Use Case
Cognition is a powerful AI agent skill that extends your assistant with new capabilities. Practical memory architecture for OpenClaw agents. Helps agents remember commitments, retrieve context, prevent repeat mistakes, compile reusable procedures,... This guide walks you through installing Cognition, configuring it for your setup, and running your first commands β so you can start getting value in minutes.
Install Cognition: npx clawhub@latest --dir ~/.claude/skills install cognition
Restart your AI client (Claude Code, Cursor, Gemini CLI, or OpenClaw)
Type a natural language request related to documents & notes to trigger Cognition
Review the output and refine your prompt for better results
Combine Cognition with other skills to build multi-step workflows
Copy these prompts and use them with your AI agent after installing Cognition
Help me get started with Cognition
What can Cognition do for my documents & notes workflow?
Show me an example of using Cognition
Select your agent
Option 1: Install via CLI (recommended)
Recommended (no pre-install needed)
npx clawhub@latest --dir ~/.claude/skills install cognitionOr via clawhub CLI (if already installed)
clawhub --dir ~/.claude/skills install cognitionβ οΈ Requires Node.js 18+. No Node? Use Option 2 below to download the ZIP instead. Install Node.js β
Option 2: Manual install (no Node required)
Download the ZIP, extract it, and place the folder at the path below. Restart your agent to activate.
Install path
~/.claude/skills/cognition/π‘Extract and place the folder at the path above, then restart your agent.