Diagnosing Operational Drift and Task Amnesia in OpenClaw with Gemini 2.5 Flash on Proxmox
OpenClaw, when configured with the Gemini 2.5 Flash model on a Proxmox VM, exhibits significant issues with operational drift and task amnesia in maintaining persistent workflows. The agent operates effectively for single tasks, but struggles when tasked with more complex, continuous operations.
Users report core issues with the configuration:
- Automated GitHub Organization Failures: Despite set protocols, the agent fails to autonomously manage GitHub Discussions and Projects without manual prompts.
- Selective Persistence: Though the setup successfully pings Healthchecks every 10 minutes, more complex tasks, such as sending daily Slack reports, are acknowledged but not executed.
- Tool Hallucination and Memory Volatility: The agent reports successful file manipulations that don't occur, forgets stored credentials for GitHub or Drive mid-session, and fails to format Slack messages correctly.
- Language Policy Drift: The agent inconsistently applies a specified prompt enforcing Spanish for communication and English for GitHub documentation, often reverting to Spanish inappropriately.
With the system resources averaging a 75% load, these issues may stem from a potential hardware bottleneck affecting the OpenClaw wrapper or underlying processes. Attempts to utilize commands like cat and ls for verification often result in no output during high resource usage.
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