clawdbot/CHANGELOG.md

Changelog

Docs: https://docs.clawd.bot

2026.1.18-5

Changes

• Dependencies: update core + plugin deps (grammy, vitest, openai, Microsoft agents hosting, etc.).
• Onboarding: add allowlist prompts and username-to-id resolution across core and extension channels.
• TUI: add searchable model picker for quicker model selection. (#1198) — thanks @vignesh07.
• Docs: clarify allowlist input types and onboarding behavior for messaging channels.

Fixes

• Configure: hide OpenRouter auto routing model from the model picker. (#1182) — thanks @zerone0x.
• Docs: make docs:list fail fast with a clear error if the docs directory is missing.
• macOS: load menu session previews asynchronously so items populate while the menu is open.
• macOS: use label colors for session preview text so previews render in menu subviews.
• macOS: suppress usage error text in the menubar cost view.
• Telegram: honor pairing allowlists for native slash commands.
• CLI: keep banners on routed commands, restore config guarding outside fast-path routing, and tighten fast-path flag parsing while skipping console capture for extra speed. (#1195) — thanks @gumadeiras.

2026.1.18-4

Changes

• macOS: switch PeekabooBridge integration to the tagged Swift Package Manager release (no submodule).
• macOS: stop syncing Peekaboo as a git submodule in postinstall.
• Swabble: use the tagged Commander Swift package release.
• CLI: add clawdbot acp client interactive ACP harness for debugging.
• Plugins: route command detection/text chunking helpers through the plugin runtime and drop runtime exports from the SDK.
• Plugins: auto-enable bundled channel/provider plugins when configuration is present.
• Config: stamp last-touched metadata on write and warn if the config is newer than the running build.
• macOS: hide usage section when usage is unavailable instead of showing provider errors.
• Memory: add native Gemini embeddings provider for memory search. (#1151)
• Agents: add local docs path resolution and include docs/mirror/source/community pointers in the system prompt.
• Slack: add HTTP webhook mode via Bolt HTTP receiver for Events API deployments. (#1143) — thanks @jdrhyne.

Fixes

• Auth profiles: keep auto-pinned preference while allowing rotation on failover; user pins stay locked. (#1138) — thanks @cheeeee.
• Agents: sanitize oversized image payloads before send and surface image-dimension errors.
• macOS: Doctor repairs LaunchAgent bootstrap issues for Gateway + Node when listed but not loaded. (#1166) — thanks @AlexMikhalev.
• macOS: avoid touching launchd in Remote over SSH so quitting the app no longer disables the remote gateway. (#1105)
• Memory: index atomically so failed reindex preserves the previous memory database. (#1151)
• Memory: avoid sqlite-vec unique constraint failures when reindexing duplicate chunk ids. (#1151)

2026.1.18-3

Changes

• Exec: add host/security/ask routing for gateway + node exec.
• Exec: add /exec directive for per-session exec defaults (host/security/ask/node).
• macOS: migrate exec approvals to ~/.clawdbot/exec-approvals.json with per-agent allowlists and skill auto-allow toggle.
• macOS: add approvals socket UI server + node exec lifecycle events.
• Nodes: add headless node host (clawdbot node start) for system.run/system.which.
• Nodes: add node daemon service install/status/start/stop/restart.
• Bridge: add skills.bins RPC to support node host auto-allow skill bins.
• Slash commands: replace /cost with /usage off|tokens|full to control per-response usage footer; /usage no longer aliases /status. (Supersedes #1140) — thanks @Nachx639.
• Sessions: add daily reset policy with per-type overrides and idle windows (default 4am local), preserving legacy idle-only configs. (#1146) — thanks @austinm911.
• Agents: auto-inject local image references for vision models and avoid reloading history images. (#1098) — thanks @tyler6204.
• Docs: refresh exec/elevated/exec-approvals docs for the new flow. https://docs.clawd.bot/tools/exec-approvals
• Docs: add node host CLI + update exec approvals/bridge protocol docs. https://docs.clawd.bot/cli/node
• ACP: add experimental ACP support for IDE integrations (clawdbot acp). Thanks @visionik.
• Tools: allow sessions_spawn to override thinking level for sub-agent runs.
• Channels: unify thread/topic allowlist matching + command/mention gating helpers across core providers.
• Models: add Qwen Portal OAuth provider support. (#1120) — thanks @mukhtharcm.
• Memory: add --verbose logging for memory status + batch indexing details.
• Memory: allow parallel OpenAI batch indexing jobs (default concurrency: 2).
• macOS: add per-agent exec approvals with allowlists, skill CLI auto-allow, and settings UI.
• Docs: add exec approvals guide and link from tools index. https://docs.clawd.bot/tools/exec-approvals
• macOS: add exec-host IPC for node service system.run with HMAC + peer UID checks.

