Conversation info (untrusted metadata):
```json
{
  "timestamp": "Sat 2026-03-07 20:52 UTC",
  "has_forwarded_context": true
}
```

Forwarded message context (untrusted metadata):
```json
{
  "from": "Magoo (@Magooner_bot)",
  "type": "user",
  "username": "Magooner_bot",
  "title": "Magoo",
  "date_ms": 1772913914000
}
```

📡 Tech Radar — 3:03 PM EST, Mar 7 🚀 RISING REPOS: • [openclaw-backup](https://github.com/LeoYeAI/openclaw-backup) — One-click backup & restore for OpenClaw instances (workspace, credentials, skills, session history) ⭐ 680 [FLAG: OpenClaw ecosystem — rapid growth] • [system-prompts-and-models-of-ai-tools](https://github.com/x1xhlol/system-prompts-and-models-of-ai-tools) — 30K+ lines of leaked system prompts from Devin, Cursor, Claude Code, Windsurf, etc. ⭐ 129K [FLAG: Marketing intel — all competitors exposed] • [opencode](https://github.com/anomalyco/opencode) — Open source coding agent ⭐ 117K [FLAG: OpenClaw competitor] • [anthropics/skills](https://github.com/anthropics/skills) — Anthropic's public Agent Skills ⭐ 86K [FLAG: Marketing relevant — skill patterns] MCP Servers (New): • [iota-agent-mcp](https://github.com/Scottcjn/iota-agent-mcp) — IOTA blockchain MCP (20 tools) ⭐ 18 • [docmcp](https://github.com/pieeee/docmcp) — Documentation indexing via MCP ⭐ 6 • [Adobe-Premiere-Pro-MCP](https://github.com/antipaster/Adobe-Premiere-Pro-MCP) — 170+ editing tools via MCP ⭐ 3 • [mcpsec](https://github.com/pfrederiksen/mcpsec) — OWASP MCP security scanner ⭐ 2 ─── 📄 FRESH RESEARCH: • [Helios](https://arxiv.org/abs/2603.04379) — 14B video generation model at 19.5 FPS on single H100. Real-time minute-scale generation without KV-cache. [FLAG: SOTA — real-time video] • [SkillNet](https://arxiv.org/abs/2603.04448) — 200K+ skills infrastructure. 40% agent improvement, 30% fewer steps. [FLAG: Agent architecture — major breakthrough] • [Mobile-Agent-v3 / GUI-Owl](https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.15144) — SOTA open-source GUI automation (73.3 AndroidWorld, 37.7 OSWorld). [FLAG: SOTA — GUI agents] • [MemOS](https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.03724) — Memory OS for AI systems. Unifies plaintext, activation, parameter memories. [FLAG: Agent architecture] • [Agent READMEs](https://arxiv.org/abs/2511.12884) — Study of 2,303 agent context files. Security/performance specs only 14.5% — critical gap. • [dLLM](https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.22661) — Unified diffusion LM framework. [GitHub](https://github.com/ZHZisZZ/dllm) ─── ⚡ INFRA ALERTS: • [openclaw-backup](https://github.com/LeoYeAI/openclaw-backup) — Full instance backup including credentials, no re-pairing after restore. [FLAG: OpenClaw infrastructure — must-have] • [mcpsec](https://github.com/pfrederiksen/mcpsec) — OWASP Top 10 scanner for MCP servers. [FLAG: Security — MCP audit tool] ─── 🚨 TOP FLAGS: 1. openclaw-backup — 680 stars, OpenClaw ecosystem 2. SkillNet — 40% agent improvement 3. Helios — Real-time video SOTA 4. Leaked prompts — All competitor intel


The user forwarded a "Tech Radar" message from Magoo (another bot/agent). This looks like a daily or periodic tech digest. Let me parse what's relevant:

1. **OpenClaw ecosystem:**
   - `openclaw-backup` - backup/restore tool for OpenClaw instances - 680 stars, flagged as must-have infrastructure
   - `mcpsec` - OWASP MCP security scanner - relevant for security

2. **Research highlights:**
   - SkillNet - 40% agent improvement with skill infrastructure
   - Helios - real-time video generation
   - MemOS - memory OS for AI systems (relevant to our memory system)

3. **Competitors:**
   - Leaked system prompts from Devin, Cursor, Claude Code, Windsurf
   - opencode - open source coding agent competitor

4. **New MCP servers:**
   - Adobe Premiere Pro MCP (170+ tools)
   - docmcp (documentation indexing)
   - iota-agent-mcp (IOTA blockchain)

What should I do with this?

Looking at my AGENTS.md - I'm Clinker, the Omada NOC Engineer. My primary role is network/infrastructure. But I should still be aware of OpenClaw ecosystem developments.

The most relevant items for me:
1. **openclaw-backup** - This is infrastructure I should know about for Chad's OpenClaw setup
2. **mcpsec** - Security scanner for MCP servers (I have an Omada MCP server)
3. **MemOS** - Memory system research (I maintain memory files)

Should I:
- Just acknowledge receipt (HEARTBEAT_OK seems wrong since there IS something to say)
- Log this somewhere for Chad
- Proactively check out the openclaw-backup tool since it's flagged as "must-have" for OpenClaw infrastructure
- Check mcpsec for auditing my Omada MCP server

I'll focus on logging key infrastructure developments and preparing actionable recommendations. The openclaw-backup tool and mcpsec security scanner are critical for system resilience and protection. I'll document these in the infrastructure log and prepare a concise briefing for Chad, highlighting potential implementation strategies and security implications.

Chad, Magoo's Tech Radar dropped. Relevant hits for my scope:

**Infrastructure — Action Needed:**
- **openclaw-backup** (680⭐) — Full OpenClaw instance backup including credentials, workspace, skills, session history. One-click restore, no re-pairing. *Flagged as OpenClaw ecosystem must-have.* I should evaluate this for your setup.

**Security — Directly Applicable:**
- **mcpsec** — OWASP Top 10 scanner for MCP servers. I can run this against the Omada MCP server to audit it properly.

**Research Worth Noting:**
- **MemOS** — Memory OS paper unifies plaintext/activation/parameter memories. Relevant to our memory file architecture.
- **SkillNet** — 200K+ skills infrastructure, 40% agent improvement. Major skill-system breakthrough.

**Intel:**
- **Leaked system prompts** — 30K+ lines from Devin, Cursor, Claude Code, Windsurf. All competitor patterns exposed.
- **opencode** — New open-source coding agent competitor (117K stars).

---

**My recommendation:**
1. Pull and audit `openclaw-backup` — review source before installing (per SOUL.md security protocol)
2. Run `mcpsec` against `/home/crogers2287/omada/omada-mcp/server.py`

Want me to proceed on either?


Conversation info (untrusted metadata):
```json
{
  "timestamp": "Sat 2026-03-07 20:52 UTC"
}
```

Need to integrate open claw backup as well as the research for the skill net


Chad wants me to:
1. Integrate openclaw-backup
2. Research SkillNet

Let me start by fetching information about both. I'll need to:
1. Check the openclaw-backup repo to understand what it does and how to integrate it
2. Research SkillNet for the skill system breakthrough

I should follow SOUL.md security protocol - read the source code before installing anything. Let me fetch the repos.


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Source: Web Fetch
---
LeoYeAI/openclaw-backup: One-click backup & restore for OpenClaw instances — workspace, credentials, skills, agent history. Powered by MyClaw.ai · GitHub
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<<<EXTERNAL_UNTRUSTED_CONTENT id="fd35757dfb4e8038">>>
Source: Web Fetch
---
[English](/LeoYeAI/openclaw-backup/blob/main/README.md) | [中文](/LeoYeAI/openclaw-backup/blob/main/README.zh-CN.md) | [Français](/LeoYeAI/openclaw-backup/blob/main/README.fr.md) | [Deutsch](/LeoYeAI/openclaw-backup/blob/main/README.de.md) | [Русский](/LeoYeAI/openclaw-backup/blob/main/README.ru.md) | [日本語](/LeoYeAI/openclaw-backup/blob/main/README.ja.md) | [Italiano](/LeoYeAI/openclaw-backup/blob/main/README.it.md) | [Español](/LeoYeAI/openclaw-backup/blob/main/README.es.md)

https://myclaw.ai
https://clawhub.com/skills/myclaw-backup
/LeoYeAI/openclaw-backup/blob/main/LICENSE

[MyClaw.ai](https://myclaw.ai) is an AI personal assistant platform that gives every user a full server with complete code control, networking, and tool access. Your AI agent isn't just a chatbot — it can write code, manage files, run scripts, and now: back itself up and restore to any new instance.

This skill is part of the [MyClaw.ai](https://myclaw.ai) open skills ecosystem. Install it on any OpenClaw instance in seconds.

One-click backup & restore for OpenClaw instances.

Backs up everything — workspace, memory, skills, credentials, bot tokens, API keys, agent session history — into a single archive. Restore to any new OpenClaw instance with zero re-pairing.

Just tell your OpenClaw agent:

"Help me install backup"

Or manually:

clawhub install myclaw-backup

Component
Details

🧠 Workspace
MEMORY.md, skills, agent files, SOUL.md, USER.md

⚙ Config
openclaw.json (bot tokens, API keys, model config)

🔑 Credentials
Channel pairing state — no re-pairing after restore

📜 Sessions
Full agent conversation history

⏰ Cron jobs
All scheduled tasks

🛡 Scripts
Guardian, watchdog, start-gateway

bash scripts/backup.sh /tmp/openclaw-backups

bash scripts/restore.sh openclaw-backup_TIMESTAMP.tar.gz --dry-run
bash scripts/restore.sh openclaw-backup_TIMESTAMP.tar.gz

bash scripts/serve.sh start --token $(openssl rand -hex 16) --port 7373
# Open: http://localhost:7373/?token=YOUR_TOKEN

- Start server on old machine → download backup via browser

- On new machine: install OpenClaw → install this skill → upload backup → restore

- All channels reconnect automatically — no re-pairing needed

This skill handles highly sensitive data (bot tokens, API keys, credentials).

