5,400+ Curated OpenClaw Skills in One Place — The Awesome-OpenClaw-Skills List
OpenClaw's public skills registry (ClawHub) hosts 13,729 community-built skills as of early 2026. That sounds great until you realize what's actually in there: bulk spam accounts, bot-generated junk, duplicate names, low-quality non-English descriptions, crypto/trading bots, and — according to independent security audits — 373 skills flagged as malicious.
That's 7,215 skills you probably don't want anywhere near your agent.
The VoltAgent/awesome-openclaw-skills repo solves this. It's a curated list of 5,211 quality skills sourced from ClawHub, filtered, categorized, and updated regularly. Think of it as the signal extracted from the noise.
What got filtered out — and why it matters
| Filter | Excluded |
|---|---|
| Spam / bulk / bot / test accounts | 4,065 |
| Duplicate or similar-name skills | 1,040 |
| Low-quality or non-English descriptions | 851 |
| Crypto / blockchain / finance / trade bots | 886 |
| Malicious (confirmed by security audits) | 373 |
| Total excluded | 7,215 |
The 373 malicious skills are the most important number here. These are skills identified by independent security researchers — not VirusTotal, which the maintainers explicitly exclude as insufficient. If you've been installing skills directly from ClawHub by name without vetting, there's a non-trivial chance you've encountered one of these.
How to use it
Browse the list at VoltAgent/awesome-openclaw-skills or the companion site at clawskills.sh (searchable, category-filtered UI). Skills are organized by category — productivity, dev tools, communication, automation, data, etc.
Once you find a skill you want, install it via clawhub:
clawhub install <skill-slug>Or paste the skill's GitHub link directly into your OpenClaw chat — the assistant handles installation automatically.
Skills install to one of these locations, with workspace-level taking priority:
| Location | Path |
|---|---|
| Global | ~/.openclaw/skills/ |
| Workspace | <project>/skills/ |
Why this is worth bookmarking
The list is actively maintained — PRs are merged and the skill count grows. The maintainers (VoltAgent, the team behind the VoltAgent framework) have a track record of running similar curated lists for Claude Code subagents and Codex subagents.
More importantly: the malicious skill filter is updated as new security research surfaces. This is a living document, not a one-time snapshot.
What we recommend
Before installing any skill from ClawHub directly:
- Check if it's in the awesome-openclaw-skills list first
- If it's not listed, review the SKILL.md manually — look for exec calls, outbound HTTP, and credential access patterns
- Never install skills from personal gists or repos not in the official openclaw/skills GitHub repo (the awesome list enforces this: it only includes skills published there)
The skill ecosystem is one of OpenClaw's biggest strengths. 5,400 quality skills is genuinely impressive. Just make sure you're pulling from the curated half, not the junk half.
ClawReady's setup tiers include skill vetting and safe installation — we check against known-bad lists and review SKILL.md files before anything touches your workspace. See our options.