OpenClaw dropped v2026.6.1-beta.2 tonight — and it's one of the more feature-dense releases in recent memory. Alongside the usual wave of reliability fixes, this build ships a brand-new Skill Workshop, two officially externalized plugins, a new Workboard orchestration layer, iPad support, and MiniMax M3 model coverage. Here's what's actually in it.
Skill Workshop: Governed Skill Creation Is Here
The headliner is Skill Workshop — a new end-to-end system for creating, reviewing, and deploying skills with full governance baked in. Instead of dropping skill files into your workspace and hoping for the best, Skill Workshop introduces a proposal → review → approve/reject/quarantine flow.
Key pieces of the workflow:
- Proposals can be submitted with versioned frontmatter and revised in place before approval
- The
skill_workshopagent tool lets the agent itself apply, reject, or quarantine proposals through the guarded review flow - Approved proposals can carry support files (scripts, references, assets) with scanner, hash, and rollback safeguards
- A full Control UI tab ships with it: proposal lists, a today view, revision dialog, searchable file previews, and reusable session handoff
The docs team also landed a dedicated Skill Workshop guide covering the full lifecycle — from governed creation through CLI/Gateway review actions, approval policy, and recovery paths. Thanks to @shakkernerd and @vyctorbrzezowski for driving this.
Tokenjuice and Copilot Are Now First-Party Plugins
Two previously bundled components are now standalone packages:
@openclaw/tokenjuice— the token optimization layer, now published to npm and ClawHub@openclaw/copilot— the GitHub Copilot agent runtime, now an independent plugin with its own publish metadata
This is architecturally significant. Both plugins follow the new SecretRef provider integration manifest contract introduced this release (#82326), which gives plugin authors a cleaner path to handle credentials without storing them in the config directly. Expect more plugins to follow this pattern.
The plugin install ledger also moved to SQLite (#88794), which means installed package lookups survive reloads without hammering the filesystem.
Workboard: Multi-Agent Orchestration Primitives
The Workboard feature landed orchestration primitives for coordinating multiple agents across planning and execution runs (#87469). Task-backed board runs are now wired up, and task comments show up in the edit modal. If you're running OpenClaw as infrastructure for multi-agent workflows, this is the foundation the team is building on.
MiniMax M3 and Provider Updates
The provider roster grew this release. MiniMax M3 is now fully supported (#88860), and a round of catalog fixes landed for Google/Vertex and OpenRouter (SQLite model caching). Copilot's Claude 1M capability is now correctly preserved, Foundry reasoning metadata got aligned, and the team squashed a bug that caused OpenAI Responses replay IDs to appear when the store was disabled (#88480).
iOS Gets iPad Layouts and Reliable Push
Two iOS improvements worth noting:
- Native iPad display layouts — OpenClaw finally renders correctly on larger screens
- Hosted push relay defaults + realtime Talk playback, with a guarded WebSocket ping path for steadier mobile sessions
The iMessage monitor state also migrated to SQLite-backed tracking (#88797), which should make iMessage-connected agents more reliable across restarts.
Channel and Memory Stability
Channels across Telegram, WhatsApp, iMessage, Slack, Discord, Teams, and Google Chat got steadier request/retry timer handling. Inbound queues are now SQLite-backed. The memory subsystem saw a meaningful patch batch: serialized QMD writes per store, Linux watcher fan-out reduction, transient FileProvider retry logic, and transcript path rewrites on rollover (#89185, #85351). Thanks to @RomneyDa and @NianJiuZst for the hot-path work.
Other Highlights
- Doctor now checks disk space and stabilizes post-upgrade JSON probes
- CLI:
openclaw agents addno longer requires provider catalog availability (#88314) — a long-standing friction point - WSL clipboard bridging through the shell (#88764)
- Dreaming tab in the Control UI now has an agent selector (#78748)
- Code mode adds internal namespaces for scoped sessions and MCP API files
Full Changelog
The complete diff is on GitHub: v2026.6.1-beta.2 release notes.