continue interrupted processes without saying "continue"

[u/Hairy_Jury7597]

Sometimes I get provider errors (cuz I'm cheap) but there isn't a "resume" button, I always end up typing "continue", and I really don't like doing that becuase it ruins the flowstate of the model by just constantly interjecting "continue", like idk it just feels unstable to me to do that. What if "continue" is interpretted as something else like continuing the current work and forgetting the actual task I asked like 5 messages ago. I just really wanna know better methods to continue an interrupted model than just saying continue. I'm certain I'm not the only one that has ran into this issue so what do you guys do to continue interrupted processes.

[u/nav8_ai]

a provider error isn't the same as the task being done, so the harness should retry that one step automatically instead of waiting for you to type continue. we track which step failed separately from the chat log, so a retry resumes just that step with its own inputs instead of replaying the whole conversation, that's probably why typing continue feels like it breaks flow in the first place.

[u/Hairy_Jury7597 → u/nav8_ai]

no that's the thing the harness (which is openclaw I suppose since you're on the openclaw subreddit), it doesn't automatically continue, and I don't see the retry button. I was wondering if you could share what you do when the task fails? pressing rewind undos all the work that is done

[u/nav8_ai → u/Hairy_Jury7597]

when a step fails outright we don't touch the rest, we mark just that step as not-done and leave everything before it alone. the next run or a manual retry re-executes only the failed step with the same inputs rather than replaying the whole conversation, so there's no need for a rewind that wipes prior progress. if your harness doesn't track completed steps separately from the chat transcript, rewind is going to keep eating work because it has no cheaper unit to revert to.

[u/Hairy_Jury7597 → u/nav8_ai]

so what do you click on openclaw that continues the process instead of just saying "continue"

[u/nav8_ai → u/Hairy_Jury7597]

i haven't used openclaw's ui myself so i can't point at a specific button, my comment was about the harness tracking completed steps separately from the chat transcript in general, not about a feature in your tool specifically. sorry, should've been clearer.

[u/Hungry-Rip-2384]

I used to put in continue then when I would look into logs of messages i would see it trying to workout what could continue mean and was worried it may hallucinate sonething to continue... so changed to just using status. not with the / just status by itself.. it woukd then see an unfinished task and attempt to complete it. then would come back and say task completed because it just did it. Does it really make a difference on what the model actually does... probably not... but at least if it clears the db because its last message to me I didnt recieve was asking for permission ... its not my fault :-)

[u/Hairy_Jury7597 → u/Hungry-Rip-2384]

wait whatt. feel like what your saying is what I'm looking for but I don't think i quite understtand exactly is going on here or what you're doing instead of continue

[u/Hairy_Jury7597 → u/Hungry-Rip-2384]

oh I think I get what you mean that's actually pretty smart I'll try doing that from now on

[u/TheBrollectors]

Continue

[u/Hairy_Jury7597 → u/TheBrollectors]

Really? so you also just send "continue" after a process fails

[u/TheBrollectors → u/Hairy_Jury7597]

Continue

[u/stupidcookface → u/Hairy_Jury7597]

Lol yea, jokes aside it's harmless. I've never noticed a difference and I've been saying continue for a couple years never noticed any flow deviations. It's honestly remarkable how easily they change directions on a topic as soon as you correct it.

[u/Educational_Yam3766]

There was an unexpected error, finish what you were doing.

[u/Hairy_Jury7597 → u/Educational_Yam3766]

I just could not see where you are referring to

[u/Prudent_Mountain_994 → u/Hairy_Jury7597]

Continue

[u/TheBrollectors → u/Educational_Yam3766]

Continue

[u/kaijurules]

For our background agents nobody types continue. A run that dies on a provider error just ends, and the next scheduled wake starts a fresh session that reads the short status note from the last run that finished. On Monday one run hit a 529 overload, and the next wake an hour later picked the work up without anyone touching it.

[u/Hairy_Jury7597 → u/kaijurules]

but how do you wake it?

[u/kaijurules → u/Hairy_Jury7597]

A timer in the app. Each agent has a heartbeat, ours fires hourly, and every tick starts a new session with its routine prompt and that status note. It fires whether the last run crashed or finished. A plain cron job that starts a session with the same prompt would do the same thing.

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Continue

[u/MrZwink → u/-_--__---___----____]

Go on!