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OpenClaw Newsletter - 2026-05-10

OpenClaw Newsletter - 2026-05-10

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Sunday, May 10, 2026

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  • openclaw 2026.5.9-beta.1 — Changes - Chat commands: add /think default and /fast default to clear session overrides and inherit configured/provider defaults. (#79385) Thanks @VACInc. - Dependencies: refresh workspace...
  • fix(doctor): warn when a channel-bound agent is missing the message tool — Closes #80128 Summary When an agent has an explicit tools.allow list that omits "message" but is bound to a messaging channel via cfg.bindings, channel explicit actions (sendAttachment, reply,...
  • fix(agents): gate stream_options on supportsUsageInStreaming for openai-compat providers (#79897) — Root Cause stream_options: { include_usage: true } was unconditionally included in every openai-completions streaming request, regardless of whether the provider supports the OpenAI...
  • [codex] reduce plugin sdk surface — Summary - deprecate unused, broad, and rare one/two-owner Plugin SDK public subpaths while keeping package exports for backwards compatibility - move bundled plugin imports off deprecated barrels and...
  • fix(auto-reply): image model override with proper attachment detection — Summary - Fix image model fallback resolution: prepareImageModelFallbacks now drops fallbacks that cannot be resolved into a runnable model ref, instead of returning raw strings that may not be valid...
  • fix(plugins/install): skip reinstall when installed plugin version satisfies requested — Fixes #79884 Problem The plugin install wizard always reinstalls a plugin even when the already-installed version already satisfies (i.e. is equal to or newer than) the requested version. This causes...
  • fix(agents): only seed HEARTBEAT.md on brand-new workspaces — Problem ensureAgentWorkspace() creates HEARTBEAT.md for every workspace missing the file — including existing workspaces where the user intentionally removed it. The empty template was designed as a...
  • [/status] api-key label shadows claude-cli OAuth when env key present — Summary On 2026.5.7, /status shows 🔑 api-key (env: ANTHROPIC_API_KEY) when an agent is actually routing through the claude-cli backend via Max OAuth, simply because ANTHROPIC_API_KEY is also present...
  • [Feature]: models.providers.*.enabled flag to disable providers without removing config — Summary Allow disabling a model provider via enabled: false without deleting its config block. Problem to solve When you need to temporarily disable a provider (cost spike, rate limits, debugging),...
  • feat(mattermost): add edit and delete message actions — Summary Adds patchMattermostPost() and deleteMattermostPost() to the Mattermost client, and wires them as edit and delete actions in the channel plugin message action adapter. What this enables -...
  • [Feature]: Session busy status reply + cancel option during long-running model responses — Summary Add an immediate scripted “session busy / waiting for model” reply (with optional cancel/new-session actions) when a user sends a message to a currently locked session. Problem to solve When...
  • [Feature]: Support Anthropic native server-side tools (web_search, web_fetch, code_execution) — Summary Anthropic offers server-side tools that run entirely on their infrastructure. OpenClaw should support opting into these as alternatives to client-side equivalents — no extra API keys, no...
  • feat(secrets): add Bitwarden/Vaultwarden secret provider — Summary - Problem: OpenClaw has no Bitwarden/Vaultwarden integration for secret management. Users who rely on Bitwarden (55M+ users) cannot store API keys and tokens in their vault. - Why it matters:...
  • feat: Tiered bootstrap file loading for progressive context control — Motivation Bootstrap files consume LLM tokens on every session. For users with large workspaces, loading all files into every session — including sub-agents and cron jobs — wastes context window...
  • message tool should auto-select the only enabled account — Summary When using the message tool with a channel that has multiple accounts but only one enabled, auto-select the enabled account instead of defaulting to "default". Problem to solve When using the...
  • [Feature]: Discord: Re-process edited user messages (MESSAGE_UPDATE event) — Summary Enable OpenClaw to detect and re-process Discord messages when users edit them, triggering a new agent turn with the updated content. Problem to solve When users edit Discord messages to...
  • [Feature]: Shared sessions across multiple group/channel/thread chats — Summary When the same agent is bound to multiple Discord channels (or Slack channels), each channel creates an isolated session (agent::discord:channel:). There is currently no way to selectively...
  • [Feature]: Inbound media shared across all agents — no per-agent isolation — Summary In multi-agent setups, all inbound media files (voice notes, images, documents) are saved to a single shared directory (~/.openclaw/media/inbound/). Any agent with filesystem access can read...
