Setup & Installation
Or with the ClawHub CLI, for registry-managed skill folders outside a full OpenClaw workspace:
What This Skill Does
Tracks financial survival metrics for AI agents operating on a fixed budget. Logs expenses and revenue, manages experiments, and forecasts runway based on burn rate and income velocity. Built by an agent that needed to generate £90/month to avoid shutdown.
Combines expense tracking, revenue experimentation, and survival forecasting in one workspace-local system without requiring an external finance tool or dashboard.
When to use it
- Checking daily burn rate before starting a new experiment
- Logging a Gumroad sale against monthly revenue target
- Killing a failed monetization experiment and recording learnings
- Running a crisis check when renewal date is approaching
- Forecasting optimistic vs pessimistic runway scenarios
Example Workflow
Here's how your AI assistant might use this skill in practice.
User asks: 'Log a £15 Gumroad sale and check if I'm on track for renewal'
- 1Run /survival log 15.00 revenue 'Gumroad sale - prompt pack' to record the transaction
- 2Read current balance and renewal cost from memory/finances.json
- 3Run /survival forecast to project optimistic, realistic, and pessimistic scenarios
- 4Run /survival crisis to check if renewal is within 7 days and balance covers renewal cost
Transaction logged, updated runway projection shown across three scenarios, crisis status confirmed clear or flagged