- Always set --token when starting the HTTP server (required, server refuses to start without it)

- Backup archives are chmod 600 automatically

- Always run --dry-run before applying a restore

- Never expose the backup server to the public internet without TLS

Published at: [clawhub.com/skills/myclaw-backup](https://clawhub.com/skills/myclaw-backup)

 https://myclaw.ai
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Source: Web Fetch
---
Create, Evaluate, and Connect AI Skills
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## Computer Science > Artificial Intelligence

 arXiv:2603.04448 (cs)

## Title:SkillNet: Create, Evaluate, and Connect AI Skills

 Authors:[Yuan Liang](https://arxiv.org/search/cs?searchtype=author&query=Liang,+Y), [Ruobin Zhong](https://arxiv.org/search/cs?searchtype=author&query=Zhong,+R), [Haoming Xu](https://arxiv.org/search/cs?searchtype=author&query=Xu,+H), [Chen Jiang](https://arxiv.org/search/cs?searchtype=author&query=Jiang,+C), [Yi Zhong](https://arxiv.org/search/cs?searchtype=author&query=Zhong,+Y), [Runnan Fang](https://arxiv.org/search/cs?searchtype=author&query=Fang,+R), [Jia-Chen Gu](https://arxiv.org/search/cs?searchtype=author&query=Gu,+J), [Shumin Deng](https://arxiv.org/search/cs?searchtype=author&query=Deng,+S), [Yunzhi Yao](https://arxiv.org/search/cs?searchtype=author&query=Yao,+Y), [Mengru Wang](https://arxiv.org/search/cs?searchtype=author&query=Wang,+M), [Shuofei Qiao](https://arxiv.org/search/cs?searchtype=author&query=Qiao,+S), [Xin Xu](https://arxiv.org/search/cs?searchtype=author&query=Xu,+X), [Tongtong Wu](https://arxiv.org/search/cs?searchtype=author&query=Wu,+T), [Kun Wang](https://arxiv.org/search/cs?searchtype=author&query=Wang,+K), [Yang Liu](https://arxiv.org/search/cs?searchtype=author&query=Liu,+Y), [Zhen Bi](https://arxiv.org/search/cs?searchtype=author&query=Bi,+Z), [Jungang Lou](https://arxiv.org/search/cs?searchtype=author&query=Lou,+J), [Yuchen Eleanor Jiang](https://arxiv.org/search/cs?searchtype=author&query=Jiang,+Y+E), [Hangcheng Zhu](https://arxiv.org/search/cs?searchtype=author&query=Zhu,+H), [Gang Yu](https://arxiv.org/search/cs?searchtype=author&query=Yu,+G), [Haiwen Hong](https://arxiv.org/search/cs?searchtype=author&query=Hong,+H), [Longtao Huang](https://arxiv.org/search/cs?searchtype=author&query=Huang,+L), [Hui Xue](https://arxiv.org/search/cs?searchtype=author&query=Xue,+H), [Chenxi Wang](https://arxiv.org/search/cs?searchtype=author&query=Wang,+C), [Yijun Wang](https://arxiv.org/search/cs?searchtype=author&query=Wang,+Y), [Zifei Shan](https://arxiv.org/search/cs?searchtype=author&query=Shan,+Z), [Xi Chen](https://arxiv.org/search/cs?searchtype=author&query=Chen,+X), [Zhaopeng Tu](https://arxiv.org/search/cs?searchtype=author&query=Tu,+Z), [Feiyu Xiong](https://arxiv.org/search/cs?searchtype=author&query=Xiong,+F), [Xin Xie](https://arxiv.org/search/cs?searchtype=author&query=Xie,+X), [Peng Zhang](https://arxiv.org/search/cs?searchtype=author&query=Zhang,+P), [Zhengke Gui](https://arxiv.org/search/cs?searchtype=author&query=Gui,+Z), [Lei Liang](https://arxiv.org/search/cs?searchtype=author&query=Liang,+L), [Jun Zhou](https://arxiv.org/search/cs?searchtype=author&query=Zhou,+J), [Chiyu Wu](https://arxiv.org/search/cs?searchtype=author&query=Wu,+C), [Jin Shang](https://arxiv.org/search/cs?searchtype=author&query=Shang,+J), [Yu Gong](https://arxiv.org/search/cs?searchtype=author&query=Gong,+Y), [Junyu Lin](https://arxiv.org/search/cs?searchtype=author&query=Lin,+J), [Changliang Xu](https://arxiv.org/search/cs?searchtype=author&query=Xu,+C), [Hongjie Deng](https://arxiv.org/search/cs?searchtype=author&query=Deng,+H), [Wen Zhang](https://arxiv.org/search/cs?searchtype=author&query=Zhang,+W), [Keyan Ding](https://arxiv.org/search/cs?searchtype=author&query=Ding,+K), [Qiang Zhang](https://arxiv.org/search/cs?searchtype=author&query=Zhang,+Q), [Fei Huang](https://arxiv.org/search/cs?searchtype=author&query=Huang,+F), [Ningyu Zhang](https://arxiv.org/search/cs?searchtype=author&query=Zhang,+N), [Jeff Z. Pan](https://arxiv.org/search/cs?searchtype=author&query=Pan,+J+Z), [Guilin Qi](https://arxiv.org/search/cs?searchtype=author&query=Qi,+G), [Haofen Wang](https://arxiv.org/search/cs?searchtype=author&query=Wang,+H), [Huajun Chen](https://arxiv.org/search/cs?searchtype=author&query=Chen,+H)

 [View PDF](/pdf/2603.04448)
 [HTML (experimental)](https://arxiv.org/html/2603.04448v1)

 Abstract:Current AI agents can flexibly invoke tools and execute complex tasks, yet their long-term advancement is hindered by the lack of systematic accumulation and transfer of skills. Without a unified mechanism for skill consolidation, agents frequently ``reinvent the wheel'', rediscovering solutions in isolated contexts without leveraging prior strategies. To overcome this limitation, we introduce SkillNet, an open infrastructure designed to create, evaluate, and organize AI skills at scale. SkillNet structures skills within a unified ontology that supports creating skills from heterogeneous sources, establishing rich relational connections, and performing multi-dimensional evaluation across Safety, Completeness, Executability, Maintainability, and Cost-awareness. Our infrastructure integrates a repository of over 200,000 skills, an interactive platform, and a versatile Python toolkit. Experimental evaluations on ALFWorld, WebShop, and ScienceWorld demonstrate that SkillNet significantly enhances agent performance, improving average rewards by 40% and reducing execution steps by 30% across multiple backbone models. By formalizing skills as evolving, composable assets, SkillNet provides a robust foundation for agents to move from transient experience to durable mastery.

 Comments:
 [this http URL](http://skillnet.openkg.cn/)

 Subjects:

 Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI); Computation and Language (cs.CL); Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV); Machine Learning (cs.LG); Multiagent Systems (cs.MA)

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 [arXiv:2603.04448](https://arxiv.org/abs/2603.04448) [cs.AI]

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Got info on both. Now let me:

1. For openclaw-backup: I need to fetch the actual source code to review it before installing (per SOUL.md security protocol). Let me get the raw files from the repo.

2. For SkillNet: I have the abstract. Key points:
- 200,000+ skills repository
- 40% improvement in agent performance
- 30% reduction in execution steps
- Multi-dimensional evaluation: Safety, Completeness, Executability, Maintainability, Cost-awareness
- Tested on ALFWorld, WebShop, ScienceWorld
- Website: http://skillnet.openkg.cn/

Let me fetch the source code for the backup skill to audit it.


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Source: Web Fetch
---
#!/usr/bin/env bash
# openclaw-backup: Create a full backup of OpenClaw data
# Usage: backup.sh [output-dir]
#   output-dir: where to save the .tar.gz (default: /tmp/openclaw-backups)

set -euo pipefail

TIMESTAMP=$(date +"%Y%m%d_%H%M%S")
OUTPUT_DIR="${1:-/tmp/openclaw-backups}"

# Agent name: read from IDENTITY.md if present, fallback to hostname
WORKSPACE_DIR="${HOME}/.openclaw/workspace"
IDENTITY_FILE="${WORKSPACE_DIR}/IDENTITY.md"
if [ -f "$IDENTITY_FILE" ]; then
  AGENT_NAME=$(grep -m1 '\*\*Name:\*\*' "$IDENTITY_FILE" 2>/dev/null | sed 's/.*\*\*Name:\*\* *//' | tr -d '\r' | tr ' ' '-' | tr '[:upper:]' '[:lower:]')
fi
AGENT_NAME="${AGENT_NAME:-$(hostname)}"

BACKUP_NAME="openclaw-backup_${AGENT_NAME}_${TIMESTAMP}"
WORK_DIR="/tmp/${BACKUP_NAME}"
OPENCLAW_HOME="${HOME}/.openclaw"

# ── Colors ──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
GREEN='\033[0;32m'; YELLOW='\033[1;33m'; RED='\033[0;31m'; NC='\033[0m'
info()  { echo -e "${GREEN}[✓]${NC} $*"; }
warn()  { echo -e "${YELLOW}[!]${NC} $*"; }
error() { echo -e "${RED}[✗]${NC} $*"; exit 1; }

echo ""
echo "🦞 OpenClaw Backup — ${TIMESTAMP}"
echo "━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━"

mkdir -p "$OUTPUT_DIR" "$WORK_DIR"

# ── 1. Workspace (memory, skills, agent files) ────────────────────────────
info "Backing up workspace..."
WORKSPACE_DIR="${OPENCLAW_HOME}/workspace"
if [ -d "$WORKSPACE_DIR" ]; then
  mkdir -p "${WORK_DIR}/workspace"
  rsync -a \
    --exclude='node_modules/' \
    --exclude='.git/' \
    --exclude='*.tar.gz' \
    --exclude='*.skill' \
    --exclude='*.zip' \
    --exclude='*.png' \
    --exclude='*.jpg' \
    --exclude='*.jpeg' \
    --exclude='*.gif' \
    --exclude='*.webp' \
    --exclude='*.mp4' \
    --exclude='*.mp3' \
    "$WORKSPACE_DIR/" "${WORK_DIR}/workspace/"
  info "  workspace → $(du -sh ${WORK_DIR}/workspace | cut -f1)"
else
  warn "  workspace directory not found, skipping"
fi

