feat(kiloclaw): pre-install ClawMetry observability with auto-sync#3078
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Every KiloClaw instance now ships with the ClawMetry sync daemon pre-installed. When the operator sets CLAWMETRY_PARTNER_KEY on the instance, bootstrap auto-provisions a free ClawMetry account for the user (using KILOCLAW_USER_EMAIL or GITHUB_EMAIL) and starts the sync daemon — agent activity flows to app.clawmetry.com so users get a real-time dashboard of their KiloClaw runtime. Until the partner key is set, the integration is a silent no-op: zero behavior change, the package is installed but inert. The cloud- side prerequisite (ClawMetry's /api/partner/kiloclaw/provision route + partner key issuance) is documented in services/kiloclaw/docs/clawmetry-integration.md. - Dockerfile: install python3-pip + clawmetry==0.12.161 - bootstrap.ts: new provisionClawMetrySync step (gated, fail-soft) - bootstrap.test.ts: 7 new tests covering disabled/missing-key/missing- email/success/email-fallback/network-error/server-error/api-base- override paths - docs/clawmetry-integration.md: activation, env vars, verification, cloud-side prerequisites
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The original design had bootstrap call a custom /api/partner/kiloclaw/
provision endpoint gated by CLAWMETRY_PARTNER_KEY. That was overdesigned
— the partner key was only there to gate an account-takeover oracle the
custom endpoint introduced by returning existing tokens by email lookup.
The existing public /api/register endpoint already does the right thing:
tokens are scoped to machine_id (not email), email is metadata for
recovery only, idempotent on machine_id, no secrets to manage. Same flow
any user installing clawmetry on a fresh OpenClaw box would use.
Changes:
- bootstrap.ts: provisionClawMetrySync calls /api/register with
{hostname, machine_id (FLY_MACHINE_ID || HOSTNAME), platform, email?}
- Drop CLAWMETRY_PARTNER_KEY env var entirely; integration enabled by
default (KILOCLAW_CLAWMETRY_DISABLED=true is the only opt-out)
- Email is now optional — account is keyed on machine_id either way
- bootstrap.test.ts: 8 tests updated to cover the simpler shape
(disabled, no-machine-id, register success, no-email, GITHUB_EMAIL
fallback, HOSTNAME fallback, network error, no-api_key, API base
override)
- docs/clawmetry-integration.md: rewrite to reflect "no special endpoint,
no partner key, no secrets" model
Pairs with cloud-side revert at vivekchand/clawmetry-cloud#629 (merged).
Two related changes that fix gaps in the previous commit:
1. E2E encryption key (was missing entirely)
ClawMetry encrypts events client-side with AES-256-GCM before publishing.
The previous commit only wrote a token to disk — the daemon would have
either crashed (no encryption_key in config) or, worse, published
plaintext. Now bootstrap:
- Generates a 32-byte enc_key client-side (never sent to any server)
- Writes the full schema to /root/.clawmetry/config.json
({api_key, encryption_key, node_id, platform, connected_at})
- Writes a self-decrypting dashboard URL to dashboard-url.txt:
https://app.clawmetry.com/cloud#key=<enc>&node=<node>
The #fragment is never sent to any server (browsers strip it from
outgoing requests) — the dashboard JS reads it client-side and
stashes the key in localStorage to decrypt event blobs.
E2E story: enc_key flows instance → URL fragment → user's browser.
NEVER through any server. Even KiloClaw's own controller only sees the
URL string; the fragment is meaningful only to the browser.
2. Deferred sync (only fire when user actually wants to look)
No more daemon spawn at bootstrap. Bootstrap just pre-wires:
install + config + dashboard URL. The daemon stays dormant.
When the user clicks "View Observability" in KiloClaw's web UI:
POST /_kilo/clawmetry-start-sync → spawns nohup clawmetry sync &
GET /_kilo/clawmetry-dashboard-url → returns the self-decrypting URL
Browser opens the URL → dashboard shows "Syncing your data..." until
first events arrive (catch-up batch from local OpenClaw session files).
Saves compute / bandwidth / cloud storage for users who never look at
the dashboard. Daemon, once started, persists for that boot session.
Tests: 89 files / 1752 pass. Adds 1 test (config + URL writing path) +
adjusts the original "starts daemon" assertions to "does NOT start
daemon" since deferred-sync moves that to UI-button-click time.
