Tools: How To Give Your AI Agent Persistent Memory In 60 Seconds 2026

Your AI agent is brilliant. It writes code, debugs problems, manages your infrastructure. But here's the thing: it forgets everything the moment you close the terminal.

Every session starts from zero. Every decision re-explained. Every preference re-stated. It's like working with someone who has amnesia.

If you're running OpenClaw (or its predecessors Clawdbot/Moltbot), here's all you need:

Your agent now has persistent memory that survives restarts, semantic search to find past context, and even security scanning to prevent memory poisoning attacks.

That command installed a hook into OpenClaw's plugin system. The hook does three things:

When you run /new to start a fresh session, the hook scans your conversation for high-value content:

It saves these to a local SQLite database. No cloud. No API keys. Just works.

Next time your agent boots up, it automatically receives relevant context from past sessions. You'll see a CORTEX_MEMORY.md file injected into its context with things like:

No manual copy-paste. No "remember last time we..." prompts. It just knows.

Say "remember this:" followed by anything, and it's saved:

Source: Dev.to