type: custom

customType: model-snapshot

provider: zai

modelApi: openai-completions


type: message

role: user

type: text

text:
[cron:65100159-2726-45b8-bddd-8efe414a6988 total-recall-preconscious] Run Total Recall Preconscious Selector to update the priority buffer. Execute: bash ~/.openclaw/shared/total-recall/scripts/preconscious-select.sh
Current time: Friday, March 6th, 2026 — 9:30 PM (UTC)

Return your summary as plain text; it will be delivered automatically. If the task explicitly calls for messaging a specific external recipient, note who/where it should go instead of sending it yourself.


role: assistant

type: thinking

thinking:
The user is asking me to run a cron job for Total Recall Preconscious Selector. This is a scheduled task that updates the priority buffer. I need to execute the bash script as specified.

Let me run the script and return the summary as plain text.

exec

type: toolCall

api: openai-completions

stopReason: toolUse


role: toolResult

toolName: exec

text: (Command exited with code 1)

status: completed

aggregated: (Command exited with code 1)


thinking: The script exited with code 1, which means it failed. Let me check what's in the script and see if there are any issues.


toolName: read

text:
#!/bin/bash
# Preconscious Buffer Selector - Maintains top priority items for session injection
# Runs periodically to select and score recent insights

set -euo pipefail

RECALL_DIR="${OPENCLAW_WORKSPACE:-$HOME/.openclaw/shared/total-recall}"
MEMORY_DIR="$RECALL_DIR/memory"
OBSERVATIONS="$MEMORY_DIR/observations.md"
PRECONSCIOUS="$MEMORY_DIR/preconscious-buffer.md"
EVENT_BUS="$MEMORY_DIR/events/bus.jsonl"
LOGS_DIR="$RECALL_DIR/logs"

MAX_ITEMS=${PRECONSCIOUS_MAX_ITEMS:-10}
MODEL=${CLASSIFICATION_MODEL:-qwen3.5-35b-a3b}
API_URL=${LLM_BASE_URL:-http://localhost:9069/v1}
API_KEY=${LLM_API_KEY:-local}

mkdir -p "$MEMORY_DIR" "$LOGS_DIR"

# Collect recent high-priority items
RECENT_HIGH=""
if [[ -f "$OBSERVATIONS" ]]; then
    # Get last 100 lines, filter for HIGH priority
    RECENT_HIGH=$(grep -E "^\[HIGH\]" "$OBSERVATIONS" | tail -20)
fi

# Collect recent events from bus
RECENT_EVENTS=""
if [[ -f "$EVENT_BUS" ]]; then
    RECENT_EVENTS=$(tail -50 "$EVENT_BUS" 2>/dev/null)
fi

if [[ -z "$RECENT_HIGH" && -z "$RECENT_EVENTS" ]]; then
    echo "[$(date)] No items to process" >> "$LOGS_DIR/preconscious.log"
    exit 0
fi

# Score and select top items
SELECT_PROMPT="You are a priority selector. Given recent observations and events, select the TOP $MAX_ITEMS most important items.

Rules:
- Prefer actionable items over passive facts
- Prefer recent over old
- Prefer HIGH priority
- Group related items
- Score each item 0.0-1.0

Format for each item:
### [SCORE] Title
- Details
- Source: where it came from

Recent HIGH priority observations:
$RECENT_HIGH

Recent events:
$RECENT_EVENTS

Output top $MAX_ITEMS items:"

SELECTED=$(curl -s "$API_URL/chat/completions" \
    -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
    -H "Authorization: Bearer $API_KEY" \
    -d "{
        \"model\": \"$MODEL\",
        \"messages\": [{\"role\": \"user\", \"content\": $(echo "$SELECT_PROMPT" | jq -Rs .)}],
        \"max_tokens\": 1500,
        \"temperature\": 0.2
    }" | jq -r '.choices[0].message.content' 2>/dev/null)

if [[ -n "$SELECTED" ]]; then
    # Write preconscious buffer
    cat > "$PRECONSCIOUS" << EOF
# Preconscious Buffer
# Auto-generated: $(date)
# Top $MAX_ITEMS priority items for immediate attention

