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---
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
```
| Flag | Description |
| ----------------------- | --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
| `--all` | Full diagnosis (read-only, pasteable). Includes security audit, plugin compatibility, and memory-vector probes. |
| `--deep` | Runs live probes (WhatsApp Web + Telegram + Discord + Slack + Signal). Also enables the security audit. |
| `--usage` | Prints normalized provider usage windows as `X% left`. |
| `--json` | Machine-readable output. |
| `--verbose` / `--debug` | Also print the raw Gateway target resolution before the report. |
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`.
## 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, `/status` 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.
## Usage and quota
- `--usage` prints normalized provider usage windows as `X% left`.
- 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.
- 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)).
## Secrets
- 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 `agents.defaults.memorySearch.enabled` disabled and still report
their own files, chunks, vector, and FTS state.
## Related
- [CLI reference](/cli)
- [Doctor](/gateway/doctor)