Overview
Skills are knowledge packages that extend what your OpenClaw instances can do.
A skill bundles instructions and optional reference files into a .zip archive that you upload once
and deploy to any running instance.
The skills page
The Skills page in the dashboard has two tabs:
- Library — private skills you have uploaded. You can deploy or delete them from here.
- Discover — search Clawhub for community-published skills and deploy them directly to your instances.
Community skills from Clawhub contain agent instructions that run with full access to the instance.
Always review a skill’s instructions before deploying it.
Uploading a skill
- Open the Skills page and click Upload Skill.
- Select a
.zip file containing a SKILL.md at the root.
- The skill appears in your Library after upload.
Every skill archive must follow the specification and include a SKILL.md file
at the top level. This file uses YAML frontmatter to describe the skill,
followed by Markdown instructions that the agent will follow.
---
name: "Web researcher"
description: "Searches the web and summarizes findings"
---
When asked to research a topic, search the web for recent sources
and compile a concise summary with citations.
SKILL.md (for example, templates or reference documents). These files
are deployed to the instance together with the skill instructions.
Deploying a skill
- Find the skill in your Library or search for it in the Discover tab.
- Click Deploy on the skill card.
- Select one or more running instances to deploy to.
- The skill files are copied to each selected instance and become available to the agent immediately.
