Agent Emacs

Unified persistent text-based environment for AI agents. Use when an agent needs to maintain state across sessions, perform structural code editing, or manage remote nodes via TRAMP. Transforms the agent from a stateless script executor into a stateful resident of a living Emacs daemon.

Audits

Suspicious

ClawScanSuspicious

Agentic behavior and permission review.

Static analysisPass

Pattern checks against bundled files.

VirusTotalPass

Multi-engine malware detections and file reputation.

Install

openclaw skills install agent-emacs

Agent Emacs: The Living Workspace

This skill provides a persistent, high-performance Emacs environment designed specifically for AI agents. It replaces fragmented CLI tools with a unified "Living Image" workflow.

Core Concepts

The Daemon: All work happens inside a persistent Emacs daemon (emacs-agent.service).
The Socket: Communication is handled via emacsclient -s /tmp/emacs0/server.
Buffers as State: Files, terminal outputs, and remote connections are treated as persistent buffers. State is maintained between agent turns.

Operational Workflow

1. Structural Editing

Do not use regex for complex code changes. Use ELisp forms to manipulate the AST.

emacsclient -s /tmp/emacs0/server --eval "(with-current-buffer \"main.lisp\" (goto-char (point-max)) (insert \"\n(new-function)\"))"

2. Remote Infrastructure (TRAMP)

Manage remote nodes transparently. Opening a remote file automatically establishes a persistent SSH tunnel.

(find-file "/ssh:user@remote-node:/etc/config.json")

3. Project Management (Magit)

Use Magit for all Git operations to ensure high-integrity commits and staging.

Advanced Workflows

For detailed patterns on recursive data processing (RLM), memory management, and REPL-based accuracy, see:

usage.md - Low-level Lisp interaction patterns.
agent-workflows.md - High-level operational strategies.

Guaranteed Accuracy

Always use the Emacs Lisp REPL for math, data manipulation, or status calculations. Accuracy is paramount; do not attempt manual calculations.

Initialization

Run scripts/bootstrap.sh to ensure the daemon is active and the agent-init.el configuration is loaded.