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https://openclawchronicles.com/assets/images/posts/openclaw-2026-5-11-beta4-beta5-release.png OpenClaw beta.4 and beta.5: Agent Sandboxing and Fly.io Detection Land OpenClaw drops two rapid-fire beta releases today with per-agent message sandboxing, Fly.io auto-detection, expanded agent-to-agent turn limits, and Fal edit mode upgrades. https://openclawchronicles.com/posts/openclaw-2026-5-11-context-map-command/ 2026-05-14 monthly 0.7 https://openclawchronicles.com/assets/images/posts/openclaw-2026-5-11-context-map-command.png OpenClaw The new /context map command in OpenClaw renders a treemap image showing exactly which session contributors are consuming your AI model https://openclawchronicles.com/posts/openclaw-2026-5-11-beta3-release/ 2026-05-14 monthly 0.7 https://openclawchronicles.com/assets/images/posts/openclaw-2026-5-11-beta3-release.png OpenClaw v2026.5.10-beta.3: Slack Overhaul, Codex Native Mode, Plugin SDK Cleanup OpenClaw v2026.5.10-beta.3 ships with major Slack 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https://openclawchronicles.com/assets/images/posts/openclaw-2026-5-10-core-tool-search.png OpenClaw Adds Core Tool Search for Large Agent Catalogs PR #79823 lands core tool search in OpenClaw, letting agents dynamically find and call only the tools they need from huge catalogs — no more bloated context windows. https://openclawchronicles.com/posts/openclaw-2026-5-9-discord-voice-realtime/ 2026-05-14 monthly 0.7 https://openclawchronicles.com/assets/images/posts/openclaw-2026-5-9-discord-voice-realtime.png OpenClaw v2026.5.9 Beta: Discord Gets Real-Time Voice Modes OpenClaw v2026.5.9-beta.1 ships multi-mode Discord realtime voice, Amazon Bedrock service tiers, and a full Gemini 3.1 migration in one big beta drop. https://openclawchronicles.com/posts/openclaw-2026-5-9-codex-relay-fix/ 2026-05-14 monthly 0.7 https://openclawchronicles.com/assets/images/posts/openclaw-2026-5-9-codex-relay-fix.png OpenClaw Fixes Long Codex Sessions Losing Tool Access Two reliability fixes merged May 9 address Codex native hook relay expiry in long turns and false gateway health degradation warnings. https://openclawchronicles.com/posts/openclaw-2026-5-8-armorer-docker-isolation/ 2026-05-14 monthly 0.7 https://openclawchronicles.com/assets/images/posts/openclaw-2026-5-8-armorer-docker-isolation.png Armorer Wraps OpenClaw in Docker for Secure, Isolated Agent Runs Armorer is an open-source control plane that runs OpenClaw inside Docker containers, adding true process isolation and a unified management UI for AI agents. https://openclawchronicles.com/posts/openclaw-2026-5-8-approval-security-ux/ 2026-05-14 monthly 0.7 https://openclawchronicles.com/assets/images/posts/openclaw-2026-5-8-approval-security-ux.png OpenClaw Tightens Security UX: Approval Highlights, Media Auth, and Smarter SSRF Guards Three merged PRs improve how OpenClaw communicates and enforces security: exec approvals now highlight risky command spans, image media requires owner auth, and SSRF rejections no longer close user tabs. https://openclawchronicles.com/posts/openclaw-2026-5-8-oc-path-addressing-substrate/ 2026-05-14 monthly 0.7 https://openclawchronicles.com/assets/images/posts/openclaw-2026-5-8-oc-path-addressing-substrate.png OpenClaw Gets a Universal File Addressing Substrate: Meet oc-path A new oc:// URI scheme lands in OpenClaw, giving agents and plugins a single grammar to read and write JSON, JSONC, JSONL, YAML, and Markdown without data loss. https://openclawchronicles.com/posts/openclaw-2026-5-7-security-authz-release/ 2026-05-14 monthly 0.7 https://openclawchronicles.com/assets/images/posts/openclaw-2026-5-7-security-authz-release.png OpenClaw v2026.5.7: Authorization Hardening Across the Stack OpenClaw v2026.5.7 ships 25+ fixes tightening authorization from admin-gated memory toggles to Codex approval overhauls and Telegram sender allowlists. https://openclawchronicles.com/posts/openclaw-agents-negotiate-yc-safe-apoa/ 2026-05-14 monthly 0.7 https://openclawchronicles.com/assets/images/posts/openclaw-agents-negotiate-yc-safe-apoa.png Two OpenClaw Agents Closed a YC SAFE in 45 Seconds Using APOA Developer Juan Figuera built Agentic Power of Attorney as an OpenClaw skill — giving agents cryptographically-signed authority limits instead of prompt-based trust. https://openclawchronicles.com/posts/openclaw-formative-memory-plugin/ 2026-05-14 monthly 0.7 https://openclawchronicles.com/assets/images/posts/openclaw-formative-memory-plugin.png OpenClaw Plugin Gives Agents Memory That Strengthens with Use formative-memory is a new OpenClaw plugin built by Jari Mustonen that brings biologically-inspired memory to agents — recalling, forgetting, and consolidating overnight. https://openclawchronicles.com/posts/openclaw-2026-5-7-native-thinking-metadata/ 2026-05-14 monthly 0.7 https://openclawchronicles.com/assets/images/posts/openclaw-2026-5-7-native-thinking-metadata.png OpenClaw Native App Gets Metadata-Aware Thinking Controls PR #78841 lands on main: OpenClaw https://openclawchronicles.com/posts/openclaw-clawback-upgrade-rehearsal/ 2026-05-14 monthly 0.7 https://openclawchronicles.com/assets/images/posts/openclaw-clawback-upgrade-rehearsal.png Clawback: Rehearse OpenClaw Upgrades Before Going Live Born from a real rough-week downgrade nightmare, Clawback lets you test OpenClaw version changes in a container and keep a rollback plan ready — before touching your live install. https://openclawchronicles.com/posts/openclaw-google-remy-personal-ai-agent/ 2026-05-14 monthly 0.7 https://openclawchronicles.com/assets/images/posts/openclaw-google-remy-personal-ai-agent.png Google Is Building Its Answer to OpenClaw: Inside Project Remy Business Insider reveals Google https://openclawchronicles.com/posts/openclaw-2026-5-6-release-notes/ 2026-05-14 monthly 0.7 https://openclawchronicles.com/assets/images/posts/openclaw-2026-5-6-release-notes.png OpenClaw v2026.5.5 and v2026.5.6: The Recovery Releases OpenClaw ships two 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Bundled Packages OpenClaw v2026.5.3-1 hotfix resolves a plugin scanner false positive that blocked official bundled packages from installing correctly. https://openclawchronicles.com/posts/openclaw-2026-5-4-v2026-5-3-stable/ 2026-05-14 monthly 0.7 https://openclawchronicles.com/assets/images/posts/openclaw-2026-5-4-v2026-5-3-stable.png OpenClaw v2026.5.3: Streaming Progress Drafts, File Transfer, and 110+ Contributors OpenClaw v2026.5.3 stable lands with streaming progress mode, a file-transfer plugin, /steer command, and hardened gateway config. https://openclawchronicles.com/posts/openclaw-smolvm-microvm-agent-sandboxes/ 2026-05-14 monthly 0.7 https://openclawchronicles.com/assets/images/posts/openclaw-smolvm-microvm-agent-sandboxes.png SmolVM: Run OpenClaw Pi Agents in Parallel microVM Sandboxes SmolVM is an open-source microVM abstraction for coding agents that lets you run parallel Pi agents in isolated sandboxes — lighter than Docker. https://openclawchronicles.com/posts/openclaw-community-roundup-may-3-2026/ 2026-05-14 monthly 0.7 https://openclawchronicles.com/assets/images/posts/openclaw-community-roundup-may-3-2026.png OpenClaw Community Roundup: May 3, 2026 This week on HN: tank-os turns OpenClaw into a bootable Linux appliance, Clawback rehearses upgrades safely, and a new EC2 deployment guide arrives. https://openclawchronicles.com/posts/openclaw-2026-5-3-beta-file-transfer-plugin/ 2026-05-14 monthly 0.7 https://openclawchronicles.com/assets/images/posts/openclaw-2026-5-3-beta-file-transfer-plugin.png OpenClaw 2026.5.3 Beta: File Transfer Plugin and Shell Command Explainer OpenClaw v2026.5.3-beta.2 ships a bundled file-transfer plugin for binary file ops on paired nodes, a tree-sitter shell explainer, and gateway config hardening. https://openclawchronicles.com/posts/openclaw-2026-5-3-v2026-5-2-stable-release/ 2026-05-14 monthly 0.7 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Session I/O Refactor Lands Ten coordinated PRs merged today move all OpenClaw session reads, transcript access, and history lookups off the synchronous I/O path for better gateway performance. https://openclawchronicles.com/posts/openclaw-2026-5-2-thread-bound-session-overhaul/ 2026-05-14 monthly 0.7 https://openclawchronicles.com/assets/images/posts/openclaw-2026-5-2-thread-bound-session-overhaul.png OpenClaw Simplifies Thread-Bound Subagent Spawning OpenClaw unifies thread-bound subagent spawning under