emotion-state

name	emotion-state
description	NL emotion tracking + prompt injection via OpenClaw hook

Emotion State (NL) Skill

This skill describes how to install and configure the Emotion State hook, which adds a compact emotion_state block to the system prompt.

What it does

• Evaluates user and agent emotions as short natural-language phrases.
• Stores per-user emotion state across sessions in the agent state directory.
• Injects the latest entries plus a decayed trend line into the system prompt.

Install & enable (workspace hook)

1. After installing the skill, copy the bundled hook into your workspace:

cp -R ./skills/emotion-state/hooks/emotion-state ./hooks/

2. Enable the hook in OpenClaw:

openclaw hooks enable emotion-state

3. Restart the OpenClaw gateway.

Configuration

Set environment variables for the hook via OpenClaw config, e.g. in ~/.openclaw/openclaw.json:

{
  "hooks": {
    "internal": {
      "enabled": true,
      "entries": {