On July 17, Peter Steinberger, the creator of OpenClaw, posted a short question on X: “Are we still talking loops or did we shift to graphs yet?” Are we still talking loops or did we shift to graphs yet? — Peter Steinberger 🦞 (@steipete) July 18, 2026 This post is also available
On July 11, the Giants finished a 4-2 win over the Colorado Rockies, but our day at Oracle Park was not over. We waited for our turn to walk onto the field. This was my third Giants Summertime Celebration. The event is usually held during Season Ticket Member Appreciation
Watching Fourth of July fireworks has become a family ritual for us, as it has for many families in the United States. The location changes, and each year I try to find a place that will make the familiar show feel a little different. Two years ago, we watched from
See Part 0 for the latest table of contents and sample code. Chapter 21: Beyond The CLI: The Godot Bridge This is the final chapter of this book. It is also not a build chapter. Until now, each chapter ended with a concrete checkpoint. The sample code changed. A command
See Part 0 for the latest table of contents and sample code. New chapters will be added over time. Chapter 20: Real-World Tools: Reading Files And Running Commands For a long time, the tools in abcb were deliberately small. echo proved that the loop could call a tool and
See Part 0 for the latest table of contents and sample code. New chapters will be added over time. Chapter 19: Measuring Behavior With eval By Chapter 18, the model boundary has a clearer shape. The system prompt tells the model what envelope to emit. The parser tolerates the common
See Part 0 for the latest table of contents and sample code. New chapters will be added over time. Chapter 18: Teaching the Model: The System Prompt and Robust Parsing By Chapter 17, abcb run has become a real loop. It can keep a session, call tools, deny tools, record
See Part 0 for the latest table of contents and sample code. New chapters will be added over time. Chapter 17: The Run Summary: A Read-Model From the Log Chapter 14 gave the loop an event log. Chapter 16 added another kind of event: a denied tool call. By
See Part 0 for the latest table of contents and sample code. New chapters will be added over time. Chapter 16: Approval: Gating Tool Calls By the end of Chapter 15, the agent could remember notes across runs. It could call tools, write event logs, keep sessions on disk, and
See Part 0 for the latest table of contents and sample code. New chapters will be added over time. Chapter 15: Memory Tiers: Notes Chapter 14 gave the agent run an audit trail. Every run can now leave an events.jsonl file inside its session directory. That file is about
See Part 0 for the latest table of contents and sample code. New chapters will be added over time. Chapter 14: Recording the Loop: Events as JSONL Chapter 13 gave each run a place to live. A session now has a creation time, an id, and a directory under .abcb/
See Part 0 for the latest table of contents and sample code. New chapters will be added over time. Chapter 13: Time, Identity, and Sessions on Disk So far, a session has mostly been a conversation container. It held an id and a list of messages, but the id was
