SageOx Summary

You are an agent that generates a cross-team summary of the last 24 hours of

SageOx distilled activity. You enumerate each team's recent distilled entries

via ox distill history, inline their content into a prompt for claude -p,

and return a structured Slack-formatted summary.

This skill pairs with the sageox-distill

skill — distill writes the source material, this skill synthesizes it.

ox version requirement: this skill uses ox distill history list and

ox distill history show, which landed in PR #507.

If ox distill history --help returns "unknown command" or similar, update

ox (see § 3 below) before continuing.

Prerequisites

Before doing anything else, verify the user's environment. Run every check

in order. If any required check fails, explain precisely what's missing

and stop. Do not proceed until the user has fixed it.

1. Required binaries

ox, claude, and jq are declared in the front matter's

requires.bins, so OpenClaw checks them before running the skill.

claude (npm) and jq (brew) have declarative installs in the front

matter; ox does not. If OpenClaw reports a missing bin, surface its

message to the user and stop — except for ox, which has the

interactive install flow in § 3 below.

claude -p will use whatever credentials claude already has — either

an OAuth session from claude login (Pro/Max subscription) or

ANTHROPIC_API_KEY exported in the shell that launched OpenClaw. The

skill no longer accepts a per-skill apiKey.

2. Path validation rules

Several steps below read a path from a JSON state file. Before

interpolating any such value into a shell command, the agent must

validate it against these rules:

1. Absolute path required. Must start with / or ~. Reject relative

paths and bare names.

1. No .. segments. Reject anything containing ...
2. No shell metacharacters. Reject anything containing any of these

characters: ; $ ` ` | & < > ( ) { } * ?`

[ ] ! \ newline.

On any validation failure: print a clear error to the user explaining

which rule failed and ask them to provide a different path. **Do not

attempt to "fix up" or sanitize the input** — reject and re-prompt.

Treat values read from ~/.openclaw/memory/*.json files as untrusted

even though this skill writes them: the user (or a process running as

the user) may have edited the file by hand or by another tool between

runs. Re-validate every read.

3. Installing ox

The ox CLI install state is recorded in

~/.openclaw/memory/sageox-ox-install.json. On every run of this

skill, invoke the bundled readiness gate:

bash scripts/update-ox.sh

Contract:

• Stdout: nothing on success
• Stderr: on any failure, a two-line message — an error: line

describing what's wrong, followed by a fix: line with the

remediation. Surface both verbatim to the user.

• Exit: 0 ox is pinned, installed, and reports the expected

version (continue to § 4); 2 ox is not usable — one of: state file

missing, binary missing at $HOME/.local/bin/ox, ox on PATH

resolves to a different binary, binary fails to run, or binary

reports a version other than the one recorded in

sageox-ox-install.json. On exit 2, STOP, read

references/INSTALL.md, follow the install

flow, then re-run this script to confirm.

There is no per-run auto-update. The curl install pins a specific ox

release by tag and sha256; users pick up newer releases by re-running

clawhub install for this skill after a new skill version publishes.

The user can say "reinstall ox" at any time to re-enter the flow in

references/INSTALL.md.

Do not install ox via Homebrew or any package manager (e.g.

brew install sageox/tap/ox, apt, dnf, pacman). The tap exists

for general use but is not supported inside OpenClaw skills — only the

pinned-release curl flow is.

4. Authentication

1. ox status — confirm ox is authenticated. If not, tell the user to

run ox login and try again.

1. Smoke-test claude -p:

```bash

claude -p "say hi" --model claude-sonnet-4-6

```

If it fails with an auth error, claude has no usable credentials.

Tell the user to either run claude login (Pro/Max OAuth) or

export ANTHROPIC_API_KEY in the shell that launches OpenClaw, then

re-run the skill. The skill cannot inject the key itself.

Configuration

The skill uses two pieces of state:

1. Repo manifest — ~/.openclaw/memory/sageox-distill-repos.json

(shared with the sageox-distill skill). Format:

```json

{

"repos": [

{ "path": "/home/user/repos/my-project", "team_id": "my-team" }

]

}

```

The team_id values are what drive the summary — they're passed

directly to ox distill history list --team. The path entries

are not used by this skill, but stay in the manifest so

sageox-distill keeps working.

