Terraform

What this skill does

Writes, debugs, and refactors Terraform — HCL and modules, plan and apply failures, state surgery, drift, and provider pinning. Use when writing or reviewing HCL, when terraform plan or apply errors out, when a plan shows a permanent diff, an unexplained destroy, or "forces replacement", when renaming, importing, or moving resources between modules and states, when a state lock is stuck or state is lost or corrupted, when for_each fails because a value is not known until apply, when pinning providers or surviving a major version upgrade, or when wiring plan-on-PR, apply-on-merge, drift detection, and policy gates. Covers OpenTofu, tfstate, backends, workspaces, and infrastructure-as-code review. Not for choosing which cloud services to build — see aws, gcp, or azure.

Terraform 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 Terraform

The easiest path is via the OpenClaw Easy desktop app — one click, no terminal required:

1. Download OpenClaw Easy for macOS or Windows (free, one-click installer, ~30 seconds).
2. Open the in-app Skills panel.
3. Search for terraform and click Install.
4. The skill activates automatically when an incoming message matches its description.

Install from the command line

If you already run the OpenClaw CLI, add Terraform with a single command:

openclaw skills add terraform

This pulls terraform from ClawHub and installs it into ~/.openclaw/skills/terraform/. Restart the OpenClaw gateway afterwards so the new skill is discovered.

How to use Terraform

Once installed, Terraform 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:

1. Click the Download .zip button above to grab terraform-1.0.4.zip directly from our S3 mirror.
2. Unzip into ~/.openclaw/skills/terraform/ (create the directory if it does not exist).
3. Restart OpenClaw Easy (or the OpenClaw CLI gateway) so the new skill is discovered.

Frequently asked questions

How do I install Terraform?

Install Terraform in the OpenClaw Easy desktop app by opening the Skills panel, searching for terraform, and clicking Install. From a terminal you can run: openclaw skills add terraform. Either way the skill is placed in ~/.openclaw/skills/terraform/.

Is Terraform free?

Yes. Terraform 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 Terraform do?

Writes, debugs, and refactors Terraform — HCL and modules, plan and apply failures, state surgery, drift, and provider pinning.

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