Recipes

What This Skill Does

The Recipes skill transforms OpenClaw into your personal digital sous-chef and culinary organizer. It automates the tedious aspects of recipe management by capturing, structuring, and maintaining a high-quality collection of your favorite meals. Whether you are dealing with scattered URLs, handwritten family cards, or voice-dictated ideas, this skill organizes everything into a standardized, searchable Markdown-based library housed in ~/recipes/. Beyond simple storage, it provides advanced functionality like automated serving size scaling, multi-recipe meal planning, and dynamic shopping list generation that intelligently aggregates ingredients by store section.

Installation

You can integrate this skill directly into your OpenClaw environment by running the following command in your terminal: clawhub install openclaw/skills/skills/ivangdavila/recipe

Use Cases

• Digital Recipe Archiving: Import recipes from cooking blogs by sharing a URL, or digitize legacy family recipes while preserving their sentimental context.
• Dynamic Meal Planning: Generate weekly meal plans that balance nutritional variety while ensuring efficient use of ingredients to reduce food waste.
• Smart Grocery Shopping: Eliminate manual list creation by having the agent aggregate ingredient quantities from multiple chosen recipes and sort them by grocery store aisles.
• Ingredient-Based Cooking: Quickly identify what you can prepare based on the specific items currently available in your pantry.

Example Prompts

1. "I have some chickpeas, spinach, and heavy cream in the fridge. What can I make with these, and can you scale the recipe for 4 people?"
2. "Create a meal plan for this week focusing on vegetarian dinners under 30 minutes, and generate a consolidated shopping list for everything I need."
3. "Save this recipe from [URL] into my 'mains' collection and add a note about substituting the chicken with tofu for next time."

Tips & Limitations

• Progressive Enhancement: Don't stress about perfection in week one. Start by dumping your recipes, and use the agent's background processing to standardize frontmatter and tags as you go.
• Unit Consistency: While the agent handles scaling, it is best practice to stick to either metric or imperial units to ensure the math remains accurate.
• Non-Linear Ingredients: Always review scaled amounts for ingredients like baking powder or spices, which do not always scale linearly due to chemical reactions or potency issues. The agent is designed to flag these specific items for manual review.