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Spike: validate feasibility with a throwaway prototype

Run throwaway prototypes to validate feasibility: state the question, research, build the smallest runnable artifact, stress one failure mode, and report a VALIDATED, PARTIAL, or INVALIDATED verdict with evidence.

OpenClaw Hermes Beginner

Benchmark LLMs with lm-evaluation-harness

Benchmark large language models with lm-evaluation-harness, which evaluates LLMs across 60+ academic benchmarks (MMLU, HumanEval, GSM8K, TruthfulQA, HellaSwag) using standardized prompts and metrics.

Research Automation

Competitor News Monitor

Set up a recurring competitor news monitor that tracks a declared company set and reports only material, new developments with primary-source evidence.

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.

Research

Discover and Deep-Read Trending Hugging Face Papers with OpenClaw

Set up OpenClaw with two skills so you can discover, triage, and deep-read trending Hugging Face Papers conversationally without leaving your workspace.

Distributed PyTorch training with HuggingFace Accelerate

HuggingFace Accelerate lets you run the same PyTorch training script on CPU, single or multi-GPU, multi-node, TPU, or Apple MPS setups by adding a few lines of code.

Evaluate Hermes Browser Tasks with ClawBench

Evaluate whether Hermes can complete real browser tasks: ClawBench runs each task in an isolated container with an instrumented Chromium, intercepts critical requests before they reach live services, and records traces for scoring and diagnosing failures.

Free DuckDuckGo Web, News, and Image Search with ddgs

Run free web, news, and image searches through DuckDuckGo using ddgs, with no API key required.

Creative Research

Generate audio spectrograms and feature visualizations with songsee

Generate spectrograms and multi-panel audio feature visualizations from audio files using the songsee command-line tool.

Research Automation Development Social Media

Market Research & Product Factory

This workflow uses the Last 30 Days skill to mine Reddit and X for real pain points from the last 30 days, then has OpenClaw build a solution to one of those problems — a research-to-product pipeline with zero coding on your part.

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.

Research Knowledge

Search and read arXiv papers

Search and retrieve arXiv academic papers by keyword, author, category, or ID through the free REST API using only curl — no API key or dependencies — with a Python helper script for clean output and the Semantic Scholar API for citation data.

SearXNG Search

Run free, keyless meta-search through a SearXNG instance, a privacy-respecting self-hosted aggregator that queries 70+ search engines simultaneously.

Segment images zero-shot with the Segment Anything Model (SAM)

Use Meta AI's Segment Anything Model for zero-shot image segmentation, generating masks from point, box, or mask prompts without task-specific training.

OpenClaw Hermes Intermediate

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.

Automation Research Development

Validate a project idea against existing competitors before building

Before OpenClaw starts building anything new, it checks the idea across GitHub, Hacker News, npm, PyPI, and Product Hunt, returning a reality_signal score (0–100) showing how crowded the space is, with top competitors and pivot suggestions when saturated.

Research Automation Social Media

YouTube Content Pipeline

An automated YouTube topic scouting pipeline: hourly search for fresh AI news on the web and X/Twitter, idea deduplication, and pitch delivery to Telegram.

Zero-shot image classification and image-text search with CLIP

Use OpenAI's CLIP model to classify images into natural-language categories without any training data.