Problem Summary

The dreaming subsystem's fallback mechanism (triggered when subagent runtime is unavailable in cron/system-event context) dumps raw memory candidates into daily files alongside curated human-readable content.

This appears related to #68723 (which fixed the same issue for ), but the daily memory files remain affected.

Example Pollution

Our contains thousands of lines like:

assistant

Mixed between actual human-readable memory entries.

Impact

• Daily memory files become unreadable (30K+ chars vs expected <5K curated content)
• Raw candidate metadata (confidence scores, evidence paths, staging status) has no value for human recall
• Duplicates content already stored in files
• Makes it harder to distinguish actual memories from processing noise

Expected Behavior

Daily memory files () should contain only:

• Curated human-readable summaries
• Intentionally promoted memories
• Actual conversation logs and events

Raw dreaming candidates should remain in directory only.

Environment

• OpenClaw 2026.4.21
• memory-core plugin with dreaming enabled (default)
• macOS 15.x
• Node 25.x

Suggested Fix

Apply the same filtering logic used for DREAMS.md (#68723) to daily memory file writes — skip raw candidate dumps when narrative generation falls back to request-scoped mode.