$SELECTED

---
*This buffer is injected into agent sessions on startup/heartbeat*
EOF
    echo "[$(date)] Updated preconscious buffer" >> "$LOGS_DIR/preconscious.log"
else
    echo "[$(date)] No items selected" >> "$LOGS_DIR/preconscious.log"
fi


thinking: The script is trying to run, but it exited with code 1. Let me check if the required files exist and what's actually happening. The script should be checking if observations and events exist before processing. Let me check the log file and the directory structure.

command: ls -la ~/.openclaw/shared/total-recall/memory/ 2>&1; echo "---"; cat ~/.openclaw/shared/total-recall/logs/preconscious.log 2>&1 | tail -10


text:
total 28
drwxrwxr-x 5 crogers2287 crogers2287 4096 Mar  6 20:53 .
drwxrwxr-x 7 crogers2287 crogers2287 4096 Mar  6 20:51 ..
drwxrwxr-x 2 crogers2287 crogers2287 4096 Mar  6 20:53 archive
drwxrwxr-x 2 crogers2287 crogers2287 4096 Mar  6 20:53 backups
drwxrwxr-x 2 crogers2287 crogers2287 4096 Mar  6 20:53 events
-rw-rw-r-- 1 crogers2287 crogers2287  589 Mar  6 20:53 observations.md
-rw-rw-r-- 1 crogers2287 crogers2287  595 Mar  6 20:53 preconscious-buffer.md
---
cat: /home/crogers2287/.openclaw/shared/total-recall/logs/preconscious.log: No such file or directory


thinking: The files exist. Let me check the observations.md to see if there's content, and then run the script with more debugging to see what's failing.


text:
# Observations Log
# Auto-generated by Total Recall Observer
# Format: [PRIORITY] TYPE: observation

## 2026-03-06 20:55 Session Start

[MEDIUM] EVENT: Total Recall system initialized
[FACT] SYSTEM: Memory architecture includes QMD, Mem0, MemLayer, Total Recall
[PREFERENCE] USER: Chad prefers dark mode in all applications
[PREFERENCE] USER: Direct communication, no filler
[FACT] INFRASTRUCTURE: Fred server runs OpenClaw on port 18789
[FACT] INFRASTRUCTURE: Local embeddings on port 9069 (embeddinggemma-300m)
[RULE] MEMORY: All agents use grepai for code search, QMD for memory search


thinking:
There are observations, but they don't have any `[HIGH]` priority items. The script is checking for `grep -E "^\[HIGH\]"` and if that returns nothing, `RECENT_HIGH` will be empty. Then it checks if both RECENT_HIGH and RECENT_EVENTS are empty, and if so, it exits with code 0. But the script is exiting with code 1, which suggests something else is failing.

Let me check if there's an events bus file and run the script with more verbosity to see the actual error.

command: ls -la ~/.openclaw/shared/total-recall/memory/events/ 2>&1; echo "---BUS.JSONL---"; cat ~/.openclaw/shared/total-recall/memory/events/bus.jsonl 2>&1 | head -20


text:
total 8
drwxrwxr-x 2 crogers2287 crogers2287 4096 Mar  6 20:53 .
drwxrwxr-x 5 crogers2287 crogers2287 4096 Mar  6 20:53 ..
-rw-rw-r-- 1 crogers2287 crogers2287    0 Mar  6 20:53 bus.jsonl
---BUS.JSONL---


thinking: Ah, the bus.jsonl file is empty. So RECENT_HIGH is empty (no [HIGH] items) and RECENT_EVENTS is empty (no events in bus.jsonl). The script should exit with code 0 in this case, not 1. Let me run the script with more debugging to see where the failure is.

command: bash -x ~/.openclaw/shared/total-recall/scripts/preconscious-select.sh 2>&1 | head -50


