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Skills

Skills extend the agent with bundled, managed, or workspace-installed capabilities. The skills platform handles install gating, UI, and discovery.

Skill flavors

  • Bundled — ship with OpenClaw and are always available.
  • Managed — pulled from a registry (ClawHub) on demand.
  • Workspace — installed by the user (or tenant) into their workspace.

Multi-tenant skills

In OpenClawMU, skills are installed in the tenant's workspace at {tenantDir}/workspace/. The config overlay allows per-tenant skill settings, and binary requirements are tracked per skill.

Tenant-allowed skill methods:

  • skills.status — check skill status.
  • skills.bins — list required binaries.
  • skills.install — install skills.
  • skills.update — update skill settings.

See Multi-Tenancy.

ClawHub (skill registry)

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.

Authoring skills

The upstream docs/tools/creating-skills.md documents the skill format and authoring workflow. The skills/ directory in the repo contains the bundled skills as reference implementations.

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