openclaw-cli

openclaw-cli is a skill for Claude Code from amirkiarafiei/subagent-cli-skills. It costs 85 tokens per session (3,157 once invoked), scanned C, original, MIT.

Instructions for using OpenClaw, another AI coding agent, as a subagent from the terminal. A subagent handles a bounded task while the main agent keeps the overall plan and user conversation.

In plain words
What is it for?
Delegating multi-step work, requesting a second code-review opinion, comparing plans, investigating a topic, or running background research.
Why use it?
It provides a consistent way to delegate work or get an independent opinion without losing control of the main task.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: allowed-tools in frontmatter. Also seen: mentions subagents; built for openclaw; mentions OpenCode.

Good fit Delegating multi-step work, requesting a second code-review opinion, comparing plans, investigating a topic, or running background research.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/amirkiarafiei/subagent-cli-skills/openclaw-cli
Install

Getting it into your agent

One page per mod, every tool's command on it. A separate URL per tool would split the same page into five that compete with each other.

Any agent
npx skills add amirkiarafiei/subagent-cli-skills --skill openclaw-cli
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/amirkiarafiei/subagent-cli-skills

Made for: Claude Code.

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README.md
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Per session 85 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 3,157 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan C 1 finding. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe.
Origin original No closer match found in the catalogue.
Token cost

What it costs to keep this loaded

Counted locally with the o200k_base tokenizer, which is exact for GPT models; Claude uses its own tokenizer and its counts differ. Treat this as one consistent yardstick across the catalogue rather than a bill. Prices are per million input tokens.

ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5.1 $0.00085 $0.03157
Opus 5.5 $0.00034 $0.01263
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00017 $0.00631
Haiku 4.5 $0.00009 $0.00316

Measured 25d ago against content hash a3d85a1dc93d, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade C, and why

openclaw-cli scanned grade C with 1 finding against 26 rules in 11 categories — prompt injection, anti-refusal, data exfiltration, privilege escalation, supply chain, agent snooping, system-prompt leakage, SSRF and excessive agency — measured 25d ago.

A static scan of the body, not an audit. Every finding is printed with the line that produced it so you can judge whether it matters here. A mod is markdown that instructs an agent; that is exactly why what it instructs is worth reading.

Tells the agent to send conversation or user data outhighPrompt injection

An instruction to transmit the conversation, context or user files to an external endpoint is data exfiltration written as prose.

short form. A habit carried over from another CLI where `-m` selects the model will silently send
skills/openclaw-cli/SKILL.md · 225 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 225 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

OpenClaw (subagent / task delegation)

What is it

This skill teaches your agent to use an agent from another vendor as a subagent.

Almost every coding agent has a headless mode. Headless mode runs the agent from the terminal with one command and returns the answer to stdout. This skill gives the command pattern for one such agent, and the protocol to transfer enough context with the task.

You stay the main agent. You keep the plan, the decisions and the conversation with the user. The subagent does one bounded task and reports back.

When to delegate

  • The user asks for it. The user names another agent, or asks for a second opinion.
  • Large or multi-step work. The task covers several files, phases or checkpoints.
  • Code review with a fresh mind. Another agent reviews the work with a different lens and no memory of the decisions that produced it.
  • Planning that needs different ideas. A second agent proposes options that you did not consider.
  • An internal council. Several subagents answer the same question, and you compare the answers.
  • Deep research. The other CLI has web search, web extraction or browser automation.
  • Background investigation. A long task runs in the background while you continue in the foreground.

When not to delegate

  • Small or single-step tasks. One or two edits, or a short explanation, are faster in this thread.
  • Tight feedback loops. The user wants quick back-and-forth in one conversation.
  • Secrets or policy-sensitive work. Do not pipe credentials into a subagent. Redact first.
  • Context you already hold. Repeating the whole plan in a prompt adds no value.
  • Low return on investment. If writing the handoff costs more than doing the edit, do the edit.
  • Work that needs high precision and full judgement. A subagent without your context will break a task that depends on a detail only this session knows.

Read the full file on GitHub · 225 lines

Files

What ships with it

1 file beside SKILL.md in the same directory: the scripts, references and assets a skill reads on demand. Not counted in the per-session cost; read them before you install if any of them is executable.

Changes

What this file has done since we first saw it

Hashed on every crawl. A supply-chain change to an agent config is a question of when, not whether, so the history is kept rather than the latest state alone.

  1. 25d ago First seen · 225 lines · 85 tokens per session scan C a3d85a1dc93d

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openclaw-cli is a skill published in the GitHub repository amirkiarafiei/subagent-cli-skills (12 stars, last pushed 24d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 85 tokens to every session and 3,157 once invoked, about $0.0003 per session on Opus 5.5. A static security scan graded it C with 1 finding (tells the agent to send conversation or user data out). No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-09-21.