Skill: Persistent Memory

Purpose: Provide persistent context across NetClaw sessions through structured facts, semantic search, and entity relationships.

Overview

The Memory skill enables NetClaw to remember information about your network across sessions. Instead of re-explaining your topology, device names, and past issues every time, NetClaw builds a memory that grows smarter with each interaction.

Memory vs. the RAG Knowledge Base: Memory (memory_* tools, ~/.openclaw/memory/) holds NetClaw's OWN experience — facts, session summaries, decisions, entity relationships. Document content lives in the separate RAG knowledge base (rag skill, rag_* tools, ~/.openclaw/rag/). "Remember this PDF / URL / standard" routes to rag_ingest, not memory_record_fact; "what does the vendor guide say" routes to rag_search, not memory_recall. Operational facts ("PE2 is in maintenance until Friday"), past-session questions, and decision history stay here. Neither store writes into the other.

Capabilities

1. Structured Fact Storage

Store precise facts about network entities with temporal validity:

• Device states, configurations, IP addresses
• Maintenance windows, change history
• Performance baselines, thresholds