Agents/logging: reduce orphaned-user warning noise for background runs

Author: vignesh07

CHANGELOG.md

@@ -212,6 +212,7 @@ Docs: https://docs.openclaw.ai
 - Exec/node hosts: stop forwarding the gateway workspace cwd to remote node exec when no workdir was explicitly requested, so cross-platform node approvals fall back to the node default cwd instead of failing with `SYSTEM_RUN_DENIED`. (#58977) Thanks @Starhappysh.
 - TUI/chat: keep pending local sends visible and reconciled across history reloads, make busy/error recovery clearer through fallback and terminal-error paths, and reclaim transcript width for long links and paths. (#59800) Thanks @vincentkoc.
 - Exec approvals/channels: decouple initiating-surface approval availability from native delivery enablement so Telegram, Slack, and Discord still expose approvals when approvers exist and native target routing is configured separately. (#59776) Thanks @joelnishanth.
+- Agents/logging: keep orphaned-user transcript repair warnings focused on interactive runs, and downgrade background-trigger repairs (`heartbeat`, `cron`, `memory`, `overflow`) to debug logs to reduce false-alarm gateway noise.
 
 ## 2026.4.1
 

src/agents/pi-embedded-runner/run/attempt.prompt-helpers.ts

@@ -96,6 +96,12 @@ export function shouldInjectHeartbeatPrompt(params: {
   return params.isDefaultAgent && shouldInjectHeartbeatPromptForTrigger(params.trigger);
 }
 
+export function shouldWarnOnOrphanedUserRepair(
+  trigger: EmbeddedRunAttemptParams["trigger"],
+): boolean {
+  return trigger === "user" || trigger === "manual";
+}
+
 export function resolveAttemptFsWorkspaceOnly(params: {
   config?: OpenClawConfig;
   sessionAgentId: string;

src/agents/pi-embedded-runner/run/attempt.test.ts

@@ -19,6 +19,7 @@ import {
   resolveEmbeddedAgentStreamFn,
   resolvePromptBuildHookResult,
   resolvePromptModeForSession,
+  shouldWarnOnOrphanedUserRepair,
   wrapStreamFnRepairMalformedToolCallArguments,
   wrapStreamFnSanitizeMalformedToolCalls,
   wrapStreamFnTrimToolCallNames,
@@ -224,6 +225,20 @@ describe("resolvePromptModeForSession", () => {
   });
 });
 
+describe("shouldWarnOnOrphanedUserRepair", () => {
+  it("warns for user and manual runs", () => {
+    expect(shouldWarnOnOrphanedUserRepair("user")).toBe(true);
+    expect(shouldWarnOnOrphanedUserRepair("manual")).toBe(true);
+  });
+
+  it("does not warn for background triggers", () => {
+    expect(shouldWarnOnOrphanedUserRepair("heartbeat")).toBe(false);
+    expect(shouldWarnOnOrphanedUserRepair("cron")).toBe(false);
+    expect(shouldWarnOnOrphanedUserRepair("memory")).toBe(false);
+    expect(shouldWarnOnOrphanedUserRepair("overflow")).toBe(false);
+  });
+});
+
 describe("resolveEmbeddedAgentStreamFn", () => {
   it("injects authStorage api keys into provider-owned stream functions", async () => {
     const providerStreamFn = vi.fn(async (_model, _context, options) => options);

src/agents/pi-embedded-runner/run/attempt.ts

@@ -143,6 +143,7 @@ import {
   resolveAttemptFsWorkspaceOnly,
   resolvePromptBuildHookResult,
   resolvePromptModeForSession,
+  shouldWarnOnOrphanedUserRepair,
   shouldInjectHeartbeatPrompt,
 } from "./attempt.prompt-helpers.js";
 import {
@@ -192,6 +193,7 @@ export {
   resolveAttemptFsWorkspaceOnly,
   resolvePromptBuildHookResult,
   resolvePromptModeForSession,
+  shouldWarnOnOrphanedUserRepair,
   shouldInjectHeartbeatPrompt,
 } from "./attempt.prompt-helpers.js";
 export {
@@ -1542,10 +1544,14 @@ export async function runEmbeddedAttempt(
           }
           const sessionContext = sessionManager.buildSessionContext();
           activeSession.agent.replaceMessages(sessionContext.messages);
-          log.warn(
+          const orphanRepairMessage =
             `Removed orphaned user message to prevent consecutive user turns. ` +
-              `runId=${params.runId} sessionId=${params.sessionId}`,
-          );
+            `runId=${params.runId} sessionId=${params.sessionId} trigger=${params.trigger}`;
+          if (shouldWarnOnOrphanedUserRepair(params.trigger)) {
+            log.warn(orphanRepairMessage);
+          } else {
+            log.debug(orphanRepairMessage);
+          }
         }
         const transcriptLeafId =
           (sessionManager.getLeafEntry() as { id?: string } | null | undefined)?.id ?? null;