Skills
A skill is a Markdown instruction file your Claw reads on demand. It tells your agent what a task is, how to approach it, what tools to use, and what good output looks like — without you having to explain it every time.
Skills vs. prompts
You can do anything in a prompt that you can do in a skill. So why use skills?
| One-off prompt | Skill | |
|---|---|---|
| Reusable | ✗ Retype every session | ✓ Installed once, works forever |
| Consistent | ✗ Varies by phrasing | ✓ Same logic every time |
| Composable | ✗ Hard to chain | ✓ Skills can invoke other skills |
| Shareable | ✗ Lives in your head | ✓ Install from ClawHub, share a link |
| Evolvable | ✗ Edit the prompt every time | ✓ Edit the file once, all future runs improve |
The deeper advantage: a skill can carry context too long to type in a prompt. Your morning-brief skill holds 50+ lines of instructions, an HTML template, and Clawvisor gather steps. You'd never type all of that. The skill runs it perfectly, every time.
Skills are stored in your ~/skills/ folder and invoked by name in any conversation:
~/skills/
morning-brief.md
humanizer.md
web-research.md