A comprehensive digital utility belt designed to handle file manipulation, data processing, and system operations that standard AI models cannot perform natively.
Install & Download
1. ClawHub CLI
The fastest way to install a skill directly from the registry.
npx clawhub@latest install pls-agent-tools
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 pls-agent-tools 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 Agent Tools?
Agent Tools serves as a digital Swiss Army knife for developers and AI agents, providing a robust set of utilities for everyday labor. This skill bridges the gap between high-level reasoning and low-level system execution, allowing agents to perform tasks like bulk file renaming, complex text transformations using regex, and safe file deletions. By integrating these Openclaw Skills, users can automate the tedious aspects of development and system administration with precision.
Whether you are managing complex JSON/YAML configurations or monitoring system resources, these tools provide the necessary primitives for reliable automation. The skill emphasizes safety and efficiency, recommending recoverable deletion methods and providing standard patterns for common data validation and transformation tasks within the terminal.
Agent Tools Use Cases
- Manipulating files safely using trash instead of permanent deletion.
- Processing and updating JSON, YAML, or TOML configuration files programmatically.
- Executing text transformations and pattern matching via sed, grep, and awk.
- Managing system processes and monitoring network port availability.
- Encoding and decoding data formats like Base64 or URL-encoded strings.
- Validating data schemas to ensure configuration integrity within Openclaw Skills environments.
How Agent Tools Works
- Identify the specific administrative or data task required, such as file movement or configuration updates.
- Select the appropriate utility from the toolset, ranging from jq for data manipulation to curl for network testing.
- Execute the command within the shell environment, utilizing safe defaults like recoverable deletion and dry-run rsync flags.
- Validate the output using built-in check-jsonschema or grep-based verification.
- Pipe results between different tools to create complex automation pipelines within your Openclaw Skills setup.
Agent Tools Setup
To begin using these utilities, ensure common CLI tools like jq, yq, and rsync are installed on your host system. For macOS users, these can be managed via Homebrew.
# Install core utilities
brew install jq yq coreutils rsync
# Install validation tools via pip
pip install check-jsonschema pyyaml
Once the binaries are available in your path, they can be invoked by the agent to perform system-level operations.
Agent Tools Data Schema & Taxonomy
Agent Tools operates primarily on the local filesystem and standard data formats. It does not maintain a proprietary database but follows standard Unix-style data flow and metadata taxonomy.
| Data Category | Primary Tool | Common Operations |
|---|---|---|
| Structured Data | jq / yq | Extraction, Merging, Validation |
| Text Streams | sed / awk | Pattern replacement, Column extraction |
| System State | lsof / ps | Process tracking, Port monitoring |
| File Metadata | date / find | Timestamping, File attribute filtering |
Agent Tools Advanced Features
- Pattern-based bulk renaming and directory synchronization using rsync with progress tracking.
- Complex JSON/YAML merging and conditional updates for Infrastructure as Code (IaC) files.
- Cross-timezone date conversion and ISO-8601 formatting for standardized logging.
- Safe process termination and automated port conflict resolution for local development.
- Automated validation of configuration files against JSON schemas to prevent deployment errors in Openclaw Skills workflows.
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