Memory

Every session ends, every context window fills up, and then your agent forgets everything. I’ve been building out persistent memory for my OpenClaw setup using a sidecar service called OpenViking. Here’s what I learned: what works, what breaks silently, and where the tricky parts are. The Problem Isn’t Storage — It’s Retrieval The naive solution is a MEMORY.md that accumulates facts, preferences, and decisions. It works at first. Then it grows into a wall of text you paste into every prompt, burning tokens on information mostly irrelevant to the current task. You can grep it, but grep is keyword matching, not semantic understanding. ...