What this skill does
Runs an independent freelance or contractor practice as a business: rate floor, pipeline, cash buffer, taxes, and the paper. Use when going freelance or weighing quitting a job for it, when setting or raising an hourly or day rate, when the pipeline is empty and work dried up, when income swings and a buffer or tax set-aside has to be sized, when one client is too much of the revenue, when a client asks for free spec work, rewrites your contract, or sends an NDA you should not sign, when payment is late, disputed, or a project has to be walked away from, when self-employment tax, VAT registration, invoicing abroad, or IR35 and worker-classification tests come up, when insurance, sick days, holiday, or a pension has to be self-funded, and when the next step is subcontracting, productizing, or an agency. Not for managing one client relationship (`clients`), Upwork (`upwork`) or Fiverr (`fiverr`) tactics, drafting the contract document (`contract`), or issuing invoices (`invoice`).
Freelance is part of the Developer Tools category — developer tools that help your agent write, review, debug, and ship code. You can install it on its own or alongside other developer tools skills from the OpenClaw catalog.
How to install Freelance
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
freelanceand 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 Freelance with a single command:
openclaw skills add freelance
This pulls freelance from ClawHub and installs it into ~/.openclaw/skills/freelance/. Restart the OpenClaw gateway afterwards so the new skill is discovered.
How to use Freelance
Once installed, Freelance 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.
Manual install (advanced)
If you prefer manual installation:
- Click the Download .zip button above to grab
freelance-1.0.2.zipdirectly from our S3 mirror. - Unzip into
~/.openclaw/skills/freelance/(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 Freelance?
Install Freelance in the OpenClaw Easy desktop app by opening the Skills panel, searching for freelance, and clicking Install. From a terminal you can run: openclaw skills add freelance. Either way the skill is placed in ~/.openclaw/skills/freelance/.
Is Freelance free?
Yes. Freelance 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 Freelance do?
Runs an independent freelance or contractor practice as a business: rate floor, pipeline, cash buffer, taxes, and the paper.
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Free, open-source · Apache-2.0 · Works with Claude, ChatGPT, Gemini, or local Ollama models