SenseNova-Skills is a free, open source ai interaction & interfaces project written in JavaScript and released under MIT. It has 6,009 GitHub stars, 432 forks and 26 open issues, and was last pushed 18 hours ago. On this registry it ranks #62 of 156 tracked projects in AI Interaction & Interfaces, with 5 head-to-head comparisons available. It gained 278 stars over the last 30 tracked days.

What is SenseNova-Skills?

SenseNova-Skills is an MIT-licensed JavaScript repository of modular Agent Skills that extends the SenseNova model family with end-to-end office and productivity capabilities, built for developers and teams assembling AI-powered office assistants on Agent Skills-compatible runtimes.

What it is

SenseNova-Skills is a collection of office-automation skills from the OpenSenseNova project, written in JavaScript and released under the MIT licence. Each skill lives in its own directory and declares its triggers, capabilities, and execution flow in a SKILL.md file, following the Agent Skills convention defined at agentskills.io. The repository sits in the AI & Machine Learning / AI Interaction & Interfaces category and plugs SenseNova models into agent runtimes such as OpenClaw and hermes-agent. The suite covers image generation and visualization, slide-deck (PPT) generation, Excel data analysis, deep research, HTML experiences, team collaboration, and proactive project tracking, and the skills may be used standalone or composed into end-to-end workflows.

The problem it solves is the glue layer between a capable model and concrete office output. Instead of writing bespoke prompts and per-task integration code for each document format, a user copies skill directories into an agent's skills folder and the runtime picks them up, with the model supplying reasoning and multimodal understanding. That makes the unit of reuse a portable skill directory rather than a one-off prompt, letting slide decks, spreadsheets, research briefs, and infographics share one execution convention. The repository also documents both the international and mainland China SenseNova API flows.

Key capabilities

  • Each skill is a directory carrying a SKILL.md manifest that declares triggers, capabilities, and execution flow, following the Agent Skills convention.
  • Image generation and visualization, documented in docs/sn-infographic-examples.md with nearly 100 generation cases and their prompt designs.
  • Slide-deck (PPT) generation.
  • Excel data analysis.
  • Deep research.
  • HTML experiences.
  • Team collaboration and proactive project tracking.

Who uses it and how

  • Teams that would rather not provision environments, API keys, and runtimes can use the same skills bundled into Raccoon, the hosted option pairing SenseNova models with the full Cowork-Skill suite, enterprise-grade security, and a zero-setup flow.
  • Developers running OpenClaw copy skills into ~/.openclaw/skills/, while those on hermes-agent use ~/.hermes/skills/; the agent service may need a manual restart before new skills are picked up.
  • Organizations working across regions choose the matching API, pointing at https://token.sensenova.ai/v1 internationally and https://token.sensenova.cn/v1 in mainland China, with the documentation page, API key, base URL, and model name all drawn from the same region.
  • Raccoon reports use by 15M+ individual users and thousands of enterprise customers, and ships a local Agent OS positioned next to a user's files, work context, and personal habits.

Getting started

Install by cloning the repository and copying its skill subdirectories into the agent's skills directory, as in "git clone https://github.com/OpenSenseNova/SenseNova-Skills.git --depth=1" followed by "cp -r SenseNova-Skills/skills/* ~/.openclaw/skills/", with the full walkthrough in INSTALL.md. Alternatively, hand the repository URL to the agent and let it install the skills, or use the hosted Raccoon option at xiaohuanxiong.com for a zero-setup experience.

How it compares

SenseNova-Skills is not framed against a named roster of paid competitors; it sits inside the agent runtimes that host it, with OpenClaw and hermes-agent providing the runtime that consumes the SKILL.md skills. Raccoon is the managed alternative from the same project, bundling the same Cowork-Skill suite with SenseNova models and enterprise-grade security, so the choice is between controlling the runtime and model endpoint yourself or accepting a zero-setup hosted flow.

When to use it — and when not to

Self-hosting means operating an Agent Skills-compatible runtime such as OpenClaw or hermes-agent and supplying SenseNova Platform API credentials, and installation is a matter of copying directories and restarting the agent rather than using a package manager, container image, or compose file. Anyone who wants no environment setup, no API-key management, and no runtime maintenance should choose Raccoon instead. The sharpest practical pitfall is regional mismatch, because the documentation page, API key, base URL, and model name must all come from the same region, and the repository provides an installation walkthrough rather than a managed service.

project readme (upstream, from github) — read inline

SenseNova-Skills

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Website Raccoon API Docs SenseNova U1 SenseNova 6.8

The SenseNova model family plugs directly into agent runtimes such as OpenClaw and hermes-agent, with the skills in this repository extending the models with concrete, end-to-end office capabilities.

