Dropbox Kb Auto

What This Skill Does

The Dropbox KB Auto skill acts as an intelligent bridge between your unstructured document storage and your OpenClaw agent's reasoning engine. By continuously syncing selected directories from your Dropbox account, the skill monitors for file changes using content hashing to ensure only new or modified documents are processed. Upon detection, it performs robust text extraction and OCR (Optical Character Recognition) using Tesseract for images and Poppler for PDFs. These extracted contents are then seamlessly embedded into your OpenClaw memory bank, allowing your AI agent to perform semantic searches, summarization, and question-answering across your entire private document library.

Installation

To install this skill, ensure you have the required system dependencies for OCR installed (Tesseract and Poppler). You can use the automated installer provided by ClawHub by running clawhub install dropbox-kb-auto. If you prefer a manual setup, clone the repository into your workspace at ~/.openclaw/workspace/skills/ and complete the configuration steps. You must define your Dropbox API credentials within your .openclaw/.env file. After initial configuration, run the install.sh script to set up your directory pathing and scheduling preferences, ensuring your agent has the necessary permissions to access your Dropbox folder structure.

Use Cases

This skill is perfect for researchers, students, and professionals who handle massive amounts of digital paperwork. It is ideal for automatically ingesting research papers, organizing messy receipt folders, indexing past meeting minutes, or managing project documentation that evolves over time. By centralizing this information into your agent's memory, you turn your static files into an active, searchable knowledge base that responds to your direct queries.

Example Prompts

1. "Based on my uploaded research papers in the /Documents folder, what is the consensus on current climate mitigation strategies?"
2. "Search through the files indexed from my /Work folder and find the receipt for the office chair I purchased last month."
3. "Summarize the key action items from the project proposal PDF currently saved in my Dropbox workspace."

Tips & Limitations

• Performance: Your first run will index your entire specified Dropbox tree, which may take time depending on file volume. Incremental runs are highly optimized and take seconds.
• File Limits: The default max_file_size_mb is 20MB. Avoid extremely large high-resolution scans to prevent memory timeouts.
• Security: This skill requires read-only access to your Dropbox files. Keep your API tokens secure in your .env file and never share them publicly.
• Data Privacy: Data is processed locally on your machine before being indexed into your OpenClaw memory, keeping sensitive content off third-party servers during the extraction phase.