# ClawHub
**Repository Path**: github_syn/ClawHub
## Basic Information
- **Project Name**: ClawHub
- **Description**: No description available
- **Primary Language**: Unknown
- **License**: MIT
- **Default Branch**: main
- **Homepage**: None
- **GVP Project**: No
## Statistics
- **Stars**: 0
- **Forks**: 0
- **Created**: 2026-02-28
- **Last Updated**: 2026-02-28
## Categories & Tags
**Categories**: Uncategorized
**Tags**: None
## README
ClawHub
ClawHub is the **public skill registry for Clawdbot**: publish, version, and search text-based agent skills (a `SKILL.md` plus supporting files).
It's designed for fast browsing + a CLI-friendly API, with moderation hooks and vector search.
onlycrabs.ai is the **SOUL.md registry**: publish and share system lore the same way you publish skills.
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## What you can do with it
- Browse skills + render their `SKILL.md`.
- Publish new skill versions with changelogs + tags (including `latest`).
- Browse souls + render their `SOUL.md`.
- Publish new soul versions with changelogs + tags.
- Search via embeddings (vector index) instead of brittle keywords.
- Star + comment; admins/mods can curate and approve skills.
## onlycrabs.ai (SOUL.md registry)
- Entry point is host-based: `onlycrabs.ai`.
- On the onlycrabs.ai host, the home page and nav default to souls.
- On ClawHub, souls live under `/souls`.
- Soul bundles only accept `SOUL.md` for now (no extra files).
## How it works (high level)
- Web app: TanStack Start (React, Vite/Nitro).
- Backend: Convex (DB + file storage + HTTP actions) + Convex Auth (GitHub OAuth).
- Search: OpenAI embeddings (`text-embedding-3-small`) + Convex vector search.
- API schema + routes: `packages/schema` (`clawhub-schema`).
## CLI
Common CLI flows:
- Auth: `clawhub login`, `clawhub whoami`
- Discover: `clawhub search ...`, `clawhub explore`
- Manage local installs: `clawhub install `, `clawhub uninstall `, `clawhub list`, `clawhub update --all`
- Inspect without installing: `clawhub inspect `
- Publish/sync: `clawhub publish `, `clawhub sync`
Docs: [`docs/quickstart.md`](docs/quickstart.md), [`docs/cli.md`](docs/cli.md).
### Removal permissions
- `clawhub uninstall ` only removes a local install on your machine.
- Uploaded registry skills use soft-delete/restore (`clawhub delete ` / `clawhub undelete ` or API equivalents).
- Soft-delete/restore is allowed for the skill owner, moderators, and admins.
- Hard delete is admin-only (management tools / ban flows).
## Telemetry
ClawHub tracks minimal **install telemetry** (to compute install counts) when you run `clawhub sync` while logged in.
Disable via:
```bash
export CLAWHUB_DISABLE_TELEMETRY=1
```
Details: [`docs/telemetry.md`](docs/telemetry.md).
## Repo layout
- `src/` — TanStack Start app (routes, components, styles).
- `convex/` — schema + queries/mutations/actions + HTTP API routes.
- `packages/schema/` — shared API types/routes for the CLI and app.
- [`docs/`](docs/README.md) — project documentation (architecture, CLI, auth, deployment, and more).
- [`docs/spec.md`](docs/spec.md) — product + implementation spec (good first read).
## Local dev
Prereqs: [Bun](https://bun.sh/) (Convex runs via `bunx`, no global install needed).
```bash
bun install
cp .env.local.example .env.local
# edit .env.local — see CONTRIBUTING.md for local Convex values
# terminal A: local Convex backend
bunx convex dev
# terminal B: web app (port 3000)
bun run dev
# seed sample data
bunx convex run --no-push devSeed:seedNixSkills
```
For full setup instructions (env vars, GitHub OAuth, JWT keys, database seeding), see [CONTRIBUTING.md](CONTRIBUTING.md).
## Environment
- `VITE_CONVEX_URL`: Convex deployment URL (`https://.convex.cloud`).
- `VITE_CONVEX_SITE_URL`: Convex site URL (`https://.convex.site`).
- `VITE_SOULHUB_SITE_URL`: onlycrabs.ai site URL (`https://onlycrabs.ai`).
- `VITE_SOULHUB_HOST`: onlycrabs.ai host match (`onlycrabs.ai`).
- `VITE_SITE_MODE`: Optional override (`skills` or `souls`) for SSR builds.
- `CONVEX_SITE_URL`: same as `VITE_CONVEX_SITE_URL` (auth + cookies).
- `SITE_URL`: App URL (local: `http://localhost:3000`).
- `AUTH_GITHUB_ID` / `AUTH_GITHUB_SECRET`: GitHub OAuth App.
- `JWT_PRIVATE_KEY` / `JWKS`: Convex Auth keys.
- `OPENAI_API_KEY`: embeddings for search + indexing.
## Nix plugins (nixmode skills)
ClawHub can store a nix-clawdbot plugin pointer in SKILL frontmatter so the registry knows which
Nix package bundle to install. A nix plugin is different from a regular skill pack: it bundles the
skill pack, the CLI binary, and its config flags/requirements together.
Add this to `SKILL.md`:
```yaml
---
name: peekaboo
description: Capture and automate macOS UI with the Peekaboo CLI.
metadata: {"clawdbot":{"nix":{"plugin":"github:clawdbot/nix-steipete-tools?dir=tools/peekaboo","systems":["aarch64-darwin"]}}}
---
```
Install via nix-clawdbot:
```nix
programs.clawdbot.plugins = [
{ source = "github:clawdbot/nix-steipete-tools?dir=tools/peekaboo"; }
];
```
You can also declare config requirements + an example snippet:
```yaml
---
name: padel
description: Check padel court availability and manage bookings via Playtomic.
metadata: {"clawdbot":{"config":{"requiredEnv":["PADEL_AUTH_FILE"],"stateDirs":[".config/padel"],"example":"config = { env = { PADEL_AUTH_FILE = \\\"/run/agenix/padel-auth\\\"; }; };"}}}
---
```
To show CLI help (recommended for nix plugins), include the `cli --help` output:
```yaml
---
name: padel
description: Check padel court availability and manage bookings via Playtomic.
metadata: {"clawdbot":{"cliHelp":"padel --help\\nUsage: padel [command]\\n"}}
---
```
`metadata.clawdbot` is preferred, but `metadata.clawdis` and `metadata.openclaw` are accepted as aliases.
## Skill metadata
Skills declare their runtime requirements (env vars, binaries, install specs) in the `SKILL.md` frontmatter. ClawHub's security analysis checks these declarations against actual skill behavior.
Full reference: [`docs/skill-format.md`](docs/skill-format.md#frontmatter-metadata)
Quick example:
```yaml
---
name: my-skill
description: Does a thing with an API.
metadata:
openclaw:
requires:
env:
- MY_API_KEY
bins:
- curl
primaryEnv: MY_API_KEY
---
```
## Scripts
```bash
bun run dev
bun run build
bun run test
bun run coverage
bun run lint
```