openclaw-dev

A documentation-aware development assistant for the OpenClaw ecosystem. It supports pull-request review, preparation, and merging, issue triage, and loading relevant OpenClaw documentation into context.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to review or prepare OpenClaw pull requests, classify bugs, features, and documentation issues, and work with cached OpenClaw documentation. OpenCoven pull requests are handled by a different skill.
Why use it?
It gives OpenClaw development tasks a defined workflow and current project documentation, reducing the need to reconstruct maintainer rules for each task.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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.

agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/opencoven/coven/openclaw-dev
Any agent
npx skills add OpenCoven/coven --skill openclaw-dev
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/OpenCoven/coven

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Per session 42 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,230 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 1 finding. Scan, not verified.
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 $0.00042 $0.01230
Opus 5 $0.00021 $0.00615
Sonnet 5 $0.00008 $0.00246
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.00123

Measured 2d ago against content hash 8392db905515, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

openclaw-dev 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 2d ago.

The scan reads SKILL.md. This mod also ships 1 executable file (scripts/fetch-docs.sh), listed below but not scanned — reading those needs a real analyzer, not pattern matching.

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.

curl -sL https://docs.openclaw.ai/llms-full.txt -o ~/.openclaw/workspace/cache/openclaw-docs.txt
skills/openclaw-dev/SKILL.md · 153 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 153 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

OpenClaw Dev Agent

A docs-aware development agent for the OpenClaw ecosystem. This skill is OpenClaw-only. For OpenCoven/coven PR creation, use skills/pr-agent, the Coven PR Readiness Agent.

Capabilities

1. PR Workflow (from openclaw/maintainers)

Three-phase maintainer workflow with strict quality gates:

  • /review-pr <PR> — Read-only review, structured findings, recommendation
  • /prepare-pr <PR> — Rebase, fix findings, run gates, push to PR head
  • /merge-pr <PR> — Squash-merge with attribution, verify MERGED state

Source of truth: openclaw/maintainers/.agents/skills/PR_WORKFLOW.md

2. Docs-Aware Development

Fetches and caches OpenClaw documentation for context-grounded answers:

# Cache docs locally (run periodically)
curl -sL https://docs.openclaw.ai/llms-full.txt -o ~/.openclaw/workspace/cache/openclaw-docs.txt

The agent loads relevant doc sections per task, avoiding full 2MB context on every spawn.

3. Issue Triage

Classify and route incoming issues:

  • Bug: Reproduction steps, affected version, severity estimate
  • Feature: Design impact, scope estimate, suggested milestone
  • Docs: Which page needs updating, draft content
  • Security: MITRE ATLAS classification, severity, disclosure handling

4. Release Prep

  • Changelog generation from merged PRs
  • Version bumping (semver)
  • Tag creation and release notes
  • Clawtributor list update

5. Architecture Review

  • "Should this be a plugin or core?" decisions grounded in docs
  • Config schema validation against documented options
  • Channel/tool API compliance checking
  • Cross-repo impact analysis (openclaw, maintainers, lobster, docs)

Docs Loading Strategy

Priority chain:

  1. Local cache: ~/.openclaw/workspace/cache/openclaw-docs.txt
  2. Web fetch: https://docs.openclaw.ai/llms-full.txt
  3. Local docs dir: ~/.nvm/versions/node/*/lib/node_modules/openclaw/docs/

Refresh: Cache is refreshed when stale (>24h) during heartbeat or on first use.

Read the full file on GitHub · 153 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. 2d ago First seen · 153 lines · 42 tokens per session scan A 8392db905515

Subscribe to this mod's changes

openclaw-dev is a skill published in the GitHub repository OpenCoven/coven (41 stars, last pushed 2d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 42 tokens to every session and 1,230 once invoked, about $0.0002 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 2026-08-30.