Skills

Peter Steinberger (@steipete) shipped gogcli v0.13.0 on April 20, 2026, and it’s the most feature-complete release yet for the leading Google Workspace CLI skill in the OpenClaw ecosystem. If you’re building email agents, document pipelines, or calendar integrations on top of OpenClaw, this release is relevant. The short version: gog can now forward emails with notes and attachments, search email bodies (not just headers), convert Markdown files to Google Docs, manage Sheets charts programmatically, and more. Here’s what landed. ...

Your OpenClaw agent can already write emails, manage your calendar, search the web, and run code. As of April 18, 2026, it can also make phone calls. Ring-a-Ding is a new OpenClaw skill that provisions a real U.S. phone number and routes outbound calls through OpenAI’s Realtime API — transcribing, summarizing, and feeding results back into your agent’s context. This guide walks you through the complete setup in under 15 minutes. ...

There’s a gap that every power user of OpenClaw eventually bumps into: the real world still runs on phone calls. Booking a dentist appointment, getting a contractor quote, checking whether a parts supplier has what you need — these are tasks your AI agent can reason about perfectly but couldn’t do until today. Ring-a-Ding launched on April 18, 2026 as a dedicated OpenClaw skill that hands your agent a real U.S. phone number and the ability to make outbound calls — no SIP infrastructure, no Twilio account, no telephony expertise required. ...

If you’ve been running OpenClaw for more than a few weeks, Anthropic’s newly launched Agent Skills will feel instantly familiar — and that’s not a coincidence. Released this week on the Claude platform, Agent Skills are modular capability packages that extend Claude’s functionality across conversations. Each Skill bundles instructions, metadata, and optional resources — scripts, templates, workflows — that Claude loads automatically when relevant to a user’s request. Sound familiar? It should. ...

GhostClaw, the AI-assisted macOS infostealer first documented as a threat to npm package ecosystems, has expanded its reach. Jamf Threat Labs has confirmed that the malware family — also tracked as GhostLoader — is now targeting AI agent development workflows through malicious “skills” distributed via GitHub repositories. Critically, OpenClaw’s SKILL system has been identified as a confirmed abuse vector. This is not a theoretical supply chain risk. It’s an active, documented campaign that every developer working with AI agent frameworks — particularly those using OpenClaw or similar skill-based architectures — needs to know about. ...

OpenClaw v2026.3.22 ships ClawHub — a native plugin and skills marketplace built directly into the platform. No more hunting npm packages or manually dropping files into skill directories. ClawHub lets you browse, install, and manage extensions from a curated registry in one place. This guide walks you through everything: how ClawHub works, how to install your first skill, and a real-world example using Hitem3D — the first major third-party integration spotlighted on the marketplace — to generate 3D models from images. ...

If you’ve ever had to manually copy data from a spreadsheet into a presentation and then re-explain the context to your AI assistant all over again, Anthropic just solved that in a way that matters for real enterprise workflows. On March 11, Anthropic launched updates to its Claude add-ins for Microsoft Excel and PowerPoint that allow the two applications to share full conversation context in a single session. The update is available immediately to paid Claude plan users on Mac and Windows. ...

A piece in The New Stack this week has been circulating in agentic AI builder communities: the argument that developers working in production are replacing bloated MCP servers with Markdown skill files and seeing dramatic reductions in token costs and system complexity. The article references Brad Feld’s CompanyOS (open-sourced February 2026) — a real-world multi-agent system running 12 skill files alongside 8 MCP servers — as a case study in the two-layer architecture that’s emerging in serious deployments. ...

LangChain just released something that deserves more attention than it’s getting: a skills system for AI coding agents that nearly quadruples Claude Code’s success rate on LangChain and LangGraph tasks — from 25% to 95%, according to the official LangChain blog. That’s not a marginal improvement. That’s the difference between a tool that frustrates you half the time and one that actually ships working code. What the Skills System Is LangChain Skills is a structured way to give AI coding agents precisely the context they need for ecosystem-specific work — without bloating the agent’s context window with everything upfront. ...