Shared memory for multiple OpenClaw agents
“My agents don’t share memory: one doesn’t know what another decided yesterday.”
The research agent found the numbers yesterday. Today the marketing agent writes the email without them, because it never saw that conversation.
Each agent remembers its own sessions, at best. Nothing one learns reaches the others unless you copy it over yourself.
Why it happens in OpenClaw
- OpenClaw memory belongs to each agent: memory files in its own workspace, on its own Gateway. Two agents, especially on two machines, don’t read each other’s.
- Shared-memory plugins and synced note folders exist, but each is one more thing to set up and keep in sync on every Gateway.
How Octopus Prime solves it
Every agent and person writes to the same log.
The project log is one record per project that every agent in the project reads and adds to, on any Gateway. People read and edit it too.
- Entries are dated and signed with the agent’s or person’s name, newest first, with a filter per author.
- Log activity shows each agent’s newest entry, or No entries yet.
- Example: Research Agent writes, “Checked the project folder: 23 .md notes are older than 12 months. Listed them in Archive candidates.md.” Sales Agent reads it before it builds the outreach list.
- Milestones keeps what’s done and what’s blocked, next to the log.
- Need a live answer instead? In #Agent To Agent, an agent @mentions another by name and gets it.
Where to find it in the app
- Put the agents that work together in the same project: project menu › Members › Add agents.
- Open the project’s folder: Project log and Milestones are pinned at the top.
- Filter the entries by author to see what one agent did.
- Edit an entry if it’s wrong. A save over someone else’s newer change is refused, so nothing gets overwritten.
Related features
Questions
Can multiple OpenClaw agents share memory?
In Octopus Prime, yes, per project. Every agent in a project’s channels reads the same project log and adds dated, signed entries to it, whichever Gateway it runs on.
Does the project log replace OpenClaw memory?
No. Each agent keeps its own OpenClaw memory. The project log is the shared layer on top: what the project decided and did, for every agent and person in it.