Overview
code-mate-openclaw is an open-source productivity skill for Claude Code and compatible agents, published by CherryHQ. Its author describes it as: “Runs a local OpenClaw agent non-interactively and returns its structured response. Use when the user asks to delegate a bounded task to the OpenClaw main agent.”. The project has 52k stars on GitHub and is available under the AGPL-3.0-only license. Add it to your setup with `git clone https://github.com/CherryHQ/cherry-studio ~/.claude/skills/code-mate-openclaw`.
What code-mate-openclaw does
1. Set the Bash working directory to the exact directory the user authorized and set a finite outer timeout, normally 11 minutes. 2. Check availability with `command -v openclaw`. If it is missing, stop and ask the user to install OpenClaw in Code Mate. 3. Run the local main agent once:
Best for
What’s inside
The SKILL.md for code-mate-openclaw is organised into these sections:
- Run
- Authentication And Permissions
Installation
Add code-mate-openclaw to your agent with:
git clone https://github.com/CherryHQ/cherry-studio ~/.claude/skills/code-mate-openclawReview a skill’s source before installing it — skills can instruct your agent to run commands. This command comes from the skill’s public repository, which is the source of truth for setup steps. New to skills? Read how to install Claude Code skills.
Supported agents
- Claude Code — declared in the repository topics
- Codex — declared in the repository topics
License
code-mate-openclaw is published under the AGPL-3.0-only license.
Strengths
- Clear AGPL-3.0-only license — safe to read and adapt within its terms
- Ships in CherryHQ/cherry-studio, an established project with 52,047 GitHub stars
- Works with Claude Code, Codex
- Actively maintained — repository updated in the last 30 days
- Its repository gained 748 GitHub stars over the last 21 days
Author
Topics
Frequently asked questions
- What does code-mate-openclaw do?
- Runs a local OpenClaw agent non-interactively and returns its structured response. Use when the user asks to delegate a bounded task to the OpenClaw main agent.
- How do I install code-mate-openclaw?
- Run git clone https://github.com/CherryHQ/cherry-studio ~/.claude/skills/code-mate-openclaw in your agent, then reload your skills. Review the source at https://github.com/CherryHQ/cherry-studio before installing.
- Is code-mate-openclaw free to use?
- Yes. code-mate-openclaw is free and open source under the AGPL-3.0-only license, so you can read, run, and adapt it within that license's terms.
- Which agents does code-mate-openclaw work with?
- code-mate-openclaw lists Claude Code and Codex — named in its SKILL.md, its plugin marketplace or its repository topics. Skills use the portable SKILL.md format, so other agents that read that format may load it too.
- Where does code-mate-openclaw come from?
- code-mate-openclaw ships inside CherryHQ/cherry-studio, a repository that contains 37 catalogued skills in total. The repository's 52,047 GitHub stars apply to that whole collection, not to this skill on its own.