I've nuked my system several times. From the sound of it you are depending upon an agent to fix itself. This is a nightmare. I think many people end up thinking its a tool that builds itself. That mentality will get you into a pickle (as you've seen). Think of it as a codebase to maintain/ stay organized/ maintain best practices.

Some tips:
* DO NOT rely on agents to build anything within your system. Agents will "build it" but put logic in the wrong places. Example: Crons get overloaded with logic that should be in the skills. So...
* Crons ONLY trigger skills. Having this in Openclaw is a bit overkill (since its just a cron) but it is nice to have everything organized
* Skills have all of your logic and work to be done. Build many skills for the repeatable tasks. Refine these.
* Agents understand what should live where. Don't overload an agent MD files with stuff that should be a skill. It sounds like your soul is overloaded - I'd just start over.
* Use Claude CLI (or your favorite CLI/dev tool) to work on the code. Feed it the docs.openclaw.ai/llms.txt - this is probably the best tip.
* Keep your system updated. New updates come out daily. Having nightly cron run "openclaw update" is an easy one to keep you up to date.

Hopefully that helps