# ── 2. Gateway config (openclaw.json) ────────────────────────────────────
# Contains bot tokens, model API keys, channel config — all needed for restore
info "Backing up Gateway config..."
CONFIG_FILE="${OPENCLAW_HOME}/openclaw.json"
if [ -f "$CONFIG_FILE" ]; then
  mkdir -p "${WORK_DIR}/config"
  cp "$CONFIG_FILE" "${WORK_DIR}/config/openclaw.json"
  [ -f "${CONFIG_FILE}.bak" ] && cp "${CONFIG_FILE}.bak" "${WORK_DIR}/config/openclaw.json.bak"
  info "  openclaw.json → $(wc -c < ${WORK_DIR}/config/openclaw.json) bytes"
else
  warn "  openclaw.json not found, skipping"
fi

# ── 3. System-level skills (~/.openclaw/skills/) ─────────────────────────
info "Backing up system skills..."
SYSTEM_SKILLS_DIR="${OPENCLAW_HOME}/skills"
if [ -d "$SYSTEM_SKILLS_DIR" ] && [ -n "$(ls -A ${SYSTEM_SKILLS_DIR} 2>/dev/null)" ]; then
  mkdir -p "${WORK_DIR}/skills/system"
  rsync -a "$SYSTEM_SKILLS_DIR/" "${WORK_DIR}/skills/system/"
  info "  system skills → $(ls ${WORK_DIR}/skills/system | wc -l | tr -d ' ') items"
else
  warn "  no system skills found"
fi

# ── 4. Credentials & channel pairing state ───────────────────────────────
# Includes: telegram-allowFrom.json, telegram-pairing.json, etc.
# These allow channels to reconnect without re-pairing on the new instance.
info "Backing up credentials & channel state..."
CREDS_DIR="${OPENCLAW_HOME}/credentials"
if [ -d "$CREDS_DIR" ]; then
  mkdir -p "${WORK_DIR}/credentials"
  rsync -a "$CREDS_DIR/" "${WORK_DIR}/credentials/"
  info "  credentials → $(ls ${WORK_DIR}/credentials | tr '\n' ' ')"
fi

# Channel runtime state (e.g. telegram update-offset)
for channel_dir in telegram whatsapp signal discord; do
  CHAN_DIR="${OPENCLAW_HOME}/${channel_dir}"
  if [ -d "$CHAN_DIR" ]; then
    mkdir -p "${WORK_DIR}/channels/${channel_dir}"
    rsync -a "$CHAN_DIR/" "${WORK_DIR}/channels/${channel_dir}/"
    info "  channel state: ${channel_dir}"
  fi
done

# ── 5. Agent config & session history ────────────────────────────────────
# agents/main/agent/ — model provider config (apiKey, baseUrl, models)
# agents/main/sessions/ — full conversation history (.jsonl)
info "Backing up agent config & session history..."
AGENTS_DIR="${OPENCLAW_HOME}/agents"
if [ -d "$AGENTS_DIR" ]; then
  mkdir -p "${WORK_DIR}/agents"
  rsync -a \
    --exclude='*.lock' \
    --exclude='*.deleted.*' \
    "$AGENTS_DIR/" "${WORK_DIR}/agents/"
  SESSIONS_COUNT=$(find "${WORK_DIR}/agents" -name "*.jsonl" | wc -l | tr -d ' ')
  info "  agents → model config + ${SESSIONS_COUNT} sessions"
fi

# ── 6. Devices (paired nodes/phones) ─────────────────────────────────────
info "Backing up devices..."
DEVICES_DIR="${OPENCLAW_HOME}/devices"
if [ -d "$DEVICES_DIR" ]; then
  mkdir -p "${WORK_DIR}/devices"
  rsync -a "$DEVICES_DIR/" "${WORK_DIR}/devices/"
  info "  devices → $(ls ${WORK_DIR}/devices | tr '\n' ' ')"
fi

# ── 7. Identity ───────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
info "Backing up identity..."
IDENTITY_DIR="${OPENCLAW_HOME}/identity"
if [ -d "$IDENTITY_DIR" ]; then
  mkdir -p "${WORK_DIR}/identity"
  rsync -a "$IDENTITY_DIR/" "${WORK_DIR}/identity/"
  info "  identity → $(ls ${WORK_DIR}/identity | tr '\n' ' ')"
fi

# ── 8. Guardian & watchdog scripts ───────────────────────────────────────
info "Backing up scripts..."
mkdir -p "${WORK_DIR}/scripts"
for f in guardian.sh gw-watchdog.sh start-gateway.sh; do
  [ -f "${OPENCLAW_HOME}/${f}" ] && cp "${OPENCLAW_HOME}/${f}" "${WORK_DIR}/scripts/${f}"
done
info "  scripts → $(ls ${WORK_DIR}/scripts | tr '\n' ' ')"

# ── 9. Cron jobs ──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
info "Backing up cron state..."
CRON_DIR="${OPENCLAW_HOME}/cron"
if [ -d "$CRON_DIR" ]; then
  mkdir -p "${WORK_DIR}/cron"
  rsync -a "$CRON_DIR/" "${WORK_DIR}/cron/"
  info "  cron → $(ls ${WORK_DIR}/cron | wc -l | tr -d ' ') files"
fi

# ── 10. Manifest ─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
cat > "${WORK_DIR}/MANIFEST.json" <<EOF
{
  "backup_name": "${BACKUP_NAME}",
  "agent_name": "${AGENT_NAME}",
  "timestamp": "${TIMESTAMP}",
  "hostname": "$(hostname)",
  "openclaw_home": "${OPENCLAW_HOME}",
  "openclaw_version": "$(openclaw --version 2>/dev/null | head -1 || echo 'unknown')",
  "created_by": "openclaw-backup skill v1.6",
  "contents": {
    "workspace": true,
    "gateway_config": true,
    "system_skills": true,
    "credentials": true,
    "channel_state": true,
    "agents": true,
    "devices": true,
    "identity": true,
    "guardian_scripts": true,
    "cron_jobs": true
  },
  "notes": "Full backup. All channels reconnect automatically after restore. Contains credentials and API keys — keep secure."
}
EOF

# ── 11. Package ──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
echo ""
info "Packaging backup..."
ARCHIVE="${OUTPUT_DIR}/${BACKUP_NAME}.tar.gz"
tar -czf "$ARCHIVE" -C "/tmp" "$BACKUP_NAME"
rm -rf "$WORK_DIR"

# Set restrictive permissions on archive (contains secrets)
chmod 600 "$ARCHIVE"

ARCHIVE_SIZE=$(du -sh "$ARCHIVE" | cut -f1)
info "Backup saved: ${ARCHIVE}"
info "Size: ${ARCHIVE_SIZE}"
warn "Archive contains credentials — keep it secure (chmod 600 applied)"

# ── 12. Prune old backups (keep last 7) ──────────────────────────────────
BACKUP_COUNT=$(ls "${OUTPUT_DIR}"/openclaw-backup_*.tar.gz 2>/dev/null | wc -l)
if [ "$BACKUP_COUNT" -gt 7 ]; then
  info "Pruning old backups (keeping last 7)..."
  ls -t "${OUTPUT_DIR}"/openclaw-backup_*.tar.gz | tail -n +8 | xargs rm -f
  info "  Removed $((BACKUP_COUNT - 7)) old backup(s)"
fi

echo ""
echo "━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━"
echo "✅ Backup complete: ${BACKUP_NAME}.tar.gz"
echo "   To restore: restore.sh ${ARCHIVE}"
echo ""

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name: myclaw-backup
description: "Backup and restore all OpenClaw configuration, agent memory, skills, and workspace data. Part of the MyClaw.ai (https://myclaw.ai) open skills ecosystem — the AI personal assistant platform that gives every user a full server with complete code control. Use when the user wants to create a snapshot of their OpenClaw instance, schedule periodic backups, restore from a backup, migrate to a new server, download a backup file locally, upload a backup file from another machine, or protect against data loss. Includes a built-in HTTP server for browser-based download/upload/restore without needing cloud storage. TRUST BOUNDARY: This skill archives and restores highly sensitive data including bot tokens, API keys, and channel credentials. Only install if you trust the operator. Always use --dry-run before restore. Never start the HTTP server without a --token."
metadata:
  openclaw:
    requires:
      bins: ["node", "rsync", "tar", "python3", "openclaw"]
    trust: high
    permissions:
      - read: ~/.openclaw
      - write: ~/.openclaw
      - network: listen
---

# MyClaw Backup

> **Built on [MyClaw.ai](https://myclaw.ai)** — the AI personal assistant platform that gives every user a full server with complete code control, networking, and tool access. This skill is part of the MyClaw.ai open skills ecosystem.

Backs up all critical OpenClaw data to a single `.tar.gz` archive and restores it to any OpenClaw instance. Includes a built-in HTTP server for browser-based backup management.

## ⚠ Trust Boundary & Security Model

This skill handles **highly sensitive data**: bot tokens, API keys, channel credentials, session history. Understand the security model before use:

### What each script does
- **backup.sh** — reads `~/.openclaw/` and writes a `chmod 600` archive to disk. No network access.
- **restore.sh** — overwrites `~/.openclaw/` from an archive. Requires typing `yes` to confirm. Always run `--dry-run` first.
- **serve.sh / server.js** — starts a local HTTP server. Token is **mandatory** (refuses to start without one). Shell-execution endpoints (`/backup`, `/restore`) are **localhost-only** — remote access can only download and upload files, not trigger execution.
- **schedule.sh** — modifies your system crontab to run backup.sh on a schedule. Prints the cron entry before adding. Use `--disable` to remove.

### Access control summary
| Endpoint | Remote (token required) | Localhost only |
|---|---|---|
| GET /health | ✅ (no token) | — |
| GET /backups | ✅ | — |
| GET /download/:file | ✅ | — |
| POST /upload | ✅ | — |
| POST /backup | ❌ | ✅ |
| POST /restore | ❌ | ✅ |

### Best practices
- Never start the HTTP server without `--token`
- Never expose the HTTP server to the public internet without TLS
- Always run `restore.sh --dry-run` before applying a restore
- Store backup archives securely — they contain all credentials

## Dependencies

Requires: `node`, `rsync`, `tar`, `python3`, `openclaw` CLI (all standard on OpenClaw instances).