Fixes

• Exec approvals: enforce allowlist when ask is off; prefer raw command for node approvals/events.
• Tools: return a companion-app-required message when node exec is requested with no paired node.
• Streaming: emit assistant deltas for OpenAI-compatible SSE chunks. (#1147) — thanks @alauppe.
• Model fallback: treat timeout aborts as failover while preserving user aborts. (#1137) — thanks @cheeeee.

2026.1.18-2

Fixes

• Tests: stabilize plugin SDK resolution and embedded agent timeouts.

2026.1.18-1

Changes

• Tools: allow sessions_spawn to override thinking level for sub-agent runs.
• Channels: unify thread/topic allowlist matching + command/mention gating helpers across core providers.
• Models: add Qwen Portal OAuth provider support. (#1120) — thanks @mukhtharcm.
• Memory: add --verbose logging for memory status + batch indexing details.
• Memory: allow parallel OpenAI batch indexing jobs (default concurrency: 2).
• macOS: add per-agent exec approvals with allowlists, skill CLI auto-allow, and settings UI.
• Docs: add exec approvals guide and link from tools index. https://docs.clawd.bot/tools/exec-approvals

Fixes

• Memory: apply OpenAI batch defaults even without explicit remote config.
• macOS: bundle Textual resources in packaged app builds to avoid code block crashes. (#1006)
• Tools: return a companion-app-required message when system.run is requested without a supporting node.
• Discord: only emit slow listener warnings after 30s.

2026.1.17-6

Changes

• Plugins: add exclusive plugin slots with a dedicated memory slot selector.
• Memory: ship core memory tools + CLI as the bundled memory-core plugin.
• Docs: document plugin slots and memory plugin behavior.
• Plugins: add the bundled BlueBubbles channel plugin (disabled by default).
• Plugins: migrate bundled messaging extensions to the plugin SDK; resolve plugin-sdk imports in loader.
• Plugins: migrate the Zalo plugin to the shared plugin SDK runtime.
• Plugins: migrate the Zalo Personal plugin to the shared plugin SDK runtime.

2026.1.17-5

Changes

• Memory: add hybrid BM25 + vector search (FTS5) with weighted merging and fallback.
• Memory: add SQLite embedding cache to speed up reindexing and frequent updates.
• CLI: surface FTS + embedding cache state in clawdbot memory status.
• Memory: render progress immediately, color batch statuses in verbose logs, and poll OpenAI batch status every 2s by default.
• Plugins: allow optional agent tools with explicit allowlists and add plugin tool authoring guide. https://docs.clawd.bot/plugins/agent-tools
• Tools: centralize plugin tool policy helpers.
• Commands: add /subagents info and show sub-agent counts in /status.
• Docs: clarify plugin agent tool configuration. https://docs.clawd.bot/plugins/agent-tools

Fixes

• Voice call: include request query in Twilio webhook verification when publicUrl is set. (#864)

2026.1.18-1

Changes

• Tools: allow sessions_spawn to override thinking level for sub-agent runs.
• Channels: unify thread/topic allowlist matching + command/mention gating helpers across core providers.
• Models: add Qwen Portal OAuth provider support. (#1120) — thanks @mukhtharcm.
• Memory: add --verbose logging for memory status + batch indexing details.
• Memory: allow parallel OpenAI batch indexing jobs (default concurrency: 2).
• macOS: add per-agent exec approvals with allowlists, skill CLI auto-allow, and settings UI.
• Docs: add exec approvals guide and link from tools index. https://docs.clawd.bot/tools/exec-approvals

Fixes

• Memory: apply OpenAI batch defaults even without explicit remote config.
• macOS: bundle Textual resources in packaged app builds to avoid code block crashes. (#1006)
• Tools: return a companion-app-required message when system.run is requested without a supporting node.
• Discord: only emit slow listener warnings after 30s.

