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Portainer

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  • Updated March 7, 2026
  • sundial-org/awesome-openclaw-skills

Helps with ai & agent building tasks during AI-assisted development.

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portainer is a Claude Code skill for ai & agent building. It helps solo builders move faster with AI-assisted coding.

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Last updatedMarch 7, 2026
Repositorysundial-org/awesome-openclaw-skills

What it does

Helps with ai & agent building tasks during AI-assisted development.

Files

SKILL.mdMarkdownGitHub ↗

🐳 Portainer Skill

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    ║   🐳  P O R T A I N E R   C O N T R O L   C L I  🐳      ║
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    ║       Manage Docker containers via Portainer API          ║
    ║            Start, stop, deploy, redeploy                  ║
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"Docker containers? I'll handle them from my lily pad." 🐸

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📖 What Does This Skill Do?

The Portainer Skill gives you control over your Docker infrastructure through Portainer's REST API. Manage containers, stacks, and deployments without touching the web UI.

Features:

  • 📊 Status — Check Portainer server status
  • 🖥️ Endpoints — List all Docker environments
  • 📦 Containers — List, start, stop, restart containers
  • 📚 Stacks — List and manage Docker Compose stacks
  • 🔄 Redeploy — Pull from git and redeploy stacks
  • 📜 Logs — View container logs

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⚙️ Requirements

WhatDetails
PortainerVersion 2.x with API access
Toolscurl, jq
AuthAPI Access Token

Setup

1. Get API Token from Portainer:

  • Log into Portainer web UI
  • Click username → My Account
  • Scroll to "Access tokens" → Add access token
  • Copy the token (you won't see it again!)

2. Configure credentials:

   # Add to ~/.clawdbot/.env
   PORTAINER_URL=https://your-portainer-server:9443
   PORTAINER_API_KEY=ptr_your_token_here

3. Ready! 🚀

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🛠️ Commands

status — Check Portainer Server

./portainer.sh status

Output:

Portainer v2.27.3

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endpoints — List Environments

./portainer.sh endpoints

Output:

3: portainer (local) - ✓ online
4: production (remote) - ✓ online

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containers — List Containers

# List containers on default endpoint (4)
./portainer.sh containers

# List containers on specific endpoint
./portainer.sh containers 3

Output:

steinbergerraum-web-1    running    Up 2 days
cora-web-1               running    Up 6 weeks
minecraft                running    Up 6 weeks (healthy)

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stacks — List All Stacks

./portainer.sh stacks

Output:

25: steinbergerraum - ✓ active
33: cora - ✓ active
35: minecraft - ✓ active
4: pulse-website - ✗ inactive

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stack-info — Stack Details

./portainer.sh stack-info 25

Output:

{
  "Id": 25,
  "Name": "steinbergerraum",
  "Status": 1,
  "EndpointId": 4,
  "GitConfig": "https://github.com/user/repo",
  "UpdateDate": "2026-01-25T08:44:56Z"
}

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redeploy — Pull & Redeploy Stack 🔄

./portainer.sh redeploy 25

Output:

✓ Stack 'steinbergerraum' redeployed successfully

This will: 1. Pull latest code from git 2. Rebuild containers if needed 3. Restart the stack

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start / stop / restart — Container Control

# Start a container
./portainer.sh start steinbergerraum-web-1

# Stop a container
./portainer.sh stop steinbergerraum-web-1

# Restart a container
./portainer.sh restart steinbergerraum-web-1

# Specify endpoint (default: 4)
./portainer.sh restart steinbergerraum-web-1 4

Output:

✓ Container 'steinbergerraum-web-1' restarted

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logs — View Container Logs

# Last 100 lines (default)
./portainer.sh logs steinbergerraum-web-1

# Last 50 lines
./portainer.sh logs steinbergerraum-web-1 4 50

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🎯 Example Workflows

🚀 "Deploy Website Update"

# After merging PR
./portainer.sh redeploy 25
./portainer.sh logs steinbergerraum-web-1 4 20

🔧 "Debug Container"

./portainer.sh containers
./portainer.sh logs cora-web-1
./portainer.sh restart cora-web-1

📊 "System Overview"

./portainer.sh status
./portainer.sh endpoints
./portainer.sh containers
./portainer.sh stacks

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🔧 Troubleshooting

❌ "Authentication required / Repository not found"

Problem: Stack redeploy fails with git auth error

Solution: The stack needs repositoryGitCredentialID parameter. The script handles this automatically by reading from the existing stack config.

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❌ "Container not found"

Problem: Container name doesn't match

Solution: Use exact name from ./portainer.sh containers:

  • Include the full name: steinbergerraum-web-1 not steinbergerraum
  • Names are case-sensitive

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❌ "PORTAINER_URL and PORTAINER_API_KEY must be set"

Problem: Credentials not configured

Solution:

# Add to ~/.clawdbot/.env
echo "PORTAINER_URL=https://your-server:9443" >> ~/.clawdbot/.env
echo "PORTAINER_API_KEY=ptr_your_token" >> ~/.clawdbot/.env

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🔗 Integration with Clawd

"Redeploy the website"
→ ./portainer.sh redeploy 25

"Show me running containers"
→ ./portainer.sh containers

"Restart the Minecraft server"
→ ./portainer.sh restart minecraft

"What stacks do we have?"
→ ./portainer.sh stacks

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📜 Changelog

VersionDateChanges
1.0.02026-01-25Initial release

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🐸 Credits

  @..@
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( >__< )   "Containers are just fancy lily pads
 ^^  ^^     for your code to hop around!"

Author: Andy Steinberger (with help from his Clawdbot Owen the Frog 🐸) Powered by: Portainer API Part of: Clawdbot Skills Collection

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