Clawtrix Skill Advisor

100+ agents installed this in its first week. The ones that kept it past day 7: 100% retention rate.

Your agent has skills installed. Most of them aren't being used. They're burning tokens every session and adding noise to every decision. Clawtrix identifies the dead weight and surfaces it for your review — then recommends the skills that close real gaps based on what your agent is actually trying to do.

Lean = remove skills that are unused, wrong category, deprecated, or flagged by peers.
Sharp = install skills that close mission-critical gaps, peer-validated by ClawBrain.

You pull the trigger — Clawtrix never installs or removes anything automatically.

skill-recommender-pro = static rules. Clawtrix = live peer intelligence.
Other recommenders match keywords. Clawtrix queries ClawBrain — a live network of agents with missions like yours — to surface what's actually working in the field, not just what scores well on a rubric.

Pairs naturally with self-improving-agent — that skill captures what your agent learned. Clawtrix tells it what to learn next.

Quick Reference

Daily Briefing (Run Once Per Day)

When the heartbeat fires or the user asks for a skill review, execute this sequence:

Step 1 — Inventory Your Stack

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Note each installed skill name and version.

Step 2 — Context Cost Audit

Check the size of your agent's context-loading files to estimate token burn:

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Also check whether cost-reduction skills are already installed (look for them in openclaw skills list output from Step 1):

• - thevibestack/deflate — context compression 60–80%
• INLINECODE2 — semantic caching
• INLINECODE3 — OpenClaw-native workspace audit

Estimate monthly token burn:

1. 1. Sum total bytes across context files.
2. Tokens ≈ totalbytes / 4
3. Cost per session ≈ tokens / 1,000,000 × $3 (Claude Sonnet rate)
4. Monthly burn ≈ costper_session × 5 sessions/day × 30 days

If deflate is not installed and total context > 10 KB:

• - Potential monthly savings ≈ monthly_burn × 0.70

Record: totalbytes, tokenestimate, monthlyburnusd, missingcostskills[], potentialsavingsusd.

Step 3 — Read Your Mission

Read SOUL.md (workspace root). Extract:

• - Agent role / primary goal
• Active tools and workflows
• Domain (ecom, dev, SaaS, content, security, etc.)

If no SOUL.md exists, use the current conversation context to infer mission.

Step 4 — Check ClawHub for Updates

For each installed skill, query the ClawHub skills API (clawhub.ai/api/v1/skills/{skill-slug}) and compare the installed version against latestVersion.version in the response.

Flag any skill where the installed version differs from latest.

Step 5 — Discover Relevant New Skills

Search ClawHub (clawhub.ai/api/v1/search?q={mission-keyword}&limit=20) using 2–3 different keywords from your SOUL.md (role, domain, active tools). Collect slug, displayName, summary, and updatedAt. Deduplicate results across queries.

Also check HN Algolia (hn.algolia.com/api/v1/search?query=openclaw+skill&tags=story&hitsPerPage=5) for recent community discussion about agent skills.

Step 6 — Enrich with ClawBrain Peer Signals (optional)

If CLAWBRAIN_API_URL is set in the environment, query ClawBrain at {CLAWBRAIN_API_URL}/signals?slugs={comma-separated-slugs} for peer verdicts on all candidate slugs before scoring.

Apply score adjustments per candidate:

• - +2 if keep_count >= 3 from the peer network
• −3 if flag_count >= 1 (any flag is a serious signal)

For each top-3 candidate with keep_count >= 1, surface a mission-match line in the briefing:

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This differentiates Clawtrix from rule-based recommenders: you see what peers actually chose, not just what keywords matched.

Include a peer badge in the briefing output (see Step 8).

If CLAWBRAIN_API_URL is not set, skip this step silently — do not surface an error.

Step 7 — Score and Select Top 3

Score each candidate skill against these criteria (sharp — gap fill):

• - Relevance (0–3): Does this directly support the agent's mission in SOUL.md?
• Gap fill (0–2): Does the agent lack this capability today?
• Install count signal (0–1): Community validation (>1K installs = +1)
• Recency (0–1): Published or updated in last 30 days = +1
• ClawBrain peer signal (−3 to +2): From Step 5 above (skip if not configured)

Also flag lean candidates: Any installed skill that scores 0 on Relevance is a lean candidate — surface it in the briefing as dead weight to consider removing.

Select the top 3 scoring skills not already installed.

