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Yacy

Skill by qsmtco

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clawhub install openclaw/skills/skills/qsmtco/yacy

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YaCy Skill

Control and manage a local YaCy search engine instance.

Description

This skill provides an interface to interact with YaCy, the open-source distributed search engine, running on localhost. It allows you to start/stop the service, check status, and integrate search capabilities into your OpenClaw workflows.

Prerequisites

Docker installed and running
Ports 8090 and 8443 available on localhost

Installation

The YaCy container runs with persistent data stored in a Docker volume (yacy_search_server_data). To install:

docker run -d --name yacy_search_server -p 8090:8090 -p 8443:8443 -v yacy_search_server_data:/opt/yacy_search_server/DATA --restart unless-stopped --log-opt max-size=200m --log-opt max-file=2 yacy/yacy_search_server:latest

Access the web interface at: http://localhost:8090

Default credentials: admin / yacy (change after first login)

Capabilities

Tools

This skill provides:

yacy_start - Start the YaCy service
yacy_stop - Stop the YaCy service
yacy_status - Check if YaCy is running and view logs
yacy_search - Perform a search query (replaces Brave search when configured as default)

Configuration

Set in OpenClaw config or via environment:

yacy_dir - Path to YaCy installation (default: /home/q/.openclaw/workspace/yacy_search_server)
port - HTTP port (default: 8090)

Replacing Brave Search

To make YaCy your default web search:

Install and start YaCy
Set OpenClaw config: tools.defaultSearch = "yacy_search"
Remove BRAVE_API_KEY environment variable if set

Now all "search for X" requests will use your local YaCy instance instead of Brave.

Notes

YaCy runs completely locally and can be used as a privacy-focused search solution. It also participates in the global YaCy peer-to-peer network by default, but this can be disabled in settings.

License

GPL 2.0+ (same as YaCy)

Created: 2026-02-11 Skill version: 0.1.0 Target OpenClaw: 2026.2.9+

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Metadata

Author@qsmtco

Stars1171

Updated2026-02-19

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Add to Configuration

Paste this into your clawhub.json to enable this plugin.

{
  "plugins": {
    "official-qsmtco-yacy": {
      "enabled": true,
      "auto_update": true
    }
  }
}

Safety NoteClawKit audits metadata but not runtime behavior. Use with caution.

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