openclaw doctor
Health checks + quick fixes for the gateway and channels.
Related:
Examples
openclaw doctor
openclaw doctor --repair
openclaw doctor --deep
Notes:
- Interactive prompts (like keychain/OAuth fixes) only run when stdin is a TTY and
--non-interactive is not set. Headless runs (cron, Telegram, no terminal) will skip prompts.
--fix (alias for --repair) writes a backup to ~/.openclaw/openclaw.json.bak and drops unknown config keys, listing each removal.
- State integrity checks now detect orphan transcript files in the sessions directory and can archive them as
.deleted.<timestamp> to reclaim space safely.
- Doctor also scans
~/.openclaw/cron/jobs.json (or cron.store) for legacy cron job shapes and can rewrite them in place before the scheduler has to auto-normalize them at runtime.
- Doctor includes a memory-search readiness check and can recommend
openclaw configure --section model when embedding credentials are missing.
- If sandbox mode is enabled but Docker is unavailable, doctor reports a high-signal warning with remediation (
install Docker or openclaw config set agents.defaults.sandbox.mode off).
- If
gateway.auth.token/gateway.auth.password are SecretRef-managed and unavailable in the current command path, doctor reports a read-only warning and does not write plaintext fallback credentials.
- If channel SecretRef inspection fails in a fix path, doctor continues and reports a warning instead of exiting early.
- Telegram
allowFrom username auto-resolution (doctor --fix) requires a resolvable Telegram token in the current command path. If token inspection is unavailable, doctor reports a warning and skips auto-resolution for that pass.
macOS: launchctl env overrides
If you previously ran launchctl setenv OPENCLAW_GATEWAY_TOKEN ... (or ...PASSWORD), that value overrides your config file and can cause persistent “unauthorized” errors.
launchctl getenv OPENCLAW_GATEWAY_TOKEN
launchctl getenv OPENCLAW_GATEWAY_PASSWORD
launchctl unsetenv OPENCLAW_GATEWAY_TOKEN
launchctl unsetenv OPENCLAW_GATEWAY_PASSWORD
Last modified on March 22, 2026