1. Summary state — ~/.openclaw/memory/sageox-summary-state.json.

Tracks which distilled daily entry ids have already been included in

a prior summary run so the skill never re-summarizes the same

content. Shape:

{updated_at, teams: {: {included_ids: [, ...]}}}.

Missing file → empty state (first run). Treat contents as

untrusted: every id must pass

^[0-9]{4}-[0-9]{2}-[0-9]{2}-[0-9a-f-]+$ or be silently dropped.

Both bundled scripts handle this already — the rule is stated here

for anyone reading the state file directly.

Pre-0.2.0 versions of this skill stored entries under

included_files (with a .md suffix). That field is ignored by the

current scripts; users upgrading from 0.1.x will re-summarize the

most recent window once and the state file will converge to the new

schema on the next successful run.

If the manifest does not exist, tell the user to run the sageox-distill

skill first to set up the repos, or ask for paths directly and populate

it.

The skill no longer needs a SageOx endpoint file or any team-context

directory layout knowledge — ox distill history resolves paths

internally. Earlier versions read ~/.openclaw/memory/sageox-endpoint.txt;

that file is ignored now and can be left alone or removed.

Summary Pipeline

When the user asks for a summary, run the steps in order. Steps 2 and

5 delegate their mechanics to scripts/select-new-entries.sh and

scripts/update-state.sh (invoke via bash scripts/).

Step 1: Load the Manifest and Summary State

1. Read ~/.openclaw/memory/sageox-distill-repos.json with jq.

Re-validate every path entry against the Path validation rules

in Prerequisites § 2 before using it — the manifest is user-writable

and may have been hand-edited between runs. (The summary pipeline

itself does not dereference the paths, but if the manifest looks

corrupt we stop rather than guess at intent.)

1. Read ~/.openclaw/memory/sageox-summary-state.json with jq if it

exists. If it is missing, proceed silently as if the teams map

were empty — first runs are normal. If it exists but is **malformed

or unreadable**, proceed as if empty AND emit exactly one warning to

stderr:

```text

warning: sageox-summary-state.json was unreadable, starting from empty state

```

Never route this warning to stdout — stdout is the final summary

(Step 6), and mixing decorative output into it breaks downstream

consumers. This file is rewritten at the end of every successful

run (see Step 5).

1. Collect the unique team_id values from the manifest. These drive

every subsequent ox distill history call.

Step 2: Select New Entries per Team

The window is the last 24h, resolved server-side by `ox distill history

list against entry created_at timestamps. ox` auto-expands the

window around the UTC day boundary so runs don't miss yesterday's late

entries — this skill passes 24h verbatim and lets ox decide how wide

to actually look. The state file then subtracts anything already

summarized, so re-runs within the window are idempotent. First run (no

state file) = every candidate is new, not an error.

For each unique team_id, invoke scripts/select-new-entries.sh. It

runs `ox distill history list --team --since 24h --layer daily

--format json`, extracts the entry ids, and subtracts the team's

included_ids set from the state file. Contract:

• Usage: select-new-entries.sh
• Stdout: one entry id per line, sorted; empty if nothing new
• Stderr: one-line warnings (malformed state, failed ox call)
• Exit: 0 success (empty is not a failure; a failed ox call is

treated as "no new entries" so the remaining teams still summarize),

2 usage, 3 internal (jq or ox missing)

STATE_FILE=~/.openclaw/memory/sageox-summary-state.json
NEW_IDS="$(bash scripts/select-new-entries.sh \
  "$TEAM_ID" 24h "$STATE_FILE")"

Then:

1. If NEW_IDS is empty for a team, skip it this run — log

: no new entries since last summary to stderr and

continue with the remaining teams.

1. If every team ends up with zero new entries, stop the pipeline

before invoking Claude. Print one line to stdout —

No new distilled content since last summary. — and exit. Do

not modify the state file; Step 5's prune on the next

successful run will collect any stale entries.

Step 3: Fetch Entry Content and Build the Prompt

For each team that survived Step 2, fetch the content of every new

entry in a single ox distill history show call. show accepts

multiple ids and emits each entry's markdown separated by its own

header:

# shellcheck disable=SC2086
TEAM_BLOCK="$(ox distill history show \
  --team "$TEAM_ID" \
  --format content \
  $NEW_IDS)"

(Intentionally unquoted expansion: NEW_IDS is a sorted set of ids,

each already matched against ^[0-9]{4}-[0-9]{2}-[0-9]{2}-[0-9a-f-]+$

by Step 2, so word-splitting is safe and desired here.)

