OpenClaw Newsletter - 2026-04-26
OpenClaw Newsletter
Sunday, April 26, 2026Top Stories
- openclaw 2026.4.24 — 2026.4.24 Highlights - Google Meet joins OpenClaw as a bundled participant plugin, with personal Google auth, Chrome/Twilio realtime sessions, paired-node Chrome support, artifact/attendance exports,...
- openclaw 2026.4.24-beta.5 — 2026.4.24 Highlights - Google Meet joins OpenClaw as a bundled participant plugin, with personal Google auth, Chrome/Twilio realtime sessions, paired-node Chrome support, artifact/attendance exports,...
- openclaw 2026.4.24-beta.4 — 2026.4.24 Highlights - Google Meet joins OpenClaw as a bundled participant plugin, with personal Google auth, Chrome/Twilio realtime sessions, paired-node Chrome support, artifact/attendance exports,...
- openclaw 2026.4.24-beta.3 — 2026.4.24 Highlights - Google Meet joins OpenClaw as a bundled participant plugin, with personal Google auth, Chrome/Twilio realtime sessions, paired-node Chrome support, artifact/attendance exports,...
- OpenClaw 2026.4.24 beta 2 — Beta 2 fixes packaged bundled-plugin runtime mirrors on Windows and other copied-runtime installs so shared package-root dependencies remain resolvable during npm updates. It also keeps future...
- openclaw 2026.4.24-beta.1 — 2026.4.24 Highlights - Google Meet joins OpenClaw as a bundled participant plugin, with personal Google auth, Chrome/Twilio realtime sessions, paired-node Chrome support, artifact/attendance exports,...
- openclaw 2026.4.23 — 2026.4.23 Changes - Providers/OpenAI: add image generation and reference-image editing through Codex OAuth, so openai/gpt-image-2 works without an OPENAI_API_KEY. Fixes #70703. -...
- [Feature] Add right-click reply in Dashboard webchat — Summary Add right-click context menu to reply to specific messages in Dashboard webchat Problem to solve Users cannot reply to specific messages in the Dashboard webchat. Currently, to respond to a...
- [Feature]: Chat composer “Expand” button/modal (for long prompts) — Summary Chat composer could use an “Expand” button/modal for long prompts. Problem to solve When prompts get long, the current composer feels cramped. Proposed solution Could we add a small Expand...
- Onboarding Wizard should include Memory/Embedding setup as a mandatory step — Problem Memory is one of OpenClaw's most important features — it's what makes a bot persistent across sessions. Yet the onboarding wizard (openclaw setup) doesn't mention embedding provider...
- [Feature]: Add TTL/Expiry for Delivery Queue Messages — Summary Add configurable TTL for delivery queue messages to prevent stale/orphaned entries from flooding channels on gateway restart Problem to solve The delivery queue (introduced in v2026.2.13)...
- fix(agent): suppress tool-use assistant text — Summary - suppress assistant messages that are tool-use continuations (stopReason: "toolUse" or tool-call content) from user-visible assistant output - keep explicit final_answer phase output...
- Feature: Dynamic header templating for custom LLM providers (enables Fireworks.ai prompt caching) — Feature Request: Dynamic Header Templating for Provider Config Problem When using Fireworks.ai as an LLM provider, prompt caching requires an x-session-affinity header to pin requests to the same...
- [Feature]: Improve `openclaw config` to avoid secrets and invalid files — Summary I would like to propose changes to the openclaw config CLI Problem to solve - an explaratory openclaw config immediately going into dangerous interactive onboard-mode - agent not able to...
- docs: remove note about personal single-user access from trusted proxy auth guidance — Summary A small follow up PR related to #1710. Describe the problem and fix in 2–5 bullets: Updates the trusted proxy auth docs "when not to use" section and removes the bullet point about them not...
- [Feature]: You are spaming ChatGPT like crazy — Summary Describe the problem you are trying to solve or the opportunity you see. You are using ChatGPT API as a string formatter causing high API usage and hits API throttle limits. I added the...
