Skillminer

Suggest reusable skills from recurring patterns in local memory files. Human review gate, drafts only to skills/_pending/, local-first runner with optional external fallback. Triggers on "skill forge", "propose a skill", "what skills should I have", "skill candidates", "what patterns have I been doing", "forge me a skill".

Your AI assistant keeps solving the same problems. skillminer notices and suggests turning them into reusable skills.

skillminer watches your local memory files, spots recurring work, and surfaces the patterns worth keeping. No auto-activation, no cloud sync, no noise by default. A morning suggestion in your inbox when something actually deserves to become a skill.

Trust model

• Human gate first, always. Nothing ships without your explicit accept.
• Drafts go to skills/_pending/<slug>/, never to live skills.
• Default runner is local OpenClaw. No data leaves the host.
• FORGE_RUNNER=claude is an opt-in external fallback that sends prompt data to Anthropic's API.
• Notifications are off by default; review files are written locally regardless.

Flow

nightly scan   reads recent memory/YYYY-MM-DD.md files
               detects recurring task patterns
               writes a review file to state/review/
               ↓
YOU DECIDE     forge accept / reject / defer / silence
               ↓
morning write  drafts a SKILL.md into skills/_pending/<slug>/
               you review it, promote it, ship it

Nothing goes live automatically. You stay in control at every step.

Quick start

openclaw skills install skillminer
cd "${CLAWD_DIR:-$HOME/clawd}/skills/skillminer"
bash setup.sh
CLAWD_DIR="${CLAWD_DIR:-$HOME/clawd}" bash scripts/run-nightly-scan.sh

If the manual scan looks good, add the printed scheduler jobs using the dispatcher prompts.

Environment

• CLAWD_DIR — optional, defaults to ~/clawd
• FORGE_RUNNER — defaults to openclaw (local). Set to claude only if you accept that prompt data leaves the host.

Commands

forge is the command prefix.

• forge show — list current candidates
• forge review — open the latest review file
• forge accept <slug> — accept a candidate for the next morning write
• forge reject <slug> "reason" — reject permanently
• forge defer <slug> "reason" — defer with cooldown
• forge silence <slug> "reason" — silence without cooldown
• forge unsilence <slug> — resurface a silenced entry
• forge promote <slug> — move a pending draft into live skills

Manual triggers

When you want a one-shot run without remembering full paths:

skillminer scan     # run nightly scan now
skillminer write    # run morning write now
skillminer full     # scan + write in sequence
skillminer status   # show current ledger state
skillminer help     # show usage

Security

• Slug validation gates every filesystem-path boundary (regex-enforced)
• Atomic state writes with backup rotation and JSON validation
• flock-based single-instance guarantee across all entry points
• Memory files are treated as untrusted data in the nightly scan prompt

See README.md and USER_GUIDE.md for full docs.