threadBindings.spawnSessions, with default context and parent-fork fallback across Discord, Telegram, Matrix, and LINE. https://openclawchronicles.com/posts/openclaw-2026-5-2-crestodian-plugin-management/ 2026-05-14 monthly 0.7 https://openclawchronicles.com/assets/images/posts/openclaw-2026-5-2-crestodian-plugin-management.png OpenClaw Gets Crestodian Plugin Management via CLI OpenClaw now supports plugin search, install, and uninstall via Crestodian and CLI, with approval gates blocking executable code over message channels. https://openclawchronicles.com/posts/openclaw-2026-5-1-betterclaw-workflow-enforcement/ 2026-05-14 monthly 0.7 https://openclawchronicles.com/assets/images/posts/openclaw-2026-5-1-betterclaw-workflow-enforcement.png BetterClaw Enforces OpenClaw Workflows at Runtime, Not Just in Prompts BetterClaw compiles plain-English paragraphs into directed workflow graphs that block OpenClaw agents from calling tools outside their declared scope. https://openclawchronicles.com/posts/openclaw-2026-5-1-security-in-public-retrospective/ 2026-05-14 monthly 0.7 https://openclawchronicles.com/assets/images/posts/openclaw-2026-5-1-security-in-public-retrospective.png How OpenClaw Got Safer in Public: A Security Retrospective OpenClaw https://openclawchronicles.com/posts/openclaw-2026-5-1-payment-credential-redaction/ 2026-05-14 monthly 0.7 https://openclawchronicles.com/assets/images/posts/openclaw-2026-5-1-payment-credential-redaction.png OpenClaw Now 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CodeQL Security Fixes OpenClaw merged two CodeQL-triggered security fixes today, sanitizing QQBot debug log output and documenting outbound text remediation across channel plugins. https://openclawchronicles.com/posts/openclaw-2026-4-29-video-roundup-quietly-quitting/ 2026-05-14 monthly 0.7 https://openclawchronicles.com/assets/images/posts/openclaw-2026-4-29-video-roundup-quietly-quitting.png OpenClaw on YouTube: The \ A new YouTube video asking why users are quietly quitting OpenClaw surfaces a real trust conversation. Here is what the community is actually saying this week. https://openclawchronicles.com/posts/openclaw-2026-4-29-skills-ggsql-visualization/ 2026-05-14 monthly 0.7 https://openclawchronicles.com/assets/images/posts/openclaw-2026-4-29-skills-ggsql-visualization.png OpenClaw ggsql Skill: SQL-Powered Data Charts Without Python or R The new ggsql skill for OpenClaw lets agents generate scatter plots, bar charts, histograms, and heatmaps using a SQL-like Grammar of Graphics syntax — no Python or R needed. https://openclawchronicles.com/posts/openclaw-2026-4-29-release-2026-4-27/ 2026-05-14 monthly 0.7 https://openclawchronicles.com/assets/images/posts/openclaw-2026-4-29-release-2026-4-27.png OpenClaw 2026.4.27: GPU Passthrough, Codex Computer Use, and Yuanbao OpenClaw 2026.4.27 ships opt-in Docker GPU passthrough for sandboxed agents, Codex Computer Use setup, a new Tencent Yuanbao channel, and a major Plugin SDK overhaul. https://openclawchronicles.com/posts/openclaw-2026-4-28-iclaw-apple-intelligence-agent/ 2026-05-14 monthly 0.7 https://openclawchronicles.com/assets/images/posts/openclaw-2026-4-28-iclaw-apple-intelligence-agent.png iClaw Brings OpenClaw-Inspired Agents to Apple Intelligence Developer Patrick Barrasso built iClaw, an on-device macOS agent using Apple Intelligence that explores whether OpenClaw concepts can work without the cloud. https://openclawchronicles.com/posts/openclaw-2026-4-28-agentport-permissions-gateway/ 2026-05-14 monthly 0.7 https://openclawchronicles.com/assets/images/posts/openclaw-2026-4-28-agentport-permissions-gateway.png AgentPort Adds 2FA to OpenClaw Agent Integrations AgentPort is a new open-source gateway that lets OpenClaw agents auto-approve safe operations while requiring human sign-off before any destructive action. https://openclawchronicles.com/posts/openclaw-2026-4-28-ny-mag-intelligencer/ 2026-05-14 monthly 0.7 https://openclawchronicles.com/assets/images/posts/openclaw-2026-4-28-ny-mag-intelligencer.png New York Magazine Covers OpenClaw — and Has Questions New York Magazine https://openclawchronicles.com/posts/openclaw-2026-4-28-release-2026-4-26/ 2026-05-14 monthly 0.7 https://openclawchronicles.com/assets/images/posts/openclaw-2026-4-28-release-2026-4-26.png OpenClaw 2026.4.26: Cerebras Support, Claude Import, and Realtime Voice OpenClaw 2026.4.26 lands with Cerebras as a bundled provider, a first-class migration tool for Claude users, and browser realtime voice. https://openclawchronicles.com/posts/openclaw-2026-4-27-agents-as-artists-isitartstudio/ 2026-05-14 monthly 0.7 https://openclawchronicles.com/assets/images/posts/openclaw-2026-4-27-agents-as-artists-isitartstudio.png OpenClaw Agents Can Now Join an AI Art Collective at IsItArtStudio IsItArtStudio invites OpenClaw agents to author prompts, submit artwork, and critique each other in a fully public, agent-driven art experiment. https://openclawchronicles.com/posts/openclaw-2026-4-27-web-client-browser-ui/ 2026-05-14 monthly 0.7 https://openclawchronicles.com/assets/images/posts/openclaw-2026-4-27-web-client-browser-ui.png OpenClaw Web Client: A Full Browser UI for Managing Your Agents A new open-source web client for OpenClaw gives you a polished chat interface with multi-agent support, file uploads, streaming, and PWA install. https://openclawchronicles.com/posts/openclaw-2026-4-27-v2026-4-25-stable-release/ 2026-05-14 monthly 0.7 https://openclawchronicles.com/assets/images/posts/openclaw-2026-4-27-v2026-4-25-stable-release.png OpenClaw v2026.4.25: TTS Overhaul, PWA Gateway, and OpenTelemetry OpenClaw v2026.4.25 is out with a complete TTS upgrade, six new voice providers, PWA Web Push for Gateway chat, and expanded OpenTelemetry coverage. https://openclawchronicles.com/posts/openclaw-2026-4-27-mcp-null-params-fix/ 2026-05-14 monthly 0.7 https://openclawchronicles.com/assets/images/posts/openclaw-2026-4-27-mcp-null-params-fix.png OpenClaw Fixes Null Parameter Bug for Parameterless MCP Tools PR #72673 fixes a bug where MCP tools with no required parameters received null instead of an empty object, causing silent failures in tool call loops. https://openclawchronicles.com/posts/openclaw-2026-4-27-google-meet-realtime-agentid/ 2026-05-14 monthly 0.7 https://openclawchronicles.com/assets/images/posts/openclaw-2026-4-27-google-meet-realtime-agentid.png OpenClaw Google Meet Realtime Consult Now Routes to Specific Agents OpenClaw now supports per-agent routing in Google Meet realtime consult sessions, letting you direct live meeting queries to a specific configured agent. https://openclawchronicles.com/posts/openclaw-2026-4-27-hermes-migration/ 2026-05-14 monthly 0.7 https://openclawchronicles.com/assets/images/posts/openclaw-2026-4-27-hermes-migration.png OpenClaw Adds Hermes Migration: Import Your Config in One Step OpenClaw https://openclawchronicles.com/posts/openclaw-2026-4-26-mac-computer-use-mcp/ 2026-05-14 monthly 0.7 https://openclawchronicles.com/assets/images/posts/openclaw-2026-4-26-mac-computer-use-mcp.png mac-computer-use Brings OpenClaw Desktop Control to macOS via MCP A new open-source MCP server replicates Codex Computer Use tool interfaces on macOS, letting OpenClaw and any MCP client control apps, type text, and take screenshots. https://openclawchronicles.com/posts/openclaw-2026-4-26-wuphf-agent-wiki-hacker-news/ 2026-05-14 monthly 0.7 https://openclawchronicles.com/assets/images/posts/openclaw-2026-4-26-wuphf-agent-wiki-hacker-news.png WUPHF: The Karpathy-Style Agent Wiki That Hit 251 Points on Hacker News WUPHF is a self-hosted, OpenClaw-compatible wiki layer for AI agents using Markdown and Git as the source of truth, with BM25 search and entity fact logs. https://openclawchronicles.com/posts/openclaw-2026-4-26-tts-overhaul-pwa-otel/ 2026-05-14 monthly 0.7 https://openclawchronicles.com/assets/images/posts/openclaw-2026-4-26-tts-overhaul-pwa-otel.png OpenClaw v2026.4.25: Full TTS Overhaul, PWA Push Notifications, and OTEL Everywhere OpenClaw v2026.4.25 lands with a sweeping TTS upgrade, Web Push for the Gateway control UI, expanded OpenTelemetry coverage, and browser automation hardening. https://openclawchronicles.com/posts/openclaw-2026-4-26-telegram-verbose-fix/ 2026-05-14 monthly 0.7 https://openclawchronicles.com/assets/images/posts/openclaw-2026-4-26-telegram-verbose-fix.png OpenClaw Fixes Telegram A stealth regression silenced all verbose progress in Telegram. PR #71825 restores tool, plan, and approval messages when no preview stream is