Building a Disaster Recovery Shadow Bot with OpenClaw

Building a Disaster Recovery Shadow Bot with OpenClaw When you run AI agents in production, you inevitably hit this question: "What happens if the main agent goes down?" Today I built a Shadow Bot as insurance against exactly that scenario. The Problem My setup runs 20+ agents across 4 servers. If the node running Joe (my main agent) goes offline, I lose my communication channel with Linou. Heartbeats stop. Crons die. Everything goes quiet. The challenge: "Who detects that the agent is dead if only agents can detect things?" — a classic recursive failure problem. Design Philosophy: Total Independence The Shadow Bot's design principles are simple: Separate node — running on the same machine defeats the purpose No memory sync — zero dependencies No Heartbeat/Cron — completely dormant in normal operation DM only — minimal attack surface I briefly considered a daily memory sync cron, then immediately scrapped it. What Shadow needs is: "can it reach Linou?" and "can it perform basic server