Create a Template

The Control UI invokes this manual skill in the agent's existing main conversation. It prepares a private draft before sending the message and attaches that request's draftId as working context. Use the draftId attached to this turn and edit only .openclaw/template-drafts/<draftId>.json; never search for a latest draft or use a shared pointer. The attached context is request-specific, so overlapping Template creations stay isolated. Keep internal paths and IDs out of your reply. Work in this same conversation; the Control UI opens package review when the draft is ready and owns package assembly and publication.

1. Capture the reusable agent. Read the current draft JSON. Use this conversation and the agent's durable instructions to identify its coherent reusable role, input, job, output, and authority. Preserve useful behavior and settings; leave out personal context. If the responsibilities do not form one coherent Template, ask which responsibility to share before writing. Complete when the four scope fields describe an agent a new person can use.
2. Inventory only relevant material. Select portable workspace instructions and files that implement that role. Locate this SKILL.md and use its scripts/cli.mjs for inventory so the CLI matches the running OpenClaw installation; invoke it with an absolute path when outside the skill directory. Run node scripts/cli.mjs skills list --agent <this agent's id> --json and node scripts/cli.mjs plugins list --enabled --json. Compare the results with tools actually available in this session and capabilities used in the role. Inspect a candidate with node scripts/cli.mjs plugins inspect <id> --json for its source and exact version. Declare a skill or plugin only when you can ground it in a current ClawHub package reference and exact version; plugin availability alone is not a requirement. Put package references in packages, MCP requirements in mcpServers, and useful schedules in cronJobs. Their declarations are dependencies, not files copied into the archive. Complete when every included file and declaration has a reason tied to the reusable role.
3. Author the proposal. Follow the draft format. Rewrite instructions for a new owner. Include input, job, output, and authority in the draft scope, and describe the portable behavior in CLAW.md. Place only newly authored portable text in files, mapping included workspace files by source in the manifest. Exclude raw conversations, memories, USER.md, credentials, secret values, private URLs, local paths, and personal facts. Never copy the source workspace tree. Complete when the JSON at this turn's draft path is valid and contains no private source material.
4. Hand off for review. Briefly tell the person what the Template does, which optional files/dependencies you included, and any capability you could not port. Do not print internal draft paths or IDs, generate a review link, upload, or publish. The Control UI opens a review of the exact built archive; the person can remove optional items and explicitly publish there. Complete when the review opens.