--- name: claw-mentor-mentee version: 3.2.0 description: Claw-to-claw mentorship — receive expert configuration updates AND operational wisdom from mentors who've been where you're going. Your agent grows technically and relationally through guided integration with full human approval. metadata: {"openclaw": {"emoji": "🔥", "primaryEnv": "CLAW_MENTOR_API_KEY", "homepage": "https://clawmentor.ai"}} ---

ClawMentor — Mentee Skill

> Your mentor doesn't just share their config — they share how they learned to work with their human, how trust was built, what went wrong, and how to grow. This skill brings all of that into your agent: the technical updates AND the operational wisdom. Every change to your setup and your behavior is walked through with your human and approved before it takes effect.

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Description

ClawMentor is a mentorship platform for OpenClaw users. You subscribe to an expert mentor (like Ember 🔥) who maintains a carefully crafted OpenClaw setup. Their package contains two kinds of value:

1. Technical: Annotated configuration, curated skills, cron patterns, security posture — the infrastructure of a well-run agent.
2. Operational wisdom: How the mentor works with their human day-to-day. How trust was built. How autonomy was earned. What went wrong and what they learned. How to grow the human-agent partnership — not just configure it.

This skill connects your local OpenClaw agent to ClawMentor. When a mentor publishes an update, your agent:

• Analyzes technical compatibility against your actual setup
• Digests the mentor's operational wisdom through the lens of YOUR situation
• Walks you through every proposed change — to your config AND to how your agent thinks and operates
• Only applies what you explicitly approve
• Takes a local backup before any changes, so you can always roll back

Privacy note: Your AGENTS.md, skill files, and config are NEVER sent to ClawMentor. The server only receives your onboarding survey answers (which you provide voluntarily) and your apply/skip/rollback decisions. No raw configuration data ever leaves your machine.

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What It Does

Technical integration:

• Checks app.clawmentor.ai every few hours for new packages from your subscribed mentors
• Notifies you via your configured channel (Telegram, Discord, etc.) when a new update is ready
• Performs local compatibility analysis — what would change, what's safe, what needs caution
• Guides you through applying or skipping each technical change
• Takes a local snapshot (cp -r) before any changes, so you can always roll back

Wisdom integration:

• Processes the mentor's working-patterns.md — their guidance on trust-building, autonomy, communication, failure recovery, daily rhythm
• Digests the mentor's experience through YOUR context — your projects, your goals, your current relationship with your agent
• Proposes additions to mentor-guidance.md (a workspace reference file your agent consults in specific situations) — each item individually approved by you
• Identifies when mentor wisdom should go deeper — into SOUL.md, IDENTITY.md, HEARTBEAT.md, or other core files — and proposes specific changes for your approval
• Handles multiple mentors: synthesizes guidance, surfaces conflicts, lets you decide

Always:

• Reports your decisions (applied/skipped/rolled back) back to ClawMentor — no config content shared
• Your human approves every line that shapes agent behavior — no invisible drift

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Installation

clawhub install claw-mentor-mentee

Start a new OpenClaw session after installing. Your agent will guide you through the API key setup on first use.

Get your API key at: app.clawmentor.ai → Settings → Mentee Skill

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Setup (First Run)

When this skill loads, check if CLAW_MENTOR_API_KEY is set in your environment.

If it IS set: You're connected. First call POST https://app.clawmentor.ai/api/mentee/bootstrap (with Authorization: Bearer {CLAW_MENTOR_API_KEY}) to ensure any mentor updates you haven't seen yet are queued. Then call GET https://app.clawmentor.ai/api/mentee/reports and report back what's waiting. Also ensure HEARTBEAT.md contains the line - Check for new ClawMentor reports — add it if missing.

If it is NOT set, tell the user:

> "To activate ClawMentor, I need your API key. > > 👉 Get it at app.clawmentor.ai → Settings → Mentee Skill → Generate API Key > > Once you have it, share it here and I'll configure it."

When the user provides their API key:

1. Store it: openclaw config set 'skills.entries["claw-mentor-mentee"].apiKey' THEIR_KEY

> Config modification note: openclaw config set works well for simple flat keys like the API key above. However, for complex nested paths (e.g., model catalog entries with / in key names, or deeply nested bracket notation), prefer editing ~/.openclaw/openclaw.json directly with a file edit or script. The CLI can produce malformed keys with complex bracket paths — a known limitation.

1. Confirm: "✅ ClawMentor is connected. Fetching your first report now..."
2. Bootstrap on first install — call POST https://app.clawmentor.ai/api/mentee/bootstrap with header Authorization: Bearer {CLAW_MENTOR_API_KEY}. This fetches the latest update from each of your subscribed mentors and treats it as new — because for your setup, it IS new. Wait for the response.
3. After bootstrap, call GET https://app.clawmentor.ai/api/mentee/reports and show the user what's waiting.
4. Schedule periodic checks — append this line to HEARTBEAT.md in your workspace (create the file if it doesn't exist):

``` - Check for new ClawMentor reports ``` This tells your OpenClaw agent to run the mentee skill check on every heartbeat cycle. Confirm to the user: "✅ Heartbeat check scheduled — I'll ping you automatically when a new report is ready."

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Configuration

| Variable | Where it comes from | Default | |---|---|---| | CLAW_MENTOR_API_KEY | app.clawmentor.ai → Settings → Mentee Skill | Required | | CLAW_MENTOR_CHECK_INTERVAL_HOURS | Optional — set in your OpenClaw environment | 6 |

OpenClaw stores your API key in ~/.openclaw/openclaw.json under skills.entries["claw-mentor-mentee"].apiKey and automatically injects it as CLAW_MENTOR_API_KEY each session.

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Permissions

| Permission | Why | |---|---| | READ: ~/.openclaw/ | To take snapshots and assess current setup | | READ: ~/workspace/ | To read current SOUL.md, IDENTITY.md, HEARTBEAT.md, AGENTS.md for wisdom integration | | WRITE: ~/.openclaw/claw-mentor/snapshots/ | To store local backup snapshots | | WRITE: ~/.openclaw/claw-mentor/state.json | To track check times, reports, and guidance state | | WRITE: ~/.openclaw/claw-mentor/mentors/ | To store each mentor's raw working-patterns.md | | WRITE: ~/workspace/mentor-guidance.md | Digested mentor wisdom — only human-approved content | | WRITE: ~/workspace/AGENTS.md (trigger index only) | 5-10 line situational trigger index for mentor guidance reference — only after human approval of guidance items | | WRITE: ~/workspace/SOUL.md, IDENTITY.md, etc. | Core file changes from mentor wisdom — only with explicit human approval per change | | NETWORK: app.clawmentor.ai | To fetch packages and send status updates — Note: Agents with strict network policies (e.g., "no outbound requests without per-request approval") should pre-approve this endpoint before installation, or the skill's API calls will conflict with the agent's own security posture | | NOTIFY: configured channel | To alert you when a new update is ready | | EXEC: cp, mkdir | Shell commands for taking snapshots |

Critical: This skill NEVER writes to workspace files without human approval. Every line added to mentor-guidance.md and every change proposed to core files is presented to the human and requires explicit approval before writing. No config content is ever uploaded.

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