No Discord connect, config successful, but o message interaction

[cobalt gust]

Bot connects and logs in successfully but doesn't respond to mentions. Running 2026.4.25 on WSL2. Channel shows as OK in status but channels list shows no Discord channel registered.

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[formal cliff]

This sounds like config visibility / allowlist, not WSL networking.

Two important bits:

• channels status is the live gateway path; channels list is more config/env driven.
• If you only set DISCORD_BOT_TOKEN and don’t have a real channels.discord block, Discord can log in but guild messages are still groupPolicy="allowlist" by default. (docs.openclaw.ai)

Try this inside WSL:

openclaw config set channels.discord.token \
  --ref-provider default \
  --ref-source env \
  --ref-id DISCORD_BOT_TOKEN

openclaw config set channels.discord.enabled true --strict-json

openclaw config set channels.discord.groupPolicy allowlist

openclaw config set channels.discord.guilds \
  '{"YOUR_SERVER_ID":{"requireMention":true,"users":["YOUR_DISCORD_USER_ID"]}}' \
  --strict-json --merge

openclaw gateway restart

Then verify:

openclaw channels list
openclaw channels status --probe