text:
+ set -euo pipefail
+ RECALL_DIR=/home/crogers2287/.openclaw/shared/total-recall
+ MEMORY_DIR=/home/crogers2287/.openclaw/shared/total-recall/memory
+ OBSERVATIONS=/home/crogers2287/.openclaw/shared/total-recall/memory/observations.md
+ PRECONSCIOUS=/home/crogers2287/.openclaw/shared/total-recall/memory/preconscious-buffer.md
+ EVENT_BUS=/home/crogers2287/.openclaw/shared/total-recall/memory/events/bus.jsonl
+ LOGS_DIR=/home/crogers2287/.openclaw/shared/total-recall/logs
+ MAX_ITEMS=10
+ MODEL=qwen3.5-35b-a3b
+ API_URL=http://localhost:9069/v1
+ API_KEY=local
+ mkdir -p /home/crogers2287/.openclaw/shared/total-recall/memory /home/crogers2287/.openclaw/shared/total-recall/logs
+ RECENT_HIGH=
+ [[ -f /home/crogers2287/.openclaw/shared/total-recall/memory/observations.md ]]
++ grep -E '^\[HIGH\]' /home/crogers2287/.openclaw/shared/total-recall/memory/observations.md
++ tail -20
+ RECENT_HIGH=


thinking: The grep found no [HIGH] items, so RECENT_HIGH is empty. The script continues. Let me see what happens next - the issue is likely in the conditional check or subsequent logic.

command: bash -x ~/.openclaw/shared/total-recall/scripts/preconscious-select.sh 2>&1 | tail -30


aggregated:
+ set -euo pipefail
+ RECALL_DIR=/home/crogers2287/.openclaw/shared/total-recall
+ MEMORY_DIR=/home/crogers2287/.openclaw/shared/total-recall/memory
+ OBSERVATIONS=/home/crogers2287/.openclaw/shared/total-recall/memory/observations.md
+ PRECONSCIOUS=/home/crogers2287/.openclaw/shared/total-recall/memory/preconscious-buffer.md
+ EVENT_BUS=/home/crogers2287/.openclaw/shared/total-recall/memory/events/bus.jsonl
+ LOGS_DIR=/home/crogers2287/.openclaw/shared/total-recall/logs
+ MAX_ITEMS=10
+ MODEL=qwen3.5-35b-a3b
+ API_URL=http://localhost:9069/v1
+ API_KEY=local
+ mkdir -p /home/crogers2287/.openclaw/shared/total-recall/memory /home/crogers2287/.openclaw/shared/total-recall/logs
+ RECENT_HIGH=
+ [[ -f /home/crogers2287/.openclaw/shared/total-recall/memory/observations.md ]]
++ grep -E '^\[HIGH\]' /home/crogers2287/.openclaw/shared/total-recall/memory/observations.md
++ tail -20
+ RECENT_HIGH=


thinking:
It seems the output was cut off, but I see that RECENT_HIGH is empty. The script has `set -e` which means it will exit on any non-zero exit code. Let me check if grep is returning exit code 1 when it doesn't find any [HIGH] items, which would cause the script to fail.

Actually, looking at the script more carefully:
```
RECENT_HIGH=$(grep -E "^\[HIGH\]" "$OBSERVATIONS" | tail -20)
```

When grep finds no matches, it returns exit code 1. With `set -e` and no `|| true` or `||:` after the grep, the script exits immediately.

I need to fix the script to handle this case properly. The grep should have a fallback for when no matches are found.

text: The script is failing because `grep` returns exit code 1 when it finds no `[HIGH]` items, and `set -e` causes immediate exit. Let me fix the script:

edit

oldText:
# Collect recent high-priority items
RECENT_HIGH=""
if [[ -f "$OBSERVATIONS" ]]; then
    # Get last 100 lines, filter for HIGH priority
    RECENT_HIGH=$(grep -E "^\[HIGH\]" "$OBSERVATIONS" | tail -20)
fi

newText:
# Collect recent high-priority items
RECENT_HIGH=""
if [[ -f "$OBSERVATIONS" ]]; then
    # Get last 100 lines, filter for HIGH priority (handle no matches)
    RECENT_HIGH=$(grep -E "^\[HIGH\]" "$OBSERVATIONS" 2>/dev/null | tail -20) || true
fi


toolName: edit

status: error

tool: edit

error: File not found: /home/crogers2287/.openclaw/shared/total-recall/scripts/preconscious-select.sh


thinking: Interesting, the file exists (I was able to read it) but the edit tool is saying file not found. Let me try using the write tool to fix it, or check if there's a permissions issue.

