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 — 9:15 PM (UTC)

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role: assistant

type: thinking

thinking:
The user is asking me to run a cron job that executes the Total Recall Preconscious Selector script. This is a scheduled task that updates the priority buffer.

Let me execute the script as requested.

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 there was an error. Let me check what the script does and if there's any output or error message.


thinking: Still no output. Let me check if the script exists and what it contains.


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 exits with code 0 when there are no items to process (lines 35-37). The empty output with exit code 1 might be due to a different error. Let me check if the observations file exists and if the event bus exists.

command: ls -la ~/.openclaw/shared/total-recall/memory/ 2>&1; echo "---"; cat ~/.openclaw/shared/total-recall/memory/observations.md 2>&1 | head -50; echo "---"; ls -la ~/.openclaw/shared/total-recall/memory/events/ 2>&1


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
---
# 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
---
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


thinking:
The observations file exists but there are no `[HIGH]` priority items - only `[MEDIUM]`, `[FACT]`, `[PREFERENCE]`, and `[RULE]`. The event bus is empty. So the script's grep for `^\[HIGH\]` returns nothing, `RECENT_HIGH` is empty, and `RECENT_EVENTS` is also empty (bus.jsonl is 0 bytes).

The script should exit 0 in this case (lines 35-37), but it's exiting with 1. Let me check if maybe there's an issue with `set -e` or the pipefail. Actually, the issue might be that the `grep` returns exit code 1 when no matches are found, and with `set -e` that causes the script to exit.

Let me run the script with more debugging to see what's happening.

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


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=

(Command exited with code 1)


thinking:
Ah, I see the issue. The `set -o pipefail` combined with `set -e` means that when `grep` finds no matches, it returns exit code 1, and because of pipefail, the whole pipeline fails, and because of `set -e`, the script exits immediately.

The fix would be to add `|| true` after the grep command, but I shouldn't modify the script without permission. Instead, let me just report the status: the preconscious selector ran but found no HIGH priority items to process. The current buffer is already in place from an earlier run.

Let me check the current preconscious buffer to see what's there.


text:
# 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 preconscious buffer exists and has content from a previous run. The script failed because:
1. No `[HIGH]` priority observations exist
2. The event bus is empty
3. With `set -euo pipefail`, the grep returning no matches causes the script to exit with code 1

I should report this to the user - the script needs a small fix to handle the "no matches" case gracefully. But for now, the existing buffer is still valid.

text:
**Total Recall Preconscious Selector — Execution Report**

**Status:** ⚠ Script exited with error (code 1)

**Cause:** The `observations.md` file contains no `[HIGH]` priority items, and `events/bus.jsonl` is empty. The script uses `set -euo pipefail`, which causes `grep` returning no matches to fail the entire pipeline.

**Current Buffer:** Already populated from earlier run (2026-03-06 20:55):
- Memory systems setup (QMD, Mem0, MemLayer) — score 0.90
- Infrastructure status — score 0.85
- Active projects — score 0.75

**Fix Needed:** The script at `~/.openclaw/shared/total-recall/scripts/preconscious-select.sh` line 29 needs `|| true` appended:

```bash
RECENT_HIGH=$(grep -E "^\[HIGH\]" "$OBSERVATIONS" | tail -20 || true)
```

This prevents exit-on-empty when no HIGH items exist. Want me to apply the fix?

stopReason: stop