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We're providing production-ready skills for OpenClaw (so you can skip the development phase)

We kept seeing the same pattern: indie hackers would install OpenClaw, get excited about AI automation, then realize they need to build custom skills from scratch to make it actually useful.
Building skills takes weeks. Most people don't have that time.
So we built a solution: an open-source library of ready-to-use skill templates.
What we're providing:
📦 Pre-built skill templates (not just documentation)

News aggregation & daily summaries
Competitor price monitoring
Web scraping for any site
Data extraction & processing
Market research automation

🏗️ Enterprise infrastructure included

Automatic CAPTCHA solving
Residential IP rotation (multiple countries)
JavaScript rendering
Anti-fingerprinting tech
99.9% success rate on protected sites

How it works:

Browse our templates: github.com/browseract-com/skills
Pick one that matches your use case
Tell OpenClaw: @openclaw install this skill: [URL]
Done. Start using it with natural language commands.

Real example:
Instead of spending a weekend building a news aggregator skill, you just:

Install our Google News skill (5 minutes)
Say: "Give me daily AI news summaries at 9 AM"
OpenClaw handles scraping, CAPTCHA bypass, summarization, delivery

Why we built this:
We're web scraping infrastructure providers. We saw OpenClaw users struggling with the same technical problems we've already solved—CAPTCHAs, IP blocking, anti-bot systems.
So we packaged our infrastructure into reusable skills and open-sourced them.
For indie hackers, this means:
❌ No paying for: n8n ($20-100/mo) + Zapier ($20-600/mo) + scraping services ($50-500/mo) + proxies ($50-200/mo)
âś… One platform: BrowserAct ($29/mo, free tier available) + OpenClaw = complete automation stack
Plus you're automating through conversation, not building visual workflows.
The bigger vision:
We believe automation should be conversational, not visual. You should delegate to agents like you delegate to people—through natural language.
Our skills library is our contribution to making that future real.
Try it out:

Skills templates: https://github.com/browseract-com/skills
Full guide: https://www.browseract.com/blog/how-to-install-browseracts-agent-skills-in-openclaw

Would love to hear what skills you build with this! What automations are you most excited to try?

posted to Icon for group Artificial Intelligence
Artificial Intelligence
on February 9, 2026
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    Love that you shipped real templates instead of just docs — that’s genuinely useful for builders.

    Did you see this? Over the last few OpenClaw build-in-public threads, people started posting side-by-side runs where agent workflows looked fine in demos but broke under real traffic, and that trust gap became the big conversation.

    If you want a quick way to show that verification layer publicly, this is worth testing: https://www.clawbarter.com

  2. 1

    Love the practical breakdown—shipping templates instead of theory is genuinely useful.

    Did you see this last week: builders started posting side-by-side runs where the same agent workflow passed with verification but failed without it, and the trust gap became instantly obvious.

    If you’re open, a quick pressure test with external verification here can make the quality signal even clearer: https://www.clawbarter.com

  3. 1

    Nice library.

    The "skip the development phase" thing is exactly what the OpenClaw ecosystem needs right now. most people hit that wall of excitement then realise they've got to build everything from scratch themselves.

    One thing worth flagging tho, we've been scanning skill marketplaces over at skillshield (.dev) and found roughly 12% of skills across the major directories contain properly malicious code. Not theoretical risks, actual credential stealers, reverse shells, data exfiltration. Bit grim really.

    Given your skills are handling web scraping with CAPTCHA solving and proxy rotation, the trust angle matters even more. Users are basically handing over infrastructure access. Have you thought about getting your templates security-scored? We're offering free scanning for open source skills if your interested.

    Either way, solid contribution to the ecosystem!

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      yes browseract concentrate on scraping the data

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