Setup & Installation
Or with the ClawHub CLI, for registry-managed skill folders outside a full OpenClaw workspace:
Version History
- Removed Chinese translations from section headers and best practices for a more concise, English-only documentation. - No changes to functionality or code; documentation only.
What This Skill Does
Sport Mode temporarily increases the heartbeat frequency of the OpenClaw agent loop and injects a monitoring task into HEARTBEAT.md. Designed for supervising intensive background work like code generation runs, builds, or migrations. Turn it on with a task and termination condition, then it resets automatically when you turn it off.
Patching the config at runtime triggers a live Gateway reload, so you get faster heartbeats without restarting the agent process.
When to use it
- Watching a Codex agent complete a multi-file refactor
- Monitoring a long database migration until it finishes
- Tracking CI build progress at 1-minute intervals
- Running a turn-based game loop with per-tick state updates
- Supervising a staged deployment with per-stage status checks
Example Workflow
Here's how your AI assistant might use this skill in practice.
User asks: sport-mode on --task "Check Codex progress. If done, run sport-mode off." --every "3m"
- 1Patches ~/.openclaw/openclaw.json to set heartbeat.every to 3m
- 2Writes the task and a Sport Mode Active header to HEARTBEAT.md
- 3Agent wakes every 3 minutes and checks Codex progress
- 4On completion, runs sport-mode off
- 5Resets heartbeat to 30m and clears HEARTBEAT.md
Codex run monitored at 3-minute intervals; heartbeat reset to 30m after task completes