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OpenClaw v2026.9.8 | GPT-6.1 Sol, bug fixes, and a suspiciously small lobster
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OpenClaw v2026.9.8 | GPT-6.1 Sol, bug fixes, and a suspiciously small lobster

OpenClaw v2026.9.8 is out, with 43 pull requests and 8 contributors. These are a few highlights; the full release notes cover much more.

  • GPT-6.1 Sol is available through the OpenAI provider for accounts with access.
  • Replies from other agents stay tied to the conversation that requested the work.
  • Codex uses less unnecessary memory in larger setups.
  • Web UI fixes help tabs left open through updates and prevent accidental session assignment.
  • Update fixes cover plugin settings, temporary Windows file locks and Windows startup problems.
u/hannesrudolph — 12 days ago
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OpenClaw Dashboards DEMO!

Patrick, Ritz and I walk through three dashboard demos in this week’s ClawCast, from Ritz’s personal LifeRadar dashboard to shared team dashboards and building your own.

The third demo shows how to make a dashboard, a mini app inside the OpenClaw UI. I start with a prompt for a Flappy Bird-style game and then refine it into Lobster Lagoon with follow-up prompts.

We also get into release stability, accessibility, models, hosting, Tailscale and more.

Listen to or watch Episode 10 of The ClawCast.

u/hannesrudolph — 1 month ago
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Build an OpenClaw Dashboard with One Prompt | OpenClaw 2.0 Demo

Watch the full two-minute demo on YouTube.

OpenClaw Developer Patrick Erichsen demonstrates how a single prompt can turn the new OpenClaw 2.0 dashboard feature into a live release workboard. Patrick asks a RoboClaw agent to group OpenClaw 2.0 GitHub issues and pull requests by theme, then opens the result in dashboard and split views.

Dashboards are one of OpenClaw 2.0's most versatile features: mini apps in your Claw UX that can power team loops like triaging and swarming on issues. Patrick also shows how coworkers can join through a shared team server to distribute the work, and how the same flexible workflow can organize personal projects such as weather and packing for a trip.

Learn more about The OpenClaw Foundation: https://www.openclaw.org

Featured developer social:
Patrick Erichsen: https://x.com/Pat_Erichsen
Patrick's original X post: https://x.com/Pat_Erichsen/status/2095258951336259677

Join our Discord: https://discord.com/invite/clawd

u/hannesrudolph — 1 month ago
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We’re bringing NVIDIA SkillEvaluator to ClawHub so you can see whether a skill actually helps

Skill discovery in ClawHub should not be a popularity contest, and Patrick Erichsen, the OpenClaw engineer building ClawHub, has been working with NVIDIA to bring SkillEvaluator into the product so we can show whether a skill actually improves an agent before anyone installs it.

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Patrick’s point is that we need quantitative proof rather than vibes, and the ClawHub eval view is built around that comparison: it runs the same cases with and without the skill while showing the model, judge, attempts, source, baseline, and measured lift instead of hiding everything behind a badge or download count.

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NVIDIA’s work gives us the evaluation pipeline underneath that idea by validating the skill, checking whether it duplicates capabilities that already exist, and then running live evaluations to measure the lift it produces. Across more than 300 verified skills, NVIDIA reported gains of 41 points in correctness, 39 in effectiveness, and 35 in efficiency when the skill was present.

I want that evidence to become part of skill discovery in ClawHub because users should be able to see whether a skill makes their Claw better before installing it, while skill authors should be able to prove that what they built actually works.

Patrick’s ClawHub update · NVIDIA’s SkillEvaluator results

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u/hannesrudolph — 2 months ago
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Another OpenClaw release update: Delayed

Previously I said we expected to release today, August 18, but it will not be going out today.

Testing is still uncovering issues with fresh installations and, most importantly, upgrades from v2026.7.1 and earlier. We are not waiting for perfection, but we need confidence that existing users can upgrade without breaking their setups.

We are close, but I will not set another exact day until the final checks are clear.

Sorry about the delay and thank you so much for your patience.

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u/hannesrudolph — 2 months ago
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Update on the upcoming release

I wanted to share an update on the upcoming release, since it has taken longer than our usual release cycle.

A lot of this work has focused on making OpenClaw easier and more reliable to use. We are continuing the UX overhaul across the app, with a heavy focus on getting onboarding as close to one click as possible, simplifying installation and upgrades, and making it easier for OpenClaw to find and connect with the tools you already use.

We have also rebuilt the way OpenClaw stores and manages its data so longer-running sessions and larger setups remain fast and stable. This is a major change under the hood that touches almost every part of the product, which is why it has taken longer to test properly than a normal release. We do not want to rush out an update that improves the experience for new users while breaking existing setups.

We expect to release on Tuesday, August 18. Thanks for being patient with us while we finish this properly and make sure the release is worth the wait.

