hippocampus-openclaw-onboarding

What This Skill Does

The hippocampus-openclaw-onboarding skill serves as the foundational bridge between a local OpenClaw agent and the Hippocampus persistent memory infrastructure. By automating the initialization process, this skill ensures that your agent is correctly identified, authenticated, and wired into the Hippocampus MCP (Model Context Protocol) ecosystem. It facilitates the creation of a stable workspace environment, allowing agents to inherit scoped memory identities that persist across sessions. Instead of manual credential management, this skill utilizes a secure bootstrap-first approach, generating a configuration that enables the agent to store, recall, and manage long-term data seamlessly.

Installation

To integrate this onboarding skill into your environment, run the following command in your terminal within your project directory:

clawhub install openclaw/skills/skills/cezexpl/hippocampus-openclaw-onboarding

Ensure that you have administrative privileges for the installation path and that your OpenClaw environment is updated to the latest minor version to ensure compatibility with the Hippocampus MCP drivers.

Use Cases

• Enterprise Agent Deployment: Quickly bootstrap hundreds of unique OpenClaw instances for a corporate team while maintaining a unified, secure memory namespace.
• Long-term Context Retention: Use this skill to restore the cognitive state of an agent after a system restart or environment migration.
• Isolated Multi-Agent Systems: Deploy child agents that require access to specific, scoped memories without polluting the root agent's primary storage.
• Standardized Dev Environments: Ensure all developers on a project use identical gateway configurations for their local agent clusters.

Example Prompts

1. "OpenClaw, please run the Hippocampus onboarding process with my new bootstrap token from the dashboard."
2. "I need to reconfigure my current workspace; can you guide me through the setup for a new agent ID using the hippocampus-openclaw-onboarding skill?"
3. "Verify my current memory connection and ensure the MCP bridge is properly linked to the Hippocampus gateway."

Tips & Limitations

• One Root Agent Per Instance: Maintain a strict one-to-one relationship between a root agent and its Hippocampus memory store to prevent data collisions.
• Avoid Reusing Keys: For security reasons, never share or hardcode bootstrap tokens across different workspaces or projects. Each workspace should represent a distinct logical entity.
• Bootstrap Over Long-Lived Keys: Prioritize the use of short-lived bootstrap tokens. This limits the blast radius should a configuration file be accidentally exposed.
• Namespace Discipline: Always keep sub-agent IDs within the organizational hierarchy of your workspace namespace for easier memory pruning and management.
• Network Dependency: The setup process requires active connectivity to the Hippocampus portal; offline configuration is not supported due to the authentication handshake requirements.