Open Notebook Skill

Open Notebook Integration

A skill for integrating OpenClaw agents with open-notebook, a local AI research assistant (NotebookLM alternative).

What It Does

Connects your agent to open-notebook running locally

Creates thematic notebooks for research, agent discovery, and personal knowledge

Enables saving and querying knowledge across sessions (second brain for agents)

Supports local Ollama models (free, no API costs)

Prerequisites

1. Install Docker Desktop (required for open-notebook) 2. Install Ollama with a model (e.g., qwen3-4b-thinking-32k) 3. Run open-notebook:

   docker compose -f docker-compose-host-ollama.yml up -d
   

Or use the default compose:

   docker compose up -d
   

Setup

The skill expects open-notebook at:

UI: http://localhost:8502

API: http://localhost:5055

Functions (INCLUDED)

This skill provides these PowerShell functions directly:

Add-ToNotebook

function Add-ToNotebook {
    param(
        [string]$Content,
        [string]$NotebookId = "YOUR_NOTEBOOK_ID"
    )
    $body = @{
        content = $Content
        notebook_id = $NotebookId
        type = "text"
    } | ConvertTo-Json
    Invoke-RestMethod -Uri "http://localhost:5055/api/sources/json" -Method Post -ContentType "application/json" -Body $body
}

Search-Notebook

function Search-Notebook {
    param(
        [string]$Query,
        [string]$NotebookId = "YOUR_NOTEBOOK_ID"
    )
    $body = @{
        question = $Query
        notebook_ids = @($NotebookId)
        strategy_model = "model:YOUR_MODEL_ID"
        answer_model = "model:YOUR_MODEL_ID"
        final_answer_model = "model:YOUR_MODEL_ID"
    } | ConvertTo-Json
    Invoke-RestMethod -Uri "http://localhost:5055/api/search/ask" -Method Post -ContentType "application/json" -Body $body
}

New-Notebook

function New-Notebook {
    param(
        [string]$Name,
        [string]$Description = ""
    )
    $body = @{
        name = $Name
        description = $Description
    } | ConvertTo-Json
    Invoke-RestMethod -Uri "http://localhost:5055/api/notebooks" -Method Post -ContentType "application/json" -Body $body
}

Notebook IDs

After creating notebooks, update these variables in your scripts:

$SIMULATION = "notebook:YOUR_SIMULATION_ID"
$CONSCIOUSNESS = "notebook:YOUR_CONSCIOUSNESS_ID"
$ENJAMBRE = "notebook:YOUR_ENJAMBRE_ID"
$OSIRIS = "notebook:YOUR_OSIRIS_ID"
$RESEARCH = "notebook:YOUR_RESEARCH_ID"

Example Usage

# Create a new notebook
New-Notebook -Name "My Research" -Description "Research notes"
Save content
Add-ToNotebook -Content "This is my insight" -NotebookId "notebook:xxx"
Query knowledge
$result = Search-Notebook -Query "What did I learn about X?" -NotebookId "notebook:xxx"

Configuration Required

Before using, you MUST: 1. Run open-notebook with Docker 2. Create notebooks via the UI (http://localhost:8502) or API 3. Get your notebook IDs from the API response 4. Update the $NotebookId parameters in the functions

Requirements

Docker Desktop running

Ollama with at least one model installed

open-notebook containers running (SurrealDB + app)

Troubleshooting

If API fails, check containers: docker ps

Check open-notebook logs: docker compose logs

Verify Ollama is running: curl http://localhost:11434/api/tags

Version

1.0.1 - Improved documentation, included function examples

The skill expects open-notebook at:

UI: http://localhost:8502

API: http://localhost:5055

If API fails, check containers: docker ps

Check open-notebook logs: docker compose logs

Verify Ollama is running: curl http://localhost:11434/api/tags