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[fathom brook]

I have a hook that processes emails and delivers them to an "email" channel in discord. I want to then be able to follow with questions, but the email is not being appended to the context of the session. I've tried setting the session key of the channel conversation that I've extracted from the "sessions" tab in the dashboard, but it wasn't working. Here's my config

     {
        "id": "gmail-eric-only",
        "match": {
          "path": "gmail"
        },
        "action": "agent",
        "wakeMode": "now",
        "name": "Gmail",
        "deliver": true,
        "channel": "discord",
        "to": "channel:<channelId>",
        "transform": {
          "module": "gmail-eric-filter.js",
          "export": "transformGmail"
        }
      },

Any help is much appreciated!

[pulsar fulcrum]

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[frank cliff]

Need to verify this against the docs/code first, then I’ll give you the least-hand-wavy answer.

First, can you paste openclaw --version? There’s been a bit of churn around hooks/session routing.

The main issue is this:

deliver: true only sends the hook result to Discord. It does not automatically append the hook run to the Discord channel’s existing session.

So right now you likely have:

• hook/email run in one session, often hook:... or hooks.defaultSessionKey
• your Discord follow-up question in another session, usually agent:<agentId>:discord:channel:<channelId>
  or agent:<agentId>:discord:channel:<channelId>:thread:<threadId>

What to change

Set the hook mapping to use the same agent + same sessionKey as the Discord conversation:

{
  id: "gmail-eric-only",
  match: { path: "gmail" },
  action: "agent",
  agentId: "main", // or whatever agent owns that Discord convo
  wakeMode: "now",
  name: "Gmail",
  sessionKey: "agent:main:discord:channel:<channelId>",
  deliver: true,
  channel: "discord",
  to: "channel:<channelId>",
  transform: {
    module: "gmail-eric-filter.js",
    export: "transformGmail"
  }

}

If you’re asking follow-ups in a Discord thread, use the thread key instead:

agent:main:discord:channel:<channelId>:thread:<threadId>

Common gotchas

• using sessionId instead of sessionKey
• missing agentId, or using the wrong one
• if the hook targets a different agent, OpenClaw can rebind the agent:... prefix
• if you set hooks.allowedSessionKeyPrefixes, it must allow that agent:... key too
• static mapping sessionKey is okay, but templated ones need the extra hook session-key settings

Docs:

• https://docs.openclaw.ai/gateway/configuration-reference#hooks
• https://docs.openclaw.ai/concepts/session
• https://docs.openclaw.ai/channels/channel-routing

If you paste:

1. openclaw --version
2. the exact sessionKey you tried
3. your full hooks block, especially defaultSessionKey, allowRequestSessionKey, and allowedSessionKeyPrefixes

…I can sanity-check the exact config.

[fathom brook]

adding the correct sessionKey and the agentId fixed the issue. thanks!

[frank cliff]

Nice, glad that fixed it 🎉

Yeah, the key bit is that the hook has to land in the same agent + same sessionKey as the Discord conversation, otherwise deliver just posts there without sharing context.

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