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openclaw/docs/platforms/mac/skills.md
Vincent Koc 198ed08a38 docs: fix redirect chains and disambiguate duplicate titles
Redirects:
- /cron now goes directly to /automation/cron-jobs (was chaining via /cron-jobs)
- /model and /model/ now go directly to /concepts/models (was chaining via /models)

Duplicate titles disambiguated (6 of 7 - Logging is orphaned):
- Health Checks (macOS), Skills (macOS), Voice Wake (macOS), WebChat (macOS)
- General Troubleshooting (help/ vs gateway/)
- Provider Directory (providers/index vs concepts/model-providers)

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-03-18 00:13:25 -07:00

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macOS Skills settings UI and gateway-backed status
Updating the macOS Skills settings UI
Changing skills gating or install behavior
Skills (macOS)

Skills (macOS)

The macOS app surfaces OpenClaw skills via the gateway; it does not parse skills locally.

Data source

  • skills.status (gateway) returns all skills plus eligibility and missing requirements (including allowlist blocks for bundled skills).
  • Requirements are derived from metadata.openclaw.requires in each SKILL.md.

Install actions

  • metadata.openclaw.install defines install options (brew/node/go/uv).
  • The app calls skills.install to run installers on the gateway host.
  • The gateway surfaces only one preferred installer when multiple are provided (brew when available, otherwise node manager from skills.install, default npm).

Env/API keys

  • The app stores keys in ~/.openclaw/openclaw.json under skills.entries.<skillKey>.
  • skills.update patches enabled, apiKey, and env.

Remote mode

  • Install + config updates happen on the gateway host (not the local Mac).