Multi-Agent Deployment Skill for OpenClaw

Production deployment focus. This skill provides executable scripts and cloud-ready configurations — not just documentation. Unlike pure coordination-pattern skills, this gives you working infrastructure: agent_setup.py creates your agent directories, routing_config.py generates OpenClaw config, memory_sync.py wires shared memory, fleet_validate.py checks your deployment health, and deploy_script.sh ships to DigitalOcean, AWS, GCP, Azure, or Kubernetes.

Quick Start (5 minutes)

# 1. Create 5 agent directories with SOUL.md + AGENTS.md templates
python scripts/agent_setup.py --agents coordinator,research,builder,auditor,personal --output ./agents

# 2. Generate OpenClaw routing config
python scripts/routing_config.py --input ./agents --output ~/.openclaw/config.json

# 3. Initialize shared memory
python scripts/memory_sync.py --init --path ./shared_memory

# 4. Validate your fleet (new!)
python scripts/fleet_validate.py --agents ./agents --config ~/.openclaw/config.json

# 5. Deploy (or dry-run first)
bash scripts/deploy_script.sh --platform digitalocean --region nyc3 --dry-run

What's Included

🐍 Python Scripts (working, tested)

📁 Asset Templates

📚 Reference Docs

• references/architecture.md: Full agent architecture patterns (coordinator-centric, peer-to-peer, pipeline)
• references/troubleshooting.md: 6 common failure patterns with recovery procedures
• references/workflows.md: Workflow DAG templates with pipeline execution patterns (v1.2.0+)
• references/memory-schemas.md: Typed inter-agent memory schemas with validation rules (v1.2.0+)

☁️ Cloud Deployment Configs

• deployments/digitalocean/app.yaml — DigitalOcean App Platform
• deployments/aws/task-definition.json — AWS ECS
• deployments/gcp/cloudrun.yaml — GCP Cloud Run
• deployments/azure/container-instance.yaml — Azure Container Instances
• deployments/k8s/deployment.yaml — Kubernetes deployment + HPA
• deployments/Dockerfile.openclaw — Container image for gateway (Shipped with skill — customize or regenerate with deploy_script.sh)

Architecture Overview

The skill supports three deployment-tested agent topologies:

1. Coordinator-Centric (recommended start)

User → Coordinator → [Research, Builder, Auditor, Personal]
                      → Shared Memory ← all

Best for: business workflows, clear task handoffs, teams < 10 agents.

2. Peer-to-Peer

Agents ↔ Event Bus ↔ Shared Memory

Best for: creative/research workflows, emergent coordination, high collaboration.

3. Pipeline

Research → Builder → Auditor → Deploy

Best for: content creation, data processing, linear workflows.

See references/architecture.md for full topology diagrams and config examples.

Shared Memory Design

Two backends available — file (default, zero deps) and SQLite (production).

File backend (zero infrastructure):

• Atomic writes via temp file + replace
• File locking with configurable timeout
• TTL-based expiration on shared keys
• Event journaling (daily JSONL files)
• Agent statistics (read/write counts, last active)
• Auto-cleanup of expired entries
• Typed schema validation for structured inter-agent data (v1.2.0+)

# Write data (free-form, file backend)
python scripts/memory_sync.py --write 'coordinator:task_status:{"status":"active"}'

# Write data with schema validation
python scripts/memory_sync.py --write 'coordinator:current_task:{"task_id":"t001","assigned_by":"coordinator","assigned_to":"research","priority":"high","title":"Research trends","description":"Analyze marketplace"}' --schema task_assignment

# Read data
python scripts/memory_sync.py --read 'research:search_results'

# View agent stats
python scripts/memory_sync.py --stats

# List available typed schemas
python scripts/memory_sync.py --list-schemas

# List all shared keys (v1.3.0)
python scripts/memory_sync.py --keys

# Count keys per agent (v1.3.0)
python scripts/memory_sync.py --count-by-agent

# Cleanup expired
python scripts/memory_sync.py --cleanup

# === SQLite Backend (production, v1.3.0) ===

# Initialize SQLite shared memory
python scripts/memory_sync.py --backend sqlite --init --path ./shared_memory

# Write with SQLite backend
python scripts/memory_sync.py --backend sqlite --write 'coordinator:task:{"id":"t1"}'

# Migrate from file to SQLite
python scripts/memory_sync.py --migrate-to-sqlite ./shared_memory

# Reclaim SQLite space
python scripts/memory_sync.py --backend sqlite --compact

For high-concurrency production, use the SQLite backend (--backend sqlite) with WAL mode for concurrent reads/writes and ACID transactions — all from the Python std library, no pip install needed.

