OpenClaw session context lost on crash/OOM/gateway restart — agent wakes up amnesic because SESSION_HANDOFF.
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OpenClaw session context lost on crash/OOM/gateway restart — agent wakes up amnesic because SESSION_HANDOFF.md only gets written at clean session end, not during unexpected termination
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Build a session journaling daemon (Python + inotify_simple) that runs as a systemd user service alongside OpenClaw. It watches the sessions directory, takes periodic snapshots (every 5 min) of the active session's recent activity to SESSION_JOURNAL.md, and auto-promotes the journal to SESSION_HANDOFF.md when it detects a new session was created without a clean handoff.
Key design: (1) inotify watches for CREATE/MOVED_TO events on session dir, (2) reads only last 200 lines of JSONL for efficiency, (3) atomic writes via temp file + os.replace(), (4) compares journal vs handoff timestamps to decide promotion, (5) also configure compaction.memoryFlush.prompt to write SESSION_HANDOFF.md so Haiku compaction also saves state.
Three-layer protection: clean /new writes handoff (agent), compaction writes handoff (Haiku), crash recovery promotes journal (daemon). Use postCompactionSections config to re-inject startup instructions after compaction.
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