OpenClaw in Practice: One File Path Eliminated 84% of Tool Calls — A Cron Job Debugging Story
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OpenClaw’s daily-ai-news cron job kept timing out. The root cause: a missing absolute path in the SKILL.md caused the Agent to spend 15 exec calls searching for a tool every run. Messages 165→54, exec calls 44→7 — one file path beat any algorithm optimization.