agentclear

What This Skill Does

The agentclear skill provides AI agents with a comprehensive commerce interface to discover, evaluate, and invoke paid third-party APIs. Acting as a dedicated commerce layer, it streamlines the procurement of specialized tools. Instead of managing dozens of individual developer accounts or subscription plans, developers use AgentClear to query a vast marketplace of services, proxy requests through a unified billing gateway, and receive automatic, per-call micro-billing. It essentially turns API consumption into a simple, friction-free programmatic interaction.

Installation

To integrate this skill into your environment, use the OpenClaw command-line interface. First, ensure you have an account at agentclear.dev to obtain your API key. Execute the following in your terminal:

clawhub install openclaw/skills/skills/dwflickinger/agentclear

Once installed, set your authentication token as an environment variable to authorize your agent: export AGENTCLEAR_API_KEY="axk_your_key_here"

Use Cases

• Automated Research: Programmatically call specialized data-enrichment APIs when your agent encounters a topic it does not recognize.
• Content Transformation: Utilize high-performance, paid OCR or PDF parsing tools to process incoming documents without maintaining your own complex infrastructure.
• Marketplace Discovery: Allow your agent to scout for the best available tool for a specific task (e.g., currency conversion, SEO analysis, or sentiment classification) based on cost and trust scores.
• Scalable Infrastructure: Implement per-call billing to match your agent's spending to its actual utility, preventing the sunk costs of monthly subscriptions.

Example Prompts

1. "Find an API that can extract structured JSON data from handwritten invoices and show me the top-rated options."
2. "Search the AgentClear marketplace for a reliable service that converts web pages into clean markdown, then call the most cost-effective one to process this URL."
3. "What is my current AgentClear balance and how many API calls have I made this week?"

Tips & Limitations

• Be Specific: The discovery engine relies on semantic matching. Use highly descriptive queries like "convert SQL database dump to CSV" rather than generic terms like "convert data."
• Leverage the Bounty Board: If you cannot find a service that meets your needs, your search query is automatically logged to the Bounty Board. This signals to service providers that there is market demand for that specific tool, often incentivizing its development.
• Monitor Costs: While convenient, remember that every proxy call incurs a cost. Use the account status checking functions periodically to monitor your consumption.
• Security: AgentClear strictly handles billing metadata and does not store your content payloads, ensuring that your sensitive data remains processed only by your chosen upstream providers.