openclaw system

System-level helpers for the Gateway: enqueue system events, control heartbeats, and view presence.

All system subcommands use Gateway RPC and accept the shared client flags:

Common commands

openclaw system event --text "Check for urgent follow-ups" --mode nowopenclaw system event --text "Check for urgent follow-ups" --url ws://127.0.0.1:18789 --token "$OPENCLAW_GATEWAY_TOKEN"openclaw system heartbeat enableopenclaw system heartbeat lastopenclaw system presence

system event

Enqueue a system event on the main session by default. The next heartbeat injects it as a System: line in the prompt. Use --mode now to trigger the heartbeat immediately; next-heartbeat (default) waits for the next scheduled tick.

Pass --session-key to target a specific session, for example to relay an async-task completion back to the channel that started it.

Flags:

• --text <text>: required system event text.
• --mode <mode>: now or next-heartbeat (default).
• --session-key <sessionKey>: optional; target a specific agent session instead of the agent's main session. Keys that do not belong to the resolved agent fall back to the agent's main session.

system heartbeat last|enable|disable

• last: show the last heartbeat event.
• enable: turn heartbeats back on (use this if they were disabled).
• disable: pause heartbeats.

system presence

List the current system presence entries the Gateway knows about (nodes, instances, and similar status lines).

Notes

• Requires a running Gateway reachable by your current config (local or remote).
• System events are ephemeral and not persisted across restarts.

Related

• CLI reference