What this skill does
Writes and edits Mandarin Chinese that reads as if a native wrote it — casual or formal, mainland or Taiwan. Use when composing anything in Chinese (WeChat message, work email, 小红书 or 公众号 post, resume, 请假条, speech, toast, 通知, contract clause), or when Chinese text sounds stiff, textbook, translated, or AI-generated; when choosing 你 versus 您, 口语 versus 书面语, simplified versus traditional, or mainland versus Taiwan vocabulary; when 的/地/得, 了, 把, 被 or measure words come out wrong; when full-width punctuation, Han-Latin spacing, or 万/亿 number grouping is off; when internet slang, 成语, emoji or 表情包 need calibrating to an audience; when a refusal, apology, compliment or request has to land politely; or when naming a product or a person in Chinese. Not for translating an existing source text (`translate`), Traditional-only writing (`traditional-chinese`), or travelling in China (`china`).
Chinese is part of the Messaging & Channels category — messaging and channel skills that connect your agent to chat platforms. You can install it on its own or alongside other messaging & channels skills from the OpenClaw catalog.
How to install Chinese
The easiest path is via the OpenClaw Easy desktop app — one click, no terminal required:
- Download OpenClaw Easy for macOS or Windows (free, one-click installer, ~30 seconds).
- Open the in-app Skills panel.
- Search for
chineseand click Install. - The skill activates automatically when an incoming message matches its description.
Install from the command line
If you already run the OpenClaw CLI, add Chinese with a single command:
openclaw skills add chinese
This pulls chinese from ClawHub and installs it into ~/.openclaw/skills/chinese/. Restart the OpenClaw gateway afterwards so the new skill is discovered.
How to use Chinese
Once installed, Chinese activates on its own: when an incoming message on WhatsApp, Telegram, Slack, Discord, Feishu or Line matches the skill's description, your OpenClaw agent loads it and runs the workflow. You can also trigger it explicitly by describing the task in chat. No extra configuration is required after install.
Putting audio in front of an audience
Chinese works with audio. Getting from there to something postable is a separate job: ViralMint — an open-source video pipeline — pairs audio with footage or generated visuals, burns synced captions, and exports a finished short.
It runs as an MCP server, so an OpenClaw agent can drive it from the same chat you already use: ask for a short, and the render comes back finished. See how to connect a video pipeline to your agent.
Manual install (advanced)
If you prefer manual installation:
- Click the Download .zip button above to grab
chinese-1.0.2.zipdirectly from our S3 mirror. - Unzip into
~/.openclaw/skills/chinese/(create the directory if it does not exist). - Restart OpenClaw Easy (or the OpenClaw CLI gateway) so the new skill is discovered.
Frequently asked questions
How do I install Chinese?
Install Chinese in the OpenClaw Easy desktop app by opening the Skills panel, searching for chinese, and clicking Install. From a terminal you can run: openclaw skills add chinese. Either way the skill is placed in ~/.openclaw/skills/chinese/.
Is Chinese free?
Yes. Chinese is free and open-source, distributed under the Apache-2.0 license through ClawHub. No account or payment is required to download or run it.
What does Chinese do?
Writes and edits Mandarin Chinese that reads as if a native wrote it — casual or formal, mainland or Taiwan.
Related: more messaging & channels skills
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Free, open-source · Apache-2.0 · Works with Claude, ChatGPT, Gemini, or local Ollama models