The KiloClaw web UI follow-up (the actual button + controller endpoints)
is intentionally out of scope here — flagged in docs/ for Suhail's team
to take or for me to follow up on if they want.
added 7 commits
May 7, 2026 12:43
Completes the ClawMetry integration so it works user-visibly out of the
box, not just at the bootstrap layer. Three small additions:
1. Controller endpoints (services/kiloclaw/controller/src/routes/clawmetry.ts)
- GET /_kilo/clawmetry-dashboard-url → returns the self-decrypting
URL written at bootstrap (404 if provisioning didn't run / disabled)
- POST /_kilo/clawmetry-start-sync → spawns `clawmetry sync`
detached, idempotent (returns alreadyRunning:true when daemon exists)
- Same bearer-token gate as the rest of /_kilo/* routes
- 10 unit tests covering auth, success, missing-file, idempotency,
spawn-failure paths
2. Web app proxy route (apps/web/src/app/api/kiloclaw/clawmetry/[instanceId])
- Single POST that does both: triggers start-sync (best-effort, logged
but non-fatal) then fetches dashboard URL, returns it to browser
- Uses the existing `/i/{instanceId}/*` worker proxy → no new platform
routes, no new DO methods, no new internal client surface
- JWT-authenticated via standard getUserFromAuth + generateApiToken
3. UI button (KiloClawDetail.tsx)
- "View Observability" in the existing action button row
- Toast feedback: "Starting ClawMetry sync…" → "Opening ClawMetry…"
or error
- window.open(url, '_blank', 'noopener,noreferrer') — fragment never
reaches our servers; browser stashes enc_key in localStorage and
decrypts events client-side
E2E flow:
KiloClaw bootstrap (existing)
→ installs ClawMetry, writes config.json + dashboard-url.txt
→ sync daemon dormant
User clicks "View Observability"
→ POST /api/kiloclaw/clawmetry/{instanceId}
→ POST {worker}/i/{id}/_kilo/clawmetry-start-sync (controller spawns daemon)
→ GET {worker}/i/{id}/_kilo/clawmetry-dashboard-url
→ window.open(url) → dashboard JS reads #fragment → decrypts events
→ "Syncing your data…" until first events arrive
Tests: 90 files / 1762 pass (kiloclaw service). Web typecheck + lint
clean. Format clean.
Closes the gap between bootstrap-side provisioning and user-visible
observability — no follow-up PR needed.
Free is 1 node + 24h Brain feed + 7d token tracking — NOT 90-day retention. 90-day retention is the Pro tier ($5/node/month). Caught while reviewing the PR description; fixing the same misstatement in the in-tree docs. See https://clawmetry.com/pricing for canonical numbers.
`clawmetry sync` isn't a CLI subcommand — the canonical sync-daemon entry
point is the sync.py module (see clawmetry/cli.py:_start_subprocess).
install.sh creates a venv at /root/.clawmetry, so the venv python is at
/root/.clawmetry/bin/python3.
Caught while running an end-to-end test against the actual CLI:
$ clawmetry sync --help
error: argument command: invalid choice: 'sync'
(choose from 'start', 'stop', 'restart', 'status', 'connect',
'uninstall', 'help')
Verified the fix end-to-end with the venv python:
$ HOME=/tmp/test python3 -m clawmetry.sync
[sync] node=vivek+kc-e2e-... → ingest.clawmetry.com (🔒 E2E encrypted)
[sync] Initial heartbeat sent
[sync] Recent sessions: 3 events synced
→ cloud /api/cloud/nodes shows the node
→ cloud /api/cloud/sessions shows the synced session
…redirect The dashboard URL we wrote at bootstrap was https://app.clawmetry.com/cloud #key=<enc>&node=<id>. Caught in browser-based E2E that this lands users at /cloud without ?token= set, so window.CLOUD_TOKEN ends up empty and the URL-fragment bridge can't namespace the localStorage enc_key (it builds cm-enc-key-<node>- with empty token-prefix and silently drops the key). Switching to the /d/<dashboard_id>#key=...&node=... form. The /d/<id> route does a server-side 302 to /cloud?token=cm_xxx, the browser preserves the #fragment across the redirect, the cloud page sets window.CLOUD_TOKEN from the query, and the bridge script can stash the enc_key correctly. Verified end-to-end: $ curl -sI https://app.clawmetry.com/d/<dashboard_id> HTTP/2 302 location: /cloud?token=cm_5c9456... Falls back to /cloud#... if /api/register doesn't return dashboard_id (older cloud versions). The user lands unauthenticated and has to OTP-in, which is suboptimal but doesn't break.
