OpenClaw Signals: Bus Hygiene, Config Rigor, and Event Triggers

PR

PR #330: Bus Teardown Sequencing and Process Lifecycle

The current changeset leans heavily into handler registration cleanup. If you have custom bus targets, review the new teardown sequence. It's less about new features and more about preventing stale processes from haunting your daemon.

PR #328: Strict Configuration Precedence Enforcement

PR #328 reworks how configs are merged at boot time. This is high-signal for anyone running ephemeral environments where environment variables previously overwrote file settings inconsistently.

Issue

Design Discussion: Event-Driven vs Polling for Resource Limits

This thread explores moving from strict polling to event-driven triggers for agents. It’s a classic tradeoff: latency vs. resource usage, but the proposed schema looks solid for low-power nodes.

Issue #1560: Watchdog False Positives on High-Frequency Signals

There's a timing bug where high-frequency DBus signals can accidentally trigger the watchdog. Until this is patched, you might need to widen your timeout thresholds in busy environments.