Quiz: Skills & Hooks — OpenClaw Academy

1 What are the two required frontmatter keys in a SKILL.md file?

title and version name and description slug and instructions id and allowed-tools

2 A skill exists in both ~/.openclaw/skills/ and the bundled skills. Which version wins?

The bundled version — it ships with OpenClaw and is authoritative The managed version in ~/.openclaw/skills/ — it has higher precedence Neither — OpenClaw raises a conflict error and refuses to load either Whichever was modified most recently

3 What does metadata.openclaw.requires.bins do in a SKILL.md?

Lists the tools the agent must call when using this skill Specifies binary executables that must exist on PATH for the skill to be eligible Declares which npm packages to install before loading the skill Defines which OpenClaw built-in tools the skill is allowed to use

4 You want to add a skill that only your 'personal' agent uses (not the 'work' agent). Where do you put it?

~/.openclaw/skills/ — it's shared but you can gate it with requires.config Inside the OpenClaw npm package skills directory In the personal agent's workspace: ~/.openclaw/workspace-personal/skills/ In ~/.openclaw/openclaw.json under skills.entries

5 Which ClawHub command updates all installed skills to their latest versions?

clawhub sync --all clawhub upgrade clawhub update --all clawhub refresh

6 What does the 'session-memory' bundled hook do?

Runs MEMORY.md as a startup checklist when the gateway boots Saves a summary of the ending session to a dated memory file when /new is issued Injects extra bootstrap files into the system prompt at session start Logs all sessions to ~/.openclaw/logs/sessions.log for auditing

7 BOOT.md is intended to be run:

At the start of every new agent turn At the start of every new session Once per Gateway restart, after channels come online On a fixed schedule, every 30 minutes

📝 Module 5 Quiz: Skills & Hooks