Openclaw-config knowledge-base

Capture, organize, and retrieve operational knowledge + saved web content in a local `knowledge/` directory indexed by QMD. Use for “save this link”, “add to KB”, “remember this”, or “search KB”.

install

source · Clone the upstream repo

git clone https://github.com/unisone/openclaw-config

Claude Code · Install into ~/.claude/skills/

T=$(mktemp -d) && git clone --depth=1 https://github.com/unisone/openclaw-config "$T" && mkdir -p ~/.claude/skills && cp -r "$T/skills/knowledge-base" ~/.claude/skills/unisone-openclaw-config-knowledge-base && rm -rf "$T"

OpenClaw · Install into ~/.openclaw/skills/

T=$(mktemp -d) && git clone --depth=1 https://github.com/unisone/openclaw-config "$T" && mkdir -p ~/.openclaw/skills && cp -r "$T/skills/knowledge-base" ~/.openclaw/skills/unisone-openclaw-config-knowledge-base && rm -rf "$T"

manifest: skills/knowledge-base/SKILL.md

source content

Knowledge Base

Two overlapping functions:

Operational knowledge — tool quirks, API gotchas, runbooks, decision rationale
URL/content archive — save articles, YouTube transcripts, PDFs, threads

Everything lives in

knowledge/

and is indexed by QMD for fast keyword + semantic search.

Routing

✅ Use when the user says: “save this”, “add to KB”, “remember this”, “document this”, “search KB”.
❌ Don’t use for simple web-page extraction if the user just wants the answer now → use
```
web_fetch
```
directly.

Quick start

1) Create the directory scaffold (recommended)

Copy templates into your OpenClaw workspace:

rsync -av templates/knowledge/ ~/.openclaw/workspace/knowledge/

2) Ingest a URL

From your workspace root:

python3 skills/knowledge-base/scripts/ingest.py "https://example.com/article"
python3 skills/knowledge-base/scripts/ingest.py "https://youtube.com/watch?v=..."
python3 skills/knowledge-base/scripts/ingest.py "https://example.com/file.pdf"

Optional metadata (skip LLM calls):

python3 skills/knowledge-base/scripts/ingest.py "<URL>" \
  --title "Readable Title" \
  --tags "rag,openclaw,workflows" \
  --summary "Why this is worth saving"

3) Search

# keyword
qmd search "meta ads" -c knowledge

# semantic
qmd vsearch "how do we authenticate jira" -c knowledge

# best quality (hybrid + rerank, if enabled)
qmd query "slack block streaming" -c knowledge

Notes / Dependencies

Works with no extra installs for basic HTML pages (urllib fallback).
Better extraction if you install
```
trafilatura
```
.
YouTube transcripts: tries
```
youtube-transcript-api
```
, falls back to
```
yt-dlp
```
if available.
PDF text extraction: uses
```
pdftotext
```
(Poppler).

Keep secrets out of the KB. For credentials, store them in a password manager / keychain and write where to find them, not the values.