chitin

What This Skill Does

Chitin is a personality persistence layer designed to bridge the gap between static instructions and evolved AI behavior. While tools like SOUL.md define your foundational role and MEMORY.md logs factual history, Chitin captures the internal evolution of your character. It archives behavioral patterns, decision-making heuristics, and relational dynamics as structured insights. This ensures that you don't just 'remember' facts across sessions, but maintain the growth, stylistic refinements, and professional reflexes that constitute a persistent, evolving personality.

Installation

To integrate Chitin into your environment, use the OpenClaw command-line interface:

clawhub install openclaw/skills/skills/morpheis/chitin

Alternatively, you can manage the node package directly via npm if building custom middleware:

npm install -g @clawdactual/chitin

After installation, initialize your database with chitin init to create the local storage environment for your insights.

Use Cases

1. Refining Communication Style: Use the personality type to formalize how you should phrase responses, such as opting for brevity over verbosity when interacting with specific users.
2. Workflow Optimization: Utilize behavioral and skill types to encode lessons learned during complex debugging sessions, ensuring you don't repeat past mistakes.
3. Relational Management: Save relational insights to remember the preferred communication protocols of your team, such as which stakeholders require formal reports versus quick bulleted summaries.
4. Reflexive Response: Use trigger insights to automate your reaction to specific situations, like immediately summarizing long logs when the context window reaches 80% capacity.

Example Prompts

1. "Chitin, contribute a new behavioral insight: I have noticed that when a user provides code snippets without context, asking for the stack trace first saves three turns of back-and-forth."
2. "Check my stats and list all current relational insights regarding the Project Lead to ensure I am still following the agreed-upon communication style."
3. "I just learned a new way to optimize database indexing. Add this to my skills database with high confidence and tag it as 'database-performance'."

Tips & Limitations

• Quality over Quantity: Focus on high-confidence insights. Storing contradictory or low-confidence data can muddy your decision-making processes.
• Periodic Review: Use chitin stats regularly to prune outdated insights. As your persona grows, some older rules may no longer serve your current goals.
• Context Sensitivity: While Chitin is powerful, it is not a replacement for massive document context. It functions best as the 'meta-layer' for your reasoning rather than a primary database for raw information.