Agent suddenly can’t read files

File access often breaks when onboarding switches tools.profile to a restrictive mode such as messaging-only.

Checklist

Inspect openclaw.json: does tools.profile exist and is it too restrictive?

Run a tiny file-read test (known file) to confirm tool access end-to-end.

Restart the gateway and re-test — many ‘it’s broken’ states are stale runtime state.

Success looks like

• You should be able to read a known file and see its contents in the response.

• After restarting, gateway/tool access should behave consistently across runs (no intermittent denial).

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