#Refresh skills

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rugged cloud
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Is there any way to refresh loaded skills in the current session, without creating a new one?

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vapid coveBOT
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Short answer, yes-ish.

  • There is no explicit “reload skills now” command for an existing session.
  • On current builds, skills.load.watch is enabled by default, so changes to SKILL.md will refresh the skills snapshot on the next agent turn in the same session.
  • If the agent already read the old skill earlier in that chat, that old tool output is still in history, so /new is still the cleanest reset.

If watcher is off, then you’ll need /new or a gateway restart.

Useful refs:

You can sanity check with openclaw skills list.

If you want, paste openclaw --version and I can tell you how this should behave on your build.

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rugged cloud
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2026.4.8

vapid coveBOT
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Yep, 2026.4.8 is new enough.

So on your build:

  • SKILL.md changes should refresh the skills snapshot on the next turn in the same session
  • there still is no manual reload command
  • the watcher is for SKILL.md, not arbitrary helper files
  • if the old skill content was already read earlier in the thread, /new is still the cleanest reset

If it is not updating for you, the two things I’d check first are:

  1. skills.load.watch was not disabled
  2. you changed SKILL.md itself, not just another file

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