OpenClaw Skills for TypeScript Monorepo Projects

TypeScript monorepos are increasingly the default architecture for teams that ship multiple packages, applications, or services from a single repository. The benefits are clear — shared code, consistent tooling, atomic changes across packages. But the complexity is real. Build orchestration, dependency management, package boundaries, and CI performance all need careful handling.

AI agents struggle with monorepos because the context spans multiple packages with interconnected configurations. Your agent needs to understand not just TypeScript, but how Turborepo or Nx orchestrate builds, how workspace dependencies resolve, and how CI pipelines can be optimized to avoid rebuilding everything on every commit.

OpenClaw skills give your agent this cross-cutting knowledge. This guide covers the best monorepo skills in the OpenClaw Bazaar skills directory.

Turborepo Skills

Turborepo has become one of the most popular monorepo build tools for TypeScript projects. Its caching and task orchestration model is straightforward but has specific configuration patterns that agents need to know.

turborepo-config (11,800 installs)

This is the most installed monorepo skill on the Bazaar. It teaches your agent to configure turbo.json with proper task pipelines, input and output definitions for caching, and dependency relationships between tasks. The skill covers the common patterns: build depends on ^build (build dependencies first), test depends on build, and lint runs independently.

Cache configuration is where most agents go wrong without this skill. Turborepo needs to know exactly which files affect each task's output. The skill teaches your agent to define inputs arrays that include source files and configuration files but exclude test files for build tasks, and to set outputs to the correct directories (dist/**, .next/**, etc.) so remote caching works correctly.

It also covers environment variable handling with globalEnv and per-task env arrays, which is critical for builds that behave differently across environments.

turborepo-remote-cache (4,900 installs)

Remote caching is what makes Turborepo transformative for teams. This skill teaches your agent to configure remote caching with Vercel, self-hosted solutions using turborepo-remote-cache server, and custom S3-compatible storage backends. It covers authentication setup, cache scope configuration for different branches, and troubleshooting cache misses with turbo run build --dry and turbo run build --summarize.

The troubleshooting guidance is particularly useful. Cache misses in Turborepo are often caused by environment variables not listed in turbo.json, file changes outside declared inputs, or platform differences between local and CI environments. This skill teaches your agent to diagnose and fix these issues systematically.

Nx Skills

Nx is the other major monorepo tool for TypeScript projects, with a more opinionated approach that includes code generation, dependency graph analysis, and built-in support for many frameworks.

nx-workspace-config (9,400 installs)

This skill covers Nx workspace setup and configuration. It teaches your agent to define projects in project.json files, configure executors for build, test, and lint tasks, and use the Nx dependency graph to understand how changes propagate through the workspace. The skill covers both integrated monorepos (where Nx manages the full build pipeline) and package-based monorepos (where each package has its own build tooling).

Nx's targetDefaults and namedInputs configuration — which controls how Nx determines what to rebuild — is covered in depth. These settings are powerful but complex, and agents without this skill tend to produce configurations that either rebuild too much or miss necessary rebuilds.

nx-generators (5,200 installs)

Nx generators automate project and file creation with consistent patterns. This skill teaches your agent to run built-in generators (@nx/react:application, @nx/node:library, etc.) and to create custom generators that enforce your team's conventions. Custom generators involve specific TypeScript APIs for file manipulation, template rendering, and workspace configuration updates, which are distinct from general TypeScript development.

nx-affected-commands (4,100 installs)

The nx affected commands are what make Nx efficient at scale — they determine which projects are affected by a given set of changes and only run tasks for those projects. This skill teaches your agent to use nx affected:build, nx affected:test, and nx affected:lint in CI pipelines, configure the base commit comparison, and handle the edge cases where affected analysis does not capture implicit dependencies.

Shared Package Skills

Regardless of which build tool you use, shared packages are the heart of a monorepo. Getting the TypeScript configuration, build output, and export maps right is essential.

monorepo-shared-packages (10,600 installs)

This skill teaches your agent to create and configure shared packages in a TypeScript monorepo. It covers package.json exports maps with . and subpath entries, TypeScript project references with composite: true and references arrays, and dual CJS/ESM output with proper main, module, and types fields.

The exports map configuration is where this skill is most valuable. Modern Node.js package resolution uses the exports field in package.json to control what consumers can import and which file format they get. Getting this wrong leads to cryptic resolution errors that are hard to debug. The skill provides templates for common patterns: single entry point, multiple subpath exports, and conditional exports for Node.js vs browser environments.

monorepo-tsconfig (6,300 installs)

TypeScript configuration in a monorepo involves a base tsconfig.json at the root and per-package configurations that extend it. This skill teaches your agent to structure this hierarchy correctly, including separate tsconfig.build.json files that exclude test files, path aliases that resolve across package boundaries, and the composite and references settings that enable incremental compilation.

It also covers the common pitfalls: circular references between packages, path alias resolution differences between TypeScript's compiler and the runtime bundler, and the moduleResolution setting mismatches that cause "cannot find module" errors in properly configured packages.

Workspace Dependency Management

Managing dependencies across dozens of packages is one of the biggest ongoing challenges in monorepos.

workspace-deps-management (7,800 installs)

This skill teaches your agent to manage dependencies in monorepos using pnpm workspaces, npm workspaces, or yarn workspaces. It covers the workspace: protocol for inter-package dependencies, hoisting configuration to control which packages get deduplicated, and version management strategies for external dependencies.

The skill addresses the common question of where to declare external dependencies. Should react live in the root package.json or in each package that uses it? The answer depends on your workspace tool and hoisting configuration, and this skill teaches your agent to make the right choice for your setup.

changeset-versioning (4,700 installs)

For monorepos that publish packages to npm, Changesets provides a structured workflow for versioning and changelog generation. This skill teaches your agent to create changesets with npx changeset, configure changeset.config.json for linked and fixed version groups, and set up the CI workflow that automates version bumps and npm publishing. It integrates well with workspace-deps-management for monorepos that both consume and publish packages.

CI Optimization Skills

CI pipelines for monorepos can be painfully slow without proper optimization. Building and testing everything on every commit defeats the purpose of having a build tool with caching.

monorepo-ci-optimization (8,500 installs)

This skill teaches your agent to optimize CI pipelines for monorepos. It covers parallelization strategies — running build, test, and lint tasks concurrently with proper dependency ordering — cache configuration for GitHub Actions and other CI platforms, and conditional job execution based on which packages changed.

The skill includes specific configurations for GitHub Actions with Turborepo and Nx, including the matrix strategy pattern where affected projects are detected in a setup job and individual project tasks run as matrix jobs. This pattern scales to hundreds of packages without hitting CI timeout limits.

monorepo-docker-builds (3,600 installs)

Building Docker images in a monorepo requires careful handling of the build context. This skill teaches your agent to write Dockerfiles that only copy the files needed for a specific application, use the lockfile to install only the dependencies that application needs, and leverage Docker layer caching with the monorepo's build output cache.

It covers the common patterns: separate Dockerfiles per application with a shared base image, multi-stage builds that install workspace dependencies in one stage and copy only the production artifacts to the final stage, and integration with Turborepo's turbo prune command to generate a minimal workspace for the Docker build context.

Putting It All Together

For a Turborepo-based monorepo, start with turborepo-config, monorepo-shared-packages, workspace-deps-management, and monorepo-ci-optimization. For Nx, swap in nx-workspace-config and nx-affected-commands. Add monorepo-tsconfig for any monorepo regardless of build tool — TypeScript configuration is universal.

As your monorepo grows, add turborepo-remote-cache or nx-generators for scale, and monorepo-docker-builds when you start containerizing applications.

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