brain
Personal knowledge base for capturing and retrieving information about people, places, restaurants, games, tech, events, media, ideas, and organizations. Use when: user mentions a person, place, restaurant, landmark, game, device, event, book/show, idea, or company. Trigger phrases: "remember", "note that", "met this person", "visited", "played", "what do I know about", etc. Brain entries take precedence over daily logs for named entities.
Why use this skill?
Organize your life with the OpenClaw Brain skill. Capture and retrieve information about people, places, and ideas in your own personal 2nd brain knowledge management system.
Install via CLI (Recommended)
clawhub install openclaw/skills/skills/coderaven/2nd-brainWhat This Skill Does
The Brain skill is a robust personal knowledge management system integrated directly into OpenClaw. It serves as your '2nd Brain,' allowing you to store, categorize, and retrieve structured information about the entities that matter most in your life. Whether you are tracking the names of people you meet, documenting preferences for restaurants, keeping notes on software devices, or logging ideas and creative projects, the Brain skill ensures that your data is organized, persistent, and instantly accessible. It operates on a hierarchical directory structure that segregates information into logical buckets such as people, places, tech, media, and organizations, ensuring you never lose track of important context. By using native memory retrieval tools, the Brain provides a seamless interface between your current session and your long-term personal database.
Installation
To integrate the Brain skill into your OpenClaw environment, execute the following command in your terminal:
clawhub install openclaw/skills/skills/coderaven/2nd-brain
This will provision the necessary workspace structure at ~/.openclaw/workspace/brain/ and enable the associated retrieval hooks.
Use Cases
This skill is designed for high-context users who need to maintain a record of their life experiences and specific entity data. Use this when you need to store specific details about a person you just met, save a recommendation for a place to eat, track the technical specifications of your current device, or archive ideas for later development. It is the primary repository for named entities; whenever you find yourself wanting to 'remember' something permanent, this is your destination.
Example Prompts
- "Remember that I met Sarah at the tech conference in SF; she works at OpenAI and likes matcha lattes."
- "What do I know about the restaurants I've visited in Tokyo?"
- "Note that I've decided to switch to the new mechanical keyboard for my primary coding setup, and I need to document the firmware version."
Tips & Limitations
- Precedence: Always prioritize the Brain over daily logs. Daily logs are ephemeral, while the Brain is structured and permanent. If an item has a name, it belongs in the Brain.
- File Attachments: Always save associated files (photos, PDFs, etc.) to the
attachments/folder to ensure you have a complete record. - Organization: Keep your file structure clean by sticking to the defined directory categories (people, places, tech, etc.).
- Tooling: Always prefer
memory_searchover manual file navigation, as it leverages OpenClaw's intelligent indexing to find your notes faster.
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Find the right skillPaste this into your clawhub.json to enable this plugin.
{
"plugins": {
"official-coderaven-2nd-brain": {
"enabled": true,
"auto_update": true
}
}
}Tags(AI)
Flags: file-write, file-read