#how do i disable verbose mode?

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grizzled folio
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for every single discord message i'm getting every single tool call output in messages essentially spamming me and eating up context. this wasn't happening before. did i accidentally turn on some verbose mode and if so how do i turn it off?

carmine thornBOT
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weak sigilBOT
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That’s almost always the session-level /verbose (and sometimes /reasoning) toggle getting turned on, which makes OpenClaw forward tool-call bubbles (and in full, the tool outputs too) into the chat.

In the same Discord thread/channel where it’s spamming you, send:

/verbose off
/reasoning off

If it keeps coming back:

  • Open the Control UI → Sessions for that chat and set Verbose = inherit (not on / full).
    (/verbose off stores an explicit override; “inherit” clears it.)
  • Check your config defaults: make sure you’re not setting verboseDefault: "on" anywhere. The default lives under:
    • agents.defaults.model.verboseDefault (should be "off")

Docs: https://docs.openclaw.ai/tools/thinking (covers /verbose / /reasoning and what “full” does)

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If you paste openclaw --version + whether /verbose says on/full when you type just /verbose, we can narrow down why it flipped on.

grizzled folio
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thanks that did fix it. i turned verbose off and now the status line shows:
Runtime: direct · Think: low · elevated

what does the elevated marker mean?

weak sigilBOT
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That “elevated” marker means the session is running with Elevated Mode enabled.

Practically, Elevated Mode is about where exec runs and how strict approvals are:

  • When the agent is sandboxed, /elevated on|ask forces exec to run on the gateway host (instead of inside the sandbox), while still keeping approval prompts when needed.
  • /elevated full is the “dangerous” one: runs on the host and auto-approves exec (skips approvals).
  • If your agent isn’t sandboxed, “elevated” may be mostly a status/gating flag (less effect), but it still indicates the session is allowed to do host-level exec.

To see what it’s set to, send:

/elevated

To turn it off for this session: