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v0.20.0 — Agent Memory & Bootstrap [OSS]

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Due by May 12, 2026
•Last updated Apr 17, 2026

Three-tier memory system, conversational onboarding, and deep personalization — the killer feature for local agents.

What Ships

Session memory, long-term memory (MEMORY.md), daily activity logs, system scanner, conversational bootstrap, personalized daily briefs.

Use Cases Enabled

  • Personalized daily briefs — morning digest of email + calendar + news, tailored to YOUR interests (#663)
  • Email habit learning — agent learns which senders matter, how you categorize, your response style
  • Writing style adaptation — drafts that sound like YOU, not generic AI
  • Personal knowledge capture — "second brain" that remembers everything you've discussed
  • Schedule preference learning — agent knows you prefer morning meetings and blocks afternoon focus time

Value Proposition

"Your agent learns how you work and gets smarter every day. Your email habits, writing style, schedule preferences — a deeply personal profile that never leaves your device. The longer you use it, the more valuable it becomes."

Why Personalization Is the Killer Feature

Cloud agents can't store your behavioral patterns without transmitting them to third-party servers (the exact vulnerability behind 42,900 exposed OpenClaw instances). Local memory means personalization stays on-device — human-readable, auditable, editable, and private. This creates hardware retention that cloud subscriptions cannot match.

Key Deliverables

  • Three-tier memory: session state, long-term context, daily logs
  • Local vector embeddings for semantic retrieval
  • Conversational onboarding ("What do you do? How can I help?")
  • System scanner (hardware, installed apps, workflow detection)
  • Personalized daily briefs (#663)
  • Memory Dashboard UI (#575)
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