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My AI Assistant Keeps Forgetting Everything: 5 Days of Debugging an OpenClaw Agent's Memory System
Indie hacker Ramya's OpenClaw agent kept losing its memory. She spent 5 days debugging — from compaction amnesia, garbage search results, retrieval not triggering, long session context loss, to a system prompt that bloated by 28%. Here are her 10 hard-won lessons.
OpenAI's Agent Trinity: Skills + Shell + Compaction — A Field Guide
OpenAI released three primitives for long-running agents: Skills (reusable SKILL.md instruction packs), Shell (hosted container runtime), and Compaction (automatic context compression). Includes 10 battle-tested tips and Glean's production data.