session-logs

Search your complete conversation history stored in session JSONL files. Use this when a user references older/parent conversations or asks what was said before.

Trigger

Use this skill when the user asks about prior chats, parent conversations, or historical context that isn't in memory files.

Location

Session logs live at:

~/.openclaw/agents//sessions/

(use the

agent=

value from the system prompt Runtime line).

sessions.json

- Index mapping session keys to session IDs

.jsonl

- Full conversation transcript per session

Structure

Each

.jsonl

file contains messages with:

type

"session" (metadata) or "message"

timestamp

ISO timestamp

message.role

"user", "assistant", or "toolResult"

message.content[]

Text, thinking, or tool calls (filter
type=="text"
for human-readable content)
message.usage.cost.total: Cost per response Common Queries List all sessions by date and size for f in ~/.openclaw/agents/ < agentId

/sessions/*.jsonl ; do date = $( head -1 " $f " | jq -r '.timestamp' | cut -dT -f1 ) size = $( ls -lh " $f " | awk '{print $5}' ) echo " $date $size $( basename $f ) " done | sort -r Find sessions from a specific day for f in ~/.openclaw/agents/ < agentId

/sessions/*.jsonl ; do head -1 " $f " | jq -r '.timestamp' | grep -q "2026-01-06" && echo " $f " done Extract user messages from a session jq -r 'select(.message.role == "user") | .message.content[]? | select(.type == "text") | .text' < session

.jsonl Search for keyword in assistant responses jq -r 'select(.message.role == "assistant") | .message.content[]? | select(.type == "text") | .text' < session

.jsonl | rg -i "keyword" Get total cost for a session jq -s '[.[] | .message.usage.cost.total // 0] | add' < session

.jsonl Daily cost summary for f in ~/.openclaw/agents/ < agentId

/sessions/*.jsonl ; do date = $( head -1 " $f " | jq -r '.timestamp' | cut -dT -f1 ) cost = $( jq -s '[.[] | .message.usage.cost.total // 0] | add' " $f " ) echo " $date $cost " done | awk '{a[$1]+=$2} END {for(d in a) print d, "$"a[d]}' | sort -r Count messages and tokens in a session jq -s '{ messages: length, user: [.[] | select(.message.role == "user")] | length, assistant: [.[] | select(.message.role == "assistant")] | length, first: .[0].timestamp, last: .[-1].timestamp }' < session

.jsonl Tool usage breakdown jq -r '.message.content[]? | select(.type == "toolCall") | .name' < session

.jsonl | sort | uniq -c | sort -rn Search across ALL sessions for a phrase rg -l "phrase" ~/.openclaw/agents/ < agentId

/sessions/*.jsonl Tips Sessions are append-only JSONL (one JSON object per line) Large sessions can be several MB - use head / tail for sampling The sessions.json index maps chat providers (discord, whatsapp, etc.) to session IDs Deleted sessions have .deleted. suffix Fast text-only hint (low noise) jq -r 'select(.type=="message") | .message.content[]? | select(.type=="text") | .text' ~/.openclaw/agents/ < agentId

/sessions/ < id

.jsonl | rg 'keyword'

安装