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Title: Messages and replies rendered twice in Control Panel webchat
Environment:
OpenClaw version: 2026.4.24
Browser: Chrome
OS: macOS (arm64)
Gateway: local (loopback), port 18789
WhatsApp plugin: enabled
Description:
Every message sent through the Control Panel webchat appears twice in the chat view, and every assistant reply is also duplicated.
The first instance of the user message is labeled with the sender metadata label (e.g., openclaw-control-ui) and includes the full system context (gateway connection events, timestamps, etc.). The second instance is labeled You and contains only the plain user text.
The assistant reply is similarly rendered twice — once with full metadata (model info, token counts) and once as a plain bubble.
Steps to reproduce:
Open the Control Panel dashboard in Chrome (http://127.0.0.1:18789/)
Send any message in the webchat
Observe that both the sent message and the assistant reply appear twice
Expected behavior:
Each message and reply should appear only once.
Actual behavior:
Each message and reply appears twice with different labels/formatting.
Screenshot:
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Notes:
This is a display-only issue — WhatsApp delivery is not duplicated
Initially suspected selfChatMode: true on WhatsApp channel, but disabling it (selfChatMode: false) did not resolve the issue
No duplicate routing or channel echo found in backend config/logs
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