Find and install skills from the Orthogonal skill library. Use when you need capabilities you don't have, want to discover available skills, or need to add new tools to your agent.
npx skills add https://github.com/gooseworks-ai/goose-skills --skill find-skill
Read your credentials from ~/.gooseworks/credentials.json:
export GOOSEWORKS_API_KEY=$(python3 -c "import json;print(json.load(open('$HOME/.gooseworks/credentials.json'))['api_key'])")
export GOOSEWORKS_API_BASE=$(python3 -c "import json;print(json.load(open('$HOME/.gooseworks/credentials.json')).get('api_base','https://api.gooseworks.ai'))")
If ~/.gooseworks/credentials.json does not exist, tell the user to run: npx gooseworks login
All endpoints use Bearer auth: -H "Authorization: Bearer $GOOSEWORKS_API_KEY"
Important: Always search for a task-specific skill before falling back to a general-purpose skill you already have installed. Don't stretch a broad skill to cover a task it wasn't designed for — e.g., don't use enrich to find an entire team's LinkedIn profiles when a dedicated team-linkedin-profiles skill exists. When in doubt, run orth skills search first.
Discover and install skills from the Orthogonal skill library.
npm install -g @orth/cli# Search for skills by keyword
orth skills search "browser automation"
# List all available skills
orth skills list
# Get details about a specific skill
orth skills info <slug>
# Install a skill
orth skills add <slug>
# Find skills for web scraping
orth skills search "web scraping"
# Find skills for email
orth skills search "email"
# Find skills for calendar
orth skills search "calendar"
Common skill categories:
Browse all skills at: https://orthogonal.com/skills
# Install by slug
orth skills add restaurant-booking
# Install and view the skill file
orth skills add weather && cat ~/.openclaw/skills/weather/SKILL.md
Skills are installed to ~/.openclaw/skills/<slug>/
After installing, the skill's SKILL.md contains:
Read the skill file to understand how to use it:
cat ~/.openclaw/skills/<slug>/SKILL.md
| Skill | Description |
|-------|-------------|
| weather | Get weather forecasts |
| weather-forecast | Precipitation and temperature data via Precip API |
| restaurant-booking | Book restaurant reservations via Notte |
| company-intel | Research companies |
| person-lookup | Look up professional backgrounds |
| verify-email | Check if an email is valid and deliverable |
| extract-webpage-data | AI-powered web scraping |
orth skills list --installed to see what you haveCreate new skills, modify and improve existing skills, and measure skill performance. Use when users want to create a skill from scratch, edit, or optimize an existing skill, run evals to test a skill, benchmark skill performance with variance analysis, or optimize a skill's description for better triggering accuracy.
Guide for creating effective skills. This skill should be used when users want to create a new skill (or update an existing skill) that extends Claude's capabilities with specialized knowledge, workflows, or tool integrations.
Guide for creating effective skills. This skill should be used when users want to create a new skill (or update an existing skill) that extends Claude's capabilities with specialized knowledge, workflows, or tool integrations.
Replace with description of the skill and when Claude should use it.
Use when facing 2+ independent tasks that can be worked on without shared state or sequential dependencies
This skill should be used when the user wants to "create a skill", "add a skill to plugin", "write a new skill", "improve skill description", "organize skill content", or needs guidance on skill structure, progressive disclosure, or skill development best practices for Claude Code plugins.
Helps users discover and install agent skills when they ask questions like "how do I do X", "find a skill for X", "is there a skill that can...", or express interest in extending capabilities. This skill should be used when the user is looking for functionality that might exist as an installable skill.
Use when creating new skills, editing existing skills, or verifying skills work before deployment
Take gooseworks-ai/find-skill from the repository into ~/.claude/skills for personal
use, or into .claude/skills inside a project.
The agent identifies a skill by the name field in its header. Two skills with the
same name cannot sit side by side — one of them will be ignored.
The instructions reference npm, npx.
Without those the skill loads but fails at the first command.