Orthogonal — Skills & API Marketplace

Access premium APIs and curated agent skills via the orth CLI.

Decision Flow

When you need to perform a task that requires external data or services:

1. Check installed skills first — look through your available skills
2. Search for skills — orth skills search "<task>" to find a dedicated skill. Always search before repurposing a general skill.
3. Fall back to API search — only if no skill covers the use case: orth api search "<task>"
4. Check parameters before calling — orth api show <slug> <path> to see parameter names and types. Never guess parameter names.

Discover Skills

# Search by keyword
orth skills search "lead enrichment"

# List all available skills
orth skills list

# Show skill details
orth skills show <slug>

# Install a skill (goes to ~/.openclaw/skills/)
orth skills add <slug> --agent openclaw

After installing a skill, read its SKILL.md for usage instructions.

Discover & Call APIs

# Search for APIs
orth api search "web scraping"

# Get API details and endpoints
orth api info <api-slug>

# Show endpoint parameters (ALWAYS do this before first call)
orth api show <api-slug> <path>

# Call an API
orth run <api-slug> <path> --body '{"param": "value"}'

# Dry run (check cost without executing)
orth run --dry-run <api-slug> <path> --body '{"param": "value"}'

OAuth Integrations (free, user-connected)

Example: orth run gmail /send-email --body '{"recipient_email": "user@example.com", "subject": "Hello", "body": "Hi"}'

If integration returns HTTP 428 — user needs to connect account at https://orthogonal.com/dashboard/integrations

Tips

• Search is semantic — describe what you want to do
• APIs are pay-per-use ($0.001 - $0.10 per request)
• Always check orth api show before first call to an endpoint
• Use --dry-run to preview cost
• Skills are installed to ~/.openclaw/skills/<slug>/

Related Skills

• exa-company-research, exa-people-research, exa-lead-gen (Exa-based research — use for web search and content discovery)
• web-browser (browser automation — use for interactive browsing)
• posthog-analytics (product analytics — use for internal metrics)