I've been running openclaw agents on my mac mini for two months. The agents themselves are not the problem
The problems are: a browser session that logs itself out at 3am. A cookie that expired and broke the cron at 7am. A puppeteer Chrome version that got wiped by a cache cleaner I forgot I had.
My agents are smart(but naive). My infrastructure is duct tape
Is anyone solving the boring layer? Persistent auth, stable browsers, "this account is mine" identity that survives across sessions? Or is everyone else also waking up to a 6am Telegram saying the cron broke again?
tbh it’s no exaggeration to say the WHOLE OPENCLAW ECO is just held together by duct tape. the community was really blowing up about it: https://www.reddit.com/r/openclaw/comments/1s4ixul/its_time_to_be_real_here/
i tried browserbase for a bit, but i couldn't figure out how to manually log in and save my cookies like i do in my own browser. i ended up just building session persistence into agent-browser and set an alias in my zshrc so i could just run 'ab' for my agents.
i was using the playwright chrome extension for a while too, but that thing was super fragile. it needs custom mcp config, but it might be worth your attention.