Skill Auditor (skill-auditor)#

Audits all installed skills in the local OpenClaw environment. Scans metadata, files, permissions, dependencies, and usage history. Generates a health score, identifies zombie / duplicative / over-privileged skills, and produces cleanup scripts.

Workflow#

1. Scan installation — list all skills under ~/.openclaw/skills/ and installed packages. Read each SKILL.md for: name, description, allowed-tools, user-invocable, dependencies, license.
2. Usage analysis — parse session logs or call-frequency data over a configurable window (default 30 days). Compute: total invocations, trend (increasing / stable / declining / zero), last-used timestamp. Flag zombies (no usage in N days).
3. Security audit — for each skill, check:
   • Permission reasonability: does the skill's allowed-tools match actual tool usage? Flag over-privileged skills (e.g. a greeting skill with exec access).
   • Sensitive tool access: identify skills with exec, web_fetch, script access.
   • Excessive cross-skill access.
4. Conflict detection — pairwise comparison:
   • Overlapping description / name (duplicate functionality).
   • Conflicting tool or file namespace (two skills defining the same helper).
   • Circular dependencies.
5. Health score (0-100) — five dimensions weighted equally:
   • Activity (usage frequency / recency, 0-20)
   • Security (permission score, 0-20)
   • Stability (error rate / completeness, 0-20)
   • Maintainability (doc quality, file count, size, 0-20)
   • Docs (description clarity, sample prompts, 0-20)
6. Optimization suggestions — per skill:
   • Uninstall: zombie skills with no value
   • Suspend: rarely used but potentially useful
   • Permission downgrade: over-permissioned
   • Merge: overlapping skills into one
   • Upgrade: missing metadata or outdated format
7. Cleanup script — generate a shell script to: uninstall selected skills, disable (rename to .disabled), suspend (archive). Provide dry-run mode.
8. Output report — structured Markdown report with: executive summary, per-skill audit card (health score + flags), conflict matrix, cleanup script path. Optionally export as HTML dashboard.

Sample prompts#

• skill-auditor audit
• skill-auditor audit --days 90 --min-activity 3
• skill-auditor audit --focus security
• skill-auditor cleanup --dry-run