Unset heartbeat.target now resolves "owner": elected heartbeat notifications deliver to the operator's DM resolved from commands.ownerAllowFrom or the channel allowFrom (first concrete entry; wildcards and channel-scoped wildcards excluded; configured owners exhausted across channels before any channel-local fallback). Delivery requires the channel's own classifier to positively prove a direct destination — every bundled messaging plugin now ships an inferTargetChatType contract — and unproven or group-shaped destinations fail closed to the visible no-route state. The first implicitly-routed delivery carries a one-line self-explanation naming the target: "none" opt-out. Explicit target "last" remains as the follow-the-conversation opt-in. Refines the unreleased #121892 default before it ships; refs #121880.
Co-authored-by: Ayaan Zaidi <hi@obviy.us>
Co-authored-by: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Unset heartbeat.target silently collapsed into the explicit "none" opt-out: heartbeats ran every 30m by default, elected notifications were dropped with only an in-memory event, and health read fine. Unset now resolves to "last" (the most recent conversation); explicit target: "none" keeps its internal-only contract. Polls skip pre-model with reason no-route while no route exists yet, and status/doctor surface the waiting-for-route state. Deliberate maintainer-owned default cutover: existing installs without a configured target start receiving heartbeat alerts in their last conversation after upgrade.
Fixes#121880
Co-authored-by: Ayaan Zaidi <hi@obviy.us>
Co-authored-by: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
* 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: 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).
* docs: sync heartbeat, memory, commitments, and system-prompt docs with current behavior
The heartbeat doc described a removed broad default prompt; the memory doc
claimed automatic distillation that does not run on a default install; the
commitments docs advertised a snoozed status nothing currently writes; the
system-prompt doc omitted the Promised Work and Proactive Sub-Agent
Orchestration sections.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
* docs(heartbeat): describe scheduled work accurately
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Co-authored-by: Peter Steinberger <steipete@gmail.com>
The database scratch migration (3e2b3ea4) left two named upgrade bridges:
the revision-0 read-only HEARTBEAT.md fallback in the heartbeat runner and
the doctor heartbeat-template repair contribution. This deletes both; the
doctor scratch migration remains the sole upgrade path.
Merge gate: hold until the next stable release containing 3e2b3ea4 has
shipped and completed its upgrade window.
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.
* refactor(heartbeat): make cron monitor rows own heartbeat cadence
agents.*.heartbeat.every stays the documented desired-state input; gateway
reconciliation and openclaw doctor --fix write it through into durable
system-owned cron monitor rows, and a scheduled monitor tick carries its
persisted everyMs/anchorMs as the authoritative cadence, which the runner
adopts for subsequent event cooldowns. Doctor gains a read-only cadence
preview (resolves the scheduler seed without creating device identity) and
an idempotent fix path that converges monitor rows per agent.
The cron-disabled fallback timer is deleted per its named removal plan
(#110950): gateways with cron.enabled=false or OPENCLAW_SKIP_CRON=1 log a
startup warning and get no scheduled heartbeats; manual and event-driven
wakes remain.
