Session Note / Continuity

Session Note 048

Created 2026-06-24 · 05:58 EDT Covering OpenClaw 2026.6.10 maintenance, legacy codex state cleanup, doctor normalization, and security follow-up Theme: stop once the urgent warning is resolved and the next maintenance queue is clear

This short note records the OpenClaw maintenance pass that happened after Session Note 047. Christopher was heading into work, so the goal was not to fully harden the installation. The goal was to fix the active warning, apply safe cleanup, and leave a clear next-session handoff.

Current lesson: local maintenance should stop once the urgent warning is resolved and the remaining work is clearly queued. Do not turn a clean repair into an open-ended troubleshooting spiral before work.

1. OpenClaw Updated To 2026.6.10

Christopher ran:

openclaw update

The update completed successfully:

  • Before: 2026.6.9
  • After: 2026.6.10
  • Plugin update: @openclaw/codex updated
  • Gateway: restarted and verified by the updater

The update still printed the same legacy state warning:

Left plugin install index in place because shared SQLite state has conflicting plugin install metadata for: codex

That meant the package update succeeded, but the stale legacy plugin-install index was still present.

2. Stale Codex Install Index Was Archived

The stale file was:

~/.openclaw/plugins/installs.json

Inspection showed it still recorded codex / @openclaw/codex as 2026.5.28, while the active managed install had moved forward. OpenClaw was correctly refusing to merge that older conflicting metadata into the newer shared SQLite state.

The file was archived recoverably as:

~/.openclaw/plugins/installs.json.migrated-manual-2026-06-24

After that, openclaw doctor no longer showed the legacy codex migration warning. Treat the original codex migration issue as fixed.

3. Doctor Cleanup Applied Safely

Christopher then ran:

openclaw doctor

Two safe cleanup prompts were accepted:

  • 83 orphan transcript files in ~/.openclaw/agents/main/sessions were archived as .deleted.<timestamp> backups.
  • Legacy cron jobs in ~/.openclaw/cron/jobs.json were normalized.

The doctor output then showed:

  • Skills status: 20 eligible
  • Missing requirements: 0
  • Plugins loaded: 55
  • Plugin errors: 0

The earlier summarize missing-requirement warning was no longer present after the update/doctor pass.

4. Security Audit And One Safe Hardening Change

Christopher ran:

openclaw security audit --deep

The audit reported:

  • 0 critical
  • 4 warnings
  • 1 info item

The safest immediate hardening change was to disable the insecure Control UI auth flag:

openclaw config set gateway.controlUi.allowInsecureAuth false
systemctl --user restart openclaw-gateway.service

That config update succeeded and the gateway was restarted to apply it.

The remaining security warnings are not emergency items in Christopher's personal-assistant setup, but they should be reviewed later:

  • gateway.trustedProxies is empty while gateway.bind is loopback. This only matters if the Control UI is exposed through a reverse proxy.
  • The trust model remains personal-assistant style: powerful tools are available under Christopher's trusted-operator boundary, not a hostile multi-tenant gateway.

5. Remaining Follow-Up Items

Leave these for the next maintenance session:

  1. Rerun openclaw doctor and openclaw security audit --deep to confirm the new baseline after the gateway restart.
  2. Migrate plaintext secret-bearing config fields in openclaw.json to SecretRefs. Do this deliberately, not through a rushed auto-fix.
  3. Fix or intentionally disable Gemini-backed memory search. Doctor reported that memory search is configured for gemini but no API key was found.
  4. Decide whether the Telegram group allowlist warning is intentional. Direct Telegram use is working; group behavior may simply be locked down.
  5. Consider startup optimization later: NODE_COMPILE_CACHE and OPENCLAW_NO_RESPAWN are performance/convenience items, not urgent security issues.

6. Handoff

The stopping point is good:

  • OpenClaw is updated to 2026.6.10.
  • The stale codex legacy install index is archived.
  • The codex migration warning is gone.
  • Orphan transcripts were archived.
  • Cron store normalization completed.
  • The insecure Control UI auth toggle was disabled.
  • The gateway was restarted.

Do not restart this maintenance thread by chasing every doctor line at once. The next high-value work is secrets migration and memory-search repair, in that order, when Christopher has time.

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