Context Engine

Maintains conversation state and project continuity across sessions by saving, restoring, and managing project contexts and progress.

Security Scan

The skill's code, instructions, and requested artifacts are consistent with a local context/memory manager; it writes project state to a local workspace and does not request unrelated credentials or network access.

Purpose & Capability

Name, description, SKILL.md, API docs, and the included Node script all implement a local project/context manager that saves and restores session data. Required files and actions align with the stated purpose.

Instruction Scope

Instructions focus on saving/restoring project context and the provided script implements those behaviors. The SKILL.md references integration with a MEMORY.md system — this appears informational and no external network calls are present in visible code. One small scope issue: storage path is hardcoded to /home/deus/.openclaw/workspace/memory/projects, which is specific and may be unexpected on other hosts or users.

Install Mechanism

No install spec or downloads are used. The skill is instruction-plus-local-script only (Node.js script and package.json). No remote installers or arbitrary URL downloads are present.

Credentials

The skill requests no environment variables or credentials, which is proportionate. Minor concern: it uses a hardcoded home path (/home/deus) instead of a dynamic HOME or relative path, which could cause files to be written in an unexpected location or fail on other systems.

Persistence & Privilege

The skill persists data to disk under the declared projects directory. It does not request always:true, does not modify other skills, and does not require elevated privileges. Persistence is limited to its own storage path.

Assessment

This skill appears to do what it claims: maintain and restore local project context. Before installing, consider: (1) it will create and write JSON files under /home/deus/.openclaw/workspace/memory/projects — ensure you are comfortable storing context there; (2) the script assumes Node.js is available and uses a hardcoded '/home/deus' path — on systems with different usernames or environments you may want the path changed to use $HOME or a configurable location; (3) review the rest of the script (the truncated CLI handling) to confirm there are no unexpected network calls or subprocess executions; (4) if you want this isolated, run it in a sandboxed environment or inspect/modify the storage path before first use.

Smart Context Engine maintains conversation state and project continuity across OpenClaw sessions.

Quick Start

The context engine automatically:

• Restores your last active project on session start
• Saves context periodically (heartbeat) and on session end
• Tracks pending tasks and notes per project

Commands

• "remember" / "save context" - Manually save current context
• "switch to [project]" - Switch to a project (creates if doesn't exist)
• "show projects" / "what are we working on" - List all projects
• "summarize" / "where did we leave off" - Get project summary

Storage

Projects are stored in: /home/deus/.openclaw/workspace/memory/projects/

• projects.json - All project data
• session.json - Current session state

Actions

save_context

Saves the current context including:

• Last topic discussed
• Last file worked on
• Last command executed
• Pending tasks
• Notes

Trigger: Explicit mention ("remember", "save context"), session_end, heartbeat

restore_context

Restores the previous session's context:

• Loads last active project
• Shows "Welcome back to [project]"
• Lists pending tasks if any

Trigger: session_start, explicit request

switch_project

Switches between projects:

• Saves current project context
• Loads or creates new project
• Sets as active

Trigger: Explicit mention ("switch to X")

list_projects

Lists all projects with status indicators:

• Shows active project highlighted
• Displays status (active/paused/completed/archived)
• Shows last session date

Trigger: Explicit mention ("show projects", "what are we working on")

summarize

Generates a summary of the active project:

• Current status
• Pending tasks
• Last topic
• Session history

Trigger: Explicit mention ("summarize", "where did we leave off")

Triggers

Trigger	Condition	Priority
session_start	New session begins	1
explicit_mention	User says "remember", "save context", "project", "switch to", "show projects", "summarize"	2
heartbeat	Every ~30 min when enabled	3

Integration

Works with the MEMORY.md system - updates long-term memory with project summaries.