persona-researcher

What This Skill Does

The persona-researcher skill transforms your OpenClaw agent into a comprehensive research assistant, specifically designed to bridge the gap between fragmented research data and structured documentation. By leveraging the power of Google Workspace (Drive, Docs, Sheets, and Gmail), this skill automates the lifecycle of academic and professional research. It handles everything from cataloging literature and drafting summaries to tracking experimental metrics and coordinating peer reviews. By centralizing your research assets, it ensures that your findings remain accessible, organized, and ready for collaborative feedback, effectively turning your agent into a dedicated research project manager.

Installation

To integrate this skill into your environment, use the OpenClaw command-line interface. Run the following command in your terminal:

clawhub install openclaw/skills/skills/googleworkspace-bot/persona-researcher

Ensure that you have first installed and configured the prerequisite skills: gws-drive, gws-docs, gws-sheets, and gws-gmail. Without these foundational integrations, the persona will lack the necessary connectivity to perform file operations and communications.

Use Cases

1. Literature Review Management: Automatically aggregate research papers into specific folders, generate document summaries, and maintain an index of key findings.
2. Experimental Tracking: Use shared Google Sheets to log ongoing experiment data, ensuring that your raw statistics are always in one place and accessible by your team.
3. Collaborative Peer Review: Facilitate the feedback loop by drafting summary emails to colleagues and managing the sharing permissions for documentation via automated workflows.

Example Prompts

1. "Find all research papers in my 'Machine Learning 2024' folder, summarize the key findings, and append them to my main research tracker in Google Sheets."
2. "Draft a summary of the latest experiment results from the sheet and email it to the team for peer review using the file-announce workflow."
3. "Search for the latest PDF documents related to 'Quantum Computing' in Drive and organize them into a new folder labeled 'Quantum Research Q3'."

Tips & Limitations

• Tip: Always use --format csv when exporting data from your tracking sheets to ensure compatibility with external analysis tools like R, Python/Pandas, or Tableau.
• Tip: Periodically run gws drive files list with specific keyword filters to prune duplicate documents and keep your research repository clean.
• Limitation: The skill relies heavily on Google Workspace permissions. Ensure your agent has 'Editor' access to the shared drives, or it will be unable to append data to your logs or manage file structures effectively.