Moltbot Skills & MoltHub Marketplace Guide

What Are Moltbot Skills?

One of the most powerful features of Moltbot (formerly ClawdBot) is its extensible skills system. Think of skills as plugins or automations that extend what your personal AI assistant can do—from monitoring flight prices to managing your smart home.

With 15,000+ skills already available in the MoltHub marketplace and the ability to create custom skills just by asking, Moltbot's ecosystem is growing faster than any AI platform we've seen.

Understanding the Skills Architecture

Moltbot uses a layered skill system with clear precedence:

1. Workspace Skills (highest priority)
   └── Your custom skills for specific projects

2. Managed/Local Skills
   └── Skills you've installed and configured

3. Bundled Skills (lowest priority)
   └── Default skills that come with Moltbot

Each skill is essentially a SKILL.md file plus supporting files that tell the AI how to perform specific tasks.

MoltHub: The Official Skills Marketplace

• URL: https://github.com/moltbot/molthub
• Skills available: 15,000+
• Features: Publish, version, search, and install skills via CLI
• Moderation: Community-reviewed with vector search for discovery

Popular Skill Categories

Installing Skills from MoltHub

Via CLI (Recommended)

# Search for skills
moltbot skill search "flight tracker"

# Install a skill
moltbot skill install flight-price-monitor

# List installed skills
moltbot skill list

# Update all skills
moltbot skill update --all

Via Chat

Just ask Moltbot naturally:

"Install the flight price monitor skill"

"Find me a skill for tracking crypto prices"

"Show me all my installed skills"

Creating Custom Skills

Here's where Moltbot gets magical: the AI can write skills for itself.

Method 1: Ask Moltbot to Create It

Simply tell Moltbot what you need:

"Create a skill to monitor flight prices from SFO to Tokyo and alert me when they drop below $800"

"Build an automation that summarizes my unread emails every morning at 8am"

"Make a skill that posts my daily standup to Slack based on my git commits"

Moltbot will generate the skill files, test them, and install them automatically.

Method 2: Write Skills Manually

Create a SKILL.md file in your workspace:

# Flight Price Monitor

## Description
Monitors flight prices and sends alerts when they drop below a threshold.

## Triggers
- Schedule: Every 6 hours
- Webhook: /api/check-flights

## Parameters
- origin: string (airport code)
- destination: string (airport code)
- max_price: number (USD threshold)
- notify_channel: string (whatsapp|telegram|slack)

## Actions
1. Query flight API for current prices
2. Compare against max_price threshold
3. If lower, send notification to specified channel
4. Log price history for trend analysis

## Example Usage
"Check flights from SFO to NRT under $800 and notify me on WhatsApp"

Method 3: Fork and Modify Existing Skills

# Clone a skill to customize it
moltbot skill clone popular-skill-name my-custom-version

# Edit the skill
code ~/.moltbot/skills/my-custom-version/SKILL.md

# Test your changes
moltbot skill test my-custom-version

Real-World Skill Examples

1. Morning Briefing Skill

# Morning Briefing

## Trigger
- Schedule: Daily at 7:00 AM

## Actions
1. Fetch today's calendar events
2. Check unread priority emails
3. Get weather forecast
4. Summarize top news in my interests
5. Check flight status if traveling today
6. Compile and send via preferred channel

2. Smart Reply Skill

# Email Smart Reply

## Trigger
- Event: New email matching criteria

## Criteria
- From: known contacts
- Not: newsletters, marketing

## Actions
1. Analyze email content and intent
2. Draft appropriate response
3. Queue for approval or auto-send (configurable)
4. Log interaction for context

3. Price Drop Monitor

# Amazon Price Tracker

## Trigger
- Schedule: Every 4 hours
- Webhook: /api/track-price

## Parameters
- product_urls: list of Amazon URLs
- target_prices: price thresholds

## Actions
1. Scrape current prices (via browser automation)
2. Compare against targets
3. Alert if any drops detected
4. Maintain price history graph

Security Considerations for Skills

⚠️ Important: Skills can execute code on your machine. The Moltbot documentation explicitly warns:

"Treat third-party skills as trusted code. Read them before enabling. Prefer sandboxed runs for untrusted inputs."

Best Practices

1. Review before installing - Read the SKILL.md and any supporting code
2. Use sandboxed execution - Enable sandbox mode for untrusted skills
3. Limit permissions - Some skills need fewer permissions than they request
4. Prefer popular skills - Community-reviewed skills are generally safer
5. Monitor activity - Check logs for unexpected behavior

Known Risks

Security researchers at SOC Prime have identified issues with some Moltbot deployments:

• Exposed unauthenticated admin ports
• Secrets stored in plaintext
• Skill-library poisoning attacks
• Potential for RCE (Remote Code Execution)

Cross-Agent Skill Portability

An exciting development: there's an active proposal to integrate SkillKit into Moltbot, enabling:

• Skills that work across 17+ different AI coding agents
• Unified skill management
• Portable automations that follow you across tools

Building Skills for Others? Consider Y Build

If you're creating complex automations and skills, you might want to turn them into actual products that others can use without technical setup.

From Skill to Product: An Example

Say you've built an amazing "Smart Email Responder" skill for Moltbot. With Y Build, you could:

1. Wrap it in a UI - No-code interface for non-technical users
2. Add authentication - User accounts and API key management
3. Deploy instantly - One-click cloud deployment
4. Monetize - Subscription billing built-in
5. Analyze usage - See how customers use your AI features

The Future of AI Skills

The skills ecosystem represents something bigger: composable AI capabilities. Instead of monolithic AI applications, we're moving toward:

• Modular, reusable AI components
• Community-driven automation libraries
• Personal AI that grows with your needs
• Cross-platform skill portability

Getting Started with Skills

1. Install Moltbot - Follow the complete guide
2. Browse MoltHub - Explore available skills
3. Install your first skill - moltbot skill install morning-briefing
4. Create a custom skill - Ask Moltbot to build something for you
5. Share with the community - Publish your skills to MoltHub

• MoltHub Skills Registry
• Moltbot Skills Documentation
• Awesome Moltbot Skills Collection
• SkillKit Integration Proposal