The Forge renders your installed skills as attachments on a 3D robot.
It discovers skills from your local OpenClaw directories, so it must be
hosted on your machine.
Start local Forge (no repo required)npx ape-claw dashboardThis fetches/runs the packaged Forge UI server from npm and opens your local dashboard.
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Open the Forgehttp://localhost:8787/forgeYour installed skills appear as 3D attachments on the robot automatically. Optional dev setup: clone GitHub and run npm run start:ui.
The Forge reads skills installed via npx ape-claw skill install.
Skills are installed to your active OpenClaw profile (for example ~/.openclaw/skills/) and synced to that profile workspace automatically. Requires OpenClaw.