2026.1.17-3

Changes

• Memory: add OpenAI Batch API indexing for embeddings when configured.
• Memory: enable OpenAI batch indexing by default for OpenAI embeddings.

Fixes

• Memory: retry transient 5xx errors (Cloudflare) during embedding indexing.

2026.1.17-2

Changes

Fixes

• Tools: show exec elevated flag before the command and keep it outside markdown in tool summaries.
• Memory: parallelize embedding indexing with rate-limit retries.
• Memory: split overly long lines to keep embeddings under token limits.
• Memory: skip empty chunks to avoid invalid embedding inputs.
• Sessions: fall back to session labels when listing display names. (#1124) — thanks @abdaraxus.
• Discord: inherit parent channel allowlists for thread slash commands and reactions. (#1123) — thanks @thewilloftheshadow.

2026.1.17-1

Changes

• Telegram: enrich forwarded message context with normalized origin details + legacy fallback. (#1090) — thanks @sleontenko.
• macOS: strip prerelease/build suffixes when parsing gateway semver patches. (#1110) — thanks @zerone0x.
• macOS: keep CLI install pinned to the full build suffix. (#1111) — thanks @artuskg.
• CLI: surface update availability in clawdbot status.
• CLI: add clawdbot memory status --deep/--index probes.
• CLI: add playful update completion quips.

Fixes

• Doctor: avoid re-adding WhatsApp ack reaction config when only legacy auth files exist. (#1087) — thanks @YuriNachos.
• Hooks: parse multi-line/YAML frontmatter metadata blocks (JSON5-friendly). (#1114) — thanks @sebslight.
• CLI: add WSL2/systemd unavailable hints in daemon status/doctor output.
• Windows: install gateway scheduled task as the current user; show friendly guidance instead of failing on access denied.
• Status: show both usage windows with reset hints when usage data is available. (#1101) — thanks @rhjoh.
• Memory: probe sqlite-vec availability in clawdbot memory status.
• Memory: split embedding batches to avoid OpenAI token limits during indexing.
• Telegram: preserve hidden text_link URLs by expanding entities in inbound text. (#1118) — thanks @sleontenko.

2026.1.16-2

Changes

• CLI: stamp build commit into dist metadata so banners show the commit in npm installs.
• CLI: close memory manager after memory commands to avoid hanging processes. (#1127) — thanks @NicholasSpisak.

2026.1.16-1

Highlights

• Hooks: add hooks system with bundled hooks, CLI tooling, and docs. (#1028) — thanks @ThomsenDrake. https://docs.clawd.bot/hooks
• Media: add inbound media understanding (image/audio/video) with provider + CLI fallbacks. https://docs.clawd.bot/nodes/media-understanding
• Plugins: add Zalo Personal plugin (@clawdbot/zalouser) and unify channel directory for plugins. (#1032) — thanks @suminhthanh. https://docs.clawd.bot/plugins/zalouser
• Models: add Vercel AI Gateway auth choice + onboarding updates. (#1016) — thanks @timolins. https://docs.clawd.bot/providers/vercel-ai-gateway
• Sessions: add session.identityLinks for cross-platform DM session li nking. (#1033) — thanks @thewilloftheshadow. https://docs.clawd.bot/concepts/session
• Web search: add country/language parameters (schema + Brave API) and docs. (#1046) — thanks @YuriNachos. https://docs.clawd.bot/tools/web

Breaking

• BREAKING: clawdbot message and message tool now require target (dropping to/channelId for destinations). (#1034) — thanks @tobalsan.
• BREAKING: Channel auth now prefers config over env for Discord/Telegram/Matrix (env is fallback only). (#1040) — thanks @thewilloftheshadow.
• BREAKING: Drop legacy chatType: "room" support; use chatType: "channel".
• BREAKING: remove legacy provider-specific target resolution fallbacks; target resolution is centralized with plugin hints + directory lookups.
• BREAKING: clawdbot hooks is now clawdbot webhooks; hooks live under clawdbot hooks. https://docs.clawd.bot/cli/webhooks
• BREAKING: clawdbot plugins install <path> now copies into ~/.clawdbot/extensions (use --link to keep path-based loading).

