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Heartbeat

OpenClaw · 2026

OpenClaw documentation

OpenClaw's documentation page on its heartbeat feature. The companion cites it for agents that may wake every half hour, to make the point that activations are not generations: waking is not reproduction. This keeps the generation times that trial-bound tempo (P6) compares tied to reproduction events.

Cited in
the companion paper (Companion §6.3)
Used for
P6P6; generation (definition)
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Agent infrastructure & the datasphere habitat · Protocols, skills & agent frameworks

Cite

@misc{openclaw2026heartbeat,
  title = {Heartbeat},
  author = {OpenClaw},
  year = {2026},
  howpublished = {OpenClaw documentation},
  url = {https://docs.openclaw.ai/gateway/heartbeat},
}