memory

What memory does on OpenClaw

AI agents call memory to retrieve information from OpenClaw without modifying anything. It is typically the context-gathering step in research, monitoring, and reporting workflows, before the agent takes action elsewhere.

Why memory is rated Low

This tool retrieves and examines memory-related data without creating, modifying, deleting, or executing external operations. Reindexing maintains the index structure for existing data but does not alter the underlying content. The potential severity is low because even with agent misuse, the impact is limited to information disclosure or performance degradation rather than data loss or unauthorized actions.

From the tool's definition 'Search, inspect, and reindex memory files' — the described operations (search, inspect) are read-only queries; reindexing is a maintenance operation that doesn't modify data content or have destructive side effects.

The rule that runs memory safely

PolicyLayer is an MCP gateway: it sits between your AI agents and OpenClaw, and checks every tool call against a rule you set before the call runs. Nothing changes on the server itself. For memory, this is the rule to start with:

{
  "version": "1",
  "default": "deny",
  "tools": {
    "memory": {}
  }
}

Questions about memory