session-logs

name	session-logs
description	Use when the user asks about earlier conversations, prior outputs, historical context, or past work that may live in OpenClaw memories, QMD stores, or session logs.
user-invocable	true
disable-model-invocation	false

Session Logs

Use this skill to recover prior context from local OpenClaw artifacts.

Search order

1. /workspace/MEMORY.md
2. /workspace/memory/
3. {{ PRIVATE_DATA_DIR }}/sessions/
4. ~/.openclaw/agents/*/qmd/sessions/
5. ~/.openclaw/agents/*/sessions/

When to use

• "What did we say before?"
• "Find the previous discussion about X"
• "Search older sessions"
• "What did OpenClaw decide last time?"

Tools

• prefer rg for filename and content filtering
• use jq for structured extraction from JSONL transcripts

Useful patterns

Search memories first:

rg -n "phrase" /workspace/MEMORY.md /workspace/memory

Search indexed and raw sessions:

rg -l "phrase" {{ PRIVATE_DATA_DIR }}/sessions ~/.openclaw/agents/*/qmd/sessions ~/.openclaw/agents/*/sessions 2>/dev/null

Extract assistant text from JSONL:

jq -r 'select(.type == "response_item" and .payload.type == "message" and .payload.role == "assistant") | .payload.content[]? | select(.type == "output_text" or .type == "input_text") | .text' <session>.jsonl

Rules

• Prefer memory notes before raw transcripts.
• Quote only the lines needed.
• Include the source path when it helps verification.
• If memory notes and raw session logs disagree, say so.