267-openclaw-skills-capabilities

267 — OpenClaw Skills & Capabilities Reference

Status: research-complete Date: March 29, 2026 Topic: agents Type: infrastructure-reference Last-validated: 2026-05-21 Original-query: OpenClaw skills capabilities reference - 52 installed skills, 10 channel integrations (Telegram, Discord, Nostr), MCP servers, development automation Tier: reference Goal: Document all available OpenClaw skills, extensions, and channel integrations for ZAO OS agent operations

Current Setup

Component	Value
Container	openclaw-openclaw-gateway-1 (Docker)
Health	http://localhost:18789/health
Model	minimax/MiniMax-M2.7 (204K context, 131K max tokens)
MCP Servers	GitHub (@modelcontextprotocol/server-github)
Active Channel	Telegram (@zaoclaw_bot)
Resources	~500MB RAM, <1% CPU

Channel Integrations (10 available)

All extensions are installed. Only Telegram is currently enabled.

Channel	Extension	Status	ZAO Relevance
Telegram	telegram	Active	Primary control channel for Zaal
Discord	discord	Available	High — ZAO community server (~40 members)
WhatsApp	whatsapp	Available	Medium — personal/artist DMs
Slack	slack	Available	Low — team doesn't use it
Nostr	nostr	Available	High — decentralized, fits ZAO ethos
Twitch	twitch	Available	Medium — music streams
Signal	signal	Available	Low
Matrix	matrix	Available	Low
IRC	irc	Available	Low
MS Teams	msteams	Available	Low

Skills (52 installed)

Development & Automation

Skill	Description	Requires
coding-agent	Delegate coding to Claude Code, Codex, Pi, or OpenCode agents via background process. Builds features, reviews PRs, refactors codebases	claude, codex, opencode, or pi CLI
gh-issues	Fetch GitHub issues, spawn sub-agents to implement fixes and open PRs, monitor review comments. Usage: /gh-issues [owner/repo] [--label bug] [--limit 5]	curl, git, gh
github	Full GitHub ops via gh CLI: issues, PRs, CI runs, code review, API queries	gh
skill-creator	Create, edit, improve, or audit AgentSkills (SKILL.md files)	None
clawhub	Search, install, update, and publish skills from clawhub.com marketplace	clawhub CLI
mcporter	List, configure, auth, and call MCP servers/tools directly	mcporter CLI

Research & Content

Skill	Description	Requires
summarize	Summarize/transcribe URLs, podcasts, YouTube videos, local files	summarize CLI
blogwatcher	Monitor blogs and RSS/Atom feeds for updates	blogwatcher CLI
xurl	Full Twitter/X API: post tweets, reply, quote, search, read, DMs, upload media	xurl CLI
nano-pdf	Edit PDFs with natural-language instructions	nano-pdf CLI
oracle	Prompt + file bundling for multi-model AI queries	oracle CLI

Music & Media

Skill	Description	Requires
songsee	Generate spectrograms and audio feature visualizations	songsee CLI
spotify-player	Terminal Spotify playback and search via spogo or spotify_player	spogo or spotify_player
sag	ElevenLabs text-to-speech with voice storytelling	sag CLI + ELEVENLABS_API_KEY
voice-call	Start voice calls via OpenClaw voice-call plugin	voice-call extension
video-frames	Extract frames or clips from videos using ffmpeg	ffmpeg
gifgrep	Search GIF providers, download results, extract stills	gifgrep CLI

Communication & Messaging

Skill	Description	Requires
discord	Discord ops via the message tool	channels.discord.token config
slack	Slack messaging	Slack config
wacli	Send WhatsApp messages or search/sync WhatsApp history	wacli CLI
imsg	iMessage integration	macOS only
bluebubbles	BlueBubbles iMessage bridge	BlueBubbles server
himalaya	CLI email via IMAP/SMTP: list, read, write, reply, search	himalaya CLI

Infrastructure & Monitoring

Skill	Description	Requires
healthcheck	Host security hardening, firewall/SSH auditing, risk posture review	None
paperclip	AI team management — tasks, agent coordination, governance	Paperclip API
model-usage	Per-model usage/cost summaries from CodexBar	codexbar CLI
session-logs	Session logging and retrieval	None
node-connect	Diagnose OpenClaw node connection/pairing failures	None

Productivity & Utilities

Skill	Description	Requires
gog	Google Workspace: Gmail, Calendar, Drive, Contacts, Sheets, Docs	gog CLI
weather	Current weather and forecasts via wttr.in or Open-Meteo	curl
goplaces	Google Places API: text search, details, reviews	goplaces CLI
canvas	Display HTML content/dashboards on connected OpenClaw nodes	Node app
tmux	Terminal multiplexer management	tmux
1password	1Password CLI integration	op CLI
notion	Notion integration	Notion config
obsidian	Obsidian vault integration	Obsidian
trello	Trello board management	Trello config
bear-notes	Bear Notes integration	macOS only
things-mac	Things 3 task manager	macOS only

Hardware & Smart Home

Skill	Description	Requires
camsnap	Capture frames/clips from RTSP/ONVIF cameras	Camera access
peekaboo	Capture and automate macOS UI	macOS only
openhue	Philips Hue lighting control	Hue Bridge
blucli	BluOS speaker discovery, playback, grouping	BluOS speakers
eightctl	Eight Sleep pod control (temp, alarms, schedules)	Eight Sleep
sonoscli	Sonos speaker control	Sonos speakers

Extensions (82 installed)

Model providers available but not configured:

• anthropic, openai, deepseek, groq, together, ollama, mistral, xai, venice, perplexity, huggingface, nvidia
• amazon-bedrock, anthropic-vertex, cloudflare-ai-gateway, vercel-ai-gateway, litellm, vllm

Search/web extensions:

• brave, tavily, duckduckgo, exa, firecrawl

Media extensions:

• elevenlabs, deepgram, fal, image-generation-core, media-understanding-core, speech-core

Other:

• browser, memory-core, memory-lancedb, diagnostics-otel, diffs, thread-ownership

Recommended Next Steps for ZAO

Priority 1 — Enable Now

1. Discord channel — Connect bot to ZAO community server for member interaction
2. gh-issues automation — Auto-process bettercallzaal/ZAOOS issues via Telegram
3. plugins.allow lockdown — Only load needed extensions (telegram, minimax, github, brave, browser) to cut startup time and memory

Priority 2 — Set Up This Sprint

4. blogwatcher — Monitor music industry/web3 RSS feeds, auto-digest into research library
5. healthcheck cron — Schedule weekly VPS security audits
6. summarize — Use for research: transcribe YouTube music tech talks, podcast episodes

Priority 3 — Explore Later

7. xurl — Twitter/X integration for ZAO social presence
8. nostr — Decentralized messaging channel
9. coding-agent — Let OpenClaw delegate coding tasks to Claude Code
10. clawhub — Browse community skill marketplace for new capabilities
11. songsee — Audio visualizations for WaveWarZ or SongJam features

Known Issues (as of 2026-03-29)

Issue	Impact	Fix
MiniMax-M2.7-highspeed not supported by token plan	Was causing infinite fallback loop	Removed from fallbacks — fixed
plugins.allow empty	All 82 extensions auto-load (34MB, slower startup)	Set explicit allowlist
tlon skill path not found	Harmless log warning	Remove tlon extension or ignore
Paperclip API not reachable (localhost:3100)	Team management unavailable	Deploy Paperclip or remove from SOUL.md