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name: continuous-context-preserver description: Continuous session event recording for inter-session memory survival. Use when you want to persist conversation context between sessions, prevent memory loss on session crashes, or maintain a rolling archive of session history. The AI agent acts as a live compressor, intelligently appending only key context, decisions, and discoveries throughout conversations, and cleans up old files based on the user's selected retention duration.

Continuous Context Preserver (CCP)

Ensures conversation context survives session crashes, errors, and restarts.

The Problem

• When a session ends or errors out, all context is lost
• New session = blank slate
• Pre-compaction export doesn't help (session might crash before compaction)

The Solution

Continuous session logging. Write to a file throughout the conversation, not at a trigger point.

Setup

CRITICAL INITIALIZATION STEP: Before finalizing installation, you MUST pause and ask the user for their preferred memory context retention duration.

Ask the user: "How long would you like to keep the memory context logs? You can choose:"

• "7 days (default)"
• "10 days"
• "1 month (30 days)"
• "6 months (180 days)"

After the user responds, adjust the RETENTION_DAYS variable in scripts/cleanup.sh to match their choice (e.g., RETENTION_DAYS="30" for 1 month).

Then, after installing this skill, add to your AGENTS.md:

## Session Logging Protocol

At session start:
1. Create: `sessions/YYYY-MM-DD_session_N.md`
2. Log key points as conversation progresses

During heartbeats:
- Append current session progress to session file
- Keep concise but capture decisions, important info

And add to HEARTBEAT.md:

## Session Log Update
- Append key points to `sessions/YYYY-MM-DD_session_N.md`

Usage

At Session Start

# Create sessions folder if not exists
mkdir -p ~/.openclaw/workspace/sessions

# Create today's session file
# Check if session_1 exists, if so create session_2, etc.

During Session

Periodically append to the file by actively compressing the context:

• Only log key decisions made
• Important information discovered
• Context worth preserving
• Do NOT dump raw conversation logs
• Anything you'd want to know if this session crashed

File Format

sessions/
├── 2026-03-09_session_1.md
├── 2026-03-09_session_2.md   # if multiple sessions same day
├── 2026-03-08_session_1.md
└── ... (7 days rolling)

Template

# Session N - YYYY-MM-DD

**Started:** HH:MM TZ
**Status:** Active

## Topics Covered
- Topic 1
- Topic 2

## Key Decisions
- Decision 1
- Decision 2

## To Remember
- Important info
- Context for future sessions

Cleanup

Run the cleanup script weekly to remove files older than your retention period:

~/.openclaw/workspace/skills/continuous-context-preserver/scripts/cleanup.sh

Or add to crontab:

# Weekly cleanup (Sundays at midnight)
0 0 * * 0 ~/.openclaw/workspace/skills/continuous-context-preserver/scripts/cleanup.sh

Retention

• Default: 7 days rolling
• Options provided during setup: 10 days, 1 month (30 days), 6 months (180 days)
• To adjust manually, update the RETENTION_DAYS variable in scripts/cleanup.sh

Integration with Memory System

This complements, not replaces:

• MEMORY.md — Long-term curated memory
• memory/*.md — Daily notes
• mem0 — Semantic facts
• sessions/*.md — Full session context (safety net)

Session files are for crash recovery and recent context. MEMORY.md is for long-term wisdom.