How to Build Custom Clawdbot Skills

What Are Skills?

Skills are modular capabilities you add to Clawdbot/OpenClaw. They can:

•Connect to external APIs (Jira, Notion, Garmin, etc.)
•Run scheduled automations (morning briefings, weekly reports)
•Control local devices (smart home, browser automation)
•Process data (expense tracking, health stats, analytics)

"Built a GA4 skill in 20 minutes and published to ClawHub."

@jdrhyne

Skill Architecture

A skill is a folder with these files:

my-skill/

├── manifest.json # Skill metadata

├── index.ts # Main logic

├── schema.ts # Input/output types

└── README.md # Documentation

Example: Weather Skill

Here's a simple skill that fetches weather data:

manifest.json

{
  "name": "weather",
  "version": "1.0.0",
  "description": "Get weather for any location",
  "triggers": ["weather", "forecast"]
}

index.ts

export async function run(location: string) {
  const response = await fetch(
    `https://api.weather.com/v1/${location}`
  );
  const data = await response.json();
  return `Weather in ${location}: ${data.temp}°, ${data.conditions}`;
}

Installing & Testing Skills

Install from ClawHub

npx clawhub install weather

Install local skill

openclaw skill add ./my-skill

Test skill

openclaw skill test weather "San Francisco"

Popular Custom Skills

Jira Integration

Developer Tools

Create issues, update status, get sprint summaries via chat.

Garmin/WHOOP Sync

Health/Fitness

"How did I sleep last night?" - pulls data from your fitness tracker.

Home Assistant

Smart Home

Control lights, thermostats, locks from your AI assistant.

Expense Tracker

Business Ops

Log expenses via chat, generate monthly reports, sync to accounting.

ClawHub: The Skills Marketplace

ClawHub (clawhub.com) is the npm-like registry for OpenClaw skills. Browse community skills, publish your own, and install with one command.

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