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Three separate fixes undo a Codex default that was silently killing dynamic tool calls. Skills can now be installed globally instead of per-workspace. Telegram DMs get ephemeral native draft previews during tool-heavy agent turns. The browser CLI exposes evaluate timeouts. Image generation stops treating different prompts as duplicates. And a new EACCES recovery guide tells operators to stop the gateway before touching npm.
Browser automation agents no longer go blind when a page throws up a modal dialog. OpenClaw's managed browser now surfaces dialog state in real time and lets agents respond directly. Gateway restarts under custom supervisors stop spawning orphaned children. And the Mantis workflow trigger drops its ambiguous short name.
Slack gets native assistant thread lifecycle support. Model fallback transitions stop happening invisibly with automatic recovery probes. Image generation joins the async scheduler alongside music and video. Subagent completions require parent verification before delivery. Docker sandboxes stop filtering legitimate credentials.
Removing provider credentials now aborts active agent runs with a dedicated stop reason. Discord and Slack both suppress link previews by default. MCP servers gain per-agent isolation. Wildcard runtime policies simplify dynamic model management. Silent-reply tokens stop leaking into direct conversations. And legacy reply history helpers are officially deprecated.
Nine hand-maintained community plugin listings removed in favor of ClawHub as the single discovery surface. Slack integration documentation gets expanded Socket Mode tuning, threading session semantics, and six new troubleshooting scenarios. A misplaced changelog section is quietly restored.
A plugin security gate meant to protect users from risky ClawHub packages was merged and reverted within hours after it broke automation workflows. Separately, OpenClaw patches a device-pairing vulnerability that silently minted operator tokens, starts forwarding temperature and top_p to upstream providers, and makes subagent task delegation auditable.
Plugin navigation gets a three-tier overhaul separating operator, developer, and maintainer references. The OpenAI HTTP gateway gains max_completion_tokens support. Docker deployments persist OAuth credentials across rebuilds. And Telegram replies finally render bold text as bold — not as literal angle brackets.
BlueBubbles is gone — native iMessage takes over with tapback reactions. OpenAI authentication now routes through ChatGPT by default. Codex sandbox rules tighten while destructive plugin actions get enabled out of the box. And no-progress tool loops finally get a kill switch.
OpenClaw breaks its monolithic Codex harness documentation into a modular four-page system covering setup, configuration reference, runtime behavior, and native plugins. Separately, the memory documentation now explains the difference between MEMORY.md and daily memory files — and what happens when the bootstrap file gets too large.
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