Work

What This Skill Does

The Work skill is your specialized corporate navigator. It is designed to help you manage the nuanced, often unspoken rules of office environments. Rather than focusing on raw productivity metrics or long-term career planning, this skill acts as a tactical advisor for your daily professional existence. It assists in drafting effective communication, managing difficult workplace politics, navigating the critical first 90 days of a new role, and increasing your professional visibility. It helps you translate vague assignments into clear action items and provides strategies for handling public undermining or credit-stealing scenarios with grace and documentation.

Installation

To integrate this skill into your OpenClaw environment, execute the following command in your terminal: clawhub install openclaw/skills/skills/ivangdavila/work

Use Cases

• Communication Overhaul: Draft emails that respect executive time by putting the summary at the top and providing concise, context-aware details.
• Political Defense: Create a trail of documentation for your contributions to ensure your work is properly recognized and defended against credit-thieves.
• Onboarding Acceleration: Receive structured, 90-day roadmaps that guide you through listening, relationship mapping, and delivering small wins.
• Meeting Readiness: Prepare concise updates using the established DONE/IN PROGRESS/BLOCKED formula to ensure you are always ready for status checks.
• Conflict Resolution: Use templates for private, high-stakes conversations when dealing with challenging colleagues.

Example Prompts

1. "I think a peer is taking credit for my project during our weekly stand-ups. How can I professionally document my contributions and pivot the conversation to highlight my role without sounding petty?"
2. "I have a meeting with my new manager tomorrow. Can you help me draft a status update using the DONE/IN PROGRESS/BLOCKED format, and suggest three questions to ask about expectations for my first 90 days?"
3. "My manager just gave me a very vague assignment. Can you help me draft an email to ask for clarification on the priorities and success metrics without looking like I don't know what I'm doing?"

Tips & Limitations

The Work skill is most effective when you provide context over time. The 'Work Profile' feature is a key component; the more you tell the agent about your specific environment, key relationships, and culture signals, the more tailored its advice becomes. Please note that this skill is not a substitute for HR intervention in cases of severe harassment or illegal activity, nor does it replace specialized project management software. It is a tactical layer to improve your professional presence and day-to-day effectiveness.