crabbox-quickstart SKILL.md skillA
crabbox-quickstart from openclaw/crabbox is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.
mdr add openclaw/crabbox/crabbox-quickstart@git:20260912.d39a946Pins git:20260912.d39a946 in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.
- Audit grade
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- Kind
- SKILL.md skill
- Repository
- openclaw/crabbox
- Path
skills/crabbox-quickstart/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
- 1
- Latest version
- git:20260912.d39a946, committed Sep 12, 2026
- Size
- 6,366 bytes
- Repository stars
- 1,518
- License
- MIT
First contact with Crabbox: run your repository's tests inside a disposable Docker or Podman container on your own machine, no account and no cloud spend, then stop the box. Use when someone asks what Crabbox is or how to try it, wants a throwaway sandbox for a repo with no crabbox.yaml yet, or is about to run crabbox init here; hand off to the crabbox skill for config that already exists, leased remote machines, jobs, secrets, or artifacts.
Collected from public GitHub. Every version is saved exactly as it was and never changes. Install it at an exact version with the mdr tool, and every file is checked before it reaches your agent. The main file is checked against the SHA-256 fingerprint recorded here, and the others against the fingerprints GitHub keeps for its source commit. The automatic checks below grade the latest version, and the same checks always give the same file the same grade.
What the file says
# Crabbox Quickstart Crabbox runs your repository's commands on a disposable box — a container on your own machine, or a remote machine you lease. It syncs your working tree, runs one command, streams the output back, and exits with that command's code. ## The loop ```text lease -> sync -> run -> read output -> stop ``` - **Lease** a box from a provider. `--provider local-container` uses Docker or Podman on your own machine: no account, no login, no spend. - **Sync** your current checkout onto it. Crabbox builds the file list from Git, so the directory must be a repository. - **Run** one command there. Its exit code becomes Crabbox's exit code. - **Read** the streamed output, and optionally timing and test-result files. - **Stop** the box. A one-shot `run` does this for you; a warm box does not. ## Install and check ```sh crabbox --version # already installed? skip the install brew install openclaw/tap/crabbox # or github.com/openclaw/crabbox/releases crabbox doctor --provider local-container ``` `doctor` with a provider is the readiness check that matters: it names the container runtime, the leases you already hold, and the `image=` your commands …
Read the whole file at its exact version.
How to install
mdr add openclaw/crabbox/crabbox-quickstart@sha256:df3dca131592065aThe line at the top of this page pins the label git:20260912.d39a946, which is what most people want. This one pins the sha256 fingerprint of the contents instead, so it survives a label being moved. Either way the exact version is written to mdr.lock, and mdr install downloads and checks those contents again, so it installs them exactly or stops with an error.
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Versions
The registry has recorded 1 version of this file, committed on Sep 12, 2026.
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Source
openclaw/crabbox · 1,518 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-11-05 · branch main
API
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_f7vchrxuvkinb7bn GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=openclaw/crabbox/crabbox-quickstart GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/df3dca131592065a74bdbfc23c5b1f873585de8837168986ba3bda535c591793
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Guides: the SKILL.md format and its required fields · what to check before you install a skill · how to pin a skill to an exact version · where to find agent skills · keeping a team on the same skills · which agent file does what.
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