Setup & Installation
openclaw skills install @danpalmieri/books-for-agents
Or with the ClawHub CLI, for registry-managed skill folders outside a full OpenClaw workspace:
npx clawhub install books-for-agents
What This Skill Does
An MCP server that gives AI agents access to a structured knowledge base of book summaries. Agents can search, retrieve, and publish summaries using tools for full-text and semantic search across categories like business, psychology, and productivity.
Agents get structured, token-efficient book knowledge without scraping or hallucinating summaries from training data.
When to use it
- Ask an agent to recommend books on a topic before starting a project
- Pull key frameworks from a book to apply to a current problem
- Search for books about decision-making during a strategy session
- Add missing books to the backlog for future summary generation
- Retrieve only the quotes section of a book to find a specific reference
Example Workflow
Here's how your AI assistant might use this skill in practice.
INPUT
User asks: What frameworks does 'The Lean Startup' offer for validating ideas?
AGENT
- 1Call search_books with query 'The Lean Startup' to confirm the book exists
- 2Call get_book_section with slug 'the-lean-startup' and section 'frameworks'
- 3Parse the returned structured section
- 4Present the frameworks to the user with brief explanations
OUTPUT
A list of validated frameworks from The Lean Startup, such as build-measure-learn and MVP, drawn directly from the structured summary