What is openclaw-workspace-structure?

A guide to the standard OpenClaw workspace layout. OpenClaw is an agent system whose files hold instructions, identity, memory, tools, logs, and separate workspaces for individual agents.

Use it to inspect .openclaw directories, audit agent workspaces, check conventions, troubleshoot paths, or set up a workspace for an agent.

It makes unfamiliar workspace paths and file conventions easier to understand and helps find where agent instructions and shared work belong.

openclaw-workspace-structure — Skill for Claude Code by TheophilusChin

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 TheophilusChinomona/claude-openclaw-plugin --skill openclaw-workspace-structure

Clone the repo

git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/TheophilusChinomona/claude-openclaw-plugin

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install openclaw, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 31 skills, 22 commands, 4 agents, 3 hooks.

Wrote this? Show the measurements

A badge with what this costs and how it scanned, read live from this page, so it follows the numbers instead of freezing them. Markdown for a README, HTML for a documentation site or a project page.

README.md

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Your own site

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Or the 80×15 button, for a site that already has a row of RSS and ATOM ones. Only the verdict fits; the numbers stay here.

Your own site · 80×15

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Per session 62 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.

When invoked 1,229 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.

Model	Per session	Once invoked
Fable 5.1	$0.00062	$0.01229
Opus 5	$0.00031	$0.00615
Sonnet 5	$0.00012	$0.00246
Haiku 4.5	$0.00006	$0.00123

Measured 11d ago against content hash 4e39b7777f95, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-11, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

openclaw-workspace-structure 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 11d 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.

Asks for rootlowPrivilege escalation

A mod that escalates privileges can change anything on the machine, not only the project.

auth-profiles.json # Credentials (chmod 600)

Downgraded: this mod is about security review, or the phrase is quoted, so it is likely naming the pattern rather than instructing it.

plugins/openclaw/skills/openclaw-workspace-structure/SKILL.md · 149 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 149 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

OpenClaw Workspace Structure

Explain and help the user navigate the standardized OpenClaw workspace layouts. Two levels exist:

System-level layout (~/.openclaw/) — Created by the OpenClaw CLI, holds global config and all agent workspaces
Per-agent workspace layout — The flatter pattern each agent uses inside its workspace directory

Per-Agent Workspace Layout

Each agent workspace follows this flatter layout with bootstrap files at root:

<agent-workspace>/
  AGENTS.md              # Operating manual (safety rules, delegation, memory workflow)
  SOUL.md                # Personality, boundaries, communication style
  IDENTITY.md            # Name, role, avatar, vibe
  USER.md                # Who the agent serves (private sessions only)
  MEMORY.md              # Long-term curated knowledge (200-line budget)
  TOOLS.md               # Available tools, integration notes
  HEARTBEAT.md           # Proactive monitoring checklist
  GROUP_MEMORY.md        # Info safe for group contexts (optional)
  agents/                # Sub-agent directories (team workspace)
    <agent-id>/
      SOUL.md
      MEMORY.md
      logs/
      output/
  skills/                # Workspace-specific skills
  memory/                # Daily logs
    YYYY-MM-DD.md        # Raw session notes
    archive/             # Compressed logs older than 14 days
  team-memory/           # Shared cross-agent knowledge
    market-brief.md
    icp-profile.md
    brand-voice.md
  config/                # Local configuration
    security.json
  output/                # Agent work products
  logs/                  # Operational logs

Memory details: See openclaw-memory skill for the four-layer memory model, bootstrap file loading order, daily log workflow, SCRIBE compression, shared memory patterns, and /oc-memory command.

System-Level Layout (CLI-Managed)

~/.openclaw/
  openclaw.json              # Central configuration
  models.json                # Model registry
  workspace/                 # Shared collaboration space
    CLAUDE.md                # Shared instructions for all agents
    TASKS.json               # Task tracking (RACI schema)
    SPRINT_CURRENT.json      # Active sprint data
    SHARED_KNOWLEDGE.json    # Semantic memory layer
    IMPROVEMENT_BACKLOG.json # Continuous improvement items (min 5)
    agents-workspaces/       # Per-agent isolation
      <agent-id>/
        IDENTITY.md          # Agent role definition
        SOUL.md              # Behavioral instructions
        TOOLS.md             # Available capabilities
        auth-profiles.json   # Credentials (chmod 600)
    comms/                   # Async messaging
      <agent-id>/
        inbox/
        outbox/
      broadcast.md           # System announcements
    processes/
      PROCESSES.json         # 23 process definitions
    standards/               # Coding, quality, docs, research standards
  skills/                    # Reusable SKILL.md definitions
  memory/
    lancedb/                 # Vector embeddings store

Read the full file on GitHub · 149 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.

references/.gitkeep 0 B

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.

11d ago First seen · 149 lines · 62 tokens per session scan A 4e39b7777f95

Subscribe to this mod's changes

openclaw-workspace-structure is a skill published in the GitHub repository TheophilusChinomona/claude-openclaw-plugin (2 stars, last pushed 5mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 62 tokens to every session and 1,229 once invoked, about $0.0003 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 1 finding (asks for root). No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-31.

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