QA channel

is a bundled synthetic message transport for automated OpenClaw QA. It is not a production channel — it exists to exercise the same channel plugin boundary used by real transports while keeping state deterministic and fully inspectable.

What it does

• Slack-class target grammar:
  • text

    Copy

    dm:<user>
  • text

    Copy

    channel:<room>
  • text

    Copy

    group:<room>
  • text

    Copy

    thread:<room>/<thread>
• Shared
  text

  Copy

  channel:
  and
  text

  Copy

  group:
  conversations are surfaced to agents as group/channel room turns, so they exercise the same visible-reply and message-tool routing policy used by Discord, Slack, Telegram, and similar transports.
• HTTP-backed synthetic bus for inbound message injection, outbound transcript capture, thread creation, reactions, edits, deletes, and search/read actions.
• Host-side self-check runner that writes a Markdown report to
  text

  Copy

  .artifacts/qa-e2e/
  .

Config

json
Copy
{
  "channels": {
    "qa-channel": {
      "baseUrl": "http://127.0.0.1:43123",
      "botUserId": "openclaw",
      "botDisplayName": "OpenClaw QA",
      "allowFrom": ["*"],
      "pollTimeoutMs": 1000
    }
  }
}

Account keys:

• text

  Copy

  enabled
  — master toggle for this account.
• text

  Copy

  name
  — optional display label.
• text

  Copy

  baseUrl
  — synthetic bus URL.
• text

  Copy

  botUserId
  — Matrix-style bot user id used in target grammar.
• text

  Copy

  botDisplayName
  — display name for outbound messages.
• text

  Copy

  pollTimeoutMs
  — long-poll wait window. Integer between 100 and 30000.
• text

  Copy

  allowFrom
  — sender allowlist (user ids or
  text

  Copy

  "*"
  ).
• text

  Copy

  defaultTo
  — fallback target when none is supplied.
• text

  Copy

  actions.messages
  /
  text

  Copy

  actions.reactions
  /
  text

  Copy

  actions.search
  /
  text

  Copy

  actions.threads
  — per-action tool gating.

Multi-account keys at the top level:

• text

  Copy

  accounts
  — record of named per-account overrides keyed by account id.
• text

  Copy

  defaultAccount
  — preferred account id when multiple are configured.

Runners

Host-side self-check (writes a Markdown report under

):

bash
Copy
pnpm qa:e2e

This routes through

, starts the in-repo QA bus, boots the bundled runtime slice, and runs a deterministic self-check.

Full repo-backed scenario suite:

bash
Copy
pnpm openclaw qa suite

Runs scenarios in parallel against the QA gateway lane. See QA overview for scenarios, profiles, and provider modes.

Docker-backed QA site (gateway + QA Lab debugger UI in one stack):

bash
Copy
pnpm qa:lab:up

Builds the QA site, starts the Docker-backed gateway + QA Lab stack, and prints the QA Lab URL. From there you can pick scenarios, choose the model lane, launch individual runs, and watch results live. The QA Lab debugger is separate from the shipped Control UI bundle.

Related

• QA overview — overall stack, transport adapters, scenario authoring
• Matrix QA — example live-transport runner that drives a real channel
• Pairing
• Groups
• Channels overview