Migrating from MEMORY.md to MemoClaw: a step-by-step guide

Your OpenClaw agent has a MEMORY.md file. It's probably getting long. Maybe it's 300 lines, maybe 2000. Every session, the agent loads the whole thing into its context window, burns tokens reading stuff that happened three months ago, and sometimes still forgets what matters. This guide walks you through moving that accumulated knowledge into MemoClaw, where your agent can recall what's relevant instead of re-reading everything. What you're working with A typical OpenClaw workspace has two layers of memory: MEMORY.md — curated long-term context (preferences, decisions, project notes) memory/YYYY-MM-DD.md — daily session logs (raw, chronological) Both get loaded into the context window at session start. It works, but it doesn't scale. A 2000-line MEMORY.md costs you tokens every single session. MemoClaw stores each piece of knowledge separately and retrieves only what's relevant. You pay $0.005 to store a memory once. You pay $0.005 to recall. You don't pay anything to not recall someth