There were two issues with some other 3p harnesses:

1. Poor cache utilization. I put up a few PRs to fix these in OpenClaw, but the problem is their users update to new versions very slowly, so the vast majority of requests continued to use cache inefficiently.

2. Spiky traffic. A number of these harnesses use un-jittered cron, straining services due to weird traffic shape. Same problem -- it's patched, but users upgrade slowly.

We tried to fix these, but in the end, it's not something we can directly influence on users' behalf, and there will likely be more similar issues in the future. If people want to use these they are welcome to, but subscriptions clients need to be more efficient than that.

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SyneRyder 5 hours ago | parent | next [-]

How much jitter would you prefer, how many seconds / minutes out? I have some morning tasks that run while I'm asleep via claude -p, and it sounds like I'm slightly contributing to your spikes (presumably hourly and on quarter hours).

	▲	Deathmax 4 hours ago \| parent [-]
		There's prior art from Claude's own scheduled tasks' jitter: https://code.claude.com/docs/en/scheduled-tasks#jitter > Recurring tasks fire up to 10% of their period late, capped at 15 minutes. An hourly job might fire anywhere from :00 to :06. > One-shot tasks scheduled for the top or bottom of the hour fire up to 90 seconds early.

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dollspace 5 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

If you give doll a list of things you want to see from third party harnesses, a compliance checklist it will make sure the one it is building follows it to the letter.