Setup & Installation
Or with the ClawHub CLI, for registry-managed skill folders outside a full OpenClaw workspace:
Version History
- Updated usage and example documentation to refer to the year 2026 instead of 2025 for relevant academic paper searches. - No code changes; documentation only.
What This Skill Does
Desearch aggregates search results from web, X/Twitter, Reddit, Hacker News, YouTube, ArXiv, and Wikipedia into a single query. It returns either an AI-generated summary or a ranked list of curated links. Results can be filtered by source and time range.
Querying multiple platforms in one call eliminates the need to manually search each source and reconcile results.
When to use it
- Summarizing recent news across Reddit and Hacker News
- Finding academic papers on ArXiv combined with web sources
- Pulling recent X/Twitter discussion on a trending topic
- Researching a topic with a date-filtered AI summary
- Gathering YouTube tutorials alongside web documentation
Example Workflow
Here's how your AI assistant might use this skill in practice.
User asks: What are the latest AI regulation developments from the past week?
- 1Call ai_search with query 'AI regulation news'
- 2Set --tools to web,hackernews,reddit
- 3Set --date-filter to PAST_WEEK
- 4Parse the completion field for the AI-generated summary
- 5Return ranked source links from miner_link_scores
A paragraph summarizing recent AI regulation news with links scored HIGH or MEDIUM from web, Hacker News, and Reddit
Requirements
Accounts, API keys, or tools you or your AI assistant may need to set up while using this skill.