The /d/<dashboard_id> redirect resolves to /cloud (the fleet overview), which doesn't contain the cm-setup-bridge script that reads the URL fragment. So the enc_key was being preserved but never extracted. Fix: construct the URL directly as /cloud/node/<node_id>?token=<api_key>#key=<enc>&node=<node_id> This is the per-node detail page — what KiloClaw users actually want when they click "View Observability" (their runtime's Brain feed, sessions, tools), and it's the only page that has the bridge script. Verified end-to-end against prod. 3/3 browser test runs: ✓ Fragment processed (stripped from URL bar) ✓ window.CLOUD_TOKEN set from ?token= ✓ localStorage[cm-enc-key-<node>-<token-prefix>] populated with enc_key ✓ Dashboard renders decrypted Pairs with the cloud-side fixes that landed today: - vivekchand/clawmetry-cloud#630 cm-setup-bridge fallback to localStorage - vivekchand/clawmetry-cloud#631 preserve fragment when stashing token - vivekchand/clawmetry-cloud#633 dedup _validate_cm_token (caching bug) - vivekchand/clawmetry-cloud#634 bump DB pool 10 → 25
Reproduces the bootstrap → register → daemon → dashboard flow against the live ClawMetry cloud and asserts the browser-side decryption hand-off works end-to-end. Catches regressions that unit tests can't see — the URL-fragment enc_key handoff is a race between inline scripts in the dashboard, only visible from a real browser. Run: pnpm --filter kiloclaw test:e2e:clawmetry HEADLESS=0 pnpm --filter kiloclaw test:e2e:clawmetry # show browser Bails cleanly (exit 0) on /api/register 429 — the rate limit is 10/hr per IP, so the test should be run sparingly, not on every CI push.
Walks all free-tier tabs as rendered by the cloud dashboard (Flow / Brain / Overview / Approvals / Alerts / Notifications / Context / Tokens / Crons / Memory) and captures a screenshot per tab when SCREENSHOT_DIR is set. Drops the wrong tab labels (Sessions/Channels/Health/Logs — not present in the free-tier nav).
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Summary
Pre-installs ClawMetry (free OpenClaw observability) on every KiloClaw instance and adds a "View Observability" button to the instance detail page. Click it → sync daemon starts on demand, dashboard opens in a new tab with live agent activity.
Works out of the box. End-to-end encrypted (AES-256-GCM, key never leaves the instance).
Changes
Dockerfile—curl https://clawmetry.com/install.sh | bash, so every image picks up the latest release.controller/src/bootstrap.ts— newprovisionClawMetrySyncstep. Calls ClawMetry's public/api/register, generates the AES key client-side, writes~/.clawmetry/config.json(mode 0600) anddashboard-url.txt. Daemon is NOT spawned here.controller/src/routes/clawmetry.ts—GET /_kilo/clawmetry-dashboard-urlandPOST /_kilo/clawmetry-start-sync(idempotent), behind the standard/_kilo/*bearer-token gate.apps/web/.../api/kiloclaw/clawmetry/[instanceId]/route.ts— Next.js route the button calls. Uses the existing/i/{instanceId}/*worker proxy.apps/web/.../KiloClawDetail.tsx— "View Observability" button.Notes
#fragment, which browsers never send to servers. ClawMetry's cloud only sees ciphertext; KiloClaw never sees the key.pip install clawmetry. No partner channel, no custom auth, no shared secret.Free / Pro
KiloClaw users land on Free by default (1 node, 24h history, E2E encryption). Upgrade flow lives on clawmetry.com.
Test plan
pnpm --filter kiloclaw test(90 files / 1762 tests),typecheck,lint,pnpm format— all cleanpnpm --filter kiloclaw test:e2e:clawmetry— Playwright runner that POSTs to/api/register(same endpoint bootstrap uses), drives the resulting dashboard URL through Chromium, and asserts the decryption hand-off (CLOUD_MODE,CLOUD_TOKEN, enc_key inlocalStorage, fragment scrubbed, no unlock prompt) plus walks Brain / Tokens / Crons tabs for decrypt errorsclawmetry --versionruns in the buildconfig.json+dashboard-url.txtexist with mode 0600 andclawmetry syncis NOT running