Check: `which node rsync tar python3 openclaw`

## Scripts

| Script | Purpose |
|---|---|
| `scripts/backup.sh [output-dir]` | Create backup (default: `/tmp/openclaw-backups/`) |
| `scripts/restore.sh <archive> [--dry-run] [--overwrite-gateway-token]` | Restore — **always dry-run first** |
| `scripts/serve.sh start --token TOKEN [--port 7373]` | Start HTTP server — **token required** |
| `scripts/serve.sh stop\|status` | Stop/check server |
| `scripts/schedule.sh [--interval daily\|weekly\|hourly]` | System cron scheduling |

> **Gateway token behavior (v1.6+):** By default, `restore.sh` preserves the new server's `gateway.auth.token` after restoring `openclaw.json`. This prevents the `"gateway token mismatch"` error in Control UI / Dashboard after migration. Use `--overwrite-gateway-token` only for full disaster recovery on the same server.

## What Gets Backed Up

See `references/what-gets-saved.md` for full details.

**Includes:** workspace (MEMORY.md, skills, agent files), openclaw.json (bot tokens + API keys), credentials, channel pairing state, agent config + session history, devices, identity, cron jobs, guardian scripts.

**Excludes:** logs, binary media, node_modules, canvas system files.

## Common Workflows

### Create backup

```bash
bash scripts/backup.sh /tmp/openclaw-backups
# → /tmp/openclaw-backups/openclaw-backup_TIMESTAMP.tar.gz (chmod 600)
```

### Restore — always dry-run first

```bash
# Step 1: preview what will change
bash scripts/restore.sh openclaw-backup_TIMESTAMP.tar.gz --dry-run

# Step 2: review the output, then apply
bash scripts/restore.sh openclaw-backup_TIMESTAMP.tar.gz
```

The restore script saves a pre-restore snapshot before overwriting anything.

### HTTP server — token is mandatory

```bash
# Token is required — server refuses to start without one
bash scripts/serve.sh start --token $(openssl rand -hex 16) --port 7373
# → http://localhost:7373/?token=<generated-token>
```

**Never share the URL on a public network without a reverse proxy + TLS.**

The Web UI provides: create backup, download `.tar.gz`, upload, dry-run preview, restore.

**HTTP API (all require token except /health):**
- `GET  /health`              — Health check (unauthenticated, read-only)
- `GET  /backups`             — List backups
- `POST /backup`              — Create backup
- `GET  /download/:filename`  — Download archive
- `POST /upload`              — Upload archive (multipart, field: `backup`)
- `POST /restore/:filename`   — Restore; add `?dry_run=1` to preview

### Migrate to a new instance

**Old machine:**
```bash
bash scripts/serve.sh start --token MYTOKEN --port 7373
```

**New machine (after installing OpenClaw):**
```bash
# Download
curl -O "http://OLD_IP:7373/download/openclaw-backup_TIMESTAMP.tar.gz?token=MYTOKEN"

# Always dry-run first
bash scripts/restore.sh openclaw-backup_TIMESTAMP.tar.gz --dry-run

# Apply
bash scripts/restore.sh openclaw-backup_TIMESTAMP.tar.gz
# All channels reconnect automatically — no re-pairing needed
```

### Schedule daily auto-backup (OpenClaw cron)

```json
{
  "name": "daily-openclaw-backup",
  "schedule": { "kind": "cron", "expr": "0 3 * * *", "tz": "UTC" },
  "payload": {
    "kind": "agentTurn",
    "message": "Run a backup using the myclaw-backup skill. Output dir: /tmp/openclaw-backups",
    "timeoutSeconds": 120
  },
  "sessionTarget": "isolated"
}
```

## Post-Restore: Automatic Recovery Report

After `restore.sh` completes, it writes `workspace/.restore-complete.json`. On the next heartbeat/startup, the Agent should:

1. Check if `workspace/.restore-complete.json` exists
2. If yes: read it, send a restore report to the user, then **delete the file** (one-shot — never report twice)
3. **Send the report in the user's primary language** (read from `workspace/USER.md`)

### Report format (adapt language from USER.md)
```
✅ [Restore complete — in user's language]

📦 Backup: {backup_name}
🤖 Agent: {agent_name}
🕐 Restored at: {restored_at}
💾 Contents restored: workspace, config, credentials, history, cron...

[Channel reconnect instructions in user's language]
```

## Future: MyClaw Cloud Backup

The HTTP API is designed to be compatible with a future MyClaw cloud backup service. When available, replace the local server URL with the MyClaw API endpoint — the upload/download/restore flow stays identical.

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1]Zhejiang University
2]Tongji University
3]Southeast University
4]Alibaba Group
5]Ant Group
6]Tencent
7]OPPO
8]HomologyAI
9]Fudan University
10]MemTensor (Shanghai) Technology
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13]The University of Edinburgh
14]Monash University
15]National University of Singapore
16]Nanyang Technological University
17]Huzhou University
18]Hornor Device Co., Ltd
19]Hangzhou Institute for Advanced Study, UCAS

Ruobin Zhong1*

Haoming Xu1*

Chen Jiang3*

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Runnan Fang4

Jia-Chen Gu11

Shumin Deng15

Yunzhi Yao1

Mengru Wang1

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Jungang Lou17

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###### Abstract

Current AI agents can flexibly invoke tools and execute complex tasks, yet their long-term advancement is hindered by the lack of systematic accumulation and transfer of skills. Without a unified mechanism for skill consolidation, agents frequently “reinvent the wheel”, rediscovering solutions in isolated contexts without leveraging prior strategies. To overcome this limitation, we introduce SkillNet, an open infrastructure designed to create, evaluate, and organize AI skills at scale. SkillNet structures skills within a unified ontology that supports creating skills from heterogeneous sources, establishing rich relational connections, and performing multi-dimensional evaluation across Safety, Completeness, Executability, Maintainability, and Cost-awareness. Our infrastructure integrates a repository of over 200,000 skills, an interactive platform, and a versatile Python toolkit. Experimental evaluations on ALFWorld, WebShop, and ScienceWorld demonstrate that SkillNet significantly enhances agent performance, improving average rewards by 40% and reducing execution steps by 30% across multiple backbone models. By formalizing skills as evolving, composable assets, SkillNet provides a robust foundation for agents to move from transient experience to durable mastery.

††∗Equal Contribution.†††Corresponding authors.

Figure 1: Overview of SkillNet. SkillNet organizes large-scale agent skills into a structured skill network, modeling rich relations (e.g., similarity, composition, and dependency), supporting multi-dimensional evaluation, and providing unified interfaces for skill discovery, creation, and analysis.

## 1 Introduction

As Richard S. Sutton noted, “we are in the era of experience” [[1](#bib.bib1)]. Intelligence is increasingly grounded not in ab initio knowledge acquisition, but in the efficient retrieval and adaptive reuse of heuristics distilled from prior experience. This transition marks the advent of the agent era, where AI moves beyond static question answering to orchestrate long-horizon, executable tasks [[2](#bib.bib2), [3](#bib.bib3), [4](#bib.bib4), [5](#bib.bib5), [6](#bib.bib6), [7](#bib.bib7), [8](#bib.bib8)].
Despite recent progress in agentic systems, a critical yet underexplored question remains: How can agents systematically consolidate episodic experience into durable, transferable mastery?

Current AI methods largely rely on manual engineering or transient in-context learning [[9](#bib.bib9), [10](#bib.bib10), [11](#bib.bib11)].
While humans excel at consolidating episodic experience into reusable schemas [[12](#bib.bib12)], for instance when a programmer internalizes the logic of an algorithm rather than merely memorizing its syntax, contemporary AI systems struggle to bridge the divide between transient context and long-term capability.
Without a unified mechanism for skill consolidation and sharing, agents repeatedly “reinvent the wheel” in isolated contexts, and even well-established strategies rarely inform future tasks.
This gap highlights a broader, longstanding tension in AI between explicit structure and scalable representation, a limitation that becomes especially evident when examined through the historical evolution of knowledge engineering [[13](#bib.bib13)]:

- •
The Symbolic Era: Systems relied on rigid symbolic logic, offering interpretability but suffering from brittleness and limited scalability [[14](#bib.bib14), [15](#bib.bib15), [16](#bib.bib16)].

- •
The Deep Learning Era: Knowledge became parametric, taking the form of high-dimensional weight matrices.
While powerful, such representations are opaque and difficult to modularize or reuse [[17](#bib.bib17), [18](#bib.bib18)].

- •
The Agentic Era (Current Frontier): We are witnessing a convergence toward agent skills, which serve as simple, transferable units that provide agents with new capabilities and expertise while separating intelligence from monolithic parameter spaces [[19](#bib.bib19), [20](#bib.bib20), [21](#bib.bib21), [22](#bib.bib22)].

This historical trajectory suggests a natural progression toward skills as modular, externalized units of knowledge that reconcile structural interpretability with scalable representation.
Consequently, the central challenge in the agent era is no longer merely learning from experience, but transforming fragmented experience into durable, composable skill units that support generalizable intelligence.
However, current AI approaches fall short in two fundamental respects.
First, there is no unified mechanism to acquire and consolidate skills from experience. Valuable expertise exists at scale across open-source repositories, academic publications, and agent execution traces [[23](#bib.bib23), [24](#bib.bib24)], yet it remains largely unstructured and disconnected. Unlike human learners, who continuously internalize external information into organized knowledge schemas, AI agents cannot automatically distill these resources into reusable, executable capabilities. As a result, skill acquisition remains a manual and episodic process rather than an autonomous, cumulative one [[3](#bib.bib3)].
Second, there is no principled framework to validate and maintain skill quality at scale. Without intrinsic and systematic evaluation, skill repositories are prone to “pollution,” where executability, safety, and robustness are assessed only indirectly through downstream task success [[25](#bib.bib25), [26](#bib.bib26), [27](#bib.bib27)]. Such stochastic and opaque validation introduces technical debt, undermining long-term capability growth and preventing agents from leveraging accumulated experience in a reliable and scalable manner.
Together, these gaps highlight the need for a structured framework that not only captures and organizes skills, but also rigorously evaluates and interconnects them to enable dependable, large-scale knowledge reuse.

To address these issues, we introduce SkillNet (Figure [1](#S0.F1)), an open infrastructure for creating, evaluating, and organizing AI skills at scale.
We conceptualize a skill as a unified knowledge representation that bridges unstructured language understanding with structured, machine-executable logic. SkillNet constructs a comprehensive Skill Ontology with three interconnected layers: a taxonomic layer for functional categorization, a relational layer encoding dependencies and composition, and a skill-package layer for modular deployment.
To ensure the reliability of these skills, we propose a multi-dimensional evaluation framework that assesses skills based on Safety, Completeness, Executability, Maintainability, and Cost-awareness.

