palest-ink

What This Skill Does

Palest Ink (淡墨) acts as your personal cognitive mirror, capturing a comprehensive digital footprint of your workday. It operates in the background, logging git activity, web browsing history, shell commands, and file edits in VS Code. By maintaining an organized local record, it allows the OpenClaw AI to recall precise details of your tasks, helping you manage context and time with ease. The skill treats your daily digital interactions as searchable data, providing summaries or specific deep-dives into your past work.

Installation

Installation requires access to the underlying script collection framework. First, ensure you have the skill installed via the Hub: clawhub install openclaw/skills/skills/billhandsome52/palest-ink. Once installed, the agent will verify the environment using the configuration check tool. If it detects a missing setup, follow the provided bash command to initiate the collectors, which will track your system activities and store them locally at ~/.palest-ink/data/. This process ensures your privacy remains intact, as data is never sent to external servers.

Use Cases

This skill is perfect for developers and knowledge workers who struggle with context switching or maintaining an accurate work journal. It excels at answering questions like "what did I focus on yesterday?" or finding that one specific documentation page you read hours ago. It is particularly useful for project retrospective reporting, verifying when code was committed, or understanding which directories saw the most activity during a sprint. Whether you need to recover a lost command, audit your browsing for research topics, or simply generate a summary for your daily stand-up meeting, Palest Ink provides the necessary audit trail.

Example Prompts

1. "What did I work on today? Give me a brief summary of my git commits and the files I edited."
2. "Which website did I visit earlier that had information about the React performance optimization?"
3. "Show me the shell commands I ran while working on the backend integration yesterday."

Tips & Limitations

• Data Management: The tool includes a proactive cleanup utility. If you receive a warning about data size exceeding 2GB, run the cleanup tool to archive or remove older logs.
• Search Precision: When searching for web history, always use the --search-content flag for deeper analysis of the page content rather than just the URL titles.
• Scope: Note that only applications and directories defined in your collector configuration are tracked; ensure your primary workspace directories are indexed correctly for the best experience.