Skills scribe

Autonomous session scribe — reads today's OpenClaw session logs, extracts decisions, preferences, framework sentences, and project updates, then writes a structured daily memory file. Use when setting up automated memory extraction for an AI agent, or when manually triggering a memory consolidation pass. Works as a cron job (isolated session) or on-demand.

install

source · Clone the upstream repo

git clone https://github.com/openclaw/skills

Claude Code · Install into ~/.claude/skills/

T=$(mktemp -d) && git clone --depth=1 https://github.com/openclaw/skills "$T" && mkdir -p ~/.claude/skills && cp -r "$T/skills/billc8128/openclaw-scribe" ~/.claude/skills/clawdbot-skills-scribe-d2d117 && rm -rf "$T"

OpenClaw · Install into ~/.openclaw/skills/

T=$(mktemp -d) && git clone --depth=1 https://github.com/openclaw/skills "$T" && mkdir -p ~/.openclaw/skills && cp -r "$T/skills/billc8128/openclaw-scribe" ~/.openclaw/skills/clawdbot-skills-scribe-d2d117 && rm -rf "$T"

manifest: skills/billc8128/openclaw-scribe/SKILL.md

source content

Scribe

An autonomous "stenographer" agent that watches your OpenClaw session history and extracts what matters into persistent, structured memory files — so your agent remembers across sessions without relying on context window compaction.

Install & Setup

1. Copy the skill to your workspace:

cp -r skills/public/scribe ~/.openclaw/workspace/skills/public/scribe

2. Register the nightly cron job (one command):

python3 skills/public/scribe/scripts/setup-cron.py

That's it. Scribe will run every night at 23:30 and write

memory/YYYY-MM-DD.md

to your workspace.

3. Run manually anytime:

python3 skills/public/scribe/scripts/scribe.py

How It Works

Scans today's session JSONL files from
```
~/.openclaw/agents/main/sessions/
```
Filters out heartbeats, system messages, and noise
Sends user messages to an LLM (via OpenRouter, reads your existing OpenClaw API key)
Extracts: decisions, preferences, framework sentences, project updates, todos
Writes structured output to
```
{workspace}/memory/YYYY-MM-DD.md
```

Output Format

# YYYY-MM-DD Memory (Scribe)

## 🔑 Decisions Made
## 💡 Preferences & Rules
## 🗣️ Framework Sentences
## 📦 Project Updates
## ✅ Todos / Follow-ups

Configuration

Environment variables (all optional — defaults work out of the box):

Variable	Default	Description
`SCRIBE_SESSION_DIR`	`~/.openclaw/agents/main/sessions`	Session JSONL location
`SCRIBE_WORKSPACE`	`~/.openclaw/workspace`	Where memory files are written
`SCRIBE_DAYS`	`1`	Days back to scan
`SCRIBE_MODEL`	`anthropic/claude-haiku-4-5`	LLM model (OpenRouter ID)
`SCRIBE_APPEND_LONGTERM`	`false`	Also append to MEMORY.md
`OPENROUTER_API_KEY`	(from OpenClaw config)	Override API key

References

Cron setup details:
```
references/cron-setup.md
```
— manual config, launchd, timezone changes
Signal classification:
```
references/signal-guide.md
```
— how the LLM decides what's worth extracting