What this skill does
Maintains a personal address book: who each person is, what matters to them, when they were last in touch, and which birthdays are coming up. Use when someone is mentioned by name with context worth keeping — met, called, or ran into them; when a birthday, anniversary, or death anniversary is approaching; when the question is what do I know about X, who do I know at Acme, who lives in Berlin, or who have I not spoken to in months; before a meeting, to surface what happened last time; when reconnecting after a long silence, or drafting a congratulations, a condolence, or a message about a job change or a bereavement; when making or chasing an introduction; when duplicates, name changes, or an export have to be merged into one address book; and when deciding what should never be written down about someone else. Not for sales pipelines and forecasts (`crm`), friendship depth (`friends`), family logistics (`family`), gift ideas (`gifts`), or reminders unrelated to people (`remind`).
Contacts is part of the Developer Tools category — developer tools that help your agent write, review, debug, and ship code. You can install it on its own or alongside other developer tools skills from the OpenClaw catalog.
How to install Contacts
The easiest path is via the OpenClaw Easy desktop app — one click, no terminal required:
- Download OpenClaw Easy for macOS or Windows (free, one-click installer, ~30 seconds).
- Open the in-app Skills panel.
- Search for
peopleand click Install. - The skill activates automatically when an incoming message matches its description.
Install from the command line
If you already run the OpenClaw CLI, add Contacts with a single command:
openclaw skills add people
This pulls people from ClawHub and installs it into ~/.openclaw/skills/people/. Restart the OpenClaw gateway afterwards so the new skill is discovered.
How to use Contacts
Once installed, Contacts activates on its own: when an incoming message on WhatsApp, Telegram, Slack, Discord, Feishu or Line matches the skill's description, your OpenClaw agent loads it and runs the workflow. You can also trigger it explicitly by describing the task in chat. No extra configuration is required after install.
Manual install (advanced)
If you prefer manual installation:
- Click the Download .zip button above to grab
people-1.0.3.zipdirectly from our S3 mirror. - Unzip into
~/.openclaw/skills/people/(create the directory if it does not exist). - Restart OpenClaw Easy (or the OpenClaw CLI gateway) so the new skill is discovered.
Frequently asked questions
How do I install Contacts?
Install Contacts in the OpenClaw Easy desktop app by opening the Skills panel, searching for people, and clicking Install. From a terminal you can run: openclaw skills add people. Either way the skill is placed in ~/.openclaw/skills/people/.
Is Contacts free?
Yes. Contacts is free and open-source, distributed under the Apache-2.0 license through ClawHub. No account or payment is required to download or run it.
What does Contacts do?
Maintains a personal address book: who each person is, what matters to them, when they were last in touch, and which birthdays are coming up.
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Free, open-source · Apache-2.0 · Works with Claude, ChatGPT, Gemini, or local Ollama models