Gateway: inject timestamps into agent/chat.send (#3705) (thanks @conroywhitney, @CashWilliams)

CHANGELOG.md

@@ -18,6 +18,7 @@ Docs: https://docs.openclaw.ai
 - Auth: switch Kimi Coding to built-in provider; normalize OAuth profile email.
 - Auth: add MiniMax OAuth plugin + onboarding option. (#4521) Thanks @Maosghoul.
 - Agents: update pi SDK/API usage and dependencies.
+- Gateway: inject timestamps into agent and chat.send messages. (#3705) Thanks @conroywhitney, @CashWilliams.
 - Web UI: refresh sessions after chat commands and improve session display names.
 - Build: move TypeScript builds to `tsdown` + `tsgo` (faster builds, CI typechecks), update tsconfig target, and clean up lint rules.
 - Build: align npm tar override and bin metadata so the `openclaw` CLI entrypoint is preserved in npm publishes.

src/gateway/server-methods/agent-timestamp.ts

@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 import { resolveUserTimezone } from "../../agents/date-time.js";
 import { formatZonedTimestamp } from "../../auto-reply/envelope.js";
-import type { MoltbotConfig } from "../../config/types.js";
+import type { OpenClawConfig } from "../../config/types.js";
 
 /**
  * Cron jobs inject "Current time: ..." into their messages.
@@ -39,19 +39,27 @@ export interface TimestampInjectionOptions {
  * @see https://github.com/moltbot/moltbot/issues/3658
  */
 export function injectTimestamp(message: string, opts?: TimestampInjectionOptions): string {
-  if (!message.trim()) return message;
+  if (!message.trim()) {
+    return message;
+  }
 
   // Already has an envelope or injected timestamp
-  if (TIMESTAMP_ENVELOPE_PATTERN.test(message)) return message;
+  if (TIMESTAMP_ENVELOPE_PATTERN.test(message)) {
+    return message;
+  }
 
   // Already has a cron-injected timestamp
-  if (CRON_TIME_PATTERN.test(message)) return message;
+  if (CRON_TIME_PATTERN.test(message)) {
+    return message;
+  }
 
   const now = opts?.now ?? new Date();
   const timezone = opts?.timezone ?? "UTC";
 
   const formatted = formatZonedTimestamp(now, timezone);
-  if (!formatted) return message;
+  if (!formatted) {
+    return message;
+  }
 
   // 3-letter DOW: small models (8B) can't reliably derive day-of-week from
   // a date, and may treat a bare "Wed" as a typo. Costs ~1 token.
@@ -63,9 +71,9 @@ export function injectTimestamp(message: string, opts?: TimestampInjectionOption
 }
 
 /**
- * Build TimestampInjectionOptions from a MoltbotConfig.
+ * Build TimestampInjectionOptions from an OpenClawConfig.
  */
-export function timestampOptsFromConfig(cfg: MoltbotConfig): TimestampInjectionOptions {
+export function timestampOptsFromConfig(cfg: OpenClawConfig): TimestampInjectionOptions {
   return {
     timezone: resolveUserTimezone(cfg.agents?.defaults?.userTimezone),
   };