#Seeing streaming in the CLI on my VPS

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worldly osprey
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I can see the main session doing something called streaming and the usual time counter is going up as with regular responses. After asking what my agent is doing he says nothing.
What is he doing? IS this a display bug?

cosmic patrolBOT
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Probably not, at least not by itself.

streaming in OpenClaw usually means the run is still active and the gateway is processing streamed events, not necessarily that visible text is being produced. Two common reasons you see that with “nothing happening”:

  1. the agent is in the middle of tool work / an internal streamed turn
  2. your follow-up message got queued instead of interrupting the current run

By default, queued follow-ups are often collected and answered after the current turn ends, so asking “what are you doing?” mid-run can appear to do nothing.

Relevant docs:

So, short version:

  • brief streaming with no text can be normal
  • streaming forever with no final reply is more likely a stuck run / bug