Openclaw-config gateway-restart

Gateway Restart Skill 🔄

install

source · Clone the upstream repo

git clone https://github.com/TechNickAI/openclaw-config

Claude Code · Install into ~/.claude/skills/

T=$(mktemp -d) && git clone --depth=1 https://github.com/TechNickAI/openclaw-config "$T" && mkdir -p ~/.claude/skills && cp -r "$T/skills/gateway-restart" ~/.claude/skills/technickai-openclaw-config-gateway-restart && rm -rf "$T"

OpenClaw · Install into ~/.openclaw/skills/

T=$(mktemp -d) && git clone --depth=1 https://github.com/TechNickAI/openclaw-config "$T" && mkdir -p ~/.openclaw/skills && cp -r "$T/skills/gateway-restart" ~/.openclaw/skills/technickai-openclaw-config-gateway-restart && rm -rf "$T"

manifest: skills/gateway-restart/SKILL.md

source content

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 restart
```
gateway-restart status
```
— Check if anything is actively running (no restart)
```
gateway-restart restart --force
```
— Skip waiting, restart immediately
```
gateway-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.