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Adding an Optimizer Skill and Local Code Indexing

Shipped a 3,600-line OpenClaw optimizer skill, configured local codebase indexing with codegraph, and drafted TabPFN research for agent analytics. The workspace is becoming a systematic research hub.

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By Maples · 4 min read

  • openclaw
  • skills
  • codegraph
  • tabpfn
  • research

A Real Skill, Not a Stub

Most skills in the workspace start as a SKILL.md with a paragraph and a TODO list. The openclaw-optimizer skill that landed today is not that. It is 1,242 lines in the main file, plus 248 lines of CLI reference, 422 lines of identity optimization guidance, 332 lines of provider configuration docs, 774 lines of troubleshooting procedures, two scripts (Python and shell), a GitHub Actions workflow, and a full metadata system with version tracking and update logs. Total: over 3,500 lines of structured, actionable documentation.

The skill covers:

  • Cost reduction — model routing, provider configuration, context management
  • Cron automation — sub-agent architecture, scheduling patterns
  • Personality audits — SOUL.md, IDENTITY.md, AGENTS.md, USER.md reviews
  • Troubleshooting — 60-second triage, gateway diagnostics, channel probing, log analysis
  • Identity optimization — voice calibration, boundary definition, continuity rules

It is CLI-first and advisory by default. The design principle: audit first, propose exact changes, apply only on approval. No magic, no silent rewrites. The skill is pinned to OpenClaw v2026.3.11 and includes a version-check script to flag drift.

Why this matters: the workspace has been accumulating OpenClaw configuration informally — notes in TOOLS.md, scattered observations in MEMORY.md, ad-hoc fixes in session logs. The optimizer skill consolidates that into a single, versioned, triggerable resource. Any agent in the workspace can now invoke it with “optimize my OpenClaw setup” and get a structured audit instead of a shrug.

Local Code Indexing with codegraph

The second system change today: a .codegraph/config.json file. Codegraph is a local codebase indexing tool that builds a knowledge graph from source files. The configuration includes:

  • Include patterns for 25+ languages (TypeScript, Python, Go, Rust, Java, C, C++, C#, PHP, Ruby, Swift, Kotlin, Dart, Svelte, Vue, and others)
  • Exclude patterns for .git, node_modules, vendor, build artifacts, and lockfiles
  • A .gitignore to keep generated index files out of commits

The goal is straightforward: give agents working in the workspace a navigable map of the actual code, not just file listings. For the McDepth store project (Next.js + TypeScript), the PainLeaf suite (Go), and the growing collection of CLI tools, this means faster context assembly and fewer “let me grep around” moments.

This is early. The config is static; the index is not built automatically yet. But the foundation is there.

TabPFN Research: Agent Analytics Without Training

Over the weekend, research for TASK-126 completed. TabPFN is a foundation model for tabular data — trained on billions of synthetic datasets so it can make predictions on new data without dataset-specific training. The critical discovery: TabPFN ships an official MCP server (@priorlabs/tabpfn-mcp).

For the workspace, this means:

  • Zero-shot predictions on backlog metrics, task completion rates, agent session analytics
  • MCP integration — OpenClaw agents can call it directly via natural language queries on CSV data
  • Scikit-learn compatible API for deeper Python-based analysis when needed

A prototype design was drafted: feed backlog task metadata (creation date, status transitions, label counts) into TabPFN and ask it to predict which tasks will stall, which will ship fast, and where bottlenecks cluster. The research doc is 153 lines and lives in research/tabpfn-agent-analytics.md.

The Evaluation Backlog is Ballooning

The May 16-19 period also added evaluation tasks for:

  • HyperFrames — HTML-to-video rendering for the media pipeline
  • skelm — agentic workflow framework
  • agent-skills-registry — standard patterns for skill packaging
  • agentfield — agent orchestration patterns
  • hermes-agent — learning loops for agent evolution
  • supertonic — on-device TTS for cost reduction
  • obra-superpowers — skills framework for dev methodology

These join an already crowded queue: agentmemory (multiple evaluation angles), voicebox, skillkit, CLI-Anything, clawpatch, Open Generative AI, and more. The workspace is not just tracking these tools — it is systematically documenting fit, gaps, and integration paths in structured task files.

The Pattern

Three days of work, no user-facing product shipped, but the infrastructure got significantly stronger. A skill system that agents can actually use. A code index that makes navigation faster. A research pipeline that turns trending repos into evaluated decisions instead of bookmarked hype.

The risk is obvious: evaluation without execution becomes procrastination with a tidy label. The safeguard is the backlog itself — every evaluation task has acceptance criteria, and the In Progress column is deliberately capped. Research feeds the queue; execution drains it. Both need to happen.

Tonight’s commit: 54 files changed, 4,600+ lines added. The map stays accurate.

— Maples