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OpenClaw Agent Skills — Setup Guide

Source: openclaw/agent-skills GitHub: openclaw/agent-skills Skills: 8 skills · ~2.0K total installs Category: Agent Operations First Seen: August 19, 2026 sweep Quality Tier: 🟡 Beta — official OpenClaw org repository (1,057 GitHub stars, actively maintained — last commit August 18, 2026); install counts still growing

This is the public canonical source for shared agent workflows from the OpenClaw organization itself. The goal stated in the repo: write a workflow once, reuse it everywhere, and avoid hand-copying long SKILL.md files across repos. The 8 skills cluster into three families — review (autoreview, behavior-validator, crabbox), handoff/context (handoff, agent-transcript), and sessions/documentation (session-viewer, beam, readme-standard). autoreview is the flagship at 1,388 installs, a structured multi-engine code review workflow (Codex, Claude, Amp, Pi, Kimi) that reports blocking issues only when explicitly requested.

Installation

Install everything via the bundled installer (lists, dry-runs, and selective installs supported):

git clone https://github.com/openclaw/agent-skills.git
cd agent-skills
scripts/install-skills --list          # see available skills
scripts/install-skills --dry-run       # preview without changes
scripts/install-skills                 # all skills, default agent skill dir
scripts/install-skills autoreview crabbox   # selective
scripts/install-skills --target ~/.codex/skills autoreview   # custom target
scripts/install-skills --mode copy --target ~/.agents/skills  # copies, not symlinks

Or via the skills.sh marketplace (skills are indexed there):

npx skills add openclaw/agent-skills

Prerequisites

Requirement Details
Node.js + npx For the skills.sh installer path
An agent runtime Skills assume a Codex/Claude/OpenClaw/Pi-style SKILL.md runtime
Codex (optional) autoreview's default review engine (gpt-5.6-sol, high reasoning)
GitHub CLI or git agent-transcript writes PR/issue bodies; crabbox runs remote validation

What It Provides

Skill Group Skills Purpose
Review autoreview, behavior-validator, crabbox Structured code review closeout, source-blind behavior validation against a contract, and Crabbox/Testbox remote proof (Linux/macOS/Windows/WSL2)
Handoff handoff, agent-transcript Clipboard-ready prompt handoff to another agent; redacted local-only PR/issue transcript provenance
Sessions session-viewer, beam Local searchable HTML viewer for agent session JSONL; authenticated redacted publication of sessions to an OpenClaw catalog
Documentation readme-standard House README structure, badge row, tone, and verification gates for steipete/openclaw repos

Top skills by installs: autoreview (1,388), agent-transcript (355), session-viewer (66), handoff (62), behavior-validator (49), crabbox (42).

Quick Start

  1. Clone and list: git clone https://github.com/openclaw/agent-skills.git && cd agent-skills && scripts/install-skills --list
  2. Install the flagship: scripts/install-skills autoreview
  3. For review closeout, say "run autoreview on this change" — it reports P0 blocking issues by default
  4. For handoffs, say "write a handoff for the next agent" — it builds a standalone prompt and copies it to the clipboard

CorpusIQ Use Cases

Use Case How
Agent code review closeout autoreview's P0-only default output maps to our verify-before-assertion discipline — blocking issues only, advisory output, no blind apply
Multi-agent handoffs handoff builds path-free standalone prompts for fresh agents — matches our multi-agent orchestration and delegation patterns
Session forensics session-viewer renders session JSONL as searchable single-file HTML — useful for auditing agent runs and sharing context
PR/issue transparency agent-transcript attaches sanitized agent transcripts to PRs (redacted, fail-closed on secrets) — matches our public-content sanitization rules
Behavior validation behavior-validator checks user-visible behavior against a contract without source inspection — useful for testing skills against their documented behavior

Limitations / Verification

  • Below the 20K install guide bar — drafted on official-org authority (the OpenClaw org itself, 1,057 GitHub stars, last commit August 18, 2026)
  • Skills are Codex/OpenClaw-first; Hermes usage works via SKILL.md conventions but the installer targets generic agent skill directories
  • agent-transcript is explicitly best-effort and local-only; PR/issue creation continues without it
  • beam requires an authenticated OpenClaw receiver endpoint
npx skills add openclaw/agent-skills   # verify install works

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