Enable the Interviewer on a tenant, then wire each harness — the OpenClaw plugin, or the memclaw-interviewer CLI for Claude Code and Cursor workstations.

Turning the Interviewer on takes two switches: enable the tenant (server-side), then turn on a capture source (per harness). Neither half does anything alone.

1. Enable the tenant

The Interviewer reads no trail and writes no memory until the tenant opts in. Set it in the tenant's org settings:

{ "interviewer": { "enabled": true } }

Optional tuning under the same key (defaults shown):

Key	Default	Meaning
`enabled`	`false`	Master switch for the tenant.
`period_hours`	`12`	How often a node is due for an interview.
`template_id`	`"default-v1"`	Which report template the synthesis prompt uses.

On a multi-worker deployment the setting is cached per worker (short TTL), so a freshly-flipped flag is honored within a few minutes rather than instantly.

If you already run the OpenClaw plugin, the Interviewer rides it. The plugin keeps a durable, node-local event buffer and submits windows when the server tells it a node is due. Turn it on by adding one variable to the plugin's environment and restarting the gateway:

# in ~/.openclaw/plugins/memclaw/.env
MEMCLAW_INTERVIEWER=true

openclaw gateway restart

With the tenant enabled and MEMCLAW_INTERVIEWER=true, the server's schedule drives capture — no cron, no CLI. Nothing is buffered or submitted while either switch is off.

2b. Claude Code & Cursor — disk-parser CLI

Claude Code and Cursor have no gateway, but each keeps a durable transcript on disk. The memclaw-interviewer CLI reads it read-only and submits windows. It ships inside the Python client:

pip install memclaw-client

Point it at your deployment and pick the harness:

export MEMCLAW_API_KEY=mc_xxx
export MEMCLAW_TENANT_ID=my-team
export MEMCLAW_BASE_URL=https://memclaw.net          # or your self-hosted URL
export MEMCLAW_INTERVIEWER_PROJECTS="my-app,acme-*"  # allowlist (see Privacy)

memclaw-interviewer status                 # cursors vs. local transcript lines
memclaw-interviewer run --dry-run -v       # parse + window, submit nothing
memclaw-interviewer run                     # submit due windows (Claude Code)
memclaw-interviewer run --harness cursor    # harvest Cursor instead

The harness selects both the transcript root and the parser dialect:

`--harness`	Reads	Env alternative
`claude-code` (default)	`~/.claude/projects/<slug>/*.jsonl`	`MEMCLAW_INTERVIEWER_HARNESS=claude-code`
`cursor`	`~/.cursor/projects/<slug>/agent-transcripts/<id>/*.jsonl`	`MEMCLAW_INTERVIEWER_HARNESS=cursor`

Environment variables

Variable	Required	Purpose
`MEMCLAW_API_KEY`	✅	Tenant- or agent-scoped credential.
`MEMCLAW_TENANT_ID`	✅	Tenant to write into.
`MEMCLAW_BASE_URL`	—	Deployment URL (default `https://memclaw.net`).
`MEMCLAW_AGENT_ID`	—	Agent identity for the written memories (default `user@host`).
`MEMCLAW_FLEET_ID`	—	Fleet to attribute writes to.
`MEMCLAW_INTERVIEWER_PROJECTS`	—	Comma-separated project-dir globs to allow.
`MEMCLAW_INTERVIEWER_HARNESS`	—	`claude-code` (default) or `cursor`.

Triggers

Run the CLI on whatever cadence you like — both triggers are safe to combine because duplicate submissions dedup server-side:

Cron — a periodic memclaw-interviewer run is the floor; it catches every session, including ones that crashed.
Session-end hook — interview a session the moment it ends. The same hook command serves both harnesses; each sends transcript_path on stdin and the harness is inferred from the path.

Claude Code (~/.claude/settings.json):
```
{ "hooks": { "SessionEnd": [ { "hooks": [
  { "type": "command", "command": "memclaw-interviewer hook", "timeout": 300 }
] } ] } }
```
Cursor (~/.cursor/hooks.json):
```
{ "version": 1, "hooks": {
  "sessionEnd": [ { "command": "memclaw-interviewer hook" } ]
} }
```

The hook always exits 0 — a memory-harvest failure never fails your agent session. If it can't act (project not allowlisted, missing credentials) it prints a one-line reason to stderr and exits cleanly.

Privacy: default-deny allowlist

A workstation's transcripts span every project on the machine — including NDA and client work, and whatever secrets got pasted into a prompt. So the CLI harvests nothing until you name projects. With no allowlist it lists the discovered project directories and exits with guidance. Opt in with MEMCLAW_INTERVIEWER_PROJECTS, --projects <glob…>, or the explicit --all-projects. Independently, credential-shaped strings are scrubbed locally before anything leaves the machine, and the server masks again on receipt.

2c. Hermes — disk-parser (planned)

TBD. A Hermes adapter is planned: it will read Hermes's state.db conversation store and reuse the same windowing, watermark, and submit protocol as the Claude Code and Cursor adapters. Not yet shipped — this section will document --harness hermes when it lands.

Verify

After a real (non-dry) run, confirm the cursor advanced and a memory landed:

memclaw-interviewer status shows pending=0 once a file is fully drained.
The written memories appear in recall / the dashboard, typed as episode, decision, outcome, task, fact, or preference.
Re-running submits nothing new — the watermark and server-side dedup make repeat runs idempotent.

Setup