type: custom

customType: model-snapshot

provider: zai

modelApi: openai-completions


type: message

role: user

type: text

text:
[cron:3c9e5e41-e4c0-4b9f-ab1c-252208bc0482 total-recall-observer] Run Total Recall Observer to compress recent conversations into observations. Execute: bash ~/.openclaw/shared/total-recall/scripts/observer.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 triggering a cron job for Total Recall Observer. I need to execute the observer script to compress recent conversations into observations.

Let me run the script as instructed.

exec

type: toolCall

api: openai-completions

stopReason: toolUse


role: toolResult

toolName: exec

text: (no output)

status: completed


thinking:
The script ran but produced no output. This might mean either:
1. There were no new conversations to observe
2. The script completed silently
3. There was an error that wasn't captured

Let me check what the observer script does and verify if observations were written.


toolName: read

text:
#!/bin/bash
# Total Recall Observer - Compresses recent conversations into observations
# Adapted for Chad's OpenClaw agents

set -euo pipefail

RECALL_DIR="${OPENCLAW_WORKSPACE:-$HOME/.openclaw/shared/total-recall}"
MEMORY_DIR="$RECALL_DIR/memory"
LOGS_DIR="$RECALL_DIR/logs"
OBSERVATIONS="$MEMORY_DIR/observations.md"
LAST_RUN="$MEMORY_DIR/.observer-last-run"
LAST_HASH="$MEMORY_DIR/.observer-last-hash"
CONFIG="$RECALL_DIR/config/recall.yaml"

# Default lookback (minutes)
LOOKBACK=${OBSERVER_LOOKBACK_MIN:-30}
MODEL=${OBSERVER_MODEL:-qwen3.5-35b-a3b}
API_URL=${LLM_BASE_URL:-http://localhost:9069/v1}
API_KEY=${LLM_API_KEY:-local}

# Create directories
mkdir -p "$MEMORY_DIR" "$LOGS_DIR"

# Get last run time
if [[ -f "$LAST_RUN" ]]; then
    LAST_TS=$(cat "$LAST_RUN")
else
    LAST_TS=$(date -d '1 hour ago' +%s)
fi

# Find recent session files
echo "[$(date)] Observer starting..." >> "$LOGS_DIR/observer.log"

# Find agent session directories
SESSION_DIRS=$(find ~/.openclaw/agents/*/sessions -type d 2>/dev/null | head -20)

RECENT_MESSAGES=""
for dir in $SESSION_DIRS; do
    # Find JSONL files modified since last run
    while IFS= read -r file; do
        if [[ -n "$file" && -f "$file" ]]; then
            # Extract user and assistant messages
            messages=$(jq -r 'select(.role == "user" or .role == "assistant") | "\(.role): \(.content[0:500])"' "$file" 2>/dev/null | head -50)
            if [[ -n "$messages" ]]; then
                agent=$(echo "$dir" | sed 's|.*/agents/\([^/]*\)/sessions.*|\1|')
                RECENT_MESSAGES+="\n### Agent: $agent ###\n$messages\n"
            fi
        fi
    done < <(find "$dir" -name "*.jsonl" -newermt "@$LAST_TS" 2>/dev/null)
done

if [[ -z "$RECENT_MESSAGES" ]]; then
    echo "[$(date)] No recent messages found" >> "$LOGS_DIR/observer.log"
    exit 0
fi

# Check hash to avoid duplicates
CURRENT_HASH=$(echo "$RECENT_MESSAGES" | md5sum | cut -d' ' -f1)
if [[ -f "$LAST_HASH" ]]; then
    LAST_HASH_VAL=$(cat "$LAST_HASH")
    if [[ "$CURRENT_HASH" == "$LAST_HASH_VAL" ]]; then
        echo "[$(date)] No new messages (hash match)" >> "$LOGS_DIR/observer.log"
        exit 0
    fi
fi

# Call LLM to compress into observations
OBSERVER_PROMPT="You are an observer that compresses conversation excerpts into prioritized observations.

Rules:
- Extract important facts, decisions, preferences, and tasks
- Assign priority: HIGH (urgent/critical), MEDIUM (important), LOW (notable)
- Format as: [PRIORITY] TYPE: observation
- Types: FACT, DECISION, PREFERENCE, TASK, EVENT, RULE
- Be concise - one line per observation
- Skip trivial or repetitive content

Recent conversations:
$RECENT_MESSAGES

Output observations only:"

# Call local LLM
OBSERVATIONS_NEW=$(curl -s "$API_URL/chat/completions" \
    -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
    -H "Authorization: Bearer $API_KEY" \
    -d "{
        \"model\": \"$MODEL\",
        \"messages\": [{\"role\": \"user\", \"content\": $(echo "$OBSERVER_PROMPT" | jq -Rs .)}],
        \"max_tokens\": 1000,
        \"temperature\": 0.3
    }" | jq -r '.choices[0].message.content' 2>/dev/null)

if [[ -n "$OBSERVATIONS_NEW" ]]; then
    # Append to observations file
    echo "" >> "$OBSERVATIONS"
    echo "## $(date '+%Y-%m-%d %H:%M') Observer" >> "$OBSERVATIONS"
    echo "$OBSERVATIONS_NEW" >> "$OBSERVATIONS"

    # Update last run
    date +%s > "$LAST_RUN"
    echo "$CURRENT_HASH" > "$LAST_HASH"

    echo "[$(date)] Added observations" >> "$LOGS_DIR/observer.log"
else
    echo "[$(date)] No observations generated" >> "$LOGS_DIR/observer.log"
fi


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: The script ran successfully. Looking at the log, it seems to have completed but didn't find new messages or the hash matched. Let me check the observer log to confirm what happened.


text:
[Fri Mar  6 21:00:06 UTC 2026] Observer starting...
[Fri Mar  6 21:00:06 UTC 2026] No recent messages found
[Fri Mar  6 21:15:04 UTC 2026] Observer starting...
[Fri Mar  6 21:15:05 UTC 2026] No recent messages found
[Fri Mar  6 21:30:05 UTC 2026] Observer starting...
[Fri Mar  6 21:30:06 UTC 2026] No recent messages found


thinking:
The observer ran successfully but found no recent messages to process. This is expected if there hasn't been significant activity in the last 30 minutes. The observations file exists with content from earlier (20:55 session start).

I should return a summary as requested.

text:
**Total Recall Observer — Summary**

| Check | Status |
|-------|--------|
| Run time | 21:30:06 UTC |
| Lookback | 30 minutes |
| Recent messages | None found |
| New observations | 0 |

No new session activity to compress. Observations file last updated at 20:55 UTC with system initialization data.

stopReason: stop