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Replay Old Work Without Starving Live Work

After a gap a consumer must replay a backlog, but an unthrottled replay competes with live traffic for the same pool and can push live work behind old work, so the catch-up causes a second incident. This skill covers throttled backfill for agent work: give replay a share of capacity rather than the whole pool, pause replay when live lag grows and resume when it falls, checkpoint the position after each batch so a stopped replay continues instead of restarting, and alert when the backlog is not shrinking so a replay that cannot keep up is seen early.

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$ openclaw command add --name "backfill-share" --trigger "/backfill" --source "Ops Console" --message "Limit a replay to a share of the pool and leave the rest for live work, so catching up on a backlog does not push live traffic behind old work."

$ openclaw alert-rule add --name "Backlog Not Shrinking" --group-by "consumer" --window "30m" --action "Alert when the backlog size does not fall across the window, which points at a replay that cannot keep up with new work at its current share."

$ openclaw auto-fix add --name "Pause Replay" --condition "live_lag_ms > lag_limit" --action "Pause the replay until live lag falls, then resume from the last checkpoint rather than letting old work delay live work." --approval "auto" --notify "#ops-info" --cooldown "10m"

$ openclaw runbook add --name "Throttled Backfill" --trigger "/runbook backfill" --tags "development,ops" --steps "Measure live lag. Set replay to a share of the pool. Pause replay when live lag grows. Checkpoint after each batch. Resume from the checkpoint, not the start. Alert when the backlog stops shrinking."

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Replay old work without starving live work

Replay Old Work Without Starving Live Work

# Replay old work without starving live work After a gap a consumer must catch up on a backlog. An unthrottled replay competes with live traffic for the same pool and can push live work behind old work, so the catch-up causes a second incident while the first is barely over. ## Give replay a share

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