A comprehensive survival guide for mastering essential home maintenance, plumbing repairs, and high-efficiency budget cooking.
Install & Download
1. ClawHub CLI
The fastest way to install a skill directly from the registry.
npx clawhub@latest install survival-basics
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 survival-basics 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 Survival Basics: Home & Food?
Survival Basics: Home & Food is a multi-domain expertise module designed for AI agents to guide users through the essentials of self-sufficiency. It integrates four critical life skills: home repair, professional-grade plumbing troubleshooting, $50/week budget meal planning, and foundational scratch cooking. This skill transforms a standard AI into a practical consultant capable of saving users thousands in service calls and food costs.
By leveraging verified data from sources like This Old House and the USDA, these Openclaw Skills provide actionable, safety-first instructions for everything from fixing a leaky faucet to mastering Sunday meal prep. It is specifically designed to handle the logical workflows of maintenance, ensuring users have the right tools and knowledge before they begin a task.
Survival Basics: Home & Food Use Cases
- A homeowner or renter needs to troubleshoot a clogged drain or a running toilet without calling a plumber.
- A user on a tight budget wants to learn how to prep nutritious meals for under $50 per week.
- A beginner DIYer needs to assemble a functional home toolkit for under $30.
- Someone interested in learning foundational cooking techniques like roasting, sautéing, and sauce-making.
- New property owners looking for a preventative maintenance schedule and shut-off valve locations.
How Survival Basics: Home & Food Works
- The agent assesses the user's current situation (e.g., a specific repair emergency or a weekly meal planning request).
- For repairs, the skill identifies the necessary tools from the $30 Starter Toolkit and provides safety protocols like water or power shut-off steps.
- For food, the agent queries the user regarding dietary restrictions, available equipment, and budget constraints before generating a plan.
- The skill provides step-by-step logic, such as the Sunday Prep Sequence, to maximize efficiency and minimize waste.
- State is persisted across sessions to track which repairs have been completed and which cooking techniques have been mastered.
Survival Basics: Home & Food Setup
To add these capabilities to your local AI agent, install the skill via the Openclaw Skills hub:
npx clawhub install survival-basics
Ensure your agent has filesystem access enabled to persist the home_skills state across different sessions.
Survival Basics: Home & Food Data Schema & Taxonomy
The skill organizes data using a structured YAML taxonomy to track user progress and home specifications:
| Section | Tracked Metadata |
|---|---|
| home_skills | Toolkit status and history of completed repairs. |
| plumbing | Mapping of main and fixture shut-off locations and active issue logs. |
| meal_prep | Weekly budget, equipment list, and current prep status. |
| cooking | User skill level and a checklist of 10 foundational techniques learned. |
Survival Basics: Home & Food Advanced Features
- Parallel Cooking Logic: A specialized 'Sunday Prep Sequence' that guides users through cooking multiple proteins, grains, and vegetables simultaneously.
- Diagnostic Branching: Logical flowcharts to determine if a plumbing issue is a simple fix or requires a professional.
- State-Aware Maintenance: Persists the location of your specific water shut-off valves and electrical breakers so the agent remembers them in an emergency.
- Dynamic Budget Scaling: Adjusts meal plans based on fluctuating grocery costs and regional availability using its internal protein/starch/veg templates.
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