Emotional Salience Plugin Skill

Detect emotional valence and compute salience scores in text.

Updated Mar 22, 2026
One-click install
npx skills add https://github.com/Heretek-AI/heretek-openclaw --skill emotional-salience-plugin-skill
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Skill: Emotional Salience Plugin Skill
Source: https://github.com/Heretek-AI/heretek-openclaw/tree/main/plugins/emotional-salience
Command: npx skills add https://github.com/Heretek-AI/heretek-openclaw --skill emotional-salience-plugin-skill

SYSTEM DOCUMENTATION & REQUIREMENTS

What problem does it solve?

The Emotional Salience Plugin provides a unified mechanism to detect emotional valence and prioritize information flow for autonomous agent systems, reducing noise and enabling safer, more responsive interactions.

Core Features & Use Cases

  • Emotional valence detection and emotion mapping to drive context-aware decision making.
  • Salience scoring and threat prioritization to triage messages and alerts in agent ecosystems.
  • Empath integration for user-state synchronization and adaptive responses across OpenClaw components.
  • Emotional context tracking and memory promotion of high-salience events for long-term learning.

Quick Start

Process a sample message through the plugin to detect valence and compute a salience score.

Frequently Asked Questions about Emotional Salience Plugin Skill

High-intent search queries and answers about installing and using this skill.

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How do I detect emotional valence in text for AI agents?

Detect emotional valence in text for AI agents by processing messages through a pipeline that scores emotional salience and maps emotions to guide context-aware decision making. This reduces noise and enables safer autonomous interactions.

What is emotional salience scoring and when do I need it for agent ecosystems?

Emotional salience scoring is a mechanism that quantifies the priority of information based on emotional weight. You need it in agent ecosystems to triage messages, prioritize alerts, and route high-salience events for long-term memory promotion.

How do I triage alerts and messages using emotional threat scoring in OpenClaw?

Triage alerts and messages in OpenClaw by applying the emotional salience pipeline to compute threat scores and prioritize information flow. This allows autonomous agents to respond to high-priority emotional context first.

Does the emotional salience plugin integrate with Empath for user-state synchronization?

Yes, the emotional salience plugin integrates with Empath to synchronize user-state and generate adaptive responses across OpenClaw components. This ensures agents maintain accurate emotional context tracking during interactions.

Can I use emotional context tracking to promote high-salience events to agent memory?

Yes, you can use emotional context tracking to promote high-salience events to long-term agent memory. This enables autonomous systems to learn from significant emotional interactions and improve future response behavior.

What are the limitations of using emotional valence detection for autonomous agent behavior?

Limitations of emotional valence detection include relying on text-only cues without multimodal inputs, requiring safe operation parameters to prevent overreaction to false threats, and needing continuous context tracking to avoid losing emotional state across long conversations.