An AI session management system that optimizes context usage and enables rapid workflow recovery through a structured 3-level documentation strategy.
Install & Download
1. ClawHub CLI
The fastest way to install a skill directly from the registry.
npx clawhub@latest install session-recovery
2. Manual Installation
Copy the skill folder to one of these locations
~/.openclaw/skills/ <project>/skills/ Priority: Workspace > Local > Bundled
3. Prompt Installation
Copy this prompt to OpenClaw to install it automatically.
Help me install session-recovery using Clawhub. If Clawhub is not installed, install it first (npm i -g clawhub).
Prefer to download?
Get the raw skill files in a ZIP archive.
What is Session Recovery?
Session Recovery is a comprehensive system designed to solve the common pitfalls of long-running AI interactions, such as context overflow, slow response times, and information loss. By utilizing a tiered documentation approach, it allows developers to maintain high-fidelity project memory without the overhead of massive token counts. This skill is essential for anyone using Openclaw Skills to manage complex, multi-stage development projects. It implements smart information recognition to discard redundant chat noise while preserving critical decisions, file paths, and task statuses, ensuring your AI remains fast and cost-effective.
Session Recovery Use Cases
- Managing long-term AI projects that span weeks or months where context drift is a risk.
- High-frequency task switching in multi-agent environments requiring rapid state restoration.
- Reducing API costs by compressing 15,000+ token histories into concise, actionable summaries.
- Standardizing project documentation for team collaboration using Openclaw Skills.
How Session Recovery Works
- The system establishes a 3-level hierarchy starting with STATUS.md for immediate 30-second state visibility.
- Detailed session interactions are recorded in daily memory files within a dedicated repository structure.
- Automation scripts parse these logs to update the global project status and dashboard automatically.
- When context limits or performance thresholds are met, the skill applies compression logic to replace raw history with high-density summaries.
- Developers can initiate a new clean session and recover the full project context in under 90 seconds using recovery scripts.
Session Recovery Setup
To integrate this into your workflow, follow these steps:
# Grant execution permissions to the automation toolkit
chmod +x scripts/*.sh
chmod +x scripts/*.py
# Initialize your status dashboard and first daily log
./scripts/new_daily_log.sh
python3 scripts/template_generator.py
# (Optional) Verify the recovery path
./scripts/quick_recovery.sh
Session Recovery Data Schema & Taxonomy
The skill organizes data into a tiered structure to balance speed and depth:
| Level | File Component | Recovery Speed | Primary Purpose |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | STATUS.md | 30 Seconds | Immediate task dashboard and blocker tracking. |
| 2 | QUICK_RECOVERY.md | 1 Minute | Context restoration index and key decision logs. |
| 3 | memory/YYYY-MM-DD.md | Deep Query | Full chronological record of session outputs. |
| N/A | scripts/ | Execution | Automation for archiving, updates, and compression. |
Session Recovery Advanced Features
- Git Hook Integration: Automatically trigger status updates and memory commits on every code change.
- Automated Weekly Archiving: Use Cron jobs to clean memory directories and generate high-level weekly executive summaries.
- Smart Information Filtering: Heuristic-based logic that identifies critical constraints and file paths while discarding conversational noise.
- Context Compression Triggers: Configurable thresholds for tokens and response times to maintain peak AI performance within Openclaw Skills.
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