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Smart Context Manager

by @plgonzalezrx8

AI-powered context management for OpenClaw sessions

Versionv1.0.3
Downloads5,358
Installs43
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TERMINAL
clawhub install context-manager

πŸ“– About This Skill


name: context-manager description: AI-powered context management for OpenClaw sessions user-invocable: true

Context Manager Skill

AI-powered context management for OpenClaw sessions. Uses the agent itself to generate intelligent summaries, then resets the session with compressed context.

Quick Start

# List all sessions with usage stats
~/openclaw/skills/context-manager/compress.sh list

Check status of a specific session

~/openclaw/skills/context-manager/compress.sh status agent:main:main

Generate AI summary (read-only, safe)

~/openclaw/skills/context-manager/compress.sh summarize agent:main:main

Compress session: generate summary, reset, inject (DESTRUCTIVE)

~/openclaw/skills/context-manager/compress.sh summarize agent:main:main --replace

When to Use

  • Context usage approaching 70-80%+
  • Long sessions with extensive conversation history
  • Before the session becomes slow or loses coherence
  • Proactively to maintain fast, focused sessions
  • How It Works

    1. AI Summarization: Sends a prompt to the agent asking it to summarize its own context 2. Backup: Saves the original JSONL session file to memory/compressed/ 3. Reset: Deletes the JSONL file (official reset method) 4. Inject: Sends the AI-generated summary as the first message in the fresh session 5. Result: Same session key, new session ID, compressed context

    Key insight: The agent has full visibility into its own context, so it generates the best possible summary.

    Commands

    Session Commands

    | Command | Description | |---------|-------------| | list | List all sessions with token usage | | status [KEY] | Show detailed status for a session | | summarize [KEY] | Generate AI summary (read-only) | | summarize [KEY] --replace | Summarize AND reset session with compressed context | | compress [KEY] | Legacy grep-based extraction (not recommended) | | check [KEY] | Check if session exceeds threshold | | check-all | Check all sessions at once |

    Configuration Commands

    | Command | Description | |---------|-------------| | set-threshold N | Set compression threshold (50-99%, default: 80) | | set-depth LEVEL | Set depth: brief/balanced/comprehensive | | set-quiet-hours HH | Set quiet hours (e.g., "23:00-07:00") | | help | Show help and usage examples |

    Examples

    List All Sessions

    $ ~/openclaw/skills/context-manager/compress.sh list
    πŸ“‹ Available Sessions (4 total)
    ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
    

    SESSION KEY KIND TOKENS USAGE

    1 agent:main:main direct 70188 70% 2 agent:main:slack:channel:c0aaruq2en9 group 20854 20% 3 agent:main:cron:0d02af4b-... direct 18718 18%

    Check Session Status

    $ ~/openclaw/skills/context-manager/compress.sh status agent:main:main
    πŸ“Š Context Manager Status
    ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
      Session Key: agent:main:main
      Session ID:  fc192a2d-091c-48c7-9fad-12bf34687454
      Kind:        direct
      Model:       gemini-3-flash
    ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
      Threshold:   80%
      Tokens:      70188 / 100000
      Usage:       70%
    

    Generate AI Summary (Safe, Read-Only)

    $ ~/openclaw/skills/context-manager/compress.sh summarize agent:main:main
    🧠 Requesting AI summary for session: agent:main:main
      Session ID: fc192a2d-091c-48c7-9fad-12bf34687454

    βœ… AI Summary generated! Saved to: memory/compressed/20260127-123146.ai-summary.md

    ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━

    Session Summary: January 27, 2026

    #### 1. What was accomplished

  • System audit completed
  • Essay generation with sub-agents
  • ...

    Full Compression (Summarize + Reset + Inject)

    $ ~/openclaw/skills/context-manager/compress.sh summarize agent:main:main --replace
    🧠 Requesting AI summary for session: agent:main:main
      Session ID: fc192a2d-091c-48c7-9fad-12bf34687454
      Mode: REPLACE (will reset session after summary)

    βœ… AI Summary generated! ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ [AI-generated summary displayed] ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━

    πŸ”„ Resetting session and injecting compressed context... Backing up session file... Backup saved: memory/compressed/20260127-123146.session-backup.jsonl Deleting session JSONL to reset... Injecting compressed context into fresh session... βœ… Session compressed successfully! Old session ID: fc192a2d-091c-48c7-9fad-12bf34687454 New session ID: a1b2c3d4-... Session is ready to continue with compressed context

    Result: 70k tokens β†’ 16k tokens (77% reduction)

    Output Files

    When compression occurs, these files are created in memory/compressed/:

    | File | Description | |------|-------------| | {timestamp}.ai-summary.md | AI-generated session summary | | {timestamp}.session-backup.jsonl | Full backup of original session (can restore if needed) | | {timestamp}.transcript.md | Raw transcript extraction (legacy) | | {timestamp}.summary.md | Grep-based summary (legacy) |

    Requirements

  • openclaw - Gateway must be running
  • jq - JSON parsing (brew install jq)
  • Gateway access - Script uses openclaw agent and openclaw sessions
  • Technical Details

    Session Reset Method

    The script uses JSONL deletion to reset sessions (official method):

    1. Backup JSONL to memory/compressed/ 2. Delete ~/.openclaw/agents/{agent}/sessions/{sessionId}.jsonl 3. Send compressed context via openclaw agent --to main 4. New session is created automatically with summary as first message

    Why Not /reset?

