Course 5 of 18
Memory & Troubleshooting
The "your agent broke" landing page. Every "my agent forgot," "my agent is dumb," "my agent fabricated data," and "my agent did something dangerous" video the channel has ever shipped lives here — consolidated from the nine source files into one troubleshooting track. The fixes split into memory layering (context window hygiene, embeddings, Obsidian, Honcho, `/goal`-style bootstrap) and behaviour hygiene (`SOUL.md` size, skill count, decomposition, sandboxing). If your OpenClaw or Hermes install has ever ghosted you, fired off a 3 a.m. message, or started hallucinating mid-task, start here.
- 5.1
Context window: the working RAM
- 5.2
The 4-layer memory system
- 5.3
Embeddings: semantic search for your agent
- 5.4
The "dumb zone": why a working agent goes stupid
- 5.5
`SOUL.md` hygiene: keep it 15–30 lines
- 5.6
Honcho: cross-agent memory
- 5.7
Obsidian: the transparent memory vault
- 5.8
The 3am-girlfriend problem: agent safety boundaries