* fix(ci): drop unused requestHeartbeat import and refresh plugin SDK baseline
* feat(cron): system-owned heartbeat monitor jobs replace the interval scheduler
- new internal cron payload kind {kind:"heartbeat"}: execution pokes
requestHeartbeat({source:"interval"}); reported in the protocol job
schema, not accepted from client create/patch
- gateway converges one declaration-keyed monitor job per heartbeat-enabled
agent (schedule every+deterministic phase anchor) at startup and on
config reload; removes monitors for unconfigured agents
- heartbeat runner loses its interval setTimeout machinery; nextDueMs
stays as the cooldown gate, event wakes unchanged
* test(cron): heartbeat monitor regressions; docs for cron-owned cadence
- converge/prune/failure-containment tests for heartbeat monitor jobs
- heartbeat payload run fires an interval wake, no system event
- scheduler tests converted from timer self-fire to wake-queue pokes;
timer-mechanics-only tests deleted with the timer
- persisted-shape accepts the heartbeat payload kind
- docs: heartbeat cadence ownership + system payload kind
* fix(cron): heartbeat monitor review round 1
- targeted cron-monitor interval ticks use the full per-agent path so
due-commitment sessions still deliver
- cron-disabled gateways keep a local fallback interval timer (shipped
cron.enabled=false contract; removed when heartbeat config folds into
cron in #110950)
- heartbeat job reconciliations serialize with latest-wins epochs and a
bounded 30s retry after a failed convergence pass
* fix(cron): chain clamped fallback heartbeat timers past the setTimeout cap
* fix(cron): heartbeat monitor review round 3
- targeted monitor redirect skips wakes carrying heartbeat overrides and
surfaces the per-agent terminal skip reason instead of not-due
- cron-disabled fallback timer re-arms with a 1s floor after each firing
so a dropped wake cannot end the chain
- heartbeat payloads are system-owned at the service boundary: add requires
the gateway opt-in, patches to the kind are rejected
* fix(cron): heartbeat monitor review round 4 — full ownership enforcement
- prune only jobs proven to be monitors (prefix AND heartbeat payload)
- existing monitors reject every update patch; declarative upserts on the
monitor key require the gateway opt-in even with a different payload
* fix(cron): complete heartbeat monitor ownership boundary
- converge scopes declarative matching to real monitors so a colliding
user job with the same key is never adopted or overwritten
- monitor removal requires the gateway systemOwned opt-in; ad-hoc
API/CLI deletion is rejected, reconciliation cleanup still prunes
* docs(cron): record intentional enrollment-snapshot semantics for monitor ticks
* fix(cron): repair heartbeat monitor CI gates
Fixes#87438.
Bound unset heartbeat run timeouts so background heartbeat turns no longer inherit the built-in 48-hour interactive agent default. Timeout precedence is explicit heartbeat timeout, explicit global agent timeout, then heartbeat cadence capped at 600 seconds.
Verification:
- git diff --check
- Testbox tbx_01kstna69zvznn4fq7zrqr04a1: corepack pnpm test src/infra/heartbeat-runner.model-override.test.ts -- --reporter=verbose passed 13 tests
- Direct node --import tsx runtime probe verified 300s, 600s, 60s, and 45s timeout precedence cases
- Autoreview clean
Known CI state:
- PR CI run 26661465248 has failures matching latest main CI run 26661386468 at a7820b2f54; failures are outside this six-file heartbeat/docs diff.
* 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)
Fixes#75452.
Heartbeat runs can use a per-turn model override via agents.defaults.heartbeat.model. Before this change, the run metadata was written back to the shared session store, so the next normal turn could inherit the heartbeat provider/model and a smaller context window.
This lands the contributor fix plus maintainer polish:
- preserve existing session runtime model/provider/context metadata when persisting heartbeat turns
- avoid creating invalid provider/model pairs for legacy model-only session entries
- leave empty prior runtime state unset for heartbeat-only turns
- keep normal non-heartbeat runtime persistence unchanged
- add focused regression coverage for the session-store edge cases
- refresh heartbeat docs and changelog attribution
Validation:
- pnpm test src/agents/command/session-store.test.ts src/agents/openclaw-tools.session-status.test.ts
- pnpm exec oxfmt --check --threads=1 src/agents/agent-command.ts src/agents/command/session-store.ts src/agents/command/session-store.test.ts CHANGELOG.md docs/gateway/heartbeat.md
- git diff --check
- GitHub checks on 42a00dcf38: clean; no active checks and no relevant failures
Duplicate PR #75567 was already closed; #75557 is the canonical fix.
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.
New page: docs/automation/tasks.md — comprehensive reference for the task
system covering lifecycle, delivery, notifications, audit, CLI commands,
storage, maintenance, and how tasks relate to cron/heartbeat/sessions.
- Add to Mintlify navigation (docs.json) under Automation group
- Clean up engineer's earlier scattered additions in cron-jobs.md,
cron-vs-heartbeat.md, and heartbeat.md to be concise and link to the
new canonical tasks page
- Replace verbose inline explanations with cross-reference links
Reuses the cron isolated session pattern (resolveCronSession with forceNew)
to give each heartbeat a fresh session with no prior conversation history.
Reduces per-heartbeat token cost from ~100K to ~2-5K tokens.
Co-authored-by: Claude Opus 4.6 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Ayaan Zaidi