Heartbeats
Scheduled Claw summaries for active users.
What A Heartbeat Is
A heartbeat is a scheduled Claw update sent into Telegram.
You can configure multiple heartbeats for the same account. Each heartbeat has its own interval and its own custom prompt, so one can act like a short operational pulse while another can focus on a different review cadence.
It is not just a generic notification. The heartbeat flow is built to review:
- active agents
- recent executions and logs
- current portfolio state
- recent account or agent activity that matters right now
When Heartbeats Make Sense
Heartbeats are for users who want Claw to surface operational changes without needing to ask manually each time.
Requirements
Heartbeats only make sense when your account already has:
- a configured Claude token
- an active Telegram chat connection
Delivery Behavior
Claw does not blindly push a heartbeat into the chat at every scheduled instant.
If you were recently active in Telegram, delivery may be deferred so the heartbeat does not collide with the live conversation. That makes heartbeats feel more like smart summaries than noisy alerts.
If multiple deferred heartbeats become ready around the same time, Claw can merge them into one Telegram delivery instead of sending several back-to-back updates.
Default Shape
Heartbeats are designed to be concise, Telegram-native summaries focused on what changed and what needs attention.
If there is nothing notable, the intended behavior is still to send a short positive status update rather than stay silent.
Each heartbeat uses the same core review flow, but its custom prompt can bias the output toward the specific angle you want that schedule to cover.
What To Expect
Heartbeats are a concrete scheduled summary feature. They are not a promise that Claw will act like a generic real-time alerting system for every event.
For the general chat surface, see Using Claw.