Setup & Installation
Or with the ClawHub CLI, for registry-managed skill folders outside a full OpenClaw workspace:
Version History
Fixed: included function examples in SKILL.md, improved documentation
What This Skill Does
Connects OpenClaw agents to open-notebook, a locally hosted research assistant. Agents can create notebooks, save content, and query stored knowledge using PowerShell functions that call the open-notebook REST API. Runs fully local via Docker and Ollama with no external API costs.
Runs entirely on local infrastructure with Ollama, so there are no API costs or data privacy concerns compared to cloud-based alternatives like NotebookLM.
When to use it
- Saving agent-generated research findings across sessions
- Querying past notes to continue interrupted research
- Organizing knowledge into separate thematic notebooks
- Building a persistent memory layer for long-running agent workflows
- Replacing cloud-based notebook tools with a self-hosted alternative
Example Workflow
Here's how your AI assistant might use this skill in practice.
User asks: Save my notes on transformer architectures and let me query them later
- 1Calls New-Notebook to create a notebook named 'Transformer Research'
- 2Records the returned notebook ID
- 3Calls Add-ToNotebook with the content and notebook ID to save the notes
- 4Confirms the source was added via the API response
- 5Calls Search-Notebook with a query to retrieve relevant stored knowledge
Notebook created and notes saved locally; agent returns the answer retrieved from stored content
Requirements
Accounts, API keys, or tools you or your AI assistant may need to set up while using this skill.