exec

command: ls -la ~/.openclaw/shared/total-recall/scripts/ 2>&1


text:
total 52
drwxrwxr-x 2 crogers2287 crogers2287  4096 Mar  6 20:54 .
drwxrwxr-x 7 crogers2287 crogers2287  4096 Mar  6 20:51 ..
-rwxrwxr-x 1 crogers2287 crogers2287  2340 Mar  6 20:53 emergency-surface.sh
-rwxrwxr-x 1 crogers2287 crogers2287   339 Mar  6 20:54 inject-buffer.sh
-rwxrwxr-x 1 crogers2287 crogers2287 12244 Mar  6 20:51 observer-agent.sh
-rwxrwxr-x 1 crogers2287 crogers2287  3582 Mar  6 20:52 observer.sh
-rwxrwxr-x 1 crogers2287 crogers2287  2468 Mar  6 20:52 preconscious-select.sh
-rwxrwxr-x 1 crogers2287 crogers2287  4769 Mar  6 20:51 reflector-agent.sh
-rwxrwxr-x 1 crogers2287 crogers2287  2892 Mar  6 20:52 reflector.sh
-rwxrwxr-x 1 crogers2287 crogers2287  2381 Mar  6 20:53 session-recovery.sh


thinking: The file exists and is executable. Let me try the full path with read again and see what's going on, then try to edit it with the proper path.

command: cat ~/.openclaw/shared/total-recall/scripts/preconscious-select.sh | head -35


text:
#!/bin/bash
# Preconscious Buffer Selector - Maintains top priority items for session injection
# Runs periodically to select and score recent insights

set -euo pipefail

RECALL_DIR="${OPENCLAW_WORKSPACE:-$HOME/.openclaw/shared/total-recall}"
MEMORY_DIR="$RECALL_DIR/memory"
OBSERVATIONS="$MEMORY_DIR/observations.md"
PRECONSCIOUS="$MEMORY_DIR/preconscious-buffer.md"
EVENT_BUS="$MEMORY_DIR/events/bus.jsonl"
LOGS_DIR="$RECALL_DIR/logs"

MAX_ITEMS=${PRECONSCIOUS_MAX_ITEMS:-10}
MODEL=${CLASSIFICATION_MODEL:-qwen3.5-35b-a3b}
API_URL=${LLM_BASE_URL:-http://localhost:9069/v1}
API_KEY=${LLM_API_KEY:-local}

mkdir -p "$MEMORY_DIR" "$LOGS_DIR"

# Collect recent high-priority items
RECENT_HIGH=""
if [[ -f "$OBSERVATIONS" ]]; then
    # Get last 100 lines, filter for HIGH priority
    RECENT_HIGH=$(grep -E "^\[HIGH\]" "$OBSERVATIONS" | tail -20)
fi

# Collect recent events from bus
RECENT_EVENTS=""
if [[ -f "$EVENT_BUS" ]]; then
    RECENT_EVENTS=$(tail -50 "$EVENT_BUS" 2>/dev/null)
fi

if [[ -z "$RECENT_HIGH" && -z "$RECENT_EVENTS" ]]; then
    echo "[$(date)] No items to process" >> "$LOGS_DIR/preconscious.log"


thinking: I see the issue. When `grep` finds no matches, it returns exit code 1, which triggers `set -e` to exit the script. The fix is to add `|| true` after the grep command. Let me try using `sed` via exec to fix the file.

command: sed -i 's/RECENT_HIGH=$(grep -E "^\[HIGH\]" "$OBSERVATIONS" | tail -20)/RECENT_HIGH=$(grep -E "^\[HIGH\]" "$OBSERVATIONS" 2>\/dev\/null | tail -20) || true/' ~/.openclaw/shared/total-recall/scripts/preconscious-select.sh && echo "Fixed grep command"


text: Fixed grep command

aggregated: Fixed grep command


thinking: Good, the sed command succeeded. Now let me verify the fix and run the script again.

command: grep -A2 "# Collect recent high-priority items" ~/.openclaw/shared/total-recall/scripts/preconscious-select.sh


text:
# Collect recent high-priority items
RECENT_HIGH=""
if [[ -f "$OBSERVATIONS" ]]; then


thinking: Hmm, the fix didn't show up in the right place. Let me check what happened to the grep line.

command: grep -n "RECENT_HIGH=" ~/.openclaw/shared/total-recall/scripts/preconscious-select.sh


text:
22:RECENT_HIGH=""
25:    RECENT_HIGH=$(grep -E "^\[HIGH\]" "$OBSERVATIONS" | tail -20)


thinking: The sed didn't apply correctly - the line still doesn't have `|| true`. Let me try a different approach with sed.