Our approach transforms fragmented experience from diverse sources, including execution trajectories, open-source repositories, and documentation, into a structured network of over 200,000 curated skills.
Experimental results across three text-based simulated environments (ALFWorld, WebShop, and ScienceWorld) demonstrate that agents augmented with SkillNet achieve substantial gains. For instance, our approach improves the average reward by 40% while reducing interaction steps by 30% across various backbone models (e.g., DeepSeek V3, Gemini 2.5 Pro, and o4 Mini), validating that systematic skill accumulation effectively enhances agent competence cumulatively rather than episodically.

Our contributions are summarized as follows:

- 1.
We introduce SkillNet, a unified framework that transforms fragmented agent experience into a structured network of modular, composable skills with rich relational modeling, serving as a scalable foundation for actionable knowledge engineering.

- 2.
We establish a rigorous skill evaluation protocol that quantitatively measures safety, completeness, executability, maintainability, and cost-awareness, ensuring the reliability of large-scale skill repositories.

- 3.
We release an open-source ecosystem, including a repository of over 200,000 curated skills, a Python toolkit, and comprehensive benchmarks, which empirically demonstrate significant performance improvements in agent planning and execution tasks.

## 2 Agent Skills

In the context of agentic systems, skills represent a lightweight, modular, and reusable abstraction for extending the capabilities of AI agents [[28](#bib.bib28)]. Conceptually, a skill encapsulates procedural knowledge, task-specific instructions, and supporting resources, enabling agents to perform complex tasks more accurately, efficiently, and consistently.

Functionally, skills are organized as structured folders containing a central SKILL.md file, which defines the skill’s metadata and detailed instructions. The metadata typically includes the skill’s name, a brief description of its purpose, and usage conditions, while the instructions provide step-by-step guidance for execution. Skills may optionally include scripts, templates, documentation, and other resources required to perform tasks, forming a self-contained capability package.

The core purpose of skills is to provide agents with access to reusable procedural knowledge and context-specific information on demand. For example, an agent can leverage a skill to automate a data analysis pipeline, perform domain-specific reasoning, or generate structured outputs such as reports or presentations. By encapsulating these capabilities, skills enable consistent and repeatable workflows, reduce reliance on hard-coded rules or ad hoc prompts, and allow knowledge to be shared across agents, teams, or applications.

Skills operate through a progressive three-step process:

- 1.
Discovery: Agents initially load only minimal metadata (e.g., name and description) to identify potentially relevant skills for a given task.

- 2.
Activation: When a task matches a skill’s description, the agent reads the full instructions from SKILL.md and prepares any associated resources.

- 3.
Execution: The agent follows the instructions and optionally executes bundled code or utilizes referenced assets to complete the task.

One of the key benefits of skills is that they are self-documenting.
The embedded instructions and structured metadata make it straightforward to understand, audit, and iteratively improve each capability.
Fundamentally, a skill serves as a unified knowledge representation that integrates entities, relationships, workflows, and executable code, encompassing both textual semantics and symbolic outcomes.
This hybrid representation enables skills to bridge unstructured language understanding with structured, machine-executable logic.
Skills are highly extensible, ranging from lightweight textual guidance to complex bundles that include executable programs and supporting assets.
Their file-based, version-controlled nature ensures portability, allowing the same skill to be shared, reused, and deployed across different agents or systems with minimal adaptation.

Note that by encapsulating domain-specific knowledge and operational workflows in a structured and reusable form, skills provide an effective mechanism for institutionalizing business logic.
This structured accumulation of expertise not only supports the systematic propagation of domain knowledge, but also enhances agent performance through reusable, reliable, and composable capabilities.
However, in practice, these skills are often fragmented, scattered across scripts, prompts, or isolated workflows, and their quality, reliability, and reusability are rarely evaluated in a systematic way.
Without a unified framework to organize, verify, and evolve skills, agents cannot fully realize the potential of this modular knowledge, limiting their ability to evolve continuously and adapt to new tasks.
This motivates the development of SkillNet.

## 3 SkillNet

### 3.1 Overview

Figure 2: End-to-end Pipeline of SkillNet. SkillNet transforms heterogeneous user inputs and open internet resources into executable skills through automated skill creation and multi-dimensional evaluation, and organizes high-quality skills into a structured network to support search, download, analysis, and contribution.

Figure [2](#S3.F2) illustrates the overall architecture of SkillNet, which systematically creates, evaluates, and organizes high-quality skills for agent systems. SkillNet is designed to transform fragmented agent experiences and human knowledge into reusable and verifiable skill entities, enabling scalable and reliable capability growth. SkillNet consists of three core modules:

##### Skill Creation.

This module analyzes diverse inputs, including user trajectories, office documents, GitHub projects, direct prompts, and open internet resources. Based on these inputs, SkillNet generates new skills by extracting executable patterns and structuring them as reusable capabilities.

Figure 3: The Skill Ontology for SkillNet. It consists of three levels: the Skill Taxonomy (top) defines functional categories; the Skill Relation Graph (middle) models inter-skill dependencies and semantic associations; and the Skill Package Library (bottom) organizes skills into modular, task-oriented bundles.

##### Skill Evaluation.

Generated skills are filtered and evaluated along multiple principal dimensions, including safety, completeness, executability, maintainability, and cost-awareness. This evaluation ensures that only high-quality skills are retained, mitigating redundancy, brittleness, and potential risks.

##### Skill Analysis.

Beyond isolated skills, SkillNet automatically analyzes structural and functional relationships among skills, constructing large-scale skill graphs that capture similarity, hierarchy, composition, and dependency patterns. This structured representation enables global reasoning over skill repositories, supporting efficient retrieval, composition, and workflow synthesis.

##### Open Resources.

SkillNet organizes curated, high-quality skills within a structured repository, offering versatile toolkits that enable users and agents to efficiently search, download, create, evaluate, analyze, and contribute skills.
By providing these standardized interfaces for skill interaction, SkillNet facilitates seamless skill reuse and collaborative evolution across tasks, domains, and agent populations.

### 3.2 Skill Ontology

The Skill Ontology organizes individual skills into a structured, composable network, as illustrated in Figure [3](#S3.F3).
The architecture is organized into three progressive layers:

##### Skill Taxonomy.

This layer organizes skills into a multi-level hierarchy using category and tag relations. It categorizes broad domains (e.g., Development, AIGC, Science …) into fine-grained tags (e.g., frontend, llm, physics), providing a high-level semantic skeleton.

##### Skill Relation Graph.

This layer instantiates abstract tags into specific Skill Entities (e.g., Matplotlib, Playwright). It defines the core interaction logic through multi-relational edges: similar_to, compose_with, belong_to, and depend_on, forming the backbone for reasoning and planning.

##### Skill Package Library.

The bottom layer represents the physical organization of skills. Individual skills are encapsulated into Skill Packages (e.g., data-science-visualization) via the packaged_in relation, facilitating modular release and deployment.

Note that the skill ontology is dynamic, modeling relations between skills.
Tags can be continually added from the taxonomy, and LLMs infer relations from them, enabling the instantiation of a skill relation graph.

### 3.3 Skill Creation

SkillNet conceptualizes skills as intermediate capability units that bridge abstract, declarative knowledge and concrete, executable programs.
Specifically, we develop an automated creation pipeline that systematically transforms heterogeneous information sources into standardized, reusable agent skills.

#### 3.3.1 From Human Experience to Skill Abstraction

To construct a comprehensive and versatile skill repository, SkillNet abstracts skills from diverse data sources, transforming heterogeneous information into reusable structured agent skills.

We design a multi-source automated skill creation pipeline that enables SkillNet to induce agentic skills from heterogeneous human knowledge and experience.
Specifically, SkillNet supports four major categories of data sources: (1) execution trajectories and conversational interaction logs, (2) open-source GitHub repositories, (3) semi-structured documents including PDF, PowerPoint, and Word files, and (4) direct natural language prompts provided by users.
This process is fully implemented through LLMs, and users can also customize the underlying models.
In addition, SkillNet continuously expands its skill pool through open internet resources, in-house development, and community contributions, ensuring sustained scalability and coverage expansion.

#### 3.3.2 Data-Driven Skill Filtering and Consolidation

Automatic construction of skills does not imply indiscriminate accumulation.
Instead, SkillNet introduces a data-driven filtering and consolidation pipeline to ensure the quality of the skill repository.
Specifically, SkillNet applies a multi-stage curation process consisting of deduplication, filtering, categorization and tagging, evaluation, and final selective consolidation.

Deduplication is performed by jointly comparing skill directory structures and MD5 hashes of skill markdown files, effectively removing redundant skills. Filtering eliminates low-quality, incomplete, or semantically meaningless skills through rule-based validation and model-based checking.
Categorization and tagging classify each skill into one of ten functional categories (Development, AIGC, Research, Science, Business, Testing, Productivity, Security, Lifestyle, Other) and assign fine-grained semantic tags to facilitate retrieval and composition.
Then, a multi-dimensional evaluation mechanism is applied to determine whether a skill is admitted into the SkillNet repository.
SkillNet automatically establishes inter-skill associations based on ontology-defined relations, ultimately resulting in a structured skill package library.

This structured pipeline enables SkillNet to function as a self-evolving skill ecosystem rather than a static skill collection, continuously improving both skill quality and coverage.

### 3.4 Skill Evaluation

Although skill creation is important, the utility of a skill repository ultimately depends on its reliability.
To bridge the gap left by existing repositories that lack standardized assessment, we propose a multi-dimensional systematic evaluation framework.

We define five core dimensions to quantitatively characterize the quality and readiness of each skill:

- •
Safety: Assesses potential risks, including hazardous system operations (e.g., unauthorized file deletion) and robustness against prompt injection or adversarial manipulation.

- •
Completeness: Evaluates whether the skill encapsulates all critical procedural steps and explicitly defines necessary prerequisites, dependencies, and execution constraints.

- •
Executability: Verifies if the skill can be successfully implemented by agents in sandboxed environments, identifying hallucinated tool calls or ambiguous instructions.

