# 2026-02-22

## Compaction Bug Discovered & Root Cause Found

**Issue:** Auto-compaction appearing broken - sessions not compacting properly
**Investigation:** Found GitHub issue #7477 confirming known bug with `safeguard` compaction mode
**Root Cause:** Default `safeguard` mode silently fails at ~180k tokens, producing "Summary unavailable due to context limits" instead of proper AI-generated summaries
**Impact:** Context loss without warning, broken memory management

**Fix Required (config change):**
```json
"compaction": {
  "mode": "default",
  "reserveTokensFloor": 40000,
  "memoryFlush": {
    "enabled": true
  }
}
```

Workaround pending admin approval to modify openclaw.json

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## Job Verifier Bug (Ongoing)

**Issue:** Daily Job Verifier reports "Daily News Brief FAILED" with "no run history found"
**Root Cause:** Job Verifier cron uses wrong job ID: `3cf50074-8736-623e-ac41-6e6fb807bfee` (623e) instead of actual ID `3cf50074-8736-423e-ac41-6e6fb807bfee` (423e)
**Impact:** False positive warning every morning at 9 AM
**Status:** News brief actually runs successfully at 8 AM - just ID mismatch in verifier config

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## System Status (Overnight Jobs)

All automated jobs running successfully:
- 2:00 AM - Supermemory Backup ✅
- 3:00 AM - Daily Cron Cleanup ✅  
- 3:03 AM - Memory Worker Daily ✅ (9 items extracted)
- 8:00 AM - Daily News Brief ✅
- 9:00 AM - Job Verifier ✅ (with false positive)

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## Log Errors (Non-Critical)

- **Rocketchat plugin ID mismatch** - Config uses "openclaw-rocketchat", manifest uses "rocketchat" - harmless warning
- **Discord channel 404** - One deleted channel still in config

None affect system operation.

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## Actions Needed

1. Fix compaction config (mode: default, reserveTokensFloor: 40000)
2. Fix Job Verifier cron job ID (623e → 423e)
3. Clean up rocketchat plugin config entry
4. Remove stale Discord channel from config