openclaw-mem

You can persist AI agent memory by explicitly commanding the skill to curate critical decisions and write them to durable disk-based storage like MEMORY.md or daily logs, ensuring knowledge survives session compaction.

Session memory is temporary and cleared during compaction, whereas long-term durable memory is high-signal knowledge explicitly saved to disk-based storage, preserving important facts and preferences for future AI agent sessions.

You need to manually save AI agent session memory to disk when critical decisions or user preferences are made, requiring explicit user commands to write knowledge to MEMORY.md before the ephemeral session memory is compacted.

No, durable storage does not write to MEMORY.md automatically. It requires explicit user commands to curate and persist critical knowledge from session memory to disk-based daily logs or long-term storage.

The best way to manage daily logs versus long-term knowledge is to use a skill that differentiates between them, allowing you to curate temporary session data into daily logs and high-signal facts into durable MEMORY.md storage.

Your AI agent loses context after session compaction because ephemeral session memory is cleared, meaning critical knowledge was not explicitly written to durable disk-based storage like MEMORY.md before the compaction occurred.