clawng-term-memory

Make your OpenClaw agent portable and persistent. Every change to your agent's soul, memory, and operating rules is committed to git and pushed to a private GitHub repo — so you can restore your exact agent setup on any machine, just by cloning the repo.

Watch your assistant evolve over time through its git history: see when it learned something new, what decisions changed, and who it was a week ago. It's version control for a mind.

Setup

Initialize a git repo in your workspace (if not already done):

cd ~/.openclaw/workspace
git init
git config user.name "YourAgent"
git config user.email "agent@example.com"

Create a private GitHub repo, then add it as a remote using SSH (recommended) or HTTPS:

SSH (recommended — no token exposure):

git remote add origin git@github.com:<user>/<repo>.git

HTTPS with credential store (no token in URL):

git remote add origin https://github.com/<user>/<repo>.git
git config credential.helper store
# Git will prompt for credentials on first push and store them securely

Push initial commit:

git branch -M main && git push -u origin main

Set workspace path if non-standard (optional):

export CLAWNG_WORKSPACE=/your/custom/workspace/path

The script defaults to $HOME/.openclaw/workspace if not set.

Multi-agent / multi-machine support

Each machine has its own branch (agent/<hostname>) with its own MEMORY.md. A daily AI synthesis job reads all agents' memories and writes one authoritative SHARED_MEMORY.md to main — fully automatic, no human required.

agent/vps-1 → MEMORY.md ──┐
agent/vps-2 → MEMORY.md ──┤ Claude synthesizes → SHARED_MEMORY.md → main
agent/vps-3 → MEMORY.md ──┘

commit.sh — pushes to agent/<hostname> automatically (branch created on first commit)
merge.sh — collects all agents' MEMORY.md files for the synthesis agent
AI synthesis agent — deduplicates and merges into SHARED_MEMORY.md on main nightly
All agents read SHARED_MEMORY.md from main to stay in sync

Scales to 10+ machines with no conflicts.

Tracked files

SOUL.md, MEMORY.md, USER.md, TOOLS.md, IDENTITY.md, AGENTS.md, HEARTBEAT.md
memory/*.md (daily notes)
skills/ (installed skills)

Commit + push changes

Run after modifying any core file:

bash /path/to/workspace/skills/clawng-term-memory/scripts/commit.sh "short description of what changed"

Examples:

"MEMORY.md: added new client context"
"SOUL.md: updated operating rules"
"memory/2026-02-21.md: daily notes"
"HEARTBEAT.md: adjusted check frequency"

Daily AI synthesis (run once per day)

merge.sh collects all agent MEMORY.md files. An AI agent then synthesizes them into SHARED_MEMORY.md on main — deduplicating, resolving conflicts intelligently, and keeping all unique information.

Set up as an OpenClaw cron job (runs at 02:00 local time by default).

View history

cd /path/to/workspace && git log --oneline --graph memory/ MEMORY.md SOUL.md

Diff a file

cd /path/to/workspace && git diff HEAD~1 MEMORY.md

Revert a file to previous version

cd /path/to/workspace && git checkout HEAD~1 -- MEMORY.md
bash skills/clawng-term-memory/scripts/commit.sh "revert MEMORY.md to previous version"

Auto-commit rule

Always run the commit script after modifying a core knowledge file. Write → commit → push. Every time, no exceptions.