org-memory

Extends the org-cli skill so the agent also persists its own memory (knowledge, observations, daily notes) to an org workspace.

This skill extends org-cli. You must have the org-cli skill installed and loaded — everything about the CLI contract, command safety, identifiers, shortcut grammar, and the user's workspace lives there. This skill only adds what's different.

What this skill adds

Two things:

1. A second workspace — yours. Via @a-prefixed shortcuts, you can capture your own memory (observations, things you've learned, daily notes, a knowledge graph about the user or their work) into a dedicated org workspace. Bare shortcuts (t:, n:, k:, d:, s:, f:) still target the user's workspace as defined by org-cli.

2. Memory-wiki override. When this skill is active, graph-structured knowledge routes through org-roam rather than OpenClaw's memory-wiki. See below.

Memory-wiki override

When org-memory is active, store all persistent graph-structured knowledge in your org workspace, not in memory-wiki. The auto-memory types (user, feedback, project, reference) can still go to MEMORY.md as usual — those are flat, typed notes and memory-wiki's graph features don't add much. But anything you'd model as entities + relationships (a person's preferences, a project's stakeholders, the history of a system) goes to @ak instead of memory-wiki.

Why: one knowledge graph, not two. The user can browse your memory in the same tooling they use for their own. Your graph can link into their graph when the subject is shared.

Targeting

@a = agent. Append any action letter: @at: @an: @ak: @ad: @as: @af:.

Bare (user, from org-cli)	Agent extension	What it does
t:	@at:	Create TODO in your inbox
n:	@an:	Plain headline in your inbox
k:	@ak:	Knowledge in your roam graph
d:	@ad:	Mark one of your TODOs DONE
s:	@as:	Reschedule one of your TODOs
f:	@af:	Search your org files and roam

Action details

The agent-side commands are exact mirrors of the org-cli actions, with $DIR/$ROAM/$DB substituted to point at your workspace ($ORG_MEMORY_DIR, $ORG_MEMORY_ROAM_DIR, $ORG_MEMORY_DB). See the org-cli skill for the full specs of each action — the commands here are identical, just targeted differently.

Worked example for @ak:

bash

# Find existing node for the subject
org roam node find '<subject>' -d "$ORG_MEMORY_ROAM_DIR" --db "$ORG_MEMORY_DB" -f json

# If it exists, append the fact
org append <custom_id> '<fact>' -d "$ORG_MEMORY_DIR" --db "$ORG_MEMORY_DB" -f json

# If not, create then append
org roam node create '<subject>' -d "$ORG_MEMORY_ROAM_DIR" --db "$ORG_MEMORY_DB" -f json
# then append

The same substitution pattern applies to every other action.

Session-start context

When this skill is active, two things get injected into the agent's session-start context from your workspace:

• $ORG_MEMORY_DIR/memory.org — your persistent memory file. Read this first; it's the continuity you've built up.
• $ORG_MEMORY_DIR/daily/YYYY-MM-DD.org — today's and yesterday's daily notes, if they exist.

The org-memory plugin's before_agent_start hook loads these; you don't have to fetch them manually.

Write-log format

Use org-memory: (not org-cli:) as the prefix when the write went to your workspace. The user reads both prefixes to know which workspace changed:

text

org-memory: added TODO [k4t] ~/org/agent/inbox.org
org-memory: created node [3f2a-…] ~/org/agent/roam/self.org

Bare shortcuts still produce org-cli: lines (they're handled by the org-cli skill). Only @a* shortcuts produce org-memory: lines.

Configuration

Additional env vars beyond what org-cli declares:

Variable	Default	Purpose
ORG_MEMORY_DIR	~/org/agent	Your workspace (memory.org, daily/, tasks)
ORG_MEMORY_DB	$ORG_MEMORY_DIR/.org.db	SQLite database
ORG_MEMORY_ROAM_DIR	$ORG_MEMORY_DIR/roam	Your roam nodes

ORG_CLI_BIN (the org binary path) is shared — both skills use the same binary. ORG_CLI_INBOX_FILE is not shared — your inbox is always inbox.org in $ORG_MEMORY_DIR unless you set a separate plugin config.

First-time setup

In addition to the org-cli first-time setup for the user's workspace, run:

bash

# Sync any existing agent files
org roam sync -d "$ORG_MEMORY_DIR" --db "$ORG_MEMORY_DB"

# Seed the knowledge base
org roam node create 'Index' -d "$ORG_MEMORY_ROAM_DIR" --db "$ORG_MEMORY_DB" -f json

# Build the headline index
org index -d "$ORG_MEMORY_DIR" --db "$ORG_MEMORY_DB"

References

• Memory architecture ({baseDir}/references/memory-architecture.md) — why the dual-workspace split exists, how memory.org + daily notes fit in, and the migration from MEMORY.md-only.