Why is OpenClaw showing internal thinking?

Bug in v2026.4.9 caused by MMX-CLI v1.0.5 install leaks agent planning text into chat responses.

How to fix agent thinking leak?

Upgrade past v2026.4.9 or uninstall MMX-CLI v1.0.5.

What does leaked thinking text look like?

Internal monologue like 'Mike wants to test if Claude Opus has English thinking process. Let me send a test response.'

Is agent thinking exposure a security risk?

Yes — exposes planning strategies, user data analysis, and system prompts that should be hidden.

Which version leaks agent thinking?

v2026.4.9 specifically, triggered by MMX-CLI v1.0.5. GitHub Issue #64267.

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OpenClaw v2026.4.9 Exposes Agent Internal Thinking/Planning Text to Users in Chat

After upgrading to v2026.4.9, the agent's internal analysis and planning text leaks into user-facing chat responses. Triggered by MMX-CLI v1.0.5 install.

Product Idea from this Signal

A CLI tool that runs pre-flight compatibility checks before OpenClaw upgrades and auto-rolls back when the gateway fails to start

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OpenClaw ships 13+ releases per month and each one risks breaking gateway startup, scope pairing, channel connections, or plugin loading. Users upgrading from v2026.4.15 to v2026.4.21 hit a scope upgrade pending approval bug that locked them out of the primary interface entirely. Others saw 13-minute silent hangs on first boot, high CPU from RPC latency spikes, and external plugins silently dropped. This tool snapshots the current working state before upgrade, runs compatibility checks against the target version's known issues, and auto-reverts if the gateway fails health checks after upgrade.

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