diff --git a/src/gateway/gateway-cli-backend.live.test.ts b/src/gateway/gateway-cli-backend.live.test.ts
index fd725e6c9c1..f70a6de78b1 100644
--- a/src/gateway/gateway-cli-backend.live.test.ts
+++ b/src/gateway/gateway-cli-backend.live.test.ts
@@ -74,6 +74,26 @@ function sleep(ms: number): Promise<void> {
   return new Promise((resolve) => setTimeout(resolve, ms));
 }
 
+function openAiProviderConfigForCodexCli(
+  modelKey: string,
+): NonNullable<NonNullable<OpenClawConfig["models"]>["providers"]>["openai"] {
+  const parsed = parseModelRef(modelKey, DEFAULT_PROVIDER);
+  const modelId = parsed?.model?.trim() || "gpt-5.5";
+  return {
+    api: "openai-responses",
+    baseUrl: "https://api.openai.com/v1",
+    models: [
+      {
+        contextWindow: 1_047_576,
+        id: modelId,
+        maxTokens: 32_768,
+        name: modelId,
+      },
+    ],
+    timeoutSeconds: Math.ceil(CLI_BACKEND_REQUEST_TIMEOUT_MS / 1000),
+  };
+}
+
 function isProviderCapacityError(error: unknown): boolean {
   const message = error instanceof Error ? `${error.name}: ${error.message}` : String(error);
   const normalized = message.toLowerCase();
@@ -289,8 +309,8 @@ describeLive("gateway live (cli backend)", () => {
                 providers: {
                   ...cfg.models?.providers,
                   openai: {
+                    ...openAiProviderConfigForCodexCli(modelKey),
                     ...cfg.models?.providers?.openai,
-                    timeoutSeconds: Math.ceil(CLI_BACKEND_REQUEST_TIMEOUT_MS / 1000),
                   },
                 },
               }
diff --git a/src/gateway/gateway-codex-harness.live-helpers.test.ts b/src/gateway/gateway-codex-harness.live-helpers.test.ts
index 7c05ce31ef5..80259d7bdbd 100644
--- a/src/gateway/gateway-codex-harness.live-helpers.test.ts
+++ b/src/gateway/gateway-codex-harness.live-helpers.test.ts
@@ -78,6 +78,22 @@ describe("gateway codex harness live helpers", () => {
     expect(isExpectedCodexStatusCommandText(text)).toBe(true);
   });
 
+  it("accepts the OpenAI Codex status card emitted by the GPT-5.5 Docker harness", () => {
+    const text = [
+      "OpenClaw 2026.4.30-beta.1 is running on `openai/gpt-5.5`.",
+      "",
+      "Session is healthy:",
+      "- Context: `21k/272k` used, `8%`",
+      "- Cache: `19%` hit",
+      "- Runtime: `OpenAI Codex`",
+      "- Execution: `direct`",
+      "- Active tasks: `1` (`/codex status`)",
+      "- Queue: `steer`, depth `0`",
+    ].join("\n");
+
+    expect(isExpectedCodexStatusCommandText(text)).toBe(true);
+  });
+
   it("rejects status prose for a different codex session", () => {
     const text =
       "OpenClaw is running on `openai/gpt-5.5` with low reasoning/text settings. Context is at `22k/272k` tokens, no compactions, and the current session is `agent:dev:other`.";
diff --git a/src/gateway/gateway-codex-harness.live-helpers.ts b/src/gateway/gateway-codex-harness.live-helpers.ts
index 53b9136037b..62a3b378a69 100644
--- a/src/gateway/gateway-codex-harness.live-helpers.ts
+++ b/src/gateway/gateway-codex-harness.live-helpers.ts
@@ -91,6 +91,7 @@ export function isExpectedCodexStatusCommandText(text: string): boolean {
   const normalized = text.toLowerCase();
   const mentionsOpenClawStatus =
     normalized.includes("openclaw is running on") ||
+    /openclaw\s+\S+\s+is running on/u.test(normalized) ||
     normalized.includes("openclaw status:") ||
     normalized.includes("status: running on") ||
     normalized.includes("session status: running on");
@@ -103,6 +104,7 @@ export function isExpectedCodexStatusCommandText(text: string): boolean {
     normalized.includes("current session is `agent:dev:live-codex-harness`") ||
     normalized.includes("current session is agent:dev:live-codex-harness") ||
     normalized.includes("session context is healthy") ||
+    normalized.includes("session is healthy:") ||
     ((normalized.includes("session context") || normalized.includes("context is at")) &&
       normalized.includes("active task: `/codex status`"));
   const mentionsModel =