What are Skills?
A Skill is an installable skill pack built on top of the gateway. Install it into your Agent (Claude Code / OpenClaw / Codex) and the Agent immediately gains the corresponding local-life capability—for example, “ordering takeout.” You don’t have to stitch the call chain together from scratch; the pack already wraps a complete set of actions plus an interaction “soul.” Underneath, it still runs on the same gateway: the gateway aggregates downstream platforms (Ele.me, etc.) and local-life services, and exposes a standardized set of capabilities for menu lookup, order fulfillment, address management, and order tracking. A Skill simply packages those capabilities into a ready-to-use form for one concrete scenario.How does a Skill differ from MCP?
The two target different integration styles and complement each other:
In short: MCP gives you the parts, a Skill gives you the finished product — and under the hood the Skill’s CLI speaks the very same MCP tools (
tools/call, subcommands mapping 1:1 to tool names), so both paths behave identically. If you want to orchestrate the 24 underlying tools yourself for finer control, see the MCP Overview.
Anatomy of a Skill
Each Skill is a standardized directory with the following main parts:Open Skills
There is currently 1 open Skill: takeout (delivery assistant)—a full takeout flow that helps the user search shops, pick items, place orders, and track them.takeout delivery assistant
The only open Skill: once installed, the Agent can order takeout for the user—search, item selection, preview, ordering, and tracking, end to end.
One-line install
Skills are hosted on GitHub Releases; the install script downloads, verifies the sha256, and unpacks to the right location for your Agent platform. Using Claude Code as an example:.env in the skill root with your API_KEY (the agent identity, clw_ prefix, obtained when you create an Agent in the console); GATEWAY_MCP_URL can stay at the default https://eleme-gateway.hicaspian.com/mcp/v1 (or be omitted). See Installation & Platforms for the install and trigger details of each platform.
Next steps
takeout delivery assistant
One-line positioning, auth, the 12 commands, the ordering model, and the interaction patterns.
Installation & Platforms
Install and trigger details for Claude Code / OpenClaw / Codex.
Security Model
Two-layer authentication, per-user self-authorization, data isolation, and credential protection.
MCP Overview
Want to orchestrate the 24 raw tools yourself? Start here.