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Required Skills Guide

Fresh install = chat only. To search, draft reports, or send email, you need Skills. Here’s the four to install first, with copy-paste commands.

What’s new in 2026

ClawHub has 3000+ skills; install with one command, no config. Custom skills are supported. Security and stability got a boost: permissions, audit logs, and command whitelists limit file access and risky actions.

Why “no skills = wasted deploy”

What your lobster can do depends on which skills you install. These four are the ones that unlock real work: finding skills, searching the web, multi-engine comparison, and office automation.

  • Find Skills — Install this first to discover and install other skills.
  • Tavily Search — Search built for AI: clean results, real-time web.
  • Multi Search Engine — 17 engines in one, no API key; privacy search and math (e.g. Wolfram).
  • Office-Automation — Reports, email, calendar, Excel—office in one skill.

Commands to know

Run these on your server; they work for every skill. Skim before installing anything.

List installed

openclaw skills list --status ready

Install (recommended)

npx clawhub@latest install <skill-slug>

Alternative: openclaw skills install <skill-slug>

Uninstall / Enable / Disable

openclaw skills uninstall <skill-slug>
openclaw skills enable <skill-slug>
openclaw skills disable <skill-slug>

Check & update

npx skills check
npx skills update all

Skill info

openclaw skills info <skill-slug>

Skill 1: Find Skills

One job: help you find skills. Search by keyword (e.g. excel, email) in the terminal and install from results. No config.

Verify install

npx clawhub@latest install find-skills
openclaw skills list --status ready

Search then install

openclaw skills search excel
openclaw skills search email
npx clawhub@latest install <搜索到的技能名>

Skill 2: Tavily Search

This is how your lobster gets live web results. Output is tuned for AI—cleaner than raw search. Use for deep research or news-style queries.

npx clawhub@latest install tavily-search
openclaw skills configure tavily-search   # 可选：language=zh-CN

Usage

openclaw chat "用tavily-search --deep 搜索'Python ValueError: invalid literal for int()'的解决方案"
openclaw chat "用tavily-search --news 搜索近期AI领域热门新闻，返回5条"

Skill 4: Office-Automation

Handles reports, email, calendar, Excel. First-time setup: SMTP, calendar sync (Feishu/Outlook), doc path; then restart gateway.

npx clawhub@latest install office-automation
openclaw skills configure office-automation
openclaw gateway restart

Example prompts

openclaw chat "用office-automation生成本周工作周报，工作内容：部署OpenClaw；成果：完成部署；下周计划：学习自定义技能"
openclaw chat "用office-automation发送邮件，收件人：xxx@163.com，主题：部署总结，内容：已完成部署"
openclaw chat "用office-automation查看本周所有日程，按时间排序"

Combining skills

Chain skills for real power: e.g. multi-search for trends → Tavily deep → office skill to generate report and email.

openclaw chat "先用multi-search-engine搜索2026年AI自动化工具发展趋势，再用tavily-search --deep 挖掘核心数据，最后用office-automation生成分析报告，保存为PDF并发送至我的邮箱"

Or: Find Skills → install Excel skill → import data → Tavily for standards → office-automation for report.

openclaw chat "先用find-skills搜索'Excel批量数据导入'相关技能，安装后批量导入数据，再用tavily-search查询最新数据统计标准，最后用office-automation生成统计报表"

When things go wrong

Common issues and fixes below.

  • API-Key invalid: No extra spaces, correct case; enable key in Aliyun console; pick Qwen (OAuth) at init.
  • Install timeout/fail: 
    openclaw config set plugins.registry https://registry.npmmirror.com/openclaw-plugins
npx clawhub@latest install <skill-slug>
  • Port 18789 in use: 
    lsof -i:18789
kill -9 <PID>
openclaw gateway restart
  • Skill not ready: 
    openclaw skills enable <skill-slug>
openclaw skills install-deps <skill-slug>
openclaw gateway restart
  • Web console Token invalid: 
    openclaw token generate --expire 365d
  • No auto-start after reboot: 
    openclaw gateway enable
openclaw gateway is-enabled

Next: trim resources, custom skills

Disable skills you don’t use; clear cache to free disk.

openclaw skills disable <skill-slug>
openclaw skills clean-cache

Custom skill: create a dir under ~/.openclaw/skills, add skill.json and entry script, then install and enable.

mkdir -p ~/.openclaw/skills/my-custom-skill
cd ~/.openclaw/skills/my-custom-skill
# 创建 skill.json、index.js 等
openclaw skills install ~/.openclaw/skills/my-custom-skill
openclaw skills enable my-custom-skill