BOOT.md Template: Startup Steps for Agent Workspaces
This page describes the BOOT.md workspace template for defining startup steps that execute once per agent workspace on gateway start. It covers enabling the hook, usage rules, and related concepts.
Read this when
- Adding a BOOT.md checklist
BOOT.md
Include concise, clear startup steps in this space. The included boot-md hook executes this file one time per agent workspace each time the gateway starts, provided the file exists and contains non-whitespace content. When multiple agents share a workspace, the file runs only once.
This hook is disabled by default. You must enable it before use:
openclaw hooks enable boot-md
When a checklist item needs to send a message, use the message tool and then respond with the exact silent token NO_REPLY (case does not matter).