ClawHub

ClawHub is the public skill registry for OpenClaw: publish, version, and search text-based agent skills (a SKILL.md plus supporting files). It's designed for fast browsing + a CLI-friendly API, with moderation hooks and vector search. It also exposes a native OpenClaw package catalog for code plugins, bundle plugins, and experimental whole-agent Template packages.

For questions and help, visit official OpenClaw support.

What you can do with it

• Browse skills + render their SKILL.md.
• Publish new skill versions with changelogs + tags (including latest).
• Rename an owned skill without breaking old links or installs.
• Merge duplicate owned skills into one canonical slug.
• Search via embeddings (vector index) instead of brittle keywords.
• Star + comment; admins/mods can curate and approve skills.
• Pin local skill installs so updates and force reinstalls cannot overwrite frozen copies.
• Browse OpenClaw packages with family/trust/capability metadata.
• Publish native code plugins and bundle plugins through /packages APIs and CLI flows.
• Host, discover, and resolve exact artifacts for experimental whole-agent Template packages.

How it works (high level)

• Web app: TanStack Start (React, Vite/Nitro).
• Backend: Convex (DB + file storage + HTTP actions) + Convex Auth (GitHub OAuth).
• Search: OpenAI embeddings (text-embedding-3-small) + Convex vector search.
• API schema + routes: packages/schema (clawhub-schema).

CLI

Common CLI flows:

• Auth: clawhub login, clawhub whoami
• Remote/headless auth: clawhub login --device
• Discover: clawhub search ..., clawhub explore
• Browse unified catalog (skills + plugins): clawhub package explore, clawhub package inspect <name>
• Manage local installs: clawhub install @openclaw/demo, clawhub pin <skill>, clawhub unpin <skill>, clawhub uninstall <skill>, clawhub list, clawhub update --all
• Inspect without installing: clawhub inspect @openclaw/demo
• Publish skills: clawhub skill publish <path>
• Publish plugins: clawhub package publish <source>
• Code-plugin manifests must include openclaw.compat.pluginApi and openclaw.build.openclawVersion; see docs/cli.md for a minimal example.
• Canonicalize owned skills: clawhub skill rename <skill> <new-name>, clawhub skill merge <source> <target>

Docs: docs/quickstart.md, docs/cli.md.

Removal permissions

• clawhub uninstall <skill> only removes a local install on your machine.
• Uploaded registry skills use soft-delete/restore (clawhub delete <skill> / clawhub undelete <skill> or API equivalents).
• Soft-delete/restore is allowed for the skill or package owner, publisher owner/admin, moderators, and admins.
• Packages use clawhub package delete <name> / clawhub package undelete <name>.
• Hard delete is admin-only (management tools / ban flows).
• Owner rename keeps the old slug as a redirect alias.
• Owner merge hides the source listing and redirects the old slug to the canonical target.

Telemetry

ClawHub tracks minimal install telemetry (to compute install counts) when you run clawhub install while logged in. Disable via:

export CLAWHUB_DISABLE_TELEMETRY=1

Details: docs/telemetry.md.

Repo layout

• src/ — TanStack Start app (routes, components, styles).
• convex/ — schema + queries/mutations/actions + HTTP API routes.
• packages/schema/ — shared API types/routes for the CLI and app.
• docs/ — publishable ClawHub public/operator docs for users, publishers, API clients, and deploy operators.
• specs/ — product specs, plans, regression notes, and design history.
• specs/spec.md — product + implementation spec (good first read for maintainers).

Local dev

Prereqs: Bun (Convex runs via bunx, no global install needed). The detached worktree path also requires Worktrunk (wt).

bun install
cp .env.local.example .env.local
# edit .env.local — see CONTRIBUTING.md for local Convex values

# terminal A: local Convex backend
bunx convex dev

# terminal B: web app (port 3000)
bun run dev

# detached/Codex worktree preview
bun run setup:worktree
bun run dev:worktree
wt --yes url

# seed local QA fixtures and the public corpus
bun run seed:dev

bun run seed:dev waits for the local Convex deployment, runs the dev fixture seed, and refreshes global stats. The fixtures are owned by @local and are safe to rerun after fixture or schema changes. For reset/manual commands and full setup instructions (env vars, GitHub OAuth, JWT keys, database seeding), see CONTRIBUTING.md.

Environment

• VITE_CONVEX_URL: Convex deployment URL (https://<deployment>.convex.cloud).
• VITE_CONVEX_SITE_URL: Convex site URL (https://<deployment>.convex.site).
• CONVEX_SITE_URL: same as VITE_CONVEX_SITE_URL (auth + cookies).
• SITE_URL: App URL (local: http://localhost:3000).
• AUTH_GITHUB_ID / AUTH_GITHUB_SECRET: GitHub OAuth App.
• JWT_PRIVATE_KEY / JWKS: Convex Auth keys.
• OPENAI_API_KEY: embeddings for search + indexing.

Nix plugins (nixmode skills)

ClawHub can store a nix-clawdbot plugin pointer in SKILL frontmatter so the registry knows which Nix package bundle to install. A nix plugin is different from a regular skill pack: it bundles the skill pack, the CLI binary, and its config flags/requirements together.

Add this to SKILL.md:

---
name: peekaboo
description: Capture and automate macOS UI with the Peekaboo CLI.
metadata:
  {
    "clawdbot":
      {
        "nix":
          {
            "plugin": "github:clawdbot/nix-steipete-tools?dir=tools/peekaboo",
            "systems": ["aarch64-darwin"],
          },
      },
  }
---

Install via nix-clawdbot:

programs.clawdbot.plugins = [
  { source = "github:clawdbot/nix-steipete-tools?dir=tools/peekaboo"; }
];

You can also declare config requirements + an example snippet:

---
name: padel
description: Check padel court availability and manage bookings via Playtomic.
metadata:
  {
    "clawdbot":
      {
        "config":
          {
            "requiredEnv": ["PADEL_AUTH_FILE"],
            "stateDirs": [".config/padel"],
            "example": "config = { env = { PADEL_AUTH_FILE = \\\"/run/agenix/padel-auth\\\"; }; };",
          },
      },
  }
---

To show CLI help (recommended for nix plugins), include the cli --help output:

---
name: padel
description: Check padel court availability and manage bookings via Playtomic.
metadata: { "clawdbot": { "cliHelp": "padel --help\\nUsage: padel [command]\\n" } }
---

metadata.clawdbot is preferred, but metadata.clawdis and metadata.openclaw are accepted as aliases.

Skill metadata

Skills declare their runtime requirements (env vars, binaries, install specs) in the SKILL.md frontmatter. ClawHub's security analysis checks these declarations against actual skill behavior; medium review findings stay visible, and the suspicious filter is reserved for high-impact or malicious concerns.

Full reference: docs/skill-format.md

Quick example:

---
name: my-skill
description: Does a thing with an API.
metadata:
  openclaw:
    requires:
      env:
        - MY_API_KEY
      bins:
        - curl
    primaryEnv: MY_API_KEY
---

Scripts

bun run dev
bun run build
bun run test
bun run coverage
bun run lint