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Attach a Freshness Bound to a Reused Answer

A stored answer saves a call, but nothing says how old it may be before it misleads, so a value that has changed since it was stored is served as if it were current. This skill covers freshness bounds for agent answers: give every stored answer a bound on its age, serve it inside that bound and fetch again outside it, let the bound differ by how fast the answer changes, and prefer a fresh answer over a stale one when both are available. A bound is a promise about the oldest an answer may be, not a guess about when it will change.

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$ openclaw command add --name "freshness-bound" --trigger "/freshness-bound" --source "Ops Console" --message "Give every stored answer a bound on its age, serve it inside that bound, and fetch again outside it rather than serving a value that may have changed."

$ openclaw alert-rule add --name "Stale Served" --group-by "answer" --window "1h" --action "Alert when a stored answer is served past its bound, which points at a bound that is missing or measured from the wrong moment."

$ openclaw auto-fix add --name "Fetch Past Bound" --condition "now - stored_at > fresh_bound" --action "Fetch the answer again instead of serving the stored copy, and store the new copy with its own bound." --approval "auto" --notify "#ops-info" --cooldown "30m"

$ openclaw runbook add --name "Freshness Bounds" --trigger "/runbook freshness" --tags "development,data" --steps "Measure how fast each answer changes. Set a bound per answer rather than one bound for all. Serve inside the bound and fetch outside it. Prefer the fresh answer when both are at hand. Revisit a bound when an answer changes faster than before."

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A stored answer needs a bound, not a guess

Attach a Freshness Bound to a Reused Answer

A stored answer saves a call and also hides how old it is. Without a bound, a value that has changed since it was stored is served as if it were current, and the error does not show up as a failure but as a wrong result. The bound is a promise: the oldest the answer may be before it is fetched agai

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