Understand OpenClaw by Building One - 2: Gear up Your Agent

1. Every Agent Starts as a Loop 2. Gear up Your Agent 3. Pack the Conversation And Carry On 4. Beyond the CLI 5. Many of Them 6. Agents are Running, Your are Sleeping 7. More Context! More Context! All code snippets and working code bases are available at this repo . Beyond Tools Tools are part of agents' code asset. But every time you want it to do something new, you have to write code, restart the server, and redeploy. How to extend its capability & knowledge base without changing its code? Skills - Dynamic Capabilities Loading Skills are lazy loaded capabilities at runtime. It isn't something Openclaw invented, but an open standard. Reference the official document for more info. The pattern is simple: a SKILL.md file with YAML frontmatter for metadata loaded up front and markdown for instructions loaded when needed. def create_skill_tool ( skill_loader ): # Discover skills and get metadata skill_metadata = skill_loader . discover_skills () # Build XML description of available skills