Auto Updater

Auto Updater is a DevOps skill for Claude Code, published by jdrhyne in agent-skills.

241 stars29 forkson jdrhyne/agent-skillsAdded 2026/09/02Repository updated 2026/08/30

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Install Auto Updater

Copy Auto Updater into your Claude Code skills folder. Run the command in your terminal, or review the source on GitHub before installing.

terminal

npx degit https://github.com/jdrhyne/agent-skills/tree/main/clawdbot/auto-updater ~/.claude/skills/auto-updater

Requires Node.js. Downloads this skill only — not the rest of the repository — into your Claude Code skills folder.

Without Node.js

git clone https://github.com/jdrhyne/agent-skills.git

Clones the whole repository, then copy the skill’s own directory into your skills folder yourself.

In this catalog

Source file: clawdbot/auto-updater/SKILL.md in jdrhyne/agent-skills
Installs to: ~/.claude/skills/auto-updater
Collection: One of 25 skills cataloged from this repository
Category: DevOps — 828 skills

What Auto Updater does

Auto Updater sets up a daily cron job to update OpenClaw and installed skills, then sends a summary of what changed. Use it to keep an agent environment current with minimal manual maintenance.

Auto Updater is cataloged under DevOps on DirSkills. Auto Updater comes from a repository tagged agent-skills, agentic-ai, ai-agents, automation and claude-code.

Documentation

README

Excerpt

Auto-Updater Skill

Keep OpenClaw and skills up to date automatically with daily update checks.

What It Does

This skill sets up a daily cron job that:

Updates OpenClaw itself (via package manager)
Updates installed ClawHub skills (via clawhub update --all)
Sends a summary of what changed

Setup

Quick Start

Ask OpenClaw to set up the auto-updater:

Set up daily auto-updates for OpenClaw and installed skills.

Or manually add the cron job:

openclaw cron add \
  --name "Daily Auto-Update" \
  --cron "0 4 * * *" \
  --tz "America/Los_Angeles" \
  --session isolated \
  --wake now \
  --deliver \
  --message "Run daily auto-updates: check for OpenClaw updates and update installed skills. Report what changed."

How Updates Work

This is the opening of the README. Read the full README on GitHub.

Frequently asked about Auto Updater

What else does jdrhyne publish alongside Auto Updater?
Auto Updater is one of 25 skills that DirSkills catalogs from jdrhyne/agent-skills, the repository it ships in. Its siblings there include Autoresearch Loop, Codex and Command Creator. Each one is a separate skill with its own page in this directory, installs the same way Auto Updater does, and is maintained by jdrhyne in that same repository. The rest of the collection is listed on the jdrhyne/agent-skills page.
How does Auto Updater compare to other DevOps skills?
Auto Updater ranks #755 by stars among the 828 DevOps skills in this catalog. The most-starred ones next to it are Backend Patterns, API Connector Builder and Migration. DirSkills ranks by the star count of the repository each skill ships in, so that order reflects how popular those repositories are rather than any review of Auto Updater against them. Open each page to compare what they document and how they install.