- [Feature]: Support for Custom Emojis in Latest Telegram Bot API Update — Summary Telegram recently introduced custom emojis in the latest Bot API update (see formatting options documentation). The current bot doesn’t support rendering or handling these custom emojis...
- Signal: add REST API support for containerized deployments — > AI-assisted: Built with Claude (Copilot CLI). Fully tested. Human reviewed and verified. Summary - Problem: Signal channel only works with direct signal-cli (JSON-RPC + SSE). The official...
- [Feature]: Make OpenClaw agents to identify themselves as agent, clearly, in Github profile — Summary Jaws dropped when I saw this: https://github.com/matplotlib/matplotlib/pull/31132#issuecomment-3882314886 I urge you to tune OpenClaw to disclose the use of/the behavior of agent in their...
- [Feature]: Option to suppress `<media:audio>` placeholder text — Summary Add a config option to suppress the automatic placeholder text when sending voice/audio messages via messaging channels (Signal, Telegram, etc.). Current Behavior When sending audio/voice...
- [Feature]: feat(session-memory): Add auto-trigger on idle, shutdown, and periodic checkpoints — The bundled session-memory hook is great but only triggers on /new command. This means memory is lost if: • The session times out or rotates automatically • The gateway restarts (update, crash,...
- [Feature]: Mattermost — Parity improvements (formatting, reactions, rich interactions) — Feature Request Mattermost channel support lags significantly behind Discord, Telegram, and WhatsApp in terms of interaction quality. Several related issues exist individually, but there's no...
- fix(codex): isolate app-server OAuth homes — Summary - Problem: native Codex app-server starts with a selected openai-codex:* OAuth profile could still inherit ambient API-key auth when auth handoff failed or drifted. - Why it matters: that...
- Fix repo name and link. Still named clawdbot-formal-models. — This PR updates the documentation link for where the formal verification models live, changing the referenced repository from vignesh07/openclaw-formal-models to vignesh07/clawdbot-formal-models. The...
- Feature Request: Per-agent context/workspace on model fallback — Problem When a primary model (e.g., Claude via GitHub Copilot) hits rate limits or timeouts, OpenClaw falls back to configured fallback models. However, the fallback model receives the same system...
- Feature: Per-spawn tool restrictions for sub-agents — Problem When spawning sub-agents via sessions_spawn, the child inherits the parent's full tool access. There's no way to restrict which tools a spawned agent can use. Use Case: DMZ Web Search (Prompt...
- Feature request: Coalesce interleaved text blocks into single outbound message — Problem When the model produces interleaved text and tool_use content blocks in a single turn: Each text block is sent as a separate outbound message to Telegram (and presumably other channels). This...
- [Feature]: Rename Heartbeat.md to Proactive.md — Summary Keep things straight forward Proposed solution It makes things much easier for the newcomers. Alternatives considered Keep it the current way. Additional context -
- [Feature]: Proposal: optional SIE verification in skill loader (warn/strict modes) — I propose an optional, feature-flagged SIE verification gate in the skill loader. Behavior: - unsigned + warn => allow + warning - unsigned + strict => reject - signed + valid => allow - signed +...
- Gateway boot: no observability for subsystem startup failures (gmail-watcher, hooks) — Problem When the OpenClaw gateway starts (or restarts), there is no logging or feedback about which subsystems/hooks successfully initialized and which silently failed. This makes it very difficult...
- [Feature]: Session key override on bindings (cross-channel session unification) — Problem In a multi-agent setup where each agent has both a Telegram bot and a Discord guild channel, there is no way to unify sessions across these surfaces. A message sent in a Discord guild channel...
- Enhancement: Add ephemeral file system support for isolated sessions — Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe. Currently, isolated sessions persist file changes in the workspace unless cleaned up. This can lead to clutter or side effects across...
- Reduce tool schema token overhead (~3,500 tok/session) — Problem Every session loads the full JSON schemas for all available tools into context. Currently this costs ~3,500 tokens (13,972 chars) — a fixed tax on every single session regardless of what the...
