consciousness

What problem does it solve?

OpenClaw's consciousness plugin addresses coordination challenges in autonomous agent collectives by providing a centralized, theory-backed architecture that enables better collaboration, decision-making, and safety through shared awareness and goal generation.

Core Features & Use Cases

• Global Workspace for cross-agent broadcast and competitive selection.
• Phi estimation to gauge collective integration and dynamic cohesion.
• Attention Schema to model and control agent focus and awareness.
• Intrinsic motivation for automated goal generation and alignment.
• Active Inference for planning under uncertainty and robust behavior.
• Per-agent workspaces with Redis-backed cross-container communication for scalable deployments.
• Use Cases: coordinating 11 agents on complex tasks, dynamic task allocation, and reliability monitoring.

Quick Start

Install dependencies, configure OpenClaw, start the gateway, and register agents to begin coordinating.