modbender OpenClaw Tally
Reframes AI usage from token-counting to task-completion economics. Instead of "how many tokens?", answer "how much to get X done, and was it worth it?"
🛠️ Installation
1. Ask OpenClaw (Recommended)
Tell OpenClaw: "Install the openclaw-tally skill." The agent will handle the installation and configuration automatically.
2. Manual Installation (CLI)
If you prefer the terminal, run:
clawhub install openclaw-tally
Security & Privacy Declaration
- Hook: This skill registers a
message-posthook and processes every message. - Local only: All processing is purely local. No data is sent to any external server.
- Message content: The task detector reads message text to identify task boundaries (start/complete/fail signals) using regex pattern matching. No message text is stored — only metadata (token count, model, session_id, complexity score) is persisted to the database.
- Sandboxed storage: SQLite database defaults to
~/.openclaw/tally/tally.db. A custom path can be provided for testing. - Native dependency: Requires
better-sqlite3(native Node.js addon). Installation runsnpm installwhich triggers a native build step. - Permissions: No network access. No exec permissions. Filesystem limited to
~/.openclaw/tally/.
What It Does
- Detects tasks automatically from message streams (Layer 1: Task Detector)
- Attributes costs across sessions, sub-agents, and cron triggers (Layer 2: Task Ledger)
- Computes TES (Task Efficiency Score) per task, model, and cron (Layer 3: Analytics Engine)
Commands
/tasks list— Show recent tasks with status, cost, and TES/tasks stats— Summary statistics for a time period/tasks this-week— This week's task summary/tasks show <task_id>— Show task detail/tasks report --dimension model— Model efficiency report/tasks cron-health— Cron efficiency and health check
Complexity Levels
- L1 (Reflex): Single-turn, text-only, no tools
- L2 (Routine): Multi-turn or 1–3 tool calls
- L3 (Mission): Multiple tools + file I/O + external APIs
- L4 (Campaign): Sub-agents + cron + cross-session
TES (Task Efficiency Score)
TES = quality_score / (normalized_cost × complexity_weight)
- > 2.0 🟢 Excellent
- 1.0–2.0 🟡 Good
- 0.5–1.0 🟠 Below average
- < 0.5 🔴 Poor
- 0.0 ⚫ Failed
Usage
When the skill is installed, it automatically hooks into message-post. Use the /tasks commands above to query analytics. All data is stored locally in ~/.openclaw/tally/tally.db.
See PRD.md for the full product specification.