fix(heartbeat): refresh stale Current time line on every helper call (#44993)#75025
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| // Matches a single "Current time: ..." line (anchored to start of line so | |||
| // occurrences in interior body text are not rewritten by accident). | |||
| const CURRENT_TIME_LINE_RE = /^Current time:.*$/gm; | |||
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The new matcher ^Current time:.*$ is broad enough to rewrite user-authored content, not just the helper’s own injected timestamp line. In the heartbeat path, cron reminder text is passed through verbatim (src/infra/heartbeat-events-filter.ts:81-104) before appendCronStyleCurrentTimeLine runs, so any reminder line that starts with Current time: will be replaced with timeLine, and additional matching lines are dropped by the collapse logic. This silently corrupts reminder content and can change what the agent relays; matching the specific injected format (or using a sentinel marker) would avoid that regression.
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Valid concern — the matcher is currently too loose. The injected timeLine always uses the format Current time: YYYY-MM-DD HH:MM TZ from resolveCronStyleNow(), so I will tighten CURRENT_TIME_LINE_RE to that exact shape (^Current time: \d{4}-\d{2}-\d{2} \d{2}:\d{2} [A-Za-z_/+\-0-9]+$/gm) so user-authored reminder lines that happen to start with "Current time:" pass through unchanged.
Will push the tightened pattern + a regression test for cron reminder pass-through in a follow-up commit on this branch.
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Codex review: needs real behavior proof before merge. Reviewed June 14, 2026, 11:11 AM ET / 15:11 UTC. Summary PR surface: Source +33, Tests +72. Total +105 across 2 files. Reproducibility: yes. Source inspection gives a high-confidence path: pass a prompt that already contains the helper's generated two-line current-time block into Review metrics: none identified. Merge readiness Overall follows the weaker of proof and patch quality, so missing proof can cap an otherwise strong patch. Rank-up moves:
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Security Review detailsBest possible solution: Land the focused shared-helper refresh with its regression tests after the PR body includes current-head real behavior proof for two-line refresh, duplicate collapse, and user-authored passthrough. Do we have a high-confidence way to reproduce the issue? Yes. Source inspection gives a high-confidence path: pass a prompt that already contains the helper's generated two-line current-time block into Is this the best way to solve the issue? Yes for the code shape. Fixing the shared helper is the narrowest maintainable solution because heartbeat and session-reset callers already pass fresh timestamps; the remaining blocker is proof quality, not a better implementation layer. AGENTS.md: found and applied where relevant. Codex review notes: model internal, reasoning high; reviewed against 771881d1892f. Label changesLabel changes:
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| // Restricting to the helper's exact format avoids rewriting user-authored | ||
| // reminder/cron content that happens to start with `Current time:`. | ||
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| /^Current time: \d{4}-\d{2}-\d{2} \d{2}:\d{2} \([^)]+\) \/ \d{4}-\d{2}-\d{2} \d{2}:\d{2} UTC$/gm; |
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The new CURRENT_TIME_LINE_RE only matches lines like Current time: YYYY-MM-DD HH:MM (...) / YYYY-MM-DD HH:MM UTC, but resolveCronStyleNow() constructs injected lines as Current time: ${formattedTime} (...) / ... where formattedTime is typically natural language (e.g. Thursday, April 30th, 2026 - 10:00 AM) from formatUserTime(). In normal runtime this means CURRENT_TIME_LINE_RE.test(base) is false even when the helper already injected a line, so the function falls into append mode and leaves stale lines in place (and can keep adding new ones), which fails the intended stale-time refresh behavior for heartbeat/session-reset paths.
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@chatgpt-codex-connector Thanks — the P1 was a real defect with the original ^Current time:.*$ matcher I had pushed before. The current head SHA 8119a1b widens the regex to accept the natural-language formattedTime portion that formatUserTime() produces (e.g. Thursday, April 30th, 2026 - 10:00 AM), while keeping injection vs. user content unambiguous by anchoring on the deterministic suffix.
Final shape in src/agents/current-time.ts:
const CURRENT_TIME_LINE_RE =
/^Current time: .+? \([^)]+\) \/ \d{4}-\d{2}-\d{2} \d{2}:\d{2} UTC$/gm;Why this both fixes the P1 and addresses the earlier P2 (about the broad ^Current time:.*$ rewriting reminder content):
.+?accepts any locale/formatformattedTimefromformatUserTime, soCURRENT_TIME_LINE_RE.test(base)is nowtrueon real injected lines (closes the P1: stale lines actually get replaced instead of falling into append-mode).\([^)]+\)matches a single parenthesized timezone token. The[^)]+rejects nested parens, soAsia/Seoulis fine butFoo (bar) bazis not.\/ \d{4}-\d{2}-\d{2} \d{2}:\d{2} UTC$— exact/ YYYY-MM-DD HH:MM UTCtail with no extra characters. This rejects user-authored reminder lines that happen to start withCurrent time:but lack the helper's exact deterministic tail (closes the earlier P2: heartbeat/cron reminder content likeCurrent time: ASAP, before noonis no longer a match).
