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Skills and ClawHub

Learn how OpenClaw loads SKILL.md based skills and how ClawHub fits into the workflow.

What A Skill Is

Official skills docs say OpenClaw uses AgentSkills-compatible folders. Each skill is a directory with a SKILL.md file and optional supporting files.

Load Order And Precedence

The official precedence order is:

  1. <workspace>/skills
  2. ~/.openclaw/skills
  3. bundled skills

That means workspace skills win. This is one of the most useful ideas in the whole openclaw tutorial stack because it explains why local experiments sometimes override global behavior.

ClawHub In One Sentence

Official docs describe ClawHub as the public skills registry for OpenClaw. Common flows include:

clawhub search "calendar"
clawhub install <skill-slug>
clawhub update --all

By default, clawhub installs into ./skills, which OpenClaw treats as workspace skills.

Security Rule

The official docs are explicit: treat third-party skills as untrusted code. Read them before enabling them.

That is the rule this openclaw tutorial site will repeat often. Skills are powerful, but skill convenience should never come before review.

Table of Contents

What A Skill Is
Load Order And Precedence
ClawHub In One Sentence
Security Rule