  • [Feature]: 3 architecture improvements — bootstrap relevance, incremental compaction, observation extraction — OpenClaw's bootstrap file injection uses a positional split (70% head / 20% tail / 10% marker) that cuts the middle of files regardless of content relevance. For large workspace files, the most...
  • [Reliability]: Enforce atomic intent→execution flow to prevent orphan pre-action notices — Summary Guarantee that announced actions always end in explicit commit/abort status. Problem to solve Pre-action notices can be emitted without guaranteed execution under interruptions. This creates...
  • [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...
  • [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]: 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...
  • 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...
  • 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 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...
  • fix(memory/qmd): scope XDG env vars to qmd spawns; use clean env for mcporter — Summary QmdManager builds a shared env object with agent-scoped XDG_CONFIG_HOME/XDG_CACHE_HOME for qmd process isolation and passes it to all child spawns, including mcporter. Starting with mcporter...
  • [Feature]: Plugin hot-reload without container restart (jiti cache invalidation) — Description When developing OpenClaw plugins (TypeScript), every code change requires: 1. Restart the OpenClaw process/container 2. Clear the jiti cache (rm /tmp/jiti/plugin-name.*.cjs) 3. Wait for...
  • Feature: Add 'private' groupPolicy option for Slack channels — Summary Add a new groupPolicy value "private" for Slack that allows the bot to respond in private channels only, ignoring public channels unless explicitly allowlisted. Motivation Currently,...
  • fix(openrouter): drop nested reasoning when reasoning_effort is set for deepseek-v4 (#79957) — Root Cause When using openrouter/deepseek/deepseek-v4-flash (or v4-pro) with thinking enabled, two separate code paths both write a reasoning field to the payload: 1. Base transport...
  • OpenClaw repo stats for 2026-05-10 — 370345 stars, 76505 forks, 2175 contributors
  • OpenClaw sponsors (124 total) — 124 sponsors supporting OpenClaw
  • fix: reduce ClawScan false positives
  • fix: allow staff security rescans
  • fix: include package env metadata in ClawScan
  • test: fix user badge fixtures
  • fix: accept PowerShell skill files
  • test: align catalog profile e2e assertions
  • fix: link owner badges to publisher profiles
  • fix: stabilize publishers directory and e2e flows
  • fix: count package install stats
  • fix: avoid eager publisher page hydration (#2129)
  • fix: show suspicious filter conditionally (#2121)
  • fix: keep undici on node 20 compatible major
  • fix(web): surface publish validation inline
  • fix(web): constrain page content containers — Constrain settings, profile content, skill detail, and plugin detail pages to the header content width while preserving profile hero bleed.\n\nCo-authored-by: vyctorbrzezowski
  • fix(web): align header avatar controls — Align signed-in header avatar controls across desktop and mobile so the menu trigger keeps consistent sizing, truncation, and dropdown styling.\n\nCo-authored-by: vyctorbrzezowski
  • test: isolate site helper env — Test-only isolation for site helper env handling.\n\nVerified locally with bun run ci:pr, focused polluted-env site helper test, and Playwright smoke.
  • fix(web): bound publisher directory counts
  • feat(web): add publishers discovery and profiles — Add the publishers discovery/profile surface and harden the landing fixups for existing publisher aggregate rows and scoped plugin links. Co-authored-by: Vyctor Huggo Przozwski Co-authored-by: Peter...
  • docs: update changelog and CLI readmes
  • 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 – Moltbot Renamed Again
  • OpenClaw is what Apple intelligence should have been
  • OpenClaw isn't fooling me. I remember MS-DOS
  • Show HN: Klaus – OpenClaw on a VM, batteries included
  • How to Turn a Sparse Daily Log into a Useful Tech Article — TL;DR A sparse daily log is not a dead end. If you keep the article grounded in observable...
  • Giving Your AI Assistant a Soul: AGENTS.md, SOUL.md and the Art of Agent Identity — How a handful of markdown files turn a generic AI model into a specialist team and why character is load-bearing infrastructure, not decoration.
  • I Hosted OpenClaw for Non-Technical Users — Here's How (Telegram, $20/mo, No Install) — Quick Answer: 367,000 people starred OpenClaw on GitHub. Maybe 5% finished the install. Node v22, nvm...
  • KiloClaw in VS Code, Kilo CLI in KiloClaw
  • Is Claw Things just a hype or does it really deliver its promise? — The AI Assistant Boom started in the first of 2026, though it actually already happened in late 2025...
