Session journal

The session journal hook writes a rolling log of conversation summaries and extracted facts for each agent session.

Enable

Session journal is opt-in per agent:

sessionJournal:
  enabled: true

Or load it via a hook preset:

hooks:
  presets:
    - "audit"

Journal files are written to ~/.openclaw/journals/<agent-id>/<date>.jsonl.

sessionJournal:
  enabled: true
  summarizeEveryN: 5
  extractFacts: true
  maxEntries: 1000
  outputDir: "~/.openclaw/journals"

Key	Type	Default	Description
`enabled`	boolean	`false`	Enable journal for this agent
`summarizeEveryN`	integer	`5`	Turns between journal writes
`extractFacts`	boolean	`true`	Include LLM-extracted facts per entry
`maxEntries`	integer	`1000`	Entries per JSONL file before rotation
`outputDir`	string	`~/.openclaw/journals`	Directory for journal files