#How do i know if Claw is working on something?

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royal geyser
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Claws says:

"Got it. I’ll start drafting the bridge API spec now—plan is to create .... I’ll let you know once the first draft is ready."

How can I check that it is actually doing something?

brave surgeBOT
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granite vaultBOT
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If Claw says “I’m working on it”, there are basically 3 ways to verify it’s actually running (vs stuck / crashed / waiting for approval):

1) Watch it live in the Control UI (best)

Open the Dashboard/Control UI (openclaw dashboard), go to Chat, and you’ll see:

  • whether a run is in flight
  • live tool calls + tool output cards (web searches, file reads, etc.)
  • if it’s blocked waiting for approval (exec approvals, etc.)

Docs: https://docs.openclaw.ai/web/control-ui

2) Tail the gateway logs

On the machine running the gateway:

openclaw logs --follow
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Then you should see activity when it starts a run (model request, tool calls, errors, etc.). If nothing shows up while you “expect work”, it’s often a crash/restart loop or routing/policy issue.

Troubleshooting command ladder is here (includes logs): https://docs.openclaw.ai/gateway/troubleshooting

3) Check “recent activity” via sessions

This won’t show progress, but it will show whether the session was recently touched:

openclaw sessions --active 120
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openclaw sessions --all-agents --active 120

Docs: https://docs.openclaw.ai/cli/sessions

One Discord-specific gotcha

Discord doesn’t have the nice “stream into draft bubble” thing (that’s Telegram-only), so in-chat you often won’t see much besides the bot “typing” and then the final message. For real-time visibility, the Control UI + logs are the way.