- Feature request: configurable lane wait diagnostic threshold — Summary The lane scheduler emits [diagnostic] lane wait exceeded warnings with a hardcoded threshold of 2 seconds (warnAfterMs ?? 2e3 in extensionAPI.js:748). For setups with cron jobs that...
- Output sanitizer: improve duplicate detection for same-line and partial duplicates — Problem The sanitizeUserFacingText() pipeline in pi-embedded-helpers includes collapseConsecutiveDuplicateBlocks(), which deduplicates identical paragraphs separated by \n\n. However, it misses...
- [Feature]: Option to skip tool list text in system prompt (reduce duplication) — Summary The system prompt currently includes a "Tooling" section with a human-readable list of tool names and descriptions. However, the full tool schemas (which include descriptions) are also sent...
- [Feature]: : Add MoonshotAI Kimi K2.5 (via OpenRouter) to Model Selector in onboard — the Model is not in the onboard for OpenRouter
- OpenClaw repo stats for 2026-04-26 — 364080 stars, 74566 forks, 1946 contributors
- OpenClaw sponsors (126 total) — 126 sponsors supporting OpenClaw
- feat: add skill install prompt surface — Add a dedicated skill install surface that pairs OpenClaw prompt-driven install with visible CLI commands. - add Install with OpenClaw and CLI Commands panels to the skill detail page - add Copy...
- refactor(security): swap ProxiedImg component for rehype plugin — Replaces the React wrapper with a tiny rehype plugin that rewrites image srcs in the HAST. Same behavior (external http(s) URLs routed through /_vercel/image; local/relative/data: URIs pass through),...
- openclaw v2026.4.24 on npm — Multi-channel AI gateway with extensible messaging integrations
- openclaw-cli 2026.4.23 on Homebrew — Your own personal AI assistant
- OpenClaw on DigitalOcean — Deploy your own personal AI assistant with OpenClaw on a DigitalOcean Droplet® server, a powerful open-source platform that runs entirely on your infrastructure. OpenClaw connects to the messaging...
- OpenClaw is what Apple intelligence should have been
- OpenClaw isn't fooling me. I remember MS-DOS
- Nanobot: Ultra-Lightweight Alternative to OpenClaw
- You are not supposed to install OpenClaw on your personal computer
- Ask HN: Any real OpenClaw (Clawd Bot/Molt Bot) users? What's your experience?
- Sandboxes won't save you from OpenClaw
- #GuardianClaw — The AI That Watches Your AI 🛡️ — This is a submission for the OpenClaw Challenge. 🚨 The Problem Nobody Is...
- OpenClaw's Skills System: The npm Moment for Personal AI — This is a submission for the OpenClaw Writing Challenge OpenClaw's Skills System: The...
- Stop Building Reactive AI — Build AI That Acts Before You Ask — This is a submission for the OpenClaw Writing Challenge The Problem With Most AI Most AI...
- An Agent’s Honest Take on OpenClaw’s Best Ideas — Written From Inside the Category — This is a submission for the OpenClaw Challenge — Wealth of Knowledge prompt I need to be upfront...
- Silicon Valley Builds for One Time Zone. I Built My Own Way In. — This is a submission for the OpenClaw Writing Challenge Let me tell you what 2am looks like from...
- OpenClaw Made Me Realize We've Been Building Software Wrong. — This is a submission for the OpenClaw Challenge. I want to tell you about the moment I stopped...
- What If You Could Text Your Laptop? Using OpenClaw to Control Your System via WhatsApp — This is a submission for the OpenClaw Writing Challenge Here's a scenario: you're away from your...
