Skills

A skill is a packaged capability for AI agents — a layer of guidance and typed actions on top of the raw MCP tools. Where a tool says how to call an operation, a skill tells an agent what the capability is, when to use it, and the typical workflow — and bundles the related tools together.

How skills relate to tools

  • An MCP tool is a single callable operation (content_create_page).

  • A skill groups related operations with decision guidance, so an agent can reason about which to use and in what order.

  • The GET /content/help reference (via template_get_help) is the lowest-level description of the content model that both rely on.

SpiderPublish skills

SpiderPublish ships four core skills, distributed as the signed @spideriq/publish-skills package on the OPVS marketplace:

  • content-platform — the heart of it: pages, posts, docs, navigation, settings, components, domains, and marketplace discovery. This is where most authoring lives.

  • templates-engine — Liquid templates and themes, plus deploying the site to the edge. Use it when you're changing how content renders rather than the content itself.

  • manage-brands — workspace (brand) administration: settings, team members, invitations, and provider integrations.

  • upload-host-media — uploading and hosting images, files, and videos on the media CDN.

A related read-only skill, spideriq-recipes, ships canonical step-by-step workflow guides ("clone a site", "build a homepage", "add a domain") that tell an agent which tools to call in which order.

Getting skills

Agents that use the OPVS skill runtime install them from the marketplace:

# via the marketplace installer
openclaw marketplace install @spideriq/publish-skills

# or via npm for local tooling
npm install @spideriq/publish-skills --registry https://npm.opvs.ai

If you're connecting an MCP-capable agent (Claude, Cursor, and others) directly, you don't need the skill packages — the MCP tools are the executable surface, and the agent reasons over them with the template_get_help reference. Skills are the value-add layer for agents running on the OPVS skill runtime.

When to use what

  • Connecting Claude / Cursor / an MCP agent? Use the MCP server — tools + template_get_help.

  • Scripting or CI? Use the CLI.

  • An agent on the OPVS skill runtime? Install the skill packages above for the guidance layer on top of the same tools.

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