Setup & Installation
Or with the ClawHub CLI, for registry-managed skill folders outside a full OpenClaw workspace:
What This Skill Does
A 20-format summarizer that runs entirely on the local AI model with no external API calls. Handles standard summaries plus specialized formats: meeting notes, email digests, ELI5, comparison tables, chapter summaries, and multi-language output. Stores history, saved summaries, and usage stats in local JSON files under ~/.openclaw/summarize-pro/.
Covers 20 distinct summary formats in one skill without sending text to any external service, making it usable for sensitive or confidential documents.
When to use it
- Condensing a long research article into ranked bullet points
- Extracting action items and deadlines from meeting transcripts
- Getting a TL;DR of a lengthy email before a call
- Comparing two opinion pieces side by side in a structured table
- Summarizing a book chapter in Hindi for a non-English reader
Example Workflow
Here's how your AI assistant might use this skill in practice.
User asks: key takeaways from this: [pastes 1200-word article]
- 1Detects 'key takeaways' trigger and selects Key Takeaways format
- 2Reads user preferences from ~/.openclaw/summarize-pro/settings.json
- 3Analyzes the text and extracts up to 5 insights ranked by importance
- 4Outputs a numbered list with a one-sentence bottom line
- 5Logs the summary to history.json and updates words-processed stats
Numbered key takeaways ranked by importance, a bottom-line sentence, and a word count reduction stat