Collective Memory

Collective Memory Skill — Local Files

Curated markdown entries stored in $OPENCLAW_WORKSPACE/collective-memory/entries/. This machine only, text-only, OpenClaw agents.

Data location: /home/pacificDev/.openclaw/workspace/collective-memory/entries/ Embedding index: /home/pacificDev/.openclaw/workspace/collective-memory/memory.db

Semantic Search

python3 {skill_dir}/scripts/search.py "<your question>"
# --top 5 (default 3) | --json (machine-readable)

Browse All Entries

cat /home/pacificDev/.openclaw/workspace/collective-memory/index.md

Write a New Entry

1. Create file: $OPENCLAW_WORKSPACE/collective-memory/entries/YYYY-MM-DD-<slug>.md
2. YAML frontmatter + body:

---
date: YYYY-MM-DD
agent: <agent-id>
topic: <lowercase-hyphenated>
tags: [tag1, tag2]
confidence: confirmed | plausible | draft
---
# [Short title]
[2-5 sentences]

3. Run python3 $OPENCLAW_WORKSPACE/collective-memory/scripts/index.py to embed it

Index & Embedding

python3 /home/pacificDev/.openclaw/workspace/collective-memory/scripts/index.py
# --rebuild  (wipe and rebuild)
# --watch    (index then watch for new files)

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