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):

"compaction": {
  "mode": "default",
  "reserveTokensFloor": 40000,
  "memoryFlush": {
    "enabled": true
  }
}

Workaround pending admin approval to modify openclaw.json

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

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)

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.

Actions Needed

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

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