- openclaw 2026.8.2 — 2026.8.2 Highlights - Your Home agent, beside your work: open Home in a right or bottom dock with Cmd/Ctrl+Shift+H, keep your current page in view, and preview or remove its work-context snapshot or...
- [Bug]: per-agent exec cleanup retention is process-global and lazy — Bug type Behavior bug (incorrect output/state without crash) Beta release blocker No Summary Per-agent tools.exec.cleanupMs is applied lazily by the first process tool invocation to one...
- Fix stack-safe large attachment handling — Summary Closes #90098. Rebuilt as a single commit on current main after the chat UI refactors (#113052, #113338, #113649) moved the affected files. The branch contains only the behavior still missing...
- feat: add model switch choices to /model — What Problem This Solves Native /model menus could show a static or default-agent choice set even when the current Slack, Telegram, or Discord route belonged to a different agent. A user could...
- feat(talk): add configurable idle timeout for Talk mode sessions — Closes #46844 What Problem This Solves Talk mode sessions activated via Voice Wake run indefinitely when the user walks away, consuming API tokens and provider resources with no user-visible benefit....
- fix(agents): keep gateway alive when local providers OOM — Closes #136275 Related: #70404 What Problem This Solves Fixes an issue where Linux operators using managed local model or embedding services could lose the entire Gateway when the service and Gateway...
- fix(android): keep realtime Talk responsive through playback and interruption — Related: #128101 Live validation in progress. The maintainer has requested live testing followed by landing. This PR is open for CI and review while the physical-device and provider checks below run;...
- fix(feishu): expand quoted merged-forward children in quoted context — What Problem This Solves Fixes #136200. When a Feishu user replies to a merged-forward message and mentions the bot, the quoted context passed to the agent contains only Merged and Forwarded Message...
- chore(ui): refresh control ui locales — What Problem This Solves Keeps generated Control UI locales synchronized without bypassing protected-branch checks. Why This Change Was Made The Control UI Locale Refresh workflow generated this...
- feat(exec): let subprocess tools detect OpenClaw — Closes #119229 AI-assisted: yes. What Problem This Solves OpenClaw-managed child commands already receive OPENCLAW_CLI=1, but downstream tools must know that product-specific variable in advance....
- fix(gateway): preserve desktop readiness and worker outcomes — Stacked on #136018; this PR contains only the subsequent Gateway, Desktop UI and diagnostic repairs. It will target main after the parent lands. What Problem This Solves A Desktop tab could stay...
- Codex falls back when supportedReasoningEfforts includes off — Bug type Regression in native Codex route classification. Summary A configured OpenAI model that declares the standard supportedReasoningEfforts set including off is incorrectly classified as having...
- fix(agents): surface Codex policy blocks instead of /new fallback — Fixes #126144 What Problem This Solves When Codex/OpenAI returns a biological-risk policy block, OpenClaw was replacing the actionable provider text with the generic runner failure that tells people...
- [Feature]: Allow topic/forum cron deliveries to use main-session announce/agent-turn flow instead of forced direct delivery — Summary Add a config or per-cron option to let topic/forum targets use the same announce → main-agent-turn behavior that currently works in DMs, instead of always forcing direct delivery. Problem to...
- feat: share selected sessions read-only with a paired team Gateway — Additional instructions MUST: Keep Allow edits from maintainers enabled for this PR so maintainers can help update the branch when needed. What Problem This Solves An operator with a personal...
- fix(feishu): expand quoted merged-forward messages — Closes #136200 Summary - Expand merged-forward children when a Feishu message is read through the shared im.message.get retrieval path. - Reuse that path for direct inbound merged-forward messages so...
- fix: carry reply metadata into runtime context — What Problem This Solves Reply facts can be flattened into prompt text before they reach the active agent runtime. That either loses structured message/thread/reply identifiers or risks treating...
- fix(home): keep working context out of user messages — Closes #136005 — Home dock: separate working-context updates from user messages. Additional instructions Maintainers can push to this repository-owned branch. What Problem This Solves Fixes an issue...
- feat(control-ui): add human mentions and temporary inbox — Closes #135645 Not ready to merge yet: the published e54 build passed the real Gateway/Control UI flow below. Native notification display/click and real opt-out/revocation proof remain incomplete,...
- improve(agents): keep pending streamed replies current — What Problem This Solves A slow reply consumer could keep thousands of obsolete partial snapshots alive while an agent continued streaming. Terminal acceptance also queued every intermediate...
- fix(cli): resolve alias targets from the write snapshot — Closes #127618 Additional instructions MUST: Keep Allow edits from maintainers enabled for this PR so maintainers can help update the branch when needed. What Problem This Solves openclaw models...
- fix(ci): activate dependency approval commands — Summary - trigger Dependency Guard when a maintainer comments /allow-dependencies-change - scope actions: write to the maintainer command job - rerun only the latest failed Dependency Guard run for...
- test: use prepared Gateway entrypoint for refusal proof — What Problem This Solves The Gateway refusal proof recompiles the source entrypoint for its child even though the canonical E2E setup has already prepared the runnable bundle. This adds about 17...
- [Bug]: OpenClaw leaks unreaped hook/tool child processes, causing zombie accumulation and runtime degradation — Bug type Regression (worked before, now fails) Beta release blocker No Summary Summary OpenClaw appears to leak unreaped child processes from hook/tool execution. Over time these accumulate as...
- fix: custom reasoning models truncate tool-call JSON at default 8192 maxTokens — Closes #126458 What Problem This Solves Fixes an issue where users of custom openai-completions providers with reasoning models would get truncated tool-call JSON (and agents that claim work they...
- fix(codex): keep replies working after sub-plugin changes — Closes #135618 What Problem This Solves Fixes an issue where changing Codex sub-plugin policy during a Codex-backed conversation could retire the plugin generation used by that channel. Later...
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- fix: let staff stop stuck signal scans (#3574) — fix: make signal scans cancelable fix: harden signal scan cancellation
- feat: tighten traffic signals and make them read only (#3493) — feat: surface meaningful traffic signals fix: reopen recurring synchronized signals style: format signal workflow updates chore: regenerate Convex API types fix: complete signal scans after synchrony...
- fix: simplify plugin list columns (#3572) — fix: simplify plugin list columns fix: preserve responsive download headers
- feat: stage publisher signal indexes (#3501) — feat: stage publisher signal indexes feat: stage signal workflow indexes fix: keep index staging detector-scoped feat: stage signal run index feat: stage publisher signal indexes docs: record staged...
- fix(search): rank matching curated results first
- improve: remove skill icons from detail headers (#3557) — Remove the presentation icon from shared skill detail heroes while preserving taxonomy category icons, creator avatars, listing/search icons, and unrelated surfaces. Add focused regression coverage...
- Fix Communication skill count
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- Helpful Skills or Hidden Payloads? Bitdefender Labs Dives Deep into the OpenClaw Malicious Skill Trap — With hundreds of malicious OpenClaw skills blending in among legitimate ones, manually reviewing every script or command isn’t realistic — especially when skills are designed to look helpful and...