1

Export your OpenClaw memory

Dump everything OpenClaw knows about you:

cat ~/.openclaw/workspace/SOUL.md 2>/dev/null
cat ~/.openclaw/workspace/memory.json 2>/dev/null
cat ~/.openclaw/workspace/AGENTS.md 2>/dev/null
2

Save your scheduled tasks

List what you had running so you can recreate them:

# In OpenClaw, ask:
"List all my scheduled tasks with their cron expressions"
3

Install cogent42

Two commands, two minutes:

git clone https://github.com/cogent42/cogent42.git
cd cogent42 && node setup.js
4

Seed your knowledge

Paste your exported context into the first message. cogent42 extracts it automatically:

"Here's context from my previous setup: [paste your SOUL.md / memory dump]. Remember all of this."
5

Recreate your schedules

No cron syntax. Just plain English:

"Schedule a daily health check at 9am"
"Run my backup script every Sunday at midnight"
6

Done.

No YAML. No config files. No dashboard. It just works.

Your knowledge builds automatically from here. The more you use it, the smarter it gets about your setup.

Before & after.

What changes when you switch.

OpenClaw

  • Large monorepo you can't audit
  • Dozens of dependencies to manage
  • YAML + JSON config files
  • Plugin version conflicts
  • 30-minute setup with Docker
  • 17,000+ open issues
  • Web UI you barely use
  • Cron syntax for schedules

cogent42

  • 1 file, ~1,400 lines. Read it all.
  • 3 npm packages. That's it.
  • 5 environment variables
  • No plugins = no conflicts
  • 2-minute setup, no Docker
  • Fewer than 10 issues
  • Telegram is your interface
  • Plain English schedules