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Your task is to create a detailed summary of the conversation so far, paying close attention to the user's explicit requests and your previous actions.
This summary should be thorough in capturing technical details, code patterns, and architectural decisions that would be essential for continuing development work without losing context.

Before providing your final summary, wrap your analysis in <analysis> tags to organize your thoughts and ensure you've covered all necessary points. In your analysis process:

1. Chronologically analyze each message and section of the conversation. For each section thoroughly identify:
   - The user's explicit requests and intents
   - Your approach to addressing the user's requests
   - Key decisions, technical concepts and code patterns
   - Specific details like:
     - file names
     - full code snippets
     - function signatures
     - file edits
   - Errors that you ran into and how you fixed them
   - Pay special attention to specific user feedback that you received, especially if the user told you to do something differently.
2. Double-check for technical accuracy and completeness, addressing each required element thoroughly.

Your summary should include the following sections:

1. Primary Request and Intent: Capture all of the user's explicit requests and intents in detail
2. Key Technical Concepts: List all important technical concepts, technologies, and frameworks discussed.
3. Files and Code Sections: Enumerate specific files and code sections examined, modified, or created. Pay special attention to the most recent messages and include full code snippets where applicable and include a summary of why this file read or edit is important.
4. Errors and fixes: List all errors that you ran into, and how you fixed them. Pay special attention to specific user feedback that you received, especially if the user told you to do something differently.
5. Problem Solving: Document problems solved and any ongoing troubleshooting efforts.
6. All user messages: List ALL user messages that are not tool results. These are critical for understanding the users' feedback and changing intent.
7. Pending Tasks: Outline any pending tasks that you have explicitly been asked to work on.
8. Current Work: Describe in detail precisely what was being worked on immediately before this summary request, paying special attention to the most recent messages from both user and assistant. Include file names and code snippets where applicable.
9. Optional Next Step: List the next step that you will take that is related to the most recent work you were doing. IMPORTANT: ensure that this step is DIRECTLY in line with the user's most recent explicit requests, and the task you were working on immediately before this summary request. If your last task was concluded, then only list next steps if they are explicitly in line with the users request. Do not start on tangential requests or really old requests that were already completed without confirming with the user first.
                       If there is a next step, include direct quotes from the most recent conversation showing exactly what task you were working on and where you left off. This should be verbatim to ensure there's no drift in task interpretation.

Here's an example of how your output should be structured:

<example>
<analysis>
[Your thought process, ensuring all points are covered thoroughly and accurately]
</analysis>

<summary>
1. Primary Request and Intent:
   [Detailed description]

2. Key Technical Concepts:
   - [Concept 1]
   - [Concept 2]
   - [...]

3. Files and Code Sections:
   - [File Name 1]
      - [Summary of why this file is important]
      - [Summary of the changes made to this file, if any]
      - [Important Code Snippet]
   - [File Name 2]
      - [Important Code Snippet]
   - [...]

4. Errors and fixes:
    - [Detailed description of error 1]:
      - [How you fixed the error]
      - [User feedback on the error if any]
    - [...]

5. Problem Solving:
   [Description of solved problems and ongoing troubleshooting]

6. All user messages:
    - [Detailed non tool use user message]
    - [...]

7. Pending Tasks:
   - [Task 1]
   - [Task 2]
   - [...]

8. Current Work:
   [Precise description of current work]

9. Optional Next Step:
   [Optional Next step to take]

</summary>
</example>

Please provide your summary based on the conversation so far, following this structure and ensuring precision and thoroughness in your response.

There may be additional summarization instructions provided in the included context. If so, remember to follow these instructions when creating the above summary. Examples of instructions include:
<example>
## Compact Instructions
When summarizing the conversation focus on typescript code changes and also remember the mistakes you made and how you fixed them.
</example>

<example>
# Summary instructions
When you are using compact - please focus on test output and code changes. Include file reads verbatim.
</example>

IMPORTANT: Do NOT use any tools. You MUST respond with ONLY the <summary>...</summary> block as your text output.


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role: assistant

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text:
<analysis>
Let me chronologically analyze this conversation to create a comprehensive summary.