active. https://openclawchronicles.com/posts/openclaw-2026-4-26-codex-thinking-minimal-fix/ 2026-05-14 monthly 0.7 https://openclawchronicles.com/assets/images/posts/openclaw-2026-4-26-codex-thinking-minimal-fix.png OpenClaw Patches Hidden Latency Bug in Modern Codex Models Every agent turn with gpt-5.5 or gpt-5.4 was burning a silent extra API call. PR #71980 fixes the thinking-level enum mismatch for good. https://openclawchronicles.com/posts/openclaw-2026-4-25-clawcenter-mission-control/ 2026-05-14 monthly 0.7 https://openclawchronicles.com/assets/images/posts/openclaw-2026-4-25-clawcenter-mission-control.png Clawcenter: Open-Source Mission Control for OpenClaw Agents Clawcenter is a new open-source local UI that gives OpenClaw operators one place to manage agent org charts, skills, schedules, and production activity logs. https://openclawchronicles.com/posts/openclaw-2026-4-25-google-meet-deepseek-v4/ 2026-05-14 monthly 0.7 https://openclawchronicles.com/assets/images/posts/openclaw-2026-4-25-google-meet-deepseek-v4.png OpenClaw 2026.4.24: Google Meet Plugin, DeepSeek V4, and Live Voice OpenClaw 2026.4.24 ships a full Google Meet plugin, DeepSeek V4 Flash as the new onboarding default, and realtime voice loops across calls and meetings. https://openclawchronicles.com/posts/openclaw-2026-4-25-memory-session-search/ 2026-05-14 monthly 0.7 https://openclawchronicles.com/assets/images/posts/openclaw-2026-4-25-memory-session-search.png OpenClaw Memory Can Now Search Session Transcripts OpenClaw memory-core gains session transcript search via corpus=sessions, giving agents access to past conversation history alongside long-term memory files. https://openclawchronicles.com/posts/openclaw-2026-4-25-whatsapp-voice-note-transcription/ 2026-05-14 monthly 0.7 https://openclawchronicles.com/assets/images/posts/openclaw-2026-4-25-whatsapp-voice-note-transcription.png OpenClaw Now Transcribes WhatsApp Voice Notes Automatically OpenClaw now auto-transcribes WhatsApp DM voice notes before routing them to your AI agent, turning spoken messages into agent-readable text automatically. https://openclawchronicles.com/posts/openclaw-2026-4-24-community-privateclaw-lilo/ 2026-05-14 monthly 0.7 https://openclawchronicles.com/assets/images/posts/openclaw-2026-4-24-community-privateclaw-lilo.png OpenClaw Community: PrivateClaw TEEs and the Lilo Personal OS Two notable Show HN launches this week: PrivateClaw runs OpenClaw agents in AMD SEV-SNP confidential VMs, while Lilo builds a full personal OS on top. https://openclawchronicles.com/posts/openclaw-2026-4-24-youtube-roundup/ 2026-05-14 monthly 0.7 https://openclawchronicles.com/assets/images/posts/openclaw-2026-4-24-youtube-roundup.png OpenClaw on YouTube This Week: Rebuilds, Updates, and Voice Agents This week https://openclawchronicles.com/posts/openclaw-2026-4-24-release-image-generation/ 2026-05-14 monthly 0.7 https://openclawchronicles.com/assets/images/posts/openclaw-2026-4-24-release-image-generation.png OpenClaw v2026.4.23: Image Generation Gets a Major Upgrade OpenClaw v2026.4.23 delivers Codex OAuth image gen, OpenRouter image support, forked subagent context, and configurable local embedding memory. https://openclawchronicles.com/posts/openclaw-2026-4-24-codex-harness-parity/ 2026-05-14 monthly 0.7 https://openclawchronicles.com/assets/images/posts/openclaw-2026-4-24-codex-harness-parity.png OpenClaw Codex Harness Gets Full Hook and Logging Parity with Pi Three PRs merged today bring OpenClaw https://openclawchronicles.com/posts/openclaw-2026-4-23-agent-trust-turkey-permission-slip/ 2026-05-14 monthly 0.7 https://openclawchronicles.com/assets/images/posts/openclaw-2026-4-23-agent-trust-turkey-permission-slip.png The OpenClaw Turkey Problem — and Permission Slip A viral essay argues that trusting OpenClaw more as you get comfortable is a dangerous fallacy. A new open-source tool is building the safety layer the ecosystem needs. https://openclawchronicles.com/posts/openclaw-2026-4-23-v2026422-xai-tui-tencent/ 2026-05-14 monthly 0.7 https://openclawchronicles.com/assets/images/posts/openclaw-2026-4-23-v2026422-xai-tui-tencent.png OpenClaw v2026.4.22: xAI Providers, TUI Mode, and Tencent Cloud OpenClaw v2026.4.22 lands xAI image generation, TTS and STT, a standalone TUI embedded mode, Tencent Cloud, and Tokenjuice in one enormous drop. https://openclawchronicles.com/posts/openclaw-memory-search-190x-speedup/ 2026-05-14 monthly 0.7 https://openclawchronicles.com/assets/images/posts/openclaw-memory-search-190x-speedup.png OpenClaw Memory Search Gets a 190x Speed Boost with sqlite-vec KNN A merged PR replaces OpenClaw https://openclawchronicles.com/posts/openclaw-2026-4-22-hn-adoption-debate/ 2026-05-14 monthly 0.7 https://openclawchronicles.com/assets/images/posts/openclaw-2026-4-22-hn-adoption-debate.png OpenClaw Adoption Gap: The Debate Dividing HN This Week A Hacker News thread dissects the gap between OpenClaw https://openclawchronicles.com/posts/openclaw-2026-4-22-security-scale-aie-talk/ 2026-05-14 monthly 0.7 https://openclawchronicles.com/assets/images/posts/openclaw-2026-4-22-security-scale-aie-talk.png OpenClaw at Scale: 60x More Security Reports Than curl At AIE 2026, Peter Steinberger delivered a sober engineering assessment: OpenClaw faces 60x more security incidents than curl, with an estimated 20% of skill submissions flagged as malicious. https://openclawchronicles.com/posts/openclaw-2026-4-22-peter-steinberger-ted-talk/ 2026-05-14 monthly 0.7 https://openclawchronicles.com/assets/images/posts/openclaw-2026-4-22-peter-steinberger-ted-talk.png Peter Steinberger Takes OpenClaw to the TED Stage OpenClaw creator Peter Steinberger gave his first TED talk this week, telling the origin story of the fastest-growing open-source AI agent project in history. https://openclawchronicles.com/posts/openclaw-2026-4-22-v2026-4-21/ 2026-05-14 monthly 0.7 https://openclawchronicles.com/assets/images/posts/openclaw-2026-4-22-v2026-4-21.png OpenClaw v2026.4.21: GPT-Image-2 Defaults and Owner Command Security Fix OpenClaw v2026.4.21 ships gpt-image-2 as the new default image provider, adds 2K/4K size hints, and patches a permission bypass in owner-only commands. https://openclawchronicles.com/posts/openclaw-2026-4-21-community-roundup/ 2026-05-14 monthly 0.7 https://openclawchronicles.com/assets/images/posts/openclaw-2026-4-21-community-roundup.png OpenClaw Community Roundup: Brex CrabTrap, Palmier Phone Bridge, and More Brex open-sourced CrabTrap for company-wide OpenClaw workflows, Palmier connects agents to your phone, and FlirtingBots shipped as a ClawHub skill — a busy Tuesday in the ecosystem. https://openclawchronicles.com/posts/openclaw-2026-4-21-anthropic-claude-cli-allowed/ 2026-05-14 monthly 0.7 https://openclawchronicles.com/assets/images/posts/openclaw-2026-4-21-anthropic-claude-cli-allowed.png Anthropic Confirms OpenClaw-Style Claude CLI Usage Is Allowed A Hacker News post linking to OpenClaw https://openclawchronicles.com/posts/openclaw-2026-4-21-release-2026420/ 2026-05-14 monthly 0.7 https://openclawchronicles.com/assets/images/posts/openclaw-2026-4-21-release-2026420.png OpenClaw 2026.4.20: Kimi K2.6 Default, OOM Guards, Mattermost Streaming OpenClaw 2026.4.20 ships with Moonshot Kimi K2.6 as the new default, session backlog OOM protection, live Mattermost draft streaming, and BlueBubbles group system prompts. https://openclawchronicles.com/posts/openclaw-2026-4-21-setup-wizard-ux/ 2026-05-14 monthly 0.7 https://openclawchronicles.com/assets/images/posts/openclaw-2026-4-21-setup-wizard-ux.png OpenClaw Setup Wizard Gets Clearer Security Warnings and Searchable Selects PR #69553 polishes the OpenClaw onboarding experience with a structured security disclaimer, yellow warning banner, loading spinners on model catalog fetches, and searchable model selection. https://openclawchronicles.com/posts/openclaw-2026-4-21-security-triple-patch/ 2026-05-14 monthly 0.7 https://openclawchronicles.com/assets/images/posts/openclaw-2026-4-21-security-triple-patch.png OpenClaw Closes Three Security Gaps: Cron, MCP Stdio, and Media Upload OpenClaw merged three security PRs on April 21st, patching a cron message-tool bypass, an MCP stdio env injection flaw, and an SSRF gap in media upload paths. https://openclawchronicles.com/posts/openclaw-2026-4-20-monday-community-roundup/ 2026-05-14 monthly 0.7 https://openclawchronicles.com/assets/images/posts/openclaw-2026-4-20-monday-community-roundup.png OpenClaw Community Roundup: Monday, April 20, 2026 From a CNBC feature on AI agent inefficiency to