Manual Memory Push Before /new

This page is a browser-facing copy of the manual curated memory push that existed immediately before the chat reset experiment. It is meant to be compared directly against the automatic session-memory snapshot created after /new.

/home/ash/.openclaw/workspace/memory/2026-04-08.md

The excerpt below starts at the session-memory investigation section and includes the explicit pre-reset test setup.

## Session-Memory Investigation
- Investigated whether the bundled `session-memory` hook is real and possibly active.
- Verified from local OpenClaw docs that `session-memory` is a bundled hook that can save session context to `memory/YYYY-MM-DD-slug.md` on `/new` or `/reset`.
- Found existing hook-style memory files in the workspace memory directory: `2026-04-07-greeting.md`, `2026-04-07-think-the-user-wants-a-1-2-wor.md`, and `2026-04-08-memory-dreaming.md`.
- This provides concrete evidence that some automatic session-summary memory writing has occurred on this install, even though Dreaming remains unproven as an active automatic memory writer.
- Updated the working model of memory: real continuity currently consists of manual curated memory (`MEMORY.md`, canonical daily note) plus searchable retrieval, with at least some evidence of automatic `session-memory`-style hook writes.

## Immediate Next Test
- Christopher proposed a clean experiment: do a manual memory push now, then trigger `/new`, then inspect whether the refresh created another automatic session-memory artifact.
- The aim of the next session is to compare the pre-reset manual write with any new post-reset hook-generated memory file and determine whether `/new` is actively causing `session-memory` writes on this machine.