Skill Writer

Forge's self-improvement mechanism for creating new skills. Handles the full lifecycle: identify need, write SKILL.md, create supporting files, validate structure, and deploy.

Context

• Skills directory: ~/Forge/openclaw/skills/
• Skills are auto-discovered on next session start (not available in the session that creates them)
• SKILL.md must be under 500 lines for optimal performance
• Directory name IS the skill ID: use lowercase kebab-case
• Skills at workspace level override shared and bundled skills

Behavior

When triggered by "create a skill for {task}" or "formalize this as a skill":

1. Gather requirements:
   • What does the skill do? (one sentence)
   • When should it activate? (trigger conditions)
   • What tools does it need? (bash, web_search, file operations, APIs)
   • What environment variables are required?
   • Is it user-invocable (slash command) or internal only?