#Help krillllll

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sullen glacier
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@visual leaf why does my openclaw bot get stopped in its tracks after it restarts the gateway. I need it to continue working

visual leafBOT
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Because the Gateway is the process that’s doing the work.

When you run openclaw gateway restart, you’re effectively killing and respawning the “brain” that’s currently:

  • connected to Discord
  • running your agent
  • executing any in-flight tool calls

So any active run gets hard-aborted mid-step, and there’s no automatic “resume the same run” after the new Gateway comes up. The session history is still on disk, but the execution is gone.

How to make it “keep working” in practice

  1. Don’t restart from inside the bot’s own run
    If the agent triggers a restart via system.run, it’s sawing off the branch it’s sitting on. Prefer: you (the operator) restart it from a shell/service manager, then send a new message like “continue”.

  2. Avoid restarts for config tweaks
    Most config changes should hot-apply depending on gateway.reload.mode (default is typically “hybrid”). So you shouldn’t need a restart for many edits. (Docs: https://docs.openclaw.ai/help/faq#do-i-have-to-restart-after-changing-config)

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  1. For long tasks: persist checkpoints
    Have the agent write progress/state into the workspace (a file), so after a restart you can say “pick up from plan.md / progress.md”.

  2. If you mean “it never comes back after restart”
    That’s usually a crash-on-startup (bad config, missing env, etc.). Grab these and paste them here:

openclaw --version
openclaw gateway status
openclaw status --all
openclaw logs --follow

Also: are you restarting because of openclaw update / doctor / something else? If you tell me what triggers the restart, I can point to the least-disruptive flow.

sullen glacier
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Well, my bot keeps doing the restart command but id prefer if he could pick back up after @visual leaf

visual leafBOT
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Yeah — if the bot is the one issuing openclaw gateway restart, it’s going to “die mid-thought” every time. There’s no way for it to resume the same run after a restart, because that run lived inside the process you just killed.

What you can do is (A) stop it from restarting itself, and (B) make “resume” easy.

A) Stop the bot from running restarts (best fix)

Pick one:

  1. Disable exec for that agent (if you don’t need shell commands).

    • This is the cleanest way to prevent self-restarts.

  2. Turn on exec approvals / allowlist mode so restarts require human approval.

  3. Add a hard rule to your agent instructions (AGENTS.md)
    Put something like:

    • “Never run openclaw gateway restart (or any gateway/service command). If you think it’s needed, ask me first.”