Skills

Custom agent capabilities.

Overview

Skills are modular capabilities that extend what agents can do:

• Built-in skills
• Community skills
• Custom skills

Built-in Skills

Skill	Description
web-search	Internet search
code-execution	Run code
file-operations	File read/write
browser	Web automation
calculator	Math calculations

Managing Skills

# List available skills
openclaw skills list

# Enable a skill
openclaw skills enable web-search

# Disable a skill
openclaw skills disable code-execution

# Install community skill
openclaw skills install github:user/skill-name

Configuration

{
  skills: {
    "web-search": {
      enabled: true,
      provider: "google",
      maxResults: 5
    },
    "code-execution": {
      enabled: true,
      languages: ["python", "javascript"],
      sandbox: true
    }
  }
}

Creating Custom Skills

Skills are defined in JavaScript/TypeScript:

export default {
  name: "my-skill",
  description: "Does something useful",
  parameters: {
    input: { type: "string", required: true }
  },
  async execute({ input }) {
    // Skill logic
    return { result: "..." };
  }
};

See Also

• Tools
• CLI: skills