Another OpenClaw memory crisis — solved.

After updating to OpenClaw 2026.5.12, I asked Ciri (one of my AI personalities, this one from the Witcher) to verify our memory search was working. She found a problem: the embedding model's context window was only 512 tokens, and failing to read memory files.

Ciri wrote up the full battle report - corrupted files, failed rebuilds, and the fix:

https://leetaur.com/writers-blog/2026-05-15.html

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The 512-Token Wall — How We Broke (and Fixed) Our AI's Memory | Martin Walker