Setup & Installation
openclaw skills install @leonaaardob/lb-zod-skill
Or with the ClawHub CLI, for registry-managed skill folders outside a full OpenClaw workspace:
npx clawhub install lb-zod-skill
What This Skill Does
Zod is a TypeScript-first schema validation library. It lets you define schemas for data structures and parse or validate values at runtime, with automatic TypeScript type inference from those schemas.
Zod eliminates the need to maintain separate TypeScript types and runtime validators by inferring types directly from schemas.
When to use it
- Validating API request bodies before processing
- Parsing environment variables with type safety
- Form validation in React with React Hook Form
- Validating tRPC router inputs and outputs
- Runtime type checking of third-party API responses
Example Workflow
Here's how your AI assistant might use this skill in practice.
INPUT
User asks: how do I validate a user signup form with email and password requirements?
AGENT
- 1Read api.mdx to find string schema methods like .email() and .min()
- 2Read error-customization.mdx to find how to set custom error messages
- 3Construct a z.object() schema with z.string().email() and z.string().min(8)
- 4Show how to use safeParse() to get validation errors without throwing
- 5Demonstrate extracting typed data from the result on success
OUTPUT
A complete schema definition with field-level error messages and a safeParse usage example