Clawvault

# ClawVault 🐘

An elephant never forgets. Structured memory for OpenClaw agents.

> **Built for [OpenClaw](https://openclaw.ai)**. Canonical install: npm CLI + hook install + hook enable.

## Security & Transparency

**What this skill does:**
- Reads/writes markdown files in your vault directory (`CLAWVAULT_PATH` or auto-discovered)
- `repair-session` reads and modifies OpenClaw session transcripts (`~/.openclaw/agents/`) — creates backups before writing
- Provides an OpenClaw **hook pack** (`hooks/clawvault/handler.js`) with lifecycle events (`gateway:startup`, `gateway:heartbeat`, `command:new`, `session:start`, `compaction:memoryFlush`, `cron.weekly`). Hook is opt-in and must be installed/enabled.
- `observe --compress` makes LLM API calls (Gemini Flash by default) to compress session transcripts into observations

**Environment variables used:**
- `CLAWVAULT_PATH` — vault location (optional, auto-discovered if not set)
- `OPENCLAW_HOME` / `OPENCLAW_STATE_DIR` — used by `repair-session` to find session transcripts
- `GEMINI_API_KEY` — used by `observe` for LLM compression (optional, only if using observe features)

**No cloud sync — all data stays local. No network calls except LLM API for observe compression.**

**This is a full CLI tool, not instruction-only.** It writes files, registers hooks, and runs code.

**Auditability:** the published ClawHub skill bundle includes `SKILL.md`, `HOOK.md`, and `hooks/clawvault/handler.js` so users can inspect hook behavior before enabling it.

## Install (Canonical)

```bash
npm install -g clawvault
openclaw hooks install clawvault
openclaw hooks enable clawvault

# Verify and reload
openclaw hooks list --verbose
openclaw hooks info clawvault
openclaw hooks check
# restart gateway process
```

`clawhub install clawvault` can install skill guidance, but does not replace explicit hook pack installation.

### Recommended Safe Install Flow

```bash
# 1) Review package metadata before install
npm view clawvault version dist.int...