From ff26d1c9570792f8ffe59f4a59c06935c8a3458b Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Viktor Barzin <vbarzin@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 2 Jun 2026 22:03:55 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] openclaw: give recruiter-api plugin the Telegram bot token so
 it can announce
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The recruiter-api plugin's announceEvent() sends recruiter cards to Telegram
via OPENLOBSTER_CHANNELS_TELEGRAM_TOKEN (its fallback path, since OpenClaw
doesn't pass api.bot to "kind: tools" plugins). That env was never set in the
container, so every hourly poll threw on the send, events were never marked
consumed, and no Telegram notification ever went out — the rest of the
"recruiter pipeline has no responses" problem (the GPU/triage half was fixed
separately). Wire it from openclaw-secrets.telegram_bot_token (same token as
channels.telegram.botToken). Verified: the 3 backlogged events were announced
+ consumed on the openclaw restart.

Drafting (the /api/draft 500 that also degraded the cards) was fixed in
parallel by swapping Vault secret/recruiter-responder gpt_mini_model from the
slow/timing-out qwen3-coder-480b to meta/llama-3.3-70b-instruct (~1.6s).

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
---
 stacks/openclaw/main.tf | 16 ++++++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 16 insertions(+)

diff --git a/stacks/openclaw/main.tf b/stacks/openclaw/main.tf
index 78f7f1e4..7c1aec96 100644
--- a/stacks/openclaw/main.tf
+++ b/stacks/openclaw/main.tf
@@ -1253,6 +1253,22 @@ resource "kubernetes_deployment" "openclaw" {
               }
             }
           }
+          # Bot token for the recruiter-api plugin's announceEvent() Telegram
+          # send. OpenClaw does not pass api.bot to "kind: tools" plugins, so
+          # the plugin's fallback hits the Telegram Bot API directly via this
+          # env (OPENLOBSTER_CHANNELS_TELEGRAM_TOKEN). Without it every poll
+          # tick throws and events are never consumed -> no notifications.
+          # Same token as channels.telegram.botToken in openclaw.json.
+          env {
+            name = "OPENLOBSTER_CHANNELS_TELEGRAM_TOKEN"
+            value_from {
+              secret_key_ref {
+                name     = "openclaw-secrets"
+                key      = "telegram_bot_token"
+                optional = true
+              }
+            }
+          }
           # Python packages path for skills
           env {
             name  = "PYTHONPATH"