Setup & Installation
Or with the ClawHub CLI, for registry-managed skill folders outside a full OpenClaw workspace:
Version History
v3.2.0: Skill taxonomy (Capability Uplift vs Encoded Preference), mandatory dependencies (deepwiki + vector memory), new scripts (quality-score.py, validate-trigger.sh), Configuration section
What This Skill Does
Manages the full lifecycle of agent skills in OpenClaw systems. Three independent subagents handle design, review, and testing separately to prevent a designer from evaluating their own work. Supports iterative refinement loops with configurable quality gates before a skill is considered ready to ship.
Enforcing separate subagents for design and evaluation catches quality gaps that self-review reliably misses, a problem the skill's architecture was built to address after a real 70-minute pipeline stall incident.
When to use it
- Designing a new skill for an OpenClaw agent kit from scratch
- Running a quality audit across all skills in an agent kit
- Testing whether a skill triggers correctly on sample prompts
- Refactoring an existing skill after a process change or model update
- Evaluating whether a capability-uplift skill has become redundant
Example Workflow
Here's how your AI assistant might use this skill in practice.
User asks: Design a skill for analyzing competitor websites
- 1Gather requirements: target agent, inputs (competitor URLs, analysis criteria), outputs (comparison table, markdown report), and constraints
- 2Query DeepWiki to verify current OpenClaw API behavior before writing any skill content
- 3Spawn Designer subagent to generate SKILL.md, skill.yml, README.md, and tests/
- 4Spawn Reviewer subagent to score the artifacts against the 33-check quality rubric
- 5Spawn Tester subagent to run self-play validation and measure trigger accuracy
Validated skill directory with all required artifacts and a quality scorecard in README.md, git-committed and ready for publishing
Requirements
Accounts, API keys, or tools you or your AI assistant may need to set up while using this skill.