coding-agent

SKILL.md

Coding Agent

Use for background feature builds, PR reviews, large refactors, and issue-to-PR loops. Do not use for simple edits, read-only lookup, ACP thread-bound work, or any run inside ~/.openclaw, $OPENCLAW_STATE_DIR, or active OpenClaw state dirs.

Hard rules

Always launch with background:true.

Codex and OpenCode: use pty:true.

Claude Code: no PTY; use claude --permission-mode bypassPermissions --print.

Capture a real notification route before spawning.

Worker must send completion/failure via openclaw message send.

Do not rely on heartbeat, system events, or notify-on-exit.

Monitor with process; do not kill slow workers without cause.

If user asked for a specific agent, use that agent.

If worker fails/hangs, respawn or ask; do not silently hand-code instead.

Never checkout branches or run background coding agents in ~/Projects/openclaw; use an isolated checkout.

Notification block