs. Use this skill whenever Peter asks about reports, findings, dispatch health, repair/cloud PR creation, comment commands, automerge, permissions, or gates.

Start

cd ~/Projects/clawsweeper
git status --short --branch
git pull --ff-only
pnpm run build:all

Do not overwrite unrelated edits. If the tree is dirty, inspect first and keep read-only report work read-only unless Peter asked to commit.

One Bot, One App

Use the ClawSweeper repo and the clawsweeper GitHub App. Use only CLAWSWEEPER_* configuration for this automation. Do not use legacy apps, variables, labels, or skills.

Required app setup:

• CLAWSWEEPER_APP_CLIENT_ID: public app client ID for clawsweeper.
• CLAWSWEEPER_APP_PRIVATE_KEY: private key used only inside actions/create-github-app-token steps.
• Target app permissions: read target scan context; write issues and pull requests; contents write for report commits, repair branches, and workflow inputs; Actions write on openclaw/clawsweeper for comment-router re-review dispatch, workflow dispatch, run cancellation, and self-heal; optional Checks write for commit Check Runs.

Token boundary:

• Codex workers do not get mutation credentials.
• Review workers run with stripped secret/token env.
• Deterministic scripts own comments, labels, branch pushes, PR creation, closes, and merges through short-lived GitHub App tokens.
• Merge and write gates default closed.

Commit Reports

Canonical commit reports:

records/<repo-slug>/commits/<40-char-sha>.md

Use the lister:

pnpm commit-reports -- --since 6h
pnpm commit-reports -- --since "24 hours ago" --findings
pnpm commit-reports -- --since 7d --non-clean
pnpm commit-reports -- --repo openclaw/openclaw --author steipete --since 7d
pnpm commit-reports -- --since 24h --json

Results: nothing_found, findings, inconclusive, failed, skipped_non_code. One report per SHA; reruns overwrite the SHA-named report.

Manual rerun/backfill:

gh workflow run commit-review.yml --repo openclaw/clawsweeper \
  -f target_repo=openclaw/openclaw \
  -f commit_sha=<end-sha> \
  -f before_sha=<start-or-parent-sha> \
  -f create_checks=false \
  -f enabled=true

Use create_checks=true only when Peter explicitly wants target commit Check Runs. Add -f additional_prompt="..." for focused one-off review instructions.

Sweep Reports

Issue/PR reports live at:

records/<repo-slug>/items/<number>.md
records/<repo-slug>/closed/<number>.md

Lead with counts, concrete findings, and report links. Do not post unsolicited GitHub comments from report-reading work. Public surfaces are markdown reports, durable ClawSweeper review comments, and optional checks.

PR reports include Codex /review-style reviewFindings with priority, confidence, repository-relative file, and line range. Public PR comments show a short Review findings: list when findings exist; full review comments, evidence links, likely owners, and runtime details stay inside the collapsed Review details block.

Useful commands:

pnpm run status
pnpm run audit
pnpm run reconcile
pnpm run apply-decisions -- --dry-run

Create One Repair Job

Create a job from issue/PR refs and a maintainer prompt:

pnpm run repair:create-job -- \
  --repo openclaw/openclaw \
  --refs 123,456 \
  --prompt-file /tmp/clawsweeper-prompt.md

Create from an existing ClawSweeper report:

pnpm run repair:create-job -- \
  --from-report ../clawsweeper/records/openclaw-openclaw/items/123.md

The job creator checks for an existing open PR, body match, or remote clawsweeper/<cluster-id> branch before writing another job. Use --dry-run to inspect. Use --force only after deciding the duplicate guard is stale.

Validate, commit, then dispatch:

pnpm run repair:validate-job -- jobs/openclaw/inbox/clawsweeper-openclaw-openclaw-123.md
pnpm run repair:dispatch -- jobs/openclaw/inbox/clawsweeper-openclaw-openclaw-123.md \
  --mode autonomous \
  --runner blacksmith-4vcpu-ubuntu-2404 \
  --execution-runner blacksmith-16vcpu-ubuntu-2404 \
  --model gpt-5.5

Do not dispatch a just-created job before the job file is committed and pushed; the workflow reads the job path from GitHub.

Replacement PRs

For a useful but uneditable/stale/unsafe source PR, make the maintainer prompt explicit:

Treat #123 as useful source work. If the source branch cannot be safely updated
because it is uneditable, stale, draft-only, unmergeable, or unsafe, create a
narrow ClawSweeper replacement PR instead of waiting. Preserve the source PR
author as co-author, credit the source PR in the replacement PR body, and close
only that source PR after the replacement PR is opened.

The worker should emit repair_strategy=replace_uneditable_branch and list the source PR URL in source_prs. The deterministic executor opens or updates clawsweeper/<cluster-id>, adds non-bot source authors as Co-authored-by trailers, and closes superseded source PRs only after replacement exists.

