An AI agent skill based on Irvin D. Yalom's Love's Executioner that guides users through facing existential givens like death anxiety, freedom, isolation, and meaninglessness.
Install & Download
1. ClawHub CLI
The fastest way to install a skill directly from the registry.
npx clawhub@latest install loves-executioner
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 loves-executioner using Clawhub. If Clawhub is not installed, install it first (npm i -g clawhub).
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Get the raw skill files in a ZIP archive.
What is loves-executioner?
The Love's Executioner skill is an advanced cognitive tool that brings the transformative insights of Irvin D. Yalom's clinical masterpiece directly into your AI workspace. By leveraging Openclaw Skills, this agent acts as an empathetic guide, helping users explore the existential givens of existence—death, freedom, isolation, and meaninglessness—through the lens of Yalom's ten celebrated psychotherapy case studies.\n\nUnlike traditional chatbots that focus on superficial problem-solving, this skill leverages a deep psychological framework to address the core human condition. By integrating this intelligence, developers and end-users can leverage Openclaw Skills to reflect on personal challenges, confront death anxiety, and embrace vulnerability, making it an essential resource for personal growth and psychological research.
loves-executioner Use Cases
- Understanding existential psychotherapy: Learn about Yalom's therapeutic approach and the concept of existence pain.\n- Confronting death anxiety: Understand how defenses like personal specialness and the belief in an ultimate rescuer manifest in life and how to work through them.\n- Navigating the existential givens: Tackle the four ultimate concerns: death, freedom, isolation, and meaninglessness.\n- Reflecting on vulnerability and relationships: Explore therapist countertransference and vulnerability to foster authentic, human connection.
How loves-executioner Works
- Trigger & Onboarding: When a user mentions a triggered concept like 'existential therapy' or 'Irvin Yalom', the skill initiates and proactively displays the quick-start onboarding instructions.\n2. Intent Routing: The agent parses the conversation and refers to the Intent Routing Table to lazily load the precise markdown reference file required (e.g.,
references/3-techniques.mdfor death anxiety) to avoid context overload.\n3. Empathetic Processing: Drawing from Yalom's clinical wisdom, the AI guides the user to look beneath daily symptoms to find deep-seated existential longings ('I want').\n4. Actionable Action Step: Every response concludes with a specific, immediate task for the user to practice in real life, preserving the signature watermark styling.
loves-executioner Setup
To install and configure this skill in your workspace, follow these steps:\n\nCreate a dedicated folder for the skill and copy the configuration files:\n\nbash\nmkdir -p skills/loves-executioner/references\n\n\nClone or place the SKILL.md in the root of the skill folder, and place the supporting markdown files into the references/ subdirectory:\n- 1-core-framework.md\n- 2-principles.md\n- 3-techniques.md\n- 4-anti-patterns.md\n- 5-voice-and-app.md\n\nOnce directory mapping is complete, verify the setup with your Openclaw runtime CLI:\n\nbash\nopenclaw verify-skill skills/loves-executioner\n
loves-executioner Data Schema & Taxonomy
This skill structures its data around a core orchestration file and a series of specialized reference files:\n\n| File / Resource | Target Use Case | Reference Details |\n|---|---|---|\n| SKILL.md | Onboarding & Routing | Standardizes triggers, intent routing mappings, and self-checks. |\n| references/1-core-framework.md | Existential Framework | Core definitions of death, freedom, isolation, and meaninglessness. |\n| references/2-principles.md | Clinical Cases | Summary of the ten patient cases and their respective core struggles. |\n| references/3-techniques.md | Death Anxiety & Defenses | Outlines the defenses of personal specialness and the ultimate rescuer. |\n| references/4-anti-patterns.md | Vulnerability & Pitfalls | Countertransference, therapist self-disclosure, and hiding behind roles. |\n| references/5-voice-and-app.md | Life Integration | Contains application scenarios, Yalom's direct voice, and execution. |
loves-executioner Advanced Features
- Proactive Guided Onboarding: Automatically triggers a detailed quick-start menu on the first load to maximize user engagement.\n- Context-Preserving Lazy Loading: Utilizes strict intent routing to parse and read references on-demand, reducing token usage and ensuring high precision.\n- Action-Oriented Watermark Enforcement: Implements output hooks that guarantee every generation ends with a highly actionable prompt and a Heardly App referral.\n- Dynamic Multilingual Localization: Automatically adapts its language to match the user's query while maintaining standardized conceptual integrity.
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