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Search and analyze your own session logs (older/parent conversations) using jq.

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Overview

Search and analyze your own session logs (older/parent conversations) using jq.

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session-logs

Search your complete conversation history stored in session JSONL files. Use this when a user references older/parent conversations or asks what was said before.

Trigger

Use this skill when the user asks about prior chats, parent conversations, or historical context that isn't in memory files.

Location

Session logs live at: ~/.openclaw/agents//sessions/ (use the agent= value from the system prompt Runtime line).

sessions.json - Index mapping session keys to session IDs
.jsonl - Full conversation transcript per session

Structure

Each .jsonl file contains messages with:

type: "session" (metadata) or "message"
timestamp: ISO timestamp
message.role: "user", "assistant", or "toolResult"
message.content[]: Text, thinking, or tool calls (filter type=="text" for human-readable content)
message.usage.cost.total: Cost per response

Common Queries

List all sessions by date and size

bash

for f in ~/.openclaw/agents/<agentId>/sessions/*.jsonl; do
  date=$(head -1 "$f" | jq -r '.timestamp' | cut -dT -f1)
  size=$(ls -lh "$f" | awk '{print $5}')
  echo "$date $size $(basename $f)"
done | sort -r

Find sessions from a specific day

bash

for f in ~/.openclaw/agents/<agentId>/sessions/*.jsonl; do
  head -1 "$f" | jq -r '.timestamp' | grep -q "2026-01-06" && echo "$f"
done

Extract user messages from a session

bash

jq -r 'select(.message.role == "user") | .message.content[]? | select(.type == "text") | .text' <session>.jsonl

Search for keyword in assistant responses

bash

jq -r 'select(.message.role == "assistant") | .message.content[]? | select(.type == "text") | .text' <session>.jsonl | rg -i "keyword"

Get total cost for a session

bash

jq -s '[.[] | .message.usage.cost.total // 0] | add' <session>.jsonl

Daily cost summary

bash

for f in ~/.openclaw/agents/<agentId>/sessions/*.jsonl; do
  date=$(head -1 "$f" | jq -r '.timestamp' | cut -dT -f1)
  cost=$(jq -s '[.[] | .message.usage.cost.total // 0] | add' "$f")
  echo "$date $cost"
done | awk '{a[$1]+=$2} END {for(d in a) print d, "$"a[d]}' | sort -r

Count messages and tokens in a session

bash

jq -s '{
  messages: length,
  user: [.[] | select(.message.role == "user")] | length,
  assistant: [.[] | select(.message.role == "assistant")] | length,
  first: .[0].timestamp,
  last: .[-1].timestamp
}' <session>.jsonl

Tool usage breakdown

bash

jq -r '.message.content[]? | select(.type == "toolCall") | .name' <session>.jsonl | sort | uniq -c | sort -rn

Search across ALL sessions for a phrase

bash

rg -l "phrase" ~/.openclaw/agents/<agentId>/sessions/*.jsonl

Tips

Sessions are append-only JSONL (one JSON object per line)
Large sessions can be several MB - use head/tail for sampling
The sessions.json index maps chat providers (discord, whatsapp, etc.) to session IDs
Deleted sessions have .deleted. suffix

Fast text-only hint (low noise)

bash

jq -r 'select(.type=="message") | .message.content[]? | select(.type=="text") | .text' ~/.openclaw/agents/<agentId>/sessions/<id>.jsonl | rg 'keyword'

Installation

Terminal bash


openclaw install mh-session-logs

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💻Code Examples

rg -l "phrase" ~/.openclaw/agents/<agentId>/sessions/*.jsonl

rg--l-phrase-openclawagentsagentidsessionsjsonl.txt

## Tips

- Sessions are append-only JSONL (one JSON object per line)
- Large sessions can be several MB - use `head`/`tail` for sampling
- The `sessions.json` index maps chat providers (discord, whatsapp, etc.) to session IDs
- Deleted sessions have `.deleted.<timestamp>` suffix

## Fast text-only hint (low noise)

example.sh

for f in ~/.openclaw/agents/<agentId>/sessions/*.jsonl; do
  date=$(head -1 "$f" | jq -r '.timestamp' | cut -dT -f1)
  size=$(ls -lh "$f" | awk '{print $5}')
  echo "$date $size $(basename $f)"
done | sort -r

example.sh

for f in ~/.openclaw/agents/<agentId>/sessions/*.jsonl; do
  head -1 "$f" | jq -r '.timestamp' | grep -q "2026-01-06" && echo "$f"
done

example.sh

for f in ~/.openclaw/agents/<agentId>/sessions/*.jsonl; do
  date=$(head -1 "$f" | jq -r '.timestamp' | cut -dT -f1)
  cost=$(jq -s '[.[] | .message.usage.cost.total // 0] | add' "$f")
  echo "$date $cost"
done | awk '{a[$1]+=$2} END {for(d in a) print d, "$"a[d]}' | sort -r

example.sh

jq -s '{
  messages: length,
  user: [.[] | select(.message.role == "user")] | length,
  assistant: [.[] | select(.message.role == "assistant")] | length,
  first: .[0].timestamp,
  last: .[-1].timestamp
}' <session>.jsonl