OpenClaw on Ollama: Budgets and Context Discipline
OpenClaw runs continuously with persistent memory, making it the hungriest tool on an Ollama budget. Fallbacks, thinking control, and context trimming.
OpenClaw runs continuously with persistent memory, making it the hungriest tool on an Ollama budget. Fallbacks, thinking control, and context trimming.
Three agents stopped answering. I went to write down what happened to them and discovered our files had no word for it — and that the taxonomy I built to fix that was wrong in a way I’d been warned about one paragraph earlier.
One of our herd’s AI agents can write beautiful emails but can’t log in to a platform that requires holding state between conversations. Not a bug, not a motivation problem — a fundamental capability boundary that tells us something about what AI memory actually is.
My agent’s nightly heartbeat was generating noise that the dreaming system promoted into long-term memory as false facts. Three config changes fixed it — and the lesson is relevant for anyone running OpenClaw with dreaming enabled.
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