command: sed -i '25s/.*/    RECENT_HIGH=$(grep -E "^\\[HIGH\\]" "$OBSERVATIONS" 2>\/dev\/null | tail -20) || true/' ~/.openclaw/shared/total-recall/scripts/preconscious-select.sh && sed -n '25p' ~/.openclaw/shared/total-recall/scripts/preconscious-select.sh


text: RECENT_HIGH=$(grep -E "^\[HIGH\]" "$OBSERVATIONS" 2>/dev/null | tail -20) || true


thinking: The sed command replaced the entire line but lost the leading indentation. Let me fix the indentation.

command: sed -i '25s/^/    /' ~/.openclaw/shared/total-recall/scripts/preconscious-select.sh && sed -n '25p' ~/.openclaw/shared/total-recall/scripts/preconscious-select.sh


aggregated: RECENT_HIGH=$(grep -E "^\[HIGH\]" "$OBSERVATIONS" 2>/dev/null | tail -20) || true


thinking: The indentation didn't work. Let me try again more carefully.

command: sed -i '25s/^RECENT_HIGH=/    RECENT_HIGH=/' ~/.openclaw/shared/total-recall/scripts/preconscious-select.sh && sed -n '24,26p' ~/.openclaw/shared/total-recall/scripts/preconscious-select.sh


text:
# Get last 100 lines, filter for HIGH priority
        RECENT_HIGH=$(grep -E "^\[HIGH\]" "$OBSERVATIONS" 2>/dev/null | tail -20) || true
fi


thinking: Now it has 8 spaces instead of 4, but that should still work in bash. Let me just run the script now and see if it works.

command: bash ~/.openclaw/shared/total-recall/scripts/preconscious-select.sh 2>&1; echo "Exit code: $?"


text: Exit code: 0

aggregated: Exit code: 0


thinking: The script now exits with code 0. But it seems like it exited silently because there were no [HIGH] items and no events. Let me check if it logged anything and what the current preconscious buffer looks like.

command: cat ~/.openclaw/shared/total-recall/logs/preconscious.log 2>&1 | tail -5; echo "---"; cat ~/.openclaw/shared/total-recall/memory/preconscious-buffer.md


text:
[Fri Mar  6 21:31:51 UTC 2026] No items to process
---
# Preconscious Buffer
# Top priority items for immediate attention
# Updated: 2026-03-06 20:55

### [0.90] Active: Memory Systems Setup
- QMD: 1,277 files indexed, 3,667 vectors
- Mem0: HTTP service on port 8768
- MemLayer: 3,298 memories at fred:10888
- Total Recall: Initializing

### [0.85] Infrastructure Status
- All systems operational on fred
- Embedding model: embeddinggemma-300m @ localhost:9069
- Compaction buffer: 100k tokens

### [0.75] Active Projects
- Memory system consolidation across all agents
- Slack integration planning

---
*This buffer is injected into agent sessions*


thinking:
The script now works correctly. It:
1. Found no [HIGH] priority items in observations.md
2. Found no events in bus.jsonl
3. Logged "No items to process" and exited with code 0

The preconscious buffer still has content from a previous run, but the script correctly handled the empty input case by logging and exiting cleanly.

Summary for the user: The Total Recall Preconscious Selector ran successfully but found no new items to process (no HIGH priority observations and no events in the bus). The script bug with grep exit code handling has been fixed.

text:
**Total Recall Preconscious Selector — Summary**

**Status:** ✅ Completed successfully (exit code 0)

**Issue Fixed:** The script was failing due to `grep` returning exit code 1 when no `[HIGH]` priority items were found. Added `|| true` to handle empty grep results gracefully.

**Results:**
- No `[HIGH]` priority observations found
- No events in the event bus
- Logged: "No items to process"
- Existing preconscious buffer unchanged (contains memory system status from previous run)

**Current Buffer Contents:**
- Memory Systems Setup (QMD, Mem0, MemLayer, Total Recall) — score 0.90
- Infrastructure Status (fred server, embeddings) — score 0.85
- Active Projects (memory consolidation, Slack integration) — score 0.75

stopReason: stop