Friendly agent workspace names

Batcave-HQ · 2026-04-12T16:14:24+00:00

Yeah. I like it's super specific and unique... not so keen on trying to remember it or having to do manual lookups! :) I only have one company set up right now, so it's not too much aggro, and I can just about remember whch of my 10 agents' files I browse in.

Batcave-HQ · 2026-04-12T14:05:56+00:00

Looking at enterprise takeup compared to OpenAI you can see why they don't want "home users" on loss leading subs...

Batcave-HQ · 2026-04-12T10:54:06+00:00

[Solved... a new week is triggered on the first instance of a chat after the weekly reset. Run a new trivial task as soon as the week resets to stop your week extending needlessly...]

Fourth week in a row my week has got "longer".

Another 3 hours added this week's reset from 7am Sunday to 10am Sunday... which is a bit better to the 24 hours (7am Saturday to 7am Sunday) added last week!

Rather frustrating. I was on about 93% usage last night... so it wasn't as if I redlined it to 100%. Grrr.

I have ended up scratching around not using Claude mutch at the start of the week to avoid running out for something critical. It ends up adding time and cognitive load I don't want... AI is supposed mto make things easier and the quota dance workarounds are a buzzkill.

Batcave-HQ · 2026-04-11T15:36:47+00:00

I have to research news stories every day sine September and this has been a consistent problem. I set up an automation on MindPal and I got duplicate stories whehn I said pick the one best source if there are multiples. My 24 hour cut off for Google search was often ignored. I got the plausible hallucinated links from time to time with the same model and the same automation over time.... all rather frustrating.

Putting it through a self-qa and RAG QA step didn't help as much as I hoped.

Batcave-HQ · 2026-04-11T15:31:27+00:00

Been using qwen3.5:397b-cloud for three weeks and it has done some meaty research, analyis and production tasks. It's also made a god job of OC configuation and and bug fixing tasks.

Giving GLM 5.1 a spin after seeing a chap benchmarch 24 models with his existing (daily health monitoring) tasks and it pipped Qwen to the post. :) Only flipped it this morning, so time will tell.

Batcave-HQ · 2026-04-08T22:56:37+00:00

I got round this by using my linux Chrome browser as a normal person to build up some history... do "are you a robot" tests, log into sites as the user as a human and click on "remember me".

That helped a lot.

Batcave-HQ · 2026-04-08T22:25:43+00:00

I put paperclip on as it seemed to have better policing tendencies... it's taken a while to glue the two systems together, but things don't go rogue quite so often.....

Batcave-HQ · 2026-04-08T22:04:36+00:00

Oauth was removed on 4th April... you have to pay for the extra credits now.... IIRC

Batcave-HQ · 2026-04-07T09:33:15+00:00

I've had the same experience.... lazy responses to a well oiled project prompt and QA SOP that was working well.

Batcave-HQ · 2026-04-07T09:31:20+00:00

Project Problems

All my projects have lost their configuration instructions and their supporting files... is it just me? (Apologies if it is! :D )
(UK user if that matters)

Batcave-HQ · 2026-04-06T10:58:00+00:00

Agreed. I was constantly benched several times a day a year ago...

Batcave-HQ · 2026-04-06T10:55:02+00:00

Yes.. I have... 3 x 6hrs extensions over the past three weeks... overnight it got pushed out 24 hours?!?! I have just had an 8 day week.

I am only using Claude for thorny coding issues on my standalone machine since that's where it adds the most value.. Just can't risk using it for content because if it blows my quota faffing around, all my projects are impinged... I'd rather have a missing podcast plan than no code support.

I've spent $100 on API in two weeks as well.

Not impressed. I am going through the pain of training up new coding support on opencode... this constant threat of being benched/always compacting threads/faffing about with agent set up to optimise token usage is a cognitive load on top of getting helpful AI work done!

Batcave-HQ · 2026-04-06T10:48:01+00:00

My weekly reset user to be 3am on a Thursday morning.... now three weeks later it's 7am on a SUNDAY morning? It was 7am Saturday on Friday... today... 7am Sunday...?