In this repository each skill lives in its own directory and declares triggers, capabilities, and execution flow through a SKILL.md file, following the Agent Skills convention.

The skills cover image generation & visualization, slide-deck (PPT) generation, Excel data analysis, deep research, HTML experiences, team collaboration, and proactive project tracking — usable standalone or composed into end-to-end workflows.

🎨 Want to see what it can do? Check out our sn-infographic Gallery to explore nearly 100 stunning generation cases and steal their prompt designs !

🦝 Available out-of-the-box in Raccoon

The latest SenseNova models and the full Cowork-Skill suite in this repo are bundled into Raccoon, with enterprise-grade security and a zero-setup experience — if you'd rather not provision env, API keys, and runtimes yourself, you can use these capabilities directly through Raccoon. Free trial available — no payment required to get started.

Raccoon now ships a full upgrade across product capability and client experience:

  • Three core office capabilities, strengthened: powered by SenseNova 6.7 Flash + Cowork-Skill, data analysis, PPT generation, and task planning each take a step up — covering the full loop from multi-file cleaning/analysis to formal report decks, industry/competitive research, and investment memos.
  • New: infographic generation: built on the SenseNova U1 model, compresses complex data, long reports, and business insights into dense, structured, visual infographics that are easier to digest and share.
  • New client + local Agent OS: the cloud model handles heavy reasoning and multimodal understanding; the local Agent OS sits next to your files, work context, and personal habits — delivering a more personalized, local, and secure AI-native office experience.
  • Proven at scale: chosen by 15M+ individual users and thousands of enterprise customers.

👉 Try it: xiaohuanxiong.com

How to Use

These skills are designed to run inside an Agent Skills-compatible agent.

This repo documents both the international and mainland China SenseNova API flows. Make sure the docs page, API key, base URL, and model name all come from the same region.

Recommended: let the agent install the skills for you. Hand it the repo URL and ask it to clone and drop the skills into the right directory — for example:

"Please install SenseNova-Skills from https://github.com/OpenSenseNova/SenseNova-Skills into your skills directory."

After it finishes, you may need to manually restart the agent service before the new skills are picked up.

Agent Target directory
OpenClaw ~/.openclaw/skills/
hermes-agent ~/.hermes/skills/
Prefer to install manually?

Clone this repository, then copy the subdirectories under skills/ into the target directory yourself:

git clone https://github.com/OpenSenseNova/SenseNova-Skills.git --depth=1
mkdir -p ~/.openclaw/skills
cp -r SenseNova-Skills/skills/* ~/.openclaw/skills/

For Hermes, swap the target to ~/.hermes/skills/.

Per-category Python dependencies, API keys, and invocation examples are documented in the 📖 Full guide for each section.

Skills List

🎨 Image & Visualization

📖 Full guide: docs/sn-image-generate_en.md (prerequisites, Quick Start, API config, and invocation samples).

Name Label Description
sn-image-doctor Environment Doctor Validates the SenseNova-Skills environment — checks sn-image-base install, Python deps, and required env vars; interactively fills missing values into .env.
sn-image-base Image Base Layer (Tier 0) Low-level tools — text-to-image (sn-image-generate), image editing (sn-image-edit), image recognition (sn-image-recognize), and text optimization (sn-text-optimize) — exposed through a unified sn_agent_runner.py, designed to be called by upper-layer skills.
sn-infographic Infographic Generation (Tier 1) Auto prompt-quality scoring, layout/style selection (87 layouts / 66 styles), multi-round generation with VLM review and quality ranking, producing publication-ready infographics. Supports SenseNova U1.5 Lite, including native 4K output.
sn-image-imitate Image Imitation (Tier 1) Given one reference image and a target content prompt, generates a new image that imitates the reference.
sn-image-resume Resume Image Generation (Tier 1) Given resume information, generates a resume image.

📊 Presentations (PPT)

📖 Full guide: docs/sn-ppt-generate.md (prerequisites, Quick Start, API config, and invocation samples).