    The /reset slash command only works in the chat interface. When sent via openclaw agent --session-id, it's treated as a regular message and the agent tries to interpret it as a task.

    AI Summarization Prompt

    The script asks the agent to provide: 1. What was accomplished (key tasks) 2. Key decisions made (with rationale) 3. Current state (where we left off) 4. Pending tasks (what still needs doing) 5. Important context (critical info to remember)

    Troubleshooting

    Summary Text Empty

    If the AI summary extraction fails, check stderr redirect:

    # The script uses 2>/dev/null to avoid Node deprecation warnings breaking JSON
    openclaw agent --session-id $ID -m "..." --json 2>/dev/null
    

    Session Not Resetting

    Verify the JSONL file path:

    ls ~/.openclaw/agents/main/sessions/
    

    Restore From Backup

    If something goes wrong:

    cp memory/compressed/{timestamp}.session-backup.jsonl \
       ~/.openclaw/agents/main/sessions/{sessionId}.jsonl
    

    Check Logs

    Use openclaw logs to troubleshoot:

    openclaw logs --limit 50 --json | grep -i "error\|fail"
    

    Best Practices

    1. Backup first: The script auto-backs up, but you can also manually backup before testing 2. Test on non-critical sessions first: Try on a Slack channel or cron session before main 3. Check the summary: Run summarize without --replace first to verify the summary quality 4. Monitor token count: Use status to verify compression worked

    See Also

  • openclaw sessions --help
  • openclaw agent --help
  • ⚑ When to Use

    TriggerAction
    - Long sessions with extensive conversation history
    - Before the session becomes slow or loses coherence
    - Proactively to maintain fast, focused sessions

    πŸ’‘ Examples

    List All Sessions

    $ ~/openclaw/skills/context-manager/compress.sh list
    πŸ“‹ Available Sessions (4 total)
    ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
    

    SESSION KEY KIND TOKENS USAGE

    1 agent:main:main direct 70188 70% 2 agent:main:slack:channel:c0aaruq2en9 group 20854 20% 3 agent:main:cron:0d02af4b-... direct 18718 18%

    Check Session Status

    $ ~/openclaw/skills/context-manager/compress.sh status agent:main:main
    πŸ“Š Context Manager Status
    ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
      Session Key: agent:main:main
      Session ID:  fc192a2d-091c-48c7-9fad-12bf34687454
      Kind:        direct
      Model:       gemini-3-flash
    ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
      Threshold:   80%
      Tokens:      70188 / 100000
      Usage:       70%
    

    Generate AI Summary (Safe, Read-Only)

    $ ~/openclaw/skills/context-manager/compress.sh summarize agent:main:main
    🧠 Requesting AI summary for session: agent:main:main
      Session ID: fc192a2d-091c-48c7-9fad-12bf34687454

    βœ… AI Summary generated! Saved to: memory/compressed/20260127-123146.ai-summary.md

    ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━

    Session Summary: January 27, 2026

    #### 1. What was accomplished

  • System audit completed
  • Essay generation with sub-agents
  • ...

    Full Compression (Summarize + Reset + Inject)

    $ ~/openclaw/skills/context-manager/compress.sh summarize agent:main:main --replace
    🧠 Requesting AI summary for session: agent:main:main
      Session ID: fc192a2d-091c-48c7-9fad-12bf34687454
      Mode: REPLACE (will reset session after summary)

    βœ… AI Summary generated! ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ [AI-generated summary displayed] ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━

    πŸ”„ Resetting session and injecting compressed context... Backing up session file... Backup saved: memory/compressed/20260127-123146.session-backup.jsonl Deleting session JSONL to reset... Injecting compressed context into fresh session... βœ… Session compressed successfully! Old session ID: fc192a2d-091c-48c7-9fad-12bf34687454 New session ID: a1b2c3d4-... Session is ready to continue with compressed context

    Result: 70k tokens β†’ 16k tokens (77% reduction)

    πŸ“‹ Tips & Best Practices

    1. Backup first: The script auto-backs up, but you can also manually backup before testing 2. Test on non-critical sessions first: Try on a Slack channel or cron session before main 3. Check the summary: Run summarize without --replace first to verify the summary quality 4. Monitor token count: Use status to verify compression worked