OpenClaw Research Tool

Web search for OpenClaw agents, powered by OpenRouter. Ask questions in natural language, get accurate answers with cited sources. Defaults to GPT-5.2 which excels at documentation lookups and citation-heavy research.

Note: Even low-effort queries may take 1 minute or more to complete. High/xhigh reasoning can take 10+ minutes depending on complexity. This is normal — the model is searching the web, reading pages, and synthesizing an answer.

Recommended: Run research-tool in a sub-agent so your main session stays responsive:

sessions_spawn task:"research-tool 'your query here'"

⚠️ Never set a timeout on exec when running research-tool. Queries routinely take 1-10+ minutes. Use yieldMs to background it, then poll — but do NOT set timeout or the process will be killed mid-search.

The :online model suffix gives any model live web access — it searches the web, reads pages, cites URLs, and synthesizes an answer.

Install

cargo install openclaw-search-tool