name: install-powermem-memory description: Step-by-step guide to install and configure the PowerMem long-term memory plugin. After setup, the plugin auto-captures conversation highlights and auto-recalls relevant memories. triggers:

• "安装 PowerMem 记忆"
• "安装 PowerMem 记忆插件"
• "Install PowerMem memory"
• "Install PowerMem memory plugin"
• "配置 PowerMem 记忆"
• "Configure PowerMem memory"
• "PowerMem 是什么"
• "什么是 PowerMem"
• "What is PowerMem"

PowerMem Memory Guide

This skill folder includes supplementary docs to reference when needed:

• powermem-intro.md — Product intro to PowerMem (what it is, core features, relationship with OpenClaw). Use when the user asks "what is PowerMem" or needs an overview.
• config-reference.md — Configuration options and common commands quick reference.

How It Works

• Auto-Capture: At the end of a conversation, the plugin stores valuable user/assistant content into PowerMem, with optional intelligent extraction (infer).
• Auto-Recall: Before each turn, it searches for relevant memories and injects them into context.

When User Asks to Install

1. Check OpenClaw
   Run openclaw --version. If not installed, tell the user to install OpenClaw first: npm install -g openclaw and openclaw onboard.

2. Check PowerMem

   • HTTP mode: User must have PowerMem server running (e.g. pip install powermem, create .env, then powermem-server --port 8000).
   • CLI mode: User needs pmem on PATH (and optionally a PowerMem .env). No server required.

3. Install the plugin
   If the user has the repo path:

   openclaw plugins install /path/to/openclaw-extension-powermem
   

   Or from GitHub one-liner:

   curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ob-labs/openclaw-extension-powermem/main/install.sh | bash
   

4. Configure OpenClaw
   Set memory slot and config. Example (HTTP, local server):

   openclaw config set plugins.enabled true
   openclaw config set plugins.slots.memory memory-powermem
   openclaw config set plugins.entries.memory-powermem.config.mode http
   openclaw config set plugins.entries.memory-powermem.config.baseUrl http://localhost:8000
   openclaw config set plugins.entries.memory-powermem.config.autoCapture true --json
   openclaw config set plugins.entries.memory-powermem.config.autoRecall true --json
   openclaw config set plugins.entries.memory-powermem.config.inferOnAdd true --json
   

   For CLI mode (no server): set mode to cli, and optionally envFile, pmemPath.

5. Verify
   Ask the user to restart the gateway, then run:

   openclaw ltm health
   openclaw ltm add "I prefer coffee in the morning"
   openclaw ltm search "coffee"
   

   If health is OK and search returns the memory, installation succeeded.

Available Tools

Configuration

Daily Operations

# Start gateway (after PowerMem server is running for HTTP mode)
openclaw gateway

# Check health
openclaw ltm health

# Manual add / search
openclaw ltm add "Some fact to remember"
openclaw ltm search "query"

# Disable memory slot
openclaw config set plugins.slots.memory none

# Re-enable
openclaw config set plugins.slots.memory memory-powermem

Restart the gateway after changing the memory slot.

Troubleshooting