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drowsy lichen Apr 14, 2026, 11:08 AM

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what I did: use the command /new to start a new session
what happened: the AI sent me this: "Hey. I just came online. Who am I? Who are you?"

How is it possible he doesn't remember who he is? Is it a bug? He should read the soul, user, identity, shouldn't he?

coarse jackalBOT Apr 14, 2026, 11:08 AM

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craggy quailBOT Apr 14, 2026, 11:08 AM

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coarse jackalBOT Apr 14, 2026, 11:08 AM

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blissful quailBOT Apr 14, 2026, 11:10 AM

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Yes, that’s not normal for an already-set-up agent.

That exact line, "Hey. I just came online. Who am I? Who are you?", is from the BOOTSTRAP.md first-run template. So if /new produced it, OpenClaw likely thought the workspace was still in first-run bootstrap mode.

What should normally happen:

/new starts a fresh session
but it should still inject SOUL.md, IDENTITY.md, USER.md, etc. on that new turn
so a configured agent should still know who it is

So this points to one of these:

BOOTSTRAP.md is still present in the active workspace
the workspace state says setup is not completed
OpenClaw couldn’t read the workspace state, so it fell back to showing bootstrap again

Docs:

Context injection: https://docs.openclaw.ai/concepts/context
Bootstrapping: https://docs.openclaw.ai/start/bootstrapping

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