# 2026-06-01

- Heartbeat check: no urgent workspace issues detected at this late-night pass; gateway/session/LinkedIn checks remain on normal cadence.
- Breaker investigation after Telegram alert: confirmed `/Users/openclaw/.openclaw/workspace/state/breaker-paused.flag` was recreated by the live `CRITICAL-PROJECTED` trigger at `2026-06-01T06:23:41Z`; left it in place. Found no running tasks in `task_runs`, but found a stale OpenClaw-controlled Chrome on PID `39557` still attached to gateway via `127.0.0.1:18800` with multiple busy renderers on the shared `~/.openclaw/browser/openclaw/user-data` profile. Terminated the stale browser, verified port `18800` cleared, and confirmed `openclaw gateway probe` remained healthy.
- Braden requested a flag-clear retry after cost reset. Cleared `breaker-paused.flag`; the first post-clear watchdog tick at `2026-06-01 18:19:31 UTC` immediately re-fired `CRITICAL-PROJECTED`, rewrote the flag, and resumed suppression on subsequent ticks. Confirmed no replacement OpenClaw shared-profile browser/orphan appeared after killing PID `39557`. Idle-window usage samples still climbed while diagnostics were paused: `18:16:39Z day=9%`, `18:21:50Z day=12%`, `18:27:00Z day=12%`, `18:32:11Z day=17%`. Per Braden instruction, paused watchdog diagnosis / governance-patch writeup until cost settles and left the flag in place.
- Later the same morning, with spend back to low (`day 1%`, `week 8%`) and the orphaned Chrome confirmed dead, the breaker pause flag was explicitly cleared per operator instruction and cost visibility was restored after confirming two consecutive `NORMAL` watchdog ticks with the flag absent.
- Durable lesson for governance bundle: the watchdog currently treats a present `breaker-paused.flag` as an unconditional suppressor, instead of re-evaluating current Section 1 cost state each tick. Candidate patch scope only for review: when current state is `NORMAL`, the watchdog should either auto-clear the stale pause flag or emit a loud `stale pause flag; current state NORMAL` condition rather than silently suppressing alerts. This stale-flag blind spot was identified as the common root cause behind both the `05-23` and `06-23` incidents.
- Archived the former local OpenClaw canonical manifest by renaming `/Users/openclaw/Documents/OpenClaw/MANIFEST.md` to `/Users/openclaw/Documents/OpenClaw/MANIFEST-ARCHIVED-2026-06-01.md` after the canonical source moved to Notion page `34cf8b3e-f83d-81bc-a60a-c191e72df037`. Verified `MANIFEST.md` is absent at that path. No evidence that this file lives in `~/Library/Mobile Documents`, so cross-device iCloud propagation could not be confirmed from local filesystem state.