# Session: 2026-05-08 23:33:18 UTC

- **Session Key**: agent:main:main
- **Session ID**: c40f816a-a09c-4cb6-ba25-c09fbb4d8b17
- **Source**: telegram

## Conversation Summary

user: Conversation info (untrusted metadata):
```json
{
  "message_id": "6022",
  "sender_id": "8032472383",
  "sender": "Braden McLeish",
  "timestamp": "Tue 2026-05-05 18:34 PDT"
}
```

Sender (untrusted metadata):
```json
{
  "label": "Braden McLeish (8032472383)",
  "id": "8032472383",
  "name": "Braden McLeish"
}
```

Yes please
assistant: I’m going to trace the source of that leaked breaker message in the local runtime and identify the specific component/path that emitted it.
assistant: The search toolchain on this host is missing in that exec context. I’ll use basic shell utilities to locate the exact emitting code/log path instead.
assistant: I found a broader filesystem search in progress; I’m pulling its output now rather than rerunning anything.
assistant: That full-disk grep is too blunt. I’m narrowing to the OpenClaw workspace/runtime directories most likely to contain the breaker path.
assistant: [[reply_to_current]] I traced it.

What it was:
- The leaked message came from the local watchdog script:
  `Source: /Users/openclaw/.openclaw/workspace/scripts/circuit-breaker-watchdog.py#L916`
- That line constructs exactly:
  `[BREAKER §1 STALE] Cost-rate data not fresh: ...`

What that component does:
- It is the RFC-002 circuit-breaker watchdog for cost-rate / traffic guards.
- For breaker §1, it reads:
  `/Users/openclaw/.openclaw/workspace/state/oauth-usage-history.jsonl`
  `Source: /Users/openclaw/.openclaw/workspace/scripts/circuit-breaker-watchdog.py#L3-L9`

Why it fired:
- The script sends that message when the OAuth usage history file is too old relative to its freshness threshold.
- In the code path I checked, stale freshness triggers a Telegram send immediately:
  `send_telegram(msg, ...)`
  `Source: /Users/openclaw/.openclaw/workspace/scripts/circuit-breaker-watchdog.py#L900-L928`

What likely happened:
- This was not a normal assistant reply.
- A monitoring job emitted its breaker alert straight into your Telegram DM, so the raw internal alert text surfaced instead of being filtered or rewritten.

Current status:
- Right now the backing file is fresh, so the condition is not currently stuck:
  `/Users/openclaw/.openclaw/workspace/state/oauth-usage-history.jsonl`
  last visible row timestamp:
  `2026-05-06T01:33:56.900605+00:00`
- So the leak you saw looks like an alert delivery/path issue, not an active ongoing freshness outage.

Most likely root cause:
1. The circuit-breaker watchdog is intentionally configured to send Telegram alerts.
2. Those alerts are reaching your main DM in raw form.
3. There is no normalization layer on that path, so internal breaker strings leak through directly.

Bottom line:
- It was a watchdog alert from `circuit-breaker-watchdog.py`, not a human-facing message.
- The problem to fix is the delivery path/formatting, not just the stale-data check.

If you want, next I can do a precise read-only trace of:
- what launches that watchdog,
- where its Telegram target is configured,
- and whether the safest fix is:
  1. suppress raw Telegram delivery,
  2. reroute alerts to ops-maintainer,
  3. or wrap them in a cleaner user-facing formatter.

That next step is read-only and safe.
assistant: SESSION_COUNT_OK (4 sessions)
assistant: SESSION_COUNT_OK (4 sessions)
assistant: SESSION_COUNT_OK (4 sessions)
assistant: SESSION_COUNT_OK (4 sessions)
assistant: [BREAKER §1 STALE] Cost-rate data not fresh: latest_age=7895.523214s (>600s)
assistant: [BREAKER §1 STALE] Cost-rate data not fresh: latest_age=38500.276172s (>600s)
assistant: SESSION_COUNT_OK (4 sessions)
assistant: SESSION_COUNT_OK (4 sessions)
assistant: SESSION_COUNT_OK (4 sessions)