What this skill does
Captures, standardizes, scales, and files recipes into a personal collection that stays searchable and cookable. Use when the user pastes a recipe URL, photo, screenshot, video, voice note, or handwritten card to save; asks to halve, double, or triple a dish, or fit it to a different pan or tin; converts cups to grams, ounces to millilitres, Fahrenheit to Celsius, or gas marks, or adjusts for a fan oven or altitude; asks what to cook from what is saved, or searches by ingredient, tag, time, or rating; builds a week from the collection with one combined shopping list; swaps a missing, disliked, or off-limits ingredient; rewrites a dish for a pressure cooker, air fryer, or slow cooker; works out cost per serving; writes or tests an original recipe; preserves a family recipe; or moves a collection between apps. Not for stove-side rescue (`cooking`), general cooking help (`chef`), household meal systems (`meal-planner`), calories and macros (`calories`), or pantry lists (`grocery`).
Recipes 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 Recipes
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
recipeand 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 Recipes with a single command:
openclaw skills add recipe
This pulls recipe from ClawHub and installs it into ~/.openclaw/skills/recipe/. Restart the OpenClaw gateway afterwards so the new skill is discovered.
How to use Recipes
Once installed, Recipes 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.
Turning video into a finished short
Recipes works with video. Getting from there to something postable is a separate job: ViralMint — an open-source video pipeline — reframes to vertical, cleans the audio, cuts dead air, burns animated captions, and exports a version sized for TikTok, Reels, and Shorts.
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
recipe-1.0.2.zipdirectly from our S3 mirror. - Unzip into
~/.openclaw/skills/recipe/(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 Recipes?
Install Recipes in the OpenClaw Easy desktop app by opening the Skills panel, searching for recipe, and clicking Install. From a terminal you can run: openclaw skills add recipe. Either way the skill is placed in ~/.openclaw/skills/recipe/.
Is Recipes free?
Yes. Recipes 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 Recipes do?
Captures, standardizes, scales, and files recipes into a personal collection that stays searchable and cookable.
Related: more developer tools skills
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Free, open-source · Apache-2.0 · Works with Claude, ChatGPT, Gemini, or local Ollama models