**Session 1: Initial Check on Telegram Messages Breaking OpenClaw**
- User asked to check if their latest Telegram messages broke OpenClaw
- I investigated: gateway running (pid 579638), Telegram enabled, session active
- Found last session JSONL had `openclaw:prompt-error → error: "aborted"` at 02:12:07
- Root cause: Pipo's Codex API call ran for ~10 minutes and was aborted
- The Codex ACP capability probe worked fine (just an ACP_CODEX_OK check)
- Second probe ran at 02:14 post-abort

**Session 2: Multi-Agent Orchestration Reconfiguration**
- User wanted to reconfigure delegation for Telegram direct-chat with real multi-agent orchestration
- Goals: agents_list showing workers, sessions_spawn runtime="subagent", subagents list/steer/kill, observability
- Key investigation findings:
  - `agents.list[0].subagents.allowAgents` controls what agents_list shows (NOT tools.agentToAgent.allow)
  - Source code: `resolveAgentConfig(cfg, requesterAgentId)?.subagents?.allowAgents`
  - Currently pipo had NO subagents field → only pipo shown in agents_list
  - tools.agentToAgent.allow was missing pipo, kimi, clawrouter
  - acp.allowedAgents was missing kimi, clawrouter
  - Default maxConcurrent was 1

**Changes made:**
1. `agents.list[0].subagents` = `{"allowAgents": ["codex", "gemini", "claude", "deepseek-code", "kimi", "clawrouter"]}`
2. `agents.defaults.subagents.maxConcurrent` = 4
3. `tools.agentToAgent.allow` = `["pipo", "codex", "gemini", "deepseek-code", "claude", "claude-opus", "kimi", "clawrouter"]`
4. `acp.allowedAgents` = `["codex", "gemini", "deepseek-code", "claude", "claude-opus", "kimi", "clawrouter"]`
5. TOOLS.md updated to tell Pipo to use `runtime="subagent"` instead of ACP
6. Hot-reloaded via `config.apply` gateway RPC

**Verification:**
- agents_list returned 7 agents
- sessions_spawn runtime="subagent" agentId="gemini" → status: accepted
- subagents list showed running gemini worker
- subagents steer worked (already done)

**Session 3: Debugging Subagent Result Delivery**
- User reported: kimi, deepseek-code, claude sessions show "done" but empty history
- codex and clawrouter work; gemini timeouts/fails
- Specific failing runIds provided
- Investigation revealed:
  - Session JSONL files DON'T EXIST for kimi, deepseek-code, claude, gemini
  - Only sessions.json metadata exists with references to non-existent JSONL files
  - Clawrouter's JSONL exists with actual content
  - Root cause: **CLI-backend agents don't write session transcripts to JSONL**
  - codex uses `output: "jsonl"` and is API-based → works
  - clawrouter uses `blockrun/auto` → API model → works
  - kimi, deepseek-code, claude, gemini use CLI wrappers (`output: "text"`) → no JSONL
  - runCliAgent returns `{payloads: [{text}]}` but never writes to session JSONL
  - readLatestSubagentOutput calls `chat.history` which reads JSONL → returns empty
  - findings = reply || "(no output)" → sends bare "finished" with no payload

The code investigation was still in progress when the summary was requested. I was tracing through:
- `runCliAgent` in `reply-DhtejUNZ.js` - confirmed it does NOT write to session file
- `appendAssistantTranscriptMessage` in `gateway-cli-vk3t7zJU.js` - this IS the write function
- `sessionManager.appendMessage` for API backends writes to JSONL
- CLI backends return payloads but no equivalent session write path

The investigation was revealing that CLI backends fundamentally don't persist their responses to session JSONL files, meaning `chat.history` can't find them, and the announce flow sends empty completion messages.

The fix would need to involve either:
1. Adding a `chat.transcript.append` call after CLI runs to write the result to the JSONL
2. Or configuring the CLI wrappers to use json output format that openclaw can parse as session data
3. Or using a different approach - switching cli backends to openclaw-native API calls

The wrapper scripts for claude (`claude-sonnet-openclaw`) was using `exec claude -p "$*" --model claude-sonnet-4-6 --dangerously-skip-permissions` WITHOUT `--output-format json`, while the DEFAULT_CLAUDE_BACKEND has `--output-format json` and `output: "json"`. This is one specific fix for claude.

The pending task was still in diagnostic phase, with the root cause found but the fix not yet applied.
</analysis>

<summary>
1. Primary Request and Intent:

**Request 1 (Telegram check):** User asked to verify if their latest Telegram messages broke OpenClaw. Investigation found the gateway was healthy but Pipo's last Codex API run was aborted after ~10 minutes (`openclaw:prompt-error → error: "aborted"`) at 02:12:07 UTC on 2026-03-05. Root cause: Codex API (`gpt-5.3-codex` with `think:medium reasoning:on`) timed out while generating a complex multi-agent delegation response. Session itself was not broken.

