AB Agents Memory

🧠 Long-term memory system for OpenClaw agents. Manages entities, context, and knowledge base with Obsidian integration. By AB-Agents (Alex Burr).

Security Scan

The skill appears to do what it claims — install a local Obsidian vault and register a memory agent for OpenClaw — and does not request unrelated credentials or fetch code from arbitrary remote URLs.

Purpose & Capability

Name/description (long-term memory with Obsidian integration) match the files and scripts: vault templates, an AB-Archivus agent, and nightly processing are all present. Required capabilities (file copy, cron, openclaw agent registration) are appropriate for a memory system.

Instruction Scope

Runtime instructions and scripts operate on the Obsidian vault and agent workspace only. The agent's SOUL.md references reading/writing session summaries and vault files (intended). Minor inconsistency in path conventions (some docs reference ~/Memory or /data/obsidian/... while setup scripts rewrite those paths) — not a safety issue but worth noting.

Install Mechanism

There is no remote download/install from arbitrary URLs; setup.sh and scripts/install.sh copy local repo files into user destinations and create a small nightly script. No external archives or URL shorteners are used. The registry metadata is instruction-only but contains local install scripts in the repo.

Credentials

The skill does not request environment variables, credentials, or config paths beyond standard filesystem paths. It requires the openclaw CLI to be present (reasonable) and optionally uses VAULT_DEST for customization. No tokens/keys are required by default.

Persistence & Privilege

The installer registers an OpenClaw agent (copies files to ~/.openclaw/agents and tries to run openclaw agents add) and installs a cron job for nightly processing. These are expected for a memory agent, but they grant ongoing presence (agent + cron). always is false and the skill doesn't force-enable itself, but the installed agent will be able to run autonomously under OpenClaw policies.

Assessment

What this skill will do: it copies the included Obsidian vault into a destination (default /data/obsidian/AB-Memory-Vault), copies the AB-Archivus agent into your OpenClaw agents folder (~/.openclaw/agents/AB-Archivus), attempts to register that agent with the openclaw CLI, and adds a daily cron job that runs a small processing script. Things to check before installing: 1) Verify you trust the repository contents (templates, agent SOUL/IDENTITY files, and the processing script) because they will be placed under your home/data directories and the agent can be executed by OpenClaw. 2) Back up your crontab and current OpenClaw agent workspace; setup.sh will append a cron entry and register an agent. 3) Run as a regular user (not root) if you want files owned by your user; the installer warns about root usage. 4) Inspect the vault/Memory/Processing/Nightly/process.sh file after install — the shipped version is benign (writes logs) but cron will execute whatever is in that script, so treat it as an executable asset. 5) There are no network endpoints or credential exfiltration mechanisms in the code, but the README mentions a Telegram channel and an optional bot token; do not supply tokens or secrets unless you understand how they will be used. If you want more assurance, ask the author for a signed release or review the repository contents line-by-line before running setup.sh.

Long-term memory system for OpenClaw agents

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Features

• 🗂️ Entity Management — Store info about People, Companies, Topics
• 🔗 Entity Linking — Connect entities with relationships
• 📊 Context Summaries — Auto-generated summaries for agents
• 🌙 Nightly Processing — Automatic data processing pipeline
• 📁 Obsidian Integration — Ready-to-use vault with templates
• 🤖 AB-Archivus Agent — Dedicated memory agent included

Quick Start

# Install via clawhub
clawhub install AB-Agents-Memory

# Or manually
git clone https://github.com/ab-agents/memory.git
cd memory
./setup.sh

Structure

AB-Memory/
├── agents/
│   └── AB-Archivus/       # Memory agent
│       ├── SOUL.md
│       ├── IDENTITY.md
│       └── AGENTS.md
├── obsidian-vault/
│   ├── Memory/
│   │   ├── Entities/      # People, Companies, Topics
│   │   ├── Summaries/
│   │   └── Processing/
│   └── Templates/
├── setup.sh              # Installation script
├── SKILL.md              # ClawHub metadata
└── README.md

What's Included

AB-Archivus Agent

Dedicated OpenClaw agent for memory management:

• Reads/writes to Obsidian vault
• Updates entity database
• Processes session logs
• Maintains context summaries

Obsidian Vault

Ready-to-use vault with:

• Entity templates (Person, Company, Topic)
• Folder structure for memory organization
• Nightly processing scripts
• Summary templates

Brand

• By: AB-Agents (Alex Burr)
• Telegram: @ab_agents
• Colors: Red (#E53935) + Black

Requirements

• OpenClaw 2024+
• Obsidian (optional, for vault editing)
• bash, cron

License

MIT

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AB-Agents Memory — Your second brain for OpenClaw 🦀