Error Guard — Control‑Plane Safety

What this skill does

System safety and control-plane skill that prevents agent deadlocks and freezes. Provides non-LLM control commands to inspect task state, flush message queues, cancel long-running work, and recover safely without restarting the container. Use when implementing or operating long-running tasks, sub-agents, benchmarks, background monitors (e.g., Moltbook, PNR checks), or when the system becomes unresponsive and needs immediate recovery controls.

Error Guard — Control‑Plane Safety is part of the Developer Tools category — developer tools that help your agent write, review, debug, and ship code. You can install it on its own or alongside other developer tools skills from the OpenClaw catalog.

How to install Error Guard — Control‑Plane Safety

The easiest path is via the OpenClaw Easy desktop app — one click, no terminal required:

1. Download OpenClaw Easy for macOS or Windows (free, one-click installer, ~30 seconds).
2. Open the in-app Skills panel.
3. Search for error-guard and click Install.
4. The skill activates automatically when an incoming message matches its description.

Install from the command line

If you already run the OpenClaw CLI, add Error Guard — Control‑Plane Safety with a single command:

openclaw skills add error-guard

This pulls error-guard from ClawHub and installs it into ~/.openclaw/skills/error-guard/. Restart the OpenClaw gateway afterwards so the new skill is discovered.

How to use Error Guard — Control‑Plane Safety

Once installed, Error Guard — Control‑Plane Safety activates on its own: when an incoming message on WhatsApp, Telegram, Slack, Discord, Feishu or Line matches the skill's description, your OpenClaw agent loads it and runs the workflow. You can also trigger it explicitly by describing the task in chat. No extra configuration is required after install.

Manual install (advanced)

If you prefer manual installation:

1. Click the Download .zip button above to grab error-guard-1.0.0.zip directly from our S3 mirror.
2. Unzip into ~/.openclaw/skills/error-guard/ (create the directory if it does not exist).
3. Restart OpenClaw Easy (or the OpenClaw CLI gateway) so the new skill is discovered.

Frequently asked questions

How do I install Error Guard — Control‑Plane Safety?

Install Error Guard — Control‑Plane Safety in the OpenClaw Easy desktop app by opening the Skills panel, searching for error-guard, and clicking Install. From a terminal you can run: openclaw skills add error-guard. Either way the skill is placed in ~/.openclaw/skills/error-guard/.

Is Error Guard — Control‑Plane Safety free?

Yes. Error Guard — Control‑Plane Safety is free and open-source, distributed under the Apache-2.0 license through ClawHub. No account or payment is required to download or run it.

What does Error Guard — Control‑Plane Safety do?

System safety and control-plane skill that prevents agent deadlocks and freezes.

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