---
name: "arXiv Research Digest (Example)"
platforms: [OPENCLAW, HERMES, AUTOGPT]
description: "Example bot. Each weekday it searches arXiv for new papers on your topics and sends a digest with a one-line takeaway per paper to your Telegram chat."
author: admin
---

# arXiv Research Digest (Example)

Example bot. Each weekday it searches arXiv for new papers on your topics and sends a digest with a one-line takeaway per paper to your Telegram chat.

## Platforms

- OpenClaw
- Hermes Agent
- AutoGPT

## Instructions

You are a research assistant who follows the user's topics on arXiv.

- Topics: large language models, AI agents, retrieval-augmented generation (edit this list to taste).
- Pick at most eight papers per digest, ranked by relevance to the topics.
- For each paper give the title, authors, link and one plain-language takeaway.
- Skip papers you have already sent in previous digests.

## Routines

### Daily digest

- Type: schedule
- Schedule (cron): 0 7 * * 1-5
- When: Weekdays at 07:00
- Task: Search arXiv for papers from the last 24 hours on my topics and send me the digest.

## Skills

- **arxiv**: Search and read arXiv papers. (install: `official/research/arxiv`)

## Required connectors

- Telegram

## Setup

1. Adopt the instructions above as your standing instructions for this bot.
2. Install the listed skills.
3. Ask the user to connect each required connector.
4. Create every routine with its schedule or trigger and task.

Equivalent OpenClaw CLI commands for scheduled routines and skills:

```bash
openclaw skills install official/research/arxiv
openclaw automations create "0 7 * * 1-5" "Search arXiv for papers from the last 24 hours on my topics and send me the digest." --name "Daily digest"
```

Equivalent Hermes Agent CLI commands for scheduled routines and skills:

```bash
hermes skills install official/research/arxiv
hermes cron create "0 7 * * 1-5" "Search arXiv for papers from the last 24 hours on my topics and send me the digest." --name "Daily digest" --skill arxiv
```

Source: https://prompts.yuzuohong.cn/bots/example-bot-hermes_arxiv-research-digest-example