Archive & Compress

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Create and extract archives (tar, zip, gzip) in the shared volume at {{SHARED_VOLUME}}.

Instructions available. Your AI can read the instructions. Execution depends on the setup they require.

Add ahel to your AI once: Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor, Claude Code or Codex. Then ask it to use this.

Then ask your AI: use the Archive & Compress skill

What this skill tells your AI

The instructions your AI receives, as published by bidewio/better-openclaw in skills/archive-compress/SKILL.md and read by ahel’s review.

Work with archives in the shared volume at {{SHARED_VOLUME}}.

Create Archives

# tar.gz
tar -czf {{SHARED_VOLUME}}/output/archive.tar.gz -C {{SHARED_VOLUME}}/input .

# zip
zip -r {{SHARED_VOLUME}}/output/archive.zip {{SHARED_VOLUME}}/input/

Extract

tar -xzf {{SHARED_VOLUME}}/input/archive.tar.gz -C {{SHARED_VOLUME}}/output/
unzip {{SHARED_VOLUME}}/input/archive.zip -d {{SHARED_VOLUME}}/output/

Tips for AI Agents

  • Use tar -tf or unzip -l to list contents without extracting.
  • gzip for single files, tar for directories.

Signals

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Last commit
Aug 2026
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Item type
skill
Key
archive-compress
Source
github.com/bidewio/better-openclaw