OpenClaw 5.2 Migration Breaks Cron Jobs and MCP Plugin Calls
A user on r/openclaw reports that upgrading from OpenClaw 4.23 to 5.2 breaks both custom MCP tool plugins and cron jobs. The tools appear on the dashboard and can be toggled on/off, but the agent (Gemini Flash 3 preview) doesn't call them, consuming 5x more tokens and hallucinating responses instead.
MCP Plugin Registration Failure
In 4.23, custom MCP tool plugins worked reliably. After upgrading to 5.2, the plugins are visible in the dashboard and can be enabled/disabled, but the agent ignores them during execution. The user notes that the LLM ends up using 5x the tokens and returns hallucinated output.
Cron Job Registration Breaks with CLI
The user registered 10 cron jobs in 4.23 via a bash script that loops openclaw cron add with cron config info. In 5.2, the same script now throws device pairing issues on the CLI, even though the commands are run directly on the command line (not remotely). No further workaround is mentioned in the source.
Current Status
The user is asking if others have experienced similar issues migrating crons and custom plugins from older versions to 5.2. No solution or official response is reported in the source.
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