Skip to content

Tools & Skills

OpenClaw ships first-class tools the Pi agent can call: browser, canvas, nodes, cron, sessions, and channel actions. Skills extend the agent with bundled, managed, and workspace-installed capabilities.

Built-in tools

  • Browser — dedicated openclaw Chrome / Chromium with snapshots, actions, uploads, profiles. See Browser.
  • Canvas — agent-driven visual workspace with A2UI push / reset, eval, snapshot.
  • Nodes — camera snap / clip, screen record, location.get, notifications.
  • Cron + wakeups — schedule jobs, webhook triggers, Gmail Pub/Sub.
  • Skills platform — bundled, managed, and workspace skills with install gating + UI. See Skills.
  • Slash commands — in-chat control surface. See Slash commands.
  • Session tools — sessions_list, sessions_history, sessions_send for cross-agent coordination.

Agent to agent (sessions tools)

Use these to coordinate work across sessions without jumping between chat surfaces.

  • sessions_list — discover active sessions (agents) and their metadata.
  • sessions_history — fetch transcript logs for a session.
  • sessions_send — message another session; optional reply-back ping-pong + announce step (REPLY_SKIP, ANNOUNCE_SKIP).

Skills registry (ClawHub)

ClawHub is a minimal skill registry. With ClawHub enabled, the agent can search for skills automatically and pull in new ones as needed.

External: clawhub.com.

See also