* docs(automation): rename scheduled-tasks feature wording to Automations
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01WhJ8EiMXue6ADLmHfb7FL6
* docs: regenerate docs map and add Automations glossary entries
* docs(templates): follow renamed automations-vs-heartbeat anchor
* docs(automation): fix markdown formatting drift
* docs(automation): teach the canonical automations tool and sync the copied heartbeat default
Review follow-ups: normal instructions use the automations tool with cron as
an explicit compatibility alias; every verbatim copy of the default heartbeat
prompt matches the new shipped text from the strings PR.
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Co-authored-by: Omar Shahine <10343873+omarshahine@users.noreply.github.com>
Co-authored-by: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
The runtime retirement already shipped: busy deferral is automatic,
reasoning payloads stay internal, the HEARTBEAT_OK ack budget is fixed at
300 chars, the Heartbeats prompt section follows cadence, and tool-error
warnings are always on. Docs still advertised skipWhenBusy, ackMaxChars,
includeReasoning, includeSystemPromptSection, and suppressToolErrorWarnings
as live options; this aligns seven pages with the fixed policies and the
strict heartbeat field list, locks the claw-profile skipWhenBusy rejection
diagnostic with a dedicated test, renames includeReasoning-era test/comments,
and canonicalizes claw add-plan workspace path assertions (macOS realpath).
Each legacy heartbeat tasks: entry becomes an editable system-created cron
job (declaration key heartbeat-task:<agentId>:<hash>, per-occurrence
identity for duplicate names) that fires a guarded heartbeat wake carrying
the task prompt plus current monitor scratch context. Task cadence is now
independent of the base heartbeat interval; active-hours, busy-retry,
min-spacing, and flood guards are preserved, deferred payload-carrying
wakes are retained and retried after the spacing floor, and colliding
task/event wakes cannot starve each other.
openclaw doctor --fix migrates existing blocks: async parse/plan, then one
synchronous SQLite transaction that rereads the pinned scratch revision,
upserts job rows, and strips the tasks: block atomically — concurrent
doctors serialize on the database and a losing run aborts untouched.
Orphan fields, invalid intervals, and incomplete entries block migration
of their block with a clear finding instead of silent text loss. The
runtime tasks: parser is deleted; leftover text is ordinary scratch prose.
Nine Codex gpt-5.6-sol xhigh autoreview cycles; final verdict clean.
* fix(heartbeat): unblock beads cadence — parallel broadcast, agent-scoped busy check, full HEARTBEAT.md prompt, connect-timeout, doctor warning
* docs(changelog): note heartbeat cadence fixes
* fix(heartbeat): address review feedback
* fix(heartbeat): append HEARTBEAT.md directives to commitment-only task dispatch (review feedback)
* docs(changelog): extend heartbeat fix entry — commitment-only task dispatch path (review feedback)
* fix(heartbeat): clear connect timer on synchronous baseFn throw (review feedback)
When the provider stream function passed to streamWithIdleTimeout throws
synchronously during setup, the connect watchdog timer was left armed
and could fire onIdleTimeout later with a stale error, keeping the
process open past the real failure. Wrap the synchronous baseFn(...)
invocation in a try/catch that clears the connect timer before
rethrowing, and add a regression test that asserts onIdleTimeout is
not invoked after the synchronous throw.
* docs(changelog): note round-4 heartbeat fix (review feedback)
Bump the heartbeat fixes list from six to seven and document the
synchronous-baseFn-throw connect-timer cleanup added in the prior
commit.
* fix(heartbeat): honor omitted doctor target (review feedback)
* fix(heartbeat): merge doctor heartbeat defaults (review feedback)
Teach the heartbeat session-target doctor warning to enumerate the same agents as the runtime heartbeat runner and merge agents.defaults.heartbeat with per-agent overrides before checking pinned sessions.
Add regression coverage for default-only heartbeat.session pins and explicit agent heartbeat entries that inherit the default session.
Validation:
- pnpm test src/commands/doctor-heartbeat-session-target.test.ts
- pnpm tsgo:core
- pnpm tsgo:core:test
- pnpm config:schema:check
- pnpm exec oxlint src/commands/doctor-heartbeat-session-target.ts src/commands/doctor-heartbeat-session-target.test.ts
- pnpm exec oxfmt --check src/commands/doctor-heartbeat-session-target.ts src/commands/doctor-heartbeat-session-target.test.ts
- git diff --check
Beads: openclaw-8zp
* test(heartbeat): avoid redundant doctor assertion (review feedback)
The CI lint shard flags the non-null assertion in the heartbeat doctor regression test. Keep the same test setup while using an explicit guard so the test still narrows the fixture before mutating the heartbeat entry.
Validation:
- pnpm exec oxlint src/commands/doctor-heartbeat-session-target.test.ts
- pnpm test src/commands/doctor-heartbeat-session-target.test.ts
- pnpm tsgo:core:test
- git diff --check
Beads: openclaw-8zp
* docs(config): refresh baseline after heartbeat branch update
* fix(heartbeat): narrow doctor session warnings (review feedback)
New page: docs/automation/index.md — single entry point for all automation
mechanisms (heartbeat, cron, tasks, hooks, standing-orders, webhooks) with
a decision flowchart and comparison table.
Add "Related" sections to 5 high-traffic pages that were dead ends:
- gateway/heartbeat.md → links to tasks, cron-vs-heartbeat, timezone, troubleshooting
- concepts/session.md → links to multi-agent, tasks, channel-routing
- concepts/multi-agent.md → links to channel-routing, subagents, ACP, presence, session
- concepts/agent-loop.md → links to tools, hooks, compaction, exec-approvals, thinking
- concepts/timezone.md → links to heartbeat, cron-jobs, date-time
Add automation/index to Mintlify nav as first item in Automation group.
Omar Shahine