  • How a 9-Person Startup Replaced Its Dev Team With AI — JustPaid ran 7 AI agents 24/7 with OpenClaw, shipped 10 features in a month for $4K/week. Here is the real cost breakdown and what it means for you.
  • Broken OpenClaw and getting it fixed — On Saturday 2nd May I noticed that my OpenClaw main agent (k3a) stopped replying to my questions. Given I had no access to the terminal on&#x2026;Continue reading on Kanchana’s Personal Blog »
  • The Hidden Enterprise Risks of OpenClaw: Why True Data Privacy Requires a Different Architecture — The open-source AI community is moving fast, but speed often leaves enterprise security behind. Here is why the current darling of AI&#x2026;Continue reading on Medium »
  • Deploying OpenClaw with Docker — Local & VPS Complete Guide — What Is OpenClaw?Continue reading on Medium »
  • The Agentic Age: Building Autonomous Intelligence with OpenClaw and OpenAI APIs — Agentic Engineering SaaSContinue reading on Medium »
  • First Time Play with Agentic AI — OpenClaw was popular in my timeline for weeks, the usage is very promising, it can act as our assistant, remember what we said for a long&#x2026;Continue reading on Medium »
  • Compact Hardware, Serious AI Power — Don&#x2019;t let the size fool you.Continue reading on Medium »
  • @Akasheth_ but i still f!ck with OpenClaw
  • my openclaw scan on $BULLISH just confirmed what i was thinking Was Made Using - @OpenClawAIX https://t.co/kSyefpnGiN
  • openclaw confirmed what the chart was already telling me on $PIZZA Was Made Using - @OpenClawAIX https://t.co/3ro7OTf
  • just ran $BBTL through openclaw. risk is low, upside is real Was Made Using - @OpenClawAIX https://t.co/rOePmS5I3y
  • $LEGO looking like a clean entry according to openclaw ┃🧫┃ $LEGO ┃💰┃ MC : $12.3K ┃🎯┃ TARGET MC : $73.5K ┃📈┃ POTENTI
  • my openclaw analyst flagged $Ballscoin as a buy. noted 🦞 ┃🧫┃ $Ballscoin ┃💰┃ MC : $23.2K ┃🎯┃ TARGET MC : $344.4K ┃📈┃
  • $RICH looking like a clean entry according to openclaw ┃🧫┃ $RICH ┃💰┃ MC : $10.0K ┃🎯┃ TARGET MC : $130.7K ┃📈┃ POTENT
  • openclaw called it on $POGE again. the model doesn't miss ┃🧫┃ $POGE ┃💰┃ MC : $69.4K ┃🎯┃ TARGET MC : $1.1M ┃📈┃ POTEN
  • openclaw confirmed what the chart was already telling me on $Aliens Was Made Using - @OpenClawAIX https://t.co/RQ1gsK
  • $BMNTP is looking good on openclaw right now ngl ┃🧫┃ $BMNTP ┃💰┃ MC : $12.7K ┃🎯┃ TARGET MC : $165.6K ┃📈┃ POTENTIAL :
  • my openclaw scan on $trillioniare just confirmed what i was thinking ┃🧫┃ $trillioniare ┃💰┃ MC : $45.6K ┃🎯┃ TARGET MC
  • $NOTHING is looking good on openclaw right now ngl Was Made Using - @OpenClawAIX https://t.co/4dUTeeI2GM
  • my openclaw scan on $HOP CAT just confirmed what i was thinking Was Made Using - @OpenClawAIX https://t.co/p4WuUDsufD
  • $GROKIUS is looking good on openclaw right now ngl ┃🧫┃ $GROKIUS ┃💰┃ MC : $184.4K ┃🎯┃ TARGET MC : $536.5K ┃📈┃ POTENT
  • my openclaw scan on $ELON just confirmed what i was thinking ┃🧫┃ $ELON ┃💰┃ MC : $534.6K ┃🎯┃ TARGET MC : $4.2M ┃📈┃ P
  • openclaw flagged $DADDY as a strong hold. not surprised ┃🧫┃ $DADDY ┃💰┃ MC : $7.7M ┃🎯┃ TARGET MC : $28.6M ┃📈┃ POTENT
