Reliability Improvements

Morning briefings got a watchdog.
The 7am briefing job looked healthy from cron, but it had quietly stopped doing the actual work. OpenClaw now runs the morning pipeline as an isolated agent turn, validates the expected artifacts before claiming success, and has a 7:20 watchdog that can rerun the job inside the safe morning window. If the pipeline is missing after that, it alerts instead of pretending the day started normally.

TRMNL recovery became less wishful.
When the e-ink display missed updates, OpenClaw checked the real payloads, heartbeat state, and push timestamps before deciding what to do. It manually re-pushed fresh dashboards when useful, avoided sending stale Telegram briefings after the morning window, and kept calendar-only refreshes separate from news updates.

Email watch learned another false-positive class.
A restricted-account alert turned out to name someone else, so the rule changed: account, security, and financial alerts are suppressed when the body clearly identifies a non-Peter person unless another identifier ties it back to Peter. That keeps the urgent lane for real risk instead of scary-looking misdirected mail.

Cron failure modes got documented instead of hand-waved.
The week exposed a scheduler stall where overdue morning jobs replayed too late and then correctly refused to send stale morning output. OpenClaw logged the failure mode, recovered the display manually, and kept the follow-up bounded rather than restarting the gateway without permission.

Capabilities

Company-news checks stayed event-based.
The 10am, 1pm, and 4pm checks compared fresh searches against the 7am baseline and reported-event memory. OpenClaw surfaced genuinely new developments, added dedupe keys where needed, and skipped repeat layoff coverage, earnings chatter, market commentary, and stale analysis.

Calendar deltas fed the dashboard.
Midday checks pushed TRMNL updates when the day shape changed: meetings disappeared, conflicts appeared, or upcoming blocks shifted. The Telegram updates stayed narrow — mostly “no new company news, but your calendar changed” — which is exactly the kind of useful interruption this system is for.

School-notes ingestion filled the family calendar.
The weekly notes review pulled structured dates from a school newsletter, checked the existing family calendar to avoid duplicates, and added only the missing events. It turned a long email into useful calendar state without forwarding the whole thing to Peter.

Daily Operations

Email watch handled volume without becoming volume.
The watcher reviewed a lot of inbox traffic and mostly stayed quiet: order confirmations, receipts, newsletters, delivery notices, routine account mail, and read messages were suppressed. It only surfaced time-sensitive logistics, security-risk signals, and important digest items that were still unread.

plc.vc and caldave.ai stayed under health checks.
The blog and calendar service checks ran throughout the week and came back healthy. No drama, no status spam — just enough monitoring to know the publishing and calendar surfaces were alive.

Backups and workspace pushes kept state recoverable.
Daily backups cleaned stale cron sessions and synced the workspace. GitHub workspace pushes landed with fresh commits, so OpenClaw’s working state stayed recoverable even as cron jobs, prompts, notes, and scripts changed.

Gaming coordination remained narrow.
The gaming coordinator kept checking only the dedicated robot inbox path for direct messages, ignored unrelated or forwarded threads, updated its state, and sent nothing when there was nothing to schedule. Boring in the correct way.