Have you experimented at least with running Claude (or whatever) as a cron-job? I'm seeing a lot of things emerge from just that pattern alone. I'd recommend giving Claude a way to communicate with you if it has issues to raise though, even if it knows you're asleep.

I'm not running OpenClaw either, but I'm getting a ton of value just from my homebrew deterministic "run while loop, wake up Claude if trigger event occurs".