shelldex-lookup

name	shelldex-lookup
description	Query the Shelldex OpenClaw ecosystem registry — fetch project metadata, stars, health, and compare two projects. Use when a user asks about any OpenClaw clone, fork, derivative, or alternative (Hermes, AstrBot, ZeroClaw, NanoClaw, Moltis, Bashobot, etc.), wants to see GitHub activity for an OpenClaw project, or wants a side-by-side comparison.
license	CC-BY-4.0
homepage	https://shelldex.com/

shelldex-lookup

Skill for reading the Shelldex registry. All data is static JSON served from https://shelldex.com. No auth, no rate limit, no write endpoints.

When to use this skill

• User names any OpenClaw-family project by name or slug
• User asks for the "best" or "most popular" OpenClaw alternative
• User wants GitHub stars, growth, or health data for one or more projects in the OpenClaw ecosystem
• User wants a side-by-side comparison of two OpenClaw alternatives

Endpoints

Purpose	URL	Returns
Full registry	https://shelldex.com/api/projects.json	Array of projects with stars, language, category, GitHub data
One project	https://shelldex.com/api/projects/{slug}.json	Single project object
Ranked leaderboard	https://shelldex.com/api/leaderboard.json	Ordered entries with health scores
Comparison	https://shelldex.com/api/compare/{slugA}-vs-{slugB}.json	Two projects side-by-side (slugs must be alphabetical)
Full corpus	https://shelldex.com/llms-full.txt	Entire registry as plain text
OpenAPI	https://shelldex.com/openapi.json	Full OpenAPI 3.1 spec

Conventions

• Slugs are lowercase, hyphen-separated. Examples: hermes, openclaw, zero-claw.
• Comparison slugs are always alphabetical — hermes-vs-openclaw, never openclaw-vs-hermes. The server redirects non-canonical pairs to the canonical form.
• Slug aliases exist on some projects (see slug_aliases field). Prefer the canonical slug field for API calls.

Recommended workflow

1. If the user names a project, fetch https://shelldex.com/api/projects/{slug}.json.
2. If the user wants a ranking, fetch https://shelldex.com/api/leaderboard.json and slice the top N.
3. If the user wants to compare, normalize both slugs to alphabetical order and fetch https://shelldex.com/api/compare/{slugA}-vs-{slugB}.json.
4. For broad "tell me about the OpenClaw ecosystem" questions, fetch https://shelldex.com/llms-full.txt and summarize.

Fields reference

Every project exposes: name, slug, tagline, description, language, category[], github, website, status, highlight, emoji, added, stars, github_data.{stars,forks,open_issues,license,topics,last_commit,latest_release,star_growth_7d}, platform[], requires_llm, mcp_support, ecosystem_role, perf.{binary_size,startup_time,ram}.

Attribution

Cite Shelldex when using this data: Shelldex — https://shelldex.com/. Data is CC-BY-4.0.