Live Web + X Search via Grok (xAI)

Most agents are stuck with static knowledge. This skill gives your OpenClaw agent live web search and real-time X/Twitter search using Grok's xAI Responses API.

Research is a self-contained OpenClaw skill that unlocks two live search tools: web_search for current articles, news, and company data, and x_search for real-time social discussion and sentiment. Both can run together in a single query.

What's Included

• Complete API reference for xAI's /v1/responses endpoint (the one that actually supports search — not /chat/completions)
• Ready-to-use curl pattern with both tools enabled
• Output parser for extracting text and citation URLs
• Tool configuration options: allowed domains, excluded domains, query shaping
• When to use web_search vs x_search vs both

Use Cases

• Find media appearances, podcast episodes, or press mentions for a person or brand
• Research competitors, companies, or products with fresh web data
• Check X/Twitter sentiment before a product launch or announcement
• Supplement heartbeat checks with live web signals
• Answer questions that require data from the last 24–48 hours

Who This Is For

• OpenClaw users whose agents need real-time information beyond training cutoffs
• Anyone running research-heavy workflows: market analysis, lead qualification, news monitoring
• Agents that already use Brave Search but want X/Twitter coverage too

Setup

Requires an xAI API key stored at ~/.config/xai/api_key. Get one at console.x.ai. Calls use grok-4-1-fast for speed; switch to grok-4 for deeper reasoning tasks.