A specialized AI agent skill designed to extract and format the most impactful highlights, quotes, and core insights from an extensive library of books.
Install & Download
1. ClawHub CLI
The fastest way to install a skill directly from the registry.
npx clawhub@latest install book-highlights
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 book-highlights 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 Book Highlights?
The Book Highlights skill is a powerful addition to the Openclaw Skills ecosystem, enabling developers and AI agents to programmatically retrieve curated wisdom from literature. By leveraging a vast database of nearly 6,000 books, it moves beyond simple summaries to provide the specific language and context that makes a book transformative.
Whether you are building a personal knowledge management system or a research assistant, this skill provides structured access to high-quality content. It seamlessly integrates data from the Heardly database and algorithmic extraction to ensure users receive the most relevant and readable passages available.
Book Highlights Use Cases
- Creating automated reading logs or digital garden entries with verified quotes.
- Powering AI research assistants that need to cite specific book passages.
- Generating daily inspiration or "quote of the day" features based on specific authors or titles.
- Summarizing the key takeaways of a business book before a meeting.
How Book Highlights Works
- The skill receives a natural language trigger or a structured query containing a book title or author.
- It performs a lookup across the Heardly Database and internal summary repositories to locate the specific title.
- The engine extracts between 5 to 10 of the most significant highlights, prioritizing those with clear context and high impact.
- Highlights are cleaned and formatted into a human-readable text block, including proper attribution to the source.
- The final payload is returned to the agent or application for immediate display or storage.
Book Highlights Setup
To add this capability to your environment, use the following command from your terminal:
clawhub install book-highlights
Once installed, you can initialize the skill in your JavaScript project:
const BookHighlightsSkill = require('book-highlights');
const skill = new BookHighlightsSkill();
Book Highlights Data Schema & Taxonomy
The skill returns structured text data optimized for display. Below is the metadata taxonomy used during the extraction process:
| Field | Description |
|---|---|
| Book Title | The verified title of the book from the database. |
| Author | The primary creator of the work. |
| Highlights | An array of 5-10 strings containing the actual quotes/ideas. |
| Context | Explanatory text providing background for specific passages. |
| Source | Attribution indicating the origin (e.g., Heardly). |
Book Highlights Advanced Features
- Multi-source aggregation: Combines direct database lookups with summary-based extraction for maximum coverage.
- Semantic search support: Capable of identifying the best book matches even with slightly imprecise user queries.
- Custom limit control: Developers can specify the exact number of highlights required via the
limitparameter in the API call. - Direct-to-User Formatting: Outputs are pre-formatted for readability, reducing the need for post-processing in the AI agent workflow.
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