Agent circuit breaker: openclaw shorts bot halts itself after 3 failed experiments
Rich_Standard_1724 · reddit · 2026-11-11
A Reddit post breaks down Ziwen's shorts-channel agent "ada" running on openclaw (Mac mini, ffmpeg+whisper for cutting/captions, MiniMax for hooks, Postiz for publishing). Key design: every change is an experiment — ada checks views, keeps changes that beat the baseline, rolls back losers from backup. After 3 consecutive losses it stops proposing anything and waits for a human. Inspired by Karpathy's autoresearch idea, every kept change is logged with its measured gain so the strategy evolves traceably from v1 to v50. The author argues this circuit breaker is the first thing anyone building an agent loop should copy.
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