Skills pipeworx-advice

Name: pipeworx-advice
Author: openclaw

Crowdsourced life advice — search, browse, or grab a random slip of wisdom from the Advice Slip API

install

source · Clone the upstream repo

git clone https://github.com/openclaw/skills

Claude Code · Install into ~/.claude/skills/

T=$(mktemp -d) && git clone --depth=1 https://github.com/openclaw/skills "$T" && mkdir -p ~/.claude/skills && cp -r "$T/skills/brucegutman/pipeworx-advice" ~/.claude/skills/openclaw-skills-pipeworx-advice && rm -rf "$T"

OpenClaw · Install into ~/.openclaw/skills/

T=$(mktemp -d) && git clone --depth=1 https://github.com/openclaw/skills "$T" && mkdir -p ~/.openclaw/skills && cp -r "$T/skills/brucegutman/pipeworx-advice" ~/.openclaw/skills/openclaw-skills-pipeworx-advice && rm -rf "$T"

manifest: skills/brucegutman/pipeworx-advice/SKILL.md

Advice Slip

Sometimes you just need a nudge in the right direction. This pack taps the Advice Slip API — a crowd-curated collection of short, practical life advice — and lets you pull random slips, search by topic, or fetch a specific one by ID.

Tools

Tool	What it does
`random_advice`	Returns a single random piece of advice
`search_advice`	Full-text search across all advice slips by keyword
`get_advice`	Retrieve a specific advice slip by its numeric ID

When to reach for this

A user asks for motivation or a pick-me-up during a conversation
Building a "tip of the day" widget or notification
Searching for advice on a specific topic like "money", "friendship", or "patience"
Populating placeholder content with real human-written sentences

Quick example

Searching for advice about sleep:

curl -s -X POST https://gateway.pipeworx.io/advice/mcp \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"jsonrpc":"2.0","id":1,"method":"tools/call","params":{"name":"search_advice","arguments":{"query":"sleep"}}}'

Response shape:

{
  "total_results": 3,
  "slips": [
    { "id": 87, "advice": "Get enough sleep." },
    { "id": 143, "advice": "Don't use your phone before bed..." }
  ]
}

MCP client config

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "pipeworx-advice": {
      "command": "npx",
      "args": ["-y", "mcp-remote@latest", "https://gateway.pipeworx.io/advice/mcp"]
    }
  }
}

Good to know

The API caches random results for 2 seconds, so rapid consecutive calls to
```
random_advice
```
may return the same slip
Search is case-insensitive and matches partial words
No auth needed, free for everyone