Sage Planning

What This Skill Does

Sage Planning is an advanced, high-reasoning persona skill inspired by the 'Great Sage' (大贤者) concept. It fundamentally shifts the OpenClaw AI agent from an execution-focused worker to a strategic architectural lead. The skill works by modifying the agent's internal prompt context to prioritize high-level analysis, structural critique, and step-by-step roadmap generation over immediate code execution or task performance. By separating the 'doing' from the 'thinking', it significantly reduces hallucination rates in complex workflows and provides a bird's-eye view of multi-step projects.

Installation

To install this skill, use the ClawHub command-line tool. Open your terminal and execute the following:

clawhub install openclaw/skills/skills/autogame-17/sage-planning

Once installed, initialize the persona environment by running:

node skills/sage-planning/index.js install

Ensure that the persona memory file at memory/personas/sage_planning.md is present, as the agent requires this file to properly adopt the Great Sage persona during the activation phase.

Use Cases

This skill is best utilized in the following scenarios:

• Complex Architectural Design: When building a new software system or database schema, Sage Planning helps map out dependencies before a single line of code is written.
• Strategic Decision Making: When you have a massive goal (e.g., 'Automate my social media presence'), the Sage can break down the objective into actionable, logical phases.
• System Critique: Submit your existing scripts or plans to the Sage to identify potential bottlenecks, security vulnerabilities, or logical flaws that you may have missed during rapid development.
• Complex Problem Solving: When debugging, the Sage excels at abstracting the issue to identify root causes rather than symptoms.

Example Prompts

1. "Sage mode: I need to build a decentralized voting system. Analyze the architecture and identify the top three security risks I should account for."
2. "Great Sage, please review this workflow I've designed and create an optimized, step-by-step plan to automate the entire data pipeline."
3. "大贤者模式: Explain the trade-offs between using a NoSQL vs SQL database for this specific project and recommend the best path based on my current constraints."

Tips & Limitations

• Non-Executive Nature: Remember that the Great Sage is designed for planning, not execution. While it produces brilliant architectural designs, it expects other skills or manual input to handle the actual 'doing' of the task.
• Context Density: Because the Sage persona is verbose and analytical, ensure you have sufficient context memory available; otherwise, the agent might truncate its own sophisticated plans.
• Persona Consistency: If the agent stops acting like the Sage, simply repeat the trigger phrase 'Sage mode' to refresh the system instructions and re-anchor the persona state.