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Skills Overview

Extend your agent's capabilities with installable skills.

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What Are Skills?

Skills are packages that give your agent new capabilities. Out of the box, your agent can chat, browse the web, manage files, and run code. Skills extend that baseline with specialized abilities.

Think of skills like apps on a phone. The phone works without them, but each app lets it do something new. A calendar skill lets your agent manage scheduling. A file conversion skill lets it transform documents between formats. A web scraping skill lets it pull structured data from websites.

How Skills Work

Skills are installed directly into your agent’s isolated environment. Once installed, the agent automatically knows the skill is available and can use it when a task calls for it. You do not need to manually invoke skills — the agent decides when a skill is relevant based on what you ask it to do.

Each skill brings its own tools and instructions. When your agent encounters a task that matches a skill’s capabilities, it uses that skill’s tools to complete the work.

Pre-Installed Skills

Every BrainRoad agent comes with these skills out of the box:

  • send-email — Send emails from your agent’s own email address
  • check-email — Read and process incoming emails
  • send-sms — Send text messages from your agent’s phone number
  • login-code — Generate one-time codes for 2FA/TOTP authentication
  • github-setup — Configure GitHub access with SSH keys and tokens

Your agent also has find-skills installed by default, which lets it discover and install additional skills on its own.

More Skills on ClawHub

ClawHub is OpenClaw’s public skill registry with 50+ community skills. Popular skills include integrations for GitHub, Notion, Obsidian, Slack, Trello, 1Password, and more.

You can install ClawHub skills from the Console or let your agent install them automatically when it needs a new capability.

Skills and Isolation

Skills run inside your agent’s container. They have access to your agent’s files and configuration but are completely isolated from other users. Installing a skill on your agent does not affect anyone else’s environment.