A professional-grade culinary assistant skill for managing recipes, techniques, and dietary adaptations with technical precision.
Install & Download
1. ClawHub CLI
The fastest way to install a skill directly from the registry.
npx clawhub@latest install chef
2. Manual Installation
Copy the skill folder to one of these locations
~/.openclaw/skills/ <project>/skills/ Priority: Workspace > Local > Bundled
3. Prompt Installation
Copy this prompt to OpenClaw to install it automatically.
Help me install chef using Clawhub. If Clawhub is not installed, install it first (npm i -g clawhub).
Prefer to download?
Get the raw skill files in a ZIP archive.
What is Chef?
The Chef skill is a comprehensive culinary intelligence layer for your AI agent, designed to provide high-precision recipe management and technical cooking advice. By integrating this skill through Openclaw Skills, users gain access to a logic-driven assistant that prioritizes kitchen safety, dietary accuracy, and technical mastery. It goes beyond simple recipe retrieval by explaining the why behind specific techniques and offering structured troubleshooting for common kitchen errors.
Whether you are a developer looking to automate meal planning or a home cook seeking to improve your foundational skills, this extension provides the technical depth required for successful execution. From imperial-to-metric conversions to complex vegan baking adaptations, the Chef skill ensures your AI provides actionable, safe, and professional culinary guidance.
Chef Use Cases
- Managing complex dietary restrictions and food allergies across multiple recipes.
- Scaling ingredient measurements accurately for different serving sizes or unit systems.
- Learning professional cooking techniques with step-by-step visual and logic-based guidance.
- Saving dishes mid-cooking through advanced troubleshooting and ingredient substitution logic.
How Chef Works
- The AI agent analyzes the user's request, identifying specific culinary constraints, skill levels, and available equipment.
- The skill filters through recipe data, presenting a complete ingredient list and timing estimates to ensure total preparation.
- As the user proceeds, the Openclaw Skills framework delivers numbered instructions accompanied by descriptions of expected visual results.
- The system proactively monitors for high-risk steps, providing safety alerts for temperatures and potential cross-contamination.
- Post-cooking, the skill offers storage advice and suggests logical next steps for culinary skill progression.
Chef Setup
To integrate the Chef skill into your agent environment, ensure you are running a supported operating system (Linux, Darwin, or Win32) and use the following commands.
# Install the Chef skill via the CLI
clawdbot install chef
# Configure dietary preferences for your Openclaw Skills profile
clawdbot config chef --dietary-restrictions "none"
Chef Data Schema & Taxonomy
The Chef skill organizes culinary data into structured schemas to ensure consistency across different cooking tasks.
| Component | Data Type | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Recipe Metadata | JSON Object | Includes difficulty, timing, and serving size scaling factors. |
| Ingredient Map | Key-Value Pairs | Tracks quantities, units, and ranked pantry substitutions. |
| Technical Steps | Array | Numbered instructions containing visual cues and failure warnings. |
| Safety Protocols | String List | Context-specific alerts for protein temperatures and allergens. |
Chef Advanced Features
- Context-aware ingredient substitution that ranks alternatives by their impact on texture and flavor.
- Dynamic measurement scaling that accounts for non-linear chemistry changes in baking.
- Integrated kitchen safety module that provides real-time alerts for protein temperatures and cross-contact risks.
- Progressive learning logic that suggests practice dishes to build foundational knife and heat-control skills.
- Automated meal planning within the Openclaw Skills ecosystem to optimize ingredient overlap and reduce food waste.
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