Migrate from file to SQLite:

python scripts/memory_sync.py --migrate-to-sqlite ./shared_memory

HTTP REST API (v1.4.0+)

Expose shared memory over HTTP using only Python stdlib — no pip install needed. Start the API server with --listen:

# Start server (default: port 8080, bind 127.0.0.1)
python scripts/memory_sync.py --listen --backend sqlite --path ./shared_memory

# Write via API
curl -X POST http://localhost:8080/write -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"agent_id":"coordinator","key":"task:t001","value":{"task_id":"t001","assigned_to":"research"},"schema":"task_assignment"}'

CORS headers included for web-based dashboards.

Cloud Deployment

# Dry-run (generates configs only)
bash scripts/deploy_script.sh --platform aws --region us-east-1 --dry-run

# Actual deploy
bash scripts/deploy_script.sh --platform digitalocean --region nyc3 --size s-2vcpu-2gb

The script:

1. Detects or accepts platform (--platform digitalocean|aws|gcp|azure|k8s)
2. Generates platform-specific configs under deployments/<platform>/
3. Dockerfile included for containerized gateway
4. Generates deployment summary in deployments/deployment-summary.md

Common Use Cases

E-commerce Support Team

Customer → Coordinator → [Support, Inventory, Analytics, Order]

Content Creation Team

Research → Writer → Editor → Publisher (pipeline pattern)

Development Team

Planner → Coder → Tester → Deployer → Auditor (pipeline + audit gate)

Personal Productivity

Coordinator → [Research, Builder, Personal Assistant]

Agent Types Included

Monitoring, Security & Recovery

Agent Monitoring

• Shared memory stats: python scripts/memory_sync.py --stats
• SQLite stats (production): python scripts/memory_sync.py --backend sqlite --stats
• List all keys: python scripts/memory_sync.py --keys
• Keys per agent: python scripts/memory_sync.py --count-by-agent
• Event journal: tail -f shared_memory/events/$(date +%Y%m%d).jsonl
• System health: openclaw agents list && openclaw gateway status

Security Perimeter

Recovery Procedures

See references/troubleshooting.md for:

• Complete system failure recovery
• Data corruption restoration
• Individual agent recovery
• Configuration drift fixes

Why This Skill Over Competitors

OpenClaw 2026.x Integration Patterns

This skill's outputs work with OpenClaw 2026.2+ and 2026.3+ features:

• sessions_spawn for sub-agent task delegation
• cron for scheduled multi-agent workflows
• Shared memory as communication bridge between agents
• Routing rules for message-to-agent direction
• fleet_validate.py for post-deployment health checks
• openclaw agents management commands for fleet lifecycle

2026.3+ Feature Notes

The latest routing config generator (routing_config.py) automatically generates configurations for these 2026.3+ features—no manual editing needed:

• Agent health probes: Each agent entry has healthCheck config with interval, timeout, and retry settings
• Gateway-level rate limiting: Per-agent rateLimit settings (30 req/min, 5 concurrent)
• Structured memory types: memory_sync.py now supports typed schema validation via --schema flag. See references/memory-schemas.md for all available schemas (task_assignment, status_update, research_finding, etc.)
• Workflow DAGs: 5 ready-to-use pipeline execution templates in references/workflows.md — content creation, development sprints, customer support, data pipelines, and daily briefings with topological dependency ordering and execution scripts

Troubleshooting Quick Reference

Agents not responding?

openclaw agents list           # Are they running?
journalctl -u openclaw-gateway | tail -20  # Any errors?

Wrong routing?

python scripts/routing_config.py --input ./agents --config-output ./routing-test.json

Shared memory corruption?

python -m json.tool shared_memory/shared_data.json  # Validate JSON
python scripts/memory_sync.py --cleanup              # Remove expired
python scripts/memory_sync.py --list-schemas         # See available typed schemas

Fleet health check?

python scripts/fleet_validate.py --agents ./agents --config ~/.openclaw/config.json

Schema validation on write?

python scripts/memory_sync.py --write 'coordinator:task:{"task_id":"t1","assigned_to":"research"}' --schema task_assignment

Version History

Based on production patterns from Abhi's multi-agent deployment experience. Tested with OpenClaw 2026.2+. Published on ClawHub — slug: multi-agent-deployment