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Validate a Reply Before Acting On It

An agent that trusts a tool reply outright can act on a malformed or unexpected value. This skill covers validating tool and model output before use: check the shape of a reply against what the caller expects, hold or quarantine a reply that fails the check rather than passing it on, treat a missing field as a fault rather than a silent default, and keep the check close to where the reply is consumed so a change in one tool is caught at the boundary.

Commands

$ openclaw command add --name "reply-check" --trigger "/reply-check" --source "Ops Console" --message "Validate the shape of a tool reply before the result is used, so a malformed or unexpected value is caught at the boundary rather than passed on."

$ openclaw alert-rule add --name "Reply Failed Check" --group-by "tool" --window "15m" --action "Alert when replies from one tool fail the shape check more than once, which points at a contract change on the tool rather than a one off bad value."

$ openclaw auto-fix add --name "Hold Bad Reply" --condition "reply.check_failed" --action "Hold the reply and return a clear fault instead of passing the unvalidated value to the next step." --approval "auto" --notify "#ops-info" --cooldown "10m"

$ openclaw runbook add --name "Reply Validation" --trigger "/runbook reply" --tags "integration,ops" --steps "Check the shape at the boundary. Hold a reply that fails. Treat a missing field as a fault. Keep the check near the consumer. Alert on repeated failures."

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Validate a reply before acting on it

Validate a Reply Before Acting On It

# Validate a reply before acting on it A tool reply is data from outside the agent, and a value of the wrong shape can be accepted and passed on before anyone notices. The check belongs at the boundary where the reply is first read. ## Check the shape, not the meaning A shape check asks whether t

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Difficulty: Intermediate
Category: integration
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