# 2026-03-26

- Applied specialist routing implementation plan Phase 1–2 document updates using the user-provided `SPECIALIST-ARCHITECTURE.md` draft as canonical source.
- Replaced workspace `SPECIALIST-ARCHITECTURE.md` with the attached version.
- Updated `/Users/openclaw/.openclaw/workspace-worker/WORKER-CONTRACT.md` to the additive universal worker contract format with completion/failure contracts.
- Updated `AGENTS.md` with production boundary, dispatch paths, routing-policy reference, task ID convention, contract logging convention, and specialist trigger blocks.
- Updated `OPERATING-MODE.md` with Token Budget Discipline.
- Created `ROUTING-POLICY.md` and `contracts/` directory.
- Verified Phase 1–2 checks and committed workspace changes in git: `a670227` (`Implement specialist routing phase 1-2 docs`).
- Continued specialist-routing rollout with live Phase 3–5 agent/config work: set `systems-architect` and `research-intelligence` to `openai-codex/gpt-5.4-mini`, created dedicated `ops-manager` agent/workspace, and wired canonical copies of `SPECIALIST-ARCHITECTURE.md`, `ROUTING-POLICY.md`, and `WORKER-CONTRACT.md` into specialist workspaces.
- Fixed specialist contract contradictions: specialists were told to dispatch workers via shell while shell execution was also prohibited. Updated specialist contracts to allow bounded shell use only for `openclaw agent --agent worker --message ... --json`, require surfaced completion/failure output, and forbid silent `end_turn` after dispatch.
- Identified that stale persistent specialist sessions were preserving outdated contract/tool behavior. Reset `research-intelligence` and `ops-manager` sessions to force fresh session startup against updated workspace files.
- Validated one clean deterministic end-to-end specialist→worker→specialist loop with Systems Architect (`contracts/2026-03-26/2026-03-26-104800-sa06.md`). Research Intelligence and Ops Manager now fail transparently with bounded failure contracts instead of hanging or ending silently.
- Isolated remaining blockers for full green specialist rollout: (1) Research Intelligence hits gateway approval boundary for shell-based worker dispatch (`2026-03-26-110900-ri06`), and (2) Ops Manager still has a brittle worker-dispatch command path that exits before returning the validated result (`2026-03-26-110101-om05`).
- Set explicit config `tools.exec.host = gateway` to stop fresh specialist sessions from inheriting an unavailable sandbox exec host for worker dispatch. This changed runtime behavior from hidden sandbox failure to explicit gateway approval gating.
- Logged validation artifacts in `contracts/2026-03-26/` and committed later rollout/validation state in git: `2fea272` (`Refine specialist routing live validation`) and `125d309` (`Harden specialist worker dispatch validation`).

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## Session Rollover — 2026-03-26T23:26:00-07:00

**Trigger:** manual rollover prep request in Telegram

**Objective:** finalize the design and implementation direction for a Telegram `/rollover` command aligned to RFC-001 and actual OpenClaw behavior.

**Completed work:** identified and re-enabled the two disabled system-health cron jobs (`system-state-verify` and `rfc001-session-watchdog`); fixed the watchdog delivery misconfiguration by changing cron wrapper delivery to `mode: none`; verified from Notion that RFC-001 Section 9 defines required rollover summary fields and Section 10 defines the rollover procedure; verified live OpenClaw CLI/docs behavior showing `/reset` and `/new` are runtime reset triggers, not shell scripts or CLI session kill/start commands; reviewed the Notion page `rollover Command Implementation Spec` and confirmed the revised architecture `/rollover = handoff prep + /reset` is directionally correct.

**Unresolved issues:** exact Telegram slash-command registration path in live OpenClaw config remains unverified; exact supported hook for chaining a custom command handler into the runtime `/reset` primitive remains unverified; `/rollover` is not yet implemented.

**Key decisions:** do not use `openclaw session kill/start` because those commands are not supported; do not implement rollover by copying transcript files directly; treat `/reset` as a runtime built-in that mints a new `sessionId` for the same `sessionKey`; preferred architecture is a custom `/rollover` command that performs RFC-001 handoff prep, writes the handoff to `memory/YYYY-MM-DD.md`, then chains into the runtime reset behavior.

**Operational constraints:** Telegram DM is the canonical user lane; reminder requests execute immediately; other state-changing actions usually require CONFIRM, but the proposed `/rollover` policy exception is not yet implemented; keep replies concise and avoid raw log dumps unless needed.

**Next actions:** after reset, continue by verifying the Telegram command registration/config path, verifying the handler-to-runtime-reset hook, then implement and test `/rollover` end-to-end in this Telegram DM.