A sophisticated content monitoring agent that tracks people, topics, and feeds with automated filtering and tiered alerts.
Install & Download
1. ClawHub CLI
The fastest way to install a skill directly from the registry.
npx clawhub@latest install follow
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 follow 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 Follow Content & Topic Monitor?
The Follow skill is an advanced automation framework designed to curate and monitor information across various digital landscapes. By integrating these Openclaw Skills into your workflow, you can systematically track influential figures, niche topics, and industry-specific feeds without the manual effort of manual browsing. It focuses on high-signal content, utilizing smart filters to eliminate noise and ensure you only capture what truly matters.
Built for efficiency, the skill maintains a searchable archive of content, allowing users to query past data for deep insights. Whether you are conducting competitive research or staying updated on technical trends, this tool transforms passive information consumption into a structured, actionable knowledge base.
Follow Content & Topic Monitor Use Cases
- Monitoring specific influencers or industry leaders across social platforms
- Tracking real-time developments in specific technical fields like software engineering or AI
- Generating automated weekly digests of competitor activities and product launches
- Setting up high-priority alerts for mission-critical keywords or events
- Creating a centralized, searchable archive of relevant news and discussions for later reference
How Follow Content & Topic Monitor Works
- Define Sources: Users specify the people, topics, or RSS feeds they wish to monitor by creating tracking files within the sources directory.
- Active Monitoring: The agent checks the defined sources on a set schedule or on-demand to fetch new updates.
- Intelligent Filtering: Relevance rules are applied to the incoming data, skipping noise and low-value content based on user-defined criteria.
- Structured Archiving: Important content is summarized and stored in a date-stamped archive, ensuring storage efficiency and clarity.
- Tiered Alerting: The system notifies the user based on predefined priority levels, ranging from immediate alerts to weekly summaries.
- Knowledge Querying: Users can interact with the agent to ask questions about the archived data or synthesize summaries of recent activity.
Follow Content & Topic Monitor Setup
To get started with Follow, initialize your workspace and configure your first sources within the Openclaw Skills framework. Ensure you have the necessary credentials for platform-specific monitoring.
# Initialize the follow directory structure
mkdir -p ~/follow/{sources/{people,topics,feeds},archive}
touch ~/follow/{alerts.md,index.md}
# Configure your first source manually or via the agent
echo "name: @naval" > ~/follow/sources/people/naval.md
Refer to the internal platforms documentation for specific API keys and credentials required for social media integration.
Follow Content & Topic Monitor Data Schema & Taxonomy
The skill organizes data in a clean, hierarchical file system for easy manual inspection or programmatic access:
| Directory/File | Description | Format |
|---|---|---|
sources/ |
Contains configuration files for tracked entities | Markdown/YAML |
archive/ |
Monthly folders containing summarized captures | Markdown |
alerts.md |
Configuration for notification tiers and logic | Markdown |
index.md |
A high-level status of all currently tracked sources | Markdown |
Follow Content & Topic Monitor Advanced Features
- Cross-Platform Deduplication: Automatically identifies and merges the same news story from multiple sources into a single entry.
- Tiered Alert Logic: Supports immediate, daily, or weekly notifications based on the urgency of the information.
- Contextual Synthesis: Provides the context for why an update matters, offering more than just a raw link or snippet.
- Searchable Historical Archives: Enables complex natural language queries against months of captured data.
- Custom Relevance Rules: Advanced filtering logic to exclude noise and focus on high-signal keywords.
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