Last updated: 2026-04-06

OpenClaw Skills Database — 53 Verified Official

We review and link only to skills published by the OpenClaw core team. These have undergone code review, follow the official sandboxing specification, and have a published changelog. We do not list or endorse third-party ClawHub skills.

Why only 53?

ClawHub lists 50,000+ community skills. Roughly 12% of the major public registry was found to contain malicious code in early 2026. Rather than routing you through an unvetted marketplace, we link only to the official 53 and teach you to write your own. Safer, faster, and you know exactly what's running on your machine.

Install & Verify

All official skills install with the same commands:

openclaw skill install <skillname>
openclaw skill verify <skillname>   # checks signature against official registry

If verify fails after install, the registry mirror may be stale. Update the CLI: npm install -g openclaw@latest and retry.

Most-Used Official Skills

SkillWhat it doesNetwork accessFile access
healthcheck Security audit: scans gateway config, DM policies, and installed skills for known risky patterns None Read-only (system & config paths)
weather 3-day forecast via Open-Meteo — no API key required api.open-meteo.com only None
himalaya Email send/receive via your own SMTP/IMAP server Your mail server only Config file (read-only)
github Repo management, PRs, issues, code review via GitHub API api.github.com only None
skill-creator Scaffolds a new skill from a safe template — works with your agent None Write to your skills directory only
daily-brief Morning digest: calendar events + weather + task list, delivered on cron Open-Meteo + your calendar provider Config read
tmux Keeps the gateway alive inside a tmux session across SSH disconnects None None
discord Send and receive Discord messages via the official Discord bot API discord.com API only None
telegram Bidirectional Telegram messaging via the Bot API api.telegram.org only None
calendar-ical Reads any .ics calendar feed and returns upcoming events Your calendar URL only None
notes Append, search, and retrieve plain-text notes from a local file None Your notes file (read/write)
shell Run a hardcoded shell command and return stdout — no user-input passthrough None Scoped to your project directory

Showing 12 of 53 most-used skills. Full list of all 53 verified official skills: clawhub.com/official.

Categories of Official Skills

The 53 official skills are grouped into these categories in the ClawHub official registry:

  • Channels (9): telegram, discord, whatsapp, slack, email (himalaya), sms, irc, matrix, xmpp
  • Productivity (12): daily-brief, calendar-ical, notes, todo, timer, pomodoro, agenda, reminder, journal, bookmarks, clipboard, calculator
  • Developer tools (11): github, gitlab, shell, git, npm-audit, docker-status, logs, diff, lint, benchmark, skill-creator
  • System & health (7): healthcheck, sysinfo, disk-usage, process-monitor, network-check, uptime, tmux
  • Data & search (8): weather, news-rss, wikipedia, currency, stocks-basic, unit-convert, timezone, ip-lookup
  • AI helpers (6): summarise, translate, proofread, classify, extract-json, generate-image-prompt

Safety Philosophy

Each official skill is reviewed against this checklist before inclusion in the 53:

  1. No outbound network calls beyond explicitly declared domains
  2. No file access outside declared paths
  3. No execution of user-supplied strings as shell commands
  4. Deterministic versioning with a signed changelog entry
  5. Signature verifiable via openclaw skill verify

If you need functionality not covered by the official 53, the Skills Guide walks you through having your agent write a safe, custom skill in about 60 seconds.

← Back to OpenClaw hub · See also: Skills Guide: Write Your Own · Security Hardening