OpenClaw Command Queue: Stop Agent Runs From Colliding The first time an AI agent feels “alive,” people start sending it messages the way they would message a teammate: one thought, then another correction, then a screenshot, then “actually wait.” That is normal human behavior. It is also exactly where unattended agents can get messy if every inbound message starts a fresh run immediately. OpenClaw’s command queue exists for that boring but critical middle layer. It keeps inbound auto-reply runs from colliding, while still letting separate sessions run in parallel when your setup allows it. That matters for Slack, Telegram, WhatsApp, Discord, Signal, iMessage, webchat, and any other inbound surface that uses the gateway reply pipeline. The short version: OpenClaw serializes work per session, then applies a broader global concurrency cap. One conversation should not have two active agent runs writing to the same session transcript at the same time.…