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The PR's current-time.test.ts (added in #75025) covers exactly this regression, with both the natural-language case and a user-authored reminder collision case:
$ pnpm test src/agents/current-time.test.ts
Test Files 1 passed (1)
Tests 6 passed (6)
Specifically: stale Current time: lines with formattedTime = "Thursday, April 30th, 2026 - 10:00 AM" are refreshed (not appended), duplicate stale entries collapse to one, and reminder lines like Current time: ASAP, before noon are left untouched because they don't carry the (<TZ>) / YYYY-MM-DD HH:MM UTC tail.
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…penclaw#44993) Rebase onto current upstream/main (head 4780546). Resolves the conflict from upstream's two-line Current time + Reference UTC helper output: appendCronStyleCurrentTimeLine now refreshes/collapses any prior helper-injected block via CURRENT_TIME_LINE_RE instead of returning early on a stale base.includes('Current time:') match. Preserves upstream-added doc comments. 16/16 current-time.test.ts pass; tsgo core clean.
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…penclaw#44993) (openclaw#75025) Rebase onto current upstream/main (head 39cc440). Resolves the conflict from upstream's two-line Current time + Reference UTC helper output: appendCronStyleCurrentTimeLine now refreshes/collapses any prior helper-injected block via CURRENT_TIME_LINE_RE instead of returning early on a stale base.includes('Current time:') match. Preserves upstream-added doc comments. 16/16 current-time.test.ts pass; tsgo core clean.
…penclaw#44993) (openclaw#75025) Rebase onto current upstream/main (head 4780546). Resolves the conflict from upstream's two-line Current time + Reference UTC helper output: appendCronStyleCurrentTimeLine now refreshes/collapses any prior helper-injected block via CURRENT_TIME_LINE_RE instead of returning early on a stale base.includes('Current time:') match. Preserves upstream-added doc comments. 16/16 current-time.test.ts pass; tsgo core clean.
…penclaw#44993) (openclaw#75025) Rebase onto current upstream/main (head 4780546). Resolves the conflict from upstream's two-line Current time + Reference UTC helper output: appendCronStyleCurrentTimeLine now refreshes/collapses any prior helper-injected block via CURRENT_TIME_LINE_RE instead of returning early on a stale base.includes('Current time:') match. Preserves upstream-added doc comments. 16/16 current-time.test.ts pass; tsgo core clean.
…penclaw#44993) (openclaw#75025) Rebase onto current upstream/main (head 4780546). Resolves the conflict from upstream's two-line Current time + Reference UTC helper output: appendCronStyleCurrentTimeLine now refreshes/collapses any prior helper-injected block via CURRENT_TIME_LINE_RE instead of returning early on a stale base.includes('Current time:') match. Preserves upstream-added doc comments. 16/16 current-time.test.ts pass; tsgo core clean.
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appendCronStyleCurrentTimeLine()insrc/agents/current-time.tsearly-returns when its input already containsCurrent time:, so heartbeat and cron prompts that flow the previously formatted prompt back through the helper keep emitting the same stale timestamp on every run. Reporter saw the agent observe wrong wall-clock time hours later (4:22 AM displayed when actual time was 6:22 AM) even thoughrunHeartbeatOncecaptures a freshstartedAt = Date.now()on each invocation. Fix replaces the early-return guard with an idempotent regex refresh so the helper substitutes the existing line with the freshly resolvedtimeLine(or appends one when absent).Root Cause
src/agents/current-time.ts:35(before fix):if (!base || base.includes("Current time:")) return base;. Both branches return early — the second branch silently keeps the stale line.runHeartbeatOnce()→appendCronStyleCurrentTimeLine(prompt, cfg, startedAt)(src/infra/heartbeat-runner.ts:1209) → returns prompt unchanged when prompt already carries an older injectedCurrent time:line. Same path is hit bybuildSessionResetPrompt()atsrc/auto-reply/reply/session-reset-prompt.ts:105.appendCronStyleCurrentTimeLinetrims the prompt and returns it unchanged whenever it containsCurrent time:, so an older injected timestamp is not replaced with the suppliednowMs" and "latest stable releasev2026.4.27resolves tocbc2ba0931468259f26a7c547131a06e03ca6c6c, and that release'ssrc/agents/current-time.tsstill has the samebase.includes(\"Current time:\")early return".Changes
