forked from Selig/openclaw-skill
Selig
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6 custom skills (assign-task, dispatch-webhook, daily-briefing, task-capture, qmd-brain, tts-voice) with technical documentation. Compatible with Claude Code, OpenClaw, Codex CLI, and OpenCode.
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# Context
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OpenClaw's "Context" represents everything the model receives for a run, constrained by the model's token limit. It encompasses the system prompt, conversation history, tool calls, and attachments.
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## Key Components
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The system breaks down into several parts:
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- **System prompt** (built by OpenClaw): includes rules, tools, skills, time/runtime data, and workspace files
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- **Conversation history**: user and assistant messages within the session
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- **Tool results and attachments**: command outputs, file reads, media
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## Context Inspection Commands
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Users can monitor context usage via:
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| Command | Description |
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| `/status` | Shows window fullness and session settings |
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| `/context list` | Displays injected files with approximate token counts |
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| `/context detail` | Provides granular breakdown by file and tool schemas |
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| `/usage tokens` | Appends token usage to replies |
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| `/compact` | Summarizes older messages to free space |
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## What Counts Toward the Window
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Everything sent to the model consumes tokens:
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- System prompt sections
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- Conversation history
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- Tool calls and results
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- Attachments and transcripts
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- Compaction summaries
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- Provider wrappers
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## Workspace File Injection
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OpenClaw automatically injects these files (if present):
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- `AGENTS.md`
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- `SOUL.md`
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- `TOOLS.md`
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- `IDENTITY.md`
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- `USER.md`
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- `HEARTBEAT.md`
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- `BOOTSTRAP.md`
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Files exceeding `bootstrapMaxChars` (default 20,000) are truncated, with truncation status indicated in context reports.
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## Skills and Tools
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Skills include metadata in the system prompt but load instruction details only when the model calls `/read` on the skill file.
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Tools incur dual costs:
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1. Text descriptions in the system prompt
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2. JSON schemas that count toward context separately
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