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Remove heartbeat file

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How can I remove the heartbeat.md file? It seems to be auto-regenerated

Solution

HEARTBEAT.md

HEARTBEAT.md

is one of the workspace template files OpenClaw seeds for you. If it’s missing, commands like

openclaw setup

openclaw setup

openclaw onboard

openclaw onboard

openclaw configure

openclaw configure

will happily recreate the default templates (so it looks “auto-regenerated”). Docs: https://docs.openclaw.ai/concepts/agent-workspace

What you probably want instead:

1) If your goal is “don’t spend tokens on heartbeat”
- Leave

HEARTBEAT.md

HEARTBEAT.md

present but effectively empty (blank / comments / headers). OpenClaw will skip the heartbeat run to save API calls when the file is empty.
Docs: https://docs.openclaw.ai/gateway/heartbeat and template: https://docs.openclaw.ai/reference/templates/HEARTBEAT

2) If your goal is “disable heartbeats completely”

{
  agents: { defaults: { heartbeat: { every: "0m" } } }
}

{
  agents: { defaults: { heartbeat: { every: "0m" } } }
}

3) If you truly want the file to stay deleted
Disable bootstrap file creation (so OpenClaw stops re-seeding templates), then delete it:

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Remove heartbeat file

✅Solved

How can I remove the heartbeat.md file? It seems to be auto-regenerated

Solution

HEARTBEAT.md

HEARTBEAT.md

is one of the workspace template files OpenClaw seeds for you. If it’s missing, commands like

openclaw setup

openclaw setup

openclaw onboard

openclaw onboard

openclaw configure

openclaw configure

HEARTBEAT.md

HEARTBEAT.md

{
  agents: { defaults: { heartbeat: { every: "0m" } } }
}

{
  agents: { defaults: { heartbeat: { every: "0m" } } }
}

3) If you truly want the file to stay deleted
Disable bootstrap file creation (so OpenClaw stops re-seeding templates), then delete it:

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