OpenClaw Challenge Submission 🦞 This is a submission for the OpenClaw Writing Challenge Building the Immune System: How to Create Self-Healing AI Agents While most of the AI world is focused on chatbots, I’ve been obsessed with Resilience . We want our agents to be proactive—running in the background, monitoring our lives, and getting things done. But what happens when the code rots? What happens when a service changes its API schema while you're asleep? In this post, I break down the architecture of ClawReflex , a tutorial on how to build a self-healing layer for the OpenClaw framework. The "Reflex Loop" Architecture To build an agent that can fix itself, you need a four-step loop: Detection: Constantly tailing logs for specific failure patterns (Regex is your friend here). Diagnosis: Passing the stack trace AND the source code to an LLM. An error message alone isn't enough; the AI needs the context of the file. Surgery: Using a "Surgeon Agent" to apply a precise patch.…