openclaw - 💡(How to fix) Fix TUI: expose `streamingWatchdogMs` so the "taking longer than expected" nag can be tuned via config [1 comments, 2 participants]

The TUI shows "This response is taking longer than expected. Send another message to continue." after 30 seconds of streaming silence. The threshold lives in DEFAULT_STREAMING_WATCHDOG_MS = 3e4 in the bundled tui-*.js and is not configurable.

Interestingly, the SDK type already declares the option:

// dist/plugin-sdk/src/tui/tui-event-handlers.d.ts
/** Reset `streaming` after this much delta silence. Set to 0 to disable. */
streamingWatchdogMs?: number;

But createEventHandlers(...) in the bundled TUI is called without that field, so the default (30s) is always used and there's no way for an operator to override it.

Use case: long-running model turns (research, deep tool chains) routinely exceed 30s. The nag fires mid-task and clutters the chat log. 30s is too aggressive a default for non-trivial work.

Two ways to fix:

1. Pipe a config value (e.g., tui.streamingWatchdogMs) through createEventHandlers and add it to the JSON schema.
2. Or expose a --watchdog-ms flag on openclaw tui.

Either works. Happy to send a PR if there's a preference.