chore: Enable more lint rules, disable some that trigger a lot. Will clean up later.

src/web/accounts.ts

@@ -66,7 +66,7 @@ export function hasAnyWhatsAppAuth(cfg: OpenClawConfig): boolean {
 export function listWhatsAppAccountIds(cfg: OpenClawConfig): string[] {
   const ids = listConfiguredAccountIds(cfg);
   if (ids.length === 0) return [DEFAULT_ACCOUNT_ID];
-  return ids.sort((a, b) => a.localeCompare(b));
+  return ids.toSorted((a, b) => a.localeCompare(b));
 }
 
 export function resolveDefaultWhatsAppAccountId(cfg: OpenClawConfig): string {

src/web/auto-reply/monitor/echo.ts

@@ -24,7 +24,7 @@ export function createEchoTracker(params: {
 
   const trim = () => {
     while (recentlySent.size > maxItems) {
-      const firstKey = recentlySent.values().next().value as string | undefined;
+      const firstKey = recentlySent.values().next().value;
       if (!firstKey) break;
       recentlySent.delete(firstKey);
     }

src/web/auto-reply/monitor/group-activation.ts

@@ -51,6 +51,6 @@ export function resolveGroupActivationFor(params: {
   const store = loadSessionStore(storePath);
   const entry = store[params.sessionKey];
   const requireMention = resolveGroupRequireMentionFor(params.cfg, params.conversationId);
-  const defaultActivation = requireMention === false ? "always" : "mention";
+  const defaultActivation = !requireMention ? "always" : "mention";
   return normalizeGroupActivation(entry?.groupActivation) ?? defaultActivation;
 }

src/web/inbound/extract.ts

@@ -10,8 +10,8 @@ import { jidToE164 } from "../../utils.js";
 import { parseVcard } from "../vcard.js";
 
 function unwrapMessage(message: proto.IMessage | undefined): proto.IMessage | undefined {
-  const normalized = normalizeMessageContent(message as proto.IMessage | undefined);
-  return normalized as proto.IMessage | undefined;
+  const normalized = normalizeMessageContent(message);
+  return normalized;
 }
 
 function extractContextInfo(message: proto.IMessage | undefined): proto.IContextInfo | undefined {
@@ -244,9 +244,7 @@ export function describeReplyContext(rawMessage: proto.IMessage | undefined): {
   const message = unwrapMessage(rawMessage);
   if (!message) return null;
   const contextInfo = extractContextInfo(message);
-  const quoted = normalizeMessageContent(
-    contextInfo?.quotedMessage as proto.IMessage | undefined,
-  ) as proto.IMessage | undefined;
+  const quoted = normalizeMessageContent(contextInfo?.quotedMessage as proto.IMessage | undefined);
   if (!quoted) return null;
   const location = extractLocationData(quoted);
   const locationText = location ? formatLocationText(location) : undefined;

src/web/inbound/media.ts

@@ -4,8 +4,8 @@ import { logVerbose } from "../../globals.js";
 import type { createWaSocket } from "../session.js";
 
 function unwrapMessage(message: proto.IMessage | undefined): proto.IMessage | undefined {
-  const normalized = normalizeMessageContent(message as proto.IMessage | undefined);
-  return normalized as proto.IMessage | undefined;
+  const normalized = normalizeMessageContent(message);
+  return normalized;
 }
 
 export async function downloadInboundMedia(
@@ -31,7 +31,7 @@ export async function downloadInboundMedia(
     return undefined;
   }
   try {
-    const buffer = (await downloadMediaMessage(
+    const buffer = await downloadMediaMessage(
       msg as WAMessage,
       "buffer",
       {},
@@ -39,7 +39,7 @@ export async function downloadInboundMedia(
         reuploadRequest: sock.updateMediaMessage,
         logger: sock.logger,
       },
-    )) as Buffer;
+    );
     return { buffer, mimetype };
   } catch (err) {
     logVerbose(`downloadMediaMessage failed: ${String(err)}`);

src/web/login.ts

@@ -60,11 +60,11 @@ export async function loginWeb(
           `WhatsApp reported the session is logged out. Cleared cached web session; please rerun ${formatCliCommand("openclaw channels login")} and scan the QR again.`,
         ),
       );
-      throw new Error("Session logged out; cache cleared. Re-run login.");
+      throw new Error("Session logged out; cache cleared. Re-run login.", { cause: err });
     }
     const formatted = formatError(err);
     console.error(danger(`WhatsApp Web connection ended before fully opening. ${formatted}`));
-    throw new Error(formatted);
+    throw new Error(formatted, { cause: err });
   } finally {
     // Let Baileys flush any final events before closing the socket.
     setTimeout(() => {

src/web/media.ts

@@ -250,7 +250,7 @@ export async function optimizeImageToJpeg(
     try {
       source = await convertHeicToJpeg(buffer);
     } catch (err) {
-      throw new Error(`HEIC image conversion failed: ${String(err)}`);
+      throw new Error(`HEIC image conversion failed: ${String(err)}`, { cause: err });
     }
   }
   const sides = [2048, 1536, 1280, 1024, 800];

src/web/qr-image.ts

@@ -12,8 +12,8 @@ type QRCodeConstructor = new (
   isDark: (row: number, col: number) => boolean;
 };
 
-const QRCode = QRCodeModule as unknown as QRCodeConstructor;
-const QRErrorCorrectLevel = QRErrorCorrectLevelModule as Record<string, unknown>;
+const QRCode = QRCodeModule as QRCodeConstructor;
+const QRErrorCorrectLevel = QRErrorCorrectLevelModule;
 
 function createQrMatrix(input: string) {
   const qr = new QRCode(-1, QRErrorCorrectLevel.L);

src/web/session.ts

@@ -193,7 +193,7 @@ export function getStatusCode(err: unknown) {
 
 function safeStringify(value: unknown, limit = 800): string {
   try {
-    const seen = new WeakSet<object>();
+    const seen = new WeakSet();
     const raw = JSON.stringify(
       value,
       (_key, v) => {
@@ -236,7 +236,7 @@ function extractBoomDetails(err: unknown): {
     typeof (output as { statusCode?: unknown }).statusCode === "number"
       ? ((output as { statusCode?: unknown }).statusCode as number)
       : typeof payload?.statusCode === "number"
-        ? (payload.statusCode as number)
+        ? payload.statusCode
         : undefined;
   const error = typeof payload?.error === "string" ? payload.error : undefined;
   const message = typeof payload?.message === "string" ? payload.message : undefined;