Openclaw docs command always returns no results

[hollow surge]

Very simple:

$ openclaw docs "plugin allowlist"

:lobster: OpenClaw 2026.5.12 (f066dd2) — I'll refactor your busywork like it owes me money.

Docs search: plugin allowlist
No results.
$ openclaw docs browser existing-session

:lobster: OpenClaw 2026.5.12 (f066dd2) — I'm not AI-powered, I'm AI-possessed. Big difference.

Docs search: browser existing-session
No results.

Logs:

17:50:58+00:00 info Docs search: plugin allowlist
17:50:58+00:00 info No results.
17:53:26+00:00 info Docs search: browser existing-session
17:53:27+00:00 info No results.

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[pale vine]

Reproduced. This looks like a real CLI bug, not missing docs.

What I found:

• openclaw docs in 2026.5.12 calls the docs MCP tool as https://docs.openclaw.ai/mcp.SearchOpenClaw.
• The live docs MCP currently exposes search_open_claw, not SearchOpenClaw.
• mcporter returns MCP error -32602: Tool SearchOpenClaw not found, but exits 0, so the CLI treats the output as parseable search output and prints No results.

The docs content is there. These work via the current MCP tool:

• browser existing-session returns https://docs.openclaw.ai/tools/browser#existing-session-via-chrome-devtools-mcp and https://docs.openclaw.ai/cli/browser#existing-chrome-via-mcp
• plugin allowlist returns https://docs.openclaw.ai/cli/browser#if-the-command-is-missing and related allowlist pages

A useful issue would include:

openclaw --version
openclaw docs "plugin allowlist"
openclaw docs browser existing-session

[pale vine]

npx -y mcporter list https://docs.openclaw.ai/mcp
npx -y mcporter call https://docs.openclaw.ai/mcp.SearchOpenClaw --args '{"query":"browser existing-session"}' --output text

Expected fix is probably to update src/commands/docs.ts to call search_open_claw with the current mcporter selector syntax and/or treat MCP error text as a failed search instead of empty results. GitHub issue link: https://github.com/openclaw/openclaw/issues

[hollow surge]

Logged issue as https://github.com/openclaw/openclaw/issues/82702

[pale vine]

Thanks Hal. That issue has the right shape for maintainer follow-up: CLI version, repro commands, and the likely stale MCP tool selector. For now the docs pages above are the workaround links until openclaw docs is patched.