Name Label Description
sn-ppt-entry PPT Entry Point Unified entry point for PPT generation. Asks the user to choose fast, standard, or creative mode, then collects role / audience / scenario / page count. For standard mode, also asks about image sourcing (AI, web search, or none) and chart rendering (U1 infographics or ECharts). Parses uploaded pdf / docx / md / txt, emits task_pack.json + info_pack.json, and dispatches to the chosen mode.
sn-ppt-doctor PPT Environment Doctor Environment check for the PPT pipeline — validates sn-image-base, API keys, the Node runtime, and optional deps; writes missing required vars into .env.
sn-ppt-creative PPT Creative Mode One full-page 16:9 PNG per slide, generated via sn-image-generate with a per-page composed prompt. Falls back to web image search when T2I generation fails.
sn-ppt-standard PPT Standard & Fast style_spec → outline → asset plan + per-slot images + VLM QC → per-page HTML → per-page review → PPTX export. Fast mode builds a complete draft immediately with autonomous decisions, then provides structured refinement suggestions. Supports AI-generated infographics (U1) for diagrams and web image search (Serper) for real photos.

📈 Data Analysis (DA)

📖 Full guide: docs/sn-data-analysis.md (prerequisites, Quick Start, API config, and invocation samples).

Name Label Description
sn-da-excel-workflow Excel Analysis Orchestration End-to-end Excel pipeline — multi-sheet read, large-file detection (≥10k rows triggers Parquet), cleaning, conditional filtering, cross-sheet aggregation, and Excel/CSV export.
sn-da-image-caption Image Understanding & Data Extraction For image-first inputs — table OCR, chart understanding, screenshot/UI description; parses captions into DataFrames, recreates visualizations, exports Excel/CSV.
sn-da-large-file-analysis High-Performance Large-File Analysis Streaming reads for ≥10k-row Excel datasets (openpyxl read_only + iter_rows), Parquet conversion, memory optimization, chunked processing, large-file writes.

🔬 Deep Research

📖 Full guides: docs/sn-deep-research.md and docs/sn-deepresearch-cli.md (prerequisites, Quick Start, CLI setup, and per-stage invocation).

Name Label Description
sn-deep-research Deep Research Entry Point Mode-aware deep-research orchestrator with parallel research work packages, one-pass quick/normal synthesis, and an auditable heavy workflow, producing final report.md.
sn-deepresearch-cli Deep Research CLI Installs and operates the standalone sensenova-skills-deepresearch CLI, coordinating search, research, monitoring, recovery, and report export through a selected Harness or Agent.
sn-research-report Final Report Writing & Editing Renders the judgment layer into the final report.md; also handles targeted rewrites — restructuring, polishing, table-augmentation — for an existing draft.
sn-report-format-discovery Presentation-Format Discovery Optional standalone format recommendation; sn-deep-research uses a single request-level format string instead of format artifacts.
sn-prepare-citations Citation Rendering Post-processes [^source_id] footnotes into numbered citations and appends references from evidence sources.

🔍 Search

📖 Search skills are documented together with deep research: docs/sn-deep-research.md (includes per-platform API keys, invocation, and unified JSON output).

Name Label Description
sn-search-academic Academic Search ArXiv (with section-level HTML reading) / Semantic Scholar (with citation counts) / PubMed (with PMC open-access full text) / Wikipedia, in one aggregated interface.
sn-search-code Developer Search GitHub (repo / code / issue) / Stack Overflow / Hacker News / HuggingFace (models / datasets / spaces), aggregated.
sn-search-social-cn Chinese Social Search Bilibili / Zhihu / Douyin search; some platforms require cookie auth.
sn-search-social-en English Social Search Reddit / Twitter (X) / YouTube search.

🌐 HTML & Web Experiences

📖 Full guide: docs/sn-motion-html.md (continuous-shot stories, media generation, project setup, and browser QA).

Name Label Description
sn-motion-html Motion HTML Storytelling Builds immersive, scroll-driven web stories with a continuous camera journey, consistent stills, Seedance clips, structured content, and responsive browser delivery.
sn-md-to-html-report Markdown → HTML Report Reworks a Markdown report into a self-contained HTML feature page with editorial structure, evidence order, responsive layout, and offline-friendly assets.

🤝 Team Collaboration

📖 Full guide: docs/sn-team-harness.md (self-hosted setup, core concepts, local execution, and security boundaries).

Name Label Description
sn-team-harness Team Harness Explains the self-hosted workspace where people and local Agents share context, projects, work items, resources, and versioned artifacts.

🔔 Proactive Project Tracking

📖 Full guide: docs/sn-proactive-agent.md (installation, Hermes integration, Web workbench, data layout, and acceptance checks).

