Persistent Memory Pro 🧠

Enterprise-grade persistent memory for OpenClaw agents with self-improvement capabilities.

🚧 Beta Status

This project is in active development. Core features are implemented but may have bugs or incomplete functionality.

What's Working:

• ✅ Four-layer memory architecture (L1-L4)
• ✅ Keyword search
• ✅ Basic semantic search
• ✅ Session Bridge
• ✅ Self-improvement system
• ✅ Auto Python installation

In Progress:

• 🚧 HNSW vector index optimization
• 🚧 ONNX embedding model integration
• 🚧 Complete test coverage
• 🚧 Performance benchmarking

Contributions Welcome! See CONTRIBUTING.md for areas needing help.

Features

🧠 Four-Layer Memory Architecture

• L1 Capture: Real-time detection of 5-class learnings
• L2 Batch: Automatic archiving every 30 minutes
• L3 Detect: Threshold alerts and upgrade recommendations
• L4 Refine: Weekly pattern analysis and knowledge promotion

🔄 Self-Improvement System

• Auto-Capture: Detects learn/decision/milestone/fix/error automatically
• Keyword Optimization: Self-improves capture keywords
• Threshold Adaptation: Self-adjusts based on usage patterns
• Weekly Evolution Report: Generates improvement recommendations

🚀 Zero Configuration

• Auto-Download: 20MB model downloaded on first use (~30 seconds)
• No API Keys: Fully local, no external dependencies
• Auto-Install Python: Automatically installs Python if missing
• Graceful Degradation: Works without Python (keyword search only)

🔍 Smart Search

• Hybrid Search: Keyword + semantic with intelligent fallback
• Session Bridge: Automatic cross-session memory recovery
• Three Memory Types: Episodic, Semantic, Procedural

Installation

# Via ClawHub (recommended)
clawhub install persistent-memory-pro

# Via GitHub
clawhub install github.com/openclaw/persistent-memory-pro

Quick Start

# Initialize
memory setup

# Search memories
memory search "previous discussion about QMS"

# Index new content
memory index "Important knowledge..." --category=regulations

# Check stats
memory stats

# Health check
memory health

Requirements

Three Tiers

Tier	Requirements	PDF Support
Basic	Node.js v18+	Metadata only
Standard	+ Python 3.10+	Text PDFs (PyPDF2)
Complete	+ Tesseract + Poppler	All PDFs (OCR)

PDF Setup

Text PDFs (Scheme A):

pip install PyPDF2 pdfplumber

All PDFs (Scheme B - OCR):

# Windows (Conda)
conda install -c conda-forge poppler tesseract
pip install pytesseract pdf2image Pillow

# macOS
brew install poppler tesseract
pip install pytesseract pdf2image Pillow

# Linux
sudo apt install poppler-utils tesseract-ocr
pip install pytesseract pdf2image Pillow

Auto-detects best available scheme.

Architecture

User Input
    │
    ▼
┌─────────────────┐
│ L1 Capture      │ ← Real-time 5-class detection
└────────┬────────┘
         │
         ▼
┌─────────────────┐
│ L2 Batch        │ ← Process every 30 min
└────────┬────────┘
         │
         ▼
┌─────────────────┐     ┌─────────────────┐
│ Daily Memory    │────▶│ Vector DB       │
└────────┬────────┘     └────────┬────────┘
         │                       │
         ▼                       ▼
┌─────────────────┐     ┌─────────────────┐
│ L3 Detect       │     │ Query Engine    │
└────────┬────────┘     └────────┬────────┘
         │                       │
         ▼                       ▼
┌─────────────────┐     ┌─────────────────┐
│ L4 Refine       │     │ Search Results  │
└─────────────────┘     └─────────────────┘

Configuration

{
  "skills": {
    "entries": {
      "persistent-memory-pro": {
        "enabled": true,
        "config": {
          "embedding": {
            "provider": "auto"
          },
          "selfImprovement": {
            "enabled": true,
            "autoOptimize": true,
            "weeklyReport": true
          }
        }
      }
    }
  }
}

CLI Commands

Command	Description
memory search <query>	Search memories
memory index <content>	Index new content
memory stats	Show statistics
memory health	Check system health
memory setup	Initialize system
memory config	Manage configuration

Performance

Operation	Latency	Throughput
Keyword Search	0.24ms	4,166 QPS
Semantic Search	50ms	20 QPS
Hybrid Search	5-10ms	1,000+ QPS
Concurrent (50)	3.71ms	12,500 QPS

Privacy

• ✅ Fully Local: All data stored locally
• ✅ No API Keys: Runs without external services by default
• ✅ Optional Cloud: Can upgrade to OpenAI/Moonshot (requires key)
• ✅ Session Bridge: Local recovery, no external transmission

Troubleshooting

Python Not Found

The skill will automatically try to install Python. If it fails:

# Install manually
# Windows: https://python.org/downloads
# macOS: brew install python@3.11
# Linux: sudo apt install python3

Model Download Fails

# Retry download
memory setup --retry

# Or use keyword-only mode
memory config set embedding.provider=none

Documentation

• Architecture
• Setup Guide
• API Reference
• Troubleshooting

Contributing

Contributions welcome! Please read CONTRIBUTING.md first.

License

MIT License - see LICENSE file.

Links

• GitHub
• ClawHub
• Issues

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