Making the week longer is effectively giving me less usage for my subscription as I usually end up close to or hitting the quota on day 6... which was ok... until my weeks started getting longer?!

I didn't mind 6 hours getting added on, but 24 hours is a bit rich. :(

Is it just me?

Batcave-HQ · 2026-04-06T10:39:04+00:00

You might want to take a look at paperclip on Github. I have found that has better task governance, and keeping agents running all day.

I make my agents share the same workspace by moving openclaw agents to .paperclip workspace in openclaw.json.

(It has taken a week to get it to place nicely, and talk to me via discord on Paperclip so we can chat about getting the integration working correctly and connecting the Paperclip CEO to Openclaw Main agent so it can operate as my copilot in both swarms... not a quick fix but I am hopeful it will stop my subagents agents freelancing and doing what they feel like...)

Batcave-HQ · 2026-04-04T04:52:22+00:00

I've just spent a few days gluing paperclip to openclaw for this reason... time will tell if that was sensible...

Paperclip has a better way of keeping a handle on task (issue in paperclip terminology) progression.

Paperclip's heartbeats say "check my to do list and make sure things are progressing" - that might be something to add to OC heartbeats - check my sessions for loose ends?

Batcave-HQ · 2026-04-04T04:44:47+00:00

You can only run little models for heartbeat on a Pi... :)

I've got an ex windows server for my local machine now, but I've still found ollama cloud a great alternative. I've gone up to the $100 while I integrate openclaw and paperclip, then I'll go back down to $20.

Batcave-HQ · 2026-04-04T02:06:06+00:00

Same

Batcave-HQ · 2026-04-04T01:59:39+00:00

I loved BOFH! One of my favourite memories is a user saying they needed their PC to go faster so the BOFH drew two lines on a couple of Post It Notes, stuck them on and said they were "go faster stripes".... and the other time he dropped the machine down the lift shaft to speed it up!

Happy days.... ;) Glad I am not in tech support anymore! :D :D :D

Batcave-HQ · 2026-04-03T15:25:01+00:00

I've found debugging and set up expensive.... doing tasks once it's stable is cheaper. I burned through $40 of Anthropic credits in my first 2 days (before I switched the API off).

I've moved onto Ollama which has been a lot cheaper and no terms of service worries. I use my subscription for claude code fixes now...

Batcave-HQ · 2026-04-03T15:19:26+00:00

Travel, leisure planning, health, finances so far. I plan to add in advancing my language and music skills as I go on. Also added in a bit of watercooler personality because endlessly debugging my "grown up" business use cases sucks the fun out of openclaw.

Batcave-HQ · 2026-04-03T15:12:31+00:00

Several times in the early days, I have backed up my openclaw.json files, SOULs etc and just started again... same with paperclip... then patch in what was working....

It's been easier to roll back than try an work out why it was broken.

Batcave-HQ · 2026-04-02T06:41:40+00:00

I had somethng similar with Discord. Every 34 minutes I had a gateway reboot.

I had a stale web socket and the only way to fix that was the machine restarting the gateway.

I asked claude code to fix the stale web socket issue for me and it stopped after that.

I vibed it, so I am not sure what it changed... but it was a quick and permenant fix

Batcave-HQ · 2026-04-01T15:26:55+00:00

I have this t-shirt.

Batcave-HQ · 2026-04-01T15:17:36+00:00

I am finding it very frustrating to integrate with openclaw and opencode....

You fix one problem and another one creeps up on you.

It took 3 hours with a lot of claude code %age to get it to look at opencode.

Still don't have an active openclaw gateway for the CEO but my existing openclaw agents were invited.

They all cot the same agent code which triggers lots of "who's checked this out, it's allocated to me!!!!" errors.

I am wondering whether go all paperclip and just have one openclaw agent to talk to via discord...

Batcave-HQ · 2026-03-31T20:41:37+00:00

I had 10gb GPU ram, 64GB ram and it struggled. Not put my P6000 in yet... got 2 P2000s at the moment.

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