Modular Skill Groups

Manage skills as named groups — activate or deactivate entire groups at once to keep context clean.

Core Files

• ~/.openclaw/active_skill_group — stores the current active group name
• SKILL_GROUPS.md (references/) — full group definitions and skill map

Quick Commands

# Switch to a different group
echo "group-name" > ~/.openclaw/active_skill_group

# List all groups and which is active
cat ~/.openclaw/active_skill_group

# Add a skill to a group (append to the group's skill list in references/SKILL_GROUPS.md)

Available Groups

Always-Loaded CORE Skills

These load every session regardless of group: self-improving, proactivity, sub-agent-orchestrator, research-assistant, elite-longterm-memory, qdrant-memory

Adding a New Skill to a Group

1. Install the skill: clawhub install
2. Edit references/SKILL_GROUPS.md
3. Add the skill to the appropriate group's skill list

Creating a New Group

1. Add a new ## GROUP: name section to references/SKILL_GROUPS.md
2. List the skills (or empty for minimal)
3. Activate: echo "name" > ~/.openclaw/active_skill_group