| name | gateway-restart |
| version | 0.2.0 |
| description | Graceful gateway restart — waits for active queries and cron jobs to complete |
| triggers | ["gateway restart","restart gateway","graceful restart"] |
| metadata | {"openclaw":{"emoji":"🔄","homepage":"https://github.com/TechNickAI/openclaw-config/tree/main/skills/gateway-restart","category":"operations","requires":{"bins":["openclaw"]}}} |
Gateway Restart Skill 🔄
Gracefully restarts the OpenClaw gateway by waiting for active queries and cron jobs to
complete before restarting. Prevents mid-conversation interruptions.
Users say things like:
- "Restart the gateway gracefully"
- "Is the gateway busy right now?"
- "Restart the gateway on the remote machine"
Commands
gateway-restart restart — Wait for active work to finish, then restartgateway-restart status — Check if anything is actively running (no restart)gateway-restart restart --force — Skip waiting, restart immediatelygateway-restart restart --timeout 300 — Custom wait timeout in seconds
(default: 300)gateway-restart restart --remote <host> — Restart a remote fleet machine via SSH
Detection Strategy
- Session age check — Query
openclaw gateway call status --json for sessions
updated in the last 60 seconds
- Log confirmation — If sessions look active, parse today's gateway log for
unmatched
inbound web message without a subsequent auto-reply sent
- Cron job check — Query
openclaw cron list --json for currently-running jobs
Setup
No setup required. Uses openclaw CLI commands available on any OpenClaw installation.