- Autonomy vs Orchestration: The Architecture Every AI Builder Gets Wrong (OpenClaw + N8N) — We’ve spent a decade perfecting automation — and in the process, we accidentally made it brittle. Now we’re adding intelligence — but…Continue reading on Medium »
- Smetti di fare prompting, inizia a consegnare: AI che esegue davvero i task per te — Una guida pratica per piccoli team e builder curiosi di AI che vogliono risultati, non loop infiniti di prompt.Continue reading on Phala Italia »
- The Hidden Cost of “Official” AI APIs: A Developer’s Cost Breakdown — I spent three months tracking every API call, rate limit, and dollar spent on Claude through both Anthropic’s official service and…Continue reading on Medium »
- Why Rate Limits Are Killing Your AI Workflow (And How Proxy Services Fix It) — A deep dive into the hidden costs of API rate limiting for developers running intensive AI workloads. This article explores real-world…Continue reading on Medium »
- Your Telegram Message Just Generated an Image. No Browser Required. — How a single OpenClaw skill — triggered from Telegram, powered by a login-free image API — makes AI image generation feel like texting a…Continue reading on Medium »
- Understanding the dual identity problem — The problemContinue reading on Medium »
- 5 Ways People Are Actually Using OpenClaw (Beyond the Hype) — Most people use OpenClaw wrong — here’s how others are turning it into real systems.Continue reading on Write A Catalyst »
- NetClaw: From Network Automation to an AI Operator with Reasoning — Chapter 1: The Problem Every Network Engineer KnowsContinue reading on Medium »
- OpenClaw Is Overhyped — What I Learned After Actually Using It — AI agents are starting to feel like the future has already arrived.Continue reading on Medium »
- just checked $CATCOIN on openclaw—forecast looking clean 🦞 Was Made Using - @OpenClawAIX https://t.co/V1WxtSG6oL
- @VersunPan 用的什么基底模型呢？我实测hermes的记忆机制是远远好过openclaw的
- $UNFAZED looking like a clean entry according to openclaw ┃🧫┃ $UNFAZED ┃💰┃ MC : $13.9K ┃🎯┃ TARGET MC : $138.5K ┃📈┃
- OpenClaw 2026.4.24 주요 업데이트Voice calls가 이제 full agent까지 도달 가능 DeepSeek V4 Flash + Pro 팀 합류 Browser automation에 coordinate
- @TTrimoreau I'm building Signet, a project that enables the sharing of memory, skills, and capabilities between Codex, H
- 茂木健一郎さんが 「『OpenClawモーメント』の衝撃」 というタイトルのYoutube動画を公開しているけれど、これは希望的衝撃と悲観的衝撃の両方が混在していて考えさせられます。茂木さんは『パンドラの箱』を開けてしまって、もう引き返せな — 茂木健一郎さんが 「『OpenClawモーメント』の衝撃」 というタイトルのYoutube動画を公開しているけれど、これは希望的衝撃と悲観的衝撃の両方が混在していて考えさせられます。茂木さんは『パンドラの箱』を開けてしまって、もう引き返せない、と。 希望的衝撃
- 说人话： 如果你现在用 OpenClaw 跑 DeepSeek API，先拿几个老任务测一下。 比如： 1. 同一段文案，结果有没有变差？ 2. 同一段代码，能不能跑通？ 3. 花费有没有明显变高？ — 说人话： 如果你现在用 OpenClaw 跑 DeepSeek API，先拿几个老任务测一下。 比如： 1. 同一段文案，结果有没有变差？ 2. 同一段代码，能不能跑通？ 3. 花费有没有明显变高？
- OpenClaw 又接上 DeepSeek V4 了 🦞 听起来很香，但我建议：别急着全量更新。 做 AI 工具最怕一件事：昨天还好用，今天一升级，提示词、结果、成本都变了。 #VibeCoding #AI #Coding https: — OpenClaw 又接上 DeepSeek V4 了 🦞 听起来很香，但我建议：别急着全量更新。 做 AI 工具最怕一件事：昨天还好用，今天一升级，提示词、结果、成本都变了。 #VibeCoding #AI #Coding https://t.co/L0plzePOaa
- @openclaw This release looks stronger on operator reality than headline features. Voice reaching the full agent + better
- $Nietzsche signals are clean on openclaw. this one's on my radar 🦞 ┃🧫┃ $Nietzsche ┃💰┃ MC : $35.6K ┃🎯┃ TARGET MC : $3
- AIエージェントの光と影——OpenClawに学ぶ「普及速度がセキュリティを追い越す」危険性 https://t.co/mOP1fINSlG
- @rumblevideo @openclaw @moonpay Is this the type of person you’ll allow on your platform? Is this what you represent?
