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OpenClaw Memory Governance

skills/openclaw-memory-governance.md

title: OpenClaw Memory Governance category: skills tags: [openclaw, memory, governance, wiki] aliases: [Memory Governance for OpenClaw] relationships:

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type: uses sources: [_raw/openclaw/p1-memory-2026-05-25/] summary: The working rules for maintaining continuity in OpenClaw through curated long-term memory, daily notes, session isolation, and raw-first wiki archiving. provenance: extracted: 0.84 inferred: 0.14 ambiguous: 0.02 base_confidence: 0.87 lifecycle: draft lifecycle_changed: 2026-05-25 tier: supporting created: 2026-05-25T08:35:00Z updated: 2026-05-25T08:35:00Z

OpenClaw Memory Governance

This page captures the stable operating rules behind continuity in the local OpenClaw environment: what belongs in long-term memory, what belongs in daily notes, when cross-session recall is allowed, and how wiki ingest should preserve raw evidence.

Key Ideas

  • MEMORY.md stores durable facts: user preferences, long-term rules, stable business context, and recurring priorities.
  • memory/YYYY-MM-DD.md stores short-term developments, timestamped operational events, and daily task context.
  • Session isolation is explicit: direct-message memory is scoped per channel peer, and cross-channel recall should not happen silently.
  • Skill installation is governed by a safety-first flow: security check, safety report, user confirmation, then installation.
  • Wiki ingest follows a raw-first rule: preserve original files under the wiki raw area before distilling them into category pages.
  • Continuity in this setup depends more on curated memory files than on raw transcript replay. ^[inferred]

Practical Rules

  • Record durable facts immediately when the user says “remember”.
  • Promote only genuinely stable items from daily memory into long-term memory.
  • Keep sensitive or external-action details out of broad memory by default.
  • Treat raw source preservation as part of the ingest contract, not an optional convenience.

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