Archive is an intelligent content preservation skill that captures full snapshots of articles, videos, and papers with semantic search and proactive context resurfacing.
Install & Download
1. ClawHub CLI
The fastest way to install a skill directly from the registry.
npx clawhub@latest install archive
2. Manual Installation
Copy the skill folder to one of these locations
~/.openclaw/skills/ <project>/skills/ Priority: Workspace > Local > Bundled
3. Prompt Installation
Copy this prompt to OpenClaw to install it automatically.
Help me install archive using Clawhub. If Clawhub is not installed, install it first (npm i -g clawhub).
Prefer to download?
Get the raw skill files in a ZIP archive.
What is Archive?
Archive goes beyond simple bookmarking by creating permanent, intelligent snapshots of external content within your local environment. Unlike traditional link savers, this tool for Openclaw Skills extracts full text, generates concise summaries, and categorizes data based on your specific research intent and history.
By focusing on the why behind every saved item, Archive ensures that your digital library remains actionable. It integrates deeply into your workflow to resurface relevant past research exactly when you need it, preventing information silos and making your stored knowledge a living part of your development process.
Archive Use Cases
- Preserving full-text articles and research papers for offline access and long-term project reference.
- Automatically extracting key insights and timestamps from technical YouTube videos and social media threads.
- Organizing project-specific knowledge bases that link external content to internal development goals.
- Using semantic search to find saved materials based on meaning and concept rather than exact keywords.
How Archive Works
- Capture: The agent extracts the full content, metadata, and context of the resource provided by the user.
- Contextualization: It prompts the user for the why to store the purpose alongside the raw data for better future retrieval.
- Indexing: The content is processed with semantic tags and added to a tiered storage structure in the local archive directory.
- Discovery: Users query the archive using natural language, and the skill performs a semantic match across all stored snapshots.
- Resurfacing: As the user works on new tasks, the skill proactively suggests relevant archived items to provide historical context.
Archive Setup
To begin using Archive with Openclaw Skills, initialize the required directory structure on your local machine:
mkdir -p ~/archive/items ~/archive/projects
touch ~/archive/memory.md ~/archive/index.md ~/archive/history.md
Ensure your agent has the necessary permissions to read and write to the ~/archive/ path for seamless content logging.
Archive Data Schema & Taxonomy
Archive organizes information in a tiered Markdown-based system for maximum portability:
| File/Folder | Purpose |
|---|---|
memory.md |
Recent items (up to 100 lines) for quick context access. |
index.md |
A master directory of topics and tags for easy navigation. |
items/ |
Individual Markdown files for every archived resource containing full content and metadata. |
projects/ |
Specialized collections grouped by specific project names. |
history.md |
A log of search queries and access patterns to improve future suggestions. |
Archive Advanced Features
- Multi-format extraction support for PDFs, YouTube metadata, and social media threads.
- Semantic fuzzy matching that understands concepts like pricing strategies even if the specific keyword is not present.
- Proactive context injection that surfaces past research during active development sessions when relevant topics are mentioned.
- Tiered storage management that differentiates between hot recent memory and cold long-term snapshots to optimize agent performance.
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