Coder Workspaces Skill for OpenClaw

Manage Coder workspaces and AI coding agent tasks from your OpenClaw agent.

Features

• Workspaces: List, create, start, stop, restart, delete
• Remote Commands: SSH into workspaces and run commands
• AI Tasks: Create and manage Coder Tasks with Claude Code, Aider, Goose, etc.

Prerequisites

1. Access to a Coder deployment (self-hosted or Coder Cloud)
2. Coder CLI installed
3. Environment variables configured

Setup

1. Install Coder CLI

Install from your Coder instance to ensure version compatibility:

# Visit your instance's CLI page for instructions
# https://your-coder-instance.com/cli

Or via Homebrew (may not match server version):

brew install coder

See Coder CLI docs for all options.

2. Set Environment Variables

Add to your OpenClaw config (~/.openclaw/openclaw.json):

{
  "env": {
    "CODER_URL": "https://your-coder-deployment.com",
    "CODER_SESSION_TOKEN": "your-session-token"
  }
}

Get a token at https://your-coder-deployment.com/cli-auth or /settings/tokens.

3. Authenticate

coder login --token "$CODER_SESSION_TOKEN" "$CODER_URL"

4. Verify

coder whoami

Install the Skill

clawhub install coder-workspaces

Usage

Ask your OpenClaw agent things like:

• "List my Coder workspaces"
• "Start my dev workspace"
• "Create a task to fix the auth bug"
• "Check status of my running tasks"
• "SSH into backend and run the tests"

Links

• Coder Docs
• Coder CLI
• Coder Tasks
• OpenClaw
• ClawHub

License

MIT