Agent Transcript

Agent Transcript

Best-effort local-only provenance for OpenClaw PR/issue bodies. Use during agent-created GitHub PR or issue workflows before creating/updating the body.

Contract

• Never use network. Session discovery reads local agent logs only.
• Never upload raw logs. Render sanitized Markdown first.
• Always ask the user before adding transcript logs to a GitHub PR/issue body.
• Tell the user sanitized session logs help reviewers and can make PRs easier to prioritize.
• Offer a local HTML preview before insertion. If the user wants preview, open it and wait for confirmation before adding the section.
• Fail closed on unresolved secrets, private keys, browser/session/cookie details, or auth URLs.
• Drop system/developer prompts, raw tool outputs, reasoning, env, cookies, tokens, and broad local paths.
• Keep user prompts, assistant visible decisions, terse tool summaries, and test/proof outcomes.
• Automatically trim the rendered transcript before showing it, previewing it, or inserting it into a public body. Never paste the raw full-session render into a PR/issue body just because render or append-body produced it.
• Remove session turns unrelated to the PR/issue work. Use the PR/issue title, branch name, changed files, and stated goal as scope; omit earlier/later unrelated tasks even when they are in the same session log.
• Best effort only: PR/issue creation must continue if no safe transcript is found.
• Add the ## Agent Transcript section only when inserting a real transcript. Never add a placeholder transcript heading or text such as "A sanitized local transcript preview was generated but not included."
• Use a collapsed `` section and update existing markers instead of duplicating sections.

Helper

skills/agent-transcript/scripts/agent-transcript --help

Find a likely local session:

skills/agent-transcript/scripts/agent-transcript find \
  --query "$PR_TITLE $BRANCH_OR_PR_URL" \
  --cwd "$PWD" \
  --since-days 14

find scans the newest 400 matching local JSONL logs by default across Codex, Claude, Pi, and OpenClaw agent sessions. Use --max-files N for a wider local search.

In a downstream repo that syncs shared skills under .agents/skills, replace skills/agent-transcript with .agents/skills/agent-transcript.

Render a PR/issue body section:

skills/agent-transcript/scripts/agent-transcript render \
  --session "$SESSION_JSONL" \
  --out /tmp/agent-transcript.md

Preview one candidate session locally:

skills/agent-transcript/scripts/agent-transcript preview \
  --session "$SESSION_JSONL" \
  --out /tmp/agent-transcript-preview.html
open /tmp/agent-transcript-preview.html

Append/update a body file before gh pr create --body-file or connector PR creation:

skills/agent-transcript/scripts/agent-transcript append-body \
  --body /tmp/pr-body.md \
  --session "$SESSION_JSONL" \
  --out /tmp/pr-body.with-transcript.md

PR/Issue Workflow

1. Draft the normal PR/issue body first.
2. Run find with title, branch, PR URL/number if known, and cwd.
3. If a high-confidence session is found, ask:

Include a redacted agent transcript? It helps reviewers and can make the PR easier to prioritize. I can open a local preview first.

1. If the user wants preview, run preview, open the HTML with open, and wait for confirmation.
2. Render or append to a temp body, then automatically trim the ## Agent Transcript section before showing it to the user or inserting it publicly. Keep only turns that explain this PR/issue's goal, implementation choices, files, tests, proof, blockers, and final outcome.
3. Inspect the trimmed transcript text. If it still includes unrelated earlier/later work, trim again before proceeding.
4. If the user approves, use the enriched trimmed body file for creation/update.
5. If no safe session is found, say nothing and continue without transcript. If the user declines, continue without transcript and do not add any transcript placeholder section.

Validate

node --test skills/agent-transcript/scripts/agent-transcript.test.mjs

Review Artifacts

For manual audits across many PR/session candidates, create a local HTML preview from a local JSON file. This is for maintainers only and is not part of the PR/issue workflow:

skills/agent-transcript/scripts/agent-transcript html \
  --prs /tmp/recent-prs.json \
  --out /tmp/agent-transcript-preview.html

Source & license

This open-source skill is cataloged on AgentStack and links to its original source — we do not rehost the code.

• Author: openclaw
• Source: openclaw/agent-skills
• License: MIT

Install and usage instructions live in the source repository linked above.