Skillcraft — OpenClaw Skill Designer

An opinionated guide for creating OpenClaw skills. Focuses on OpenClaw-specific integration — message routing, cron scheduling, memory persistence, channel formatting, frontmatter gating — not generic programming advice.

Docs: https://docs.openclaw.ai/tools/skills · https://docs.openclaw.ai/tools/creating-skills

Model Notes

This skill is written for frontier-class models (Opus, Sonnet). If you're running a cheaper model and find a stage underspecified, expand it yourself — the design sequence is a scaffold, not a script. Cheaper models should:

• Read the pattern files in {baseDir}/patterns/ more carefully before architecting
• Spend more time on Stage 2 (capability discovery) — enumerate OpenClaw features explicitly
• Be more methodical in Stage 4 (spec) — write out the full structure before implementing
• Consult https://docs.openclaw.ai when unsure about any OpenClaw feature

The Design Sequence

Stage 0: Inventory (Extraction Only)