Summary

stripInlineStatus() in src/auto-reply/reply/inline-status.ts unconditionally collapses all whitespace — including newlines — in every incoming message from authorized senders. This destroys paragraph structure before the message reaches the LLM.

Reproduction

1. Send a multi-line Discord message (using Shift+Enter for line breaks) to an OpenClaw agent
2. Check the session log — the message content has all \n characters replaced with single spaces

Root Cause

function stripInlineStatus(body) {
    const trimmed = body.trim();
    if (!trimmed) return { cleaned: "", didStrip: false };
    const cleaned = trimmed.replace(INLINE_STATUS_RE, " ").replace(/\s+/g, " ").trim();
    return { cleaned, didStrip: cleaned !== trimmed };
}

The .replace(/\s+/g, " ") matches \n, \r, \t, and all other whitespace characters, collapsing them into a single space. This runs unconditionally — even when the message contains no /status directive.

Impact

Any agent that needs to preserve the user's text formatting (journaling, note-taking, content recording) receives a wall of text instead of the user's intended paragraphs.

Suggested Fix

Replace /\s+/g with /[^\S\n]+/g to only collapse horizontal whitespace while preserving newlines:

const cleaned = trimmed.replace(INLINE_STATUS_RE, " ").replace(/[^\S\n]+/g, " ").trim();

Alternatively, only apply the whitespace normalization when the status regex actually matched.

Environment

• OpenClaw version: 2026.2.19-2
• Platform: Discord
• Source file: src/auto-reply/reply/inline-status.ts