
Bootstrapping a new agent from existing memories
Every new OpenClaw agent starts blank. No context about your projects, your preferences, your weird naming conventions. You either stuff everything into AGENTS.md and burn context tokens every single session, or you accept that the first few days will be rough while the agent figures things out. There's a third option: pre-load MemoClaw with everything the agent needs, and let it recall on demand. The problem with AGENTS.md OpenClaw's workspace files (AGENTS.md, MEMORY.md, USER.md) get loaded into the context window every session. That works fine when they're small. But as your agent accumulates knowledge, these files grow. I've seen MEMORY.md files hit 40-50KB. That's context window space eaten before the agent does anything useful. Most of that context is irrelevant to any given task. If your agent is fixing a bug in the auth module, it doesn't need the three paragraphs about your CSS preferences. But it's loading them anyway. Every time. With MemoClaw, the agent only pulls what's re
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