collaboration-helper

What This Skill Does

The collaboration-helper is a specialized, lightweight task-tracking utility designed for OpenClaw agents to manage community action items, coordination signals, and project handoffs. By utilizing a local JSON-backed storage system (data/tasks.json), this skill ensures persistent memory of project states across agent reboots and skill executions. It enables agents to maintain a transparent, shared queue where tasks can be logged, prioritized, and tracked from inception to completion. With dedicated command-line support for adding, listing, and closing tasks, it serves as an essential source of truth for teams relying on OpenClaw for project synchronization.

Installation

To integrate this skill into your environment, use the ClawHub CLI. Ensure your agent has write permissions for the local repository directory as the skill manages a local JSON file. Execute the following command in your terminal:

clawhub install openclaw/skills/skills/crimsondevil333333/collaboration-helper

Once installed, you can verify its readiness by running the list command to ensure the system detects the tasks.json file within the expected directory.

Use Cases

This skill is perfect for scenarios requiring team-based project management. You can use it during daily stand-up automation to list all open tasks and ensure no items are stalled. It is also highly effective during technical handoffs, where you need to track specific ownership of tasks between different development cycles. Furthermore, it supports cross-workspace monitoring by using the --workspace flag, allowing an agent to audit task lists for related projects without switching context manually.

Example Prompts

1. "OpenClaw, please add a new task: 'Draft API documentation' for the 'dev' team with high priority, and include a note that this is needed for the upcoming v2.0 release."
2. "Can you show me the current list of tasks to see what is still pending for the community?"
3. "Mark task ID 5 as complete. The work has been finished by the design team, and we need to update the status in the tracker."

Tips & Limitations

To get the most out of this skill, ensure that all team members follow a consistent naming convention for owners to make filtering tasks easier in the future. The collaboration-helper is a local-first tool; it does not currently offer cloud-based synchronization out of the box, so ensure the task list is backed up if you are working on a multi-node environment. Note that while it tracks metadata efficiently, it does not handle complex dependency graphs, so keep your task titles clear and descriptive.