`openclaw onboard` refuses a corrupt openclaw.json and tells the operator to run
`openclaw doctor --fix`. Doctor then answered with one sentence -- "Config could
not be parsed or recovered ... refusing to apply repairs" -- named no next step,
and exited 1. The operator was left looping between two commands that pointed at
each other.
The refuse path also wrote openclaw.json.clobbered.<timestamp> and called it
"Original preserved", but it had not clobbered anything: at that point the
snapshot is a reread of the live file, so the copy was byte-identical to the
untouched config. Three failed runs left three identical copies.
Drop the copy and say what to do instead: name the file, state that it cannot be
repaired automatically, and point at `openclaw config validate` for the exact
parse position, hand-editing, or moving the file aside and re-running
`openclaw onboard`. Commands go through formatCliCommand so profile and
container invocations stay pasteable.
`doctor-config-preflight.ts` was the only caller of the public
preserveConfigSnapshotAsClobbered wrapper, so the wrapper, its factory entry and
its barrel export go too; the genuine recovery paths keep using the core helper
and still preserve real originals. Production -16 LOC.
Peter Steinberger
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