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OpenClaw Skills

OpenClaw reads Skills from the agent’s workspace first, then ~/.agents/skills/ and the shared ~/.openclaw/skills/. 104 ready-made Skills for video, images, web pages and slides.

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~/.openclaw/skills/
└── ours-paint-sweep-finale/
    ├── SKILL.md
    └── …
A Skill in the workspace’s skills/ is for that agent only; ~/.openclaw/skills/ is visible to every agent using that state.

Where OpenClaw looks for Skills

Personal folder
~/.openclaw/skills/ or ~/.agents/skills/
Project folder
skills/ or .agents/skills/ in the agent’s workspace
Also
Bundled Skills, folders in skills.load.extraDirs, and Skills shipped by plugins
Call a Skill
Type $ in the Control UI composer to pick a Skill, use /skill-name, or let the agent pick it
Check it loaded
Run openclaw skills check if a Skill doesn’t show up for an agent
After you add one
Watches the Skills folders by default; existing sessions pick up changed Skills on their next turn
Format
SKILL.md folders (the Agent Skills format)

From OpenClaw docs: Skills (opens in a new tab), read 2026-11-05.

Skills to try in OpenClaw

Each one is a plain SKILL.md folder, the format OpenClaw reads. Skills that make images or video call FAL with your own key, so your agent needs to be allowed to run terminal commands.

  • FreeVideo

    Paint Sweep Finale

    An 8.6-second end card: a paint stroke wipes the last shot away, your name is painted on over a blue sky, and your tagline and link arrive on paper strips.

  • FreeVideo

    Podcast Outreach Agent

    A 9.4-second light product demo: an agent shortlists six podcasts, you approve, and each pitch moves from sent to opened to booked.

  • PremiumImage

    Apple Style OG Image

    Clean share cards with a fan of realistic phones on pale grey, one big front screen and bright app screens behind it. GPT Image 2 via FAL.

    $4.99 or with Premium

  • PremiumImage

    Appliance Teardown Poster

    Renders a polished exploded-view poster of an appliance from an approved parts and materials list. Product teams get a clear technical hero image, with branding, specs and claims kept checkable.

    $4.99 or with Premium

  • PremiumWeb pages

    Gradient Juice Site

    A one-file site for a juice, drinks or food brand, with 31 routes: a gradient campaign hero with drifting cream ribbons, an arched flavor rail, a crate builder, bag, demo checkout and stockist map.

    $4.99 or with Premium

  • PremiumWeb pages

    Interview Podcast Site

    A one-file home for an interview show, 31 routes: a dark hero card with an audio card, a docked player with chapters and a queue, a filtered archive, episode pages with transcripts, and guests.

    $4.99 or with Premium

  • FreeSlides

    Marker Workshop Deck

    A ten-page workshop or community-project deck with huge mint capital headlines, black marker drawings of people at work and warm paper pages.

  • FreeSlides

    Ribbon Profile Deck

    A crisp ten-page company profile with slanted cobalt title ribbons, photos cut on angled edges and clean white pages of figures, steps, a chart and a table.

See all 104 Skills

How to add a Skill to OpenClaw

Get the Skill’s ZIP from its card once downloads open, then:

  1. Unzip the Skill so its folder sits at ~/.openclaw/skills/<skill>/SKILL.md for every local agent, or at skills/<skill>/ in one agent’s workspace.
  2. Stay in your session: OpenClaw watches its Skills folders and picks up the change on the next turn.
  3. If it doesn’t show up, run openclaw skills check.
  4. Ask for the result, or type $ in the Control UI composer and pick the Skill.

Good to know

  • Workspace beats shared. If the same name is in several places, the workspace’s skills/ wins, then its .agents/skills/, then ~/.agents/skills/, then ~/.openclaw/skills/, then bundled Skills.
  • Allowlists can hide a Skill. agents.defaults.skills and agents.entries.*.skills limit which Skills an agent sees, wherever they are installed. An empty list means no Skills for that agent.
  • ~/.agents/skills/ needs the default state. If OPENCLAW_STATE_DIR points somewhere other than ~/.openclaw, OpenClaw leaves ~/.agents/skills/ out. Workspace and managed Skills still load.

OpenClaw Skills vs Skill Workshop

Skills you install are folders you put in a Skills directory. Workshop Skills are ones an agent saves and updates on its own; they stay with that agent, and every change keeps the previous version so it can be undone.

FAQ

OpenClaw Skills: questions

Where does OpenClaw look for Skills?

Highest first: the workspace’s skills/, its .agents/skills/, ~/.agents/skills/, the shared ~/.openclaw/skills/, Workshop Skills, bundled Skills, then extra folders and plugin Skills. When two share a name, the higher one wins. Source (opens in a new tab)

Do I need to restart OpenClaw after adding a Skill?

No. With skills.load.watch on (the default), adding a Skill triggers a rescan, and existing sessions pick up changed file-backed Skills on their next turn. A safety rescan also runs every 30 minutes. Source (opens in a new tab)

A Skill doesn’t show up for my agent.

Run openclaw skills check. A Skill can be found but not ready, because a required binary, environment variable or config is missing, or hidden by the agent’s allowlist. Source (opens in a new tab)

How do I call a Skill on purpose?

Type $ in the Control UI composer and pick it, or write $skill-name in your message; one message can reference up to eight Skills. On channel messages, /skill-name works as a standalone command. Source (opens in a new tab)

Skills for the other agents you use

Every Premium Skill, one plan.

$9.99 / month · $79 / year · $169 once, or $4.99 for one Skill.

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