fix(status): tolerate malformed session model refs

CHANGELOG.md

@@ -29,6 +29,7 @@ Docs: https://docs.openclaw.ai
 
 ### Fixes
 
+- Status/sessions: ignore malformed non-string persisted session provider/model metadata instead of throwing while rendering status summaries. Thanks @vincentkoc.
 - CLI/config: remove only the targeted array element for `openclaw config unset array[index]` instead of replaying the unset during config write and deleting the shifted next element. Fixes #76290. Thanks @SymbolStar and @vincentkoc.
 - Agents/tools: stop treating `tools.deny: ["write"]` as an implicit `apply_patch` deny; operators who want to block patch writes should deny `apply_patch` or `group:fs` explicitly. Fixes #76749. (#76795) Thanks @Nek-12 and @hclsys.
 - Plugins/release: verify published plugin npm tarballs expose compiled runtime entries after publish, catching TS-only package artifacts before release closeout. Thanks @vincentkoc.

src/agents/model-selection.test.ts

@@ -448,6 +448,18 @@ describe("model-selection", () => {
         model: "anthropic/claude-haiku-4.5",
       });
     });
+
+    it("ignores malformed persisted model metadata instead of throwing", () => {
+      expect(
+        resolvePersistedSelectedModelRef({
+          defaultProvider: "anthropic",
+          runtimeProvider: { provider: "openai" },
+          runtimeModel: false,
+          overrideProvider: ["openrouter"],
+          overrideModel: 123,
+        }),
+      ).toBeNull();
+    });
   });
 
   describe("inferUniqueProviderFromConfiguredModels", () => {

src/agents/model-selection.ts

@@ -4,7 +4,10 @@ import {
   toAgentModelListLike,
 } from "../config/model-input.js";
 import type { OpenClawConfig } from "../config/types.openclaw.js";
-import { normalizeLowercaseStringOrEmpty } from "../shared/string-coerce.js";
+import {
+  normalizeLowercaseStringOrEmpty,
+  normalizeOptionalString,
+} from "../shared/string-coerce.js";
 import {
   resolveAgentConfig,
   resolveAgentEffectiveModelPrimary,
@@ -80,13 +83,13 @@ export { isCliProvider } from "./model-selection-cli.js";
 
 export function resolvePersistedOverrideModelRef(params: {
   defaultProvider: string;
-  overrideProvider?: string;
-  overrideModel?: string;
+  overrideProvider?: unknown;
+  overrideModel?: unknown;
   allowPluginNormalization?: boolean;
 }): ModelRef | null {
   const defaultProvider = params.defaultProvider.trim();
-  const overrideProvider = params.overrideProvider?.trim();
-  const overrideModel = params.overrideModel?.trim();
+  const overrideProvider = normalizeOptionalString(params.overrideProvider);
+  const overrideModel = normalizeOptionalString(params.overrideModel);
   if (!overrideModel) {
     return null;
   }
@@ -107,15 +110,15 @@ export function resolvePersistedOverrideModelRef(params: {
  */
 export function resolvePersistedModelRef(params: {
   defaultProvider: string;
-  runtimeProvider?: string;
-  runtimeModel?: string;
-  overrideProvider?: string;
-  overrideModel?: string;
+  runtimeProvider?: unknown;
+  runtimeModel?: unknown;
+  overrideProvider?: unknown;
+  overrideModel?: unknown;
   allowPluginNormalization?: boolean;
 }): ModelRef | null {
   const defaultProvider = params.defaultProvider.trim();
-  const runtimeProvider = params.runtimeProvider?.trim();
-  const runtimeModel = params.runtimeModel?.trim();
+  const runtimeProvider = normalizeOptionalString(params.runtimeProvider);
+  const runtimeModel = normalizeOptionalString(params.runtimeModel);
   if (runtimeModel) {
     if (runtimeProvider) {
       return { provider: runtimeProvider, model: runtimeModel };
@@ -144,10 +147,10 @@ export function resolvePersistedModelRef(params: {
  */
 export function resolvePersistedSelectedModelRef(params: {
   defaultProvider: string;
-  runtimeProvider?: string;
-  runtimeModel?: string;
-  overrideProvider?: string;
-  overrideModel?: string;
+  runtimeProvider?: unknown;
+  runtimeModel?: unknown;
+  overrideProvider?: unknown;
+  overrideModel?: unknown;
   allowPluginNormalization?: boolean;
 }): ModelRef | null {
   const override = resolvePersistedOverrideModelRef({

src/commands/status.summary.runtime.test.ts

@@ -106,4 +106,18 @@ describe("statusSummaryRuntime.resolveSessionModelRef", () => {
       model: "gpt-5.4",
     });
   });
+
+  it("falls back to configured defaults when persisted session model fields are malformed", () => {
+    expect(
+      statusSummaryRuntime.resolveSessionModelRef(cfg, {
+        modelProvider: { provider: "openai" },
+        model: false,
+        providerOverride: ["anthropic"],
+        modelOverride: 123,
+      } as never),
+    ).toEqual({
+      provider: "anthropic",
+      model: "claude-sonnet-4-6",
+    });
+  });
 });