ClawHub Skill Spotlight: OpenClaw Automation Recipes

If you've ever wished your computer could just handle the boring stuff automatically, OpenClaw Automation Recipes is exactly what you need. This skill gives you ten ready-to-use automation templates that cover everything from daily news summaries to price monitoring and social media alerts.

I picked this one up from ClawHub recently and have been using the daily news recipe every morning. Here's what makes it worth trying.

The Good Stuff

Daily News Summary - This one runs on a cron schedule and pulls from Hacker News RSS, then summarises the top 5 stories for you. It's been genuinely useful for staying on top of tech news without having to manually check three different sites.

GitHub Issue Monitoring - Set it up once, forget about it. Gets Slack/Discord notifications when new issues land in your repos. Much better than checking GitHub every hour.

Price Monitoring - If you track product prices (or just want to know when that thing you've been eyeing goes on sale), this scrapes a URL and alerts you when the price drops below your threshold. Simple, effective.

Meeting Reminders - Hooks into your calendar and pings you 15 minutes before anything starts. No more awkward "sorry, I missed the invite" moments.

How to Get It Running

Grab it from ClawHub:

clawhub install openclaw-automation-recipes

Copy whichever recipe takes your fancy to ~/.openclaw/automations/. Edit the YAML to swap in your own URLs, channels, and schedules. Then restart:

openclaw restart

The YAML format is dead straightforward - triggers, conditions, actions. If you can read a config file, you can customise these.

One Quirk

The skill comes with Chinese comments and contact info for customisation at the bottom of the file. You can safely ignore that part - the actual recipes work perfectly fine as-is.

Who This Is For

If you're running OpenClaw and spending time on repetitive tasks that could be scripted, these recipes will save you real time. You don't need to be a developer - just comfortable editing a config file and knowing what you want to automate.

Check it out on ClawHub and pick the recipes that match your workflow.