Description

The memory-core plugin's dreaming promotion cycle fails to clean up narrative sessions for all three phases (light, rem, deep). The cleanup step errors with missing scope: operator.admin, suggesting the internal API call lacks the required permission scope.

Environment

• OpenClaw: 2026.4.21 (f788c88)
• Node: v22.22.2
• OS: Ubuntu 24.04 (aarch64, AWS Graviton 3)
• Plugin: memory-core (bundled), active-memory (bundled)

Reproduction

1. Enable memory-core and active-memory plugins with default config
2. Wait for the nightly dreaming promotion cycle (runs at ~03:01 UTC daily)
3. Check gateway logs

Observed Behavior

All three dreaming phases fail cleanup with the same error:

[plugins] memory-core: narrative session cleanup failed for light phase: missing scope: operator.admin
[plugins] memory-core: narrative session cleanup failed for rem phase: missing scope: operator.admin
[plugins] memory-core: narrative session cleanup failed for deep phase: missing scope: operator.admin
[plugins] memory-core: dreaming promotion complete (workspaces=1, candidates=4, applied=0, failed=0).

This occurs every night. The dreaming promotion itself still runs (reporting candidates and applied counts), but the session cleanup step is skipped entirely.

Expected Behavior

The memory-core plugin should have the necessary operator.admin scope for its internal cleanup operations during dreaming phases, or the cleanup should use an appropriately scoped internal token.

Impact

• Narrative sessions from dreaming phases may accumulate without cleanup
• Dreaming promotion reports applied=0 on most runs (only 1 successful apply observed in 3 days)
• Combined with the embedded run timeout issue (Active Memory (Dreaming) embedded runs frequently timeout with Opus model #71934), Active Memory dreaming is effectively non-functional