Giving Claude Code a Heart
Dev.to AI
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Generative AI
An agent heartbeat, stripped of the branding, is three things: a timer, a state file, and a decision step. That's it. Something wakes up on a schedule, reads a document describing what the world looks like, and decides whether to act. If you squint past the WebSocket plumbing and the always-on process, that's what OpenClaw's heartbeat daemon is doing. I want to be careful here. A lot of people built real work on OpenClaw.