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openclaw-ssh plugin: retry through session-compaction failures #4

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19 changes: 18 additions & 1 deletion src/plugins/openclaw-ssh-plugin.mjs
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Expand Up @@ -120,7 +120,24 @@ export function createOpenClawSshPlugin(options) {
`openclaw agent --agent ${shellEscape(agentId)} --json --session-id ${shellEscape(sessionId)} --message ${escapedMessage} --timeout ${timeoutSeconds} --thinking ${thinking} 2>/dev/null`
].join(' && ');

return execSsh(sshHost, cmd, timeoutSeconds * 1000 + 15000);
// Long transcripts (20+ events) trip OpenClaw session compaction every
// ~10 messages: one call exits 1 with empty output, then the session
// recovers WITH its context intact (verified: post-failure recall of
// pre-failure messages works). Retry with backoff rides through it;
// without this, every long scenario dies mid-transcript.
const delays = [5000, 15000];
let lastErr;
for (let attempt = 0; attempt <= delays.length; attempt++) {
try {
return await execSsh(sshHost, cmd, timeoutSeconds * 1000 + 15000);
} catch (e) {

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P2 Badge Gate retries to the compaction error

This catches and retries every execSsh rejection, not just the documented exit-1/empty-stdout compaction hiccup. In cases where SSH times out or JSON parsing fails after openclaw agent has already accepted the --message, the retry sends the same OMATS event again with the same sessionId; the runner contract delivers each event once, so a later successful retry can score a transcript with duplicated room events instead of failing fast. Please retry only the exact empty-output compaction failure and rethrow other errors.

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lastErr = e;
if (attempt < delays.length) {
await new Promise((r) => setTimeout(r, delays[attempt]));
}
}
}
throw lastErr;
}

async function ensureBootstrapped() {
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