Settings that were silently lost on reinstall:
- Track .smallclaw/heartbeat/config.json (active hours 8-22, interval 30m)
- Track .smallclaw/skills_state.json (multi-agent-orchestrator enabled)
- Fix gitignore: heartbeat/ → heartbeat/runs/ (only ignore run logs, not config)
- Fix gitignore: remove skills_state.json from ignored list
Vault (contains channel tokens, passwords) cannot go in git — instead:
- Add scripts/backup-vault.sh: backs up vault+credentials to ~/.smallclaw-backup/
keeping last 5 snapshots. Run manually or via cron (0 3 * * *).
- Run initial backup now → ~/.smallclaw-backup/vault_20260518_232441
Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
kimandClaude Sonnet 4.6
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