focus-mode

What This Skill Does

Focus Mode acts as an intelligent accountability partner for the OpenClaw AI agent. By monitoring your conversation for context drift, it ensures that your work sessions remain centered on your primary objectives. When activated, the agent maintains a state file tracking your progress, detects when you veer off into tangents or procrastination-based activities, and provides gentle, medium, or strict nudges to help you stay on target. It includes a smart 'Parking Lot' feature, allowing you to capture ideas or secondary tasks that pop up during your work session so you can stay in the flow without forgetting those important follow-ups. When you end a session, you receive a productivity report detailing your performance, time spent, and a summary of all parked tangents.

Installation

To integrate this skill into your OpenClaw environment, execute the following command in your terminal: clawhub install openclaw/skills/skills/savorgbot-exe/focus-mode

Use Cases

Focus Mode is specifically engineered for users who struggle with ADHD-style workflows or those who frequently find themselves falling down digital rabbit holes. It is highly effective for software development sprints where scope creep is a constant threat, long-form content writing, and project management tasks that require deep work. If you find your conversations with the AI straying into irrelevant topics while you are trying to ship a product or debug code, this skill provides the necessary friction to pull your attention back to what matters.

Example Prompts

1. "/focus finish writing the integration documentation for the new API endpoint."
2. "/focus tone strict"
3. "/focus done"

Tips & Limitations

To get the best results, use the 'tone' setting effectively: use 'gentle' for brainstorming sessions where some exploration is okay, and 'strict' for final build days where you need to minimize distractions. The skill relies on natural language understanding to determine drift, so it is most effective when your initial goal is clearly defined. Be aware that the 'Parking Lot' feature saves data to your local system files; ensure your permissions are configured correctly so the agent has write access to the ~/.config/clawdbot-focus/ directory. If you are working on a multi-part goal, consider breaking it into smaller focus sessions for better progress tracking.