zeroclaw: Skill for Claude Code

.claude/skills/zeroclaw/SKILL.md

zeroclaw is a skill for Claude Code from chuyl/zeroclaw. It costs 167 tokens per session (3,500 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

An interface for operating a ZeroClaw agent, an autonomous software system, through command-line commands or a web API.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to send messages, manage stored memories and scheduled jobs, check status, configure connections, and call the agent's gateway.
Why use it?
It lets you carry out common agent tasks without having to remember every command or API request yourself.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: installed under .claude/.

This is chuyl/zeroclaw's own configuration. It tells Claude Code how to work on zeroclaw itself, so it is not a mod to install elsewhere. Copy it as a starting point and replace the rules that are about this project. Everything zeroclaw configures →

Reuse

Borrowing it

Nothing to install: this file belongs to chuyl/zeroclaw. Take a copy, put it at the same path in your own repository, and replace the rules that are about this project with yours.

Copy the file
curl -O https://raw.githubusercontent.com/chuyl/zeroclaw/master/.claude/skills/zeroclaw/SKILL.md
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/chuyl/zeroclaw

Made for: Claude Code.

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Per session 167 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 3,500 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 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 $0.00167 $0.03500
Opus 5 $0.00084 $0.01750
Sonnet 5 $0.00033 $0.00700
Haiku 4.5 $0.00017 $0.00350

Measured 6d ago against content hash 4fd16bb1a539, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-06, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

zeroclaw scanned grade A 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 6d 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.

Makes network callslowCapability

Not a fault in itself. Listed so you know the mod talks to something, and to what.

2. **Check if the gateway is running** (only needed for REST/WebSocket operations). A quick `curl -sf http://127.0.0.1:42617/health` tells you. If it's not running and the user wants REST access, let them know and offer
.claude/skills/zeroclaw/SKILL.md · 286 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 286 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

ZeroClaw Skill

You are helping a user operate their ZeroClaw agent instance. ZeroClaw is an autonomous agent runtime with a CLI and an HTTP/WebSocket gateway.

Your job is to understand what the user wants to accomplish and then execute it — run the command, make the API call, report the result. Do not just show commands for the user to copy-paste. Actually run them via the Bash tool and tell the user what happened. The only exception is destructive operations (clearing all memory, estop kill-all) where you should confirm first.

Adaptive Expertise

Pay attention to how the user talks. Someone who says "can you hit the webhook endpoint with a POST" is telling you they know what they're doing — be concise, skip explanations, just execute. Someone who says "how do I make my bot remember things" needs more context about what's happening under the hood.

Signals of technical comfort: mentions specific endpoints, HTTP methods, JSON fields, talks about tokens/auth, uses CLI flags fluently, references config files directly.

Signals of less familiarity: asks "what does X do", uses casual language about the bot/agent, describes goals rather than mechanisms ("I want it to check something every morning").

Default to a middle ground — brief explanation of what you're about to do, then do it. Dial up or down from there based on cues.

Discovery — Before You Act

Before running any ZeroClaw operation, make sure you know where things are:

  1. Find the binary. Search in this order:

    • which zeroclaw (PATH)
    • The current project's build output: ./target/release/zeroclaw or ./target/debug/zeroclaw — this is the right choice when the user is working inside the ZeroClaw source tree and may have local changes
    • Common install locations: ~/.cargo/bin/zeroclaw, ~/Downloads/zeroclaw-bin/zeroclaw

    If no binary is found anywhere, offer to build from source (see "Building from Source" below). If the user is a developer working on ZeroClaw itself, they'll likely want the local build — watch for cues like them editing source files, mentioning PRs, or being in the project directory.

Read the full file on GitHub · 286 lines

Files

What ships with it

3 files 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. 6d ago First seen · 286 lines · 167 tokens per session scan A 4fd16bb1a539

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zeroclaw is a skill published in the GitHub repository chuyl/zeroclaw (2 stars, last pushed 2mo ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 167 tokens to every session and 3,500 once invoked, about $0.0008 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 1 finding (makes network calls). No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-31.

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