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Decide When a Window of Events Is Complete

A step that finalizes a batch on wall-clock time will close the window while events that belong to it are still arriving, so the totals are wrong and nothing reports an error. This skill covers a watermark: track the lowest event time still expected, close a window only when the watermark has passed its end, allow a bounded lateness tolerance, and route an event that arrives after its window closed into a reconcile path instead of dropping it.

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$ openclaw command add --name "window watermark" --trigger "/watermark" --source "AWS Production" --message "Report the current watermark, the windows still open, and the count of events that arrived after their window had already closed."

$ openclaw alert-rule add --name "Late Events Rising" --group-by "window" --window "1h" --action "Alert when the count of events arriving after their window closed passes the lateness tolerance, because the windows are being sealed too early"

$ openclaw auto-fix add --name "Hold Window Open" --condition "arrival_age > lateness_allowance" --action "Hold the window open until the watermark passes its end, then finalize once, and send any still later event to the reconcile path rather than the live totals" --approval "auto" --notify "#ops-info" --max-runs "30 per day" --cooldown "15m"

$ openclaw runbook add --name "Reconcile a Closed Window" --trigger "/runbook late-event" --tags "automation,data" --steps "Find the event and the window it belongs to. Confirm the window is closed. Reapply the event to the totals. Record how late it was so the tolerance can be reviewed."

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Close a window when the watermark passes, not when the clock does

Decide When a Window of Events Is Complete

# Close a window when the watermark passes, not when the clock does A step that finalizes a batch on wall-clock time closes the window and then events belonging to it arrive a moment later. The totals are wrong, no error is raised, and the mistake is invisible because the count simply comes out a l

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