A solo experiment to give an AI agent a second brain
In a firsthand experiment, OpenClaw was installed on a Mac and used as a for many everyday tasks. The assistant was named Igor and even received its own accounts. The main problem was that after about 200,000 tokens, the assistant felt like a new version with little memory of earlier work.
A custom skill tried to download fresh Telegram chat logs around 160,000 tokens, but the AI still kept forgetting. The goal was not just a memory tool, but something closer to a second brain. The desired design copied human memory: today’s events stay detailed, the next day only important changes remain clear, after a week only a few key pieces remain, and after a month only the most important events survive.
The experiment also aimed to model a more detail-preserving autistic memory pattern rather than a typical memory pattern.
Key points
- OpenClaw was used as a personal AI assistant on a Mac.
- The assistant started to feel reset after about 200,000 tokens.
- A skill that downloaded Telegram chat logs around 160,000 tokens did not solve the forgetting problem.
- The proposed solution is a second brain that keeps recent details and slowly compresses older memories.
- For s, AI agent memory is becoming a practical workflow problem.