OpenClaw is an autonomous AI agent framework with its own workspace and skills system. Tessl integrates with OpenClaw by installing skills directly into an agent workspace — no MCP configuration or rules files are used, to keep config clean.
Tessl installs skills as symlinks into the skills/ directory of your OpenClaw agent workspace. OpenClaw reads skills from this directory automatically.
Skills installed by Tessl are prefixed with tessl__ so they can be identified and managed separately from your other skills, if necessary.
Navigate to your agent workspace directory before running tessl install. A workspace is identified by the presence of a .openclaw/workspace-state.json file.
cd ~/.openclaw/workspace # or whichever workspace you want to install into
tessl install plugin-nameIf you run tessl install from anywhere other than a workspace root, Tessl will exit with an error and suggest the correct directories to navigate to.
If you have more than one OpenClaw agent, run tessl install separately from each workspace:
cd ~/.openclaw/workspaces/agent1
tessl install plugin-name
cd ~/.openclaw/workspaces/agent2
tessl install plugin-nameIf your OpenClaw agent uses coding agents (Claude Code, Codex, etc.), use the --agent flag to control which agents receive skills:
With no --agent flag, Tessl auto-detects which agents are present in the workspace directory, and installs for all of them.
tessl init is not supported in OpenClaw workspaces. If you run it from a workspace root, Tessl will exit with an error and prompt you to run tessl install instead.
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# Install for both OpenClaw and a coding agent
tessl install plugin-name --agent openclaw --agent claude-code
# Install for a coding agent only, skip OpenClaw
tessl install plugin-name --agent claude-code