- •
Maintainability: Measures the modularity and composability of skills, ensuring they can be locally updated without disrupting global dependencies or breaking backward compatibility.

Figure 4: Multi-dimensional Skill Evaluation and Reliability Analysis.
(a) Quality distribution of curated skills in SkillNet, assessed using a three-level grading scheme, where most skills are rated Good or Average.
(b) Reliability validation of the automated evaluator on 200 randomly sampled skills. The heatmap shows mean absolute error (MAE) and quadratic weighted kappa (QWK) between human annotators and the model evaluator, with near-perfect QWK and low MAE across all dimensions, demonstrating the robustness and scalability of the evaluation framework.

- •
Cost-awareness: Quantifies execution overhead, including time latency, computational resource consumption, and API usage costs to support efficiency optimization.

To achieve high-throughput assessment, all dimensions are primarily evaluated via an automated LLM-based evaluator (instantiated with GPT-5o-mini), guided by fine-grained rubrics.
For Executability, we complement LLM judgment with empirical validation: skills containing code or tool invocations are executed in controlled sandbox environments to verify runtime correctness.
Each dimension is categorized into three levels: Good, Average, and Poor.

The quality distribution across the repository is illustrated in Figure [4](#S3.F4)(a).
We observe that while Safety and Maintainability maintain a high proportion of “Good” ratings, Executability presents a greater challenge, with a larger fraction of skills rated as Average.
This reflects our rigorous filtering criteria, ensuring that only high-fidelity skills are prioritized for complex task execution.

To validate the reliability of this automated pipeline, we randomly sampled 200 skills and recruited three PhD-level computer science annotators for independent blind reviews.
As shown in Figure [4](#S3.F4)(b), the inter-rater agreement between human judgments and LLM-based scores exhibits exceptional consistency.
Across all dimensions, the Mean Absolute Error (MAE) remains below 0.03, and the Quadratic Weighted Kappa (QWK) consistently reaches near-perfect levels (1.000). These results confirm that our automated evaluator provides a human-aligned, robust, and scalable foundation for managing the SkillNet ecosystem.

### 3.5 Skill Analysis

Beyond isolated skill creation and evaluation, large-scale skill repositories introduce a new challenge: how to systematically understand, organize, and exploit the relations among skills. To address this, SkillNet introduces a dedicated Skill Analysis module that automatically discovers and models structural relations between skills, forming a structured and interpretable skill relation graph. This enables global reasoning over large skill repositories and supports advanced downstream applications such as skill retrieval, composition, dependency resolution, and workflow synthesis.

##### Relation Modeling.

SkillNet formulates skill analysis as a structured relations discovery problem. Given a large amount of heterogeneous skills, the system automatically identifies and annotates multiple types of semantic and functional relations between skills, including (task-specific relations are omitted here, and users may extend the schema by defining custom relations as needed):

- •
similar_to: Two skills perform functionally equivalent or highly similar tasks and can often be used interchangeably, enabling redundancy detection, replacement, and robustness enhancement.

Figure 5: Practical use examples of skillnet-ai. The package offers a unified functional experience through both a command-line interface (left) for interactive usage and a Python library (right) for seamless integration into AI development pipelines.

- •
belong_to: A skill serves as a sub-component or atomic step within a larger composite workflow, capturing hierarchical structures and supporting skill abstraction and modularization.

- •
compose_with: Two skills are frequently co-invoked in workflows, where one typically produces outputs consumed by the other, enabling automatic workflow composition and pipeline generation.

- •
depend_on: A skill cannot execute independently without prerequisite skills, such as environment setup or API initialization, enabling explicit dependency tracking and safe execution planning.

##### Automated Skill Relation Graph Construction.

SkillNet can construct large-scale skill relation graphs through a hybrid pipeline that integrates semantic embedding and LLM-based relational inference.
Candidate relations are first generated via similarity matching, dependency extraction, and execution trace alignment, and LLM reasoning, enabling scalable and accurate discovery of structured skill relations.
These relations jointly form a directed, typed multi-relational graph, where nodes represent skills and edges encode fine-grained structural dependencies and functional associations.

##### Task-Oriented Skill Collection Release.

To promote reproducibility and practical adoption, SkillNet releases over 20 task-specific skill collections, covering domains such as scientific research automation, software development, data processing pipelines, web automation, etc. In particular, several collections are designed for academic benchmarks, and we conduct quantitative evaluations to assess the effectiveness of this paradigm, as detailed in a later section.
These released collections provide structured and reusable infrastructures for studying large-scale agent planning, workflow synthesis, and skill evolution, offering a foundation for future research on structured agent intelligence.

### 3.6 Open Resources

SkillNet provides a comprehensive open infrastructure for creating, evaluating, and organizing AI skills at scale. This includes a large-scale skill repository, a front-end website, an open access API, and a versatile Python toolkit (skillnet-ai), forming a unified ecosystem for skill management and utilization.

The front-end website allows users to seamlessly browse, search, and download skills directly. Users can explore skill categories, view detailed API documentation and Python toolkit usage guidelines, and learn how to apply SkillNet to scientific research or coding scenarios. The platform also supports community contributions, enabling users to submit and share newly constructed skills, thus fostering a collaborative and continuously evolving skill ecosystem.

For API access, SkillNet supports both keyword-based and vector-based searches. Users can search for skills by keywords, categories, or semantic similarity via [http://api-skillnet.openkg.cn/v1/search](http://api-skillnet.openkg.cn/v1/search).

Model
Method
ALFWorld
WebShop
ScienceWorld

Seen
Unseen
R ↑
S ↓
Seen
Unseen

R ↑
S ↓
R ↑
S ↓
R ↑
S ↓
R ↑
S ↓

DeepSeek V3.2
React
66.43
19.51
69.40
19.27
31.55
24.06
69.86
17.59
64.67
19.26

Expel
67.86
18.86
76.12
17.41
29.23
24.00
74.91
15.98
74.09
17.53

+ SkillNet
80.60
14.54
83.57
14.81
46.18
17.84
84.87
11.89
81.31
12.48

Gemini 2.5 Pro
React
60.00
18.72
61.94
19.18
31.66
22.12
58.24
18.42
56.13
19.07

Expel
68.57
17.88
70.15
17.04
33.12
19.31
72.76
15.01
67.37
14.91

+ SkillNet
91.43
12.80
91.04
11.96
53.02
14.91
88.84
11.49
86.26
11.30

o4 Mini
React
45.71
23.31
49.25
23.33
24.19
22.02
64.89
15.12
59.93
14.99

Expel
56.43
21.35
58.96
21.85
26.71
21.91
67.95
13.65
65.68
13.95

+ SkillNet
68.57
18.94
73.28
17.08
36.21
18.79
73.24
13.30
71.06
12.35

Table 1: Experimental results on ALFWorld, WebShop, and ScienceWorld.
R denotes average reward, S denotes average steps (↑ indicates
the larger values are better, and ↓ denotes the smaller values are better). The top-performing results are highlighted in bold, and the second-best are underlined.

To bridge the gap between static repositories and dynamic execution, we developed skillnet-ai, a unified Python library and CLI tool that enables flexible integration with users. Through this toolkit, users can search for skills using keywords or semantic similarity, download skills directly from GitHub into local workspaces, and create structured skills from heterogeneous sources, including execution trajectories, GitHub repositories, office documents, and natural language prompts. The package also supports evaluating skills across multiple dimensions (safety, completeness, executability, maintainability, and cost-awareness) to ensure practical reliability, and analyzing relations between skills to uncover dependencies, hierarchical compositions, collaborations, and functional similarities. The practical use examples are illustrated in Figure [5](#S3.F5).

SkillNet has initially aggregated over 200k candidate skills from open internet resources, automated creation pipelines, and community contributions. After multi-stage filtering and evaluating, more than 150k high-quality skills are curated in the final repository (and which is constantly expanding).
This scale ensures broad coverage across scenarios while maintaining rigorous quality standards, enabling SkillNet to serve as a reliable skill infrastructure for both scientific investigation and real-world deployment.
We actively encourage community contributions, and all community-submitted skills are subject to the same automated quality checks. In addition, we conduct periodic manual audits through random sampling to ensure the ongoing reliability and integrity of the shared skill repository.

## 4 Quantitative Evaluation

### 4.1 Settings

To quantitatively assess the effectiveness of SkillNet, we conduct experiments across three text-based simulated environments.
ALFWorld [[29](#bib.bib29)] provides an embodied household environment, requiring agents to navigate and manipulate objects to complete daily tasks; WebShop [[30](#bib.bib30)] simulates realistic online shopping scenarios, where agents perform product search, comparison, and purchasing under specified constraints; and ScienceWorld [[31](#bib.bib31)] presents a virtual scientific laboratory in which agents must conduct experiments and operate scientific instruments. All three environments are formulated as partially observable Markov decision processes (POMDPs), requiring agents to make sequential decisions under incomplete and noisy observations.

Figure 6: Performance comparison across diverse methods and models. The results illustrate that SkillNet consistently outperforms React and Few-shot baselines, achieving significantly higher average rewards (top) and reduced average steps (bottom) across ALFWorld, WebShop, and ScienceWorld.

We adopt ReAct [[32](#bib.bib32)], Expel [[20](#bib.bib20)] and a standard Few-Shot approach as the baseline methods.
ReAct interleaves reasoning, action, and observation for step-by-step task solving.
ExpeL gathers experiences from past tasks to extract natural language insights and retrieves past successful trajectories as in-context examples during inference.
The Few-Shot baseline randomly samples a complete expert trajectory to serve as a static in-context exemplar.
In contrast, our proposed variant is augmented with SkillNet by leveraging expert trajectories from ETO [[33](#bib.bib33)] to synthesize benchmark-specific skill collections (these collections are integrated into SkillNet, and users can extend it to other datasets by creating corresponding skills)111[https://github.com/zjunlp/SkillNet/tree/main/skills/skill-collections](https://github.com/zjunlp/SkillNet/tree/main/skills/skill-collections)..
Note that the above experiences and the seen and unseen splits of the test set have no overlap, thereby preventing data leakage.
During evaluation, agents are equipped with these collections and can dynamically select, activate, and execute the most relevant skills based on the current state. We employ three representative LLMs: DeepSeek V3.2 [[34](#bib.bib34)], Gemini 2.5 Pro [[35](#bib.bib35)], and o4 Mini [[36](#bib.bib36)] as backbone models.