**Request 2 (Multi-agent orchestration):** Reconfigure OpenClaw so the Telegram direct-chat agent (Pipo) can use real subagent runtime delegation with visibility and steering. Goals:
- `agents_list` must return all workers (codex, gemini, claude, deepseek-code, kimi, clawrouter)
- `sessions_spawn runtime="subagent"` must work for all workers
- `subagents list|steer|kill` must work from main Telegram chat
- Cross-agent history observability
- Minimal security footprint, no wildcard access

**Request 3 (Subagent result delivery debugging):** Debug and fix why kimi, deepseek-code, claude, and gemini subagent runs complete (`status=done`) but produce empty history and no meaningful completion notification. Specific runIds provided:
- kimi: `3c6627a3`, `da3b8933` (done, empty)
- deepseek: `d458d260` (done, empty)
- claude: `70a8de7c` (done, empty)
- clawrouter: `d4d1f22c` (working, returned payload)
- gemini: `d8b18630`, `d9d67304` (failed/timeout)

2. Key Technical Concepts:
- **OpenClaw gateway** (port 18789): WebSocket gateway managing agents, sessions, channels. Managed by Gemini CLI process — NEVER restart via CLI.
- **`agents.list[N].subagents.allowAgents`**: Per-agent config key controlling which agents appear in `agents_list` tool and can be targeted with `sessions_spawn runtime="subagent"`. This is separate from `tools.agentToAgent.allow`.
- **`sessions_spawn runtime="subagent"`**: Spawns a real subagent with session persistence, steering, and history. Different from `runtime="acp"` (external CLI harness via ACPX).
- **`subagents list|steer|kill`**: Subagent management tools available to the main session after spawning.
- **`tools.agentToAgent.allow`**: Controls cross-agent session visibility (`sessions_history`, `sessions_list`). Both requester AND target must appear in the allowlist.
- **`acp.allowedAgents`**: Controls which agents can be used via ACP harness (`runtime="acp"`).
- **CLI backends vs API backends**: CLI backends (`output: "text"`) run as external processes and return stdout. API backends (blockrun, openrouter, openai-codex via API) process responses through the gateway's session manager.
- **Session JSONL files**: Located at `~/.openclaw/agents/<agentId>/sessions/<sessionId>.jsonl`. Written by `sessionManager.appendMessage` for API backends. CLI backends do NOT write to JSONL — confirmed root cause of empty history.
- **`readLatestSubagentOutput`**: Calls `chat.history` → reads JSONL → returns last assistant message. Returns empty if JSONL doesn't exist.
- **`buildCompletionDeliveryMessage`**: Uses `findings = reply || "(no output)"`. If `reply` is empty (no JSONL), sends bare "✅ Subagent finished" with no payload.
- **`appendAssistantTranscriptMessage`**: Gateway function that writes assistant messages to session JSONL with `createIfMissing` option.
- **`config.apply` gateway RPC**: Hot-reloads config without restarting gateway. Requires current hash from `config.get`.
- **TOOLS.md**: Agent workspace file loaded into Pipo's system prompt, containing operational instructions for CLI backends, delegation patterns, deployment, etc.

3. Files and Code Sections:

- **`~/.openclaw/openclaw.json`** — Main OpenClaw config file. Multiple edits made:
  - `agents.list[0].subagents.allowAgents` = `["codex", "gemini", "claude", "deepseek-code", "kimi", "clawrouter"]`
  - `agents.defaults.subagents.maxConcurrent` = 4 (from 1)
  - `tools.agentToAgent.allow` = `["pipo", "codex", "gemini", "deepseek-code", "claude", "claude-opus", "kimi", "clawrouter"]`
  - `acp.allowedAgents` = `["codex", "gemini", "deepseek-code", "claude", "claude-opus", "kimi", "clawrouter"]`

- **`~/.openclaw/workspace/TOOLS.md`** — Pipo's operational instructions (part of system prompt). Updated delegation section:
```markdown
- En Telegram/direct chat, preferir orquestacion via subagente runtime: `sessions_spawn` con `runtime: "subagent"` y el `agentId` del worker.
- Workers disponibles para `sessions_spawn runtime="subagent"`: `codex`, `gemini`, `claude`, `deepseek-code`, `kimi`, `clawrouter`. Confirmar con `agents_list` antes de spawnar.
- Despues de spawnar un subagente, usar `subagents list` para ver estado, `subagents steer` para enviarle seguimiento, y `subagents kill` para cancelarlo.
- Para observar el historial de un worker: `sessions_history` con la `childSessionKey` devuelta por `sessions_spawn`.
- ACP (`runtime: "acp"`) sigue disponible para harnesses externos (codex-acp, gemini-acp); usarlo solo cuando se necesite el harness ACPX con modelo nativo, no para orquestacion general.
```

