---
summary: "CLI reference for `openclaw status` (diagnostics, probes, usage snapshots)"
read_when:
  - You want a quick diagnosis of channel health + recent session recipients
  - You want a pasteable "all" status for debugging
title: "openclaw status"
---

Diagnostics for channels + sessions.

```bash
openclaw status
openclaw status --all
openclaw status --deep
openclaw status --usage
openclaw status --all --usage
openclaw status --usage --agent work
```

| Flag                    | Description                                                                                                     |
| ----------------------- | --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
| `--all`                 | Full diagnosis (read-only, pasteable). Includes security audit, plugin compatibility, and memory-vector probes. |
| `--deep`                | Requests channel health (live probes where supported). Also enables the security audit.                         |
| `--usage`               | Prints normalized provider usage windows as `X% left`.                                                          |
| `--agent <id>`          | Selects the agent auth/profile scope for `--usage`. Required when an explicit multi-agent fleet has no default. |
| `--json`                | Machine-readable output.                                                                                        |
| `--timeout <ms>`        | Probe timeout in milliseconds (default: `10000`).                                                               |
| `--verbose` / `--debug` | Also print the raw Gateway target resolution before the report.                                                 |

Channels without a probe, such as WhatsApp, report lifecycle health instead.
In the Health table, `healthy` is `OK`; degraded lifecycle states and failed
probes remain `WARN`. A lifecycle `OK` does not mean a live probe ran.

`--deep` and `--all` also show delivery queue warnings for dead-lettered messages
and pressured inbound lanes. These warnings include pending, claimed, and blocked
message counts even when a channel connection is healthy. See
[Queue warnings](/gateway/health#queue-warnings).

Plain `openclaw status` stays on the fast read-only path and marks memory as
`not checked` instead of unavailable when it skips memory inspection. Heavy
security audit, plugin compatibility, and memory-vector probes are left to
`openclaw status --all`, `openclaw status --deep`, `openclaw security audit`,
and `openclaw memory status --deep`.

For Git installs, plain status compares cached remote-tracking refs without a
network fetch. If the latest recorded update fetch failed and no later update
run records a completed fetch, the Update row shows
`update check stale: last update fetch failed 5m ago (network error)` instead of
`up to date`, with ahead/behind counts labeled `cached`. JSON exposes this under
`update.git.stale` (`reason`, `failedAtMs`, `detail`, and `runId`) and sets
`update.git.countsCached` to `true`. Without a recorded fetch failure, the usual
cached comparison is unchanged. The history belongs to the current state
directory. A later run that completes its fetch clears the warning even if the
rest of that update is skipped, fails, or rolls back. A manual `git fetch` does
not clear the recorded warning. Use `openclaw update status` for a fresh check
and the last update run, or run `openclaw update` again. `openclaw status --deep`
also fetches for that check; it does not change the ledger. See
[Release channels](/install/development-channels#checking-current-status).

## Skills diagnosis

`status --all` reports eligible skills and skills with missing prerequisites for
the workspace shown in the Skills row. Missing prerequisites use the same category as
`openclaw skills check`: intentionally disabled skills and skills blocked by the
bundled allowlist are excluded; agent allowlist exclusions remain independent.
Unmet OS requirements are included in this count, although Doctor does not disable
skills for OS incompatibility.
Use `openclaw skills check --agent <id>` to inspect the missing requirements.

