Use Case
OpenViking is a powerful AI agent skill that extends your assistant with new capabilities. RAG and semantic search via OpenViking Context Database MCP server. Query documents, search knowledge base, add files/URLs to vector memory. Use for document Q&A, knowledge management, AI agent memory, file search, semantic retrieval. Triggers on "openviking", "search documents", "semantic search", "knowledge base", "vector database", "RAG", "query pdf", "document query", "add resource". This guide walks you through installing OpenViking, configuring it for your setup, and running your first commands β so you can start getting value in minutes.
Install OpenViking: npx clawhub@latest --dir ~/.claude/skills install openviking
Restart your AI client (Claude Code, Cursor, Gemini CLI, or OpenClaw)
Type a natural language request related to documents & notes to trigger OpenViking
Review the output and refine your prompt for better results
Combine OpenViking with other skills to build multi-step workflows
Copy these prompts and use them with your AI agent after installing OpenViking
Help me get started with OpenViking
What can OpenViking do for my documents & notes workflow?
Show me an example of using OpenViking
Select your agent
Option 1: Install via CLI (recommended)
Recommended (no pre-install needed)
npx clawhub@latest --dir ~/.claude/skills install openvikingOr via clawhub CLI (if already installed)
clawhub --dir ~/.claude/skills install openvikingβ οΈ Requires Node.js 18+. No Node? Use Option 2 below to download the ZIP instead. Install Node.js β
Option 2: Manual install (no Node required)
Download the ZIP, extract it, and place the folder at the path below. Restart your agent to activate.
Install path
~/.claude/skills/openviking/π‘Extract and place the folder at the path above, then restart your agent.