The 25 Most Downloaded ClawHub Skills in 2026 (And What They Tell Us)

ClawHub's registry now holds 13,729 skills with 1.5 million combined downloads. The top 25 account for a disproportionate share of those downloads — and they reveal exactly what developers want from AI agents.

The patterns are striking. Self-improvement tools dominate the top positions. Workflow connectors cluster in the middle. Specialized tools round out the bottom. This is not the distribution you'd expect from a productivity tool marketplace.

The Top 25 ClawHub Skills by Downloads

1. Capability Evolver — 35,581 downloads

The most downloaded skill in the registry teaches OpenClaw to evolve its own capabilities through structured self-assessment. The AI analyzes its current limitations, identifies gaps, and generates new skills to address them. It's a meta-skill: the agent becomes its own skill developer. The download count reflects how central self-improvement is to the OpenClaw philosophy.

2. Wacli — 16,415 downloads

A utility wrapper that streamlines command-line interactions, translating natural language requests into shell commands with validation and rollback capabilities. Developers who spend time in the terminal downloaded this in large numbers.

3. ByteRover — 16,004 downloads

Autonomous file system exploration and analysis. ByteRover navigates directory structures, summarizes codebases, and builds context about project architecture without being explicitly directed to specific files. Particularly useful for onboarding to unfamiliar codebases.

4. Self-Improving Agent — 15,962 downloads

Distinct from Capability Evolver, this skill focuses on prompt refinement rather than capability generation. The agent analyzes its own responses, identifies where instructions were unclear or outputs fell short, and rewrites the SKILL.md instructions that guide its behavior. It closes the feedback loop between task execution and skill quality.

5. ATXP — 14,453 downloads

A utility skill for structured task execution with progress tracking. Breaks complex requests into explicit subtasks, tracks completion status, and maintains context across interruptions. Essentially project management built into the agent workflow.

6. Gog (Google Workspace) — 14,313 downloads

Full Google Workspace integration: Docs, Sheets, Slides, Drive, Calendar, and Gmail via a single skill. The download count reflects how many developers need their AI agent to interact with Google's productivity suite. Third-party integrations that connect to tools people already use consistently outperform standalone utility skills.

7. Agent Browser — 11,836 downloads

Browser automation and web interaction. The Agent Browser skill enables OpenClaw to navigate websites, fill forms, extract content, and interact with web applications as a user would. One of the most frequently referenced skills in developer workflows that touch the web.

8. Summarize — 10,956 downloads

Takes any input — documents, URLs, conversation history, code files — and produces structured summaries. Sounds simple. The 10,956 downloads tell you how often developers need this. Information compression is a fundamental bottleneck in AI-assisted work.

9. GitHub — 10,611 downloads

Full GitHub integration: repositories, issues, pull requests, code review, and workflow management. The developer-first nature of the ClawHub ecosystem shows in this ranking — connecting an AI agent to GitHub is table stakes for any developer workflow.

10. Sonoscli — 10,304 downloads

Sonos speaker control via command line. A niche integration that nonetheless cracked the top 10, demonstrating that smart home and media control skills have a dedicated user base.

11. Weather — 9,002 downloads

Real-time weather data and forecasts. The near-universal download pattern of weather integrations appears again here — every assistant platform that allows third-party extensions sees weather near the top of the download charts.

12. Humanize AI Text — 8,771 downloads

Rewrites AI-generated text to read as naturally human. The irony of an AI skill that makes AI text less detectable as AI has not been lost on observers. The download count reflects the practical reality that many professionals need AI assistance but can't publish obviously AI-written output.

13. Tavily Web Search — 8,142 downloads

Semantic web search via the Tavily API, with better result relevance than keyword search. Developers who need their agents to research topics in real time reach for this first.

14. Free Ride — 7,927 downloads

Manages API credit allocation across multiple providers, automatically routing requests to the most cost-effective option based on task complexity. With inference costs still variable across providers, this skill pays for itself quickly.

15. Bird — 7,767 downloads

Twitter/X integration for posting, monitoring, and engaging with social content through the AI agent. Social media management use cases have found a natural home in the skills ecosystem.

16. Find Skills — 7,077 downloads

Enables the agent to search the ClawHub registry itself and recommend skills for new tasks. The skill that finds skills. The download count suggests that skill discovery — knowing what's available — is itself a bottleneck developers are trying to solve.

17. Proactive Agent — 7,010 downloads

Shifts the agent from reactive to proactive. Instead of waiting for explicit prompts, Proactive Agent enables background monitoring of specified conditions and autonomous action when triggers are met. Early-stage autonomous agent behavior in a single skill.

18. Auto-Updater Skill — 6,601 downloads

Monitors installed skills for updates and applies them automatically. Maintenance automation for the skill ecosystem itself. Developers who have 10+ skills installed want this to handle versioning without manual intervention.

19. Obsidian — 5,791 downloads

Full Obsidian vault integration for AI-assisted note creation, linking, search, and knowledge management. The personal knowledge management community has adopted OpenClaw as a companion tool at scale.

20. Nano Banana Pro — 5,704 downloads

AI image generation with a simplified interface. Text-to-image through conversation, without configuring API credentials or selecting models manually. The skill abstracts the complexity of image generation behind a natural language interface.

21. Multi Search Engine — 5,600 downloads

Aggregates results from multiple search providers (Google, Bing, DuckDuckGo, and others) into a single query response. Redundancy and comparison across search engines in a single request.

22. Humanizer — 5,400 downloads

A distinct tool from Humanize AI Text — this skill focuses on communication style adaptation, adjusting the agent's tone and register to match different audiences, from technical documentation to customer-facing content.

23. Notion — 5,200 downloads

Notion workspace integration for pages, databases, and project tracking. Similar to the Google Workspace pattern — connecting to where work already lives consistently drives downloads.

24. Nano PDF — 5,100 downloads

PDF reading, annotation, extraction, and summarization. Document workflows are a persistent use case that every assistant platform sees in its top downloads.

25. Skill Creator — 4,400 downloads

A skill for creating skills. The agent guides users through the process of defining a new SKILL.md, testing it, and publishing it to ClawHub. The ecosystem accelerates its own growth through a skill that teaches skill creation.

What These 25 Skills Tell Us

Self-improvement tools are the dominant category. Four of the top 25 skills — Capability Evolver, Self-Improving Agent, Auto-Updater Skill, and Skill Creator — are focused on making the agent itself better. Developers aren't just extending functionality; they're building meta-layers that let the agent extend itself. This is the most surprising trend in the download data.

Workflow connectors beat standalone utilities. Google Workspace, GitHub, Obsidian, and Notion outperform generic utilities. The pattern is consistent across every software ecosystem: tools that connect to existing workflows succeed faster than tools that require new workflows.

Browser automation is one skill, not many. Agent Browser's position at #7 reflects consolidated demand. Unlike in the MCP server ecosystem, where dozens of browser automation tools compete, ClawHub's community converged on a single dominant skill.

Search skills cluster. Tavily Web Search, Multi Search Engine, and Baidu Web Search (present in the broader catalog) suggest that web research is a category developers invest in separately from the agent's default capabilities. Real-time web access is treated as an explicit capability to be installed, not assumed.

The self-improving agent trend is the leading indicator. Skills that make the agent better at being an agent are the most popular category. That's where the ecosystem's ambition lives — and where the most interesting skills will come from next.