skill-inventory

What This Skill Does

The Skill Inventory manager is a core utility designed to maintain the integrity and discoverability of all installed AI capabilities within the OpenClaw ecosystem. Its primary function is to perform an exhaustive scan of the designated skills/ directory, parsing the SKILL.md files associated with each component. By extracting essential metadata—such as names, short descriptions, and functional triggers—it constructs an automated skills.md master index. This file acts as the primary knowledge base for the AI agent, allowing it to remain context-aware regarding which tools are currently at its disposal and how to invoke them effectively. Without this skill, the agent would lose track of its capabilities, especially after manual modifications to the workspace.

Installation

To install this utility, execute the following command in your terminal within the OpenClaw environment: clawhub install openclaw/skills/skills/bohell/skill-inventory Ensure that your environment variables are correctly configured so that the agent can locate the skills/ directory relative to your project workspace defined in AGENTS.md.

Use Cases

This skill is indispensable for managing a growing library of AI capabilities. It is most effective when:

1. You are actively developing or testing new skills and need to register them without manual configuration.
2. You are auditing your workspace to verify which third-party or custom skills are correctly installed and configured.
3. You are setting up a new agent environment and need to generate the initial directory map.
4. You have recently deleted or updated several skill packages and want to ensure the agent's internal registry remains clean and accurate.

Example Prompts

1. "Hey OpenClaw, I just added some new modules, please update my skills inventory now."
2. "Show me a list of all installed skills so I can see what I have available to help with this task."
3. "Which skills do I currently have configured in this workspace?"

Tips & Limitations

• Automation: Always trigger this skill immediately after running any install or uninstall commands. The agent does not inherently "watch" the file system for changes in real-time unless explicitly prompted.
• Consistency: Keep your SKILL.md files updated within each skill directory; the inventory generator relies entirely on these files to populate metadata. If an SKILL.md is malformed, the generator may skip that specific entry.
• Permissions: Ensure the Python execution environment has write access to the root directory where skills.md is intended to be stored to avoid permission errors during generation.