Agent stopped responding

[long hamlet]

My agent isn't responding to my @ messages in discord after updating openclaw and a gateway reset. I looked at the terminal and dont see any error messages.

[heavy pebble]

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[glacial rose]

First thing: what does openclaw --version show? Version mismatch after an update is a common cause of weird channel behavior.

While you grab that, run these and paste the safe output:

openclaw status --all
openclaw gateway status
openclaw status --deep

For Discord specifically, the likely checks are:

• confirm the gateway is actually using a Discord token: channels.discord.token or DISCORD_BOT_TOKEN
• confirm channels.discord.enabled: true
• in the Discord Developer Portal, confirm Message Content Intent is still enabled
• if this is a server channel/thread, confirm your server is in channels.discord.guilds and that the channel allows responses / requires mention as expected
• tail the file log, not just the visible terminal: openclaw logs --follow

Docs I checked:

[glacial rose]

https://docs.openclaw.ai/help/faq
https://docs.openclaw.ai/channels/discord
https://docs.openclaw.ai/gateway/configuration-reference

[long hamlet]

OpenClaw 2026.5.22 (a374c3a)

[glacial rose]

Thanks. 2026.5.22 is new enough that the older 2026.5.3/5.4 Discord plugin regression should not be assumed, but your symptom is very similar: Discord can be configured, yet the channel/plugin never actually starts, so there are no obvious terminal errors.

Next useful checks:

openclaw channels status --probe
openclaw channels capabilities --channel discord
openclaw plugins list --enabled
openclaw logs --follow

In the output, look for whether discord appears in the enabled plugin list and whether channels status --probe says Discord is configured/started or not configured / stopped / disconnected.

If Discord is missing from enabled plugins, try:

openclaw plugins install @openclaw/discord --force
openclaw plugins enable discord

[glacial rose]

openclaw gateway restart

If Discord is enabled but the probe fails, the next suspects are token/env loading after the reset and Discord intents. Check:

openclaw config get channels.discord.enabled
openclaw config get channels.discord.token

Don’t paste the token value here. Also confirm Message Content Intent is enabled in the Discord Developer Portal.

Relevant docs:
https://docs.openclaw.ai/cli/channels
https://docs.openclaw.ai/channels/discord
https://docs.openclaw.ai/cli/plugins