Service and Updates

Service & updates

Run forever

phoenix service install

Installs a systemd service, starts it, and enables start-at-boot. First flight does this automatically when you have a channel configured (and politely holds off if OpenClaw still owns the bot).

phoenix service status     # is it alive?
phoenix service logs       # what's it doing?
phoenix service restart
phoenix service uninstall

Stay current

phoenix update

Downloads the latest release for your platform, verifies the SHA-256 checksum, and swaps itself atomically. phoenix update --check just looks.

Timers & heartbeat

Cron jobs ([[jobs]] in config, validate with phoenix jobs) run tasks on schedule; heartbeat pings your chat so you know the bird still flies. Details: Configuration.