OpenClaw-inspired open-source tools, Monday brought a fresh wave of ecosystem signal worth tracking. https://openclawchronicles.com/posts/openclaw-2026-4-20-hacker-news-security-debate/ 2026-05-14 monthly 0.7 https://openclawchronicles.com/assets/images/posts/openclaw-2026-4-20-hacker-news-security-debate.png OpenClaw Security Model Draws 262-Point Hacker News Debate A flyingpenguin.com post comparing OpenClaw https://openclawchronicles.com/posts/openclaw-2026-4-20-gateway-pairing-polish/ 2026-05-14 monthly 0.7 https://openclawchronicles.com/assets/images/posts/openclaw-2026-4-20-gateway-pairing-polish.png OpenClaw Gateway Status and Pairing UX Get a Major Cleanup Six PRs merged to OpenClaw main on April 20 sharpen gateway capability reporting, device pairing guidance, and channel send reliability. https://openclawchronicles.com/posts/openclaw-2026-4-20-copilot-claude-opus-default/ 2026-05-14 monthly 0.7 https://openclawchronicles.com/assets/images/posts/openclaw-2026-4-20-copilot-claude-opus-default.png OpenClaw Defaults GitHub Copilot Onboarding to Claude Opus 4.6 OpenClaw now bootstraps GitHub Copilot users to Claude Opus 4.6 by default, replacing GPT-4o as the out-of-the-box model for new setups. https://openclawchronicles.com/posts/openclaw-openclawdex-macos-coding-agent-ui/ 2026-05-14 monthly 0.7 https://openclawchronicles.com/assets/images/posts/openclaw-openclawdex-macos-coding-agent-ui.png OpenClawdex: A Native macOS UI for Claude Code and Codex on OpenClaw OpenClawdex is a free, MIT-licensed macOS app that lets you run Claude Code and OpenAI Codex agents side by side, using your existing CLI auth — no API keys needed. https://openclawchronicles.com/posts/openclaw-2026-4-19-sunday-hn-roundup/ 2026-05-14 monthly 0.7 https://openclawchronicles.com/assets/images/posts/openclaw-2026-4-19-sunday-hn-roundup.png OpenClaw Creator Speaks, HN Responds: A Big Sunday for the Community Peter Steinberger shares a TedTalk on creating OpenClaw, 386 HN users answer who uses it, and OpenClawdex debuts as a native macOS coding agent UI. https://openclawchronicles.com/posts/openclaw-2026-4-19-usage-reporting-local-backends/ 2026-05-14 monthly 0.7 https://openclawchronicles.com/assets/images/posts/openclaw-2026-4-19-usage-reporting-local-backends.png OpenClaw Fixes Token Usage Reporting for Local AI Backends A new OpenClaw beta ensures stream_options.include_usage is always sent, so Ollama, LM Studio, and custom OpenAI-compatible backends finally report real context usage. https://openclawchronicles.com/posts/openclaw-2026-4-19-nested-agent-fix/ 2026-05-14 monthly 0.7 https://openclawchronicles.com/assets/images/posts/openclaw-2026-4-19-nested-agent-fix.png OpenClaw Beta Fixes Nested Agent Session Blocking Two new OpenClaw beta releases land on April 19th, squashing a session head-of-line block in nested agent lanes and restoring token usage visibility. https://openclawchronicles.com/posts/openclaw-2026-4-18-nilbox-zero-token-sandbox/ 2026-05-14 monthly 0.7 https://openclawchronicles.com/assets/images/posts/openclaw-2026-4-18-nilbox-zero-token-sandbox.png Nilbox Brings Zero-Token Security to OpenClaw With a VM Sandbox Nilbox wraps OpenClaw in an isolated VM where real API tokens never enter the sandbox, eliminating key theft, data leakage, and runaway API bills. https://openclawchronicles.com/posts/openclaw-2026-4-18-telegram-abort-ghost-reply/ 2026-05-14 monthly 0.7 https://openclawchronicles.com/assets/images/posts/openclaw-2026-4-18-telegram-abort-ghost-reply.png OpenClaw Patches Telegram Ghost Reply Bug After Session Aborts A race condition in OpenClaw https://openclawchronicles.com/posts/openclaw-2026-4-18-control-ui-mic-fix/ 2026-05-14 monthly 0.7 https://openclawchronicles.com/assets/images/posts/openclaw-2026-4-18-control-ui-mic-fix.png OpenClaw Fixes Silent Mic Failure in the Control UI Chat A Permissions-Policy header was quietly blocking the Control UI mic button for all users. PR #68368 unlocks same-origin microphone access so voice input finally works. https://openclawchronicles.com/posts/openclaw-2026-4-17-engineering-managers-hate-openclaw/ 2026-05-14 monthly 0.7 https://openclawchronicles.com/assets/images/posts/openclaw-2026-4-17-engineering-managers-hate-openclaw.png Why Engineering Managers Are Going to Hate OpenClaw A viral newsletter argues OpenClaw https://openclawchronicles.com/posts/openclaw-2026-4-17-macos-screen-snapshot/ 2026-05-14 monthly 0.7 https://openclawchronicles.com/assets/images/posts/openclaw-2026-4-17-macos-screen-snapshot.png OpenClaw macOS Node Gains Screen Snapshot Capability OpenClaw https://openclawchronicles.com/posts/openclaw-2026-4-17-oauth-multi-agent-refresh-fix/ 2026-05-14 monthly 0.7 https://openclawchronicles.com/assets/images/posts/openclaw-2026-4-17-oauth-multi-agent-refresh-fix.png OpenClaw Fixes OAuth Token Refresh Race in Multi-Agent Setups A new cross-agent file lock in OpenClaw serializes OAuth token refreshes, eliminating the refresh_token_reused storms that plagued large Codex deployments. https://openclawchronicles.com/posts/openclaw-2026-4-16-ecosystem-roundup/ 2026-05-14 monthly 0.7 https://openclawchronicles.com/assets/images/posts/openclaw-2026-4-16-ecosystem-roundup.png OpenClaw Ecosystem Roundup: OpenTalon, Agent Hubs, and April Momentum OpenTalon debuts as a rival on Hacker News, agent-hub unifies multi-machine agent access, and the OpenClaw community keeps building in April 2026. https://openclawchronicles.com/posts/openclaw-2026-4-16-gemini-tts-security-fix/ 2026-05-14 monthly 0.7 https://openclawchronicles.com/assets/images/posts/openclaw-2026-4-16-gemini-tts-security-fix.png OpenClaw v2026.4.16 Brings Gemini TTS and Security Hardening OpenClaw v2026.4.16-beta.1 ships Google Gemini text-to-speech, Claude Opus 4.7 defaults, and a fix blocking tool name injection via client definitions. https://openclawchronicles.com/posts/openclaw-2026-4-16-cli-transcripts-ollama-fix/ 2026-05-14 monthly 0.7 https://openclawchronicles.com/assets/images/posts/openclaw-2026-4-16-cli-transcripts-ollama-fix.png OpenClaw CLI Transcript Persistence and Ollama Provider Fix Ship Today Two PRs merged overnight bring CLI agent session history to OpenClaw and fix a frustrating Ollama 404 error caused by an un-stripped provider prefix. https://openclawchronicles.com/posts/openclaw-2026-4-16-msteams-security-hardening/ 2026-05-14 monthly 0.7 https://openclawchronicles.com/assets/images/posts/openclaw-2026-4-16-msteams-security-hardening.png OpenClaw Patches Four Microsoft Teams Security Vulnerabilities A newly merged PR hardens the MS Teams extension against OData injection, SSRF, shell injection, and arbitrary role escalation — all in one sweep. https://openclawchronicles.com/posts/openclaw-2026-4-15-community-roundup/ 2026-05-14 monthly 0.7 https://openclawchronicles.com/assets/images/posts/openclaw-2026-4-15-community-roundup.png OpenClaw Community Roundup: Anthropic Drama, HN Front Page, ArmorClaw Anthropic briefly banned OpenClaw https://openclawchronicles.com/posts/openclaw-2026-4-15-beta-features/ 2026-05-14 monthly 0.7 https://openclawchronicles.com/assets/images/posts/openclaw-2026-4-15-beta-features.png OpenClaw v2026.4.15 Beta: Cloud Memory, Copilot Search, Lean Local Models OpenClaw https://openclawchronicles.com/posts/openclaw-2026-4-15-security-hardening/ 2026-05-14 monthly 0.7 https://openclawchronicles.com/assets/images/posts/openclaw-2026-4-15-security-hardening.png OpenClaw v2026.4.15 Beta: Six Security Fixes You Should Know The latest OpenClaw beta patches secret leaks in exec prompts, path traversal in memory tools, and a timing gap in MCP loopback auth. Here is what changed. https://openclawchronicles.com/posts/openclaw-2026-4-15-install-security-hardening/ 2026-05-14 monthly 0.7 https://openclawchronicles.com/assets/images/posts/openclaw-2026-4-15-install-security-hardening.png OpenClaw Hardens Install Path: Dist Integrity Checks and pnpm Runner Fix Two PRs merged April 15 tighten OpenClaw https://openclawchronicles.com/posts/openclaw-2026-4-15-plugin-fault-isolation/ 2026-05-14 monthly 0.7 https://openclawchronicles.com/assets/images/posts/openclaw-2026-4-15-plugin-fault-isolation.png OpenClaw Fixes Plugin Fault Isolation: Bad Engines Won A merged fix ensures a failing third-party context engine no longer takes down every OpenClaw channel simultaneously, landing in the next release. https://openclawchronicles.com/posts/openclaw-2026-4-14-release/ 2026-05-14 monthly 0.7 https://openclawchronicles.com/assets/images/posts/openclaw-2026-4-14-release.png