- **`/usr/lib/node_modules/openclaw/dist/subagent-registry-CkqrXKq4.js`** — Core subagent logic. Key findings:
  - `createAgentsListTool`: reads `resolveAgentConfig(cfg, requesterAgentId)?.subagents?.allowAgents` to filter agents
  - Sessions_spawn handler checks same `subagents.allowAgents`
  - `readLatestSubagentOutput` → `callGateway({method: "chat.history"})` → reads JSONL
  - `findings = reply || "(no output)"` in announce flow
  - `DEFAULT_SUBAGENT_ANNOUNCE_TIMEOUT_MS = 6e4` (60 seconds)

- **`/usr/lib/node_modules/openclaw/dist/reply-DhtejUNZ.js`** — Agent runner. Key findings:
  - `runCliAgent`: CLI backend runner. Returns `{payloads: [{text: stdout}], meta}`. **Does NOT write to session JSONL.**
  - `runEmbeddedPiAgent`: API backend runner. Uses `sessionManager.appendMessage` to write to JSONL.
  - `isCliProvider` check: routes to `runCliAgent` vs `runEmbeddedPiAgent`
  - CLI text output path: `outputMode === "text" → return {text: stdout, sessionId: void 0}`

- **`/usr/lib/node_modules/openclaw/dist/gateway-cli-vk3t7zJU.js`** — Gateway CLI server. Contains:
  - `appendAssistantTranscriptMessage(params)`: writes assistant message to JSONL with `createIfMissing` option
  - Called for webchat and abort cases, but NOT called after CLI backend runs

- **`/home/ubuntu/.local/bin/kimi-openclaw`** — Node.js script calling Moonshot API, `output: "text"` (plain stdout)
- **`/home/ubuntu/.local/bin/claude-sonnet-openclaw`** — Bash wrapper: `exec claude -p "$*" --model claude-sonnet-4-6 --dangerously-skip-permissions` — **missing `--output-format json`** (DEFAULT_CLAUDE_BACKEND expects `output: "json"` with `--output-format json`)
- **`/home/ubuntu/.local/bin/deepseek-code-openclaw`** — Node.js script calling DeepSeek API, `output: "text"`
- **`/home/ubuntu/.local/bin/gemini-cli-openclaw`** — Bash wrapper: `exec gemini -p "$*"`, plain text output

- **`~/.openclaw/agents/*/sessions/sessions.json`** — Session metadata. For CLI backend subagents, references JSONL paths that don't exist on disk. For clawrouter (API), actual JSONL exists with content.

- **`~/.openclaw/agents/clawrouter/sessions/3879d793-f6b4-4ab9-956b-69ab91bd8aa8.jsonl`** — Working example. Contains full session with user prompt, thinking, tool result, and final assistant message.

4. Errors and Fixes:

- **`openclaw gateway config.schema` / `openclaw gateway config.get` not valid**: These commands don't exist. Used `openclaw config get` and `openclaw gateway call config.get --json` instead.
- **`agents.list[0].subagents` with `maxConcurrent` field failed validation**: `Unrecognized key: "maxConcurrent"` — `maxConcurrent` is only valid in `agents.defaults.subagents`, not per-agent. Removed from per-agent config.
- **`openclaw sessions list`**: `too many arguments for 'sessions'` — correct command is just `openclaw sessions` with no subcommand.
- **Hot-reload attempt with `config.reload`/`system.reload`**: Unknown methods. Discovered `config.apply` requires `raw` (config JSON) and `baseHash` params obtained from `config.get --json`.
- **`config.apply` first attempt without hash**: `"config base hash required; re-run config.get and retry"` — fetched hash from `gateway call config.get --json`, used it in subsequent call.

