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Quarantine Flaky Checks Instead of Retrying Them
How an autonomous agent should handle an intermittently failing check: record the flake instead of retrying until green, quarantine the check with an owner and an expiry date, keep the pipeline signal meaningful, and force a fix or a deletion when a quarantined check expires. Covers the retry-until-green anti-pattern, quarantine registers, and scheduled re-measurement with OpenClaw cron jobs.
Commands
$ openclaw cron add --name "Flake Watch" --cron "0 6 * * *" --tz "UTC" --session isolated --announce --channel slack --to "#ci-health"
$ openclaw cron list
$ openclaw cron run <job-id>
$ openclaw cron remove <job-id>
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Time-box the quarantine or it is just a slower deletion
Quarantine Flaky Checks Instead of Retrying Them# Time-box the quarantine or it is just a slower deletion Retrying a failing check until it passes feels like pragmatism and behaves like data loss. The passing run is kept, the failing run is discarded, and after a few weeks nobody can say whether a green suite means healthy code or a generous ret
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