OpenClaw documentation Agent Skill

Name: OpenClaw documentation
Author: tbdavid2019

Find authoritative guidance for installing, configuring, operating, securing, and troubleshooting OpenClaw, including channels, model…

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Context cost: 716.2k tokensestimated from the bundle; more than a 200k window holds
Bundle: 200 of 1440 fileshanded out here; the rest is at its source
Licence: AGPL-3.0the author’s own terms
Last change: —no release on file
Servers it uses: Noneruns standalone

What it does

Find authoritative guidance for installing, configuring, operating, securing, and troubleshooting OpenClaw, including channels, model providers, Gateway operations, tools, plugins, automation, nodes, multi-agent routing, and CLI errors. Use for any question or maintenance task involving an OpenClaw installation, `openclaw` CLI command, Gateway daemon, configuration key, or integration.

What this skill changes about the agent has not been set out here as a list. Its SKILL.md, shown below, says it in the author’s own words.

documentation

Filed under

Learning & Documentation

The skill itself

A skill is instructions the model reads, so you can see what you are getting: below is the start of its SKILL.md. The front matter loads with every session, the body loads when the skill triggers, and the whole file comes with the install.

SKILL.md6.3 kB · preview

--- name: openclaw-docs ---

6# OpenClaw documentation

8Use the synchronized official documentation as the source of truth. Keep context small by

9loading only the files and sections needed for the current request.

11## Establish the version boundary

131. Read references/SOURCE.json when provenance or freshness matters.

142. For operational work, obtain openclaw --version when it is available and relevant.

153. Treat the references as documentation for the recorded upstream main revision. Flag a

16 possible version mismatch when the installed OpenClaw version is older.

174. Never invent a command, flag, configuration key, default, or migration step. Search the

18 references and state uncertainty when the documentation does not establish the answer.

20Do not update the installed skill during ordinary questions. Use the local snapshot without

21blocking the user. Refresh only when the user asks to install or update the skill.

23## Find documentation progressively

This is a preview of SKILL.md. Download or install the skill to get the whole thing.

In the file

SKILL.md826 words

Files200

LicenceAGPL-3.0

Why you can read it

Nothing in a skill executes. The client loads the text and the model follows it, so a skill can be audited the way a runbook is — by reading it.

What it costs in context

Skills are not billed by the call. They are paid for in context: every token the instructions occupy is a token your code, your diff and your conversation cannot use. Here is what this one takes and when it takes it.

≈110

always loaded

The name and description, so the model knows the skill exists and when to reach for it.

716,090

on trigger

The instruction body and 199 supporting files, read only when the skill fires.

3.6×

a 200k window

It does not fit in the window: loaded whole, it would need more room than the model has.

050k100k150k200k context window

716.2k tokens, estimated from the bundle at four bytes to the token — more than the whole window, so it cannot all be held at once: the model reads SKILL.md when the skill fires and the other files only as the instructions call for them. Heavy. Teams tend to install this one per project rather than globally, and load it only when the job comes up.

Servers bill, skills cost

A server charges by the month. A skill charges once per session, in context, and then keeps charging it for as long as the session lives.

Before and after

The same question, put to the same model twice: once as it comes, and once with these instructions loaded.

No worked example has been published for this skill yet.

The procedure it runs

The procedure has not been set out here step by step. It is in the body of its SKILL.md: the start of it is shown above, and the whole file comes with the install.

Prose, not code

These steps are written for a model to follow, not executed by a runtime. It can still be told to skip one, and it will say so when it does.

Servers it uses

None. This skill calls no MCP servers at all.

Everything it needs is in the instructions, so it works in a project with nothing connected — the model reads the file and changes how it works with what it can already reach.

Its SKILL.md does not declare which tools it asks the agent for, so what it touches is whatever the instructions themselves ask for — read them before you install it.

What it asks for

Writes filesnot declared

Network accessnot declared

This SKILL.md carries no allowed-tools line, so neither is declared. A skill grants no permissions of its own — it can only ask for tools your client already has.

What it will not do

Every skill is narrow, and the useful ones say where they stop. These are the jobs this one is the wrong tool for.

What this skill is not for has not been published here. Nothing is implied by that: it is a section the author has not filled in.

If this is not it

7661 other skills in Learning & Documentation

What is in the bundle

The download carries 200 of the 1440 files in its source folder; the list here names 200 files, 2900.0 kB on disk. Mostly text — the instructions the model reads — with 4 scripts in it that your client would run only if the instructions tell it to. The other 1,240 are not in the download, nor are at least 12 files of types a skill download does not carry — the first 100 are listed after these, with why.

