OpenClaw Plugins — Ecosystem Guide and Practical Picks

This article is about OpenClaw plugins — native gateway packages that add channels, model providers, tools, speech, memory, media, web search, and other runtime surfaces. The rest of the piece covers discovery, packaging, CLI lifecycle, maturity, security, and concrete plugin picks. OpenClaw skills matter for navigation and safety because ClawHub and announcement text often say "skills" when they mean installable agent packs and workflows. Those are related to the same registries you use for plu