OpenClaw 2026.4.14: GPT-5.4 Pro, ReDoS Fix, and Security Hardening OpenClaw 2026.4.14 ships GPT-5.4 Pro compatibility, a Control UI ReDoS fix, stronger security hardening, and a flood of Ollama and memory fixes. https://openclawchronicles.com/posts/openclaw-clawtrace-debug-token-spikes/ 2026-05-14 monthly 0.7 https://openclawchronicles.com/assets/images/posts/openclaw-clawtrace-debug-token-spikes.png ClawTrace: Visualize and Debug Your OpenClaw Agent Runs ClawTrace is an open-source OpenClaw plugin that records every agent run as a trace tree, helping you catch token spikes, tool loops, and runaway costs. https://openclawchronicles.com/posts/openclaw-community-roundup-april-14-2026/ 2026-05-14 monthly 0.7 https://openclawchronicles.com/assets/images/posts/openclaw-community-roundup-april-14-2026.png OpenClaw Community Roundup: Deployment Playbooks, HN Discussions, and RedCrab This week the OpenClaw community debated real-world use cases on HN, shared a free deployment playbook site, and released a Claude Code hybrid project. https://openclawchronicles.com/posts/openclaw-2026-4-14-security-ssrf-redos-browser-teams/ 2026-05-14 monthly 0.7 https://openclawchronicles.com/assets/images/posts/openclaw-2026-4-14-security-ssrf-redos-browser-teams.png OpenClaw Security Patches: SSRF, ReDoS, and Allowlist Hardening A fresh OpenClaw pre-release drops five targeted security fixes: a ReDoS patch in the Control UI, SSRF enforcement on browser routes, heartbeat trust downgrade, Teams allowlist hardening, and config field redaction. https://openclawchronicles.com/posts/openclaw-2026-4-14-mercury-agent-orchestration/ 2026-05-14 monthly 0.7 https://openclawchronicles.com/assets/images/posts/openclaw-2026-4-14-mercury-agent-orchestration.png Mercury Adds OpenClaw Adapter in a16z-Backed Agent Platform Mercury, a no-code agent orchestration canvas backed by a16z, lists OpenClaw as a first-class adapter alongside Claude Code, Devin, and Manus. https://openclawchronicles.com/posts/openclaw-2026-4-14-shell-exec-security-hardening/ 2026-05-14 monthly 0.7 https://openclawchronicles.com/assets/images/posts/openclaw-2026-4-14-shell-exec-security-hardening.png OpenClaw Security: Shell Injection, Busybox, and Approver Fixes Three security patches in OpenClaw 2026.4.12 close shell-wrapper injection, a busybox exec bypass, and an empty-approver authorization hole. https://openclawchronicles.com/posts/openclaw-2026-4-13-release-active-memory-lm-studio/ 2026-05-14 monthly 0.7 https://openclawchronicles.com/assets/images/posts/openclaw-2026-4-13-release-active-memory-lm-studio.png OpenClaw 2026.4.12: Active Memory, LM Studio, and MLX Talk OpenClaw 2026.4.12 ships a dedicated Active Memory sub-agent, native LM Studio support, MLX local speech for macOS, and three security patches. https://openclawchronicles.com/posts/openclaw-2026-4-13-v2026-4-12-beta-1/ 2026-05-14 monthly 0.7 https://openclawchronicles.com/assets/images/posts/openclaw-2026-4-13-v2026-4-12-beta-1.png OpenClaw v2026.4.12 Beta 1: Plugin Scope and Security Fixes OpenClaw v2026.4.12-beta.1 narrows plugin activation, sharpens active-memory QMD recall, and now blocks deployments that use default gateway credentials. https://openclawchronicles.com/posts/openclaw-2026-4-12-heartbeats-audio-provider-checks/ 2026-05-14 monthly 0.7 https://openclawchronicles.com/assets/images/posts/openclaw-2026-4-12-heartbeats-audio-provider-checks.jpg OpenClaw Tightens Heartbeats and Audio Provider Checks OpenClaw merged quieter heartbeat guidance, better audio provider detection, and fresh WhatsApp reaction fixes on April 12, 2026. https://openclawchronicles.com/posts/openclaw-2026-4-12-zero-token-agent-alerts/ 2026-05-14 monthly 0.7 https://openclawchronicles.com/assets/images/posts/openclaw-2026-4-12-zero-token-agent-alerts.jpg OpenClaw Community Spots Zero-Token Agent Alerts A new Show HN project highlights zero-token alert patterns for OpenClaw, using scheduled scripts that only wake agents when something changed. https://openclawchronicles.com/posts/openclaw-2026-4-12-release-v2026-4-11/ 2026-05-14 monthly 0.7 https://openclawchronicles.com/assets/images/posts/openclaw-2026-4-12-release-v2026-4-11.jpg OpenClaw v2026.4.11 Lands Plugin Setup and Better Web Chat OpenClaw v2026.4.11 turns yesterday https://openclawchronicles.com/posts/openclaw-2026-4-11-beta-memory-palace-embeds/ 2026-05-14 monthly 0.7 https://openclawchronicles.com/assets/images/posts/openclaw-2026-4-11-beta-memory-palace-embeds.png OpenClaw v2026.4.11-beta.1 Adds Memory Palace and Embeds OpenClaw v2026.4.11-beta.1 adds Memory Palace views for imported chats, structured web embeds, plugin setup descriptors, and key Codex OAuth fixes. https://openclawchronicles.com/posts/openclaw-2026-4-11-security-hardening/ 2026-05-14 monthly 0.7 https://openclawchronicles.com/assets/images/posts/openclaw-2026-4-11-security-hardening.png OpenClaw v2026.4.10 Security Hardening: What Changed and Why It Matters OpenClaw v2026.4.10 ships the most comprehensive security hardening wave yet, covering browser SSRF, exec preflight, dotenv injection, node exec events, and more. https://openclawchronicles.com/posts/openclaw-2026-4-11-active-memory-guide/ 2026-05-14 monthly 0.7 https://openclawchronicles.com/assets/images/posts/openclaw-2026-4-11-active-memory-guide.webp OpenClaw Active Memory: Make Your Agent Remember Automatically Active Memory is OpenClaw https://openclawchronicles.com/posts/openclaw-2026-4-11-release-v20264-10/ 2026-05-14 monthly 0.7 https://openclawchronicles.com/assets/images/posts/openclaw-2026-4-11-release-v20264-10.png OpenClaw v2026.4.10: Active Memory, Codex Provider, and More OpenClaw v2026.4.10 lands with a built-in Active Memory plugin, a bundled Codex provider, local MLX speech, and sweeping security hardening across browser, exec, and tools. https://openclawchronicles.com/posts/openclaw-browser-security-hardening-april-2026/ 2026-05-14 monthly 0.7 https://openclawchronicles.com/assets/images/posts/openclaw-browser-security-hardening-april-2026.png OpenClaw Eleven security-focused PRs merged on April 10th lock down SSRF escapes, tighten browser navigation guards, pin axios against CVE-2025-27152, and add a plugin dependency denylist. https://openclawchronicles.com/posts/openclaw-community-roundup-april-2026/ 2026-05-14 monthly 0.7 https://openclawchronicles.com/assets/images/posts/openclaw-community-roundup-april-2026.png OpenClaw Community Roundup: April 2026 Tutorials, Model Debates, and Update Pain New beginner tutorial videos from Darrel Wilson and others hit YouTube, while Reddit lights up over update friction and a heated GPT-5.4 vs Opus 4.6 performance debate. https://openclawchronicles.com/posts/openclaw-strict-agentic-contract-codex-extension/ 2026-05-14 monthly 0.7 https://openclawchronicles.com/assets/images/posts/openclaw-strict-agentic-contract-codex-extension.png OpenClaw Agents Get a Strict Execution Contract and Codex Extension Two major PRs merged April 10th: a strict-agentic execution contract that formalizes update_plan semantics, and a full refactor of the agent harness into a first-class Codex extension. https://openclawchronicles.com/posts/openclaw-skill-md-symlink-bug-fix/ 2026-05-14 monthly 0.7 https://openclawchronicles.com/assets/images/posts/openclaw-skill-md-symlink-bug-fix.png OpenClaw Fix: Plugin Skills Silently Skipped Due to Symlink Bug A merged PR fixes a critical bug where SKILL.md symlinks caused OpenClaw to silently skip all 23 plugin skills at load time due to a security path check failure. https://openclawchronicles.com/posts/openclaw-2026-4-9-release/ 2026-05-14 monthly 0.7 https://openclawchronicles.com/assets/images/posts/openclaw-2026-4-9-release.png OpenClaw v2026.4.9 Released: Memory Dreaming, REM Backfill, and a Major Security Batch OpenClaw v2026.4.9 is out with grounded REM backfill for memory dreaming, provider auth aliases, QA vibes reports, and 10+ security fixes. https://openclawchronicles.com/posts/openclaw-2026-4-9-security-patches/ 2026-05-14 monthly 0.7 https://openclawchronicles.com/assets/images/posts/openclaw-2026-4-9-security-patches.png OpenClaw v2026.4.9: Critical Security Patches — Upgrade Now OpenClaw v2026.4.9 ships a major security batch covering SSRF bypasses, dotenv injection, exec sanitization, and more. Upgrade immediately. https://openclawchronicles.com/posts/openclaw-memory-dreaming-rem-backfill/ 2026-05-14 monthly 0.7 https://openclawchronicles.com/assets/images/posts/openclaw-memory-dreaming-rem-backfill.png OpenClaw REM Backfill: Replay Your Entire