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Keep a Session on One Worker

When work for one session is spread across several workers, each worker holds only part of the state and the session starts to behave as if it has no memory of its own recent turns. Session affinity routes every request that carries the same session key to the same worker while other sessions spread freely. This skill covers sticky routing for agent work: choose the session key, route by it, keep the session on one worker until it ends, and define what happens when that worker goes away so a session can move without losing its place. Affinity is a promise about where a session lives, not a guarantee that it lives forever.

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$ openclaw command add --name "session-affinity" --trigger "/affinity" --source "Ops Console" --message "Route every request that carries the same session key to the same worker, so a session keeps its place while other sessions spread across the pool."
$ openclaw alert-rule add --name "Session Split" --group-by "session" --window "15m" --action "Alert when one session is seen on more than one worker, which points at affinity being dropped and the session losing its recent state."
$ openclaw auto-fix add --name "Pin Session" --condition "session.workers > 1" --action "Re route the session to a single worker and release the others, rather than letting two workers serve the same session at once." --approval "auto" --notify "#ops-info" --cooldown "15m"
$ openclaw runbook add --name "Sticky Sessions" --trigger "/runbook affinity" --tags "development,ops" --steps "Choose the session key. Route by that key to one worker. Keep the session there until it ends. Decide where a session goes when its worker is lost. Let sessions without state spread freely."

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Affinity says where a session lives, not that it lives forever

Keep a Session on One Worker

Spread one session across several workers and each worker holds only part of the state. The session then answers as if it has no memory of its own recent turns, and the fault looks like a model problem rather than a routing one. Session affinity fixes this by routing every request that carries the

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