Most roundups of ClawHub skills cover the same handful of names: Capability Evolver, GitHub, Wacli, Gog. Those are solid picks. But with over 10,700 skills in the registry as of March 2026, there is a lot more worth knowing about — especially if your use case goes beyond general productivity.
This post digs into four specific workflow areas where ClawHub has strong coverage: deep research, workflow automation, voice and audio, and smart home control. These categories tend to get less attention than developer tooling, but they are where some of the most interesting skills are quietly accumulating installs.
Deep Research Skills
The academic-deep-research and deep-research-pro skills from the LeoYeAI/openclaw-master-skills curated list are two of the most underrated picks for anyone doing substantive research work. Where a basic web search skill returns links, these skills are designed to synthesize across sources, follow citation chains, and return structured summaries — closer to what a research assistant would produce than what a search engine would.
Felo Search takes a similar approach but adds multilingual depth. It returns AI-synthesized answers with source citations attached and handles Chinese, Japanese, Korean, and English natively — which matters if your research crosses language barriers. Tavily and Brave Search round out the toolkit for users who want more control over which search index their agent queries.
Also worth knowing: Perplexity has its own ClawHub skill now. If you are already a Perplexity user, it is a natural bridge that lets your OpenClaw agent tap into Perplexity’s live search and summarization directly from within a workflow.
Workflow Automation: n8n and Beyond
n8n-workflow
If you run n8n for business process automation, this skill is a significant unlock. Rather than triggering n8n workflows through webhooks or a separate interface, you can describe what you want in natural language and have your agent kick off the automation directly. For teams already invested in n8n for multi-step processes and API connectors, this is an obvious pairing.
database-query
With 95,000+ installs, database-query is one of ClawHub’s most-used skills and arguably underreported in most roundups. It translates natural language into SQL and runs queries across PostgreSQL, MySQL, and SQLite. For anyone doing regular data work or ad-hoc reporting, this turns your agent into a surprisingly capable data analyst — no SQL fluency required on your part.
Felo SuperAgent
Felo SuperAgent is designed for multi-step projects — the kind of task where you want the agent to maintain a persistent workspace, use several tools in sequence, and stream results in real time. It ships with six built-in tools and real-time SSE streaming, which makes it feel more like a collaborative session than a single prompt-response exchange.
Voice and Audio
Voice capability is one of the areas where OpenClaw differentiates itself from many agent frameworks — and the skill ecosystem reflects that. ElevenLabs Agent brings text-to-speech into any workflow, useful for accessibility, audio content generation, or voice-enabled agent responses. OpenAI Whisper provides the flip side: speech-to-text transcription that can be fed into other pipeline stages.
Together, these two skills effectively give an OpenClaw agent a voice interface layer — one that can both speak and understand spoken input — without requiring any native voice infrastructure on the host machine. For anyone building assistants that need to operate in hands-free or audio-first contexts, this pairing is worth knowing about.
Smart Home and IoT
The Home Assistant skill is one of the more novel offerings on ClawHub. It connects your OpenClaw agent to a Home Assistant instance, enabling conversational control of smart home devices and IoT infrastructure. Turn lights on, check sensor readings, trigger automations — through natural language rather than a dedicated app.
For smart home enthusiasts running Home Assistant already, this is a genuinely useful extension. For everyone else, it represents a broader trend in the ClawHub ecosystem: skills are increasingly bridging AI agents into physical environments, not just digital workflows.
Presentation Generation: Felo Slides
Felo Slides is worth a mention for anyone who produces presentations regularly. It generates HTML-based slide decks where each element is independently editable — not a static export, but something closer to a live document. For quick meeting prep or first-draft pitch decks, this compresses a lot of manual work into a single agent command.
Mobile Access: Telegram
It almost feels too obvious to mention, but Telegram integration sits at 145,000+ installs for good reason. If you want your OpenClaw agent available from your phone without a dedicated mobile app, Telegram is the fastest path. Setup is minimal, the interface is familiar, and it covers most of what you would want from mobile agent access: quick queries, notifications, and short task delegation on the go.
A Note on Vetting
As of March 2026, ClawHub estimates that roughly 7.6% of its listed skills — over 820 packages — have been flagged as malicious or suspicious. The registry now partners with VirusTotal for automatic scanning, and the community 100/3 rule (100+ installs, 3+ months in the registry) remains the simplest practical filter. Skills with 1,000+ installs are generally considered safer, as they have had meaningful community review time.
The curated LeoYeAI/openclaw-master-skills list (339+ weekly-updated picks) is a reliable starting point if you want a pre-vetted shortlist rather than browsing the raw registry. It covers AI, productivity, development, marketing, and finance — and it is actively maintained.
Quick Reference
Here is a summary of the skills covered in this post, grouped by use case:
- Research: academic-deep-research, deep-research-pro, felo-search, tavily, perplexity
- Workflow automation: n8n-workflow, database-query, felo-superAgent
- Voice and audio: elevenlabs-agent, openai-whisper
- Smart home: home-assistant
- Presentations: felo-slides
- Mobile access: telegram
All can be installed via npx clawhub@latest install <skill-name> or by dropping the GitHub repo link directly into your OpenClaw chat.
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