Curated Search Skill

Summary

Domain-restricted full-text search over a curated whitelist of technical documentation (MDN, Python docs, etc.). Provides clean, authoritative results without web spam.

External Endpoints

This skill does not call any external network endpoints during search operations. The crawler optionally makes outbound HTTP requests during index builds (one‑time setup), but those are user‑initiated (npm run crawl) and respect the configured domain whitelist.

Security & Privacy

• Search is fully local – After the index is built, all queries run offline; no data leaves your machine.
• Crawling is optional and whitelist‑scoped – The crawler only accesses domains you explicitly list in config.yaml. It respects robots.txt and configurable delays.
• No telemetry – No usage data is transmitted externally.
• Configuration is read from local config.yaml and the index file in data/.

Model Invocation Note

The curated-search.search tool is invoked only when the user explicitly calls it. It does not run autonomously. OpenClaw calls the tool handler (scripts/search.js) when the user asks to search the curated index.

Trust Statement

By using this skill, you trust that the code operates locally and only crawls domains you approve. The skill does not send your queries or workspace data to any third party. Review the open‑source implementation before installing.

Tool: curated-search.search

Search the curated index.

Parameters

Response

JSON array of result objects:

[
  {
    "title": "Python Tutorial",
    "url": "https://docs.python.org/3/tutorial/",
    "snippet": "Python is an easy to learn, powerful programming language...",
    "domain": "docs.python.org",
    "score": 0.87,
    "crawled_at": 1707712345678
  }
]

Fields:

• title — Document title (cleaned)
• url — Source URL (canonical)
• snippet — Excerpt (~200 chars) from content
• domain — Hostname of source
• score — BM25 relevance score (higher is better; not normalized 0–1 but typically 0–1 range)
• crawled_at — Unix timestamp when page was crawled

Example Agent Calls

search CuratedSearch for "python tutorial"
search CuratedSearch for "async await" limit=3 domain=developer.mozilla.org
search CuratedSearch for "linux man page" min_score=0.3

Errors

If an error occurs, the tool exits non-zero and prints a JSON error object to stderr, e.g.:

{
  "error": "index_not_found",
  "message": "Search index not found. The index has not been built yet.",
  "suggestion": "Run the crawler first: npm run crawl",
  "details": { "path": "data/index.json" }
}

Common error codes:

Configuration

Edit config.yaml in the skill directory. Key sections:

• domains — whitelist of allowed domains (required)
• seeds — starting URLs for crawling
• crawl — depth, delay, timeout, max_documents
• content — min_content_length, max_content_length
• index — path to index files
• search — default_limit, max_limit, min_score

See README.md for full configuration docs.

Support

• Full documentation: README.md
• Technical specs: specs/
• Build plan: PLAN.md
• Contributor guide: CONTRIBUTING.md
• Issues: Report on GitHub (or via OpenClaw maintainers)