Summary

Cron jobs with a specific model in the payload are ignoring that specification and falling back to what appears to be an internal default fallback chain that differs from both the specified model AND the configured agent defaults.

Observed Behavior

Job hourly-stage1-r1-analysis specifies:

"model": "openrouter/deepseek/deepseek-r1"

But when run, the error shows it tried:

anthropic/claude-sonnet-4-20250514
anthropic/claude-opus-4-6

Neither of these is the specified model OR the configured default fallback (anthropic/claude-opus-4-5 → openrouter/deepseek/deepseek-r1).

Direct API Tests

Both models work fine when tested directly:

• LM Studio (Qwen): instant response via localhost:1234
• OpenRouter (DeepSeek R1): working via https://openrouter.ai/api/v1

Config (relevant parts)

"models": {
  "providers": {
    "openrouter": {
      "baseUrl": "https://openrouter.ai/api/v1",
      "apiKey": "...",
      "models": [{"id": "deepseek/deepseek-r1", ...}]
    }
  }
},
"agents": {
  "defaults": {
    "model": {
      "primary": "anthropic/claude-opus-4-5",
      "fallbacks": ["openrouter/deepseek/deepseek-r1"]
    }
  }
}

Expected Behavior

Cron jobs should use the model specified in payload.model, with the configured fallback chain if that model fails.

Environment

• OpenClaw: 2026.2.3-1
• OS: macOS 26.2 (M4)

Related

Possibly related to #5533 (meta.lastTouchedAt)