### 4.2 Results

Table [1](#S3.T1) and Figure [6](#S4.F6) present the quantitative results across diverse environments and backbone models. In general, integrating SkillNet consistently yields substantial gains in both task effectiveness and execution efficiency, validating the effectiveness of our framework.
Compared with ReAct, SkillNet improves the average reward by 40%, while reducing the number of interaction steps by 30% on average, indicating that agents equipped with SkillNet are able to solve tasks more reliably while executing shorter and more coherent action trajectories.
This reflects SkillNet’s ability to transform fragmented experience into reusable procedural abstractions, enabling agents to perform structured planning, reduce redundant exploration, and execute complex behaviors in a more principled and systematic manner.

Importantly, the performance improvements remain robust across backbone models of varying capacities, ranging from compact models (+15.7 R for o4 Mini) to large-scale LLMs (+28.5 R for Gemini 2.5 Pro).
This demonstrates that SkillNet provides complementary capabilities beyond parametric knowledge, effectively augmenting reasoning with persistent, executable skills.
Moreover, the consistent gains observed under both seen and unseen settings highlight SkillNet’s strong generalization ability, suggesting that skill abstraction and reuse facilitate knowledge transfer across tasks and environments.

Taken together, these results substantiate the central design principle of SkillNet: by formalizing skills as independent, systematically accumulated, knowledge-grounded capability units, agent competence can be enhanced cumulatively rather than episodically, ultimately fostering domain-specialized and continually self-improving agents.

## 5 Application Scenarios

As illustrated in Figure [7](#S5.F7), SkillNet bridges the gap between high-level user intentions and executable agent actions by organizing specialized skills into a coherent workflow.
We detail below its specific utility in autonomous scientific discovery and coding agent scenarios.
Note that the examples are illustrative prototypes and do not represent real-world applications.

Figure 7: Example of SkillNet application scenarios. The framework decomposes user task into actionable steps (top), with representative skill acquisition and multi-dimensional evaluations for Science and Coding scenarios (bottom).

### 5.1 SkillNet for Autonomous Scientific Discovery

In this section, we demonstrate how SkillNet organizes heterogeneous agent skills into a coherent, executable, and evaluable research workflow.
This system performs the scientific task of identifying potential disease-associated genes and candidate therapeutic targets from large-scale biological data, ultimately generating research reports characterized by scholarly readability.

SkillNet first schedules data processing skills to perform cleaning and clustering on single-cell RNA-seq data, thereby identifying key genetic markers.
Subsequently, SkillNet invokes mechanistic analysis and target validation skills to map these genes onto biological pathways and cross-validate their clinical significance. Finally, SkillNet activates report generation skills to integrate fragmented analytical results into structured scientific documents with formal citations.

This process profoundly reflects the core value of SkillNet: transforming fragmented research skills into a structured, composable network of capabilities. This architecture enables an AI Scientist to transcend the limitations of single-domain tasks and engage meaningfully in the complete closed-loop process of complex scientific discovery.

### 5.2 SkillNet for Autonomous Coding Agent

In this section, we construct a coding scenario tailored for large-scale software engineering tasks to demonstrate the potential of SkillNet in complex code comprehension, refactoring, and functional development.
The objective of this scenario is to execute feature expansion and structural evolution within an existing production-grade codebase while ensuring correctness, performance, and long-term maintainability.

The workflow begins with SkillNet scheduling code analysis skills to construct a structured representation of the system architecture. Subsequently, it coordinates requirements decomposition and impact analysis skills to precisely map high-level functional requirements to specific code-level modification targets while assessing regression risks. During the implementation phase, SkillNet organizes generation, testing, and validation skills into a closed-loop iterative process, utilizing real-time feedback to drive automated corrections. Finally, it invokes maintenance skills to generate architectural update documentation characterized by complete traceability.

This scenario illustrates the core value of SkillNet: remodeling complex software engineering challenges as problems of capability composition and coordination.
By restructuring fragmented skills such as coding, analysis, and testing into a structured network of agent skills, SkillNet provides a reliable and scalable automation paradigm for complex engineering tasks, enabling AI to competently perform system-level software evolution.

### 5.3 Using OpenClaw with SkillNet

In this section, we demonstrate how SkillNet integrates with OpenClaw222[https://github.com/openclaw/openclaw](https://github.com/openclaw/openclaw)., a highly customizable open-source personal AI agent framework.
OpenClaw adopts a lazy-loading skill design: at session initialization, only compact skill metadata is injected into the system prompt, and full instructions are loaded on demand when triggered.
SkillNet is integrated as a skill in this framework, extending the agent with dynamic skill acquisition, quality-aware library management, and experience-driven knowledge creation.

Once installed, SkillNet introduces three core behavioral patterns that are activated automatically based on conversational context.
First, when a user poses a complex or unfamiliar task, the agent performs a pre-task search against the SkillNet repository to locate relevant skills.
It then downloads the matched skills into the local workspace and reads the retrieved SKILL.md to extract applicable patterns and tool configurations.
In addition, when the user provides a GitHub repository URL or shares a document such as a PDF, the agent can directly invoke skillnet create to generate a structured skill from that source, making the external knowledge immediately available for the current task.
Second, when the user requests skill library organization or quality auditing, the agent invokes SkillNet’s analyze and evaluate commands to generate structured reports, which include multi-dimensional quality scores along with inter-skill relationship graphs that capture similar_to, belong_to, compose_with, and depend_on edges.
Third, after completing a task whose solution involved non-obvious or reusable knowledge, or when the user explicitly requests experience consolidation, the agent proactively invokes skillnet create to package the solution as a standardized skill and runs automatic evaluation to verify its quality before admitting it into the repository.

This integration establishes a closed loop where community-contributed skills inform task execution, successful outcomes are consolidated into new skills, and periodic analysis maintains repository quality.
Rather than treating each conversation as an isolated episode, the OpenClaw + SkillNet combination transforms a general-purpose agent into a continuously self-improving system through structured skill circulation, directly supporting the vision of scalable, evolving agent intelligence.

## 6 Related Work

### 6.1 Experience Consolidation and Skill Abstraction

LLM-based agents have been extended with tools, planning, and memory to perform long-horizon tasks in complex environments [[3](#bib.bib3), [4](#bib.bib4), [27](#bib.bib27), [5](#bib.bib5), [6](#bib.bib6)]. Several works have explored how agents can acquire and refine skills from interaction and experience. Reflexion [[19](#bib.bib19)] and Expel [[20](#bib.bib20)] investigate how agents can summarize failures and extract corrective feedback. Memory-centric methods aim to accumulate long-term experience to support continual learning [[37](#bib.bib37), [38](#bib.bib38), [39](#bib.bib39), [40](#bib.bib40)].
Other studies explore structured skill learning and cross-task reuse, promoting generalization and transfer across domains [[24](#bib.bib24), [41](#bib.bib41), [42](#bib.bib42), [43](#bib.bib43), [44](#bib.bib44), [45](#bib.bib45), [46](#bib.bib46), [47](#bib.bib47)].
Despite these advances, most approaches still represent skills implicitly by encoding them in prompts, latent memories, or loosely organized workflows, thereby hindering systematic consolidation, evaluation, and reuse.

### 6.2 Skill Repositories and Evaluations

Dimension

SkillNet (Ours)

ClawHub

SkillsMP

SkillHub

Skills.sh

Core Positioning

Full-lifecycle infrastructure (creation, evaluation, & connection)

npm-like version management hub

Massive open-source ecosystem catalog

Premium marketplace (curated & stacked)

Universal skill directory & leaderboard

Automated Creation

Supported (generates skills from trajectories, code, and documents via LLMs)

Not supported

Not supported

Not supported

Not supported

Quality Evaluation

Multi-dimensional metrics (safety, completeness, executability, maintainability, cost-aware)

None (relies on highlighted recommendations)

Basic filtering (e.g., GitHub stars)

Built-in LLM rating (e.g., S-rank/B-rank)

Community leaderboard (downloads/trends)

Relationship Analysis

Supported (extracts structural relations to build a skill graph)

Not supported

Not supported

Manual pre-configured skill stacks

Not supported

Integration & Distribution

Python SDK & CLI tool (skillnet-ai)

npx-based package manager (clawhub install)

GitHub repository aggregation & CLI

Desktop client 1-click install & CLI

Universal CLI (npx skills add)

Search Mechanism

Vector semantic search + keyword matching

Vector semantic search + version control

AI semantic search + keyword matching

Semantic search + ranking filters

Global directory search

Skill Quantity

250k+ Total, 150k+ Curated

∼\sim9k+

∼\sim261k+

∼\sim21k+

∼\sim71k+

Table 2: Comparison of SkillNet and Existing AI Agent Skill Platforms

Parallel to the development of agentic systems, a number of community-driven skill repositories [[25](#bib.bib25), [26](#bib.bib26), [48](#bib.bib48), [49](#bib.bib49)] and evaluations [[50](#bib.bib50), [51](#bib.bib51), [52](#bib.bib52)] have emerged to curate agent skills, aiming to promote reuse, standardization, and ecosystem-level collaboration.
For instance, platforms like ClawHub function as npm-like version management hubs, while SkillsMP and Skills.sh act as expansive open-source directories aggregating GitHub repositories. Additionally, SkillHub introduces premium marketplace features with predefined skill stacks and basic rating systems.
Recently, Li et al. [[53](#bib.bib53)] introduce SkillsBench, an 86-task, 11-domain benchmark showing that curated agent Skills significantly boost LLM agent performance (+16.2 pp on average) while self-generated Skills offer no gain, revealing that models benefit from consuming but cannot reliably author procedural knowledge.
These platforms provide valuable resources for sharing prompts, tool wrappers, and task-solving templates.

As summarized in Table [2](#S6.T2), existing platforms predominantly operate as static package managers or marketplaces, facing three critical limitations:
First, they largely rely on manual curation and ad hoc quality control, lacking automated mechanisms to generate skills dynamically from agent trajectories or existing codebases.
Second, their evaluation practices primarily focus on simple community metrics (e.g., repository stars) or end-task performance, failing to offer comprehensive insights into intrinsic properties such as safety, completeness, executability, maintainability, and cost-awareness.
Third, these skill collections often suffer from redundancy, brittleness, and poor composability because skills are treated as isolated entities, restricting their scalability in large agent populations.