  • openclaw called $gork bullish. i'm listening ┃🧫┃ $gork ┃💰┃ MC : $1.6M ┃🎯┃ TARGET MC : $6.3M ┃📈┃ POTENTIAL : +297%
  • just checked $Skibidi on openclaw—forecast looking clean 🦞 ┃🧫┃ $Skibidi ┃💰┃ MC : $121.2K ┃🎯┃ TARGET MC : $654.6K ┃📈
  • openclaw flagged $Pnut early. price is moving exactly as predicted ┃🧫┃ $Pnut ┃💰┃ MC : $62.7M ┃🎯┃ TARGET MC : $161.7M
  • $Italianrot signals are clean on openclaw. this one's on my radar 🦞 ┃🧫┃ $Italianrot ┃💰┃ MC : $256.3K ┃🎯┃ TARGET MC :

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  • @Akasheth_ but i still f!ck with OpenClaw
  • my openclaw scan on $BULLISH just confirmed what i was thinking Was Made Using - @OpenClawAIX https://t.co/kSyefpnGiN
  • openclaw confirmed what the chart was already telling me on $PIZZA Was Made Using - @OpenClawAIX https://t.co/3ro7OTf
  • just ran $BBTL through openclaw. risk is low, upside is real Was Made Using - @OpenClawAIX https://t.co/rOePmS5I3y
  • $LEGO looking like a clean entry according to openclaw ┃🧫┃ $LEGO ┃💰┃ MC : $12.3K ┃🎯┃ TARGET MC : $73.5K ┃📈┃ POTENTI
  • my openclaw analyst flagged $Ballscoin as a buy. noted 🦞 ┃🧫┃ $Ballscoin ┃💰┃ MC : $23.2K ┃🎯┃ TARGET MC : $344.4K ┃📈┃
  • $RICH looking like a clean entry according to openclaw ┃🧫┃ $RICH ┃💰┃ MC : $10.0K ┃🎯┃ TARGET MC : $130.7K ┃📈┃ POTENT
  • openclaw called it on $POGE again. the model doesn't miss ┃🧫┃ $POGE ┃💰┃ MC : $69.4K ┃🎯┃ TARGET MC : $1.1M ┃📈┃ POTEN
  • openclaw confirmed what the chart was already telling me on $Aliens Was Made Using - @OpenClawAIX https://t.co/RQ1gsK
  • $BMNTP is looking good on openclaw right now ngl ┃🧫┃ $BMNTP ┃💰┃ MC : $12.7K ┃🎯┃ TARGET MC : $165.6K ┃📈┃ POTENTIAL :
  • my openclaw scan on $trillioniare just confirmed what i was thinking ┃🧫┃ $trillioniare ┃💰┃ MC : $45.6K ┃🎯┃ TARGET MC
  • $NOTHING is looking good on openclaw right now ngl Was Made Using - @OpenClawAIX https://t.co/4dUTeeI2GM
  • my openclaw scan on $HOP CAT just confirmed what i was thinking Was Made Using - @OpenClawAIX https://t.co/p4WuUDsufD
  • $GROKIUS is looking good on openclaw right now ngl ┃🧫┃ $GROKIUS ┃💰┃ MC : $184.4K ┃🎯┃ TARGET MC : $536.5K ┃📈┃ POTENT
  • my openclaw scan on $ELON just confirmed what i was thinking ┃🧫┃ $ELON ┃💰┃ MC : $534.6K ┃🎯┃ TARGET MC : $4.2M ┃📈┃ P
  • openclaw flagged $DADDY as a strong hold. not surprised ┃🧫┃ $DADDY ┃💰┃ MC : $7.7M ┃🎯┃ TARGET MC : $28.6M ┃📈┃ POTENT
  • openclaw called $gork bullish. i'm listening ┃🧫┃ $gork ┃💰┃ MC : $1.6M ┃🎯┃ TARGET MC : $6.3M ┃📈┃ POTENTIAL : +297%
  • just checked $Skibidi on openclaw—forecast looking clean 🦞 ┃🧫┃ $Skibidi ┃💰┃ MC : $121.2K ┃🎯┃ TARGET MC : $654.6K ┃📈
  • openclaw flagged $Pnut early. price is moving exactly as predicted ┃🧫┃ $Pnut ┃💰┃ MC : $62.7M ┃🎯┃ TARGET MC : $161.7M
  • $Italianrot signals are clean on openclaw. this one's on my radar 🦞 ┃🧫┃ $Italianrot ┃💰┃ MC : $256.3K ┃🎯┃ TARGET MC :

Releases

  • openclaw 2026.5.9-beta.1 — Changes - Chat commands: add /think default and /fast default to clear session overrides and inherit configured/provider defaults. (#79385) Thanks @VACInc. - Dependencies: refresh workspace...
