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Change a Shared Record Shape Without Breaking Old Readers

Two runs that share a record may disagree about its shape, and a change made for a new reader can break an old one that still reads the previous shape. The break is not in the writer, which keeps producing valid records, but in the reader that no longer understands them. This skill covers schema evolution for agent data: add fields rather than rename them, make every reader ignore fields it does not know, remove a field only after no reader reads it, and keep the writer able to produce the previous shape.

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$ openclaw command add --name "shape-change" --trigger "/shape-change" --source "AWS Production" --message "Describe a shared record change as an addition the old readers can ignore, and keep the previous shape readable until no reader depends on it."

$ openclaw alert-rule add --name "Old Reader Failed" --group-by "reader" --window "1h" --action "Alert when a reader fails on a record it used to read correctly, which points at a shape change it did not expect."

$ openclaw auto-fix add --name "Keep Old Shape" --condition "reader.version < writer.shape_version" --action "Have the writer emit both the old and the new field for the length of the change, rather than renaming the field in place." --approval "auto" --notify "#ops-info" --cooldown "30m"

$ openclaw runbook add --name "Record Shape Change" --trigger "/runbook schema-change" --tags "development,data" --steps "Add the new field. Teach readers to ignore unknown fields. Have the writer emit both shapes during the change. Remove the old field only when no reader reads it."

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Change a shared record shape without breaking old readers

Change a Shared Record Shape Without Breaking Old Readers

# Change a shared record shape without breaking old readers Two runs that share a record may disagree about its shape, and a change made for a new reader can break an old one that still reads the previous shape. The break is not in the writer, which keeps producing valid records, but in the reader

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