Zod Validation Library Documentation Skill

Complete Zod validation library documentation packaged as an OpenClaw AgentSkill.

Contents

• API Reference (complete schema API)
• Core Concepts (validation, type inference, parsing)
• Error Handling (formatting, customization)
• Advanced Features (codecs, JSON Schema, metadata)
• Ecosystem (integrations and packages)
• Version 4 (latest features)

Structure

references/
├── index.mdx                # Introduction
├── basics.mdx               # Getting started
├── api.mdx                  # Complete API reference
├── error-formatting.mdx     # Error handling
├── error-customization.mdx  # Custom errors
├── codecs.mdx               # Serialization
├── json-schema.mdx          # JSON Schema generation
├── ecosystem.mdx            # Integrations
├── library-authors.mdx      # Library guide
└── v4/                      # Version 4 docs

Installation

Via ClawHub:

clawhub install lb-zod-skill

Or manually: Download and extract into your OpenClaw workspace skills/ folder.

Usage

This skill triggers automatically when you ask questions about Zod validation, schema definition, type inference, error handling, or form validation.

Covered Topics

• Schema definition (primitives, objects, arrays, tuples, unions)
• Validation and parsing
• Type inference with TypeScript
• Refinements and transforms
• Error formatting and customization
• Async validation
• Coercion and defaults
• JSON Schema generation
• Integrations (React Hook Form, tRPC, etc.)
• Form validation patterns
• API validation
• Environment variable parsing

Common Use Cases

• Form validation in React/Next.js
• API request/response validation
• Runtime type checking
• Data transformation
• Environment variable parsing
• Integration with tRPC, React Hook Form, Formik
• Custom error messages

Source

Documentation extracted from colinhacks/zod (latest version).

License

Documentation content: MIT (from Zod project)