People memories skill
Purpose
Keep a short-lived, searchable memory vault about people you talk to so your assistant can recall follow-ups instantly. The skill handles:
remember
cues (voice or text) to persist comments, preferences, and context.- Summaries + exports so you can package a person’s “fact card.”
- Search, recall, and list commands for quick lookups.
- Optional auto-trigger from voice transcripts (when you say “remember …”).
Structure & storage
~/.clawdbot/people-memory.json
now stores:
{
"people": {
"alex": {
"displayName": "Alex",
"notes": [
{
"timestamp": "2026-01-29T12:05:00Z",
"note": "Likes cats and doing late-night music practice",
"source": "voice",
"tags": ["pets", "music"]
}
]
}
},
"index": {
"music": ["alex"],
"cats": ["alex"]
}
}
- Names are normalized (lowercase keys) but store the display name.
- Each note captures
timestamp
, note
, source
, and tags
.
- An
index
map keeps keywords → people for super-fast lookups.
CLI commands
Use the bundled script to manage the database:
skills/people-memories/scripts/people_memory.py <command> [options]
remember --person Alex --note "loves chai" --tags drinks,preferences
– adds a note.recall --person Alex --limit 3
– reads the latest notes.summarize --person Alex
– prints fact card with counts, tags, last updates.search --query coffee
– finds people whose notes mention “coffee”.export --person Alex --format md --out ~/Desktop/alex.md
– dumps the notes as Markdown (or JSON).list
– enumerates everyone stored plus note counts.
Auto capture (voice/chat)
The
extensions/people-memories
extension listens to
/voice-chat
transcripts. When you say something like “remember Alex likes cats,” it automatically runs the
remember
command and logs the note. The index updates in the background, and we keep confirmations quiet unless you explicitly ask for them.
Reminders & automation
Event metadata (type + date) is attached whenever a note mentions birthdays or anniversaries. A helper cron job runs
python3 skills/people-memories/scripts/people_memory.py reminders --days 0 --window 7 --format message
each morning and delivers the resulting digest over Telegram so you’re nudged about the next week’s birthdays/anniversaries without manual effort. If you prefer a different cadence or channel, rerun the command yourself or update the schedule.
Enhancements in this version
- Smart indexing – Tags + keyword extraction keep the lookup index updated so searches find matching people even when you reuse adjectives.
- Summaries & exports – Quickly produce a fact card or shareable Markdown/JSON of anyone’s notes.
- Voice integration + logging – transcripts feed the database so you don’t type commands manually.
- Structured data – normalized keys + timestamps plus tag metadata make it easy for other tools (cron, dashboards) to consume the memory store.
Next steps / nice-to-haves
- Add optional confirmation responses “Noted, saved for Alex.” via the runtime
api.message
helper.
- Integrate with reminders/cron so tagged notes like
birthday
trigger alerts.
- Build a simple watch UI (web or terminal) that previews the latest people cards.
Let me know which direction to automate next (priority filters, notifications, cross-agent sync, etc.)."}