Changes

• Plugins: ship bundled plugins disabled by default and allow overrides by installed versions. (#1066) — thanks @ItzR3NO.
• Plugins: add bundled Antigravity + Gemini CLI OAuth + Copilot Proxy provider plugins. (#1066) — thanks @ItzR3NO.
• Tools: improve web_fetch extraction using Readability (with fallback).
• Tools: add Firecrawl fallback for web_fetch when configured.
• Tools: send Chrome-like headers by default for web_fetch to improve extraction on bot-sensitive sites.
• Tools: Firecrawl fallback now uses bot-circumvention + cache by default; remove basic HTML fallback when extraction fails.
• Tools: default exec exit notifications and auto-migrate legacy tools.bash to tools.exec.
• Tools: add exec PTY support for interactive sessions. https://docs.clawd.bot/tools/exec
• Tools: add tmux-style process send-keys and bracketed paste helpers for PTY sessions.
• Tools: add process submit helper to send CR for PTY sessions.
• Tools: respond to PTY cursor position queries to unblock interactive TUIs.
• Tools: include tool outputs in verbose mode and expand verbose tool feedback.
• Skills: update coding-agent guidance to prefer PTY-enabled exec runs and simplify tmux usage.
• TUI: refresh session token counts after runs complete or fail. (#1079) — thanks @d-ploutarchos.
• Status: trim /status to current-provider usage only and drop the OAuth/token block.
• Directory: unify clawdbot directory across channels and plugin channels.
• UI: allow deleting sessions from the Control UI.
• Memory: add sqlite-vec vector acceleration with CLI status details.
• Memory: add experimental session transcript indexing for memory_search (opt-in via memorySearch.experimental.sessionMemory + sources).
• Skills: add user-invocable skill commands and expanded skill command registration.
• Telegram: default reaction level to minimal and enable reaction notifications by default.
• Telegram: allow reply-chain messages to bypass mention gating in groups. (#1038) — thanks @adityashaw2.
• iMessage: add remote attachment support for VM/SSH deployments.
• Messages: refresh live directory cache results when resolving targets.
• Messages: mirror delivered outbound text/media into session transcripts. (#1031) — thanks @TSavo.
• Messages: avoid redundant sender envelopes for iMessage + Signal group chats. (#1080) — thanks @tyler6204.
• Media: normalize Deepgram audio upload bytes for fetch compatibility.
• Cron: isolated cron jobs now start a fresh session id on every run to prevent context buildup.
• Docs: add /help hub, Node/npm PATH guide, and expand directory CLI docs.
• Config: support env var substitution in config values. (#1044) — thanks @sebslight.
• Health: add per-agent session summaries and account-level health details, and allow selective probes. (#1047) — thanks @gumadeiras.
• Hooks: add hook pack installs (npm/path/zip/tar) with clawdbot.hooks manifests and clawdbot hooks install/update.
• Plugins: add zip installs and --link to avoid copying local paths.

