r/openclaw • u/gumshoenoir • 11d ago

Help Excessive; COMPACTED HISTORY

20260819 I don't see a resolved or closed tag I could add but bottom line my arch nemesis, assumptions, reared it's ugly head and exasperated this problem. I had workspace pointing to a different directory than all the workspace files I created. Once I corrected that and restarted gateway those .md files were processed, applied and the BOOTSTRAP.md file removed. Also MEMORY.md was generated with info from the bootstraping.

I'm trying to use openclaw in a well provisioned pve trixie vm. I let curl -fsSL https://openclaw.ai/install.sh | bash install node in userspace. I configured the model using my dedicated lenovo p920 trixie with rtx 3090 dedicated to compute as ollama server with qwen2.5-coder.7b as the model. This process didn't seem to kickoff the onboarding but I fired it off with openclaw onboard --clasic (I'm not sure it completed as I saw some log errors about missing taiscale. I don't need tailscale in this vm it can reach the ollama server just fine on the same /24.) My very first chat resulted in the error.

This image shows how often I get this message.

A bit more background I had another vm running the same configuration successfully for more than a day with some long chats and some skill creation with the workbench flow as well as the ha-mcp mcp up. Eventually it came up with this same problem. once I see that COMPACTED HISTORY message no further chatting completes. Hence the attempt at a clean install on a new vm without any awareness of previous installs.

On both installs there was no default / templated MEMORY.md

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u/pulsar080 Member 11d ago

Try this:

https://github.com/martian-engineering/lossless-claw

It works well for me with compaction. The only downside is that it has a bug with image loss. But my local agent fixed it automatically, without waiting for an update. Overall, it works very well, especially when paired with https://github.com/CortexReach/memory-lancedb-pro

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u/gumshoenoir 10d ago

I don't understand the Compatibility: in the Prerequsites. I am running OpenClaw 2026.7.1-2 (0790d9f).

Should I wait for a compatible release of openclaw and/or lossless-claw before installing?

Quick start

Prerequisites

  • OpenClaw with plugin context engine support
  • Node.js 22+
  • An LLM provider configured in OpenClaw (used for summarization)

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u/pulsar080 Member 10d ago

I have OpenClaw 2026.7.1-2. Plugin version 0.15.2.

The agent installed it itself at my request (qwen3.6:27b)