OpenClaw Skills Marketplace: Find, Install, and Build Skills

ClawHub is the official skills marketplace for OpenClaw. Over 5,000 community-built skills, one CLI command to install. Here's how to find the right ones, avoid the bad ones, and build your own.

What Are OpenClaw Skills?

A skill is a folder with a SKILL.md file that teaches your OpenClaw agent how to do something specific. Weather forecasts. Gmail management. Notion integration. PDF editing. Whatever you need.

Think of skills like apps on your phone. OpenClaw is the operating system. Skills are the apps that make it useful for your specific workflow.

Every skill has three things:

• A SKILL.md file with instructions the agent reads
• Optional supporting files (scripts, configs, templates)
• Metadata like tags, description, and version history

OpenClaw loads skills from three places, in order of priority:

1. Workspace skills (<workspace>/skills) — highest priority, per-agent
2. Managed skills (~/.openclaw/skills) — shared across all agents on the machine
3. Bundled skills — shipped with OpenClaw out of the box

ClawHub: The Official Skills Marketplace

ClawHub is the public registry where the community publishes and shares OpenClaw skills. It's free to use. All skills are public, open, and visible to everyone.

As of early 2026, the VoltAgent/awesome-openclaw-skills repository on GitHub catalogs over 5,400 curated skills from the ClawHub registry, organized across dozens of categories. The registry itself hosts thousands more.

What ClawHub gives you:

• Vector search. Not just keyword matching. Describe what you need in plain language and it finds relevant skills.
• Versioning. Every skill uses semver. You can pin a version, check changelogs, and audit changes before updating.
• Stars and downloads. Community signals that help surface the best skills.
• One-command install. clawhub install <skill-slug> and you're done.

The GitHub repo at openclaw/clawhub hosts the source code and issue tracker for the registry itself.

How to Find and Install Skills

First, install the ClawHub CLI:

npm i -g clawhub

Then search for what you need:

clawhub search "calendar"
clawhub search "email management"
clawhub search "notion"

Found something good? Install it:

clawhub install weather
clawhub install apple-reminders
clawhub install notion

By default, skills install into ./skills under your current working directory. OpenClaw picks them up on the next session start.

To update all your installed skills at once:

clawhub update --all

Skill Categories Worth Knowing

The awesome-openclaw-skills repo on GitHub organizes skills into clear categories. Here are the ones that matter most for founders and builders:

Category	What It Covers	Examples
Productivity	Task management, notes, calendars	Apple Reminders, Things 3, Apple Notes
Communication	Email, messaging, notifications	Gmail (gog), Himalaya, Telegram
Browser & Automation	Web scraping, browser control	User briefing, web search skills
Content Creation	Writing, media, publishing	Image generation, video frames, TTS
Developer Tools	Git, GitHub, CI/CD, coding	GitHub CLI, coding agents
Data & Analytics	Spreadsheets, databases, tracking	Financial tracker, market research
Knowledge	Search, notes, PDFs	Summarize, markdown converter, PDF tools

The community adds new skills every day. If you need something niche, chances are someone already built it.

Security: How to Stay Safe

This is the part most guides skip. Don't skip it.

In February 2026, security researchers at Koi Security audited 2,857 skills on ClawHub and found 341 malicious ones across multiple campaigns. That's real. Skills run on your machine with your permissions. A bad skill can access your files, your API keys, your messages.

Here's how to protect yourself:

• Read the SKILL.md before installing. It's a text file. Takes 30 seconds. If it asks for permissions that don't match its description, skip it.
• Check download counts and stars. Not bulletproof, but a zero-download skill from a week-old GitHub account is a red flag.
• Use OpenClaw's sandboxing. The sandboxing docs explain how to run untrusted skills in isolation.
• Stick to well-known skills. Bundled skills and popular community skills have more eyes on them.
• Update regularly. clawhub update --all pulls security fixes along with feature updates.

ClawHub requires GitHub accounts to be at least one week old before publishing. Skills with more than 3 unique reports get auto-hidden. OpenClaw has also partnered with VirusTotal for scanning. But the best defense is still reading the code yourself.

Build and Publish Your Own Skills

Building a skill is straightforward. Create a folder with a SKILL.md file:

---
name: my-custom-skill
description: Does something useful for my workflow
---

# My Custom Skill

Instructions for the agent go here.
Tell it what tools to use, what format to follow,
and any rules it should respect.

That's it. Drop the folder in your workspace's skills directory and start a new session.

Want to share it with the community? Publish to ClawHub:

clawhub sync --all

This scans your skills directory and publishes any new or updated skills to the registry. Others can then find and install them.

I build custom skills for everything in my business. Content workflows. Guest research. Newsletter automation. Sponsor outreach. Each one is a text file that tells the agent exactly what to do. You can learn how to build these kinds of systems inside OpenClaw Lab, where I share the actual skill files and SOPs behind my 13-agent setup.

My Setup: The Skills I Actually Use

I run 13 agents on a Mac Mini. Each one has its own workspace with specialized skills. Here's what powers the system:

• gog (Google Workspace): Gmail, Calendar, Drive, Sheets. My agents check email, manage my calendar, and update spreadsheets automatically.
• apple-reminders: Quick task capture from Telegram that syncs to my phone.
• notion: Every deliverable gets pushed to Notion. Newsletter drafts, research, content briefs.
• weather: Morning briefings include local weather. Simple but useful when you live in Bali.
• summarize: Extracts transcripts from YouTube videos and podcasts. Essential for guest research.
• github: PR reviews, issue tracking, CI monitoring. My ops agent watches everything.
• nano-banana-pro: Image generation for thumbnails and social content.

Plus a dozen custom skills I built myself for content repurposing, sponsor prospecting, and SEO workflows.

The point: you don't need hundreds of skills. You need the right 10 to 15 for your specific business. Start with the bundled ones, add from ClawHub as you hit real needs, and build custom skills for workflows nobody else has.

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