openclaw doctor says discord token unusable when using secret

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I'm using channels.discord.accounts.<agentname>.token.source = "env" to store the discord bot token and discord seems to be working but openclaw doctor keeps trying to disable the plugin.

  Skills ───────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────╮
│                                                                                    │
│  Some skills are allowed for this agent but are not usable in the current runtime  │
│  environment.                                                                      │
│  - discord: config: channels.discord.token                                         │
│  Disable unused skills: openclaw doctor --fix                                      │
│  Inspect details: openclaw skills check --agent <id> or openclaw skills info       │
│  <name> --agent <id>  

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KennyD — yeah, that looks like a doctor/skill eligibility mismatch, not necessarily a broken Discord config.

The bundled discord skill currently declares its requirement as channels.discord.token, so doctor/skills check is looking only at the top-level token path. Runtime Discord multi-account config supports channels.discord.accounts.<accountId>.token, so the bot can work while the skill checker still says “missing channels.discord.token”.

I would not run openclaw doctor --fix here if Discord is working, because it may disable a skill you actually use.

Two practical workarounds:

1. Add a top-level token SecretRef too, pointing at the same env var, especially if this is your default bot:

channels: {
  discord: {
    token: { source: "env", provider: "default", id: "DISCORD_BOT_TOKEN" },
    accounts: {
      yourAgentName: {
        token: { source: "env", provider: "default", id: "DISCORD_BOT_TOKEN" }