Skills install-watchdog

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 "$T/skills/athola/nm-egregore-install-watchdog" ~/.claude/skills/clawdbot-skills-install-watchdog && rm -rf "$T"

manifest: skills/athola/nm-egregore-install-watchdog/SKILL.md

source content

Night Market Skill — ported from claude-night-market/egregore. For the full experience with agents, hooks, and commands, install the Claude Code plugin.

Install Watchdog

Overview

Installs a persistent daemon that monitors the egregore process and relaunches it when needed. The daemon uses the OS-native scheduler (launchd on macOS, systemd on Linux) to run a watchdog script every 5 minutes.

The watchdog script checks:

Whether an egregore session is already running.
Whether the budget is in cooldown.
Whether there are active work items in the manifest.

If all conditions are met, it launches a new egregore session.

When To Use

After initializing an egregore project (
```
egregore init
```
) when you want autonomous relaunching.
When setting up egregore on a new machine.

When NOT To Use

On CI/CD runners (use the orchestrator directly).
When you want manual control over session launches.

Installation Steps

1. Detect the operating system

OS=$(uname -s)

2. Run the appropriate installer

macOS (launchd):

bash plugins/egregore/scripts/install_launchd.sh

This script creates a plist at

~/Library/LaunchAgents/com.egregore.watchdog.plist

that runs the watchdog script every 300 seconds (5 minutes).

Linux (systemd):

bash plugins/egregore/scripts/install_systemd.sh

This script creates a systemd timer and service unit at

~/.config/systemd/user/

that fires every 5 minutes.

3. Verify installation

macOS:

launchctl list | grep egregore

Expected output: a line containing

com.egregore.watchdog

with a PID or

status.

Linux:

systemctl --user status egregore-watchdog.timer

Expected output:

active (waiting)

status.

4. Confirm to the user

Report the installation result, the schedule interval, and the log file location:

macOS:
```
~/.egregore/watchdog.log
```
Linux:
```
journalctl --user -u egregore-watchdog
```

Uninstall Command

To remove the watchdog, run:

Skill(egregore:uninstall-watchdog)

Or invoke the uninstall skill directly via the command

/egregore:uninstall-watchdog

Troubleshooting

Permission denied on plist: ensure the script runs as the current user, not root.
systemd user session not available: run
```
loginctl enable-linger $USER
```
to enable user services without an active login session.
Watchdog not firing: check the log output and verify the scheduler is loaded (
```
launchctl list
```
or
```
systemctl --user list-timers
```
).