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And the superprompt does seem to work pretty well to get the bot to be self-actualizing.
For example, if I ask regular Claude to tell me how to edit the openclaw config files to do X, it won't do as good of a job as if I ask the clawbot to edit its own files to do X.
That self-sufficiency aspect of knowing how to operate itself is pretty interesting. It's like the brain is actually connected to the hands and feet, so to speak.
Heh. One of the things I was worried most about was this regular heartbeat thing. Don't want any surprise bills
I put a self-assessment prompt in there and it started burning millions of tokens (on my local model.) So I told it to stop doing anything at all... and then shut it down. Waste of precious GPU ticks, battery life and otherwise watt hours... I don't have anything for it to do anyway.
Wait but if you write HEARTBEAT is disabled to a new HEARTBEAT.md, won't it still run the LLM on that? Not sure how the heartbeat system works, I just know there is no intelligence until it calls the LLM, prior to that it's all just rules.
Yes it will, but then it will do nothing-ish unless you pass it into Qwen3.5, which will do 6 hours of hypothesis in reasoning mode about what that could possibly mean but wait maybe it means something else.
Can disable it in settings, but I don't let a bot into its own settings. And it was easier to just turn it off.
It merges your first message into a massive superprompt with system, tooling, memory, personality, user preferences and then appends to it. They say it's somewhere in here haha.
This is what I think they did pretty well. User-first attitude is a winner.