omnisearch

What This Skill Does

OmniSearch is the primary gateway for the OpenClaw AI agent to access the internet. It acts as an abstraction layer over multiple high-quality search providers, allowing the agent to retrieve real-time data, current news, product pricing, and factual information that falls outside the scope of its static training data. By utilizing both AI-enhanced summarization and raw web search capabilities, OmniSearch ensures that the agent remains contextually aware and highly accurate, minimizing hallucinations by providing citations and source-based answers.

Installation

To integrate this skill into your environment, run the following command in your terminal: clawhub install openclaw/skills/skills/bguidolim/omnisearch Once installed, you can trigger search operations directly via the OpenClaw interaction flow, provided the skill is correctly initialized in your workspace.

Use Cases

OmniSearch is indispensable for any task requiring temporal relevance. Primary use cases include:

• Market Research: Fetching current product prices, specs, or professional reviews.
• News Monitoring: Keeping track of breaking headlines or industry-specific updates that occurred after the model's knowledge cutoff.
• Fact Verification: Validating claims, gathering statistics, or confirming details about public entities, organizations, or geographical data.
• Local Discovery: Finding real-time information such as weather reports, local business hours, or event schedules.

Example Prompts

1. "Search for the latest benchmark scores for the RTX 5090 and compare them against the RTX 4090."
2. "What are the top three developments in generative AI research published in the last 72 hours?"
3. "Check the current market price of gold and tell me how it has fluctuated compared to last week."

Tips & Limitations

To get the best results, use the 'ai' mode for queries requiring synthesized, conversational answers. Use the 'web' mode with specific providers like 'kagi' or 'exa' when you need high-fidelity, research-grade data. Remember that OmniSearch requires active internet access; if you are working in a restricted network environment, the tool may fail to return results. Always prioritize using the provided wrapper script (./scripts/omnisearch.sh) over direct calls to ensure consistent output formatting and error handling.