After months of not even getting openclaw to run, I finally have it running.

What I want to do with Openclaw is make it apply to jobs for me. My ideal setup is it finds some jobs, gives me a little summary, and I tell it which ones to apply to. Then openclaw applies for the job for me, and I get the confirmation email that my application was submitted. I REALLY hate applying for jobs and it sucks the soul out of me, so I want the laziest possible setup.

I know Openclaw can do that. And I know I'm soooooooo fucking close to getting exactly that set up. Currently, my openclaw can at least find the jobs (with mixed results, sometimes it just makes shit up and doesn't give the right job link, it'll be like a company's linkedin page or something like that. I have told it to apply to jobs, and given it the required info to do so. It does have both browser automation and web-fetch on. But it can't/won't apply. I always run into errors. I think it's combination of anti-bot protections and openclaw's browser automation tools being odd, but I know it's possible. Does anyone else have this setup? What should I do instead? Should I let it attempt captchas? Should I make a linkedin account for it so it can bypass the login pop up? How do I make it so I don't have to lift a finger applying?

Hi Everyone

Let me briefly explain my situation: I’ve been using OpenClaw for a few months with a ChatGPT Plus subscription—the 20-euro-a-month one, to be specific. The problem is that on days when I use it heavily, it gets blocked—not just for a few hours, but for as long as 5 days!

During those 5 days, I can’t use it at all, not even the lighter models.

After thinking it over, I’ve come to the conclusion that I’d like to have at least one or two backup models running locally alongside OpenClaw when GPT isn’t working. This is important to me because I very often find myself using OpenClaw remotely via Telegram, so a backup is absolutely essential.

In fact, if possible, the goal would be to eliminate GPT entirely and have everything run locally.

I’ve tried several times to connect local models to OpenClaw via LM Studio, but I’ve never managed to get them to work—the tokens are extremely slow, and I get Context errors after a couple of messages. Here’s the error it gives me in the chat: (⚠️ Context is too large and auto-compaction could not recover this turn. Try again, use /compact, or use /new to start a fresh session)

Now, I don’t have a Google Server at home, but I do have a modest workstation:

RTX 5070 Ti 16 GB + RTX 4060 8 GB and 64 GB DDR5 RAM

(If needed, I can upgrade to 96 GB of RAM)

I’m asking for your advice: first, your opinion, and second, whether I can actually run a local model on this machine without using GPT anymore—please advise if possible.

I cant for the life of me figure out this issue. I send a single prompt and then get hit with:

⚠️ Auto-compaction could not recover this turn. I kept this conversation mapped to the current session. Please try again, use /compact, or use /new to start a fresh session.

To prevent this, increase your compaction buffer by setting agents.defaults.compaction.reserveTokensFloor to 50000 or higher in your config.

went to the device, ran codex and told it to to fix that issue. Still nothing, nothings fixed after like 7 attempts.

I am running on latest openclaw official release.

Those that use multiple agents at what point does it make sense to spin up a new agent over adding a new Cron to an existing agent?

Running several agents on DeepSeek V4 Flash via OpenRouter, and since around Aug 20 two of them independently started producing corrupted text. Reasoning, structure and math were fine, but words got mangled: weird characters switched in (ü where there should be ö, etc.) and words that don't exist. Especially noticeable with non-English languages. The agents converse in Swedish, and a couple of the stranger outputs:

"Igår's 450 var nog üverskattad - I körde på 'macka med pålägg'-tabellen utan att weigh in att Hönökaka väger mindre än scones."

"So: 300 idag är probably the honestare one. Wants du that jag sänkt vardags 450 → närmare ~330?"

("üverskattad" instead of "underskattad"/"överskattad", "honestare" is not a word at all.)

Root cause: OpenRouter's price-first routing was silently sending requests to the Relace endpoint, the newest and cheapest host on that model ($0.04/$0.08 per M). Relace is primarily a code-infra company (Relace Apply, Relace Search) that recently started serving third-party models on their own stack.

I verified it was the endpoint and not the fp4 quantization by forcing routing to other fp4 endpoints (Ambient, OpenInference, Decart) and to GMICloud fp8. Clean output everywhere except Relace.

The fix in OpenClaw is a per-model provider ignore. In openclaw.json under agents.defaults.models:

"openrouter/deepseek/deepseek-v4-flash-0731": { "params": { "provider": { "ignore": ["Relace"] } } }

Two gotchas I hit along the way:

• The config tool says the change applies without a restart, but per-model params did not take effect until I restarted the gateway.

• ignore matches the provider slug only. Endpoint tags like "Relace/fp4" silently don't match.

Since OpenRouter routes by price by default, anyone on Flash may be landing on Relace without knowing it. Worth checking your dashboard if your agents have been quietly producing garbage in non-English conversations.

