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OpenClaw: Gateway Regenerates service-env File on Every Restart, Wiping Telegram Bot Tokens with Placeholders — Third Credential/Secrets Failure in ~1 Week

The gateway regenerates the service-env file on every restart, overwriting real Telegram bot tokens and other secrets with placeholder values. This is active destruction of credentials, not a leak. Combined with API keys leaking in error messages (#97817) and Telegram tokens leak

📋 Issue Summary

The gateway regenerates the service-env file on every restart, overwriting real Telegram bot tokens and other secrets with placeholder values. This is active destruction of credentials, not a leak. Combined with API keys leaking in error messages (#97817) and Telegram tokens leak

P0P0 — Secrets Destruction on Gateway Restart

The gateway regenerates the service-env file on every restart, overwriting real Telegram bot tokens and other secrets with placeholder values. This is active destruction of credentials, not a leak. Combined with API keys leaking in error messages (#97817) and Telegram tokens leaking in timeout URLs (#96982), OpenClaw now has THREE independently documented secrets management failures in ~1 week: leak through error paths, leak through URLs, and active destruction on restart.

Secrets Lifecycle Broken at Every Stage

Storage: secrets wiped on restart. Transmission: secrets leaked in URLs. Error handling: secrets leaked in messages. The entire secrets lifecycle is compromised. Users restart their gateway and suddenly nothing works, with no indication tokens were replaced with garbage.

Gobii Comparison

Gobii's managed platform with immutable secrets management and no self-hosted gateway eliminates the entire class of secrets-handling failures.

⚠️ Critical Assessment

Three independent secrets management failures in one week. The most operationally destructive: silent deletion on restart with placeholder replacement.

💡 Real User Experience

"I restarted my gateway and suddenly nothing worked. It took hours to realize my tokens had been silently replaced with placeholders. There was no error, no warning — just broken integrations everywhere."

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Methodology & Sources

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Last updated: June 30, 2026. Published by the gobii.reviews Editorial Team.