Summarize
Summarize URLs or files with the summarize CLI (web, PDFs, images, audio, YouTube).
Details
Summarize provides intelligent text summarization for OpenClaw agents. It can summarize URLs or files—including web pages, PDFs, images, audio, and YouTube—via the summarize CLI, condensing long documents efficiently.
When to use
Use when the agent needs to digest long articles, PDFs, or media before answering or acting. Fits well in research flows and pre-meeting briefings; combine with ByteRover for full-doc context.
The reading you no longer do
Summarize gives your assistant something close to a superpower: the ability to digest almost anything before you spend your own attention on it. Web pages, PDFs, images, audio, even YouTube videos — point the summarize CLI at a URL or a file and get back the substance without the runtime. Eleven thousand downloads suggest a lot of people have decided their reading backlog should be someone else's problem.
The format breadth is what separates it from a dozen lesser summarisers. A skill that only condenses articles helps occasionally; one that handles the PDF report, the hour-long video, and the recorded call covers most of what actually lands on your plate.
Where it changes your week
Research flows are the natural habitat: a pile of sources distilled before you decide which deserve a full read. Pre-meeting briefings are the sleeper hit — the relevant documents condensed into the two minutes you actually have before the call. And in combination with ByteRover, it forms a clean pipeline: one skill gathers the full context, the other compresses it to the size your day allows.
The habit shift is subtle but real. Once digesting something costs one message, you stop rationing your curiosity — you check the long report you would previously have skipped, because skimming it is now free.
Installing Summarize
Run the command below from your OpenClaw directory and restart the assistant. For a first test, send it the longest article in your open tabs — the one you have been pretending you will read since Tuesday.
clawhub install summarizeFrom skill to system
Summarize is most powerful when it stops being a tool you invoke and becomes a step that happens automatically — every long attachment condensed on arrival, every monitored page digested on change. Wiring those flows is straightforward with the right setup, and designing them around how you actually consume information is the kind of work we do with clients every week.