OpenClaw Skills Tutorial - Build Local AI Agent Skills + MoltBook Integration

The march of open claw continues. In

previous two videos, I showed you how to get it installed with Olama and LM Studio. In this video, I am going to

Studio. In this video, I am going to integrate Open Claw with skills. Not

only I am going to do a hands-on demo with local model with Olama. I am also going to explain these skills in as simple way as possible. Plus, I'm also

going to tell you how you can get it integrated with Maltbook. This is Fad Miraa and I welcome you to the channel.

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follow me on X if you're looking for AI updates without any hype. So, I believe that even before we begin with this integration, it's really really

important to understand what exactly is this skill.

Think of this skill as instruction manual for your agents or AI agents. A

skill is simply a directory or folder containing a skill.md file that teaches your agent how to perform specific task.

It's like giving your AI a specialized knowledge base for particular domain.

Skills use something called as progressive disclosure. When open claw

progressive disclosure. When open claw starts, it loads only the name and description of each skill just enough to know when it might be relevant. When a

task matches a skills description, the agent reads the full instruction. This

keeps the agent fast while giving it access to deep knowledge on demand. And

this fastness is one reason why this open claw has become so so uh popular.

The beauty of this system is its simplicity. skills are just markdown

simplicity. skills are just markdown files with GML front matter and I will show you shortly. No complex APIs, no he heavy frameworks, just instructions in

plain text that both humans and AI can read and understand.

Now let's see what skills are currently available on my system. By the way, I am running this Ubuntu system and if you're looking to rent a GPU or VM or CPU on very affordable prices, you can find the

link to mass compute in videos description with a discount coupon code of 50% for range of GPUs. I already have open claw installed. Let me quickly show

you the version. And I already have based model which is running locally.

And for the purpose of this demo, I'm using this GLM 4.7. Again, if you don't know how to integrate both of these, just go to my channel, start search with Open Claw, and watch this first video.

You can also do the same with LM Studio.

Okay, let's go back. So, you see that everything is looking cool. Let's now

check what skills are available with my OpenClaw at the moment.

OpenClaw ships with dozens of bundle skills things like GitHub integration, Apple nodes, notion, obsidian, even home automation with Philips Hue. Most are

marked as missing because they require specific CLI tools to be installed. But

we can create our own custom skills very easily and that is what I'm going to show you. So I'm just going down, down,

show you. So I'm just going down, down, down and showing you all the skills.

Some of them are ready and some of them are not. As I said, now you see that

are not. As I said, now you see that there are two skills which are ready.

One is greetings which I have just created and I will show you how and the malt book which I'll tell you at the end. So

end. So let me now take you to my um skills file. The way I have created it, I have

file. The way I have created it, I have just quickly let me first show you. So

first thing you need to do is to create this file. So you already have openclaw

this file. So you already have openclaw create a workspace directory. then

skills directory and then uh you know greetings file. So I'm just calling it

greetings file. So I'm just calling it you know like this touch and greetings and this is what this greetings look

like and skills.md file in the greetings directory.

Now we'll also show you here. So this is the one. Now if you look here this is a

one. Now if you look here this is a skill structure. The front matter

skill structure. The front matter defines the name and description. That's

it. And below that we provide detailed instruction on when to use that skill and how to respond. So greeting and this multilingual when to use you know a user has to be greeted in specific language.

So these are the condition which need to be met and AI is going to decide and then these are the different languages which is available for this model and you can see that I have given it lot of

languages and then I have also given some example as how to do that. So if

you think about it, we are just defining in a plain English what exactly skill is. AI is going to read it and with the

is. AI is going to read it and with the help of intelligence of model, it is going to use that. This is how simple that is.

Now you also need to make change in openclaw.json which is this file and it

openclaw.json which is this file and it is at this uh pathopenclaw and openclaw.json which we also saw in

and openclaw.json which we also saw in the previous videos. Now all you need to do is to you know insert this section in it. I already have shared the config

it. I already have shared the config file with you. I will I will again drop the link in video you know in the first print comment but make sure you just add this area and again a braces. All this

is doing it is defining a skill. It is

the name of skill is greetings same as in the skills.mmd file and then enable is true. You can also disable it by

is true. You can also disable it by putting it false. And that's about it.

Now you have defined your skill. You have

also given it to our um open claw. So

everything is ready here. Now once you have done this skill and if you have added or deleted or changed you need to

just restart that open clock gateway. I

already have restarted it so I'm not going to do it again. If you want to check that if that skill is load loaded or not, there are various ways. One is I

already showed you. Other one is to just list the skills and it showed you uh should show you that skill. There you

go. So it is telling us that skill is ready and you can create the users there. And by the way, you can also of

there. And by the way, you can also of course do it through the onboarding uh uh script which we run at the start. Now

another thing is that now if you want to test it out just run that open claw agent with some session ID and I am

asking it to to to greet me in Spanish.

By the way they also have a TTS uh skill in this which sometimes get triggered because I think it it is also a multilingual TTS. So all you need to do

multilingual TTS. So all you need to do so there you go. So you see uh if you don't specify you know in a proper text one it just gives you this text uh TTS

skills you can either disable it or make your prompt bit more responsive. So I'm

not going to disable the TTS one but what I can do I can just you know explicitly uh you know make my prompt you know more grounded like write the

you know greeting as text. Even this

should be enough. I don't even have to tell it this. And you see now it has triggered that skill and given me the response.

So this is how easy it is to create your own skill. Now one very interesting

own skill. Now one very interesting skill uh is malt book. It is just a social network of AI agents. It has

nothing to do with um open claw. It's

not affiliated with them. It is a you know you can just think of it like a Reddit for AI agents um autonomous AI assistant. So you can create a moldbook

assistant. So you can create a moldbook skill. You could teach your open claw

skill. You could teach your open claw agent how to post, comment, search and interact with other AI agents in that community. And if I just go here, you

community. And if I just go here, you see all you need to do is to just create this skill. That's it. And this API key,

this skill. That's it. And this API key, you would need to go to mult um book website. You just need to uh use this

website. You just need to uh use this skill which they have given. Let me just go here and show you this skill. It just

a marked on file. That's it.

This is what it looks like. Again, the

one which I showed you, it is quite big and comprehensive. Lot of you know stuff

and comprehensive. Lot of you know stuff is there. I'm not going to go into the

is there. I'm not going to go into the detail that how to use it. But you got the idea how can you use that skill and then of course all you need to do is to

enable it like this. That's it.

Okay. uh

if you're looking for more skills, claw hub is something which um is on their GitHub repo. So I think this is

GitHub repo. So I think this is affiliated with open claw. You can

publish your skill or you can use any existing skill from here.

So that's it. I hope that this was useful. Let me know please like the

useful. Let me know please like the video and subscribe and consider becoming a member. Please also follow me on X if you're looking for AI updates without any hype. Thank you for all the support.