boxmining
Course 6 of 18

Skills & Cron

The two features that turn a chatbot into a *system*. Skills are the recipe book your agent follows on demand — each one is a markdown file in `~/.openclaw/skills/` that the agent loads only when the task matches. Cron is the trigger that fires those skills on a schedule, so the recipe runs while you sleep. The channel treats the pair as the channel's automation heartbeat: every morning-briefing, every Twitter-scrape, every sub-agent fan-out starts with a skill file and a cron line.

5 sub-sections
13 videos
2 hands-on
3 industry briefs
  1. 6.1

    What skills are (the recipe-book model)

    3 videos Industry brief
  2. 6.2

    Writing your first skill (file structure, metadata vs body)

    2 videos Industry brief
  3. 6.3

    Cron syntax and the 5-hour refresh window

    2 videos Hands-on
  4. 6.4

    Chained cron: 6AM-twitter → 7AM-brief → 7:30AM-slides → 8AM-discord

    2 videos Hands-on
  5. 6.5

    Skills as a force multiplier: the 6-hour research sweep

    4 videos Industry brief
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