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What is the difference between OpenClaw's Gateway and its Canvas process?
GatewayCanvas
Central control plane handling routing, sessions, and access controlAgent-driven visual workspace for rendering agent-generated content
Runs on port 18789 by defaultRuns on port 18793 by default, as a separate process
Failure affects the whole platform's core routingFailure is isolated, the Gateway keeps operating if Canvas crashes
Brokers every agent run on the instanceServes agent-writable content, its own distinct security boundary

Splitting these into separate processes is a deliberate reliability and security choice, keeping a component that renders potentially agent-generated content isolated from the core system that everything else depends on.

Which component brokers every agent run on the instance?
What happens to the Gateway specifically if Canvas fails?

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