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Multi-channel AI gateway with extensible messaging integrations

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--- summary: "Manage Gateway skills from the macOS app's Dashboard" read_when: - Managing skills from the macOS app - Changing skills gating or install behavior title: "Skills (macOS)" --- Open **Dashboard → Skills** to inspect and manage skills for the connected Gateway. The macOS app uses the same Control UI as a regular browser; there is no separate native Skills pane. Select the intended Gateway before installing or configuring a skill. ## Data source - `skills.status` (gateway) returns all skills plus eligibility and missing requirements, including allowlist blocks for bundled skills. - Requirements come from `metadata.openclaw.requires` in each `SKILL.md`. ## Install actions - `metadata.openclaw.install` defines install options (brew/node/go/uv/download). - The Dashboard calls `skills.install` to run installers on the Gateway host. - To install for this Mac's local Gateway, connect to it first. Use **Connection… → Connection** to choose Local mode, or select its saved profile from **Gateways**. - Operator-owned `security.installPolicy` (`enabled`, `targets`, `exec`) runs before installer metadata. `block` results and policy failures stop the install. A `warn` result also stops the gateway-backed request: review it with the matching direct CLI when one exists, or change the policy to allow the reviewed request, then retry. - If every install option is `download`, the gateway surfaces all download choices. - Otherwise the gateway picks one preferred installer using current install preferences (`skills.install.preferBrew`, `skills.install.nodeManager`) and host binaries: Homebrew first when `preferBrew` is enabled and `brew` is present, then `uv`, then the configured node manager, then Homebrew again if available (even without `preferBrew`), then `go`, then `download`. - Node install labels reflect the configured node manager, including `yarn`. ## Browse ClawHub Search ClawHub from **Dashboard → Skills** and open a result to inspect its metadata, publisher, and release version before installing. The Gateway owns the pre-download security check during installation. Official ClawHub publishers and packages skip the security-verdict fetch, as described in [ClawHub release trust](/cli/skills#release-trust). A ClawHub **Review** audit outcome allows installation and returns audit text in the result warning. **Blocked** or unavailable security checks stop installation. These audit outcomes do not override the operator-owned install policy described above. Install-only search results offer **Install** instead of a detail review. The Dashboard sends their exact source reference without a version selector and labels unscanned sources. After installation, it reads `skills.status` on the same Gateway route to confirm the reviewed version or the recorded install-only reference. ## Env/API keys - Skill configuration belongs to the Gateway under `skills.entries.<skillKey>` in its config, not to this Mac's device preferences. - `skills.update` patches `enabled`, `apiKey`, and `env`. ## Remote mode - Install and config updates happen on the gateway host, not the local Mac. - When skill files, config, Mac-node connectivity, its catalog, or its executable inventory changes, the gateway emits `skills.changed` after invalidating its authoritative snapshot. Use **Refresh** on the Dashboard's Skills page to load the latest `skills.status` report. ## Related - [Skills](/tools/skills) - [macOS app](/platforms/macos)