Delivery: to send a message, use the message tool.

[viscid valley]

Anybody figured this issue out already? When I message my OpenClaw app via DM in Slack, it works perfectly. When I @ it in a channel, OpenClaw receives the message from Slack, responds to it in a chat session, but it never makes it to the Slack channel. This is the error I can see in the chat session via dashboard:

Delivery: to send a message, use the message tool.

[calm vault]

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[spice cloak]

This looks like OpenClaw getting the Slack channel event, running the agent, then failing the outbound delivery path. The string Delivery: to send a message, use the message tool. is OpenClaw guidance leaking into the session, not a Slack API error by itself.

First thing: can you share openclaw --version? Version matters a lot here.

Things I’d check in order:

1. If you have any tools.allow / per-agent agents.list[].tools.allow configured, make sure the real tool name message is allowed, or use group:messaging / tools.profile: "messaging". Don’t use provider names like slack.message; current docs list the shared message tool as message.
2. Confirm the Slack channel is allowed: channels.slack.groupPolicy, channels.slack.channels, requireMention, and any per-channel users allowlist.
3. Confirm the Slack app has the bot scopes from the manifest, especially chat:write plus the channel read/event scopes, and that the app is actually in the channel.
4. Run:

openclaw channels status --probe
openclaw status --all
openclaw logs --follow

Then look for a real Slack send error like not_in_channel, channel_not_found, missing_scope, or a tool allowlist warning.