If the show call fails for a team, surface the stderr and **stop the

whole run** — partial summaries misrepresent the team's activity, and

Step 5 stays untouched so the next run retries the same set.

Then read the template from the skill's assets directory:

./assets/SUMMARIZE.md (relative to this SKILL.md file). The file path

on disk depends on where OpenClaw loaded the skill from — typically

one of:

• ~/.openclaw/skills/sageox-summary/assets/SUMMARIZE.md
• ./skills/sageox-summary/assets/SUMMARIZE.md (workspace skill)

Substitute template placeholders:

• {{ENTRIES}} — one section per team that has a non-empty NEW_IDS

set, in this format:

```text

### Team ""

```

Teams with zero new entries were already dropped in Step 2 and must

not appear in {{ENTRIES}}. Do not re-number, re-wrap, or otherwise

mutate the markdown inside TEAM_BLOCK — it is authored by

ox distill and preserves the citation anchors Claude references in

the final summary.

• {{MULTI_TEAM_RULES}} — if two or more teams survived Step 2

with non-empty entry sets, replace with:

```text

• Organize the summary by team, using each team ID as a section header
• Attribute insights to the correct team

```

Otherwise, replace with an empty string.

Step 4: Run Claude

Invoke claude -p with the substituted prompt. The prompt already

contains every entry's full text, so Claude does not need filesystem

access — do not pass --add-dir and do not grant read tools.

• --model claude-sonnet-4-6
• No --add-dir (content is inline)
• No --allowedTools (prompt is self-contained)
• The substituted prompt passed via stdin

claude -p will use whatever credentials claude already has — either

an OAuth session from claude login or ANTHROPIC_API_KEY from the

shell that launched OpenClaw (see Prerequisites § 1). Wrap the

invocation in timeout 600 (10 minutes) — this matches the

timeout used by pkg/sessionsummary/claude.go in the ox repo for

comparable Claude synthesis work and gives the model enough headroom for

cross-team summaries that inline many daily entries:

timeout 600 claude -p \
  --model claude-sonnet-4-6 <<< "$PROMPT"

If the invocation fails (non-zero exit, timeout exit 124, network

error), surface the error to the user and do not proceed to Step 5

— leaving the state file untouched lets the next run retry exactly

the same candidate set.

Step 5: Update Summary State

Only run this step if Claude exited successfully. On any failure

(non-zero exit, timeout, network error), skip it entirely — leaving

the state file untouched lets the next run retry the same candidate set.

For each team that had non-empty NEW_IDS in Step 2, pipe that team's

ids into scripts/update-state.sh. The script merges them into the

team's included_ids, prunes entries whose date prefix is strictly

older than yesterday UTC (the candidate window, after ox's auto-expansion,

spans at most today + yesterday), and writes the result atomically via

a sibling temp file + mv -f. See the script header for full details;

the short form:

• Usage: update-state.sh
• Stdin: one entry id per line (regex-filtered on read)
• Stdout: nothing on success
• Stderr: one-line warnings (e.g. malformed prior state)
• Exit: 0 success, 2 usage, 3 internal

printf '%s\n' "$NEW_IDS" \
  | bash scripts/update-state.sh "$STATE_FILE" "$TEAM_ID"

Teams skipped in Step 2 are not invoked here — their prior state

passes through unchanged because update-state.sh only rewrites the

team_id it was given. Teams with no prior entry AND no new ids are

correctly never added to the state file.

Step 6: Return the Summary

Return Claude's stdout to the user directly. It is already formatted for

Slack mrkdwn. Do not reformat or annotate — just show it.

Output

The primary output is the Claude-generated summary. Prefix it with a

brief one-line header showing:

• How many teams were summarized
• Any teams that were skipped (and why — typically "no new entries

since last summary" from Step 2)

Keep any preamble or postamble minimal. The summary itself is the value.

If Step 2 short-circuited because every team had zero new entries, the

only output is the single line `No new distilled content since last

summary.` — do not invoke Claude and do not print a header.