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Health check steps for Baileys/WhatsApp connectivity	Diagnosing web provider health

Health Checks (CLI)

Short guide to verify the WhatsApp Web / Baileys stack without guessing.

Quick checks

• pnpm clawdis status --json — via the gateway; confirms creds exist (web.linked), shows auth age (authAgeMs), heartbeat interval, and where the session store lives.
• Send /status in WhatsApp/WebChat to see agent readiness, session context usage, current thinking/verbose options, and when the web creds were last refreshed (relink if it looks stale) without invoking the agent.
• pnpm clawdis heartbeat --verbose --dry-run — runs the heartbeat path end-to-end (session resolution, message creation) without sending anything. Drop --dry-run or add --message "Ping" to actually send.
• pnpm clawdis gateway --verbose --heartbeat-now — spins the full monitor loop, fires a heartbeat immediately, and will reconnect per web.reconnect settings. Good for soak testing.
• Logs: tail /tmp/clawdis/clawdis.log and filter for web-heartbeat, web-reconnect, web-auto-reply, web-inbound.

Deep diagnostics

• Creds on disk: ls -l ~/.clawdis/credentials/creds.json (mtime should be recent).
• Session store: ls -l ~/.clawdis/sessions.json (path can be overridden in config). Count and recent recipients are surfaced via status.
• Relink flow: pnpm clawdis logout && pnpm clawdis login --provider web --verbose when status codes 409–515 or loggedOut appear in logs.

When something fails

• logged out or status 409–515 → relink with clawdis logout then clawdis login --provider web.
• Repeated reconnect exits → tune web.reconnect (flags: --web-retries, --web-retry-initial, --web-retry-max) and rerun gateway.
• No inbound messages → confirm linked phone is online and sender is allowed; use pnpm clawdis heartbeat --all --verbose to test each known recipient.

Dedicated "health" command

pnpm clawdis health --json asks the running gateway for its health snapshot (no direct Baileys socket from the CLI). It reports linked creds, auth age, Baileys connect result/status code, session-store summary, and a probe duration. It exits non-zero if not linked or if the gateway probe fails/timeouts. Use --timeout <ms> to override the 10s default.