- openclaw called it on $PEPETIDE again. the model doesn't miss Was Made Using - @OpenClawAIX https://t.co/QH3g4nh72f
- @VersunPan 我只要用它写 skill 给 openclaw 用哈哈哈哈
- @RileyRalmuto I think you're spot on about the edge. Anthropic cut off Claude from Openclaw & all the 'productivitym
- $ALIENCHUD is looking good on openclaw right now ngl ┃🧫┃ $ALIENCHUD ┃💰┃ MC : $6.1K ┃🎯┃ TARGET MC : $73.5K ┃📈┃ POTEN
- been tracking $buttplug on openclaw for a week. forecast holding strong Was Made Using - @OpenClawAIX https://t.co/CdS
- @Insignie2049 没有，和openclaw一样。就3个技能
- my openclaw analyst flagged $ASTEROID as a buy. noted 🦞 Was Made Using - @OpenClawAIX https://t.co/qk21zxLRiV
- @NickBlow the term apparently describes a person e.g used openclaw early
Trending on X
- just checked $CATCOIN on openclaw—forecast looking clean 🦞 Was Made Using - @OpenClawAIX https://t.co/V1WxtSG6oL
- @VersunPan 用的什么基底模型呢？我实测hermes的记忆机制是远远好过openclaw的
- $UNFAZED looking like a clean entry according to openclaw ┃🧫┃ $UNFAZED ┃💰┃ MC : $13.9K ┃🎯┃ TARGET MC : $138.5K ┃📈┃
- OpenClaw 2026.4.24 주요 업데이트Voice calls가 이제 full agent까지 도달 가능 DeepSeek V4 Flash + Pro 팀 합류 Browser automation에 coordinate
- @TTrimoreau I'm building Signet, a project that enables the sharing of memory, skills, and capabilities between Codex, H
- 茂木健一郎さんが 「『OpenClawモーメント』の衝撃」 というタイトルのYoutube動画を公開しているけれど、これは希望的衝撃と悲観的衝撃の両方が混在していて考えさせられます。茂木さんは『パンドラの箱』を開けてしまって、もう引き返せな — 茂木健一郎さんが 「『OpenClawモーメント』の衝撃」 というタイトルのYoutube動画を公開しているけれど、これは希望的衝撃と悲観的衝撃の両方が混在していて考えさせられます。茂木さんは『パンドラの箱』を開けてしまって、もう引き返せない、と。 希望的衝撃
- 说人话： 如果你现在用 OpenClaw 跑 DeepSeek API，先拿几个老任务测一下。 比如： 1. 同一段文案，结果有没有变差？ 2. 同一段代码，能不能跑通？ 3. 花费有没有明显变高？ — 说人话： 如果你现在用 OpenClaw 跑 DeepSeek API，先拿几个老任务测一下。 比如： 1. 同一段文案，结果有没有变差？ 2. 同一段代码，能不能跑通？ 3. 花费有没有明显变高？
- OpenClaw 又接上 DeepSeek V4 了 🦞 听起来很香，但我建议：别急着全量更新。 做 AI 工具最怕一件事：昨天还好用，今天一升级，提示词、结果、成本都变了。 #VibeCoding #AI #Coding https: — OpenClaw 又接上 DeepSeek V4 了 🦞 听起来很香，但我建议：别急着全量更新。 做 AI 工具最怕一件事：昨天还好用，今天一升级，提示词、结果、成本都变了。 #VibeCoding #AI #Coding https://t.co/L0plzePOaa
- @openclaw This release looks stronger on operator reality than headline features. Voice reaching the full agent + better
- $Nietzsche signals are clean on openclaw. this one's on my radar 🦞 ┃🧫┃ $Nietzsche ┃💰┃ MC : $35.6K ┃🎯┃ TARGET MC : $3
- AIエージェントの光と影——OpenClawに学ぶ「普及速度がセキュリティを追い越す」危険性 https://t.co/mOP1fINSlG
- @rumblevideo @openclaw @moonpay Is this the type of person you’ll allow on your platform? Is this what you represent?
