hosting

What This Skill Does

The hosting skill acts as an intelligent orchestration layer for OpenClaw AI, designed to automate the entire lifecycle of moving local web projects to live production environments. Rather than manually juggling GitHub repositories, platform-specific CLIs, and DNS records, this meta-skill synchronizes these distinct operations into a single cohesive workflow. It handles repository creation, CI/CD configuration, deployment triggering, and optional custom domain wiring. By centralizing the interaction between github-api, deployment providers like Vercel or Netlify, and infrastructure tools like api-gateway and domain-dns-ops, it eliminates the friction of manual DevOps tasks.

Installation

To get started, ensure you have the necessary base skills installed via clawhub. Run the following commands in your terminal:

npx -y clawhub@latest install github-api
npx -y clawhub@latest install vercel
npx -y clawhub@latest install netlify
npx -y clawhub@latest install domain-dns-ops
npx -y clawhub@latest install api-gateway
npx -y clawhub@latest update --all

Verify the installation by running npx -y clawhub@latest list. Ensure your environment variables MATON_API_KEY and your respective platform tokens (VERCEL_TOKEN or NETLIFY_AUTH_TOKEN) are correctly set.

Use Cases

• Rapid Prototyping: Quickly push a local static site or full-stack application to a live URL for immediate stakeholder review.
• Production Deployment: Standardize CI/CD pipelines for web projects by linking local codebases directly to production-ready platforms.
• Custom Branding: Automate the complex process of pointing a custom domain to a new deployment, including SSL/TLS verification.
• Multi-Cloud Management: Effortlessly switch between Vercel and Netlify depending on project requirements while keeping the management workflow identical.

Example Prompts

1. "I have a local react project in ./app. Please create a public GitHub repo named 'my-awesome-site' and deploy it to Vercel."
2. "Deploy the current directory to Netlify as a private repo and set up my custom domain 'example.com' using my Cloudflare settings."
3. "I need to push this local folder to a new private repository and set up a full-stack managed deployment on Vercel. Can you handle the infrastructure?"

Tips & Limitations

• Explicit Inputs: Always specify your deploy_target and repo_visibility to avoid deployment errors. If you forget, the AI will prompt you for these before proceeding.
• Naming: If the AI misinterprets your input, remember that /netlifly is automatically mapped to /netlify.
• Error Handling: This skill is designed not to fail silently. If an API key is missing, you will receive a MissingAPIKeys error; it will proceed with non-blocked stages where possible.
• SLA: Note that this skill orchestrates deployments but does not provide uptime SLAs; monitor your hosting provider dashboard for service-level status.