Headline bench for the claim: when the orchestrator dies mid-dispatch,
Minions rescues via PG state + stall detection; OpenClaw --local loses
in-flight work outright.
Minions side: seed 10 active+expired-lock rows (exact state a SIGKILLed
worker leaves) then run a rescue worker. Expect 10/10 completed.
OpenClaw side: spawn 10 `openclaw agent --local` in parallel, SIGKILL
each at 500ms, count pre-kill delivered output. Expect 0/10 — no
persistence layer, nothing to recover.
Budget: ~$0 (Minions handlers sleep 10ms; OC calls die at 500ms so
partial LLM billing is negligible).
Garry Tan
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