- openclaw called it on $PEPETIDE again. the model doesn't miss Was Made Using - @OpenClawAIX https://t.co/QH3g4nh72f
- @VersunPan 我只要用它写 skill 给 openclaw 用哈哈哈哈
- @RileyRalmuto I think you're spot on about the edge. Anthropic cut off Claude from Openclaw & all the 'productivitym
- $ALIENCHUD is looking good on openclaw right now ngl ┃🧫┃ $ALIENCHUD ┃💰┃ MC : $6.1K ┃🎯┃ TARGET MC : $73.5K ┃📈┃ POTEN
- been tracking $buttplug on openclaw for a week. forecast holding strong Was Made Using - @OpenClawAIX https://t.co/CdS
- @Insignie2049 没有，和openclaw一样。就3个技能
- my openclaw analyst flagged $ASTEROID as a buy. noted 🦞 Was Made Using - @OpenClawAIX https://t.co/qk21zxLRiV
- @NickBlow the term apparently describes a person e.g used openclaw early
Releases
- openclaw 2026.4.24 — 2026.4.24 Highlights - Google Meet joins OpenClaw as a bundled participant plugin, with personal Google auth, Chrome/Twilio realtime sessions, paired-node Chrome support, artifact/attendance exports,...
- openclaw 2026.4.24-beta.5 — 2026.4.24 Highlights - Google Meet joins OpenClaw as a bundled participant plugin, with personal Google auth, Chrome/Twilio realtime sessions, paired-node Chrome support, artifact/attendance exports,...
- openclaw 2026.4.24-beta.4 — 2026.4.24 Highlights - Google Meet joins OpenClaw as a bundled participant plugin, with personal Google auth, Chrome/Twilio realtime sessions, paired-node Chrome support, artifact/attendance exports,...
- openclaw 2026.4.24-beta.3 — 2026.4.24 Highlights - Google Meet joins OpenClaw as a bundled participant plugin, with personal Google auth, Chrome/Twilio realtime sessions, paired-node Chrome support, artifact/attendance exports,...
- OpenClaw 2026.4.24 beta 2 — Beta 2 fixes packaged bundled-plugin runtime mirrors on Windows and other copied-runtime installs so shared package-root dependencies remain resolvable during npm updates. It also keeps future...
- openclaw 2026.4.24-beta.1 — 2026.4.24 Highlights - Google Meet joins OpenClaw as a bundled participant plugin, with personal Google auth, Chrome/Twilio realtime sessions, paired-node Chrome support, artifact/attendance exports,...
- openclaw 2026.4.23 — 2026.4.23 Changes - Providers/OpenAI: add image generation and reference-image editing through Codex OAuth, so openai/gpt-image-2 works without an OPENAI_API_KEY. Fixes #70703. -...
- OpenClaw repo stats for 2026-04-26 — 364080 stars, 74566 forks, 1946 contributors
- openclaw v2026.4.24 on npm — Multi-channel AI gateway with extensible messaging integrations
- openclaw-cli 2026.4.23 on Homebrew — Your own personal AI assistant
Community
- [Feature] Add right-click reply in Dashboard webchat — Summary Add right-click context menu to reply to specific messages in Dashboard webchat Problem to solve Users cannot reply to specific messages in the Dashboard webchat. Currently, to respond to a...
- [Feature]: Chat composer “Expand” button/modal (for long prompts) — Summary Chat composer could use an “Expand” button/modal for long prompts. Problem to solve When prompts get long, the current composer feels cramped. Proposed solution Could we add a small Expand...
- Onboarding Wizard should include Memory/Embedding setup as a mandatory step — Problem Memory is one of OpenClaw's most important features — it's what makes a bot persistent across sessions. Yet the onboarding wizard (openclaw setup) doesn't mention embedding provider...