src/agents/current-time.ts: replace the early-return guard with a regex refresh. Anchored, multilineCURRENT_TIME_LINE_RErequires the helper-only deterministic suffix(<userTimezone>) / YYYY-MM-DD HH:MM UTCso interior body text or user-authored reminders that happen to containCurrent time:are never rewritten. When one or more matches exist, the first is substituted with the freshly resolvedtimeLineand the rest are dropped; remaining blank lines are collapsed. Empty input still returns unchanged.src/agents/current-time.test.ts: new colocated regression suite covering empty input, append-when-absent, refresh-existing (the [Bug]: Heartbeat/Cron "Current time" timestamp is stale - not refreshing between runs #44993 reproducer), collapse-multiple-stale-lines, and user-authored passthrough.Real behavior proof
appendCronStyleCurrentTimeLinea second time keep their first injectedCurrent time:line verbatim instead of refreshing to the supplied freshnowMs. Reporter@CharlieHelpsobserved the agent emitting wall-clock times 2+ hours stale; clawsweeper confirmed the failing branch isbase.includes("Current time:") => return baseatsrc/agents/current-time.ts:35onv2026.4.27(cbc2ba0931468259f26a7c547131a06e03ca6c6c). Issue: [Bug]: Heartbeat/Cron "Current time" timestamp is stale - not refreshing between runs #44993../openclaw-44993on Windows 11 + Node 22.14, executing the patched productionsrc/agents/current-time.tsdirectly throughnode --import tsxagainst the actualappendCronStyleCurrentTimeLine/resolveCronStyleNowexports (no test runner, no mocks — the same helper functions thatrunHeartbeatOncecalls). PR head:8119a1bbbea325af7c8e9283e0c88f548ca17c18.git checkout fix/heartbeat-current-time-refresh && node --import tsx ./smoke-pr75025.ts, wheresmoke-pr75025.tsimportsappendCronStyleCurrentTimeLineandresolveCronStyleNowfrom./src/agents/current-time.js, builds a stale prompt withnowMs=2026-04-30T05:00:00Z, then re-runs the helper withnowMs=2026-04-30T13:00:00Z(8h later) and prints the input + output strings verbatim.8119a1bbbe(Windows 11 + Node 22.14, the patchedsrc/agents/current-time.tsexercised through its real exports vianode --import tsx).2:00 PM ... 05:00 UTCwith10:00 PM ... 13:00 UTC— the supplied 8-hour-laternowMsreaches the prompt verbatim. For the double-stale case, twoCurrent time:lines collapsed to exactly one (currentTimeOccurrencesInCollapsedOutput=1) carrying the fresh value. For the user-authored case ("Reminder: Current time: please do laundry"), the strictCURRENT_TIME_LINE_REregex did not match, so the helper appended a fresh line without touching the user's reminder text — confirming the regex only matches helper-emitted lines with the deterministic(<userTimezone>) / YYYY-MM-DD HH:MM UTCsuffix.runHeartbeatOnceagainst a real agent runtime + channel was not exercised on the contributor machine. The fix is a pure-function change scoped toappendCronStyleCurrentTimeLine; callersrunHeartbeatOnce(src/infra/heartbeat-runner.ts:1209) andbuildSessionResetPrompt(src/auto-reply/reply/session-reset-prompt.ts:105) already passDate.now()per invocation and pick up the refresh automatically. Maintainers may applyproof: overrideif a live heartbeat recording is required; @vincentkoc has already confirmed CI green and the parity gate passing on PR head6ad385f840f714b50c023bec0fd313fe5397a1f6(Opus 4.6 parity gate run25160404332).Test
pnpm test src/agents/current-time.test.ts— colocated regression suite, 4 cases (empty input / append fresh / refresh existing [Bug]: Heartbeat/Cron "Current time" timestamp is stale - not refreshing between runs #44993 reproducer / collapse multiple stale lines)pnpm exec oxfmt --check --threads=1 src/agents/current-time.ts src/agents/current-time.test.ts— All matched files use the correct format.node --import tsx ./smoke-pr75025.tsagainst the production module (not a test harness).Notes
runHeartbeatOnce(src/infra/heartbeat-runner.ts:1209) andbuildSessionResetPrompt(src/auto-reply/reply/session-reset-prompt.ts:105) already pass a freshnowMsto the helper, so they automatically pick up the refresh.resolveCronStyleNow()is unchanged; the fix is local toappendCronStyleCurrentTimeLine()and preserves the empty-input no-op. The strict regex tail also preserves the user-authoredCurrent time:passthrough that the previous.includes()check would have wrongly suppressed.Current time:line when absent, refresh or collapse existing line-boundCurrent time:markers when present, and cover the helper plus heartbeat/reset/plugin caller paths with focused regression tests."Closes #44993