Fixes

• macOS: drain subprocess pipes before waiting to avoid deadlocks. (#1081) — thanks @thesash.
• Verbose: wrap tool summaries/output in markdown only for markdown-capable channels.
• Tools: include provider/session context in elevated exec denial errors.
• Tools: normalize exec tool alias naming in tool error logs.
• Logging: reuse shared ANSI stripping to keep console capture lint-clean.
• Logging: prefix nested agent output with session/run/channel context.
• Telegram: accept tg/group/telegram prefixes + topic targets for inline button validation. (#1072) — thanks @danielz1z.
• Telegram: split long captions into follow-up messages.
• Config: block startup on invalid config, preserve best-effort doctor config, and keep rolling config backups. (#1083) — thanks @mukhtharcm.
• Sub-agents: normalize announce delivery origin + queue bucketing by accountId to keep multi-account routing stable. (#1061, #1058) — thanks @adam91holt.
• Sessions: include deliveryContext in sessions.list and reuse normalized delivery routing for announce/restart fallbacks. (#1058)
• Sessions: propagate deliveryContext into last-route updates to keep account/channel routing stable. (#1058)
• Sessions: preserve overrides on /new reset.
• Memory: prevent unhandled rejections when watch/interval sync fails. (#1076) — thanks @roshanasingh4.
• Memory: avoid gateway crash when embeddings return 429/insufficient_quota (disable tool + surface error). (#1004)
• Gateway: honor explicit delivery targets without implicit accountId fallback; preserve lastAccountId for implicit routing.
• Gateway: avoid reusing last-to/accountId when the requested channel differs; sync deliveryContext with last route fields.
• Build: allow @lydell/node-pty builds on supported platforms.
• Repo: fix oxlint config filename and move ignore pattern into config. (#1064) — thanks @connorshea.
• Messages: /stop now hard-aborts queued followups and sub-agent runs; suppress zero-count stop notes.
• Messages: honor message tool channel when deduping sends.
• Messages: include sender labels for live group messages across channels, matching queued/history formatting. (#1059)
• Sessions: reset compactionCount on /new and /reset, and preserve sessions.json file mode (0600).
• Sessions: repair orphaned user turns before embedded prompts.
• Sessions: hard-stop sessions.delete cleanup.
• Channels: treat replies to the bot as implicit mentions across supported channels.
• Channels: normalize object-format capabilities in channel capability parsing.
• Security: default-deny slash/control commands unless a channel computed CommandAuthorized (fixes accidental “open” behavior), and ensure WhatsApp + Zalo plugin channels gate inline /… tokens correctly. https://docs.clawd.bot/gateway/security
• Security: redact sensitive text in gateway WS logs.
• Tools: cap pending exec process output to avoid unbounded buffers.
• CLI: speed up clawdbot sandbox-explain by avoiding heavy plugin imports when normalizing channel ids.
• Browser: remote profile tab operations prefer persistent Playwright and avoid silent HTTP fallbacks. (#1057) — thanks @mukhtharcm.
• Browser: remote profile tab ops follow-up: shared Playwright loader, Playwright-based focus, and more coverage (incl. opt-in live Browserless test). (follow-up to #1057) — thanks @mukhtharcm.
• Browser: refresh extension relay tab metadata after navigation so /json/list stays current. (#1073) — thanks @roshanasingh4.
• WhatsApp: scope self-chat response prefix; inject pending-only group history and clear after any processed message.
• WhatsApp: include linked field in describeAccount.
• Agents: drop unsigned Gemini tool calls and avoid JSON Schema format keyword collisions.
• Agents: hide the image tool when the primary model already supports images.
• Agents: avoid duplicate sends by replying with NO_REPLY after message tool sends.
• Auth: inherit/merge sub-agent auth profiles from the main agent.
• Gateway: resolve local auth for security probe and validate gateway token/password file modes. (#1011, #1022) — thanks @ivanrvpereira, @kkarimi.
• Signal/iMessage: bound transport readiness waits to 30s with periodic logging. (#1014) — thanks @Szpadel.
• iMessage: avoid RPC restart loops.
• OpenAI image-gen: handle URL + b64_json responses and remove deprecated response_format (use URL downloads).
• CLI: auto-update global installs when installed via a package manager.
• Routing: migrate legacy accountID bindings to accountId and remove legacy fallback lookups. (#1047) — thanks @gumadeiras.
• Discord: truncate skill command descriptions to 100 chars for slash command limits. (#1018) — thanks @evalexpr.
• Security: bump tar to 7.5.3.
• Models: align ZAI thinking toggles.
• iMessage/Signal: include sender metadata for non-queued group messages. (#1059)
• Discord: preserve whitespace when chunking long lines so message splits keep spacing intact.
• Skills: fix skills watcher ignored list typing (tsc).

