Hello World

Creating Custom Skills 🛠

OpenClaw is designed to be easily extensible. "Skills" are the primary way to add new capabilities to your assistant.

What is a Skill?

A skill is a directory containing a SKILL.md file (which provides instructions and tool definitions to the LLM) and optionally some scripts or resources.

Step-by-Step: Your First Skill

1. Create the Directory

Skills live in your workspace, usually ~/.openclaw/workspace/skills/. Create a new folder for your skill:

mkdir -p ~/.openclaw/workspace/skills/hello-world

2. Define the SKILL.md

Create a SKILL.md file in that directory. This file uses YAML frontmatter for metadata and Markdown for instructions.