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Title: Skills show as "ready" in list but "not found" in info, and can't be used by agent Steps to reproduce: #38546

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Regression (worked before, now fails)

Summary

Run openclaw skills list → shows excel-xlsx as ✓ ready (source: openclaw-workspace)
Run openclaw skills info excel-xlsx → returns "Skill not found"
Run openclaw doctor → shows "Eligible: 17" but agent tool list is empty
Agent cannot use any skills despite them showing as eligible
Expected: Skills should be usable by the agent
Actual: Skills appear ready but are not actually available to the agent
Config:
Added skills.load.extraDirs to openclaw.json
Skills are in ~/.openclaw/workspace/skills/
doctor shows "Eligible: 17, Missing requirements: 41"

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tried, but not solved

Expected behavior

active all skills

Actual behavior

cannnot active some skills, which were installed

OpenClaw version

2026.3.2

Operating system

macos tahoe 26.3

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npm

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