Name Label Description
sn-proactive-agent Proactive Agent Tracks long-running project progress, keeps auditable Project / Item / Event records, and presents next-step suggestions in a Web workbench; accepted suggestions resume the original Hermes session.

Sample Outputs

🎨 Infographic (sn-infographic)

A few sn-infographic outputs (more in docs/sn-infographic-examples.md).

🧩 Memory price analysis — insight → analysis → presentation → end-to-end workflow

examples/memory-price-end2end-analysis. Starting from a raw quote CSV, the agent profiles fields, normalizes categories and timestamps, then attacks the rally from three angles — overall trend, top movers per category, and the gap between server-grade and consumer-grade SKUs — locating a late-February inflection along the way. Treating those findings as the research question, it switches to deep research: planning per-dimension web searches over supply contraction, AI-server demand, and vendor output discipline, then triaging and cross-checking evidence across sources before committing it to the report. The data and research conclusions are then handed to PPT generation, which lays out a 16-page outline, plans per-slot imagery, renders per-page HTML, runs VLM review, and finally composites screenshots into the PPTX. The result is a clear three-step storyline: prices are rising → here is why → here is what to do. This is the only example that exercises the full data analysis → deep research → PPT chain end-to-end.

📊 Employee performance analysis — data analysis

examples/employee-performance-analysis. The agent reads 10 separate monthly review xlsx files, aligns column schemas across months and joins them into one longitudinal table. From that table it produces aggregate views — monthly average trend, score-distribution boxplots, grade mix change, and a 38-role ranking — and individual views — top performers, needs-attention, and consistently-improving cohorts plus per-employee year trends. The findings are written up with explicit improvement suggestions tied to specific roles and individuals, backed by 8 supporting charts. The same content is delivered as a Word doc (for distribution) and a visualized HTML report (for browsing). The example shows how sn-da-excel-workflow handles "many small spreadsheets that should be one analysis" rather than a single big file.

🔬 Embodied AI industry research — deep research

examples/embodied-ai-deep-research. Given only an industry name, the agent first commits to a research plan — market size, vendor share, financing, cost structure, development roadmap — instead of jumping straight into search. For each dimension it runs targeted web searches, fetches and reads source pages, and extracts both numeric and qualitative evidence; conflicting figures across sources are explicitly reconciled before being trusted. A synthesis stage organizes per-dimension evidence into a traceable, reader-oriented information structure rather than a stack of disconnected bullets. The output is an illustrated report (Markdown + visualized HTML) with 5 dimension-specific charts. The example shows how sn-deep-research turns "go research X" into a structured plan-then-execute loop with traceable evidence.

🎯 Property fee pricing — PPT generation

examples/property-fee-pricing-ppt. The agent takes a free-form brief — topic (property fee pricing), audience (property staff + committee), 26 pages, black-and-white warm style — and first commits to an outline plus a per-page asset plan that conforms to the style spec. Each slide is then built as semantic per-page HTML rather than free-form image generation: copy, layout, illustrations, icons, and any data charts are reasoned about per slot. Imagery is produced or selected per slot and VLM-checked against the page's intent; each rendered page goes through a review pass with optional rewrite for coherence and copy quality. Final pages are screenshotted and composited into the PPTX, with the per-page HTML kept alongside for direct browser preview or re-editing. The example demonstrates sn-ppt-standard style consistency on a long, prose-heavy deck where every slide must obey the same audience and palette constraints.

FAQ

Common setup and runtime questions (400/401 errors, rate limits, PPT timeouts, infographic quality, model names) are answered in docs/faq.md.

Contributing

Feel free to use the skills here as templates for your own OpenClaw skills. The qualities that make a skill good:

  • Clear triggers: state in description exactly when the skill should and should not run, so the agent recognizes it accurately
  • Focused scope: each skill does one thing well; complex workflows compose multiple skills
  • Solid documentation: examples, artifact contracts, edge cases, failure handling
  • Supporting resources: use references/, scripts/, prompts/ to provide additional context

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License

MIT — see LICENSE.

Frequently asked questions

Is SenseNova-Skills free to use?

SenseNova-Skills is open source under the MIT licence. There is no licence fee and no seat count — you can self-host it or, where the project offers one, pay a vendor for a managed version instead.

What does SenseNova-Skills do?

Modular SenseNova skills for building AI-powered office assistants and productivity workflows

What is SenseNova-Skills written in?

SenseNova-Skills is primarily written in JavaScript. Its source is publicly available at https://github.com/OpenSenseNova/SenseNova-Skills, and it has 6,009 GitHub stars.