Skills
Skills give OpenClaw extra abilities.
Think of them as add-ons that help a bot handle a specific kind of work, like sorting email, watching deployments, writing content, or building reports.
What Skills Help With
Skills are useful when you want your bot to do more than basic back-and-forth chat.
They can help with things like:
- organizing inboxes and calendars
- creating content and summaries
- watching technical systems and alerts
- researching the web and tracking competitors
- building reports and dashboards
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How To Pick The Right Skill
Use these questions:
- What job do you want the bot to do every day?
- Does it need a connected service, like email or GitHub?
- Will one focused skill do the job, or do you need a few working together?
Good To Know
- Some skills work immediately.
- Some need a connected service first.
- Every skill page explains what it helps with, what you need before you start, and the easiest way to turn it on.