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openclaw-troubleshooting

openclaw-troubleshooting is a skill for Claude Code from TheophilusChinomona/claude-openclaw-plugin. It costs 68 tokens per session (1,138 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A troubleshooting guide for OpenClaw, a system with a gateway, messaging channels, dashboard, and scheduled jobs. It provides an ordered set of commands for checking status, logs, configuration, connectivity, and background tasks.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to diagnose gateway failures, missing bot replies, disconnected channels, dashboard errors, pairing issues, and failed cron or heartbeat jobs.
Why use it?
It gives a consistent way to narrow down why OpenClaw is not responding or delivering messages. The checks help distinguish runtime, configuration, channel, and scheduling problems.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin. Also seen: built for openclaw.

Part of the openclaw plugin — 31 skills, 22 commands, 4 agents, 3 hooks shipped together

not rated 2repo 5mo ago A scan 68 tokens original MIT

Good fit Use it to diagnose gateway failures, missing bot replies, disconnected channels, dashboard errors, pairing issues, and failed cron or heartbeat jobs.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/theophiluschinomona/claude-openclaw-plugin/openclaw-troubleshooting
View source ↗ TheophilusChinomona/claude-openclaw-plugin
Install

Getting it into your agent

One page per mod, every tool's command on it. A separate URL per tool would split the same page into five that compete with each other.

Any agent
npx skills add TheophilusChinomona/claude-openclaw-plugin --skill openclaw-troubleshooting
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/TheophilusChinomona/claude-openclaw-plugin

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install openclaw, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 31 skills, 22 commands, 4 agents, 3 hooks.

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Per session 68 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,138 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe.
Origin original No closer match found in the catalogue.
Token cost

What it costs to keep this loaded

Counted locally with the o200k_base tokenizer, which is exact for GPT models; Claude uses its own tokenizer and its counts differ. Treat this as one consistent yardstick across the catalogue rather than a bill. Prices are per million input tokens.

ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5.1 $0.00068 $0.01138
Opus 5 $0.00034 $0.00569
Sonnet 5 $0.00014 $0.00228
Haiku 4.5 $0.00007 $0.00114

Measured 11d ago against content hash aa5f71419fbd, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-11, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

openclaw-troubleshooting scanned grade A with 0 findings against 26 rules in 11 categories — prompt injection, anti-refusal, data exfiltration, privilege escalation, supply chain, agent snooping, system-prompt leakage, SSRF and excessive agency — measured 11d ago.

A static scan of the body, not an audit. Every finding is printed with the line that produced it so you can judge whether it matters here. A mod is markdown that instructs an agent; that is exactly why what it instructs is worth reading.

Nothing flagged

None of the 26 patterns this scan looks for appear in this file: no shell pipes, no recursive deletes, no credential paths, no hidden text, no instruction-override or anti-refusal phrasing, no agent-config snooping. That is not a guarantee, it is the absence of the things that are checkable.

plugins/openclaw/skills/openclaw-troubleshooting/SKILL.md · 115 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 115 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

OpenClaw Troubleshooting

Diagnose and fix common OpenClaw issues using a systematic command ladder.

Diagnostic Command Ladder

Run these in order for initial triage:

openclaw status                    # Quick health check
openclaw gateway status            # Gateway runtime state
openclaw logs --follow             # Real-time log stream
openclaw doctor                    # Config/service diagnostics
openclaw channels status --probe   # Channel connectivity

Healthy signals:

  • openclaw gateway status shows Runtime: running and RPC probe: ok
  • openclaw doctor reports no blocking issues
  • openclaw channels status --probe shows channels connected

Decision Tree

Gateway not responding?

  1. openclaw status - is it running?
  2. openclaw gateway status - check runtime state
  3. openclaw logs --follow - look for errors
  4. Common causes: port conflict (EADDRINUSE), missing auth on non-loopback bind, gateway.mode not set to "local"

No replies from bot?

  1. openclaw channels status --probe - channels connected?
  2. openclaw pairing list <channel> - pending pairing requests?
  3. Check dmPolicy and allowFrom in config
  4. For groups: check requireMention and groupPolicy

Dashboard 1008 / Unauthorized?

  1. openclaw gateway status - verify gateway is running
  2. openclaw config get gateway.auth.token - check token
  3. Verify URL and auth mode match between client and gateway
  4. For device auth errors: update connecting client

Channel connected but silent?

  1. Check dmPolicy (pairing/allowlist/open/disabled)
  2. Check groupPolicy and requireMention
  3. Check channel-specific permissions (Telegram privacy mode, Discord Message Content Intent)
  4. Look for mention required, blocked, allowlist in logs

Cron/heartbeat not firing?

  1. openclaw cron status - scheduler enabled?
  2. openclaw cron list - jobs exist?
  3. openclaw cron runs --id <jobId> --limit 20 - run history
  4. Check heartbeat skip reasons: quiet-hours, dm-blocked, requests-in-flight

Read the full file on GitHub · 115 lines

Files

What ships with it

1 file beside SKILL.md in the same directory: the scripts, references and assets a skill reads on demand. Not counted in the per-session cost; read them before you install if any of them is executable.

Changes

What this file has done since we first saw it

Hashed on every crawl. A supply-chain change to an agent config is a question of when, not whether, so the history is kept rather than the latest state alone.

  1. 11d ago First seen · 115 lines · 68 tokens per session scan A aa5f71419fbd

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openclaw-troubleshooting is a skill published in the GitHub repository TheophilusChinomona/claude-openclaw-plugin (2 stars, last pushed 5mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 68 tokens to every session and 1,138 once invoked, about $0.0003 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-31.

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