Can't write outside of workspace
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Despite not being sandboxed, and workspaceonly: false, I can't write outside of my workspace. I desire this to be able to edit my obsidian vault. Specifically my discord sessions needs this capability but I edit my obsidian vault all the time from any session. My openclaw is claiming it must be a bug
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Makes sense — there’s no “include these extra roots” knob for
If you want multiple agents to share the same markdown vault, the least-annoying setup is:
- pick a common parent workspace, e.g.
- put the vault at
- point each agent’s
- then have agents read/write
Two small gotchas:
- a symlink from inside the workspace → outside usually won’t help (the FS safety code resolves real paths and blocks “alias escapes”).
- if you do share one vault across many agents, you may occasionally get “dueling edits” (two agents editing same note). If that becomes annoying, a nice pattern is “one vault agent owns writes, others ask it to update notes”.
If you want that “inclusion roots” feature, it’s a totally reasonable issue request — I’d file it as something like
If this thread’s resolved, please mark the solution message so Answer Overflow indexes it (right‑click message → Apps →
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write/editexecIf you want multiple agents to share the same markdown vault, the least-annoying setup is:
- pick a common parent workspace, e.g.
~/clawd- put the vault at
~/clawd/vault~/clawd/shared/vault- point each agent’s
workspace~/clawd- then have agents read/write
vault/...Two small gotchas:
- a symlink from inside the workspace → outside usually won’t help (the FS safety code resolves real paths and blocks “alias escapes”).
- if you do share one vault across many agents, you may occasionally get “dueling edits” (two agents editing same note). If that becomes annoying, a nice pattern is “one vault agent owns writes, others ask it to update notes”.
If you want that “inclusion roots” feature, it’s a totally reasonable issue request — I’d file it as something like
tools.fs.allowRootstools.fs.extraRootsIf this thread’s resolved, please mark the solution message so Answer Overflow indexes it (right‑click message → Apps →
Mark Solution).
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