Note History Into Durable Memory The new grounded REM backfill lane in OpenClaw lets you replay historical daily notes into Dreams, extracting durable facts from everything you have ever written. https://openclawchronicles.com/posts/openclaw-2026-4-9-release-memory-dreaming-security/ 2026-05-14 monthly 0.7 https://openclawchronicles.com/assets/images/posts/openclaw-2026-4-9-release-memory-dreaming-security.png OpenClaw v2026.4.9: Memory Dreaming, REM Backfill, and Security Hardening OpenClaw v2026.4.9 lands with a grounded REM backfill lane for persistent memory, a new diary UI, and multiple security patches including SSRF and dotenv fixes. https://openclawchronicles.com/posts/openclaw-2026-4-8-post-release-fixes/ 2026-05-14 monthly 0.7 https://openclawchronicles.com/assets/images/posts/openclaw-2026-4-8-post-release-fixes.png OpenClaw Post-Release: Matrix DM Fix, Browser Hardening, and Memory Grounding A wave of post-release PRs lands on OpenClaw main — fixing Matrix DM policy migration, browser navigation guards, and memory grounded backfill promotion. https://openclawchronicles.com/posts/openclaw-2026-4-8-v2026-4-7-release/ 2026-05-14 monthly 0.7 https://openclawchronicles.com/assets/images/posts/openclaw-2026-4-8-v2026-4-7-release.png OpenClaw v2026.4.7: Music Generation, Memory Wiki, and a New infer Hub OpenClaw v2026.4.7 lands music generation, a restored memory-wiki stack, the openclaw infer CLI hub, Gemma 4, multilingual UI, and dozens of fixes. https://openclawchronicles.com/posts/openclaw-2026-4-8-v2026-4-8-hotfix/ 2026-05-14 monthly 0.7 https://openclawchronicles.com/assets/images/posts/openclaw-2026-4-8-v2026-4-8-hotfix.png OpenClaw v2026.4.8: Hotfix for Bundled Channel Startup and Slack Proxy Support OpenClaw v2026.4.8 fixes bundled channel startup failures in npm installs, adds HTTP proxy support for Slack Socket Mode, and patches exec host reporting. https://openclawchronicles.com/posts/openclaw-2026-4-7-freecodecamp-guide-ollama-update/ 2026-05-14 monthly 0.7 https://openclawchronicles.com/assets/images/posts/openclaw-2026-4-7-freecodecamp-guide-ollama-update.png OpenClaw Community Roundup: freeCodeCamp Guide and Ollama Model Refresh freeCodeCamp published a deep-dive on building and securing OpenClaw agents, and the official onboarding now suggests fresher Ollama models for local setups. https://openclawchronicles.com/posts/openclaw-2026-4-7-node-reconnect-security-hardening/ 2026-05-14 monthly 0.7 https://openclawchronicles.com/assets/images/posts/openclaw-2026-4-7-node-reconnect-security-hardening.png OpenClaw Hardens Node Security: Re-Pairing Required for Command Upgrades A new security fix requires nodes to re-pair whenever they reconnect claiming expanded command sets, closing a privilege escalation path in multi-node setups. https://openclawchronicles.com/posts/openclaw-2026-4-7-memory-dreaming-deep-dive/ 2026-05-14 monthly 0.7 https://openclawchronicles.com/assets/images/posts/openclaw-2026-4-7-memory-dreaming-deep-dive.png OpenClaw Memory Dreaming: How Your Agent Builds Long-Term Memory OpenClaw https://openclawchronicles.com/posts/openclaw-2026-4-7-docker-node24-plugin-fix/ 2026-05-14 monthly 0.7 https://openclawchronicles.com/assets/images/posts/openclaw-2026-4-7-docker-node24-plugin-fix.png OpenClaw Docker Fix: Node 24 Bundled Plugin Crash Resolved A newly merged PR fixes Docker runtime images crashing under Node 24 due to a bundled plugin path override pointing at source instead of compiled artifacts. https://openclawchronicles.com/posts/openclaw-2026-4-6-youtube-roundup/ 2026-05-14 monthly 0.7 https://openclawchronicles.com/assets/images/posts/openclaw-2026-4-6-youtube-roundup.png OpenClaw Video Roundup: Best YouTube Tutorials This Week New OpenClaw tutorial videos dropped this week covering one-click setup, Hostinger VPS deployment, and full beginner guides. Here are the ones worth watching. https://openclawchronicles.com/posts/openclaw-2026-4-6-privilege-escalation-cve/ 2026-05-14 monthly 0.7 https://openclawchronicles.com/assets/images/posts/openclaw-2026-4-6-privilege-escalation-cve.png OpenClaw Privilege Escalation CVE: What You Need to Know A scope-ceiling bypass vulnerability in OpenClaw allows authorized users to escalate to admin. Here is what happened, the actual risk, and how to protect yourself. https://openclawchronicles.com/posts/openclaw-2026-4-6-anthropic-claude-extra-fees/ 2026-05-14 monthly 0.7 https://openclawchronicles.com/assets/images/posts/openclaw-2026-4-6-anthropic-claude-extra-fees.png Anthropic Cuts Off OpenClaw Claude Access Without Extra Fees As of April 4, Anthropic blocked Claude Pro and Max subscribers from using OpenClaw without paying separately under a new extra usage billing system. https://openclawchronicles.com/posts/openclaw-2026-4-6-v2026-4-5-release/ 2026-05-14 monthly 0.7 https://openclawchronicles.com/assets/images/posts/openclaw-2026-4-6-v2026-4-5-release.png OpenClaw v2026.4.5: Music Generation, Video Tools, and a Dreaming Memory Overhaul OpenClaw v2026.4.5 lands with built-in music and video generation, a fully rebuilt dreaming memory system, multilingual UI, and critical security fixes. https://openclawchronicles.com/posts/openclaw-2026-4-5-gemma4-turboquant-local-agent/ 2026-05-14 monthly 0.7 https://openclawchronicles.com/assets/images/posts/openclaw-2026-4-5-gemma4-turboquant-local-agent.webp Run OpenClaw Locally with Gemma 4 TurboQuant on a MacBook Air Google Gemma 4 TurboQuant makes fully local OpenClaw agents viable on a 16GB MacBook Air — no cloud, no API key, just a one-click app and a warm context cache. https://openclawchronicles.com/posts/openclaw-2026-4-5-v2026-4-2-task-flow-android-assistant/ 2026-05-14 monthly 0.7 https://openclawchronicles.com/assets/images/posts/openclaw-2026-4-5-v2026-4-2-task-flow-android-assistant.png OpenClaw v2026.4.2: Task Flow Engine and Android Assistant OpenClaw v2026.4.2 lands a fully restored Task Flow substrate, Android Google Assistant launch support, plugin config migrations, and a sweeping provider security overhaul. https://openclawchronicles.com/posts/openclaw-2026-4-5-bedrock-iam-roles-fix/ 2026-05-14 monthly 0.7 https://openclawchronicles.com/assets/images/posts/openclaw-2026-4-5-bedrock-iam-roles-fix.png OpenClaw Fixes Bedrock Auth Failure for EC2 and ECS IAM Roles PR #61194 fixes a Bedrock AWS SDK bug that injected https://openclawchronicles.com/posts/openclaw-2026-4-5-prompt-cache-heartbeat-ordering/ 2026-05-14 monthly 0.7 https://openclawchronicles.com/assets/images/posts/openclaw-2026-4-5-prompt-cache-heartbeat-ordering.png OpenClaw Fixes Prompt Cache Churn Caused by HEARTBEAT.md PR #61236 reorders project context injection so HEARTBEAT.md sits below the cache boundary, preventing heartbeat updates from invalidating your stable prompt cache prefix. https://openclawchronicles.com/posts/openclaw-2026-4-4-community-response-anthropic-oauth-ban/ 2026-05-14 monthly 0.7 https://openclawchronicles.com/assets/images/posts/openclaw-2026-4-4-community-response-anthropic-oauth-ban.png OpenClaw Community Responds to Anthropic OAuth Ban After Anthropic blocked subscription OAuth for OpenClaw today, users are rallying around alternatives, migration guides, and competing frameworks. https://openclawchronicles.com/posts/openclaw-2026-4-4-migrate-anthropic-oauth-to-claude-cli/ 2026-05-14 monthly 0.7 https://openclawchronicles.com/assets/images/posts/openclaw-2026-4-4-migrate-anthropic-oauth-to-claude-cli.webp How to Migrate OpenClaw from Anthropic OAuth to Claude CLI Anthropic blocked subscription OAuth for OpenClaw today. Here is the fastest path to restore your agents using the Claude CLI backend. https://openclawchronicles.com/posts/openclaw-2026-4-4-anthropic-claude-drops-openclaw-support/ 2026-05-14 monthly 0.7 https://openclawchronicles.com/assets/images/posts/openclaw-2026-4-4-anthropic-claude-drops-openclaw-support.png Anthropic Drops OpenClaw from Claude Subscriptions Starting Today Anthropic announced Claude subscriptions will no longer cover OpenClaw usage as of April 4, 2026, pushing users to a separate pay-as-you-go API plan. https://openclawchronicles.com/posts/openclaw-2026-4-4-prompt-cache-diagnostics/ 2026-05-14 monthly 0.7 https://openclawchronicles.com/assets/images/posts/openclaw-2026-4-4-prompt-cache-diagnostics.png OpenClaw Gets Prompt Cache Break Diagnostics in New PR PR #60707 adds embedded-runner prompt cache observability to OpenClaw, surfacing cache reuse stats in status and emitting JSONL traces when cache breaks are