bocha-skill

**Judgment:** A well-scoped, high-value search skill for Chinese-language and China-focused content. It is particularly strong for news, web, and image search in Chinese, with useful AI-generated summaries and good OpenClaw integration. **Key strengths** - Excellent fit for Chinese queries and domestic Chinese sources. - AI summaries and rich metadata make results easy to consume and reason over. - Time filters and result-count controls help tailor news and research workflows. **Main risks / limitations** - Hard dependency on the external Bocha API (API key, balance, rate limits); outages or quota issues will break the skill. - Safety and content quality depend heavily on Bocha’s own ranking and filtering; potentially sensitive, biased, or low-quality pages may be surfaced and must be post-processed or filtered by your own policies. - Focused on search only (no direct browsing or deep extraction), so complex downstream analysis must be handled by other tools or the model. **Recommended scenarios** - Primary Chinese search provider in an OpenClaw stack that serves Chinese-speaking users. - News monitoring, trend tracking, and topic research for China-related domains. - As a complement to global search tools when Chinese coverage or relevance is critical, especially where AI summaries of articles are desired.