Open Infrastructure for Creating, Evaluating, and Connecting AI Agent Skills

Search 150,000+ community skills · One-line install · Auto-create from repos / docs / logs
5-dimension quality scoring · Semantic relationship graph

SkillNet is an open-source platform that treats AI agent skills as first-class, shareable packages — like npm for AI capabilities. It provides end-to-end tooling to search, install, create, evaluate, and organize skills, so agents can learn from the community and continuously grow.

• 🤖 [2025-02] OpenClaw Integration Released! — SkillNet is now available as a built-in skill for OpenClaw. One command to install, zero config to use. The agent automatically searches, downloads, creates, evaluates, and analyzes skills on your behalf. Get started →

• Quick Start
• REST API
• Python SDK
• CLI Reference
• Configuration
• Example: Scientific Discovery
• OpenClaw Integration
• Contributing
• License

pip install skillnet-ai

from skillnet_ai import SkillNetClient

client = SkillNetClient()  # No API key needed for search & download

# Search for skills
results = client.search(q="pdf", limit=5)
print(results[0].skill_name, results[0].stars)

# Install a skill
client.download(url=results[0].skill_url, target_dir="./my_skills")

🌐 SkillNet Web — Search, download individual skills, and explore curated skill collections through the SkillNet website.

🤖 OpenClaw + SkillNet — See SkillNet in action with OpenClaw. The agent automatically searches, creates, evaluates, and analyzes skills on your behalf. Learn more →

The SkillNet search API is free, public, and requires no authentication.

# Keyword search
curl "http://api-skillnet.openkg.cn/v1/search?q=pdf&sort_by=stars&limit=5"

# Semantic search
curl "http://api-skillnet.openkg.cn/v1/search?q=reading%20charts&mode=vector&threshold=0.8"

{
  "data": [
    {
      "skill_name": "pdf-extractor-v1",
      "skill_description": "Extracts text and tables from PDF documents.",
      "author": "openkg-team",
      "stars": 128,
      "skill_url": "https://...",
      "category": "Productivity"
    }
  ],
  "meta": { "query": "pdf", "mode": "keyword", "total": 1, "limit": 10 },
  "success": true
}

from skillnet_ai import SkillNetClient

client = SkillNetClient(
    api_key="sk-...",         # Required for create / evaluate / analyze
    # base_url="...",         # Optional: custom LLM endpoint
    # github_token="ghp-..." # Optional: for private repos
)

# Keyword search
results = client.search(q="pdf", limit=10, min_stars=5, sort_by="stars")

# Semantic search
results = client.search(q="analyze financial PDF reports", mode="vector", threshold=0.85)

if results:
    print(f"{results[0].skill_name} ⭐{results[0].stars}")

local_path = client.download(
    url="https://github.com/anthropics/skills/tree/main/skills/skill-creator",
    target_dir="./my_skills"
)

Convert diverse sources into structured skill packages with a single call:

# From conversation logs / execution traces
client.create(trajectory_content="User: rename .jpg to .png\nAgent: Done.", output_dir="./skills")

# From GitHub repository
client.create(github_url="https://github.com/zjunlp/DeepKE", output_dir="./skills")

# From office documents (PDF / PPT / Word)
client.create(office_file="./guide.pdf", output_dir="./skills")

# From natural language prompt
client.create(prompt="A skill for web scraping article titles", output_dir="./skills")

Score any skill across 5 quality dimensions. Accepts local paths or GitHub URLs.

result = client.evaluate(
    target="https://github.com/anthropics/skills/tree/main/skills/algorithmic-art"
)
# Returns: { "safety": {"level": "Good", "reason": "..."}, "completeness": {...}, ... }

Map the connections between skills in a local directory — outputs similar_to, belong_to, compose_with, and depend_on edges.

relationships = client.analyze(skills_dir="./my_skills")

for rel in relationships:
    print(f"{rel['source']} --[{rel['type']}]--> {rel['target']}")
# PDF_Parser --[compose_with]--> Text_Summarizer

The CLI ships with pip install skillnet-ai and offers the same features with rich terminal output.

