technickai/openclaw-config/gateway-restart

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

1. Session age check — Query openclaw gateway call status --json for sessions

updated in the last 60 seconds

1. Log confirmation — If sessions look active, parse today's gateway log for

unmatched inbound web message without a subsequent auto-reply sent

1. 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.