Shared skills

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.

Caution

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

1. Open the Skills page and click Upload Skill.
2. Select a .zip file containing a SKILL.md at the root.
3. The skill appears in your Library after upload.

Skill format

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.

You can include extra files alongside SKILL.md (for example, templates or reference documents). These files are deployed to the instance together with the skill instructions.

Deploying a skill

1. Find the skill in your Library or search for it in the Discover tab.
2. Click Deploy on the skill card.
3. Select one or more running instances to deploy to.
4. The skill files are copied to each selected instance and become available to the agent immediately.