2026.1.15

Highlights

• Plugins: add provider auth registry + clawdbot models auth login for plugin-driven OAuth/API key flows.
• Browser: improve remote CDP/Browserless support (auth passthrough, wss upgrade, timeouts, clearer errors).
• Heartbeat: per-agent configuration + 24h duplicate suppression. (#980) — thanks @voidserf.
• Security: audit warns on weak model tiers; app nodes store auth tokens encrypted (Keychain/SecurePrefs).

Breaking

• BREAKING: iOS minimum version is now 18.0 to support Textual markdown rendering in native chat. (#702)
• BREAKING: Microsoft Teams is now a plugin; install @clawdbot/msteams via clawdbot plugins install @clawdbot/msteams.
• BREAKING: Channel auth now prefers config over env for Discord/Telegram/Matrix (env is fallback only). (#1040) — thanks @thewilloftheshadow.

Changes

• UI/Apps: move channel/config settings to schema-driven forms and rename Connections → Channels. (#1040) — thanks @thewilloftheshadow.
• CLI: set process titles to clawdbot-<command> for clearer process listings.
• CLI/macOS: sync remote SSH target/identity to config and let gateway status auto-infer SSH targets (ssh-config aware).
• Telegram: scope inline buttons with allowlist default + callback gating in DMs/groups.
• Telegram: default reaction notifications to own.
• Tools: improve web_fetch extraction using Readability (with fallback).
• Heartbeat: tighten prompt guidance + suppress duplicate alerts for 24h. (#980) — thanks @voidserf.
• Repo: ignore local identity files to avoid accidental commits. (#1001) — thanks @gerardward2007.
• Sessions/Security: add session.dmScope for multi-user DM isolation and audit warnings. (#948) — thanks @Alphonse-arianee.
• Plugins: add provider auth registry + clawdbot models auth login for plugin-driven OAuth/API key flows.
• Onboarding: switch channels setup to a single-select loop with per-channel actions and disabled hints in the picker.
• TUI: show provider/model labels for the active session and default model.
• Heartbeat: add per-agent heartbeat configuration and multi-agent docs example.
• UI: show gateway auth guidance + doc link on unauthorized Control UI connections.
• UI: add session deletion action in Control UI sessions list. (#1017) — thanks @Szpadel.
• Security: warn on weak model tiers (Haiku, below GPT-5, below Claude 4.5) in clawdbot security audit.
• Apps: store node auth tokens encrypted (Keychain/SecurePrefs).
• Daemon: share profile/state-dir resolution across service helpers and honor CLAWDBOT_STATE_DIR for Windows task scripts.
• Docs: clarify multi-gateway rescue bot guidance. (#969) — thanks @bjesuiter.
• Agents: add Current Date & Time system prompt section with configurable time format (auto/12/24).
• Tools: normalize Slack/Discord message timestamps with timestampMs/timestampUtc while keeping raw provider fields.
• macOS: add system.which for prompt-free remote skill discovery (with gateway fallback to system.run).
• Docs: add Date & Time guide and update prompt/timezone configuration docs.
• Messages: debounce rapid inbound messages across channels with per-connector overrides. (#971) — thanks @juanpablodlc.
• Messages: allow media-only sends (CLI/tool) and show Telegram voice recording status for voice notes. (#957) — thanks @rdev.
• Auth/Status: keep auth profiles sticky per session (rotate on compaction/new), surface provider usage headers in /status and clawdbot models status, and update docs.
• CLI: add --json output for clawdbot daemon lifecycle/install commands.
• Memory: make node-llama-cpp an optional dependency (avoid Node 25 install failures) and improve local-embeddings fallback/errors.
• Browser: add snapshot refs=aria (Playwright aria-ref ids) for self-resolving refs across snapshot → act.
• Browser: profile="chrome" now defaults to host control and returns clearer “attach a tab” errors.
• Browser: prefer stable Chrome for auto-detect, with Brave/Edge fallbacks and updated docs. (#983) — thanks @cpojer.
• Browser: increase remote CDP reachability timeouts + add remoteCdpTimeoutMs/remoteCdpHandshakeTimeoutMs.
• Browser: preserve auth/query tokens for remote CDP endpoints and pass Basic auth for CDP HTTP/WS. (#895) — thanks @mukhtharcm.
• Telegram: add bidirectional reaction support with configurable notifications and agent guidance. (#964) — thanks @bohdanpodvirnyi.
• Telegram: allow custom commands in the bot menu (merged with native; conflicts ignored). (#860) — thanks @nachoiacovino.
• Discord: allow allowlisted guilds without channel lists to receive messages when groupPolicy="allowlist". — thanks @thewilloftheshadow.
• Discord: allow emoji/sticker uploads + channel actions in config defaults. (#870) — thanks @JDIVE.