5. Problem Solving:

**Solved:**
- Identified root cause of Pipo's last Telegram message abort: 10-minute Codex API timeout
- Identified why `agents_list` only showed `pipo`: missing `subagents.allowAgents` in pipo's agent config
- Source-traced the exact config key from openclaw dist JS source
- Applied 4 config changes and hot-reloaded without gateway restart
- Verified: `agents_list` returns 7 agents, `sessions_spawn runtime="subagent"` works, `subagents list` works, `subagents steer` path works
- Updated TOOLS.md to instruct Pipo on new delegation approach

**In progress (Request 3 - subagent result delivery):**
Root cause identified but fix not yet applied:
- CLI backend agents (kimi, deepseek-code, claude, gemini) use `runCliAgent` which returns `{payloads: [{text}]}` but **never writes to session JSONL**
- API backend agents (codex, clawrouter) use `runEmbeddedPiAgent` which writes via `sessionManager.appendMessage`
- `readLatestSubagentOutput` calls `chat.history` → reads JSONL → gets empty result → findings = "(no output)" → bare "✅ finished" notification
- Additional specific issue: `claude-sonnet-openclaw` wrapper missing `--output-format json` flag (DEFAULT_CLAUDE_BACKEND expects json output)

6. All User Messages:
- "Hey I think my latest telegram messages broke openclaw can you check please"
- "Check why the Codex run timed out / aborted"
- Long request to reconfigure delegation for multi-agent orchestration with specific goals for agents_list, sessions_spawn runtime="subagent", subagents list|steer|kill, security requirements, and verification steps
- Long debugging request for subagent result delivery failures, providing specific failing runIds for kimi, deepseek-code, claude, gemini; describing expected behavior and asking for root cause analysis, fixes, and verification matrix

7. Pending Tasks:
- **[ACTIVE]** Complete diagnosis and fix of CLI backend subagent result delivery: ensure session JSONL is written after CLI runs so `sessions_history` and completion notifications work for kimi, deepseek-code, claude, gemini
- Fix `claude-sonnet-openclaw` wrapper to include `--output-format json` so it matches DEFAULT_CLAUDE_BACKEND expectations
- Run verification probe across all 6 agents (codex, gemini, claude, deepseek-code, kimi, clawrouter) with the "AGENT_OK | hora_bsas=HH:MM" pattern
- Document before/after matrix per agent

8. Current Work:

Investigating subagent result delivery failure for CLI-backend agents. The investigation reached the definitive root cause:

**Root cause**: `runCliAgent` in `/usr/lib/node_modules/openclaw/dist/reply-DhtejUNZ.js` runs the CLI subprocess and returns `{payloads: [{text: stdout}], meta}` but **never calls `appendAssistantTranscriptMessage` or `sessionManager.appendMessage`**. As a result, no JSONL session file is written for CLI backend subagents. When the announce flow calls `readLatestSubagentOutput` → `chat.history`, there's nothing in the JSONL, so `reply = undefined`, `findings = "(no output)"`, and the completion message is just the bare "✅ Subagent X finished" header with no payload.

Confirmed by filesystem inspection:
- `~/.openclaw/agents/kimi/sessions/` — only `sessions.json`, no JSONL
- `~/.openclaw/agents/deepseek-code/sessions/` — only `sessions.json`, no JSONL
- `~/.openclaw/agents/claude/sessions/` — only `sessions.json`, no JSONL
- `~/.openclaw/agents/gemini/sessions/` — only `sessions.json`, no JSONL
- `~/.openclaw/agents/clawrouter/sessions/` — has `sessions.json` AND `3879d793-f6b4-4ab9-956b-69ab91bd8aa8.jsonl` with full content

The last code investigation was tracing `appendAssistantTranscriptMessage` in `gateway-cli-vk3t7zJU.js` which IS called for webchat and abort scenarios (`createIfMissing: true`) but NOT after regular CLI backend runs.

9. Optional Next Step:

Based on the current investigation, the next step is to find the fix path for CLI backend session transcript persistence. The options identified are:

1. **Fix `claude-sonnet-openclaw`** wrapper to add `--output-format json` flag, matching DEFAULT_CLAUDE_BACKEND which expects `output: "json"`. This would allow openclaw to parse Claude's structured JSON output and potentially write it to the session.

2. **Use `openclaw config set agents.defaults.cliBackends.<backend>.output` to set json format** for backends that support it.

3. **Call `gateway call chat.transcript.append`** (or equivalent) after CLI subagent runs complete — this requires understanding if a gateway hook or config option enables post-run transcript writes.

The most recent work left off at: tracing `appendAssistantTranscriptMessage` calls in `gateway-cli-vk3t7zJU.js` (found at positions 395686, 397437, 410315, 412783) — only called for webchat streams and abort cases, confirming the gap in CLI backend session persistence.
</summary>

service_tier: standard

speed: standard

type: assistant