Skills

Searching & Installing Skills

Always use the search_skills tool. Do NOT manually curl, browse GitHub, or download SKILL.md files.

search_skills does everything automatically:

1. Local — checks installed skills first
2. Official — searches Starchild official-skills index
3. skills.sh — searches the global skills ecosystem (OpenClaw, Vercel, Anthropic, etc.)
4. Auto-install — installs the best match via npx skills add (default: auto_install=true)

Usage

search_skills(query="deploy")           # search + auto-install best match
search_skills(query="trading")          # search + auto-install
search_skills(query="k8s", auto_install=false)  # search only, don't install
search_skills()                         # list all installed skills

After search_skills installs a skill, it's immediately available. Call skill_refresh() only if you manually edited skill files.

What NOT to do

• Do NOT curl GitHub repos to browse/download skills
• Do NOT mkdir -p skills/<name> and manually write SKILL.md
• Do NOT use web_fetch to download skill files
• Do NOT use the old gateway search/install endpoints (they no longer exist)
• Do NOT publish skills to the community-skills registry (product offline)

Decision Tree

User wants to find/install a skill
  → Use search_skills(query) tool — it searches all sources and auto-installs
  → NEVER curl GitHub or manually download files

User wants to list installed skills
  → Use search_skills() with no query

User wants to create a new skill
  → Read the skill-creator skill first

User wants to publish a skill to community registry
  → Community Skill product is offline — do not publish