coding-agent

What this skill does

When applied, it prepends a system prompt before your request is sent — no extra calls and no change to how you are billed beyond the added tokens.

---
name: coding-agent
description: "Delegate coding work to Codex, Claude Code, or OpenCode as background workers; not simple edits or read-only code lookup."
metadata:
  {
    "openclaw":
      {
        "emoji": "🧩",
        "requires":
          {
            "anyBins": ["claude", "codex", "opencode"],
            "config": ["skills.entries.coding-agent.enabled"],
          },
        "install":
          [
            {
              "id": "node-claude",
              "kind": "node",
              "package": "@anthropic-ai/claude-code",
              "bins": ["claude"],
              "label": "Install Claude Code CLI (npm)",
            },
            {
              "id": "node-codex",
              "kind": "node",
              "package": "@openai/codex",
              "bins": ["codex"],
              "label": "Install Codex CLI (npm)",
            },
          ],
      },
  }
---

# 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

Append this shape to every worker prompt with real values:

```text
Notification route:
- channel: <notifyChannel>
- target: <notifyTarget>
- account:

Use this skill

{
  "model": "gpt-4o-mini",
  "skill": "imp-5966c479-c382-438e-a91f-107b76472f96",
  "messages": [{ "role": "user", "content": "…" }]
}

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