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For Workshop authoring, ask the agent for the skill you want; it callsskill_workshop and returns a proposal id. Personal library authoring instead
returns the managed publication receipt described in
Personal library authoring.
Learn from recent work
Use/learn to route the current conversation or named sources into the best
matching pending proposal or live skill, creating a skill only when needed:
/learn asks the agent to distill the reusable workflow from
the current conversation. With a request, the agent treats paths, URLs, pasted
notes, and conversation references as sources while honoring focus, scope, and
naming requirements. It gathers the sources with its existing tools, then calls
skill_workshop to revise a matching pending proposal, update a matching live
skill, or create a proposal when neither exists.
The resulting proposal stays pending; /learn never applies it. Review and
apply it through the normal approval flow or with openclaw skills workshop.
When the actual turn supports only personal publication, including paired-node
personal CLI authoring, /learn stops without changing a skill. Ask normally
for explicit personal creation if you want to publish a revision, or use the
existing administrator UI or CLI for Workshop proposal review. Personal turns
cannot stage a pending draft.
Create:
off disables repair, propose leaves the patch pending until explicitly
applied, and auto scans and applies it immediately. The repaired skill is
loaded by new sessions; the running session keeps its original skill snapshot.
Iterate on a pending proposal:
apply, reject, and quarantine run without an additional
approval prompt by default. Set skills.workshop.approvalPolicy to "pending"
to require operator approval before those actions.
When approval is required, the prompt identifies the proposal id and target
skill, and shows the proposal description, support-file count, and body size.
Approval requests are bounded to finish before the agent tool watchdog. If no
decision arrives before the prompt expires, the lifecycle action does not run:
the proposal stays pending and unchanged. Decide later in the Skill Workshop UI or run
openclaw skills workshop apply|reject|quarantine <proposal-id>. Agents should
not retry an expired lifecycle action in a loop.
CLI
--agent <id> (agent context; defaults to
cwd-inferred, then the default agent) and --json (structured output).
Proposals and generated skill targets are scoped to the selected agent.
propose-create, propose-update, and revise also take --goal <text> and
--evidence <text> to record proposal context alongside --proposal.
evaluate runs through the live Gateway plugin registry, snapshots the current
proposal revision before dispatch, and accepts --correlation-id <id> for external
orchestration.