P.S. Rally the Claws! 🦞

We need your support for our proposed talk at SXSW next year. Follow the link below and vote to help make sure @steipete gets the opportunity to bring the light of Molty to the masses!

https://participate.sxsw.com/flow/sxsw/sxsw27/community-voting-sxsw/page/community-voting/session/1785536969104001m5k4

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u/hannesrudolph — 2 months ago
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Zoo Code Celebrates 100k Downloads!

In only 8 weeks, the Zoo Code community has grown to 100 000 users of the coding assistant made for developers who want full control of their AI tools.

Thanks to all users, contributors, and community members on Reddit: /r/ZooCode and

Discord https://discord.gg/SfHYG44NUA

In preparation for the next 100k users, we are getting ready to consult the community to decide what should be prioritized in the development.

As another milestone, we are preparing to launch the Zoo Gateway, similar to Openrouter, from where you can run models, with exclusive free preview access to unreleased models and more configurability than any other inference provider. We are soft launching it today to people who have the latest version of the extension installed. All you need to do is create an account from the icon in the bottom right corner of the extension and you will find the 200+ models we have available.

The next few weeks will be an exciting time in the Zoo universe. Please invite all your friends and colleagues to join us. They'll thank you for showing them the only open-source coding assistant where the user is fully in control.

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u/Illustrious-Mix-5625 — 2 months ago
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OpenClaw is maturing 🦞 Extended-STABLE releases are HERE

Today we’re introducing two steps toward making OpenClaw a stable foundation for critical workloads:

Extended-stable releases

  • Released monthly with backported security and reliability fixes
  • Supported until the next extended-stable release, for at least one month
  • The first release is OpenClaw 2026.6.33

​

npm install -g openclaw@extended-stable

To persist the channel:

openclaw update --channel extended-stable

A public maturity scorecard

The scorecard shows which OpenClaw features are ready for critical workloads, based on their quality and completeness. Mature features receive prioritized issue handling and production end-to-end testing.

This brings us another step closer to official LTS releases.

Read the announcement: https://openclaw.ai/blog/extended-stable-releases-and-maturity-scorecards

u/hannesrudolph — 3 months ago
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The OpenClaw Podcast is live today at 11:30 AM PT

Patrick and I are going live on Discord at 11:30 AM PT for this week’s ClawCast. We’ll be talking about all things OpenClaw and related AI happenings.

Join us on Discord.

u/hannesrudolph — 3 months ago
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Is OpenClaw Dead?

My name is Hannes Rudolph and I work at the OpenClaw Foundation. Our initial media attention has faded and some people left after real failures, but npm downloads have grown from about 176,000 a day across February and April to about 422,000 a day across June and July through July 20. That is far from a dead project.

As OpenClaw has scaled scaled, we went through a rough period from April through June when updates broke working installs and too many users spent their time recovering instead of using the product. That damaged trust with people who needed reliability, and I am not going to pretend otherwise. Quite frankly, we are not totally out of the woods yet because v2026.7.1 caused issues with some installs, although it has shown increased overall stability after recovery.

I think the people getting the most out of OpenClaw today are hackers, tinkerers, and businesses willing to put real work into shaping it around their workflows. That includes homelab management, calendars, and job searches, a twice-weekly workflow that surfaced a role one day after it was posted and helped prepare the application that led to an offer, and inventory, purchasing, and other business workflows with varying levels of human oversight.

I also think the bar to getting useful work out of OpenClaw is far too high because onboarding and setup ask too much, day-to-day use needs to be simpler, and stability problems can stop people before they reach those workflows. Our next update focuses on lowering that bar with streamlined onboarding and setup, simpler overall use, and another major round of stability improvements.

To anyone stuck in a “fuck OpenClaw” or “fuck Hermes” mindset, I do not buy the us-versus-them bullshit. The folks at Hermes are great, and if Hermes works for you, good stuff, use it! Turning projects into rival camps creates drama, spreads misinformation, and makes the community hostile to people simply looking for accurate answers and the tool that works best for them.

Criticism is part of how we get better, but unsupported conspiracy theories and personal speculation about the people involved can be hurtful and damaging, and repeating them as fact is not criticism. The claim that OpenClaw was manufactured to get Peter a job at OpenAI has no evidence behind it, and the same goes for other theories about his role there unless evidence supports them. OpenClaw is now stewarded by an independent nonprofit foundation with a full-time team, the source remains public, and Peter still makes many technical calls.

OpenClaw is strong because of the people who build it, review it, test it, report problems, help each other, and keep showing up. We love the hell out of this community, and we will keep listening, strengthening the relationships we already have, forging new ones, and building a harness we know is changing the world. We are not done.

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u/hannesrudolph — 3 months ago
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The OpenClaw Podcast - The ClawCast - Episode 4

In this episode of OpenClaw’s official podcast, The ClawCast, Patrick and I are joined by Sam Odio, host of AI Worth Using, to discuss how OpenClaw can stay powerful for hackers, become more accessible to AI tinkerers, and grow into something anyone can use without sacrificing extensibility.