Use skillnet <command> --help for full options.

skillnet search "pdf"
skillnet search "analyze financial reports" --mode vector --threshold 0.85
skillnet search "visualization" --category "Development" --sort-by stars --limit 10

skillnet download https://github.com/anthropics/skills/tree/main/skills/algorithmic-art
skillnet download <url> -d ./my_agent/skills
skillnet download <private_url> --token <your_github_token>

# From trajectory file
skillnet create ./logs/trajectory.txt -d ./generated_skills

# From GitHub repo
skillnet create --github https://github.com/owner/repo

# From office document (PDF, PPT, Word)
skillnet create --office ./docs/guide.pdf

# From prompt
skillnet create --prompt "A skill for extracting tables from images"

skillnet evaluate https://github.com/anthropics/skills/tree/main/skills/algorithmic-art
skillnet evaluate ./my_skills/web_search
skillnet evaluate ./my_skills/tool --category "Development" --model gpt-4o

skillnet analyze ./my_agent_skills
skillnet analyze ./my_agent_skills --no-save   # print only, don't write file
skillnet analyze ./my_agent_skills --model gpt-4o

search and download (public repos) work without any credentials.

Linux / macOS:

export API_KEY="sk-..."
export BASE_URL="https://..."  # optional

Windows PowerShell:

$env:API_KEY = "sk-..."
$env:BASE_URL = "https://..."  # optional

A complete end-to-end demo showing how an AI Agent uses SkillNet to autonomously plan and execute a complex scientific workflow — from raw scRNA-seq data to a cancer target validation report.

👉 Try the Interactive Demo (Website → Scenarios → Science)  |  📓 View Notebook

SkillNet integrates with OpenClaw as a built-in, lazy-loaded skill. Once installed, your agent automatically:

• Searches existing skills before starting complex tasks
• Creates new skills from repos, documents, or completed work
• Evaluates & analyzes your local library for quality and inter-skill relationships

Community skills guide execution → successful outcomes become new skills → periodic analysis keeps the library clean.

Prerequisites: OpenClaw installed (default workspace: ~/.openclaw/workspace)

Option A — CLI:

npm i -g clawhub
clawhub install skillnet --workdir ~/.openclaw/workspace
openclaw gateway restart

Option B — Via OpenClaw chat:

Install the skillnet skill from ClawHub.

The same three parameters (API_KEY, BASE_URL, GITHUB_TOKEN) apply here — see Configuration for details.

In OpenClaw, you can pre-configure them in openclaw.json so the agent uses them silently — no prompts, no interruptions. If not configured, the agent only asks when a command actually needs the value, injects it for that single call, and never pollutes the global environment.

Recommended: pre-configure in openclaw.json:

{
  "skills": {
    "entries": {
      "skillnet": {
        "enabled": true,
        "apiKey": "sk-REPLACE_ME",
        "env": {
          "BASE_URL": "https://api.openai.com/v1",
          "GITHUB_TOKEN": "ghp_REPLACE_ME"
        }
      }
    }
  }
}

In your OpenClaw chat, try:

No credentials needed:

Search SkillNet for a "docker" skill and summarize the top result.

Requires API key:

Create a skill from this GitHub repo: https://github.com/owner/repo (then evaluate it).

The skill source is also available at skills/skillnet/ for reference.

Contributions of all kinds are welcome! Whether it's fixing a typo, adding a feature, or sharing a new skill — every contribution counts.

1. Fork the repository
2. Create a feature branch (git checkout -b feat/amazing-feature)
3. Commit your changes (git commit -m 'feat: add amazing feature')
4. Push to the branch (git push origin feat/amazing-feature)
5. Open a Pull Request

You can also open an Issue to report bugs or suggest features.

This project is licensed under the MIT License.