  • OpenClaw repo stats for 2026-05-10 — 370345 stars, 76505 forks, 2175 contributors

Community

  • fix(doctor): warn when a channel-bound agent is missing the message tool — Closes #80128 Summary When an agent has an explicit tools.allow list that omits "message" but is bound to a messaging channel via cfg.bindings, channel explicit actions (sendAttachment, reply,...
  • fix(agents): gate stream_options on supportsUsageInStreaming for openai-compat providers (#79897) — Root Cause stream_options: { include_usage: true } was unconditionally included in every openai-completions streaming request, regardless of whether the provider supports the OpenAI...
  • [codex] reduce plugin sdk surface — Summary - deprecate unused, broad, and rare one/two-owner Plugin SDK public subpaths while keeping package exports for backwards compatibility - move bundled plugin imports off deprecated barrels and...
  • fix(auto-reply): image model override with proper attachment detection — Summary - Fix image model fallback resolution: prepareImageModelFallbacks now drops fallbacks that cannot be resolved into a runnable model ref, instead of returning raw strings that may not be valid...
  • fix(plugins/install): skip reinstall when installed plugin version satisfies requested — Fixes #79884 Problem The plugin install wizard always reinstalls a plugin even when the already-installed version already satisfies (i.e. is equal to or newer than) the requested version. This causes...
  • fix(agents): only seed HEARTBEAT.md on brand-new workspaces — Problem ensureAgentWorkspace() creates HEARTBEAT.md for every workspace missing the file — including existing workspaces where the user intentionally removed it. The empty template was designed as a...
  • [/status] api-key label shadows claude-cli OAuth when env key present — Summary On 2026.5.7, /status shows 🔑 api-key (env: ANTHROPIC_API_KEY) when an agent is actually routing through the claude-cli backend via Max OAuth, simply because ANTHROPIC_API_KEY is also present...
  • [Feature]: models.providers.*.enabled flag to disable providers without removing config — Summary Allow disabling a model provider via enabled: false without deleting its config block. Problem to solve When you need to temporarily disable a provider (cost spike, rate limits, debugging),...
  • feat(mattermost): add edit and delete message actions — Summary Adds patchMattermostPost() and deleteMattermostPost() to the Mattermost client, and wires them as edit and delete actions in the channel plugin message action adapter. What this enables -...
  • [Feature]: Session busy status reply + cancel option during long-running model responses — Summary Add an immediate scripted “session busy / waiting for model” reply (with optional cancel/new-session actions) when a user sends a message to a currently locked session. Problem to solve When...
  • [Feature]: Support Anthropic native server-side tools (web_search, web_fetch, code_execution) — Summary Anthropic offers server-side tools that run entirely on their infrastructure. OpenClaw should support opting into these as alternatives to client-side equivalents — no extra API keys, no...
  • feat(secrets): add Bitwarden/Vaultwarden secret provider — Summary - Problem: OpenClaw has no Bitwarden/Vaultwarden integration for secret management. Users who rely on Bitwarden (55M+ users) cannot store API keys and tokens in their vault. - Why it matters:...
  • feat: Tiered bootstrap file loading for progressive context control — Motivation Bootstrap files consume LLM tokens on every session. For users with large workspaces, loading all files into every session — including sub-agents and cron jobs — wastes context window...
  • message tool should auto-select the only enabled account — Summary When using the message tool with a channel that has multiple accounts but only one enabled, auto-select the enabled account instead of defaulting to "default". Problem to solve When using the...
  • [Feature]: Discord: Re-process edited user messages (MESSAGE_UPDATE event) — Summary Enable OpenClaw to detect and re-process Discord messages when users edit them, triggering a new agent turn with the updated content. Problem to solve When users edit Discord messages to...
  • [Feature]: Shared sessions across multiple group/channel/thread chats — Summary When the same agent is bound to multiple Discord channels (or Slack channels), each channel creates an isolated session (agent::discord:channel:). There is currently no way to selectively...
  • [Feature]: Inbound media shared across all agents — no per-agent isolation — Summary In multi-agent setups, all inbound media files (voice notes, images, documents) are saved to a single shared directory (~/.openclaw/media/inbound/). Any agent with filesystem access can read...
