| name | skill-manager |
| description | Manage OpenClaw skills - list, search, enable, disable, analyze, and organize skills. Use when you need to work with skills, manage skill collections, or optimize skill usage. |
| trigger | skill management, manage skills, list skills, enable skill, disable skill, skill analysis |
Skill Manager
A comprehensive skill management system for OpenClaw. This skill provides tools to manage, analyze, and optimize your skill collection.
When to Use This Skill
Use this skill when you want to:
- See what skills are available
- Enable or disable specific skills
- Search for skills by functionality
- Analyze skill usage and quality
- Organize skills into logical groups
- Clean up unused or low-quality skills
Core Functions
1. Skill Listing & Discovery
"List all available skills"
"Show me development skills"
"What skills do I have for document processing?"
2. Skill Search
"Search for skills related to code review"
"Find skills that can help with PDFs"
"Look for AI automation skills"
3. Skill Management
"Enable the frontend-design skill"
"Disable skills I don't use"
"Show me disabled skills"
4. Skill Analysis
"Analyze skill usage"
"Which skills are most effective?"
"Find skill conflicts or duplicates"
5. Skill Organization
"Create a development skill pack"
"Organize skills by category"
"Set up skill profiles for different tasks"
Usage Examples
Basic Management
User: "Show me all enabled skills"
Assistant: Lists currently enabled skills with descriptions
User: "Enable the article-extractor skill"
Assistant: Enables the skill and confirms
User: "Search for skills about security"
Assistant: Shows security-related skills
Advanced Analysis
User: "Analyze my skill usage"
Assistant: Provides usage statistics, most used skills, recommendations
User: "Find duplicate functionality"
Assistant: Identifies skills with overlapping capabilities
User: "Optimize my skill collection"
Assistant: Suggests skills to disable based on usage patterns
Organization
User: "Create a web development skill pack"
Assistant: Creates a pack with frontend-design, typescript-lsp, etc.
User: "Switch to documentation mode"
Assistant: Enables doc-related skills, disables others
Implementation Details
This skill uses an integrated management system that provides:
Core Management Functions
- Direct skill operations - Enable/disable/list/search via integrated script
- JSON API - Clean programmatic interface for all operations
- Real-time updates - Changes take effect immediately
Integration with Existing Tools
scripts/skill-manager.sh - Basic skill operations (fallback)scripts/skill-analyzer.sh - Usage and quality analysisscripts/skill-packs.sh - Skill grouping and profilesskills/SKILLS-INDEX.md - Skill catalog and documentation
Technical Architecture
User Request → Skill Manager Skill → Integrated Manager Script → JSON Response
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Skill State Updated
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Next OpenClaw Session Loads Updated Skills
Skill Categories
The system recognizes these categories:
- Development - Coding, review, git, testing
- Design - UI, frontend, visualization
- Documentation - Writing, Office docs, extraction
- AI & Automation - Self-improvement, automation
- Tools & Utilities - System tools, integrations
- Language Support - LSP servers, language tools
Best Practices
- Start Small - Enable only skills you need for current task
- Use Profiles - Create skill packs for common workflows
- Regular Review - Periodically analyze and clean up skills
- Quality Over Quantity - Focus on high-quality, well-maintained skills
- Avoid Conflicts - Be aware of overlapping functionality
Troubleshooting
Skill not working?
- Check if skill is enabled
- Verify skill has proper SKILL.md file
- Look for error messages in skill directory
Too many skills?
- Use analysis to identify rarely used skills
- Create focused skill packs
- Disable skills not needed for current work
Performance issues?
- Reduce number of enabled skills
- Disable large or complex skills when not needed
- Use skill packs to load only necessary skills
Integration with OpenClaw
This skill works with OpenClaw's skill loading system:
- Skills in
skills/ directory are automatically loaded
- Disabled skills (prefixed with
_) are ignored
- Skill metadata is read from SKILL.md files
- Trigger conditions are based on skill descriptions
Skill Manager v1.0 - Integrated skill management for OpenClaw
