🏎️ OpenClaw Sport Mode

Shift your agent into high gear. Temporarily boost OpenClaw's heartbeat frequency for intense monitoring tasks, then auto-cool-down when done.

Why?

By default, OpenClaw checks in every 30 minutes. That's great for battery life, but terrible when you're:

• 🍿 Watching Codex write code (you want to see errors now).
• 🏗️ Waiting for a long build or deployment.
• 🎮 Playing a turn-based game with your agent.

Sport Mode lets you toggle a high-frequency heartbeat (e.g., 3m, 1m) and inject a "Mission" that the agent will obsessively check until completion.

🚀 Installation

Manual

git clone https://github.com/l1veIn/openclaw-sport-mode.git ~/.openclaw/skills/sport-mode

🗣️ Conversational Usage (Recommended)

Just ask your agent!

You: "I'm running a long compile task. Can you watch it for me?" Agent: "Sure." You: "Start Sport Mode with a 1-minute interval. If it fails, ping me." Agent: (Executes sport-mode on automatically) "🏎️ Sport Mode activated!"

💻 CLI Usage

1. Shift into Sport Mode (On)

# Default: 3-minute interval
sport-mode on --task "Monitor the build. If failed, notify me immediately."

# Turbo Mode: 1-minute interval
sport-mode on --task "Play idiom solitaire" --every "1m"

This will:

1. Hot-patch your openclaw.json to the new interval (Gateway reloads automatically).
2. Create/Overwrite HEARTBEAT.md with your task and a state machine template.

2. Cool Down (Off)

sport-mode off

This will:

1. Reset heartbeat to 30m (default).
2. Clear HEARTBEAT.md.

🌟 Real World Examples

1. Supervising Coding Agents

We used Sport Mode to supervise Codex building a complex Rust project through multiple milestones. Instead of manually checking progress, we set the agent on auto-pilot:

sport-mode on --task "Monitor Codex in tmux. If current milestone passes tests, auto-start the next one. If stuck, notify me."

Result: The agent autonomously verified tests, committed code, and started the next phase—all while we grabbed a coffee. ☕

2. Interactive Games

Turn your agent into a game master.

Word Chain (English)

sport-mode on --every "1m" --task "Play Word Chain. Start with 'Apple'. Reply with a word starting with the last letter. 10 rounds."

成语接龙 (Chinese Idiom Solitaire)

sport-mode on --every "1m" --task "成语接龙：每分钟回复一个成语，接上一个成语的尾字。5轮后自动结束。"

3. The Self-Destruct Protocol (自毁机制)

How to ensure the high-frequency heartbeat stops automatically? Write the shutdown command into the task instructions.

Initial HEARTBEAT.md:

# 🏎️ Sport Mode Active
Target: 1m

## Task
Count down from 5.
State: 5

## Instructions
1. Decrement state.
2. If State > 0, update this file.
3. If State == 0, run: `sport-mode off` (Self-Destruct).

Agent Action (Round 1):

• Reads file.
• Sends "Count: 4".
• Updates file to State: 4.

Agent Action (Round 5):

• Reads State: 1.
• Decrements to 0.
• Executes sport-mode off.
• Result: Heartbeat resets to 30m, file is cleared. Mission complete.

🧠 Best Practices

The "Auto-Pilot" Pattern

Sport Mode encourages a Stateless Agent, Stateful File pattern. Instead of relying on a massive conversation history context, let the agent read HEARTBEAT.md, perform one step, update HEARTBEAT.md, and sleep.

Example HEARTBEAT.md during a game:

# 🏎️ Sport Mode Active
Target: 1m

## Task
Idiom Solitaire
State:
- Last: 天长地久
- Remaining: 1

## Auto-Off
If Remaining == 0, run `sport-mode off`.

Silence is Golden

When running every 1 minute, don't let your agent spam you.

• No change? Reply HEARTBEAT_OK (silence).
• Status changed? Send a notification.

License

MIT