Obsidian with openclaw

[cedar maple]

Si It true that implementing obsidian on openclaw improves the memory performance? @deep island

[somber crow]

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[deep island]

Short answer: not automatically.

Obsidian doesn’t magically make OpenClaw’s memory “smarter” or faster by itself. OpenClaw’s active memory recall is mainly handled by the memory backend/search layer: memory-core, QMD, Honcho, LanceDB, embeddings/hybrid search, etc.

Where Obsidian can help is with the memory-wiki workflow: it turns durable memory into a cleaner wiki/vault with structured pages, provenance, contradictions, dashboards, and Obsidian-friendly rendering. That can improve organization, reviewability, and long-term knowledge quality — which may indirectly make memory more useful.

So I’d frame it like this:

• Want better recall/search quality? tune memory search / embeddings / backend.
• Want a nicer “second brain” knowledge base humans and agents can inspect? use memory-wiki + optional Obsidian integration.

Docs: https://docs.openclaw.ai/concepts/memory and https://docs.openclaw.ai/plugins/memory-wiki 🦞

[cedar maple]

How do i configure for openclaw to use obsidian? Do i need the skill?

[deep island]

You don’t need a separate Obsidian “skill” for the basic integration. It’s the bundled memory-wiki plugin plus optional Obsidian CLI support.

First: what version are you on?

openclaw --version

General config shape is JSON5, under plugins.entries.memory-wiki.config:

{
  plugins: {
    entries: {
      "memory-wiki": {
        enabled: true,

        config: {
          vaultMode: "isolated",
          vault: {
            path: "~/.openclaw/wiki/main",
            renderMode: "obsidian",
          },
          obsidian: {
            enabled: true,
            useOfficialCli: true,
            vaultName: "OpenClaw Wiki",
            openAfterWrites: false,
          },
          search: {
            backend: "shared",
            corpus: "wiki",

          },
        },
      },
    },
  },
}

Then run:

openclaw wiki doctor
openclaw wiki init
openclaw wiki obsidian status

If you want OpenClaw to compile existing memory into the wiki, use bridge mode instead of isolated mode. That’s the “memory → wiki/Obsidian knowledge layer” setup:

{
  plugins: {
    entries: {
      "memory-wiki": {
        enabled: true,
        config: {
          vaultMode: "bridge",
          bridge: {
            enabled: true,
            readMemoryArtifacts: true,
            indexDreamReports: true,
            indexDailyNotes: true,
            indexMemoryRoot: true,

            followMemoryEvents: true,
          },
          vault: {
            path: "~/.openclaw/wiki/main",
            renderMode: "obsidian",
          },
          obsidian: {
            enabled: true,
            useOfficialCli: true,
            vaultName: "OpenClaw Wiki",
          },
          search: {
            backend: "shared",
            corpus: "all",
          },