AI-First
AI operating systems rely on 30 reusable skills, no need to reinvent the wheel for every client.
- 🔑 Every AI operating system delivered to clients reuses the same 30 skills, never more.
- 🎯 Three APIs are all you need: social media, Apify scraping, Instantly cold email, for $30/month total.
- 💡 Git Nexus turns your entire codebase into a knowledge graph you can query in plain English.
- 🚀 Playwright bypasses the lack of an Instagram API to send 200 personalized DMs per day.
- ⚠️ The video cloning skill got a YouTube channel shut down for a week, use with caution.
3 APIs cover 90% of the needs: social media, scraping, cold email. Cost: roughly $30/month.
The skills span 6 categories: knowledge graph, social media, lead scraping, cold email, computer use, video.
Git Nexus turns any codebase into an interactive knowledge graph, essential for scaling.
Some workflows, like video cloning, got a YouTube channel shut down for a week. They're still included.
This stack lets me sign 2 new clients per month with an operating system ready in a few weeks.
30 skills. That's all it takes.
I've been using OpenClaw for two months. March 2026 was my best month ever: $60,000 in revenue. All while building AI operating systems for businesses.
And when I broke down every system I've delivered, I realized something: they all use the same 30 skills. Not one more. Not one less.
That's the real lesson of AI operating systems: the power comes from reuse, not originality. Here are the 30 skills in question.
The tech stack: 3 APIs, $30/month
Before diving into the skills, let's talk about the foundation. Most people think running an AI operating system costs a fortune. The reality: 3 APIs cover everything.
A social media API (GetLate, Zernio) to read and post across every platform
A scraping API (Apify) to extract leads from Instagram, LinkedIn, Google Maps
A cold email platform (Instantly.ai) for automated outbound campaigns
Everything else (FFMPEG for video, internal workflows, the agents themselves) is open source. Total cost to run a full operating system for one client: roughly $30/month. The AI model is on top, but prices keep dropping.
A full AI operating system runs on $30/month in fixed costs. The rest is pure value.
Chapter 1: Git Nexus, the knowledge graph behind your system
The first skill, and the most underrated, is Git Nexus Rag Agent. It's an open source project that turns your entire codebase into an interactive knowledge graph.
In practice: all your skills, database tables, cron jobs, API services, social media integrations, agent identity files, everything becomes a graph you can query in plain English.
A concrete example: I can ask "list all the skills in this project and what they do." The agent traverses the graph and returns a structured answer. I can also click on a specific skill, the post analytics skill for instance, and understand exactly how it works.
This skill runs once a week to re-index the codebase and keep the graph up to date. Essential when you manage multiple clients with systems that evolve every week.
Chapter 2: The 8 social media skills
Content automation (4 skills)
The first 4 social skills are the Publish Folder Skills. The concept: a folder on your OpenClaw machine. You drop a video with its metadata, and the agent automatically publishes it across every connected platform.
Long form publish: YouTube, LinkedIn, Facebook
Short form publish: TikTok, Instagram Reels, YouTube Shorts
Carousel publish: Instagram, LinkedIn
Written post publish: Twitter/X, LinkedIn, Facebook
The result: you batch-record your content, drop the files, and the agent handles the editorial calendar. Zero manual management.
Analytics (2 skills)
One skill for per-post analytics (which video performs, which carousel drives the most engagement), and one for per-account analytics (growth, reach, trends over time). Both use GetLate or the Zernio API and aggregate all connected platforms.
Communications (2 skills)
The comment responder: a webhook triggered for every new comment on Instagram, Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, LinkedIn, TikTok. The agent generates a personalized reply via the Gemini API and responds within seconds, 24/7.
The social inbox agent: for platforms that support full conversations (Instagram DMs, Twitter, Facebook Messenger), the agent maintains conversational context in a database and replies coherently over time.
Chapter 3: The 4 lead scraping skills
The entire scraping layer runs on the Apify API. Four sources covered.
Source | Extracted data | Primary use |
|---|---|---|
Usernames who liked/commented on a post | Warm leads for outbound DMs | |
Profiles by keywords and location | Targeted B2B connections | |
Google Maps | Local businesses, addresses, ratings, websites | Local leads with enrichment |
Lead enrichment | Additional info from company websites | Campaign personalization |
The Google Maps + enrichment workflow is especially powerful: you scrape hundreds of businesses in a given city and industry, then the agent visits each website to gather context (About page, Contact, FAQ) before sending anything.
Chapter 4: The 5 cold email skills with Instantly
Instantly.ai is the best cold email platform on the market. One skill, five integrated workflows.
Push leads: sends leads from your database to Instantly
Campaign creation and deployment
Email sequencing: copywriting, personalization, timing
Status management: pending, sent, opened, replied, bounced
Campaign analytics: KPI tracking, continuous optimization
The full pipeline: leads in the database -> push to Instantly -> campaign deployed -> emails sent -> analytics pulled back -> optimization. No manual intervention between any of these steps.
Chapter 5: The 3 computer use marketing skills
These skills use Playwright, an open source tool that lets your agents control a Chrome browser exactly the way you would. No official API required.
Automated Instagram DMs
Instagram has no API for sending DMs at scale. Playwright gets around that: the agent grabs your Instagram account's session cookies, opens the browser, and sends personalized DMs to scraped leads. Limit: 200 DMs/day, so the skill runs 10 times a day at 20 messages per run.
LinkedIn connection requests
Before: Phantombuster at $50/month. Now: a Playwright skill plugged directly into Apify scraping. Zero extra cost. With a LinkedIn Premium account, personalized messages in connection requests are included.
Facebook DMs
Facebook Pages can't DM each other. But your personal account can DM Pages. The skill exploits that asymmetry for cold outbound to targeted Facebook Pages.
Chapter 6: The 5 video skills
The most powerful of all: the video cloning skill. It got the original source's YouTube channel shut down for a week. I'm staying deliberately vague on the details, but here's what it does.
Any video (short or long form) can be recreated by a custom AI persona. The workflow uses OpenAI Whisper for word-level timestamps, FFMPEG for editing, and scene detection to reproduce the exact structure (talking head, B-roll, split screen).
The other video skills are templates you can adapt: story generation, animated carousels, short form, infographics. The principle is always the same: start from existing content or a brief, and produce a publish-ready format.
Last video skill: the clip cutter. It uses the Clap API to automatically slice any podcast, Twitch stream, or YouTube video into short viral clips, reformatted for vertical.
What I learned building these 30 skills
The real value of an AI operating system isn't the skills themselves. It's reusability. Every client I onboard gets the same base kit, tailored to their context.
That means build time shrinks with every project. The first operating system took me weeks. The fifth, a few days.
For a deeper look at how OpenClaw fits into this kind of workflow, I covered that in this article on the 5 OpenClaw use cases nobody actually leverages.
A well-designed AI operating system is a franchise. You build it once, you deploy it a hundred times.
All 30 skills are open sourced on GitHub (link in the sources). If you want to understand how to deploy them for your clients or your own business, that's the best starting point.