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Reading the Technical Feed

How to interpret the Technical activity feed, spot problems, and find deeper logs.

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The Technical activity tab of the Work Ledger (/dashboard/activity) is an audit feed of runtime and system events reported by your helper’s workspace. It is separate from the owner-facing Work record on purpose: the Work record tells the story of decisions and outcomes, while this feed carries the technical detail behind them.

What an entry looks like

Each event is timestamped and categorized. The categories you can filter by:

  • Lifecycle: the helper starting, stopping, and changing state.
  • Communication: message-related events, such as inbound email arriving in the helper’s managed mailbox.
  • Tool Use: the helper using a tool, like searching your Business Brain or opening its browser.
  • Coding: code-related work.
  • Social: social-platform activity, if you have configured any channels in the helper’s own interface.
  • Config: configuration changes.
  • Errors: failures. These are the ones worth watching.

Use the date range filter to narrow to a specific period. While the helper is running, new events stream in live; the indicator in the page header shows LIVE, CONNECTING, or OFFLINE.

Spotting problems

If something seems off, filter to Errors first. Repeated errors around the same time as a failed task usually point at the cause. A quiet feed while the helper is stopped is normal; the Work record and Inbox stay available either way because BrainRoad keeps that history itself.

If a customer reply failed to send, do not look here first. Failed sends show up in the Inbox with a plain explanation on the card, and in the Work record’s outcome column.

Where deeper logs live

The Technical activity feed is a curated event stream, not raw log output. When you need more:

  • The helper’s own interface has a logs view. Chat, channels, sessions, and logs of the runtime itself are screens inside OpenClaw or Hermes, opened from the dashboard in a new tab.
  • The Console (/dashboard/console) is an interactive shell inside your helper’s workspace, for hands-on inspection. It requires a running helper.

Use the Technical activity feed for monitoring, the runtime’s logs view for runtime detail, and the Console for hands-on troubleshooting.