What it does OpenClaw is a locally-run AI assistant; skills are plugins that extend it to talk to GitHub, Slack, your smart home, or whatever else. The official ClawHub registry has ballooned to 13,729 community submissions. This repo is a hand-maintained awesome-list that cuts that down to roughly 5,200 actually useful entries, sorted into 30-odd categories from “Coding Agents & IDEs” to “Transportation.”

The interesting bit The curation is explicit and slightly ruthless. The maintainers publish their exclusion ledger: 4,065 spam/bulk accounts, 1,040 duplicates, 886 crypto/blockchain/finance skills, 851 low-quality descriptions, and 373 flagged as malicious by third-party security research. That last category is notable—they’re not pretending curation equals auditing, but they are doing more than alphabetical sorting.

Key highlights

• 5,211 skills across 30+ categories as of the last README update; 1,184 alone in “Coding Agents & IDEs”
• Install via clawhub install <slug>, manual copy to ~/.openclaw/skills/, or paste a GitHub link into chat and let the assistant handle it
• Includes ecosystem ads/sponsors for managed OAuth (Composio), cloud hosting (MyClaw), and model provider switching
• Security section warns of prompt injection, tool poisoning, and hidden payloads; points to VirusTotal integration and Snyk scanner
• Accepts PRs only for skills already published on ClawHub—no personal repos or gists

Caveats

• The list is curated, not audited; skills can be modified by original maintainers after inclusion
• README stats are slightly inconsistent (5,300+ in header, 5,211 in body, 5,198 in badge) and dated February 2026, so current numbers may differ
• Heavy ecosystem promotion (sponsor slots, managed services) mixed into the same document

Verdict Use this if you’re running OpenClaw and want a trustworthy starting point for discovery. Skip it if you don’t use OpenClaw—it’s a directory, not a standalone tool.