topic-to-article-kit

What This Skill Does

The topic-to-article-kit is a professional-grade research and drafting assistant designed to streamline the transition from raw AI industry buzz to high-quality, publishable content. It automates the tedious parts of the writing process: gathering primary evidence from social platforms like X/Twitter, curating high-value technical discourse from sources like Hacker News and GitHub, and organizing findings directly into your Obsidian vault. The kit mandates a structured approach, ensuring you have both a comprehensive reference file and a citation-ready outline before you even begin writing your first draft. By automating browser tab management and file path synchronization, it keeps your creative environment clean and highly organized.

Installation

To integrate this kit into your OpenClaw environment, execute the following command in your terminal:

clawhub install openclaw/skills/skills/rotbit/topic-to-article-kit

Ensure your Obsidian vault path is correctly configured in your environment variables to allow the agent to read and write files directly to your preferred directory.

Use Cases

• Thought Leadership: Rapidly synthesize trending AI topics into insightful articles for newsletters or professional blogs.
• Technical Research: Aggregate implementation details and critical counterpoints regarding new AI models or frameworks.
• Content Curation: Transform Twitter discussions and GitHub threads into structured reports for team internal communication.
• Newsletter Production: Build consistent weekly deep-dives by leveraging current social data and public repository activity.

Example Prompts

1. "Research the latest limitations of the newly released Llama-3 model and create an article outline for a deep-dive analysis in my Obsidian vault."
2. "Find high-value discussions on X and Hacker News regarding agentic workflows, then prepare a source package and article draft for me."
3. "I want to write about the impact of RAG on enterprise search. Please gather evidence, compile a资料包.md, and suggest 5 catchy titles for the article."

Tips & Limitations

• Vault Security: Always ensure the target path provided to the agent points to your intended vault to avoid cluttering unrelated directories.
• Tab Management: The agent enforces a 7-tab limit. If you have a complex topic, it will close resolved tabs to stay within this limit; save any critical information elsewhere if you need to keep it open.
• Quality Check: While the agent automates collection, always verify the context of extracted comments to ensure they are interpreted correctly within your specific narrative.