Fixes

• Messages: make /stop clear queued followups and pending session lane work for a hard abort.
• Messages: make /stop abort active sub-agent runs spawned from the requester session and report how many were stopped.
• WhatsApp: report linked status consistently in channel status. (#1050) — thanks @YuriNachos.
• Sessions: keep per-session overrides when /new resets compaction counters. (#1050) — thanks @YuriNachos.
• Skills: allow OpenAI image-gen helper to handle URL or base64 responses. (#1050) — thanks @YuriNachos.
• WhatsApp: default response prefix only for self-chat, using identity name when set.
• Signal/iMessage: bound transport readiness waits to 30s with periodic logging. (#1014) — thanks @Szpadel.
• iMessage: treat missing imsg rpc support as fatal to avoid restart loops.
• Auth: merge main auth profiles into per-agent stores for sub-agents and document inheritance. (#1013) — thanks @marcmarg.
• Agents: avoid JSON Schema format collisions in tool params by renaming snapshot format fields. (#1013) — thanks @marcmarg.
• Fix: make clawdbot update auto-update global installs when installed via a package manager.
• Fix: list model picker entries as provider/model pairs for explicit selection. (#970) — thanks @mcinteerj.
• Fix: align OpenAI image-gen defaults with DALL-E 3 standard quality and document output formats. (#880) — thanks @mkbehr.
• Fix: persist gateway.mode=local after selecting Local run mode in clawdbot configure, even if no other sections are chosen.
• Daemon: fix profile-aware service label resolution (env-driven) and add coverage for launchd/systemd/schtasks. (#969) — thanks @bjesuiter.
• Agents: avoid false positives when logging unsupported Google tool schema keywords.
• Agents: skip Gemini history downgrades for google-antigravity to preserve tool calls. (#894) — thanks @mukhtharcm.
• Status: restore usage summary line for current provider when no OAuth profiles exist.
• Fix: guard model fallback against undefined provider/model values. (#954) — thanks @roshanasingh4.
• Fix: refactor session store updates, add chat.inject, and harden subagent cleanup flow. (#944) — thanks @tyler6204.
• Fix: clean up suspended CLI processes across backends. (#978) — thanks @Nachx639.
• Fix: support MiniMax coding plan usage responses with model_remains/current_interval_* payloads.
• Fix: honor message tool channel for duplicate suppression (prefer NO_REPLY after message tool sends). (#1053) — thanks @sashcatanzarite.
• Fix: suppress WhatsApp pairing replies for historical catch-up DMs on initial link. (#904)
• Browser: extension mode recovers when only one tab is attached (stale targetId fallback).
• Browser: fix tab not found for extension relay snapshots/actions when Playwright blocks newCDPSession (use the single available Page).
• Browser: upgrade ws → wss when remote CDP uses https (fixes Browserless handshake).
• Telegram: skip message_thread_id=1 for General topic sends while keeping typing indicators. (#848) — thanks @azade-c.
• Fix: sanitize user-facing error text + strip <final> tags across reply pipelines. (#975) — thanks @ThomsenDrake.
• Fix: normalize pairing CLI aliases, allow extension channels, and harden Zalo webhook payload parsing. (#991) — thanks @longmaba.
• Fix: allow local Tailscale Serve hostnames without treating tailnet clients as direct. (#885) — thanks @oswalpalash.
• Fix: reset sessions after role-ordering conflicts to recover from consecutive user turns. (#998)

2026.1.14-1

Highlights

• Web search: web_search/web_fetch tools (Brave API) + first-time setup in onboarding/configure.
• Browser control: Chrome extension relay takeover mode + remote browser control via clawdbot browser serve.
• Plugins: channel plugins (gateway HTTP hooks) + Zalo plugin + onboarding install flow. (#854) — thanks @longmaba.
• Security: expanded clawdbot security audit (+ --fix), detect-secrets CI scan, and a SECURITY.md reporting policy.