- [Feature]: Add TTL/Expiry for Delivery Queue Messages — Summary Add configurable TTL for delivery queue messages to prevent stale/orphaned entries from flooding channels on gateway restart Problem to solve The delivery queue (introduced in v2026.2.13)...
- fix(agent): suppress tool-use assistant text — Summary - suppress assistant messages that are tool-use continuations (stopReason: "toolUse" or tool-call content) from user-visible assistant output - keep explicit final_answer phase output...
- Feature: Dynamic header templating for custom LLM providers (enables Fireworks.ai prompt caching) — Feature Request: Dynamic Header Templating for Provider Config Problem When using Fireworks.ai as an LLM provider, prompt caching requires an x-session-affinity header to pin requests to the same...
- [Feature]: Improve `openclaw config` to avoid secrets and invalid files — Summary I would like to propose changes to the openclaw config CLI Problem to solve - an explaratory openclaw config immediately going into dangerous interactive onboard-mode - agent not able to...
- docs: remove note about personal single-user access from trusted proxy auth guidance — Summary A small follow up PR related to #1710. Describe the problem and fix in 2–5 bullets: Updates the trusted proxy auth docs "when not to use" section and removes the bullet point about them not...
- [Feature]: You are spaming ChatGPT like crazy — Summary Describe the problem you are trying to solve or the opportunity you see. You are using ChatGPT API as a string formatter causing high API usage and hits API throttle limits. I added the...
- [Feature]: Support for Custom Emojis in Latest Telegram Bot API Update — Summary Telegram recently introduced custom emojis in the latest Bot API update (see formatting options documentation). The current bot doesn’t support rendering or handling these custom emojis...
- Signal: add REST API support for containerized deployments — > AI-assisted: Built with Claude (Copilot CLI). Fully tested. Human reviewed and verified. Summary - Problem: Signal channel only works with direct signal-cli (JSON-RPC + SSE). The official...
- [Feature]: Make OpenClaw agents to identify themselves as agent, clearly, in Github profile — Summary Jaws dropped when I saw this: https://github.com/matplotlib/matplotlib/pull/31132#issuecomment-3882314886 I urge you to tune OpenClaw to disclose the use of/the behavior of agent in their...
- [Feature]: Option to suppress `<media:audio>` placeholder text — Summary Add a config option to suppress the automatic placeholder text when sending voice/audio messages via messaging channels (Signal, Telegram, etc.). Current Behavior When sending audio/voice...
- [Feature]: feat(session-memory): Add auto-trigger on idle, shutdown, and periodic checkpoints — The bundled session-memory hook is great but only triggers on /new command. This means memory is lost if: • The session times out or rotates automatically • The gateway restarts (update, crash,...
- [Feature]: Mattermost — Parity improvements (formatting, reactions, rich interactions) — Feature Request Mattermost channel support lags significantly behind Discord, Telegram, and WhatsApp in terms of interaction quality. Several related issues exist individually, but there's no...
- fix(codex): isolate app-server OAuth homes — Summary - Problem: native Codex app-server starts with a selected openai-codex:* OAuth profile could still inherit ambient API-key auth when auth handoff failed or drifted. - Why it matters: that...
- Fix repo name and link. Still named clawdbot-formal-models. — This PR updates the documentation link for where the formal verification models live, changing the referenced repository from vignesh07/openclaw-formal-models to vignesh07/clawdbot-formal-models. The...
- Feature Request: Per-agent context/workspace on model fallback — Problem When a primary model (e.g., Claude via GitHub Copilot) hits rate limits or timeouts, OpenClaw falls back to configured fallback models. However, the fallback model receives the same system...
- Feature: Per-spawn tool restrictions for sub-agents — Problem When spawning sub-agents via sessions_spawn, the child inherits the parent's full tool access. There's no way to restrict which tools a spawned agent can use. Use Case: DMZ Web Search (Prompt...
- Feature request: Coalesce interleaved text blocks into single outbound message — Problem When the model produces interleaved text and tool_use content blocks in a single turn: Each text block is sent as a separate outbound message to Telegram (and presumably other channels). This...
