ClawHub

ClawHub is the public skill registry for Clawdbot: publish, version, and search text-based agent skills (a SKILL.md plus supporting files). It's designed for fast browsing + a CLI-friendly API, with moderation hooks and vector search.

onlycrabs.ai is the SOUL.md registry: publish and share system lore the same way you publish skills.

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What you can do with it

• Browse skills + render their SKILL.md.
• Publish new skill versions with changelogs + tags (including latest).
• Browse souls + render their SOUL.md.
• Publish new soul versions with changelogs + tags.
• Search via embeddings (vector index) instead of brittle keywords.
• Star + comment; admins/mods can curate and approve skills.

onlycrabs.ai (SOUL.md registry)

• Entry point is host-based: onlycrabs.ai.
• On the onlycrabs.ai host, the home page and nav default to souls.
• On ClawHub, souls live under /souls.
• Soul bundles only accept SOUL.md for now (no extra files).

How it works (high level)

• Web app: TanStack Start (React, Vite/Nitro).
• Backend: Convex (DB + file storage + HTTP actions) + Convex Auth (GitHub OAuth).
• Search: OpenAI embeddings (text-embedding-3-small) + Convex vector search.
• API schema + routes: packages/schema (clawhub-schema).

CLI

Common CLI flows:

• Auth: clawhub login, clawhub whoami
• Discover: clawhub search ..., clawhub explore
• Manage local installs: clawhub install <slug>, clawhub uninstall <slug>, clawhub list, clawhub update --all
• Inspect without installing: clawhub inspect <slug>
• Publish/sync: clawhub publish <path>, clawhub sync

Docs: docs/quickstart.md, docs/cli.md.

Removal permissions

• clawhub uninstall <slug> only removes a local install on your machine.
• Uploaded registry skills use soft-delete/restore (clawhub delete <slug> / clawhub undelete <slug> or API equivalents).
• Soft-delete/restore is allowed for the skill owner, moderators, and admins.
• Hard delete is admin-only (management tools / ban flows).

Telemetry

ClawHub tracks minimal install telemetry (to compute install counts) when you run clawhub sync while logged in. Disable via:

export CLAWHUB_DISABLE_TELEMETRY=1

Details: docs/telemetry.md.

Repo layout

• src/ — TanStack Start app (routes, components, styles).
• convex/ — schema + queries/mutations/actions + HTTP API routes.
• packages/schema/ — shared API types/routes for the CLI and app.
• docs/ — project documentation (architecture, CLI, auth, deployment, and more).
• docs/spec.md — product + implementation spec (good first read).

Local dev

Prereqs: Bun (Convex runs via bunx, no global install needed).

bun install
cp .env.local.example .env.local
# edit .env.local — see CONTRIBUTING.md for local Convex values

# terminal A: local Convex backend
bunx convex dev

# terminal B: web app (port 3000)
bun run dev

# seed sample data
bunx convex run --no-push devSeed:seedNixSkills

For full setup instructions (env vars, GitHub OAuth, JWT keys, database seeding), see CONTRIBUTING.md.

Environment

• VITE_CONVEX_URL: Convex deployment URL (https://<deployment>.convex.cloud).
• VITE_CONVEX_SITE_URL: Convex site URL (https://<deployment>.convex.site).
• VITE_SOULHUB_SITE_URL: onlycrabs.ai site URL (https://onlycrabs.ai).
• VITE_SOULHUB_HOST: onlycrabs.ai host match (onlycrabs.ai).
• VITE_SITE_MODE: Optional override (skills or souls) for SSR builds.
• CONVEX_SITE_URL: same as VITE_CONVEX_SITE_URL (auth + cookies).
• SITE_URL: App URL (local: http://localhost:3000).
• AUTH_GITHUB_ID / AUTH_GITHUB_SECRET: GitHub OAuth App.
• JWT_PRIVATE_KEY / JWKS: Convex Auth keys.
• OPENAI_API_KEY: embeddings for search + indexing.

Nix plugins (nixmode skills)

ClawHub can store a nix-clawdbot plugin pointer in SKILL frontmatter so the registry knows which Nix package bundle to install. A nix plugin is different from a regular skill pack: it bundles the skill pack, the CLI binary, and its config flags/requirements together.

Add this to SKILL.md:

---
name: peekaboo
description: Capture and automate macOS UI with the Peekaboo CLI.
metadata: {"clawdbot":{"nix":{"plugin":"github:clawdbot/nix-steipete-tools?dir=tools/peekaboo","systems":["aarch64-darwin"]}}}
---

Install via nix-clawdbot:

programs.clawdbot.plugins = [
  { source = "github:clawdbot/nix-steipete-tools?dir=tools/peekaboo"; }
];

You can also declare config requirements + an example snippet:

---
name: padel
description: Check padel court availability and manage bookings via Playtomic.
metadata: {"clawdbot":{"config":{"requiredEnv":["PADEL_AUTH_FILE"],"stateDirs":[".config/padel"],"example":"config = { env = { PADEL_AUTH_FILE = \\\"/run/agenix/padel-auth\\\"; }; };"}}}
---

To show CLI help (recommended for nix plugins), include the cli --help output:

---
name: padel
description: Check padel court availability and manage bookings via Playtomic.
metadata: {"clawdbot":{"cliHelp":"padel --help\\nUsage: padel [command]\\n"}}
---

metadata.clawdbot is preferred, but metadata.clawdis and metadata.openclaw are accepted as aliases.

Skill metadata

Skills declare their runtime requirements (env vars, binaries, install specs) in the SKILL.md frontmatter. ClawHub's security analysis checks these declarations against actual skill behavior.

Full reference: docs/skill-format.md

Quick example:

---
name: my-skill
description: Does a thing with an API.
metadata:
  openclaw:
    requires:
      env:
        - MY_API_KEY
      bins:
        - curl
    primaryEnv: MY_API_KEY
---

Scripts

bun run dev
bun run build
bun run test
bun run coverage
bun run lint