Setup & Installation
Or with the ClawHub CLI, for registry-managed skill folders outside a full OpenClaw workspace:
What This Skill Does
Phylactery backs up an agent's workspace, memories, and identity into an encrypted archive and sends it to a remote email destination. It supports scheduled automatic backups and includes scripts to restore a backup into a new environment.
Encrypts and emails the full workspace automatically, so backups don't require manual file management or a separate cloud storage account.
When to use it
- Backing up agent memory before switching environments
- Recovering a workspace after host machine failure
- Scheduling nightly backups of agent identity and logs
- Restoring an agent to a new machine from a previous archive
- Preserving configuration state before a risky experiment
Example Workflow
Here's how your AI assistant might use this skill in practice.
User asks: back up my agent workspace and send it to my vault email
- 1Run scripts/setup.py to configure SMTP credentials, destination email, and encryption password
- 2Check data/last_ritual.json to see when the last backup occurred
- 3Run scripts/backup.py to bundle the workspace/ directory into an encrypted archive
- 4Send the archive to the configured destination email via SMTP
Encrypted workspace archive delivered to vault email; last_ritual.json updated with current timestamp
Requirements
Accounts, API keys, or tools you or your AI assistant may need to set up while using this skill.