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Clockwork Renegade

Standalone plugin that connects a WordPress site to Clockwork Control — signed REST endpoints for centralized monitoring, uptime verification, updates, and security telemetry.

by Clockwork Web Dev, LLC · github.com/clockwork-web-dev-llc/clockwork-renegade · website

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Install

No release zip yet. The repository archive installs, but the folder name will carry the branch suffix and updates will not flow:

wp plugin install https://github.com/clockwork-web-dev-llc/clockwork-renegade/archive/refs/heads/main.zip
Readme github.com/clockwork-web-dev-llc/clockwork-renegade ↗

Clockwork Renegade is the open-source, GPL-2.0-or-later WordPress connector agent for Clockwork Control, designed for submission to the WordPress.org Plugin Directory.

It connects a WordPress site to a central Clockwork Control dashboard via HMAC-SHA256 authenticated REST endpoints under /wp-json/clockwork-renegade/v1/.

Architecture & Features

  • Pairing & Authentication: Cryptographic Connection Key exchange via Clockwork → Connection. Per-site 256-bit shared secrets, HMAC-SHA256 request signing, and 5-minute replay window validation.
  • Telemetry & Monitoring: Instant health checks, WP-Cron schedules, plugin/theme version inventory, and resource diagnostics.
  • Safe Remote Updates: Remote triggers for WordPress core's native upgrader pipelines (Plugin_Upgrader, Theme_Upgrader, Core_Upgrader). No arbitrary remote execution.
  • Backups: On-demand streaming of compressed database and file archives directly to AWS S3 Glacier Instant Retrieval.
  • Clean Lifecycle: WordPress standard register_activation_hook onboarding redirect, and zero-residual-footprint uninstall.php cleanup.

Development & Tests

Run test suite via PHPUnit:

composer install
composer test

License

GNU General Public License v2.0 or later (GPL-2.0-or-later). Copyright (c) 2026 Clockwork Web Dev, LLC.