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I Run a Self-Improvement Loop on My OpenClaw Agent Every Night. Here's What I Learned. (opens in new tab)

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Last month my OpenClaw agent kept making the same mistake: it would run a health check, the script would fail silently, and the agent would report "all systems operational" with total confidence. It wasn't broken. It was just doing what it was built to do — execute tasks — without any mechanism to learn from the outcome. So I built it a self-improvement loop. Every night at 2 AM, an isolated OpenClaw session wakes up, reads the previous day's execution logs, identifies patterns in what went w...

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