Ceramic Search
Web search for AI agents, powered by Ceramic — 100x cheaper and 10x faster than standard search APIs, with a 40B+ page index.
Registers ceramic_search as a native agent tool. The agent calls it automatically when it needs current or external information — no prompting required.
Installation
openclaw plugins install @ceramicai/openclaw-ceramic-search
Configuration
Get a free API key at platform.ceramic.ai/keys, then either export it as an environment variable:
export CERAMIC_API_KEY=your_api_key_here
Or set it directly in OpenClaw:
openclaw config set plugins.entries.ceramic-search.config.apiKey your_api_key_here
Tool Information
The ceramic_search tool accepts a natural language query and handles the rest:
- Query rewriting — an internal LLM call converts the natural language query into 1–3 optimised keyword queries for Ceramic's lexical search engine.
- Parallel search — all keyword queries are run in parallel against the Ceramic Search API.
- Deduplication — results are merged and deduplicated by URL.
Testing
openclaw agent --local --agent main --session-id test-ceramic-$RANDOM \
--input "What are the top AI news stories right now?"
A successful run will show the agent invoking ceramic_search with a keyword query and returning a cited answer.