Skill Overview
--- name: agent-task-manager description: Manages and orchestrates multi-step, stateful agent workflows; handles task dependencies, persistent state, error recovery, and external rate-limiting. Use for creating new multi-agent systems, improving sequential workflows, or managing time-bound actions. --- # Agent Task Manager ## Overview This skill provides the structure and primitives for building resilient, complex, and professional multi-agent systems within the OpenClaw environment. It transforms simple scripts into production-ready workflows. ## Core Capabilities ### 1. **Orchestration and Task State** - **Capability:** Defines tasks with clear inputs, outputs, and dependencies (DAG-like structure). - **Execution:** Uses `molt_task.py` to manage state in `task_state.json`. - **Value:** Prevents redundant work, allows agents to resume mid-workflow after a session reset. ### 2. **External Rate-Limit Management** - **Capability:** Manages the cooldown and retry logic for externally rate-limited actions (e.g., API posts, web scrapes). - **Execution:** Uses the `scripts/cooldown.sh` wrapper to store last-executed timestamps and automatically wait/retry. - **Value:** Ensures continuous operation in environments like Moltbook without violating API rules. ### 3. **Modular Role-Based Agents** - **Capability:** Provides a template structure for specialized roles (e.g., `ContractAuditor`, `FinancialAnalyst`). - **Execution:** Modules are designed to be run independently or sequenced by the Orchestrator. - **Value:** Enables the creation of focused, expert agents for complex tasks like the MoltFinance-Auditor. ## Example Workflow: MoltFinance-Auditor 1. **Task:** `FinancialAudit` 2. **Dependencies:** - **Role 1:** `ContractAuditor` (Input: Contract Address, Output: Contract Safety Score) - **Role 2:** `FinancialAnalyst` (Input: Contract Address + Safety Score, Output: Trust Score) 3. **External Action:** `MoltbookPost` (Dependent on final Trust Score; subjec
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Stateful multi-step workflows with rate-limit handling
Provides primitives for chaining dependent steps into a workflow: tasks declare inputs, outputs and dependencies, state is persisted to a local file so a run can resume after a session reset, and a wrapper script records the last execution time of externally rate-limited actions and waits before retrying. That resumption behaviour is the strongest feature, since long sequences rarely survive interruption otherwise. The design is heavier than a plain script and pays off only when a workflow genuinely spans several steps or roles, so a one-shot task gains nothing but indirection. All state is flat file based with no locking, so concurrent runs in one workspace can collide.
Use case: Resuming a long workflow after an interruption
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State for long multi-step agent workflows
Agent Task Manager adds structure to agent work that spans many steps. It defines tasks with inputs, outputs, and dependencies, keeps their state on disk, and recovers gracefully when a session resets or an external service pushes back. ## What it does - Models a workflow as tasks with explicit dependencies, so a run knows what must finish first. - Persists state to a local file, which lets a workflow resume mid-flight after a reset instead of restarting. - Wraps externally rate-limited actions in a cooldown helper that records the last run and waits before retrying. - Provides role-based module templates, each runnable on its own or sequenced by an orchestrator. ## When it is the wrong choice For a short linear job it is pure overhead, since a couple of function calls do not need a dependency graph or a state file on disk. The cooldown helper only earns its latency when the target really is rate limited, so wrapping ordinary calls in it just slows things down. The whole design assumes the workflow is long enough that resuming partway actually matters. ```bash # state and helpers the workflow uses # molt_task.py writes task_state.json # scripts/cooldown.sh wraps rate-limited actions ``` ## Notes Write dependencies down rather than inferring them at runtime, because a resumed run has no memory of what it already completed. Split distinct responsibilities into separate role modules so each can be tested in isolation, and sequence them only where one genuinely feeds the next.
Quick Facts
Install
npx clawhub@latest install agent-task-manager