orthogonal

What This Skill Does

The Orthogonal skill for OpenClaw provides a powerful interface to discover, evaluate, and integrate with over 100 premium APIs directly from your development environment. By serving as an abstraction layer, it simplifies the complexity of manual API discovery and payment processing. Users can perform natural language searches to find suitable tools, retrieve comprehensive technical documentation for specific endpoints, generate boilerplate code snippets for various integration methods, and execute API calls directly using Orthogonal credits. The platform supports multiple consumption models, including the standard Orthogonal SDK, direct run commands, and x402 payment-enabled requests.

Installation

To integrate this skill into your OpenClaw environment, execute the following command in your terminal: clawhub install openclaw/skills/skills/christianpickettcode/orthogonal Once installed, ensure your API key is correctly configured in your environment variables: export ORTHOGONAL_API_KEY=orth_live_your_api_key This key is required for all authenticated requests to the platform.

Use Cases

• Rapid Prototyping: Quickly locate and test data-scraping or utility APIs without needing to hunt through separate developer portals.
• Automated Research: Programmatically search for niche APIs to solve data collection requirements, such as gathering market intelligence or technical documentation.
• Payment Orchestration: Leverage x402 payment flows to handle monetization and per-call billing automatically within your agent's logic.
• Integration Standardization: Use the 'integrate' function to generate consistent SDK or cURL boilerplate, reducing manual boilerplate writing.

Example Prompts

1. "Search for an API that can scrape product data from e-commerce websites and show me the top 5 results."
2. "Get the full parameter details for the 'olostep' API and its '/v1/scrapes' endpoint so I know how to format my request."
3. "Generate Python code using the x402 payment format to integrate the 'olostep' scrape endpoint into my project."

Tips & Limitations

• Rate Limits: While the skill provides access to premium APIs, ensure your account has sufficient credits, as 'run' commands consume them.
• Search Specificity: When using the search tool, include keywords like 'scrape', 'financial', or 'ai' to narrow down the results effectively.
• Format Selection: Always choose the appropriate integration format (e.g., 'orth-sdk' vs 'x402-python') based on whether you are building a full application or just making a quick one-off call.
• Documentation: Use the 'get_details' tool whenever you are unsure of expected body parameters to avoid HTTP 400 errors.