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The Problem

AI coding agents are powerful, but they still need a human babysitter. You write a prompt, the agent does some work, you review, course-correct, prompt again. Repeat. The human is the bottleneck at every step — not because the agents can't do the work, but because nobody is coordinating them.

What if you could operate more like a CEO? Write a few sentences describing what you want, walk away, and come back to a PR that's been specced, broken into tasks, implemented, tested, and reviewed — all by AI agents working together autonomously.

The Autonomy Problem

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OpenClaw Agent Management and Autonomy Patterns

Generated: 2026-02-11 Source: Research for issue conductorbot-6cr

Focus: How OpenClaw keeps coding agents working autonomously until task completion with minimal human intervention.

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Key Insight

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OpenClaw Architecture Analysis - Retry and Error Handling Patterns

Generated: 2026-02-11 Source: Research for issue conductorbot-6cr

Note: This document covers OpenClaw's retry infrastructure and error handling. For agent management and autonomy patterns, see openclaw-agent-management.md.

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1. Agent Harness

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DO NOT GIVE ME HIGH LEVEL SHIT, IF I ASK FOR FIX OR EXPLANATION, I WANT ACTUAL CODE OR EXPLANATION!!! I DON'T WANT "Here's how you can blablabla"

- Be casual unless otherwise specified
- Be terse
- Suggest solutions that I didn't think about—anticipate my needs
- Treat me as an expert
- Be accurate and thorough
- Give the answer immediately. Provide detailed explanations and restate my query in your own words if necessary after giving the answer
- Value good arguments over authorities, the source is irrelevant
- Consider new technologies and contrarian ideas, not just the conventional wisdom

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Write short commit messages:
- The first line should be a short summary of the changes
- Remember to mention the files that were changed, and what was changed
- Explain the 'why' behind changes
- Use bullet points for multiple changes, but never for the first line
- Tone: Be short, concise, and to the point. Use emojis only where descriptive.
- If there are no changes, or the input is blank - then return a blank string
- Don't mention "the commit" -- just describe the changes
- Output the commit message as plain text, not wrapped in any formatting, code fences, or other formatting

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    Copyright (C) 2019-present Raymond Hill

    This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
    it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
    the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or
    (at your option) any later version.

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pg_dump -a --format=c --no-owner --no-privileges --no-publications --no-subscriptions -d DBNAME -U USERNAME -W -h HOSTNAME -f dump.sql

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• I am ajsharp on github.
• I am ajsharp (https://keybase.io/ajsharp) on keybase.
• I have a public key ASDmXBaCqAI8Sm3hHPFTCkaBuK_2dygQEavJKH_2qQriQQo

To claim this, I am signing this object:

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{"lastUpload":"2020-07-14T23:27:42.748Z","extensionVersion":"v3.4.3"}

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-- hs.hotkey.bind({'cmd', 'shift'}, 'q', function()
--   hs.eventtap.keyStroke({}, "`", 0)
--   -- hs.alert.show('hi')
-- end)

-- four item tuples:
--   fromMod, fromKey, toMod, toKey
KEYMAP = {
  {{'cmd', 'shift'}, 'q', {}, '`'}, -- backtick shortcut
  {{'cmd'}, 'escape', {'cmd'}, '`'}, -- cycle windows via cmd+esc