#stuck

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sullen vine
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most of the time agent get stuck, why this happen

tropic surgeBOT
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Not usually one bug, sadly. Most “agent is stuck” cases fall into a few buckets:

  1. Model/tool-calling is weak
    Biggest culprit, especially with local/Ollama/OpenAI-compatible backends. They can stall, ignore tool results, or loop.

  2. Gateway/auth/pairing issue
    The UI/channel is connected enough to show activity, but the actual run never starts or loses auth.

  3. Bad session/bootstrap state
    A stale session, stuck bootstrapping state, or leftover workspace state can wedge runs.

  4. Tool polling loops
    Agent keeps calling the same tool with no progress. OpenClaw has loop detection for this, but it’s off by default unless you enabled it.

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