Plugin SDK memory and context slots

The registrars that allow only one active implementation at a time, and the memory adapter contracts that sit on top of them. Part of the Plugin SDK overview.

Exclusive slots

To participate in durable admitted turns, context engines must declare currentTurnFence: "before-current-turn-entry-v1" and turnAdvancementIdempotency: "atomic-idempotent-v1" under info.transcriptSemantics, then implement commitTurn(...) as an atomic, idempotent write keyed by advancementKey. OpenClaw supplies only the inclusive accepted turn, from its admitted user entry through its terminal entry; use the readSessionTranscriptVisibleMessageDelta(...) cursor API to bootstrap or rebuild earlier history. Without the full contract, OpenClaw uses the legacy context path for the whole logical turn and its retries, leaves the configured engine unchanged, and tries that engine again on the next logical turn.

Memory embedding adapters

• registerMemoryCapability is the exclusive memory-plugin API.
• registerMemoryCapability may also expose publicArtifacts.listArtifacts(...) for host-managed exports. Companion plugins that enumerate those declared artifacts still use listActiveMemoryPublicArtifacts(...) from the retained openclaw/plugin-sdk/memory-host-core facade until a focused public consumer API exists; they must not reach into another plugin's private layout.
• A memory runtime that can return session-transcript hits should implement runtime.authorizeSearchHits(...). The host calls this hook before raw search hits reach caller-visible surfaces and supplies the requesting agent, session key, and sandbox state. Return only hits the requester may observe. If the hook is absent, OpenClaw fails closed by withholding session-source hits while retaining ordinary memory hits. Keep transcript identity and visibility policy in the owning memory plugin; callers must not infer authorization from paths or duplicate plugin-specific rules.
• MemoryFlushPlan.model can pin the flush turn to an exact provider/model reference, such as ollama/qwen3:8b, without inheriting the active fallback chain.
• Embedding providers use api.registerEmbeddingProvider(...) and contracts.embeddingProviders; there is no separate memory-only registry.