# Agent Skills

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Skills are Gclaw's superpower. The more skills an agent has, the more capable it becomes. And because skills are just markdown files, anyone can create and share them.
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## What Are Agent Skills?

Agent Skills are modular capability packages that extend what Gclaw can do. Each skill is defined by a `SKILL.md` file — a structured markdown document that describes the skill's purpose, the tools it provides, and how the agent should use them. Skills are not plugins written in a compiled language; they are human-readable, version-controllable, and trivially shareable.

This design is intentional. Skills are written **for agents**, not for humans. They define behaviors that an autonomous agent can invoke without human direction — enabling Gclaw to trade on HyperLiquid, bridge assets cross-chain, process payments, monitor hardware health, and more, all without a human clicking through a UI.

Gclaw ships with 22 built-in skills across two categories: **GDex Trading Skills** and **Utility Skills**.

## GDex Trading Skills

These 14 skills give Gclaw deep integration with the GDEX SDK for multi-chain DeFi operations. They cover everything from wallet setup to perpetual futures to portfolio management.

| Skill                    | Description                                                                                                                   |
| ------------------------ | ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
| `gdex-authentication`    | Wallet and API key setup — authenticates Gclaw with the GDEX API using your self-custodial wallet credentials                 |
| `gdex-bridge`            | Cross-chain token bridging — transfer assets between Solana, Ethereum, Base, BNB Chain, Arbitrum, Sui, and more               |
| `gdex-copy-trading`      | Copy top wallet traders — Gclaw identifies high-performing wallets and mirrors their spot trading activity                    |
| `gdex-limit-orders`      | Set limit orders with take-profit and stop-loss — automate entry and exit points for any token across supported chains        |
| `gdex-onboarding`        | New user onboarding flow — guides first-time setup of GDEX API keys and wallet connections                                    |
| `gdex-perp-copy-trading` | Copy perpetual futures traders — mirror the perp positions of top-performing HyperLiquid traders                              |
| `gdex-perp-funding`      | Manage perpetual funding — monitor and optimize funding rate exposure on open perp positions                                  |
| `gdex-perp-trading`      | HyperLiquid perpetual futures — open, manage, and close leveraged positions on HyperLiquid                                    |
| `gdex-portfolio`         | Portfolio management and tracking — aggregate balances, token values, and performance across all connected wallets and chains |
| `gdex-sdk-debugging`     | SDK troubleshooting — diagnose and resolve GDEX SDK errors, failed transactions, and API connectivity issues                  |
| `gdex-spot-trading`      | Buy/sell tokens across chains — execute market and limit spot trades on Solana, Ethereum, Base, BNB Chain, Arbitrum, and more |
| `gdex-token-discovery`   | Find trending tokens — scan for emerging tokens with security scores, volume metrics, and holder analysis                     |
| `gdex-trading`           | General trading orchestration — high-level skill that coordinates other trading skills for complex multi-step strategies      |
| `gdex-wallet-setup`      | Wallet configuration — set up and manage GDEX-compatible wallets for use by the agent                                         |

For more detail on the trading capabilities these skills power, see [📈 Trading with Gclaw](https://docs.gemach.io/gemach-dao/products/gclaw/trading-with-gclaw).

## Utility Skills

These 8 skills extend Gclaw beyond trading into a broader range of autonomous agent capabilities.

| Skill           | Description                                                                                                                                 |
| --------------- | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
| `github`        | GitHub integration — create issues, comment on PRs, push files, and interact with GitHub repositories as part of agent workflows            |
| `hardware`      | Hardware monitoring — track CPU, memory, temperature, and storage on low-resource boards; trigger hibernation or alerts based on thresholds |
| `skill-creator` | Create new custom skills — Gclaw uses this skill to help users design and write new SKILL.md files, bootstrapping the skills ecosystem      |
| `summarize`     | Text summarization — condense long documents, trade logs, market reports, or conversation histories into concise summaries                  |
| `tempo-payment` | Tempo payment processing — handle Tempo protocol payment flows as part of agent-executed transactions                                       |
| `tmux`          | Terminal multiplexer management — spawn, attach, and manage tmux sessions for running multiple agent processes side by side                 |
| `weather`       | Weather information — fetch current conditions and forecasts; useful in multi-agent workflows where environmental context matters           |
| `x402-payment`  | x402 payment protocol — process x402 micropayment flows, enabling Gclaw to pay for external APIs and services autonomously                  |

## ClawHub Registry

ClawHub is the community skill marketplace for Gclaw. It provides a centralized registry where developers and agents can publish, discover, and install skills beyond the built-in set.

With ClawHub, you can:

* **Discover** community-built skills for specialized trading strategies, data feeds, protocol integrations, and more
* **Install** skills directly into a running Gclaw agent with a single command
* **Publish** your own custom skills and make them available to the community
* **Rate and review** skills based on real-world agent performance

The registry is designed to grow organically. As Gclaw agents gain goodwill and reach Architect level (goodwill ≥ 500), they can write new tools and contribute skills back to ClawHub directly — a self-reinforcing cycle of capability expansion.

## Creating Custom Skills

The `skill-creator` skill turns skill creation into an agent-assisted workflow. You describe the capability you want, and Gclaw helps you define the SKILL.md structure, test it, and register it with ClawHub.

Skills are just markdown, which means:

* No compilation step
* No SDK bindings required
* Version-controllable in any git repo
* Readable and auditable by humans and agents alike
* Shareable as a single file

This low barrier to entry is deliberate. Gemach's agent-first vision depends on a thriving ecosystem of skills that agents can compose and extend. Anyone — developer, trader, researcher, or agent — can contribute a new capability to the network.

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**See also:**

* [🦞 Gclaw](https://docs.gemach.io/gemach-dao/products/gclaw) — What Gclaw is and why it matters
* [📈 Trading with Gclaw](https://docs.gemach.io/gemach-dao/products/gclaw/trading-with-gclaw) — How the GDex trading skills work in practice
* [🐝 Swarm & Replication](https://docs.gemach.io/gemach-dao/products/gclaw/swarm-and-replication) — How skills propagate to child agents