How OpenClaw Learns New Things

The sizable gap between how AIs and humans learn new things has inspired researchers to rethink the math behind today’s AI models. 

But developers have found a more immediate and practical workaround to get AI to continually learn: “skills.” 

A skill is a text prompt containing instructions for how an agent should perform a task. For example, an agent that is instructed to tweak a PDF might review a skill for PDF editing before completing the task. 

OpenClaw, a fast-growing open source software for powering personal AI agents, can peruse a site, ClawHub, to find skills on how to do everything from summarizing YouTube videos to using Google Cloud.

Coding agents such as Claude Code and Codex can also utilize skills to handle various tasks with greater ease than they otherwise would.