auto-agent-router

What This Skill Does

The Auto Agent Router is a sophisticated orchestration skill for OpenClaw that transforms your main AI session into a dynamic dispatcher. It enables seamless task delegation by monitoring incoming messages for specific command prefixes (e.g., /coder, /writer). When a command is detected at the start of a message, the skill automatically triggers the sessions_spawn function to initialize a specialized sub-agent tailored to that specific domain. This architecture allows you to maintain professional-grade focus for complex tasks, leveraging specialized models like qwen3-coder-next for programming or gemini-3.1-pro for deep research, while keeping the main conversation stream organized and efficient.

Installation

To integrate this skill into your environment, run the following command in your terminal: clawhub install openclaw/skills/skills/jiangzhiyu/auto-agent-router Once installed, the skill automatically registers its hooks to listen for incoming messages. Ensure your workspace directory structure matches the required paths in ~/.openclaw/workspace/skills/auto-agent-router/ for the trigger scripts to execute properly.

Use Cases

This skill is ideal for power users who manage diverse workflows within a single chat interface. It is perfect for developers switching between writing code and documenting architectural changes, researchers who need deep-dive analysis without cluttering their main session, and project managers coordinating between devops tasks and content creation. By compartmentalizing tasks into distinct sub-agent sessions, it prevents context drift and ensures each task uses the optimal LLM configuration.

Example Prompts

1. /coder Create a Python script to fetch stock market data from a public API.
2. /research Compare the performance metrics of Transformer-based models against Mamba architectures.
3. @AgentName /writer Draft a professional email update regarding the Q4 project milestones.

Tips & Limitations

• Strict Triggering: The router only triggers if the command is at the absolute start of the message (or follows a user mention). Embedded commands like "Can you /coder this?" will not trigger the agent spawn.
• Performance: For trivial tasks that require simple answers, avoid using commands to minimize the latency introduced by spawning new sessions.
• Clean Up: Periodically check your active session list to close idle sub-agents, ensuring system resources remain optimized for your active work. If you encounter unexpected behavior, inspect the logs at /tmp/auto-route-handler.log for debugging details.