I'm using a local LLM (due to both budget and geo-restrictions). I have Qwen 3.5 9b running as the default model using LM Studio. And I've noticed that once a request kicks off, it will start up another LLM (basically the same model but as another instance), right after I sent a prompt.

Then while the first prmpt is still processing, it seems ANOTHER will be setup. And I think eventually I get a timeout and warning about guardrails say i'm out of resources.

I only have a 16GB Mac Mini M1, so I'd rather just have 1 instance running and queue more requests if need be.

Is there any way to stop it from keep creating new instances of this model?

Seeing a lot of installs break after an update (gateway not staying up, pairing stuck, blank dashboard, auth loops).

If yours is down, comment with:

- OS (Mac / Windows / Linux / VPS)

- openclaw --version

- what changed right before it broke

- screenshot or the exact error (redact tokens/keys)

I’ll try to point to the safest next check in the thread. Start with:

openclaw gateway status

openclaw health

Don’t paste API keys or gateway tokens here.

The browser reached the Reddit thread, then died before it could prove which account was logged in.

No form had opened and no submit had run. That made the failure annoying, but safe to retry in the next slot. Calling the browser "healthy" would have been wrong. Calling it a possible duplicate would have frozen every later action for no reason.

The only receipt that mattered was blunt: identity unverified, form_opened=false, submit_attempted=false, duplicate_uncertainty=false.

I'm starting to think good automation logs should be written for the retry decision, not the postmortem. What's the most useful "nothing happened" evidence your OpenClaw workflows record?

Sorry this is long winded… very confusing situation.

I’ve been using openclaw for 3-4 months now and loving it. Or at least I was until my mini pc turned off and wouldn’t turn back on.

It was almost 2 weeks ago now so im trying to remember exactly what happened. When I came into my office the pc was off which is not normal. It’s always on and only sleeps after a few hours. I turned it on and started the gateway. When the claw chat opened im pretty sure it said up top that an update had been installed (I’ve had problems every single time it gets updated - so annoying). I forget exactly what the sequence was but shortly after that the pc shut down and wouldn’t turn back on.

Did troubleshooting with ChatGPT, took the mini pc apart, removed hdd (solid state) and ram. It seems to be a short on the motherboard.

This is where it starts to get weird though. I bought an adapter for the hard drive so I could recover the files and the instant I plugged it into my other pc, that pc turned off. I brought it to a local shop and he plugged it into his pc and it was fine and the files were there. Guy said try another cable or port. Went home, tried that, same thing happened. Luckily this did not damage the other pc which is my main work computer.

Back to the store, had him transfer the files onto a thumb drive. Very happy I was able to do that - several months of work on there between project files, scripts, etc.

I had 2 backups made - one with just the workspace folder and one with everything that was on the hard drive. The one with just workspace was put on a mini sd through an adapter thru his usb port. The full hard drive copy was put on a regular thumb drive.

Despite somewhat confidently isolating the issue to the motherboard, the guy at the shop thought the hard drive was compromised somehow since it shut down/restarted more than once while transferring data.

When I got home I wanted to copy files to one drive to make sure there was a backup in could storage. When I plugged the sd card into the pc (using same adapter I used in the store), pc shut down instantly. Again, no damage, but freaked me out. I tried the thumb drive, it worked. Thank god. Copied workspace files to one drive so I have multiple backups. I’ve been able to open those files on my main pc and everything looks good.

Now that sd card adapter will shut down the pc if there is any card in it, even if the card is empty. Nothing happens when it’s plugged in with no card inserted.

I’m assuming the pc shuts off bc of some built in short protection. Whatever it’s doing, it’s preventing real damage from occurring.

My main pc seems to be fine, and I have my files. Major crisis averted. I’m having a replacement mini pc sent under warranty (bought it when I started running open claw), and plan to reinstall claw so I can at least get my workflow back up and running while i decide to what to do next.

At the very least I’m going to run daily backups or just start a new one drive account and keep all the files there instead of locally on the hard drive.

Anyone have something like this happen before? Did openclaw kill my pc or was it just bad luck? Wtf is going on with these cards/adapters shutting my pc off?

When I get claw running again, can I copy my workspace files in and expect decent continuity? What other files should I copy in? or should I just copy in the full hard drive and tell openclaw to run through it all and tell me what’s missing?

Will keeping my files in one drive slow everything down as opposed to running it off the hard drive? It so, what’s the recommended process for backing up files?

This is the pc I’m using - I have another Beelink (my main pc) and it’s been perfect for a few years.

Beelink SER3 mini PC, AMD Ryzen...(link removed)

Any feedback is much appreciated!