## Session and model resolution

- Session status output separates `Execution:` from `Runtime:`. `Execution`
  is the sandbox path (`direct`, `docker/*`), while `Runtime` tells you
  whether the session is using `OpenClaw Default`, `OpenAI Codex`, a CLI
  backend, or an ACP backend such as `codex (acp/acpx)`. See
  [Agent runtimes](/concepts/agent-runtimes) for the provider/model/runtime
  distinction.
- When the current session snapshot is sparse, the `/status` chat command (see
  [Slash commands](/tools/slash-commands)) can backfill token and cache counters
  from the most recent transcript usage log. Existing nonzero live values still
  win over transcript fallback values.
- Transcript fallback can also recover the active runtime model label when
  the live session entry is missing it. If that transcript model differs
  from the selected model, status resolves the context window against the
  recovered runtime model instead of the selected one.
- For prompt-size accounting, transcript fallback prefers the larger
  prompt-oriented total when session metadata is missing or smaller, so
  custom-provider sessions do not collapse to `0` token displays.
- When a session is pinned to a model that differs from the configured
  primary, status prints both values, the reason (`session override`), and
  the hint `/model default`. The configured primary applies to new or
  unpinned sessions; existing pinned sessions keep their session selection
  until cleared.
- Output includes per-agent session stores when multiple agents are
  configured.
- Fleet status works without a System Agent owner. Pending events include each
  agent's main queue; a shared global queue is counted once. `--agent` selects
  credentials only for `--usage`.

## Usage and quota

- `--usage` prints normalized provider usage windows as `X% left`.
  It also adds usage snapshots to `--all`; `--agent` keeps the same usage-only scope.
- In an explicit multi-agent setup, `--usage` reads the auth profiles owned by
  `agents.defaults.systemAgent.agentId` by default. Pass `--agent <id>` to
  inspect another agent; without either owner, OpenClaw does not guess one
  agent's credentials from an ambiguous roster.
- MiniMax's raw `usage_percent` / `usagePercent` fields are remaining quota,
  so OpenClaw inverts them before display; count-based fields win when
  present. `model_remains` responses prefer the chat-model entry, derive the
  window label from timestamps when needed, and include the model name in
  the plan label.
- Model pricing refresh failures are shown as optional pricing warnings.
  They do not mean the Gateway or channels are unhealthy.

## Overview and update status

- Overview includes Gateway + node host service install/runtime status when
  available, plus compact Gateway process uptime and host system uptime.
- `status --all` shows returned host, IP, version, and platform in **Gateway self**.
  It uses `unknown` only when those fields are unavailable.
- On Linux, a readable installed node service remains listed when the service
  manager is unavailable; its runtime status stays unknown.
- Overview includes update channel + git SHA (for source checkouts).
- Update info surfaces in the Overview; if an update is available, status
  prints a hint to run `openclaw update` (see [Updating](/install/updating)).
- `status` and `status --all` keep current availability in **Update** and show
  active or recent update history separately in **Update run**. A distinct
  **Update restart** report remains visible unless it names that same run ID.
- `status --all` includes a **Telemetry exporters** diagnosis with the latest
  trusted per-signal exporter state and transport. Endpoint values, headers,
  certificates, payloads, and raw errors are not shown.

## Secrets

- When the running Gateway has any isolated SecretRef owner from startup, reload, or a config write, status includes `degradedSecretOwners` in JSON and a **Degraded secrets** overview row in human output. Each entry names the owner, degradation state (`cold` or `stale`), config paths, and redacted reason. Cold owners are unavailable; stale owners continue with last-known-good values.
- Read-only status surfaces (`status`, `status --json`, `status --all`)
  resolve supported SecretRefs for their targeted config paths when
  possible.
- If a supported channel SecretRef is configured but unavailable in the
  current command path, status stays read-only and reports degraded output
  instead of crashing. Human output shows warnings such as "configured token
  unavailable in this command path", and JSON output includes
  `secretDiagnostics`.
- When command-local SecretRef resolution succeeds, status prefers the
  resolved snapshot and clears transient "secret unavailable" channel
  markers from the final output.
- `status --all` includes a Secrets overview row and a diagnosis section
  that summarizes secret diagnostics (truncated for readability) without
  stopping report generation.

## Memory

`status --json --all` reports memory details from the active memory plugin
runtime selected by `plugins.slots.memory`. Custom memory plugins can leave
built-in `memory.search.enabled` disabled and still report
their own files, chunks, vector, and FTS state.

## Related

- [CLI reference](/cli)
- [Doctor](/gateway/doctor)
- [`openclaw health`](/cli/health) — Gateway health snapshot over RPC