My OpenClaw agent wouldn't stay autonomous. Here's what fixed it.

If you’ve set up automations in OpenClaw and they worked for a few hours then stopped silently, this is for you. The agent forgets its instructions, cron jobs show up empty, and you end up babysitting something that was supposed to be autonomous. I had the same problem. It took me a week of trial and error to get my agent to actually run on its own. If you’re hitting the same wall, here’s what fixed it for me. One thing before we start: don’t use OpenClaw to configure itself. Use Claude Code or any coding agent to write the skill files, the rules, the scripts.