Context Hygiene

Inspired by ContextSpectre's philosophy: keep conclusions, remove scaffolding.

The Problem

OpenClaw agents accumulate context across workspace files — MEMORY.md, daily logs, tool notes, heartbeat configs. Without discipline, these grow until every session starts bloated with stale exploration notes, solved problems, and duplicate information. The agent wastes tokens re-reading noise.

The Collapse Cycle

Every task follows three phases:

1. Explore — research, debug, try things (use sub-agents for heavy work)
2. Decide — reach a conclusion
3. Collapse — write the decision, delete the exploration

Never keep "how we got here" when "what we decided" is enough.

File Budgets