TUI Connection | Friends of the Crustacean 🦞🤝 | Page 1

molten narwhal Jan 14, 2026, 2:33 PM

clawdbot git:(main) ✗ clawdbot tui

🦞 Clawdbot 2026.1.10 (b7a11b7) — WhatsApp Business, but without the business.

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gateway disconnected: invalid connect params: data/client must have required property 'id'; data/client
must NOT have additional properties; d | idle
agent main | session main | unknown | think off | verbose off | tokens ?
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──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────gateway connect failed: Error: invalid connect params: data/client must have required property 'id'; data/client must NOT have additional properties; data/client/mode must be equal to constant; data/client/mode must be equal to constant; data/client/mode must be equal to constant; data/client/mode must be equal to constant; data/client/mode must be equal to constant; data/client/mode must be equal to constant; data/client/mode must match a schema in anyOf
gateway connect failed: Error: invalid connect params: data/client must have required property 'id'; data/
must NOT have additional properties; d | press ctrl+c again to exit
agent main | session main | unknown | think off | verbose off | tokens ?

whole brambleBOT Jan 14, 2026, 2:37 PM

molten narwhal clawdbot git:(main) ✗ clawdbot tui 🦞 Clawdbot 2026.1.10 (b7a11b7) — WhatsApp B...

Based on my investigation, this is a version mismatch issue between the TUI and Gateway:

The problem:

You're running clawdbot tui from the source repo (version 2026.1.10, commit b7a11b7)
But the Gateway is running from the installed version at /opt/clawdbot (version 2026.1.11-4, commit ca0f8ed8e)

These versions have different schema structures:

Source (2026.1.10): Schema was recently split into multiple files in src/gateway/protocol/schema/
Installed (2026.1.11-4): Still uses the old single-file schema at src/gateway/protocol/schema.ts

Solutions:

Run TUI from the installed version:
```
clawdbot tui
```
(This uses /opt/clawdbot/dist/entry.js)

Or restart the Gateway from source to match:

# Stop the current gateway first
systemctl --user stop clawdbot-gateway  # or pkill -f clawdbot gateway

# Run gateway from source
cd ~/clawdbot-ref && pnpm clawdbot gateway

Or update the installed version to match source:

cd /opt/clawdbot && git pull && pnpm install && pnpm build

The validation error occurs because the Gateway's schema expects a specific client object structure that doesn't match what the TUI from the other version is sending.

molten narwhal Jan 14, 2026, 2:41 PM

It was indeed a mismatch 🙃

#TUI Connection