Making OpenClaw remember what it's doing after compaction
OpenClaw is great and I've been using it across a dozen Discord channels: travel planning, coding projects, daily briefings, each in its own thread, concurrently. During the journey, I found OpenCl...

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OpenClaw is great and I've been using it across a dozen Discord channels: travel planning, coding projects, daily briefings, each in its own thread, concurrently. During the journey, I found OpenClaw could have amnesia: lost track of key guidance and restrictions, or forgot the task it was working on, oftentimes, especially as conversations got long. Why this happens Although AI looks like magic and works like magic, under the hood it still has its boundaries, and in this case, its context window. The mighty AI can only process a certain amount of information, and if your threads go beyond that, OpenClaw uses compaction to summarize previous conversations, thus reducing the amount of information AI needs to process. The thing is, compaction is not (and cannot be) lossless. Your critical guidance, rules you must follow, tasks in progress, all could be lost during the compaction, and voilĂ , your agent has amnesia. The fix Instead of putting everything inside your conversation only, I cre