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A process supervisor that keeps the OpenClaw gateway alive through crashes, silent restarts, and update-induced failures

The OpenClaw gateway silently restarts every 50 minutes killing all active ACP sessions. Telegram integration crashes with AbortError every 20-30 minutes. The doctor --fix command hits a stack overflow and generates thousands of clobbered backup files instead of recovering. After updates, the gateway fails to restart because npm overwrites dist/ while the process is still running. There is no reliable supervision layer that keeps the gateway running, detects crash loops, and recovers gracefully. This tool wraps the gateway in a battle-tested supervisor that handles all known failure modes and keeps your agents online.

Demand Breakdown

Issues
710

Gap Assessment

UnderservedExisting solutions leave gaps. Underserved market

2 tools exist (TrendAI (Trend Micro), PM2) but gaps remain: Enterprise security focus, not a reliability/uptime tool, no crash recovery, no session persistence, no cron failsafe; No OpenClaw-specific crash pattern handling, no session persistence, no cron failsafe, no health check tuning for gateway bugs.

Features3 agent-ready prompts

Systemd/launchd service wrapper that monitors the gateway process, auto-restarts on crash, and preserves exit logs for debugging
State serializer that saves active sessions to disk before shutdown and restores them on restart so no conversation context is lost
Scheduler that wraps cron-triggered agent tasks with health checks, retry logic, and dead-letter logging for failed runs

Competitive LandscapeFREE

ProductDoesMissing
TrendAI (Trend Micro)Agentic governance gateway for the OpenClaw era with enterprise-grade monitoringEnterprise security focus, not a reliability/uptime tool, no crash recovery, no session persistence, no cron failsafe
PM2Generic Node.js process manager with restart on crash, log management, and cluster modeNo OpenClaw-specific crash pattern handling, no session persistence, no cron failsafe, no health check tuning for gateway bugs

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