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Wait for Every Branch Before Joining a Fan-Out

A run that splits work across several branches and joins as answers start arriving can decide on a partial set and never notice the branch that was slow, and that branch may carry the answer that changes the decision. This skill covers the gather barrier for fan-out agent work: define the full set of branches before starting, wait for each to report success or failure, record which are missing, and never present a partial set as a complete one.

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$ openclaw agent add --name "Fan-Out Coordinator" --trigger "/fanout" --source "AWS Production" --message "Spawn one branch per item in the input set, then wait for every branch to report before joining. Record any branch that did not report."

$ openclaw alert-rule add --name "Incomplete Gather" --group-by "run" --window "10m" --action "Alert when a join completes with fewer branch reports than branches started."

$ openclaw auto-fix add --name "Wait For Stragglers" --condition "gather.reports < gather.branches" --action "Hold the join, or mark the result incomplete rather than deciding on the branches that finished first." --approval "auto" --notify "#ops-alerts" --cooldown "10m"

$ openclaw runbook add --name "Fan-Out Join" --trigger "/runbook fanout" --tags "development,parallel" --steps "Count the branches before starting. Wait for one report per branch. Record failures as answers, not as silence. Join only on a complete set, or label the result incomplete."

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Wait for every branch before joining

Wait for Every Branch Before Joining a Fan-Out

# Wait for every branch before joining A run that splits work across several branches and joins as answers start arriving can decide on a partial set and never notice the branch that was slow. That branch may carry the one answer that changes the decision. ## Count the branches first Write down h

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