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Not in the download

The first 100 are named here, those the skill reads first. Too deep is past six folders, not carried is a type a skill download does not hold and over the limit is past 200 files or 4 MB a skill. Marked read: its SKILL.md or scripts name the file, so without it the skill works only in part. Take them from its source.

references/cli/nodes.mdread · over the limit
references/cli/security.mdread · over the limit
references/gateway/index.mdread · over the limit
references/help/index.mdread · over the limit
references/install/index.mdread · over the limit
references/install/render.mdxread · over the limit
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references/providers/index.mdread · over the limit
references/releases/index.mdread · over the limit
references/tools/index.mdread · over the limit
references/tools/web.mdread · over the limit
references/web/index.mdread · over the limit
.github/skills/openspec-apply-change/SKILL.mdread · over the limit
.github/skills/openspec-archive-change/SKILL.mdread · over the limit
.github/skills/openspec-explore/SKILL.mdread · over the limit
.github/skills/openspec-propose/SKILL.mdread · over the limit
references/cli/plugins/install.mdread · over the limit
references/gateway/security/index.mdread · over the limit
references/plugins/manifest/providers.mdread · over the limit
references/plugins/reference/telegram.mdread · over the limit
references/tools/browser/security.mdread · over the limit
.gitignorenot carried
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What is not in it

A skill installs nothing and depends on nothing: it is a folder your client reads. This one carries 4 scripts beside the text, so the download is 200 files — not the whole of its source: at least 1,252 files are left out, and the skill reads 22 of them. The first 100 are listed under the files, with why. The AGPL-3.0 licence covers the templates and examples as well as the instructions.

Install

Installing copies the bundle into your project. Nothing runs at install time — the files sit on disk until the model reads them.

# OpenClaw documentation · 716.2k tokens when loaded · macOS, Linux
mkdir -p .claude/skills && t=$(mktemp -d) &&
  curl -fsSL -o "$t/bundle.tar.gz" https://mcprush.com/api/skills/openclaw-documentation/bundle.tar.gz &&
  tar -xzf "$t/bundle.tar.gz" -C "$t" && [ -d "$t/openclaw-documentation" ] &&
  { [ ! -e .claude/skills/openclaw-documentation ] || { mv .claude/skills/openclaw-documentation "$t/.previous" && echo "Previous copy moved to $t/.previous"; }; } &&
  mv "$t/openclaw-documentation" .claude/skills/ && echo "Installed .claude/skills/openclaw-documentation"

On Windows, or any OS with Node 20+

npx mcprush@latest skill add tbdavid2019/openclaw-documentation

Windows PowerShell says 'running scripts is disabled on this system'? Run Set-ExecutionPolicy -Scope CurrentUser RemoteSigned once, or type npx.cmd instead of npx (codex.cmd, gemini.cmd, grok.cmd likewise). PowerShell 7 needs neither. Writes to .claude/skills/openclaw-documentation/ in the current project. For every project instead, run mkdir -p ~/.claude/skills && t=$(mktemp -d) && curl -fsSL -o "$t/bundle.tar.gz" https://mcprush.com/api/skills/openclaw-documentation/bundle.tar.gz && tar -xzf "$t/bundle.tar.gz" -C "$t" && [ -d "$t/openclaw-documentation" ] && { [ ! -e ~/.claude/skills/openclaw-documentation ] || { mv ~/.claude/skills/openclaw-documentation "$t/.previous" && echo "Previous copy moved to $t/.previous"; }; } && mv "$t/openclaw-documentation" ~/.claude/skills/ && echo "Installed ~/.claude/skills/openclaw-documentation" (macOS, Linux) — or add --global to the npx line. The curl line replaces .claude/skills/openclaw-documentation/ only after the download succeeds, so files left there by another skill of the same name, or by an older release, do not mix in. A copy already there is moved aside, not deleted, and the line prints where. It appears as openclaw-docs in Gemini CLI, Codex, Copilot and Grok (its own name); Claude Code lists it by the folder name, openclaw-documentation. Not in this download: at least 1,252 files of its source, 22 of them read by its SKILL.md or scripts (the list, and why). Take them from its source.

Which clients pick it up on their own

A skill is a folder of text. Most of these read a skills folder and pick it up without being told; the rest take the same folder another way — an upload in the app, a parameter on an API call — and then choose it by its description just the same.

Claude Code.claude/skills/

Claude DesktopCustomize › Skills

ChatGPTSkills › Create › Upload

Cursor.cursor/skills/

VS Code.github/skills/

Codex CLI.agents/skills/

Gemini CLI.gemini/skills/

Grok Build.grok/skills/

Microsoft CopilotSkills › Upload a skill

PerplexityComputer › Skills › Upload a skill

DeepSeek Harness.dsh/skills/

Zed.agents/skills/

Devin Desktop.devin/skills/

Windsurf (legacy).windsurf/skills/

OpenAI Agents SDKInstructions or sandbox Skills

HTTP / APIa request parameter

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Versionnot versioned

Publishedno release date on file

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