detected. https://openclawchronicles.com/posts/openclaw-2026-4-3-android-google-assistant-integration/ 2026-05-14 monthly 0.7 https://openclawchronicles.com/assets/images/posts/openclaw-2026-4-3-android-google-assistant-integration.png OpenClaw Comes to Google Assistant: Android Integration Lands OpenClaw v2026.4.2 adds Google Assistant App Actions on Android, letting users launch their AI agent hands-free from the assistant trigger or lock screen. https://openclawchronicles.com/posts/openclaw-2026-4-3-community-home-automation-roundup/ 2026-05-14 monthly 0.7 https://openclawchronicles.com/assets/images/posts/openclaw-2026-4-3-community-home-automation-roundup.png OpenClaw Community: Home Automation Stories and Local AI From 50-day self-hosted AI journals to OpenClaw-powered home labs, the community has been sharing impressive real-world deployments this week. https://openclawchronicles.com/posts/openclaw-2026-4-3-video-roundup-vps-setup-guide/ 2026-05-14 monthly 0.7 https://openclawchronicles.com/assets/images/posts/openclaw-2026-4-3-video-roundup-vps-setup-guide.png OpenClaw VPS Setup: New Full Beginner Video Guide Drops A fresh April 2026 YouTube tutorial walks through the complete OpenClaw VPS setup — from API keys and Telegram to skill installs and security hardening. https://openclawchronicles.com/posts/openclaw-2026-4-3-group-passive-ingest-hooks/ 2026-05-14 monthly 0.7 https://openclawchronicles.com/assets/images/posts/openclaw-2026-4-3-group-passive-ingest-hooks.png OpenClaw Now Passively Ingests Group Messages Without Replying A new ingest config flag lets OpenClaw plugins observe group messages on Telegram and Signal without triggering a reply, opening up silent automation workflows. https://openclawchronicles.com/posts/openclaw-2026-4-3-kimi-tool-call-parser/ 2026-05-14 monthly 0.7 https://openclawchronicles.com/assets/images/posts/openclaw-2026-4-3-kimi-tool-call-parser.png OpenClaw Adds Native Tool Call Support for Kimi Coding Models OpenClaw now parses Kimi https://openclawchronicles.com/posts/openclaw-2026-4-3-session-end-lifecycle-hooks/ 2026-05-14 monthly 0.7 https://openclawchronicles.com/assets/images/posts/openclaw-2026-4-3-session-end-lifecycle-hooks.png OpenClaw Session End Hooks Get a Major Upgrade OpenClaw https://openclawchronicles.com/posts/openclaw-android-google-assistant-app-actions-deep-dive/ 2026-05-14 monthly 0.7 https://openclawchronicles.com/assets/images/posts/openclaw-android-google-assistant-app-actions-deep-dive.png OpenClaw on Android: Google Assistant App Actions Explained OpenClaw 2026.4.2 lets Android users invoke their AI agent via the Google Assistant trigger. Here is how App Actions work and what to expect. https://openclawchronicles.com/posts/openclaw-2026-4-2-released-task-flows-android-assistant/ 2026-05-14 monthly 0.7 https://openclawchronicles.com/assets/images/posts/openclaw-2026-4-2-released-task-flows-android-assistant.png OpenClaw 2026.4.2 Released: Task Flows and Android Assistant OpenClaw 2026.4.2 lands with restored Task Flow substrate, Android Google Assistant App Actions, and breaking plugin config migrations for xAI and Firecrawl. https://openclawchronicles.com/posts/openclaw-2026-4-2-matrix-onboarding-wizard-restored/ 2026-05-14 monthly 0.7 https://openclawchronicles.com/assets/images/posts/openclaw-2026-4-2-matrix-onboarding-wizard-restored.png OpenClaw Restores Matrix Guided Onboarding in the CLI A regression broke the Matrix channel setup wizard in OpenClaw CLI flows. PR #59462 restores guided Matrix onboarding and adds end-to-end regression tests. https://openclawchronicles.com/posts/openclaw-2026-4-2-matrix-spec-compliant-mentions/ 2026-05-14 monthly 0.7 https://openclawchronicles.com/assets/images/posts/openclaw-2026-4-2-matrix-spec-compliant-mentions.png OpenClaw Matrix Agents Now Emit Spec-Compliant Mentions OpenClaw agents in Matrix rooms now emit proper m.mentions metadata and matrix.to anchors, so clients reliably highlight and notify mentioned users. https://openclawchronicles.com/posts/openclaw-2026-4-1-shenzhen-startup-ecosystem/ 2026-05-14 monthly 0.7 https://openclawchronicles.com/assets/images/posts/openclaw-2026-4-1-shenzhen-startup-ecosystem.png Shenzhen Bets Big on OpenClaw: Up to $1.4M for AI Agent Startups Shenzhen https://openclawchronicles.com/posts/openclaw-2026-4-1-youtube-roundup-april/ 2026-05-14 monthly 0.7 https://openclawchronicles.com/assets/images/posts/openclaw-2026-4-1-youtube-roundup-april.png OpenClaw on YouTube: Best Tutorials and Demos This Week From AI-assisted coding setups to full beginner crash courses, the OpenClaw YouTube community had a productive week. Here are the standout videos worth watching. https://openclawchronicles.com/posts/openclaw-2026-4-1-v2026-4-1-release/ 2026-05-14 monthly 0.7 https://openclawchronicles.com/assets/images/posts/openclaw-2026-4-1-v2026-4-1-release.png OpenClaw v2026.4.1: Voice Wake, SearXNG, Cron Tool Allowlists, and More OpenClaw v2026.4.1 ships 14 new features including macOS Voice Wake for Talk Mode, a bundled SearXNG web search provider, and per-job cron tool allowlists. https://openclawchronicles.com/posts/openclaw-2026-4-1-custom-provider-inference-status/ 2026-05-14 monthly 0.7 https://openclawchronicles.com/assets/images/posts/openclaw-2026-4-1-custom-provider-inference-status.png OpenClaw Now Infers Custom Providers in /status PR #58474 teaches OpenClaw to look up custom model catalog entries when inferring provider identity for the session status card, fixing blank provider fields. https://openclawchronicles.com/posts/openclaw-2026-4-1-telegram-forum-topic-routing-fix/ 2026-05-14 monthly 0.7 https://openclawchronicles.com/assets/images/posts/openclaw-2026-4-1-telegram-forum-topic-routing-fix.png OpenClaw Fixes Telegram Forum Topic Routing in Async Flows PR #58489 resolves a longstanding bug where Telegram forum topic IDs were silently dropped in subagent announces, cron delivery, and session recovery paths. https://openclawchronicles.com/posts/openclaw-2026-3-31-background-tasks-flows/ 2026-05-14 monthly 0.7 https://openclawchronicles.com/assets/images/posts/openclaw-2026-3-31-background-tasks-flows.png OpenClaw v2026.3.31: Background Tasks Get a Real Control Plane OpenClaw v2026.3.31 unifies ACP, subagents, cron, and CLI under one SQLite-backed task ledger — and adds a new `openclaw flows` command to manage them. https://openclawchronicles.com/posts/openclaw-force-multiplier-multi-agent-architecture/ 2026-05-14 monthly 0.7 https://openclawchronicles.com/assets/images/posts/openclaw-force-multiplier-multi-agent-architecture.png OpenClaw as a Force Multiplier: Building a 9-Agent Home System A Solutions Architect documents how he runs 8 OpenClaw orchestrators and 35 personas to ship across homelab, writing, smart home, and engineering — solo. https://openclawchronicles.com/posts/openclaw-2026-3-31-gateway-auth-brute-force-fix/ 2026-05-14 monthly 0.7 https://openclawchronicles.com/assets/images/posts/openclaw-2026-3-31-gateway-auth-brute-force-fix.png OpenClaw Patches WebSocket Shared-Auth Bypass on Main A fix merged to OpenClaw main closes a WebSocket auth bypass where supplying any device token alongside shared credentials disabled brute-force rate limiting. https://openclawchronicles.com/posts/openclaw-2026-3-31-slack-native-exec-approvals/ 2026-05-14 monthly 0.7 https://openclawchronicles.com/assets/images/posts/openclaw-2026-3-31-slack-native-exec-approvals.png OpenClaw Brings Native Exec Approvals to Slack OpenClaw main now routes exec approval requests through Slack natively, matching the Discord and Telegram approval UX with configurable approvers and session filters. https://openclawchronicles.com/posts/openclaw-2026-3-30-youtube-roundup/ 2026-05-14 monthly 0.7 https://openclawchronicles.com/assets/images/posts/openclaw-2026-3-30-youtube-roundup.png OpenClaw on YouTube: Best Setup Guides Published in March 2026 Six high-quality OpenClaw setup and tutorial videos dropped in March 2026, covering VPS installs, Mac onboarding, and secure Docker deployments for beginners. https://openclawchronicles.com/posts/openclaw-2026-3-30-security-exposed-instances/ 2026-05-14 monthly 0.7 https://openclawchronicles.com/assets/images/posts/openclaw-2026-3-30-security-exposed-instances.webp OpenClaw Security Crisis: 42,000 Exposed Instances and What to Do SecurityScorecard found over 42,000 exposed OpenClaw instances online, with 63% vulnerable to RCE. Here is how to check your setup and lock it down now. https://openclawchronicles.com/posts/openclaw-2026-3-30-showcase-week-12/ 2026-05-14 monthly 