Expanso Skills for OpenClaw

Deploy data processing pipelines to your local Expanso Edge. Skills run locally, keeping credentials secure and enabling offline operation.

What is Expanso?

• Expanso Edge — Local runtime that executes pipelines on your machine
• Expanso Cloud — Orchestrates and deploys pipelines to your Edge nodes
• Expanso Skills — Pre-built pipelines for common data tasks

Setup

1. Create an Expanso Cloud account

1. Go to cloud.expanso.io and sign up
2. Create a new organization (or use an existing one)
3. Note your Cloud Endpoint URL (e.g., https://abc123.us1.cloud.expanso.io)

2. Install the tools

# Install Expanso Edge (local runtime)
curl -fsSL https://get.expanso.io/edge/install.sh | bash

# Install Expanso CLI (deploy to cloud)
curl -fsSL https://get.expanso.io/cli/install.sh | sh

3. Get a Bootstrap Token

1. In Expanso Cloud, go to Settings → Edge Nodes
2. Click "Add Edge Node"
3. Copy the Bootstrap URL and Bootstrap Token

4. Connect your Edge to the Cloud

# Set the bootstrap URL and token from Expanso Cloud
export EXPANSO_EDGE_BOOTSTRAP_URL="https://start.cloud.expanso.io"
export EXPANSO_EDGE_BOOTSTRAP_TOKEN="your-token-from-cloud"

# Start Edge (it will register automatically)
expanso-edge

This connects your local Edge node to your Expanso Cloud organization. Your Edge will now receive pipeline deployments from the cloud.

5. Deploy a skill

# Browse skills at https://skills.expanso.io
# Then deploy one:
expanso-cli job deploy https://skills.expanso.io/text-summarize/pipeline-cli.yaml

The pipeline will be deployed through Expanso Cloud to your local Edge node.

Available Skills

Browse 172+ skills at skills.expanso.io:

Category	Examples
AI	text-summarize, image-describe, audio-transcribe
Security	pii-redact, secrets-scan, hash-digest
Transforms	json-pretty, csv-to-json, array-filter
Utilities	uuid-generate, email-validate, mime-type

Example: PII Redaction

Ask OpenClaw to redact sensitive data:

"Redact the PII from this customer feedback"

OpenClaw will use the pii-redact skill running on your local Expanso Edge to process the data — your API keys and data never leave your machine.

How It Works

┌─────────────┐     ┌───────────────┐     ┌──────────────┐
│  OpenClaw   │────▶│ Expanso Edge  │────▶│ Your Data    │
│  (asks)     │     │ (processes)   │     │ (stays local)│
└─────────────┘     └───────────────┘     └──────────────┘
                           │
                    ┌──────┴──────┐
                    │Expanso Cloud│
                    │(orchestrates)│
                    └─────────────┘

Resources

• Skills Marketplace — Browse and deploy skills
• Expanso Cloud — Manage your Edge nodes
• Documentation — Full guides and API reference
• GitHub — Skill source code