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Skills & Skill Workshop

Skills are reusable, installable agent behaviours — think of them as slash commands with built-in instructions, tool calls, and playbooks. Install popular ones from ClawHub, or author your own in plain Markdown. Skill Workshop handles proposals, reviews, and updates without touching the filesystem directly.

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Description

Skills are reusable, installable agent behaviours defined as Markdown files. A skill has a trigger (a slash command like /review), a short description, and a body of natural-language instructions the agent follows when that trigger fires.

Think of skills as saved prompts with superpowers: they can reference tool calls, include conditional logic in plain English, and be composed with other skills. Once a skill is installed, any session in that workspace can invoke it with a single command.

Skill Workshop is the proposal and review system for skills. When you ask the agent to create or modify a skill, it drafts a proposal that you can inspect before it's applied. This prevents accidental overwrites and keeps skill changes reviewable — especially useful in team settings.

ClawHub is the community registry where skills are published and shared. You can install a skill from ClawHub in one command, or publish your own for others to use. Skills are versioned and can be updated in place with openclaw skills update.

What skills are

  • •A skill is a Markdown file with a trigger (e.g. /review), a description, and instructions the agent follows when that trigger fires.
  • •Skills are scoped to a workspace — install them per project so different agents have different capabilities.
  • •Skill Workshop proposes skill changes as diffs you approve before anything is applied.
  • •ClawHub is the community registry — browse, install, and publish skills from the CLI.

CLI commands

Minimum version:openclaw 2026.6.0+

List installed skills

openclaw skills list

Search ClawHub for a skill

openclaw skills search <query>

Install a skill from ClawHub

openclaw skills install <skill-name>

Update all installed skills

openclaw skills update

Uninstall a skill

openclaw skills uninstall <skill-name>

Publish your skill to ClawHub

openclaw skills publish

Authoring your first skill

Skills live in .claude/skills/ inside your workspace. A minimal skill looks like this:

---
name: my-review
trigger: /review
description: Review the current diff for bugs and style issues
---

Review the git diff in the current workspace.
Check for:
- Logic bugs
- Security issues
- Code style violations

Report findings in a numbered list.

Once the file exists, type /review in any session that has the skill installed and the agent follows those instructions automatically.

ClawHub

ClawHub is the official registry for OpenClaw skills. It lets you discover, install, and publish reusable skills without manually managing files.

Use ClawHub when you want battle-tested skills (GitHub, Slack, Notion, diagram generation, etc.) or when you want to share your own skills with the community. All installations go through the openclaw skills commands and are versioned.

Browse ClawHub →

Skills installed from ClawHub are automatically kept up to date with openclaw skills update.

Popular ClawHub skills

github

Manage issues, PRs, and CI — fetch diffs, open PRs, post review comments.

slack

Send, read, and manage Slack messages and threads from the agent.

diagram-maker

Generate SVG/Excalidraw architecture diagrams from a text description.

weather

Fetch current weather and forecasts for any location.

notion

Read and write Notion pages, databases, and comments.

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