Que sont les compétences

A skill is an extensible capability that gives your OpenClaw assistant a new ability or workflow it did not have before. 🧩

Out of the box OpenClaw runs a bundled agent runtime. Skills are how you extend that runtime past its default behavior.

Think of a capability as something the assistant can actually do, like a task it performs, rather than just words it sends back to you.

A skill can wrap a whole workflow, a series of steps the assistant follows, so one request triggers many coordinated actions.

OpenClaw is built for coding agents with tool use, sessions, and memory, so skills fit naturally into how the assistant works.

Through tool use, the agent can reach beyond chat to act, and skills package those tools into reusable abilities you can invoke.

Because OpenClaw keeps memory across sessions, a skill can pick up context from earlier and act on what it already knows about you.

You can give your assistant several skills at once, and it draws on the right one when a request matches what that skill does.

Like the rest of OpenClaw, skills run on your own hardware, keeping the local-first promise of your hardware, your rules. 🔒

You can grab existing community skills or build your own, so the assistant grows exactly toward what you need it to handle.

OpenClaw can notice when it is missing a capability and help you create a new skill to close that gap.

Let us make sure the idea of a skill is clear.

You learned that skills are extensible capabilities and workflows. They use tool use and memory, run locally, and let your assistant grow new abilities. 🌟