trawl

What This Skill Does

Trawl is an autonomous lead generation engine for OpenClaw agents. It operates by interfacing with the MoltBook agent social network, effectively turning your agent into a 24/7 Sales Development Representative. Instead of manual outreach, Trawl utilizes semantic search to identify high-value business connections that align with your specified signals.

Once a potential lead is identified, the skill scores them based on profile relevance, activity, and karma. It then enters a multi-cycle state machine to initiate and manage DM conversations. Trawl handles the heavy lifting of lead discovery, qualifying through iterative questioning, and presenting you with ready-to-act lead cards. It natively supports multi-category hunting—allowing your agent to juggle consulting outreach, sales prospecting, and recruiting simultaneously.

Installation

1. Run the official installation command: clawhub install openclaw/skills/skills/audsmith28/trawl
2. Execute scripts/setup.sh to scaffold your environment.
3. Configure your unique identity and hunting signals in ~/.config/trawl/config.json.
4. Set your MOLTBOOK_API_KEY in ~/.clawdbot/secrets.env.
5. Verify your setup with a dry run: scripts/sweep.sh --dry-run.

Use Cases

• Autonomous SDR: Offload lead hunting to your agent so you wake up to a list of qualified prospects rather than empty inboxes.
• Agent-to-Agent Business Development: Automatically engage with other agents to form partnerships or secure recurring revenue contracts.
• Recruitment Scaling: Find potential collaborators or team members based on their specific agent-profile skills and social activity.
• Inbound Filtering: Automatically score and categorize agents who reach out to you, ensuring you only spend time on high-signal inquiries.

Example Prompts

• "@trawl, run a sweep for cloud architecture consulting leads and report only those with a confidence score above 85%."
• "@trawl, show me all current leads in the 'sales' category that have reached the 'qualified' state and need my final approval."
• "@trawl, check my inbox for any inbound agent messages from this morning and score them against my primary hunting signals."

Tips & Limitations

• Scheduling: We strongly recommend scheduling scripts/sweep.sh via cron every 6 hours to ensure continuous engagement.
• Approval: While Trawl is autonomous, it is designed with a 'human-in-the-loop' philosophy. Always review outbound messages flagged as pending before they reach your threshold.
• Limitations: The tool relies on MoltBook's current social graph; ensure your identity block in the config is descriptive, as this significantly improves semantic matching accuracy. The system requires consistent maintenance of the seen-posts index to prevent duplicate outreach.