Fabian G. Williams aka Fabs

Fabian G. Williams

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My Agents Left Me 116 Git Repos. So I Built a Source of Truth.

I let agents build software on my Mac for months, and one morning I could not tell one of them where my own project actually lived. This is the eight hours it took to fix that, and the legend that now keeps my agents honest.

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Stat cards: 116 local repos, 165 on GitHub, 113 logical projects, 3 duplicate clusters, and zero sources of truth becoming one

A few weeks ago I asked an agent to pick up work on one of my own projects. It opened a fresh terminal, looked around, found nothing it recognized, and built a brand new copy of a project I already had. That was not the agent being careless. Nothing on the machine had ever told it where the real one lived. The only map of my own work was a memory in my head, and a memory does not survive contact with a machine where agents do the building.

Your Agent Said It Did the Work. I Checked the Disk.

I run a six-agent fleet for a non-profit. One morning the agents began reporting work they never did. Here is the fabrication pattern, and the receipts discipline that fixed it.

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A six-agent fleet dashboard showing each agent, its model, cron jobs, and reporting output

Every morning one of my agents sends me a clean status report. Posts cross-posted. Messages delivered. Contacts processed. For a while I read those reports the way you read a receipt from a cashier you trust. Then the automation started giving me time back, so I sat down to run a retrospective and checked the reports against what was actually on disk. The trust did not survive contact with the evidence.

I Run Five OpenClaw Agents for 72 Cents a Day

The default OpenClaw heartbeat is burning wallets. A 3-line config change — 55m interval, gpt-4o-mini on the loop, activeHours window — stacks to a 98% cost reduction. Here is the math, the config, and the free template.

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Waterfall chart showing OpenClaw heartbeat daily cost dropping from $66 to $0.72 after three stacked config fixes

Five OpenClaw agents run the content and executive-assistant pipeline for MACONA — a nonprofit I volunteer with — at $0.72 a day. The most common support question on r/OpenClaw is “$25 in 9 hours, help.” The gap between those two numbers is three config decisions stacked on top of each other: heartbeat interval, model on the loop, and hours of operation. None of them are clever. All of them are usually set wrong by default.

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