Summary

Mac app toolbar chat and web dashboard display raw internal message envelopes instead of cleaned messages. TUI and Telegram render correctly.

Working (clean):

• ✅ TUI (terminal interface)
• ✅ Telegram

Broken (raw metadata visible):

• ❌ macOS toolbar chat app
• ❌ Web dashboard at http://127.0.0.1:18789

What I see in broken UIs:
Conversation info (untrusted metadata):
{"message_id": "...", "sender": "..."}
[Thu ...] my message here

[[reply_to_current]] Response here...

Steps to reproduce

1. Open OpenClaw Mac app or web UI
2. Send any message
3. Observe JSON metadata block and [[reply_to_current]] tags displayed raw

Expected behavior

Just the timestamp and clean message body — internal routing tags and metadata should be stripped.

Actual behavior

What I see in broken UIs:
Conversation info (untrusted metadata):
{"message_id": "...", "sender": "..."}
[Thu ...] my message here

[[reply_to_current]] Response here...

OpenClaw version

2026.2.17

Operating system

macOS 15.5

Install method

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Logs, screenshots, and evidence

Impact and severity

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Additional information

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