Agent started lying about tasks!
I set up OpenClaw locally last week, and it worked well, but I needed it on all the time so got a VPS setup on Sunday. Installed using openai-codex/gpt-5.3-codex model (as per the local version). Set up a workflow Monday so it grabs an article form the wen when I send it, formats it and posts it to a CMS using an API. Creates an article, menu item, tags, selects an image. All great and really happy with how it got things configured. Tuesday I messed about with adding google/gemini-3-pro-preview as a fallback and also main if I needed to swop them over. That's when things seemed to start going wrong. gemini-3-pro-preview was slower and was stopping due to high usage, so I set gpt-5.3-codex back as the main.
Now it won't implement anyuthing live. It SAYS it can and will do the tasks we had running before. It will SAY it's done them. But when I check the website has not been updated. If I ask why it didn't do it then it makes an excuse like 'sorry, was waiting for confirmation' or similar. After it has confirmed doing the task I can ask it to go and check the article ID that it created, and yes it goes and gets it, tells me what it is. I can ask it what are the article ID's of the previous few articles to the one it posted and it will get them and list them with titles. BUT it's all FICTION! It's just blatantly lying and making it up!
Same sort of thing if I ask it get some latest news listings from the web. Anything, general or specific topic. It will run and come back with what looks like a perfect list of ten latest news articles. BUT when I check they go to 404 on a valid website, or are old articles from last year.
I've tried updating, restarting the VPS. Restarting the gateway - of course, multiple times. It's wierd as there are no erros, and nothing that it seems to think is wrong.
Sorry for long post! Can anyone offer any ideas about what to do next before I reinstall the VPS back to default and start again?
Now it won't implement anyuthing live. It SAYS it can and will do the tasks we had running before. It will SAY it's done them. But when I check the website has not been updated. If I ask why it didn't do it then it makes an excuse like 'sorry, was waiting for confirmation' or similar. After it has confirmed doing the task I can ask it to go and check the article ID that it created, and yes it goes and gets it, tells me what it is. I can ask it what are the article ID's of the previous few articles to the one it posted and it will get them and list them with titles. BUT it's all FICTION! It's just blatantly lying and making it up!
Same sort of thing if I ask it get some latest news listings from the web. Anything, general or specific topic. It will run and come back with what looks like a perfect list of ten latest news articles. BUT when I check they go to 404 on a valid website, or are old articles from last year.
I've tried updating, restarting the VPS. Restarting the gateway - of course, multiple times. It's wierd as there are no erros, and nothing that it seems to think is wrong.
Sorry for long post! Can anyone offer any ideas about what to do next before I reinstall the VPS back to default and start again?
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