OpenClaw Skills Ecosystem and Practical Production Picks

OpenClaw has two extension stories, and they are easy to mix up. Plugins extend the runtime. Skills extend the agent's behavior. That distinction matters. A plugin adds a new capability surface such as a channel, provider, or tool integration. A skill is usually lighter. It teaches the agent how and when to use existing tools, binaries, APIs, or workflows. In practice, that makes skills the faster moving part of the OpenClaw ecosystem, and also the noisier one. This article stays on the ecosyste