SkillUp

What This Skill Does

SkillUp is a robust, cross-platform CLI tool designed to streamline the lifecycle of OpenClaw AI agent skills. It acts as a unified publishing gateway, enabling developers to maintain, package, and deploy their skills to major ecosystems including GitHub, Xiaping, OpenClaw, and ClawHub. By providing a standardized interface for check, package, publish, and rollback operations, SkillUp abstracts the complexity of multiple platform requirements. It includes integrated safety features like automated redaction scanning to prevent the accidental exposure of sensitive credentials or private data. Designed specifically for the Codex and OpenClaw developer ecosystem, it reduces the need for error-prone browser automation by utilizing direct API-driven publishing flows, ensuring consistency across your entire skill repository.

Installation

To begin using SkillUp, you should install it into your agent's local environment. You can place it in your designated skills directory, such as ~/.codex/skills/SkillUp or ~/.openclaw/skills/SkillUp. Once the repository is cloned, ensure your shell has execution permissions for the scripts. We recommend setting your platform credentials as environment variables (SKILLUP_GITHUB_TOKEN, etc.) to allow for seamless automated authentication. If you are integrating this into a CI/CD pipeline, ensure that the environment has sufficient filesystem permissions to write to the designated artifact directories.

Use Cases

SkillUp is ideal for developers managing large-scale skill repositories or those seeking a CI/CD-like experience for their AI agent projects. Use it when you need to batch-process multiple skills simultaneously, requiring synchronized updates across platforms. It is also an excellent tool for security-conscious developers, as the redact-check feature serves as a gatekeeper against leaks before code is pushed to public repositories. Additionally, it simplifies the local development workflow by allowing developers to test local versions of their skills instantly via the install-local command.

Example Prompts

1. "SkillUp, perform a dry-run publish for my latest weather-bot skill to check if all platform requirements are met without actually deploying."
2. "Run a redact-check on my entire skills repository to ensure I haven't accidentally included any API keys or secret tokens in my configuration files."
3. "Install the current version of the project in the local directory to my OpenClaw environment so I can test the latest changes immediately."

Tips & Limitations

To maximize the efficiency of your workflow, always keep your manifest.toml up to date; this allows SkillUp to intelligently skip platforms that are not relevant to specific skills. While SkillUp excels at command-line operations, it does not support platforms that require browser-based interaction (like manual CAPTCHA verification). For the best experience, use the --fail-fast flag during initial development to catch misconfigurations early, and switch to --parallel-publish when deploying stable, multi-platform releases to save time. Always check the publish-result.json output after execution to verify the specific status of each platform deployment.