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Apple Notes CLI

Manage Apple Notes directly from the terminal with the memo CLI: create, view, edit, delete, search, move notes between folders, and export notes to HTML or Markdown.

Automation Integrations Productivity

Automate the macOS UI with the Peekaboo CLI

Use Peekaboo to inspect the macOS UI, act on the intended target, and verify the result. The examples use v4 syntax; check the current documentation and the installed command's help, and for older versions follow that version's help.

Productivity Operations

Automated Meeting Notes & Action Items

Turn any meeting transcript into structured notes with decisions and action items, and automatically create tasks in your project management tool.

Automation Productivity Communication

Custom Morning Brief

This workflow has OpenClaw send you a customized morning briefing every day at a scheduled time, covering news, tasks, ideas, and proactive recommendations instead of you spending your first 30 minutes catching up yourself.

Automation Research Productivity

Daily Briefing Bot

The agent runs on a cron schedule, performs autonomous web research across designated topics, compiles findings into a concise summary, and delivers the brief to Telegram, Discord, or a local Markdown file.

Productivity Creative

Edit PDFs with natural-language instructions via nano-pdf

Edit a specific page of a PDF with a natural-language instruction using the nano-pdf CLI.

Communication Productivity

Email from the shell with Himalaya

Himalaya lets you manage IMAP/SMTP email from the shell, from reading and searching messages to writing, sending, replying, forwarding and organizing mail.

Productivity Communication

Email inbox triage with prioritized threads and safe reply drafts

Triage an inbox by turning it into a bounded queue of decisions: threads are prioritized with dispositions and reply drafts are prepared safely, with send, label, and archive actions done only within approval.

Automation Productivity Lifestyle

Family Calendar Aggregation & Household Assistant

Turn OpenClaw into an always-on household coordinator that aggregates family calendars into a morning briefing, monitors messages for actionable items, and manages household logistics through a shared chat interface.

Integrations Productivity

Fetch Canvas LMS Courses and Assignments

This skill provides read-only access to Canvas LMS, letting you list courses and assignments through the Canvas API.

Automation Development Productivity

Goal-driven autonomous daily tasks with OpenClaw

Turn OpenClaw into a self-directed agent: you describe your goals once, and the agent generates, executes, and tracks daily tasks that advance them.

Lifestyle Productivity

Habit Tracker & Accountability Coach

Turn OpenClaw into a proactive accountability coach that checks in with you daily via Telegram or SMS to track your habits.

Integrations Automation Productivity Operations

Hermes Kanban: Multi-Agent Swarm from Slack

Hermes Kanban lets you dispatch complex tasks to a durable multi-agent swarm — specialist sub-agents working in parallel with a verifier and synthesizer — straight from a chat message in Slack or another gateway.

Automation Productivity Communication

Inbox → Slack Daily Digest

Set up a Hermes cron job that reads your inbox each weekday morning, classifies and summarizes what's new, and posts a digest to a Slack channel at 9am so you read one message instead of fifty.

Communication Automation Productivity

Join a Google Meet call, transcribe it, and send follow-ups

When the user asks the agent to sit in on a Google Meet meeting, this recipe joins the call, transcribes the live captions into a transcript, optionally speaks in realtime, and then summarizes and sends follow-ups.

Productivity Lifestyle

Manage Apple Reminders with remindctl

Create and manage Apple Reminders from the terminal with remindctl, adding personal to-dos with due dates that sync to iOS and organizing reminder lists.

Integrations Productivity

Manage Bear Notes with Grizzly

Use grizzly to create, read, and manage notes in Bear on macOS.

Manage Trello boards, lists, and cards via the Trello REST API

Manage Trello boards, lists, and cards with portable curl and jq commands against the Trello REST API.

Productivity Integrations Automation

Multi-Channel Personal Assistant

This workflow consolidates operations into a single AI assistant that routes requests across Telegram topics, manages team actions in Slack, handles Google Workspace tasks, and issues scheduled reminders.

Automation Productivity Social Media

Multi-Source Tech News Digest

Automatically aggregate, score, and deliver tech news from 109+ sources across RSS, Twitter/X, GitHub releases, and web search, all managed through natural language.

Productivity Knowledge

Obsidian vault management with the official CLI

Work with Obsidian.

Knowledge Productivity

Obsidian vault notes: read, search, create, and edit notes

This skill reads, searches, creates, and edits notes in an Obsidian vault using a filesystem-first approach, covering note listing, content search, note creation, appends, wikilinks, and targeted edits.

Productivity Communication

Personal CRM with Automatic Contact Discovery

Automatic maintenance of a personal CRM discovering contacts from email and calendar, generating morning meeting briefings, and answering queries against the database.

Knowledge Productivity

Personal Knowledge Base (RAG)

This workflow builds a searchable knowledge base from everything you save, so you can find any saved content later with semantic search.

Productivity Research

Property Listings Card Presentation

Present researched property and rental search results, shortlist comparisons, re-rankings and follow-ups as browsable cards in the Hermes desktop transcript.

Lifestyle Productivity

Quantified-Self Life OS

Hermes Life OS stores structured observations across user-chosen wellness, habit, goal, and spending dimensions, then supports briefings, check-ins, reflections, reviews, chat, and optional training.

Integrations Productivity Knowledge

Query and edit a SiYuan knowledge base via its API with curl

Query and edit a self-hosted SiYuan knowledge base through its kernel API using curl, to search, read, create, update, and delete blocks and documents.

Integrations Development Productivity

Run OpenClaw in AionUi as a Desktop Cowork Agent with Remote Access and Rescue

Use OpenClaw from AionUi's desktop Cowork UI and reach the same instance remotely via Telegram, WebUI, Lark, or DingTalk — including remote rescue through the built-in OpenClaw deployment expert when OpenClaw is down and you're away from the machine.

Search GIF providers and extract stills or sheets with gifgrep

Use gifgrep to search GIF providers, browse results in a TUI, download them, and extract stills or sheets for fast review and sharing.

Productivity Knowledge

Second Brain

This workflow turns OpenClaw into a second-brain memory system you feed by text message through Telegram, iMessage, or Discord, backed by a custom searchable Next.js dashboard you can browse anytime.

Self-Hosted Nextcloud Workspace Assistant

The Nextcloud productivity skill lets Hermes work with files, notes, calendars, tasks, and contacts in your own Nextcloud instance through WebDAV, the Notes API, CalDAV, and CardDAV.

Research Productivity

Summarize URLs, videos, podcasts, PDFs, and local files

Summarize is a fast CLI that summarizes URLs, local files, and YouTube links, and can transcribe YouTube videos.

Hermes OpenClaw Intermediate

Knowledge Productivity

Use an Obsidian Vault as a Persistent Memory for Hermes

Community members wire Hermes into an Obsidian vault as a persistent knowledge base, letting the agent read existing notes to answer questions with the user's prior research.

Productivity Automation

Weekly Review and Planning

Run a bounded weekly review and planning reset that audits commitments, stalled projects, and waiting items, then produces a next-week plan fitted to real calendar capacity.

Whisper CLI: local speech-to-text transcription

Transcribe audio locally with the Whisper CLI, turning recordings into text without needing an API key.