Skill Engineer

Own the full lifecycle of agent skills in your OpenClaw agent kit. The entire multi-agent workflow depends on skill quality — a weak skill produces weak results across every run.

Core principle: Builders don't evaluate their own work. This skill enforces separation of concerns through a multi-agent architecture where design, review, and testing are performed by independent subagents.

Skill Taxonomy

Source: Anthropic "Improving skill-creator" (2026-03-03)

Skills fall into two categories. This distinction drives design decisions, testing strategy, and lifecycle management.

Capability Uplift Skills

The model can't do it well alone — the skill injects techniques, patterns, or constraints that produce better output than prompting alone.

Examples: Document creation skills (PDF generation), complex formatting, specialized analysis pipelines.