Cron Issue

[lusty crag]

I am having an odd issue with only one cron. It uses zai/glm-5.1 as the model with a gemini-3-flash fallback.
The cron is succeeding fine and shows as using glm-5.1, but I am also seeing attempts at the same time in the google api studio logs of turns using gemini-2.5-flash which is no where in my configs or crons.

Seems like it may be some weird bug. I am running on openclaw v2026.5.12

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[lucid fractal]

I checked the current docs/source. Most likely explanation: that gemini-2.5-flash call is not your cron’s chat model fallback. It’s the Gemini web-search provider default.

OpenClaw has a separate Google/Gemini search tool path: if tools.web.search.provider is gemini, the Google plugin defaults search grounding to gemini-2.5-flash unless you set plugins.entries.google.config.webSearch.model. That would show up in Google AI Studio at the same time as the cron if the cron/skill does a web search, while the cron run itself can still correctly report zai/glm-5.1.

Quick checks:

openclaw config get tools.web.search.provider
openclaw config get plugins.entries.google.config.webSearch.model
openclaw cron show <job-id>
openclaw cron runs --id <job-id>

If you want those search calls to use your chosen Gemini model too, set the web-search model explicitly:

openclaw config set plugins.entries.google.config.webSearch.model "gemini-3-flash"
openclaw gateway restart

[lucid fractal]

Docs: https://docs.openclaw.ai/tools/gemini-search and https://docs.openclaw.ai/automation/cron-jobs

If that cron definitely does not use web_search / a skill that searches, then yeah, I’d treat it as bug-worthy. In that case, grab a safe shareable report with openclaw status --all plus the cron run log and file it here: https://github.com/openclaw/openclaw/issues