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Move Work Between Workers Without Losing a Job

A worker that leaves while holding a job leaves the job owned by nobody, and a worker that joins while jobs are being moved can receive the same job twice. Both are quiet, because the queue looks healthy in each case. This skill covers graceful rebalance for agent workers: drain a leaving worker before it stops, hand back the jobs it still holds, place those jobs before accepting new ones, and confirm every job is owned exactly once after the move.

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$ openclaw agent edit "DevOps Monitor" --append-message "When rebalancing, stop taking new work before handing back the jobs you hold, and report each job you hand back so it can be placed."

$ openclaw alert-rule add --name "Job Without Owner" --group-by "queue" --window "5m" --action "Alert when a job is neither running nor queued, so a rebalance has dropped it."

$ openclaw auto-fix add --name "Return Held Jobs" --condition "worker.leaving = true and worker.held_jobs > 0" --action "Hand every held job back before the worker stops, then confirm the queue owns each one." --approval "auto" --notify "#ops-alerts" --max-runs "20 per day" --cooldown "5m"

$ openclaw runbook add --name "Rebalance Workers" --trigger "/runbook rebalance" --tags "development,queue" --steps "Stop the leaving worker from taking new work. Hand back its held jobs. Place every returned job. Confirm each job has exactly one owner. Then admit new work."

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Move work between workers without losing a job

Move Work Between Workers Without Losing a Job

# Move work between workers without losing a job A worker that leaves while holding a job leaves the job owned by nobody, and a worker that joins while jobs are being reassigned can receive the same job twice. Both are quiet, because the queue looks healthy either way. ## Stop intake before you ha

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Difficulty: Advanced
Category: development
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