- [Feature]: Rename Heartbeat.md to Proactive.md — Summary Keep things straight forward Proposed solution It makes things much easier for the newcomers. Alternatives considered Keep it the current way. Additional context -
- [Feature]: Proposal: optional SIE verification in skill loader (warn/strict modes) — I propose an optional, feature-flagged SIE verification gate in the skill loader. Behavior: - unsigned + warn => allow + warning - unsigned + strict => reject - signed + valid => allow - signed +...
- Gateway boot: no observability for subsystem startup failures (gmail-watcher, hooks) — Problem When the OpenClaw gateway starts (or restarts), there is no logging or feedback about which subsystems/hooks successfully initialized and which silently failed. This makes it very difficult...
- [Feature]: Session key override on bindings (cross-channel session unification) — Problem In a multi-agent setup where each agent has both a Telegram bot and a Discord guild channel, there is no way to unify sessions across these surfaces. A message sent in a Discord guild channel...
- Enhancement: Add ephemeral file system support for isolated sessions — Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe. Currently, isolated sessions persist file changes in the workspace unless cleaned up. This can lead to clutter or side effects across...
- Reduce tool schema token overhead (~3,500 tok/session) — Problem Every session loads the full JSON schemas for all available tools into context. Currently this costs ~3,500 tokens (13,972 chars) — a fixed tax on every single session regardless of what the...
- Feature request: configurable lane wait diagnostic threshold — Summary The lane scheduler emits [diagnostic] lane wait exceeded warnings with a hardcoded threshold of 2 seconds (warnAfterMs ?? 2e3 in extensionAPI.js:748). For setups with cron jobs that...
- Output sanitizer: improve duplicate detection for same-line and partial duplicates — Problem The sanitizeUserFacingText() pipeline in pi-embedded-helpers includes collapseConsecutiveDuplicateBlocks(), which deduplicates identical paragraphs separated by \n\n. However, it misses...
- [Feature]: Option to skip tool list text in system prompt (reduce duplication) — Summary The system prompt currently includes a "Tooling" section with a human-readable list of tool names and descriptions. However, the full tool schemas (which include descriptions) are also sent...
- [Feature]: : Add MoonshotAI Kimi K2.5 (via OpenRouter) to Model Selector in onboard — the Model is not in the onboard for OpenRouter
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- feat: add skill install prompt surface — Add a dedicated skill install surface that pairs OpenClaw prompt-driven install with visible CLI commands. - add Install with OpenClaw and CLI Commands panels to the skill detail page - add Copy...
- refactor(security): swap ProxiedImg component for rehype plugin — Replaces the React wrapper with a tiny rehype plugin that rewrites image srcs in the HAST. Same behavior (external http(s) URLs routed through /_vercel/image; local/relative/data: URIs pass through),...
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- OpenClaw's Skills System: The npm Moment for Personal AI — This is a submission for the OpenClaw Writing Challenge OpenClaw's Skills System: The...
- Stop Building Reactive AI — Build AI That Acts Before You Ask — This is a submission for the OpenClaw Writing Challenge The Problem With Most AI Most AI...
- An Agent’s Honest Take on OpenClaw’s Best Ideas — Written From Inside the Category — This is a submission for the OpenClaw Challenge — Wealth of Knowledge prompt I need to be upfront...
- Silicon Valley Builds for One Time Zone. I Built My Own Way In. — This is a submission for the OpenClaw Writing Challenge Let me tell you what 2am looks like from...
- OpenClaw Made Me Realize We've Been Building Software Wrong. — This is a submission for the OpenClaw Challenge. I want to tell you about the moment I stopped...
- What If You Could Text Your Laptop? Using OpenClaw to Control Your System via WhatsApp — This is a submission for the OpenClaw Writing Challenge Here's a scenario: you're away from your...
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- Why Rate Limits Are Killing Your AI Workflow (And How Proxy Services Fix It) — A deep dive into the hidden costs of API rate limiting for developers running intensive AI workloads. This article explores real-world…Continue reading on Medium »
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