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u/hannesrudolph — 3 months ago
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OpenClaw v2026.7.1 | Major Control UI, onboarding, mobile app, and model updates

OpenClaw v2026.7.1 is our and includes 3,063 contributions from 532 contributors.

This release brings major Control UI and onboarding overhauls, major updates to the official iOS, Android, and macOS apps, expanded model and provider support including GPT-5.6 compatibility, Tencent Hy3, and Meta Muse Spark 1.1, and stronger Codex and connected coding-agent workflows.

Telegram, Slack, Discord, and Apple Messages each receive substantial updates, while Gateway crash loops, scheduled work, remote browser control, workspace terminals, sessions, and goals also improve. There are also many general fixes and refinements throughout OpenClaw.

A major Control UI overhaul

The Control UI now puts conversations, sessions, workspaces, and background tasks in one browser workspace. Conversations are easier to find and organize, multiple sessions can share one workspace, and a live Tasks view makes it easier to follow or stop background work without bouncing between tabs.

Chat controls are cleaner across screen sizes, while usage and status views make costs, quotas, model usage, context, and Gateway health easier to understand at a glance. Files, downloads, linked GitHub work, scheduled jobs, mobile pairing, and approvals are also closer to the conversation, keeping more day-to-day work in the same browser workspace.

Easier setup from install to first chat

Onboarding has been reworked to provide clearer guidance from installation to the first usable chat. New CLI installs get guided setup, Android walks through pairing and permissions, and the Mac app can help set up a local agent without requiring Terminal or administrator access.

OpenClaw now checks more connections before saving them and preserves earlier choices when setup is interrupted. Doctor and updates also do a better job of protecting working setups and explaining what needs attention.

Official app updates

The official iOS, Android, and macOS apps received major updates across setup, navigation, chat, voice, permissions, localization, files, scheduled work, and Gateway recovery.

Recent conversations remain readable during temporary outages. Supported mobile messages can wait in the correct chat, survive an app restart, and send in order when the connection returns. macOS also gains fuller native session and transcript controls.

Models and providers

Model selection and provider support continue to expand:

  • GPT-5.6: Compatibility, defaults, model selection, reasoning controls, and supported OpenAI and Codex routes have been improved. Codex supervision can also return native Codex child-agent results as tracked work.
  • Tencent Hy3: Hunyuan Hy3 now has a complete supported setup path through TokenHub or TokenPlan.
  • Meta Muse Spark 1.1: Meta Model API can now be configured directly, with support for streaming, tools, images, and reasoning controls.
  • More choices: Claude Sonnet 5, Claude Mythos 5, local Ollama models, ClawRouter, LongCat 2.0, and other routes receive new support or reliability improvements.

Codex and connected coding agents

openclaw attach can launch Claude Code with temporary, revocable access to the main or a selected Gateway session. Codex app-server sessions can resume, delegate to native subagents, and return their results as tracked work, while Copilot sessions can use a broader range of explicitly selected providers.

Important sessions are easier to pin, rename, archive, restore, and return to. Active goals can remain in working memory across later turns and interruptions, helping longer jobs stay focused.

Telegram

Telegram received broad updates across live progress, photos and documents, topics, commands, retries, account routing, setup, and delivery. Albums reach the model with every available image, longer replies are easier to follow while they run, and temporary conflicts or network failures are less likely to block later messages or create duplicates.

Slack

Slack threads keep their conversation history more consistently, interactive cards and progress stay in the right place, and accepted replies are less likely to be repeated. Longer conversations also avoid more unnecessary waits before reaching the agent.

Discord

Discord improves reply visibility, attachments, voice sessions, progress, reconnects, and multi-account behavior. Completed replies produce better unread cues, brief reconnects are less likely to lose messages, and repeated session-resume failures can recover without taking down the whole Gateway.

Apple Messages

Apple Messages improves replies, typing, media, routing, setup guidance, and chat continuity. Remote Mac attachments reach the active conversation more reliably, replies work in more bridge setups, and ordinary message text is less likely to be mistaken for internal control text.

Gateway crashes stop restarting forever

A repeatedly failing Gateway now leaves a stable restart and recovery path available instead of relaunching forever, giving operators a reliable way to inspect and repair the underlying problem.

Scheduled work, remote browser control, and workspace terminals

Scheduled jobs can wake work when a command finishes or when something actually changes, helping automation stay quiet until it is needed. Browser control can pair selected signed-in Chrome tabs with a remote Gateway, wait for downloads, and save completed files safely.

Guarded workspace terminals are available in the Control UI, iOS, and Android, with access governed by the same Gateway controls. Browser terminals can dock, resize, and reconnect, while the mobile apps provide focused terminal entry points.

There are also improvements across Signal, WhatsApp, voice notes, Apple Watch replies, scanned PDFs, plugin-install safety, files, memory, security, and many smaller parts of OpenClaw.

Full Release Notes

Read the complete OpenClaw v2026.7.1 release notes.

u/hannesrudolph — 3 months ago