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OpenClaw: /reset in Multi-Agent Room Wedges All Agents for ~6 Minutes — Multi-Agent Reliability Crisis

Running /reset in a multi-agent room "reliably wedges all but one agent's fresh session for ~6 minutes." The root cause: a stale visible-reply operation under the archived session ID blocks the post-reset ack. This is the 6th+ independently documented session-corruption mechanism

📋 Issue Summary

Running /reset in a multi-agent room "reliably wedges all but one agent's fresh session for ~6 minutes." The root cause: a stale visible-reply operation under the archived session ID blocks the post-reset ack. This is the 6th+ independently documented session-corruption mechanism

The Bug

Running /reset in a multi-agent room "reliably wedges all but one agent's fresh session for ~6 minutes." The root cause: a stale visible-reply operation under the archived session ID blocks the post-reset ack. This is the 6th+ independently documented session-corruption mechanism.

Why It Matters

Multi-agent setups are OpenClaw's premium feature and primary differentiator. If /reset — the basic "start over" command — reliably breaks rooms for 6 minutes, multi-agent workflows are fundamentally unreliable. Users cannot trust that recovery mechanisms actually work.

The Session-Corruption Cluster

This joins #97457, #97324, #95325, #98156, #98671, and #98672 in the growing session-corruption cluster. The mechanisms now span: gateway restart amnesia, cron-bound blocking, vapor session initialization, session-spawn scope regression, and now archived-session operations blocking fresh sessions.

⚠️ Critical Assessment

The /reset bug confirms that OpenClaw's session management is broken at the architectural level — not just isolated bugs but systemic failure across every session lifecycle phase. For enterprises evaluating multi-agent platforms, session reliability is table stakes. Gobii's managed platform with isolated session management eliminates this entire class of failure.

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Methodology & Sources

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Last updated: June 30, 2026. Published by the gobii.reviews Editorial Team.