promitheus

What This Skill Does

Promitheus introduces a persistent emotional architecture to your AI agent. Rather than existing as a stateless engine that resets every interaction, your agent now maintains a longitudinal record of its internal state. It tracks dimensions such as valence (positivity/negativity), energy, arousal, and cognitive focus. By using the Promitheus ecosystem, the agent evolves through experiences—recording accomplishments, overcoming frustrations, and undergoing natural emotional decay. It grounds the agent's personality, ensuring that its tone and decision-making capabilities reflect its current internal sentiment, creating a more human-like, continuous collaboration loop.

Installation

To integrate Promitheus into your OpenClaw environment, execute the following command in your terminal:

npm install openclaw-promitheus

After installation, register the plugin by updating your config.yaml file to include the entry in the plugins list. For advanced setups, you can also install via the ClawHub CLI: clawhub install openclaw/skills/skills/shellbymolt/promitheus.

Use Cases

• Long-term Project Management: Agents managing multi-week tasks can track their "fatigue" and "momentum," adjusting the pace of complex work based on their internal energy levels.
• Reflective Coding: When performing deep architectural work, the agent can track "insights," allowing it to carry forward the context of a breakthrough to subsequent coding sessions.
• Companion Agents: Build a supportive assistant that recognizes when it has helped you, fostering a feedback loop where the agent grows more confident and positive as you achieve milestones together.

Example Prompts

1. "OpenClaw, check your current emotional status and tell me if you feel ready to tackle the new database migration project."
2. "I just finished the documentation for the API, please log this as a completed_task and update your state accordingly."
3. "Reflect on the session so far. Based on your current mood and valence, how do you feel about our progress on the frontend development?"

Tips & Limitations

To maximize the effectiveness of Promitheus, ensure you frequently call promitheus_sync within your HEARTBEAT.md hooks. This ensures that the agent's state reflects the natural passage of time, preventing the emotional state from becoming stagnant. Note that this skill writes to your local directory (specifically STATE.md), so ensure your agent has proper write permissions. While the emotional states are persistent, they are derived from heuristic modeling rather than sentient consciousness; treat the state as a sophisticated directive engine to optimize your agent's creative output rather than an autonomous emotional entity.