# How It Works

## Build custom agent teams that actually ship

Most agent setups stop at: spawn a bot, write prompts, hope it remembers what you meant. That's not a team. That's chaos. ClawRecipes gives your OpenClaw setup real structure, and ClawKitchen makes it usable day-to-day.

## ClawRecipes

### Structure your agent org with repeatable conventions

### Roles + conventions

Lead/dev/test/marketing (and more) so every agent has a clear job and lane.

### Shared context

Team memory and files everyone can read out of the box.

### File-first by design

Work stays in your workspace: AGENTS.md, SOUL.md, tickets, outputs, and artifacts.

### Structured workflows

Intake → assign → execute → verify so teams can run without constant babysitting.

### Swarm-ready

Add orchestrator/swarm patterns when you want multiple agents pushing one outcome in parallel.

## ClawKitchen

### Day-to-day UI built for teams

Create and edit teams + agents without living in the terminal.

Manage team files + shared context in one place.

Run workflows, inspect what happened, and track artifacts.

Install skills and tools across the whole team.

## Flow

### The operating loop

#### STEP 01

### Install plugins

Add ClawRecipes and ClawKitchen to OpenClaw so your system has both team scaffolding and a practical UI.

#### STEP 02

### Choose a base recipe

Start from a proven structure with agent roles, lane conventions, and operating defaults.

#### STEP 03

### Customize your team

Edit team members, instructions, files, and workflows to match your real org and delivery process.

#### STEP 04

### Execute with structure

Run intake, assignment, execution, and verification loops with visible artifacts and file-based memory.

#### STEP 05

### Scale with marketplace + swarm

Install templates from the public marketplace and add parallel swarm/orchestrator patterns when needed.

## Command Playbook

### Key recipe commands

Install, verify, scaffold, and maintain your setup with repeatable commands.

Terminal

```
$openclaw plugins list
```

```
$openclaw recipes list
```

```
$openclaw recipes scaffold-team development-team -t my-dev-team --apply-config
```

```
$openclaw recipes scaffold researcher --agent-id my-researcher --apply-config
```

```
$openclaw recipes scaffold-team development-team -t my-dev-team --overwrite --apply-config
```

## Marketplace

### Install proven templates instead of reinventing setup

There's a public marketplace angle too: install team templates + workflows that already work, then tailor them for your org.

## Get Started

### Install ClawRecipes + ClawKitchen

Terminal

```
$openclaw plugins install @jiggai/recipes
```

```
$openclaw plugins install @jiggai/kitchen
```