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Canary Runs Before a Workflow Change Goes Wide

A workflow change that looks fine on one test case can behave badly on the tenth, because real inputs vary and the failure only shows up at a certain shape of request. This skill covers canary rollouts for agent workflows: give the new version a small share of live runs, measure one health signal against the old version on the same traffic, compare it to a threshold chosen before the rollout started, widen the share only when the signal holds, and roll back automatically rather than waiting for someone to notice.

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$ openclaw command add --name "canary share" --trigger "/canary" --source "AWS Production" --message "Report the share of runs on the new workflow version, the health signal for each version, and the threshold the rollout was allowed to move."

$ openclaw alert-rule add --name "Canary Worse Than Baseline" --group-by "workflow" --window "15m" --action "Alert when the new version error rate passes the old version by more than the threshold that was set before the rollout began"

$ openclaw auto-fix add --name "Roll Back Canary" --condition "canary_error_rate > baseline_error_rate + threshold" --action "Return the canary share to zero, keep the previous version live, and record the signal readings that triggered the rollback" --approval "auto" --notify "#ops-alerts" --max-runs "5 per day" --cooldown "30m"

$ openclaw runbook add --name "Canary Rollout" --trigger "/runbook canary" --tags "automation,release" --steps "Publish the new version. Send five percent of runs to it. Read the health signal for both versions. Hold for one full window. Widen only if the signal holds. Roll back on the first breach."

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Decide the rollback rule before you see the numbers

Canary Runs Before a Workflow Change Goes Wide

# Decide the rollback rule before you see the numbers A canary is only useful if the decision rule is fixed in advance. If you look at the readings first and then choose a threshold that the canary happens to pass, you have not tested anything, you have described the result you already had. ## Com

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