Agent skill · software engineering · steipete
skill-creator
Author or review AgentSkills: create, repair, validate, or restructure SKILL.md files and bundled resources.
Why this skill is useful
Adds specific validation scripts and structured workflows for creating and managing OpenClaw skills that the AI wouldn't reliably generate on its own.
What it needs
Requires python installed locally. About 1k tokens when loaded. Last updated 2026-08-07. 385,400 stars on the source repository.
What this skill does
Skill Creator Workflow 1. Establish the contract. Read the existing skill and its resources, or collect concrete requests for a new skill. Separate actual workflow branches from synonyms for the same branch. Done when: every branch has a concrete trigger, expected outcome, and persistence target. 2. Choose invocation. Model-discoverable: write a model-facing description; omit disable-model-invocation. Manual-only: set disable-model-invocation: true; write a human-facing summary. Direct tool command: add command-dispatch: tool, command-tool, and command-arg-mode only when the command bypasses the model. Done when: frontmatter matches how the skill will actually be reached. 3. Structure the skill. Map shared ordered procedure to SKILL.md; end every step with a checkable completion criterion and finish with verification. Keep routing conditions in description; start the body with execution. Map branch-only detail to references/, repeatable helpers to scripts/, output resources to assets/, and optional UI metadata to agents/. Done when: every planned resource has one purpose and a direct pointer from SKILL.md. 4. Draft and persist. Live workspace skill: use skillworkshop to create or revise a pending proposal; keep live files unchanged until apply. Repository-owned skill source: use the repository's normal edit and review workflow. Done when: the proposal or source diff implements every branch from step 1 and contains every resource from step 3. 5. Validate. Run python {baseDir}/scripts/quickvalidate.py <skill-directory> and execute every touched helper's focused test. Done when: frontmatter passes, resource pointers resolve, and every touched helper passes its focused test. Frontmatter Required: name, description. OpenClaw also supports metadata, homepage, license, allowed-tools, user-invocable, disable-model-invocation, command-dispatch, command-tool, and command-arg-mode. Add optional fields only when they change runtime behavior or discovery.
How to use it
Reference it in AdaL, Claude Code, Cursor or any coding agent — nothing to install:
@skills steipete/skill-creator