smart-memory

What This Skill Does

The Smart Memory skill for OpenClaw transforms your AI agent from a stateless assistant into a context-aware partner. It provides a persistent, zero-cost, local storage mechanism that allows the agent to recall user preferences, project-specific details, and past decisions across multiple sessions. By automatically extracting key data points—such as preferred tech stacks, communication styles, and ongoing project status—the agent builds a deepening understanding of the user over time. Everything is managed locally via shell scripts, ensuring that your data never leaves your machine, preserving both privacy and performance.

Installation

To add this capability to your agent, run the following command in your terminal: clawhub install openclaw/skills/skills/jcools1977/openjaw-smart-memory Once installed, the memory-manager.sh script will be available at ~/.openclaw/smart-memory/, providing an interface for your agent to read, write, update, and prune stored memory files.

Use Cases

• Project Continuity: Maintain state for ongoing coding projects, remembering which frameworks or database configurations were chosen for a specific repository.
• Personalization: Automatically adapt to the user's preferred tone, coding standards (e.g., 'always use type hints in Python'), and environment settings like light or dark mode.
• Knowledge Retrieval: Keep track of important deadlines, team members' names, or specific business logic instructions that the user mentioned days or weeks ago.
• Correction Management: Handle evolving requirements gracefully by updating stale information with new instructions while keeping an audit trail of changes.

Example Prompts

1. "Remember that for all my upcoming web projects, I want to use Tailwind CSS instead of raw CSS."
2. "What was the decision we made last week regarding our database architecture for the analytics dashboard?"
3. "Actually, please stop assuming I work in the office; I am working remotely for the foreseeable future."

Tips & Limitations

To get the most out of Smart Memory, ensure your agent is prompted to proactively scan for new information to cache. While this tool is incredibly powerful for local context, remember that 'low' confidence memories should be verified if they trigger significant actions. Since storage is local, manual cleanup of the ~/.openclaw/smart-memory/ directory is possible if your history grows too large. Avoid storing highly sensitive data like plain-text passwords here, as the files are stored as standard JSON.