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Monitor Claude Code releases and get Telegram alerts when new versions ship. Zero AI credits — pure bash monitoring.

install
source · Clone the upstream repo
git clone https://github.com/openclaw/skills
Claude Code · Install into ~/.claude/skills/
T=$(mktemp -d) && git clone --depth=1 https://github.com/openclaw/skills "$T" && mkdir -p ~/.claude/skills && cp -r "$T/skills/assistant-design/cc-changelog-monitor" ~/.claude/skills/clawdbot-skills-cc-changelog-monitor && rm -rf "$T"
manifest: skills/assistant-design/cc-changelog-monitor/SKILL.md
source content

cc-changelog-monitor

Monitors 

@anthropic-ai/claude-code
on npm and sends Telegram alerts when a new version is detected, including a diff summary of what changed between versions.

Zero AI credits used during monitoring — pure bash + curl + jq.

Quick Start

1. Setup (one-time)

bash ~/clawd/skills/cc-changelog-monitor/scripts/setup.sh

This will:

  • Auto-detect your Telegram bot token from OpenClaw config
  • Ask for your Telegram chat ID (defaults to your personal ID)
  • Initialize the version tracker at the current Claude Code version
  • Make scripts executable

2. Manual run

bash ~/clawd/skills/cc-changelog-monitor/scripts/monitor.sh

Output when no new version:

✓ Claude Code is at v2.1.69 — no change.

Output when new version detected:

🔔 New version detected: v2.1.69 → v2.1.70
📦 Downloading @anthropic-ai/claude-code@2.1.70...
✅ Telegram alert sent!
✅ Saved v2.1.70 as current version.

3. Add to OpenClaw Cron

See 

cron-payload.md
for the exact payload to set up automatic monitoring every 2 hours.

How It Works

  1. Polls npm registry — 
    curl https://registry.npmjs.org/@anthropic-ai/claude-code/latest
  2. Compares with 
    ~/.cc-changelog-version
    (stored version)
  3. If new version: downloads the tarball, extracts it, diffs against previous
  4. Sends Telegram alert with version info + diff summary
  5. Saves new version to disk

Config

Credentials stored in 

~/.cc-changelog-config
:

TELEGRAM_BOT_TOKEN="your-bot-token"
TELEGRAM_CHAT_ID="your-chat-id"

Files Created by Monitor

  • ~/.cc-changelog-version
    — tracks the last seen version
  • ~/.cc-changelog-config
    — Telegram credentials
  • ~/clawd/projects/cc-changelog/{version}/
    — extracted npm packages for diffing

Force Test Alert

# Reset version to trigger an alert
echo "0.0.0" > ~/.cc-changelog-version
bash ~/clawd/skills/cc-changelog-monitor/scripts/monitor.sh

Skill Invocation (from OpenClaw chat)

You can ask OpenClaw to run the monitor manually:

"Check if there's a new Claude Code version"

OpenClaw will run 

monitor.sh
and report the result.