OpenClaw constantly forgetting things · OpenClawBuilders/AI Automation

OpenClaw constantly forgetting things

I'm struggling with this to a point is becoming unusable for me. It happens very often that I ask OpenClaw agent to do something and says "you need to give me access", after I gave it a access token 5minutes ago and specifically asked it to memorize that and not ask me again about it. Or giving me an update on work where it says it needs to complete a task it already completed.

Tried everything, ask it to update it's AGENTS.md and long term memory to immediately save important info and read from memory every time and even updated the files myself but still pretends it forgets.

I think it saves everything in memory, because when i remind it that I gave it tht info already goes "ah yes my bad i see now you mentioned it X minutes ago". But think searching it's memory is the issue.

I don't see that many people complaining this is a huge problem and I have a hunch is because of the fact I enabled VectorDB to index and search? I watched this tutorial to help decrease token cost by not reading all its long term memory and daily memory instead using VectorDB to index and search its memory files. At this point this is the only lead I have. I also use Claude 5.6 so is not the model being dumb. Any suggestions here?

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