Setup & Installation
openclaw skills install @alvinecarn/call-web-search-agent
Or with the ClawHub CLI, for registry-managed skill folders outside a full OpenClaw workspace:
npx clawhub install call-web-search-agent
What This Skill Does
An AI research agent that conducts multi-phase web research on any topic. It creates a structured log, reads authoritative sources, and produces a cited report. User-provided terms are never corrected or substituted, even if they conflict with internal knowledge.
It grounds all findings in real-time search results rather than internal knowledge, which makes it reliable for topics that postdate the model's training cutoff.
When to use it
- Researching a newly released product or software version
- Building a cited technical summary from live web sources
- Tracking recent developments in a fast-moving field
- Investigating an unfamiliar tool, framework, or company
- Generating a structured report from scattered online information
Example Workflow
Here's how your AI assistant might use this skill in practice.
INPUT
User asks: Research the latest features of Claude 4 Sonnet
AGENT
- 1Formulates 3-5 search angles using the exact user-provided term without modification
- 2Creates a research log and executes the searches in parallel
- 3Selects up to 4 authoritative URLs for deep reading and summarizes key points into the log
- 4Runs focused follow-up searches to fill gaps identified after reviewing the log
- 5Synthesizes findings into a structured report with inline citations and a numbered reference list
OUTPUT
A structured research report with abstract, background, core findings, conclusion, and numbered references