What’s the proper way to disable heartbeat? | Friends of the Crustacean 🦞🤝 | Page 1

vale mulch I asked Clawd to disable it but it just tells me it’s disabled (at heartbeat int...

This is a config issue, not a code issue. The user set commands.restart: false thinking it disables heartbeats, but that's wrong — it just prevents restart-on-heartbeat-failure.

To actually disable heartbeat messages, you need to set the heartbeat interval to 0 or a very long duration:

In ~/.clawdbot/clawdbot.json:

{
  "agents.defaults.heartbeat": {
    "every": "0",      // or "100y" - disables the recurring message
    "target": "last",
    "ackMaxChars": 300
  }
}

Then apply with:

#What’s the proper way to disable heartbeat?