Use the external Pear skill with OpenClaw

1. Create your Pear account

Sign up at pearmcp.com, connect Apple iCloud during onboarding, then generate a Pear API key from Settings. Make PEAR_API_KEY available to the OpenClaw process through your local environment or secret manager; do not place it in the install command or a shared workspace file.

2. Install the Pear skill

OpenClaw's skill command installs a third-party ClawHub package into the active workspace. Review the current owner and version before installing, then start a new session with the API-key environment already available.

openclaw skills install @ashtonau/pear-apple --version 1.0.2

After installing, inspect the workspace skills/directory or restart OpenClaw and ask it which Pear skill instructions it loaded.

3. Start a fresh OpenClaw session

Restart OpenClaw after installing the skill so the agent reads the new skill instructions and environment variable. Try:

• What is on my calendar this week?
• Show whether Pear can see any usable legacy CalDAV reminder lists.
• Find a free 30-minute slot for a meeting this Thursday.
• Summarize today's events and any visible legacy reminders into a planning note.

Current OpenClaw support

Pear's hosted remote MCP endpoint is the path for supported iCloud and Microsoft 365 accounts, but the current OpenClaw route is still the separate Apple-focused@ashtonau/pear-apple skill. Pear has not recorded current evidence that verifies this external dependency as direct OpenClaw MCP interoperability. For the hosted endpoint, choose a maintained client guide from the Pear documentation hub.

Apple Reminders compatibility

Apple Reminders availability depends on the Apple account. For Apple, Pear can read and write only the legacy reminder lists Apple still exposes through CalDAV. If the account has been upgraded to Apple's newer Reminders store, Pear cannot access those native lists and does not copy them into a separate reminder store. Apple may instead return compatibility placeholders, such as repeated "Where are my reminders?" items; Pear did not create them. Pear's safe fallback hides known placeholders and blocks writes to affected lists. Reconnecting iCloud or replacing the App-Specific Password will not change this Apple limitation. Calendar, Contacts, and Mail are unaffected, and Microsoft To Do uses Microsoft Graph and is unaffected. Full modern Apple Reminders access would require an Apple-platform companion using EventKit with the user's permission; Pear does not currently provide one.

What the external skill is designed to expose

• Read and update Apple calendar events and contacts from one installed skill.
• Run free-time search, scheduling, planning-summary, and follow-up workflows as part of longer agent chains.
• Use reminder actions only when Pear reports a usable legacy Apple CalDAV list.
• Keep compatible legacy tasks in the same OpenClaw workflow you already use for agentic work.

OpenClaw workflows worth testing

• Summarize today's events and any legacy CalDAV reminders Pear can actually see.
• Create reminders from a planning document only after confirming a usable legacy CalDAV list.
• Use free-time search before the agent proposes meeting times or follow-up windows.