openclaw-backups/memory/2026-02-18.md

2026-02-18 - Chaotic Day with GLM-4.7 🦀

Model Issues

• Session started on GLM-4.7 (free Nvidia model via ZAI)
• GLM-4.7 caused repeated timeouts throughout the day — Anthony kept seeing "Continue where you left off. The previous model attempt failed or timed out."
• Model eventually switched to anthropic/claude-sonnet-4-6 late in the day

Docker Issue Discovered

• Morning Briefing cron failing with "spawn docker ENOENT" error
• Runtime showing "docker/non-main" when it should show "direct/non-main"
• Root cause: OpenClaw trying to use Docker but it's not installed/available
• Anthony's iMac node connected but exec via node not available in this config

Email Check Cron Saga

• Email check cron was spamming notifications every 15 minutes (supposed to be silent)
• Root cause: systemEvent payload always fires a notification, regardless of script output
• Multiple failed attempts to fix it:
  1. Changed payload text (still fired)
  2. Changed to isolated session (broke exec access, script failed)
  3. Changed back to main session with "exec" prefix (still fired)
  4. Finally DISABLED the cron job entirely
• Lesson learned: systemEvent crons ALWAYS notify. For silent background tasks, use agentTurn isolated with delivery.mode=none, or handle in heartbeat

Exec Tool Availability

• exec tool not available in sandbox mode
• exec host=node requires companion app support
• Anthony's iMac node doesn't support system.run in this config
• This is a significant limitation for automation scripts

Anthony's unfinished question

• Anthony typed "Can you treat my exec" but message kept getting cut off due to model timeouts
• Never got the full question — follow up next session!

Key Lessons

• GLM-4.7 is unreliable for main sessions — too many timeouts
• systemEvent cron payloads are NOT silent — they always fire a notification
• exec tool needs careful host configuration to work
• API keys should NOT be in workspace files (found SendClaw key in TOOLS.md — security issue)