Situation Monitor#

Use this skill when the user wants to catch up on Discord traffic, monitor a few noisy channels, triage Kubernetes incidents, produce a digest, or draft a safe follow-up.

Use the helper wrapper at scripts/mts for all commands. It bootstraps .venv and installs the package on first run, which makes hosted OpenClaw installs far more reliable than calling python3 -m monitoring_the_situation.cli directly.

Guardrails#

• Never use a user token or self-bot. Live mode requires a Discord bot token.
• Prefer fixture mode when a live Discord bot is not configured yet.
• Do not ingest personal or private account history for demos.
• Prefer public status pages, public incident feeds, and synthetic cluster incidents for KubeWatch unless the user explicitly provides other sources.
• Treat outbound posting as sensitive. Drafts are allowed; sending stays blocked until Civic approval is configured.

Working modes#

1. Discord fixture mode for a safe demo:

bash

bash scripts/mts fixture \
  --input examples/demo_messages.json \
  --save-path .local/demo_report.md

1. Live Discord snapshot mode after bot setup:

bash

bash scripts/mts discord-fetch \
  --hours 24 \
  --limit-per-channel 75 \
  --save-path .local/live_report.md

1. Draft a reply for a specific report item:

bash

bash scripts/mts draft-reply \
  --bucket urgent \
  --channel api-alerts

1. KubeWatch fixture mode for the SRE lane:

bash

bash scripts/mts kubewatch-fixture \
  --input examples/kubewatch_incidents.json \
  --save-path .local/kubewatch_report.md

1. KubeWatch live intake from Apify after sponsor setup:

bash

bash scripts/mts kubewatch-apify \
  --actor-id "$APIFY_ACTOR_ID" \
  --actor-input examples/apify_actor_input.json \
  --save-path .local/kubewatch_live_report.md

1. KubeWatch live cluster scan against the demo namespace:

bash

bash scripts/mts kubewatch-cluster \
  --namespace production \
  --save-path .local/kubewatch_cluster_report.md

1. Rebuild and sanity-check the Apify actor when the repo changes:

bash

cd /Users/sarahhatcher/Documents/monitoring-the-situation-openclaw
npm install
node main.js

The actor lives at the repo root, so Apify should stay pointed at the root with no folder override.

Expected output#

Produce a report with:

• An executive summary
• Urgent threads
• Direct asks
• Decisions and deadlines
• FYI items
• Source citations by channel/message
• Incident priorities and grounded remediation steps for KubeWatch

If the user asks to send a message instead of drafting one, explain that the repo is intentionally fail-closed until Civic-backed approvals are wired.