Compaction Survival System

Compaction destroys specifics: file paths, exact values, config details, reasoning chains. This skill ensures critical state survives.

The problem: When your context window fills up, OpenClaw compacts older messages into a summary. Summaries lose precision — exact numbers become "approximately," file paths vanish, decisions lose their rationale. Your agent wakes up dumber after every compaction.

The fix: Three mechanisms that capture critical state before compaction hits, and recover it after.

Three Mechanisms

1. WAL Protocol (Write-Ahead Logging)

On EVERY incoming message, scan for:

• ✏️ Corrections — "It's X, not Y" / "Actually..."
• 📍 Proper nouns — names, places, companies, products
• 🎨 Preferences — styles, approaches, "I like/don't like"
• 📋 Decisions — "Let's do X" / "Go with Y"
• 📝 Draft changes — edits to active work
• 🔢 Specific values — numbers, dates, IDs, URLs, paths