openclaw - 💡(How to fix) Fix OpenRouter video generation silently fails; music generation never shipped

Summary

OpenRouter's generation providers (video and music) are non-functional despite being registered in the provider catalog. Image generation works fine through OpenRouter. Video registers but silently fails. Music never shipped.

What's broken

1. Video generation (OpenRouter google/veo-3.1-fast): Tool registers, appears in action=list, but all generation attempts produce zero output — no video file, no error message, no failure notification. Three attempts with different prompts all had the same silent failure.

2. Music generation (OpenRouter): Completely absent from provider registry. music_generate action=list shows no OpenRouter entry at all, despite OpenRouter supporting audio models.

3. Config model name mismatch: The only registered OpenRouter video model is google/veo-3.1-fast, but the likely natural config value is google/veo-3.1 — no fallback or alias mapping exists.

Context

The PR that added OpenRouter media generation providers (#64513, April 10 2026) covered image + video + music but was closed without merging. Image and video later got separate follow-up PRs that shipped, but music was never picked back up. The video provider appears to have been merged incompletely — it registers in the tool catalog but the actual generation pipeline produces no output.

Environment

• OpenClaw: 2026.5.7 (eeef486)
• OS: Linux 6.12.62+rpt-rpi-2712 (arm64, Raspberry Pi)
• Node: v22.22.0
• OpenRouter API key configured and working (image generation and chat models both functional)
• agents.defaults.videoGenerationModel.primary: openrouter/google/veo-3.1
• agents.defaults.musicGenerationModel.primary: openrouter/google/lyria-3-pro-preview

Provider list showing the gap

video_generate action=list shows openrouter with one model (google/veo-3.1-fast)
music_generate action=list shows no openrouter entry at all
image_generate action=list shows openrouter with 3 working models

Expected behavior

Video generation through OpenRouter should produce a video file or return a meaningful error. Music generation through OpenRouter should exist at all.