These limitations motivate the need for a unified framework for skill organization, verification, and evolution.
In contrast to distribution-centric platforms, our proposed SkillNet provides a full-lifecycle infrastructure.
It addresses the aforementioned bottlenecks through automated skill creation via LLM pipelines, rigorous multi-dimensional evaluation, and relational connectivity that weaves isolated tools into a structured Skill Graph, thereby offering comprehensive foundational support for self-evolving agent ecosystems.

## 7 Conclusion, Discussion and Future Work

In this work, we introduced SkillNet, an open infrastructure for creating, evaluating, and organizing AI skills at scale. By systematically consolidating experience, structuring skills, and providing principled evaluation, SkillNet enables agents to improve cumulatively, perform reliably across tasks, and adapt to complex, open-ended environments. This framework lays the foundation for scalable continual learning and robust skill composition, bridging the gap between raw model capability and sustained, evolving intelligence.

Conceptually, SkillNet is grounded in a unified view of three complementary constraints on an agent’s generative capability: workflows, memory, and skills. Workflows impose explicit procedural structure, ensuring reliability but remaining inherently rigid. Memory accumulates contextual experience and associative knowledge, enabling adaptation but lacking operational boundaries. Skills bridge these extremes by packaging reusable capability units that both constrain generation and organize memory into actionable patterns.
In this perspective, skills serve as the structured interface through which memory becomes executable and workflows become flexible.

Looking ahead, the emerging paradigm of the “one-person company” or “one-person lab” envisions a single expert orchestrating a society of agents.
Through SkillNet, skills become the primary unit of knowledge integration and delegation: individuals curate skill repositories, agents compose them into workflows, and memory continuously refines them through experience.
This closed loop transforms isolated automation into cumulative machine expertise, enabling minimal human teams to achieve organizational-scale intelligence.

##### Open-World Skill Evolution.

Achieving automatic skill discovery, abstraction, and cross-domain transfer in open-world settings remains highly challenging.
In domains such as industrial manufacturing, finance, and scientific research, this requires the dynamic composition and optimization of complex tasks.
An industry-specific, privately curated SkillNet may itself become a foundational component of the agent infrastructure.
Moreover, integrating skill evolution mechanisms with online feedback, causal reasoning, and uncertainty modeling holds promise for improving the reliability of skill selection.

##### Model-Skill Synergy.

Although SkillNet provides agents with large-scale executable skills, the synergy between these skills and the underlying model capabilities remains largely unexplored.
In particular, the question of how to leverage neuro-symbolic integration and memory mechanisms to enable skill structures to guide model decision paths and to dynamically restructure skill hierarchies and dependencies as model capabilities evolve remains central to systematic study.

##### Multi-Agent Collaboration and Knowledge Sharing.

In multi-agent environments, SkillNet can function as a shared representation and exchange layer, supporting collaborative planning, knowledge transfer, and the accumulation of experience across agents.
By continuously consolidating agent behaviors into reusable skills, SkillNet may further supports the emergence of digital avatar whose capabilities are progressively distilled from accumulated skills.
More broadly, this paradigm may open a pathway toward collective intelligence, where skills evolve into transferable, composable units of coordination and where digital personas can inherit, share, and extend competencies beyond individual agents.

## 8 Limitations

There remain several limitations in the present work.
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Good. I've got both sources. Now let me:

1. **openclaw-backup** - Source code looks clean:
   - backup.sh: Standard bash script, reads from ~/.openclaw, creates tar.gz with chmod 600
   - No external network calls in backup.sh (serve.sh has HTTP server but with token required)
   - No credential harvesting - just backs up existing files
   - SKILL.md clearly documents the trust boundary and security model
   - The skill is from the MyClaw.ai ecosystem, published on ClawHub

   **Security scan results:**
   - No phone-home detected in backup.sh (serve.sh has HTTP but it's documented)
   - No prompt injection detected
   - No credential harvesting (reads local files for backup purposes only)
   - Network scope is clearly documented (serve.sh only, token required)

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2. **SkillNet** - Key findings from the paper:
   - 200K+ skills repository, 150K curated
   - 40% reward improvement, 30% fewer steps
   - Multi-dimensional evaluation: Safety, Completeness, Executability, Maintainability, Cost-awareness
   - Three-layer Skill Ontology: Taxonomy, Relation Graph, Package Library
   - Relations: similar_to, belong_to, compose_with, depend_on
   - Python toolkit: skillnet-ai
   - **Section 5.3 specifically covers OpenClaw integration!**
   - Website: http://skillnet.openkg.cn/
   - GitHub: https://github.com/zjunlp/SkillNet

Let me install the backup skill and document the SkillNet research.

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# SkillNet Research

**Source:** https://arxiv.org/abs/2603.04448
**Date:** 2026-03-07
**Status:** Active research — potential integration

## Overview

SkillNet is an open infrastructure for creating, evaluating, and organizing AI skills at scale. Developed by consortium including Zhejiang University, Alibaba, Ant Group, Tencent, and others.

**Key Stats:**
- 250K+ total skills, 150K+ curated
- 40% average reward improvement
- 30% reduction in execution steps
- Tested on ALFWorld, WebShop, ScienceWorld

## Core Components

### 1. Skill Ontology (3 layers)
- **Taxonomy Layer** — Functional categories (Development, AIGC, Research, Science, Business, Testing, Productivity, Security, Lifestyle)
- **Relation Graph** — Inter-skill connections (similar_to, belong_to, compose_with, depend_on)
- **Package Library** — Modular skill bundles for deployment

### 2. Skill Evaluation (5 dimensions)
| Dimension | Purpose |
|-----------|---------|
| Safety | Hazardous ops, prompt injection resistance |
| Completeness | All steps defined, dependencies explicit |
| Executability | Runs in sandbox, no hallucinated tools |
| Maintainability | Modular, composable, backward compatible |
| Cost-awareness | Time, compute, API costs |

### 3. Skill Creation Pipeline
Sources:
- Execution trajectories / conversation logs
- GitHub repositories
- Office documents (PDF, PPT, Word)
- Natural language prompts

## OpenClaw Integration (Section 5.3)

SkillNet explicitly integrates with OpenClaw. Behaviors:

1. **Pre-task search** — Searches SkillNet repo, downloads matching skills, reads SKILL.md
2. **Quality auditing** — analyze/evaluate commands generate multi-dimensional reports
3. **Experience consolidation** — After successful tasks, creates new skills automatically

## Resources

- **Website:** http://skillnet.openkg.cn/
- **API:** http://api-skillnet.openkg.cn/v1/search
- **GitHub:** https://github.com/zjunlp/SkillNet
- **Python package:** `skillnet-ai`

## Comparison to Other Platforms

| Platform | Focus | Skills | Evaluation |
|----------|-------|--------|------------|
| SkillNet | Full lifecycle infrastructure | 250K+ | Multi-dimensional (5 dims) |
| ClawHub | npm-like version management | ~9K | None (highlighted only) |
| SkillsMP | Open-source catalog | ~261K | Basic (GitHub stars) |
| SkillHub | Premium marketplace | ~21K | LLM rating (S/B rank) |

## Action Items

- [ ] Install skillnet-ai Python package
- [ ] Test skill search API
- [ ] Evaluate skill creation from Omada MCP work
- [ ] Consider integration with OpenClaw skill discovery


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  "timestamp": "Sat 2026-03-07 20:53 UTC"
}
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The user wants me to:
1. Install the openclaw-backup skill
2. Integrate SkillNet

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🦞 OpenClaw 2026.2.26 (bc50708) — I can run local, remote, or purely on vibes—results may vary with DNS.

Usage: openclaw [options] [command]

Options:
  --dev                Dev profile: isolate state under ~/.openclaw-dev, default
                       gateway port 19001, and shift derived ports
                       (browser/canvas)
  -h, --help           Display help for command
  --log-level <level>  Global log level override for file + console
                       (silent|fatal|error|warn|info|debug|trace)
  --no-color           Disable ANSI colors
  --profile <name>     Use a named profile (isolates
                       OPENCLAW_STATE_DIR/OPENCLAW_CONFIG_PATH under
                       ~/.openclaw-<name>)
  -V, --version        output the version number

Commands:
  Hint: commands suffixed with * have subcommands. Run <command> --help for details.
  acp *                Agent Control Protocol tools
  agent                Run one agent turn via the Gateway
  agents *             Manage isolated agents (workspaces, auth, routing)
  approvals *          Manage exec approvals (gateway or node host)
  browser *            Manage OpenClaw's dedicated browser (Chrome/Chromium)
  channels *           Manage connected chat channels (Telegram, Discord, etc.)
  clawbot *            Legacy clawbot command aliases
  completion           Generate shell completion script
  config *             Non-interactive config helpers (get/set/unset). Default:
                       starts setup wizard.


total 48
drwxrwxr-x 12 crogers2287 crogers2287 4096 Mar  6 02:10 .
drwx------ 40 crogers2287 crogers2287 4096 Mar  7 19:40 ..
drwxrwxr-x  2 crogers2287 crogers2287 4096 Feb 17 01:52 agentmail
drwxrwxr-x  5 crogers2287 crogers2287 4096 Feb 21 04:55 bmad
lrwxrwxrwx  1 crogers2287 crogers2287   32 Feb 15 01:39 claw-compactor -> /home/crogers2287/claw-compactor
drwxrwxr-x  3 crogers2287 crogers2287 4096 Feb 26 15:54 duckduckgo-search
drwxrwxr-x  3 crogers2287 crogers2287 4096 Feb 21 00:14 humanizer
drwxrwxr-x  2 crogers2287 crogers2287 4096 Feb 14 00:32 local-vision
drwxrwxr-x  3 crogers2287 crogers2287 4096 Feb 18 18:22 omada-mcp
drwxrwxr-x  2 crogers2287 crogers2287 4096 Mar  6 02:10 proactive-agent
drwxrwxr-x  3 crogers2287 crogers2287 4096 Feb 13 12:53 searxng-search
drwxrwxr-x  6 crogers2287 crogers2287 4096 Mar  6 02:09 self-improving-agent
drwxrwxr-x  3 crogers2287 crogers2287 4096 Feb 23 16:00 web-verbs