Gates

Open execution windows intentionally and close them after the run:

gh variable set CLAWSWEEPER_ALLOW_EXECUTE --repo openclaw/clawsweeper --body 1
gh variable set CLAWSWEEPER_ALLOW_FIX_PR --repo openclaw/clawsweeper --body 1
gh variable set CLAWSWEEPER_ALLOW_MERGE --repo openclaw/clawsweeper --body 1
gh variable set CLAWSWEEPER_ALLOW_AUTOMERGE --repo openclaw/clawsweeper --body 1

Reset gates only when Peter asks; the active maintainer window may intentionally leave them at 1.

Important gates:

• CLAWSWEEPER_ALLOW_EXECUTE: allows deterministic write lanes.
• CLAWSWEEPER_ALLOW_FIX_PR: allows branch repair/replacement PRs.
• CLAWSWEEPER_ALLOW_MERGE: allows merge-capable applicators.
• CLAWSWEEPER_ALLOW_AUTOMERGE: allows comment-router automerge.
• CLAWSWEEPER_COMMENT_ROUTER_EXECUTE: lets scheduled comment routing post replies and dispatch repair.

Comment Commands

Maintainers can use:

/clawsweeper status
/clawsweeper re-review
/clawsweeper fix ci
/clawsweeper address review
/clawsweeper rebase
/clawsweeper automerge
/clawsweeper approve
/clawsweeper explain
/clawsweeper stop
/automerge
/autoclose <maintainer close reason>
@clawsweeper re-review
@clawsweeper[bot] re-review
@openclaw-clawsweeper fix ci
@openclaw-clawsweeper[bot] fix ci

Accepted aliases: re-review, rereview, review again, rerun review, and run review. re-review dispatches a fresh ClawSweeper issue/PR review without starting repair. fix ci, address review, and rebase dispatch the repair worker only for ClawSweeper PRs or PRs opted into clawsweeper:automerge.

Default accepted maintainers: OWNER, MEMBER, COLLABORATOR; fallback repository permission accepts admin, maintain, or write. Contributor comments are ignored without a reply.

Run router manually:

pnpm run repair:comment-router -- --repo openclaw/openclaw --lookback-minutes 180
pnpm run repair:comment-router -- --repo openclaw/openclaw --execute --wait-for-capacity

Scheduled routing stays dry unless CLAWSWEEPER_COMMENT_ROUTER_EXECUTE=1.

Trusted Automerge

/clawsweeper automerge opts an existing PR into the bounded loop. The router:

• verifies maintainer authorization;
• labels the PR clawsweeper:automerge;
• dispatches ClawSweeper review for the current head SHA;
• creates or reuses a durable adopted job;
• repairs at most the configured caps;
• merges only when ClawSweeper passed the exact current head, checks are green, GitHub says mergeable, no human-review label is present, and both merge gates are open.

If ClawSweeper passes while merge gates are closed, it labels clawsweeper:merge-ready and comments instead of merging. /clawsweeper stop adds clawsweeper:human-review.

Repair caps:

CLAWSWEEPER_MAX_REPAIRS_PER_PR=5
CLAWSWEEPER_MAX_REPAIRS_PER_HEAD=1

Security Boundary

Do not stage security-sensitive work for ClawSweeper Repair. Route vulnerability reports, CVE/GHSA/advisory work, leaked secrets/tokens/keys, plaintext secret storage, SSRF, XSS, CSRF, RCE, auth bypass, privilege escalation, and sensitive data exposure to central OpenClaw security handling.

For adopted automerge jobs, trust deterministic ClawSweeper security markers, labels, and job frontmatter; do not infer security handling from vague prose.

Monitoring

Receiver workflows:

gh run list --repo openclaw/clawsweeper --workflow "ClawSweeper Commit Review" \
  --limit 12 --json databaseId,displayTitle,event,status,conclusion,createdAt,updatedAt,url
gh run list --repo openclaw/clawsweeper --workflow "repair cluster worker" \
  --limit 12 --json databaseId,displayTitle,event,status,conclusion,createdAt,updatedAt,url
gh run list --repo openclaw/clawsweeper --workflow "repair comment router" \
  --limit 12 --json databaseId,displayTitle,event,status,conclusion,createdAt,updatedAt,url

Target dispatcher:

gh run list --repo openclaw/openclaw --workflow "ClawSweeper Dispatch" \
  --event push --limit 8 --json databaseId,displayTitle,event,status,conclusion,headSha,url

Target commit check:

gh api "repos/openclaw/openclaw/commits/<sha>/check-runs?per_page=100" \
  --jq '.check_runs[] | select(.name=="ClawSweeper Commit Review") | [.status,.conclusion,.details_url] | @tsv'

Reading Output

For findings or failures, summarize:

• target repo, item/PR/commit, run, report path
• result, confidence, severity, and exact blocker
• affected files or cluster refs
• validation commands and whether they passed
• whether mutation gates were open or closed
• next deterministic action

Keep the broom small: one cluster, one branch, one PR, narrow proof, clear owner-visible evidence.