Setup & Installation
openclaw skills install @autogame-17/checksum
Or with the ClawHub CLI, for registry-managed skill folders outside a full OpenClaw workspace:
npx clawhub install checksum
What This Skill Does
A CLI utility for generating and verifying cryptographic checksums for files and directories. Supports MD5, SHA1, SHA256, and SHA512 algorithms. JSON output makes results easy to pipe into other scripts.
Works on Windows, macOS, and Linux without requiring coreutils or platform-specific tools like md5sum or shasum.
When to use it
- Verifying a downloaded archive before installing it
- Detecting file changes between two deployments
- Generating checksums for software release artifacts
- Auditing a directory for unexpected file modifications
- Comparing file sets across different machines or environments
Example Workflow
Here's how your AI assistant might use this skill in practice.
INPUT
User asks: verify that a downloaded release archive matches the published SHA256 hash
AGENT
- 1Run the checksum tool against the downloaded file with --algo sha256
- 2Capture the output hash string
- 3Compare it against the published hash from the release page
- 4Report whether the hashes match or differ
OUTPUT
e3b0c44298fc1c149afbf4c8996fb92427ae41e4649b934ca495991b7852b855 release.tar.gz -- hash matches, file is intact