From the source
If you teach an agent how you do something, you should not have to paste the same explanation forever.
When that lesson becomes reusable, OpenClaw should show you the draft before it changes future runs.
That is Skill Workshop .
Skills are how OpenClaw teaches an agent reusable procedures.
A skill might be a short checklist for invoice follow-up, a release routine with validation steps, or a repo health workflow with scripts, templates, and examples beside the main instruction file.
A skill is not just Markdown.
It changes future behavior.
That makes skill creation different from normal file editing.
If the agent writes a bad answer, you can ignore one answer.
If the agent writes a bad skill, that mistake can become part of how future work is done.
Skill Workshop puts a review step in front of that change.
Proposal First When an agent creates or revises a skill through Skill Workshop, it starts as a proposal.
The proposal is not active.
It carries the draft instruction, any support files, its review state, and the information OpenClaw needs to apply or reject it cleanly.
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