If you’ve ever wished your computer could handle the repetitive stuff so you don’t have to think about it — this is the skill that delivers.

OpenClaw Automation Recipes (openclaw-automation-recipes) is a collection of 10 ready-to-use automation templates on ClawHub. Each recipe is a YAML config file that hooks a trigger (a schedule, an email, a calendar event) to a set of actions. No coding required — copy, tweak a URL or two, deploy.

What’s Inside

The collection covers the kind of tasks that eat up your day if you let them:

  • Daily news summaries — Cron-triggered fetch of an RSS feed, summarized and pushed somewhere. Great for a morning briefing.
  • Email auto-reply — Keyword-matching on incoming mail with a templated response. Not full AI, but enough to buy you time.
  • GitHub issue monitoring — Watch a repo for new issues and forward them to Discord or Slack.
  • Price monitoring — Poll a product page every 4 hours, extract the price, alert you if it drops below a threshold.
  • Meeting reminders — Fire a notification 15 minutes before a calendar event starts.
  • Content publishing — Schedule-triggered generation and cross-platform posting.
  • Data backups — Cron-based rsync-style backup to S3 or similar.
  • Social media monitoring — Track brand mentions and flag negative sentiment.
  • Smart scheduling — Analyze your calendar and prioritize tasks for the day.

How It Works

Each recipe is a YAML file you drop into ~/.openclaw/automations/. The structure is simple: a trigger type, a condition if needed, and a chain of actions. The examples use common platforms — Telegram, Discord, DingTalk — but the pattern is extensible.

Who It’s For

If you’re on OpenClaw and you want to automate something without building it from scratch, this is a solid starting point. The YAML templates are readable enough that you can adapt them even with minimal experience. If you need something custom, the skill author offers paid tailoring.

Verdict

Ten recipes sounds modest, but each one is a complete loop — trigger, logic, action. That’s more useful than fifty half-baked snippets. Worth installing just to browse the patterns and see what’s possible.

Find it on ClawHub under openclaw-automation-recipes.