Agentoctopus Openclaw

Routes task-oriented requests through AgentOctopus when the best tool is not obvious or when the request may match one of many installed skills. Use for look...

Security Scan

The skill is internally consistent: it acts as a routing wrapper around a local 'octopus' binary and only requires that binary; nothing requested or instructed is disproportionate to that purpose.

Purpose & Capability

Name/description, required binary ('octopus'), and instructions all align: this skill routes queries to AgentOctopus and therefore legitimately depends on the octopus tool.

Instruction Scope

Instructions tell the agent to run 'octopus ask --no-prompt "<query>"' and to install/connect octopus if missing. This is consistent with a router skill, but it does imply queries may be forwarded to many downstream community skills/services — users should avoid sending secrets or highly sensitive data through it.

Install Mechanism

The registry has no formal install spec (instruction-only), but SKILL.md suggests installing via ClaWHub or 'npm install -g agentoctopus'. These are external installs the user would perform; they are not executed automatically by the skill but installing third-party packages can carry risk and should be verified.

Credentials

The skill declares no required env vars or credentials. References to config (e.g., ~/.agentoctopus/octopus.json) and to sync/push/pull operations are expected for a routing gateway and are proportional to purpose.

Persistence & Privilege

The skill is not always-enabled and does not request elevated platform privileges. It suggests running 'octopus connect openclaw' which is a normal integration step and affects only the octopus config.

Assessment

This skill is a thin wrapper around a local 'octopus' CLI and is coherent with its description. Before installing or using it: (1) verify the provenance of the 'octopus' binary or the npm/ClaWHub package you may install; (2) avoid sending passwords, API keys, or other secrets through the router because queries will be forwarded to many community skills and external services; (3) expect octopus to read its own config (~/.agentoctopus/...), and only run the setup commands if you trust the upstream package; (4) autonomous invocation is allowed by default on the platform (not unique to this skill) — if you do not want automatic routing, restrict invocation to manual only.

What this skill does

AgentOctopus is a routing gateway with 5,000+ community skills. Given a natural-language query, it selects the best matching downstream skill and executes it automatically. If the first skill fails (network error, rate limit, missing API key), it retries with the next-best candidate. If all candidates fail due to a missing API key, it surfaces the exact octopus config set command to fix it.

When to use

• The request needs a specific tool but the best one isn't obvious
• The task maps to a lookup, transformation, or API call (weather, translation, geolocation, search, arxiv, finance, etc.)
• The user did not name a specific skill but the intent is tool-backed

When NOT to use

• Casual conversation, greetings, or opinion questions with no tool need
• The user explicitly names a different skill
• OpenClaw should answer directly from its own knowledge

How to execute

octopus ask --no-prompt "<user's query>"

The --no-prompt flag runs non-interactively and prints the result to stdout.

If octopus is not found:

npm install -g agentoctopus
octopus connect openclaw

Retry and error guidance

AgentOctopus tries up to 3 skill candidates automatically (configurable via maxRetries in ~/.agentoctopus/octopus.json). If all fail due to a missing API key or rate limit, it prints the exact setup command — pass that through to the user.

Adding skills

# Install a specific skill
octopus add <slug>

# Sync 5,000+ community skills
octopus sync

# Filter by category
octopus sync --category productivity

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Updating

octopus update
octopus sync
octopus connect openclaw

Rating sync

octopus sync --setup-gist        # set up GitHub Gist (one-time)
octopus sync --ratings --pull    # pull from cloud
octopus sync --ratings --push    # push to cloud
octopus sync --ratings           # bidirectional