Skills
Skills are extra abilities your agent can use — for example, sending emails or searching the web.
What this is
Skills are like apps for your agent. Out of the box, your agent can have a conversation and remember things. Install a skill, and it gains a new ability: reading your email, searching the web, calling an API, posting to a service, and so on.
Where to find them
Open your Control UI and head to the skills section. From there you can browse the OpenClaw skill catalog and install the ones you want. Each skill describes what it does and what it needs from you (usually an API key or a login).
A safety note
Skills can take real actions in the world. An email skill can send mail under your account. A payment skill, if you gave it credentials, could move money. Treat installing a skill the way you'd treat installing a browser extension or giving an app access to your accounts:
- Install skills only from sources you trust.
- Read what permissions a skill is asking for before you grant them.
- Remove skills you no longer use.
Going deeper
Beach handles hosting; OpenClaw handles skills. For full skill documentation — what they can do under the hood, how to write your own, the catalog itself — see the OpenClaw project's own docs. We don't fork those here, so they always reflect the latest from upstream.