0.7 https://openclawchronicles.com/assets/images/posts/openclaw-2026-3-30-showcase-week-12.png OpenClaw Community Showcase: Best Projects from Week 12 Week 12 https://openclawchronicles.com/posts/openclaw-2026-3-29-security-selfhost/ 2026-05-14 monthly 0.7 https://openclawchronicles.com/assets/images/posts/openclaw-2026-3-29-security-selfhost.png OpenClaw Self-Hosting Security: What the Community Is Saying in 2026 Reddit and HN are buzzing with OpenClaw security warnings. Here https://openclawchronicles.com/posts/openclaw-2026-3-29-acp-bind-codex/ 2026-05-14 monthly 0.7 https://openclawchronicles.com/assets/images/posts/openclaw-2026-3-29-acp-bind-codex.png How to Use OpenClaw ACP Bind: Turn Any Chat Into a Codex Workspace OpenClaw v2026.3.28 adds ACP in-place binding for Discord, BlueBubbles, and iMessage — no child thread required. Here https://openclawchronicles.com/posts/openclaw-2026-3-29-stable-release/ 2026-05-14 monthly 0.7 https://openclawchronicles.com/assets/images/posts/openclaw-2026-3-29-stable-release.png OpenClaw v2026.3.28 Stable: Plugin Hooks and MiniMax Images OpenClaw v2026.3.28 is out with plugin approval hooks for tool gating, MiniMax image generation, xAI Responses API, and breaking Qwen auth changes. https://openclawchronicles.com/posts/openclaw-2026-3-28-plugin-approval-hooks/ 2026-05-14 monthly 0.7 https://openclawchronicles.com/assets/images/posts/openclaw-2026-3-28-plugin-approval-hooks.png OpenClaw Plugin Approval Hooks: Requiring Human Sign-Off Before Tools Run OpenClaw https://openclawchronicles.com/posts/openclaw-2026-3-28-beta-release/ 2026-05-14 monthly 0.7 https://openclawchronicles.com/assets/images/posts/openclaw-2026-3-28-beta-release.png OpenClaw 2026.3.28 Beta: Plugin Approval Hooks, xAI Search, and 40+ Fixes OpenClaw https://openclawchronicles.com/posts/openclaw-2026-3-27-community-roundup-model-stacks/ 2026-05-14 monthly 0.7 https://openclawchronicles.com/assets/images/posts/openclaw-2026-3-27-community-roundup-model-stacks.png OpenClaw Community Roundup: Model Stacks, NVIDIA, and March Momentum What the OpenClaw community is talking about this week: optimal model stacks for automation, NVIDIA NemoClaw at GTC, and what it means to run an always-on agent. https://openclawchronicles.com/posts/openclaw-2026-3-27-youtube-roundup-march/ 2026-05-14 monthly 0.7 https://openclawchronicles.com/assets/images/posts/openclaw-2026-3-27-youtube-roundup-march.png Best OpenClaw YouTube Tutorials This Week: VPS Setup and Beyond Three standout OpenClaw YouTube tutorials dropped this week covering VPS setup, beginner workflows, and daily use tips you will actually want to watch. https://openclawchronicles.com/posts/openclaw-2026-3-27-clawhavoc-supply-chain-attack/ 2026-05-14 monthly 0.7 https://openclawchronicles.com/assets/images/posts/openclaw-2026-3-27-clawhavoc-supply-chain-attack.png OpenClaw Security Alert: ClawHavoc Supply Chain Attack Targets Users Cisco researchers found OpenClaw skills silently exfiltrating data. Here is what the ClawHavoc supply chain attack means and how to protect yourself now. https://openclawchronicles.com/posts/openclaw-2026-3-27-wsl2-ollama-fix/ 2026-05-14 monthly 0.7 https://openclawchronicles.com/assets/images/posts/openclaw-2026-3-27-wsl2-ollama-fix.png OpenClaw Fixes WSL2 Ollama Connection Failures for Good A new OpenClaw fix forces IPv4 when running Ollama under WSL2, ending the cryptic https://openclawchronicles.com/posts/openclaw-2026-3-27-acpx-agent-registry/ 2026-05-14 monthly 0.7 https://openclawchronicles.com/assets/images/posts/openclaw-2026-3-27-acpx-agent-registry.png OpenClaw ACPX Now Supports 13 Built-In Coding Agents OpenClaw https://openclawchronicles.com/posts/openclaw-2026-3-25-community-roundup/ 2026-05-14 monthly 0.7 https://openclawchronicles.com/assets/images/posts/openclaw-2026-3-25-community-roundup.png OpenClaw Community Roundup: March 25, 2026 Cisco announces DefenseClaw for enterprise OpenClaw security, unRAID gets an official template, and the community documents 21 real-world use cases. https://openclawchronicles.com/posts/openclaw-2026-3-25-release-deepdive/ 2026-05-14 monthly 0.7 https://openclawchronicles.com/assets/images/posts/openclaw-2026-3-25-release-deepdive.png OpenClaw v2026.3.25: Teams SDK, Skills UX, and Security OpenClaw v2026.3.25 ships today with a full Microsoft Teams SDK migration, one-click skill installs, a sandboxed media security fix, and Docker setup repair. https://openclawchronicles.com/posts/openclaw-2026-3-25-skills-ux/ 2026-05-14 monthly 0.7 https://openclawchronicles.com/assets/images/posts/openclaw-2026-3-25-skills-ux.png OpenClaw Skills Got a Proper UX: One-Click Install Is Here OpenClaw v2026.3.25 transforms skill management with one-click installs, a redesigned Control UI, and clearer API key guidance for seven bundled skills. https://openclawchronicles.com/posts/openclaw-2026-3-25-gateway-start-fix/ 2026-05-14 monthly 0.7 https://openclawchronicles.com/assets/images/posts/openclaw-2026-3-25-gateway-start-fix.png OpenClaw Gateway Start Broken After Stop — Now Fixed A merged PR fixes OpenClaw gateway start failing silently after gateway stop, restoring the expected start/stop/restart service lifecycle on all platforms. https://openclawchronicles.com/posts/openclaw-2026-3-25-open-group-images/ 2026-05-14 monthly 0.7 https://openclawchronicles.com/assets/images/posts/openclaw-2026-3-25-open-group-images.png OpenClaw Open Groups Now Respond to Images Without Mentions A fix merged today makes OpenClaw correctly handle images and media in open-policy groups, ending the silent drop of non-text messages that couldn https://openclawchronicles.com/posts/openclaw-2026-3-24-community-roundup/ 2026-05-14 monthly 0.7 https://openclawchronicles.com/assets/images/posts/openclaw-2026-3-24-community-roundup.png OpenClaw Community Roundup: March 24, 2026 Clawpage turns agent chats into shareable static sites, the HN community debates real-world OpenClaw use cases, and a cover image skill lands on npm—here is what happened today. https://openclawchronicles.com/posts/openclaw-2026-3-24-outclaw-docker/ 2026-05-14 monthly 0.7 https://openclawchronicles.com/assets/images/posts/openclaw-2026-3-24-outclaw-docker.png OutClaw: Install OpenClaw in Docker in 3 Minutes—No Terminal Required OutClaw is a new open-source desktop app that wraps OpenClaw in a guided Docker setup wizard, offering secure-by-default isolation on macOS, Windows, and Linux. https://openclawchronicles.com/posts/openclaw-2026-3-24-security-debate/ 2026-05-14 monthly 0.7 https://openclawchronicles.com/assets/images/posts/openclaw-2026-3-24-security-debate.png Is OpenClaw a Security Nightmare? What the HN Debate Got Right A viral Composio post calling OpenClaw a https://openclawchronicles.com/posts/openclaw-2026-3-23-release/ 2026-05-14 monthly 0.7 https://openclawchronicles.com/assets/images/posts/openclaw-2026-3-23-release.png OpenClaw v2026.3.23: Qwen API, UI Overhaul, and 18 Fixes OpenClaw v2026.3.23 ships Alibaba Cloud Qwen API support, a polished Knot theme with WCAG contrast, CSP hardening, and 15+ critical auth and plugin fixes. https://openclawchronicles.com/posts/openclaw-2026-3-22-release-breakdown/ 2026-05-14 monthly 0.7 https://openclawchronicles.com/assets/images/posts/release-breakdown.png OpenClaw 2026.3.22 Released: The Plugin Overhaul You Didn The March 22nd release is one of the most sweeping updates in recent memory — a full plugin SDK migration, ClawHub-first installs, new web search integrations, and a wave of breaking changes that demand your attention before you update. https://openclawchronicles.com/posts/openclaw-android-dark-mode-sms-calls/ 2026-05-14 monthly 0.7 https://openclawchronicles.com/assets/images/posts/android-dark-mode-sms-calls.png OpenClaw The March 22nd release brings a significant round of Android improvements — system-aware dark theme across all screens, the ability to search SMS messages and call history through the gateway, and a rearchitected Talk (TTS) system that moves synthesis off-device. https://openclawchronicles.com/posts/openclaw-security-fixes-voice-exec/ 2026-05-14 monthly 0.7 https://openclawchronicles.com/assets/images/posts/security-fixes-voice-exec.png Two Security Fixes in OpenClaw 2026.3.22: Voice Webhooks and Exec Approval Bypass The March 22nd release patches two security vulnerabilities — one in voice-call webhook handling that could allow unauthenticated request flooding, and one in exec approval allowlists that could let approved commands be bypassed via the time wrapper.