  • [Feature]: 3 architecture improvements — bootstrap relevance, incremental compaction, observation extraction — OpenClaw's bootstrap file injection uses a positional split (70% head / 20% tail / 10% marker) that cuts the middle of files regardless of content relevance. For large workspace files, the most...
  • [Reliability]: Enforce atomic intent→execution flow to prevent orphan pre-action notices — Summary Guarantee that announced actions always end in explicit commit/abort status. Problem to solve Pre-action notices can be emitted without guaranteed execution under interruptions. This creates...
  • [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...
  • [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]: 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...
  • 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...
  • 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 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...
  • fix(memory/qmd): scope XDG env vars to qmd spawns; use clean env for mcporter — Summary QmdManager builds a shared env object with agent-scoped XDG_CONFIG_HOME/XDG_CACHE_HOME for qmd process isolation and passes it to all child spawns, including mcporter. Starting with mcporter...
  • [Feature]: Plugin hot-reload without container restart (jiti cache invalidation) — Description When developing OpenClaw plugins (TypeScript), every code change requires: 1. Restart the OpenClaw process/container 2. Clear the jiti cache (rm /tmp/jiti/plugin-name.*.cjs) 3. Wait for...
  • Feature: Add 'private' groupPolicy option for Slack channels — Summary Add a new groupPolicy value "private" for Slack that allows the bot to respond in private channels only, ignoring public channels unless explicitly allowlisted. Motivation Currently,...
  • fix(openrouter): drop nested reasoning when reasoning_effort is set for deepseek-v4 (#79957) — Root Cause When using openrouter/deepseek/deepseek-v4-flash (or v4-pro) with thinking enabled, two separate code paths both write a reasoning field to the payload: 1. Base transport...
  • OpenClaw sponsors (124 total) — 124 sponsors supporting OpenClaw
  • fix: reduce ClawScan false positives
  • fix: allow staff security rescans
  • fix: include package env metadata in ClawScan
  • test: fix user badge fixtures
  • fix: accept PowerShell skill files
  • test: align catalog profile e2e assertions
  • fix: link owner badges to publisher profiles
  • fix: stabilize publishers directory and e2e flows
  • fix: count package install stats
  • fix: avoid eager publisher page hydration (#2129)
  • fix: show suspicious filter conditionally (#2121)
  • fix: keep undici on node 20 compatible major
  • fix(web): surface publish validation inline
  • fix(web): constrain page content containers — Constrain settings, profile content, skill detail, and plugin detail pages to the header content width while preserving profile hero bleed.\n\nCo-authored-by: vyctorbrzezowski
  • fix(web): align header avatar controls — Align signed-in header avatar controls across desktop and mobile so the menu trigger keeps consistent sizing, truncation, and dropdown styling.\n\nCo-authored-by: vyctorbrzezowski
  • test: isolate site helper env — Test-only isolation for site helper env handling.\n\nVerified locally with bun run ci:pr, focused polluted-env site helper test, and Playwright smoke.
  • fix(web): bound publisher directory counts
  • feat(web): add publishers discovery and profiles — Add the publishers discovery/profile surface and harden the landing fixups for existing publisher aggregate rows and scoped plugin links. Co-authored-by: Vyctor Huggo Przozwski Co-authored-by: Peter...
  • docs: update changelog and CLI readmes

News

  • 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 – Moltbot Renamed Again
  • OpenClaw is what Apple intelligence should have been
  • OpenClaw isn't fooling me. I remember MS-DOS
  • Show HN: Klaus – OpenClaw on a VM, batteries included
  • How to Turn a Sparse Daily Log into a Useful Tech Article — TL;DR A sparse daily log is not a dead end. If you keep the article grounded in observable...
  • Giving Your AI Assistant a Soul: AGENTS.md, SOUL.md and the Art of Agent Identity — How a handful of markdown files turn a generic AI model into a specialist team and why character is load-bearing infrastructure, not decoration.
  • I Hosted OpenClaw for Non-Technical Users — Here's How (Telegram, $20/mo, No Install) — Quick Answer: 367,000 people starred OpenClaw on GitHub. Maybe 5% finished the install. Node v22, nvm...
  • KiloClaw in VS Code, Kilo CLI in KiloClaw
  • Is Claw Things just a hype or does it really deliver its promise? — The AI Assistant Boom started in the first of 2026, though it actually already happened in late 2025...
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