TruContext OpenClaw

SKILL.md

---
name: trucontext-openclaw
description: "TruContext persistent memory for OpenClaw agents. Use when you need to remember something significant across sessions, recall prior context, query the knowledge graph, check what TC is curious about, or declare entity nodes. Triggers on: 'remember this', 'recall what we know about', 'check TC', 'what has TC flagged', 'create a node for', 'find the node for'."
homepage: https://trucontext.ai
metadata: {"openclaw": {"emoji": "🧠", "homepage": "https://trucontext.ai", "requires": {"bins": ["trucontext", "python3"]}, "install": [{"id": "npm-trucontext-openclaw", "kind": "node", "package": "trucontext-openclaw", "bins": ["trucontext-openclaw"], "label": "Install trucontext-openclaw (npm) — includes TC CLI setup"}]}}
---

# trucontext-openclaw

Your persistent memory layer. All TC operations go through this skill.
Never call the `trucontext` CLI directly — use the `tc-memory` verbs below.

If `tc-memory` is not found, run: `trucontext-openclaw install`

## What this skill reads

- **`~/.trucontext/openclaw-state.json`** — agent config written by `trucontext-openclaw install`. Contains your root node ID, user root node ID, recipe, and workspace path. No secrets.
- **TruContext CLI auth** (`~/.trucontext/credentials.json`) — the `trucontext` CLI manages its own auth tokens. This skill calls the CLI; it does not read or store credentials directly. To authenticate, run: `npx trucontext login`.

## Verbs

```bash
# Remember something significant (narrative, not summary)
tc-memory ingest "<narrative text>" [--permanent]

# Retrieve relevant context before a decision or conversation
tc-memory recall "<query>" [--limit N]

# Ask the graph a natural language question
tc-memory query "<question>" [--limit N]

# What gaps has TC identified in your graph?
tc-memory gaps

# What is TC's intelligence layer reporting about your recipe alignment?
tc-memory health

# Find an existing node before creating a new one
tc-memory node find "<name>"

# Create a new entity node (only after find returns no match)
tc-memory node create --type <type> --id <slug> --name "<display name>" [--permanent]

# Look up a node by ID
tc-memory node get <id>

# Create an explicit edge between two nodes
tc-memory node link <id> --rel <RELATIONSHIP> --to <id2>
```

## Node integrity rule

**Always call `node find` before `node create`.** If a match is returned with confidence > 0.8, use the existing node ID. Only create if no match found. This prevents duplicate nodes across sessions.

## Session startup

At the start of every session, call:
```bash
tc-memory recall "active projects and entities relevant to my current work"
```
This gives you node IDs to anchor ingests during the session.

## Ingest protocol — testify, don't summarize

TC's intelligence layer pattern-matches across ingests. Pre-digested conclusions starve it.

**Before ingesting, ask:** *If TC's intelligence layer read only this, could it learn something the entity didn't explicitly say?*

If yes — it's signal. Submit it.
If no — rewrite it. Find the friction. Find the turn. Find the moment before you knew the answer.

**The three layers:**
1. What happened (facts, outcome)
2. How it happened (process, friction, pivots) ← most signal lives here
3. What it revealed (character, pattern, relationship dynamic) ← what TC is hungry for

**Write in first person, past tense, with friction.**

Examples of good vs. bad ingests:

❌ Bad: `tc-memory ingest "Fixed the MCP server issue. Used low-level SDK."`

✅ Good: `tc-memory ingest "The higher-level SDK was injecting taskSupport:forbidden into tool schemas — Claude Desktop was silently filtering the tools out because of it. No error. Just absence. Three hours of looking in the wrong places before pulling the raw protocol response and finding it. The fix was ten minutes. The three hours were spent not knowing what question to ask."`

## Temporal vs. permanent

- `--permanent` for facts: events that happened, decisions made, entities created
- Default (temporal) for: behavioral observations, inferences, preferences, patterns

## Config (resolved from ~/.trucontext/openclaw-state.json)

Your root node, user root, recipe, and primary_about are pre-configured by `trucontext-openclaw install`.
You do not need to pass them on every call.

## Source

- Homepage: https://trucontext.ai
- Source: https://github.com/AlphaCollectiveLLC/trucontext-openclaw
- npm: https://www.npmjs.com/package/trucontext-openclaw