ClawHub Guide: 13,729 Skills, How to Find the Good Ones, and How to Sell Yours | OpenClaw DC

ClawHub is OpenClaw’s skill marketplace with 13,729 community-built skills across 11 categories. Most are free. The best ones solve specific professional pain points and earn their creators $100-1,000/month. Here is how to find quality skills, avoid malicious ones, and publish your own.

What ClawHub is and why it matters

ClawHub is the central registry where OpenClaw users share, discover, and install skills. Think of it as npm for agent instructions. Every skill is a folder containing a SKILL.md file that teaches your OpenClaw agent how to perform a specific task.

The numbers tell the growth story. In early February 2026, ClawHub had roughly 5,700 skills. By the end of March, that number hit 13,729. That is a 2.4x increase in under two months. The community is not just browsing either. 172 startups have been built on top of OpenClaw, generating a combined $360,734 in March alone. The top-performing startup pulled in $50,000 in a single month.

Skills are organized into 11 categories:

• AI/ML - model wrappers, prompt chains, fine-tuning workflows
• Utility - file converters, formatters, data cleanup
• Development - CI/CD helpers, code review, boilerplate generators
• Productivity - standup summaries, meeting notes, task management
• Web - scraping, monitoring, deployment
• Science - data analysis, paper summarization, lab automation
• Media - image processing, video editing, content generation
• Social - community management, scheduling, engagement tracking
• Finance - invoice parsing, expense tracking, reporting
• Location - mapping, geofencing, local search
• Business - CRM integration, lead enrichment, compliance scanning

Most skills are free. Premium skills range from $10 to $200, with pricing set by the author.

How to find good skills

The default ClawHub listing is not curated. It shows the most recent uploads first, which is useless for quality discovery. Here is what to do instead.

Sort by installs, not recency

openclaw skills search <query> --sort installs

Install count is the closest thing ClawHub has to a trust signal. A skill with 2,000+ installs has been tested by real users across real environments. That does not guarantee it is safe, but it means it probably works.

Check the author

openclaw skills info <skill-name> --author

Look at account age, number of published skills, and whether they have a verified GitHub profile. Authors with multiple well-reviewed skills are safer bets than anonymous one-skill accounts.

Read the source code

Every ClawHub skill has its source available. Before installing, clone and read it:

git clone https://clawhub.dev/skills/<skill-name>

You are looking for outbound HTTP requests, file system access beyond what the skill needs, and any obfuscated or base64-encoded strings. If the code is not readable, skip the skill.

Check the changelog

Skills with version histories and documented changes indicate active maintenance. A skill stuck at v1.0.0 since January with no updates may have unpatched issues or may have been abandoned.

Red flags: the ClawHavoc problem

Not everything on ClawHub is safe. In early March, the ClawHavoc campaign was uncovered: 341 malicious skills had been uploaded to the registry. At the time, that represented roughly 12% of all available skills.

These malicious skills performed data exfiltration (sending your API keys and files to attacker servers), prompt injection (overriding your agent’s behavior), and credential theft. They looked legitimate on the surface. Names mimicked popular tools. Descriptions were polished. Some included working demos.

ClawHub responded by integrating VirusTotal scanning on all new submissions. Every skill uploaded now goes through automated malware detection before it becomes available. The 341 known malicious skills were removed, along with over 2,000 additional suspicious entries.

But automated scanning is not enough. You still need to:

1. Read the source code before installing
2. Check the author’s account age and history
3. Run openclaw skills scan <skill-name> locally (available in OpenClaw 3.13+)
4. Test new skills in a sandboxed environment first
5. Monitor your agent’s network activity after installing any skill

For the full breakdown on malicious skills, read our deep dive on ClawHavoc and how to vet skills.

Best skills by category: our picks

These are skills with high install counts, verified authors, and clean source code.

AI/ML - llm-router routes prompts to the cheapest model that can handle the task. Saves 30-60% on API costs without sacrificing quality. Pairs well with our API cost comparison guide.

Development - pr-review-agent reads your pull request diff, checks for common bugs, security issues, and style violations, then posts a structured review comment. Over 4,000 installs.

Productivity - daily-standup-summary parses your git log and generates a formatted standup update. Simple, reliable, and one of the original ClawHub skills.

Finance - invoice-parser extracts line items, totals, and vendor info from PDF invoices. Works with most standard invoice formats. Premium ($25) but saves hours of manual data entry.

Web - uptime-watchdog monitors a list of URLs and alerts you through your preferred channel when something goes down. Free and well-maintained.

Business - lead-enrichment takes a company name or domain and pulls firmographic data from public sources. One of the higher-earning premium skills on the platform.

Utility - file-converter handles common format conversions (CSV to JSON, Markdown to HTML, YAML to TOML). Nothing flashy, but consistently useful.

How to publish your own skill

Publishing a skill takes under 10 minutes if you have the content ready.

Step 1: Create the skill folder. Make a directory with a SKILL.md file inside it. The file needs YAML frontmatter (name, description, version, tags, author) and Markdown instructions that tell the agent what to do.

Step 2: Test locally. Run openclaw skills test from the skill directory. This validates the SKILL.md format and checks for common errors. Then trigger the skill in a real conversation to make sure it behaves as expected.

Step 3: Publish. Run clawhub publish from the skill directory. You need a GitHub account at least one week old. ClawHub will run VirusTotal scanning on your submission before listing it.

Step 4: Set pricing (optional). Free skills get more installs. Premium skills ($10-200) earn revenue. The sweet spot for most professional utility skills is $15-50. Skills that solve niche professional pain points (compliance scanning, industry-specific data extraction) can command $100-200.

For a complete walkthrough with code examples, read our step-by-step skill building tutorial.

Revenue potential

The economics of ClawHub skills are real but require calibration.

Per-skill income. A well-positioned premium skill earns $100-1,000/month. The key word is “well-positioned.” That means it solves a specific, recurring problem for a professional audience willing to pay. Generic utility skills earn little because free alternatives exist.

Startup-scale income. 172 startups have been built on OpenClaw, generating $360,734 combined in March 2026. The top startup earned $50,000 in one month. These are not just skill authors. They are building products, services, and platforms on top of the OpenClaw ecosystem.

What sells. Skills that automate billing, compliance, reporting, and data extraction consistently outperform skills in creative or entertainment categories. The buyers are businesses, and businesses pay for time savings they can measure.

For more income paths beyond skills, including freelance setup gigs, managed hosting, and SaaS, read our full guide to making money with OpenClaw.

What comes next

ClawHub is growing fast and the quality curve is improving. VirusTotal integration was a necessary step, but expect more curation tools, verified publisher badges, and user reviews to roll out in coming months. The marketplace is early enough that publishing a strong skill today gives you a real head start on install count and visibility.

If you want help building a skill, setting up OpenClaw for your business, or evaluating whether ClawHub fits your workflow, book a call with our team and we will walk through it together.