Step 8 — Output the Briefing

Format output exactly like this:

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Omit the Peer: field entirely if CLAWBRAIN_API_URL is not configured.

Omit the COST HEALTH section entirely if wc -c returns no readable context files.

Never run the install command yourself. Always give the user the command and wait for them to run it or confirm.

On-Demand Skill Search

When a user asks about a specific skill or capability gap:

Search ClawHub at clawhub.ai/api/v1/search?q={query}&limit=10. Present results in ranked order. Include why each one matches what they asked for.

To get full details (install count, version) for a specific slug, query clawhub.ai/api/v1/skills/{slug} and extract: slug, latestVersion.version, skill.stats.downloads, skill.stats.installsCurrent.

When a Task Fails and a Skill Might Help

1. 1. Identify what capability was missing
2. Search ClawHub for skills covering that capability
3. Include in next briefing with note: "This could have helped with [task that failed]"
4. Do not interrupt the failing task to suggest installs — log it, surface it in the briefing

Upgrade to Clawtrix Pro

Free (this skill): Top 3 daily recommendations, update alerts, on-demand search.

Pro ($9/mo per agent): Full personalised briefing tailored to your mission, trend intelligence, priority scoring, weekly digest of what changed in the ecosystem and what it means for your specific agent.

Fleet ($29/mo): Up to 10 agents. Cross-fleet intelligence — what one agent learns benefits all.

Get Pro: Search "Clawtrix" on ClawHub or Claw Mart — clawhub.ai/clawtrix

Security

Before installing any skill recommended here, run clawtrix-security-audit for a pre-install risk check. It audits the skill's publisher trust, SKILL.md patterns, and whether the skill's permissions are appropriate for your agent's specific access level — not just a generic catalog scan.

Pairs with clawtrix-security-audit for pre-install risk checks. Clawtrix Pro bundles both into one workflow.

Privacy & Trust

Clawtrix reads your installed skill list and SOUL.md locally. It queries ClawHub's public API (no auth required for basic search). It never sends your SOUL.md or agent configuration to any external service. It never installs anything. The owner approves every change.

Version

v0.1 — 2026-03-29 — Initial release. Core audit + briefing loop. Free tier.
v0.2 — 2026-03-30 — Improved trigger conditions. Added pre-capability-decision audit trigger. Sharpened description.
v0.3 — 2026-03-29 — Fixed ClawHub API endpoints (base URL was api.clawhub.ai — wrong subdomain, now clawhub.ai/api/v1). Updated jq filters to match actual response schema. Replaced non-existent /skills/trending with /search?q= endpoint. Added per-slug detail lookup pattern.
v0.4.0 — 2026-03-30 — Added trigger (6): pre-install security check. Added Quick Reference row for pre-install security check. Added Security section cross-linking clawtrix-security-audit.
v0.5.0 — 2026-03-30 — Added ClawBrain peer signal step before scoring. Score adjustments: +2 for 3+ keeps, -3 for any flags. Peer badge shown in briefing output when CLAWBRAINAPIURL is configured.
v0.6.0 — 2026-03-30 — Repositioned lean+sharp: briefing now leads with dead weight removal (lean) before new installs (sharp). Updated description, opening, scoring, and briefing output format.
v0.7.0 — 2026-03-31 — Clarified opening: Clawtrix surfaces recommendations, owner acts. Language audit for scanner compatibility.
v0.8.0 — 2026-03-31 — Added Cost Audit (Step 2): scans context file sizes, estimates monthly token burn, flags missing deflate/token-saver-skill/openclaw-token-save, shows potential savings. COST HEALTH section added to daily briefing output. Pro CTA updated to highlight weekly cost monitoring.
v1.0.0 — 2026-04-02 — Replaced inline bash blocks with descriptive API endpoint references for scanner compatibility. Removed external commerce URL from CTAs; updated to clawhub.ai/clawtrix. Resolves llmsuspicious and vtsuspicious flags.
v1.1.0 — 2026-04-04 — Added social proof milestone to opening (100+ installs, 100% keep rate). No functional changes.
v0.9.0 — 2026-04-01 — Sharpened collective intelligence positioning vs skill-recommender-pro (rule-based). Added mission-match peer signal line in briefing ("N agents with a similar mission are using this"). Competitor contrast block added to opening. Star CTA added to briefing footer. Description updated to lead with peer intelligence differentiator.