A comprehensive collection of stateless file utility operations providing path manipulation, MIME type detection, cryptographic hashing, and data content formatting for AI automation workflows.
Install & Download
1. ClawHub CLI
The fastest way to install a skill directly from the registry.
npx clawhub@latest install file-utilities-and-editing
2. Manual Installation
Copy the skill folder to one of these locations
~/.openclaw/skills/ <project>/skills/ Priority: Workspace > Local > Bundled
3. Prompt Installation
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Help me install file-utilities-and-editing using Clawhub. If Clawhub is not installed, install it first (npm i -g clawhub).
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What is File Utilities and Editing?
The File Utilities and Editing skill offers an extensive set of stateless text transformations commonly needed when developing application pipelines or automating tasks via an AI agent. It handles essential metadata operations, path parsing, and data structural layout adjustments without making any direct reads or writes to the local filesystem. By moving these compute tasks to managed remote endpoints, agents can seamlessly process incoming data packages while maintaining security.
Integrating Openclaw Skills like this tool allows developers to quickly hand off tedious string transformations to an agent. From converting raw file byte sizes to readable strings up to petabyte configurations to extracting directory elements or correcting malformed paths, this skill handles file-related contextual formatting cleanly and predictably.
File Utilities and Editing Use Cases
- MIME Type and Extension Detection: Safely identify data categories and lookup formal file extensions for incoming text or media packages.
- File Path Manipulation: Normalize messy directories, resolve relative references, and securely join multiple path segments together.
- Data Formatting and Cleansing: Format minified JSON strings into human-readable representations or convert raw CSV datasets into clean ASCII layouts.
- Content Integrity Verification: Generate standard cryptographic hashes or utilize base64 encoding and decoding for secure communication blocks.
How File Utilities and Editing Works
- Request Identification: The AI agent identifies a file metadata or structural formatting requirement based on incoming parameters.
- Payload Execution: The tool prepares an appropriate action block (e.g.,
file-path-parseorfile-hash-generate) along with the target string input. - Stateless Processing: The managed API server processes the request entirely in-memory, performing the required layout or translation workflow without interacting with storage.
- Structured Response Output: The system returns a clean JSON payload containing calculated details, structured arrays, or size statistics for immediate workflow ingestion.
File Utilities and Editing Setup
To leverage this skill within your workspace, install the prerequisite Openclaw Skills configuration packages using your terminal:
# Install the core AgentPMT connection and account management skills
npx skills add AgentPMT/agent-skills --skill what-is-agentpmt
npx skills add AgentPMT/agent-skills --skill agentpmt-account-mcp-rest-api-setup
Configure your environment variables and link your setup utilizing the explicit account-mcp configurations before initiating product-level commands.
File Utilities and Editing Data Schema & Taxonomy
The skill returns structured JSON metrics depending on the specific execution target. Common response schemas include:
| Action | Expected Input | Key Output Fields |
|---|---|---|
file-mime-type-detect |
File string with extension | mime-type, category, extension |
file-path-parse |
Complete system path string | directory, filename, name, extension, absolute |
file-json-minify |
Raw JSON formatting | minified, original_length, minified_length, reduction_percentage |
file-hash-generate |
Text string content | digest, algorithm, content_length |
File Utilities and Editing Advanced Features
- Multi-Algorithm Hashing: Supports cryptographic calculations spanning MD5, SHA-1, SHA-256, and SHA-512 dynamically via parameters.
- Configurable JSON Engine: Precision indentation configuration scaling between 0 and 8 spaces alongside structural syntax validation.
- Automatic Path Refactorization: Advanced path resolution mechanics that strip double separators and evaluate relative sequences natively.
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