Skill Conflict Detector

What it does

Two types of conflict cause skills to misbehave silently:

1. Name shadowing — Two installed skills have the same name: field. OpenClaw loads the last one lexicographically; the other silently disappears. No warning.

2. Description overlap — Two skills' descriptions are so semantically similar that OpenClaw can't reliably distinguish them. The wrong skill fires. You think one skill is broken; actually the other is intercepting it.

Skill Conflict Detector scans all installed skills for both types and reports them with overlap scores and resolution suggestions.

When to invoke

• After installing a new skill from ClawHub
• When a skill fires inconsistently or triggers on unexpected prompts
• Before publishing a new skill (ensure it doesn't shadow an existing one)
• As part of install.sh post-install validation