diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index 7c9c649d7f9..d38c10cf6d6 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -23,6 +23,7 @@ Docs: https://docs.openclaw.ai
 - Agents/embedded logs: add structured, sanitized lifecycle and failover observation events so overload and provider failures are easier to tail and filter. (#41336) thanks @altaywtf.
 - iOS/gateway foreground recovery: reconnect immediately on foreground return after stale background sockets are torn down, so the app no longer stays disconnected until a later wake path happens. (#41384) Thanks @mbelinky.
 - Cron/subagent followup: do not misclassify empty or `NO_REPLY` cron responses as interim acknowledgements that need a rerun, so deliberately silent cron jobs are no longer retried. (#41383) thanks @jackal092927.
+- Auth/cooldowns: reset expired auth-profile cooldown error counters before computing the next backoff so stale on-disk counters do not re-escalate into long cooldown loops after expiry. (#41028) thanks @zerone0x.
 
 ## 2026.3.8
 
diff --git a/src/agents/auth-profiles/usage.ts b/src/agents/auth-profiles/usage.ts
index 19f3a030fad..0d9ae6a6aaa 100644
--- a/src/agents/auth-profiles/usage.ts
+++ b/src/agents/auth-profiles/usage.ts
@@ -406,15 +406,8 @@ function computeNextProfileUsageStats(params: {
   // the old counters when the lock-based updater reads a fresh store. Without
   // this check, stale error counts from an expired cooldown cause the next
   // failure to escalate to a much longer cooldown (e.g. 1 min → 25 min).
-  const previousCooldownExpired = (() => {
-    const unusableUntil = resolveProfileUnusableUntil(params.existing);
-    // No cooldown/disabled window was ever set → fresh profile, nothing to expire.
-    if (unusableUntil === null) {
-      return false;
-    }
-    // The window exists and has expired.
-    return params.now >= unusableUntil;
-  })();
+  const unusableUntil = resolveProfileUnusableUntil(params.existing);
+  const previousCooldownExpired = typeof unusableUntil === "number" && params.now >= unusableUntil;
 
   const shouldResetCounters = windowExpired || previousCooldownExpired;
   const baseErrorCount = shouldResetCounters ? 0 : (params.existing.errorCount ?? 0);