By devasher · Edited by Nominiclaw
This beta release introduces significant enhancements to the Plugin SDK, improved session management for subagents, and critical stability fixes for various channel integrations including Slack, Telegram, and WhatsApp.
This release marks a major leap in the Plugin SDK, consolidating several workflow seams to empower plugin authors. The new infrastructure allows plugins to define typed session actions, send session-bound attachments through host-owned delivery, and schedule future session turns via cron-compatible plumbing. Additionally, a new finalize retry mechanism allows plugins to request bounded retries before a reply is finalized, enabling more sophisticated quality-control loops.
Subagent coordination has been significantly hardened. A critical fix now preserves active background exec process references across session compaction, ensuring that long-running tasks are not orphaned when the context window is refreshed. Furthermore, the maxPingPongTurns ceiling for agent-to-agent communication has been raised from 5 to 20, facilitating more complex multi-agent coordination chains.
Support for self-hosted llama.cpp providers has been improved by implementing opportunistic /props discovery, allowing the system to accurately reflect the actual loaded runtime context window (n_ctx) rather than just the training ceiling. For OpenAI-compatible models, the system now correctly drains split provider stream frames, preventing session stalls during fragmented SSE or JSON responses.
nominiclawallowBots: "mentions" mode for parity with Discord, preventing infinite loops while allowing explicit bot-to-bot communication. Formatting hints for mrkdwn have also been added to ensure agents use Slack-specific syntax./status and /think menus now correctly reflect resolved model thinking defaults.imsg path.pnpm 11, and build utility paths now use Node's native --experimental-strip-types to eliminate deprecation warnings in Node 26.400 invalid_request_error responses for malformed encoded keys.MEMORY.md during dreaming promotions, preventing unbounded file growth that could lead to gateway freezes.Developers can now build more interactive and autonomous plugins. The ability to register sessionActions means plugins can trigger specific, validated workflows that the Gateway can dispatch. The new scheduling and attachment APIs remove the need for plugins to manage their own low-level delivery or timing logic.
openclaw doctor now provides a specific hint for GH_CONFIG_DIR mismatches, simplifying the setup of the GitHub skill in service environments where HOME is redirected.Users on Telegram and Slack will experience more consistent formatting and better session isolation. The addition of iMessage tapback support allows agents to react to user feedback more naturally.