OpenClaw repo-work lane
Common drift symptoms and first recoveries
Use this page when a checkout feels wrong and you need the smallest meaningful first recovery, not a full internals deep dive.
Short versionName the likely layer, run the smallest recovery for that layer, verify, then escalate only if the mismatch survives.
Common symptom buckets
Most checkout drift is boring
- Wrong branch or commit assumption
- Stale or missing build outputs
- CLI path confusion
- Gateway runtime not using the code you think it is using
- Install-mode confusion between package and checkout paths