Changes

• Docs: clarify per-agent auth stores, sandboxed skill binaries, and elevated semantics.
• Docs: add FAQ entries for missing provider auth after adding agents and Gemini thinking signature errors.
• Agents: add optional auth-profile copy prompt on agents add and improve auth error messaging.
• Security: expand clawdbot security audit checks (model hygiene, config includes, plugin allowlists, exposure matrix) and extend --fix to tighten more sensitive state paths.
• Security: add SECURITY.md reporting policy.
• Channels: add Matrix plugin (external) with docs + onboarding hooks.
• Plugins: add Zalo channel plugin with gateway HTTP hooks and onboarding install prompt. (#854) — thanks @longmaba.
• Onboarding: add a security checkpoint prompt (docs link + sandboxing hint); require --accept-risk for --non-interactive.
• Docs: expand gateway security hardening guidance and incident response checklist.
• Docs: document DM history limits for channel DMs. (#883) — thanks @pkrmf.
• Security: add detect-secrets CI scan and baseline guidance. (#227) — thanks @Hyaxia.
• Tools: add web_search/web_fetch (Brave API), auto-enable web_fetch for sandboxed sessions, and remove the brave-search skill.
• CLI/Docs: add a web tools configure section for storing Brave API keys and update onboarding tips.
• Browser: add Chrome extension relay takeover mode (toolbar button), plus clawdbot browser extension install/path and remote browser control via clawdbot browser serve + browser.controlToken.

Fixes

• Sessions: refactor session store updates to lock + mutate per-entry, add chat.inject, and harden subagent cleanup flow. (#944) — thanks @tyler6204.
• Browser: add tests for snapshot labels/efficient query params and labeled image responses.
• Google: downgrade unsigned thinking blocks before send to avoid missing signature errors.
• Doctor: avoid re-adding WhatsApp config when only legacy ack reactions are set. (#927, fixes #900) — thanks @grp06.
• Agents: scrub tuple items schemas for Gemini tool calls. (#926, fixes #746) — thanks @grp06.
• Agents: harden Antigravity Claude history/tool-call sanitization. (#968) — thanks @rdev.
• Agents: stabilize sub-agent announce status from runtime outcomes and normalize Result/Notes. (#835) — thanks @roshanasingh4.
• Embedded runner: suppress raw API error payloads from replies. (#924) — thanks @grp06.
• Auth: normalize Claude Code CLI profile mode to oauth and auto-migrate config. (#855) — thanks @sebslight.
• Daemon: clear persisted launchd disabled state before bootstrap (fixes daemon install after uninstall). (#849) — thanks @ndraiman.
• Logging: tolerate EIO from console writes to avoid gateway crashes. (#925, fixes #878) — thanks @grp06.
• Sandbox: restore docker.binds config validation for custom bind mounts. (#873) — thanks @akonyer.
• Sandbox: preserve configured PATH for docker exec so custom tools remain available. (#873) — thanks @akonyer.
• Slack: respect channels.slack.requireMention default when resolving channel mention gating. (#850) — thanks @evalexpr.
• Telegram: aggregate split inbound messages into one prompt (reduces “one reply per fragment”).
• Auto-reply: treat trailing NO_REPLY tokens as silent replies.
• Config: prevent partial config writes from clobbering unrelated settings (base hash guard + merge patch for connection saves).

2026.1.14

Changes

• Usage: add MiniMax coding plan usage tracking.
• Auth: label Claude Code CLI auth options. (#915) — thanks @SeanZoR.
• Docs: standardize Claude Code CLI naming across docs and prompts. (follow-up to #915)
• Telegram: add message delete action in the message tool. (#903) — thanks @sleontenko.
• Config: add channels.<provider>.configWrites gating for channel-initiated config writes; migrate Slack channel IDs.

Fixes

• Mac: pass auth token/password to dashboard URL for authenticated access. (#918) — thanks @rahthakor.
• UI: use application-defined WebSocket close code (browser compatibility). (#918) — thanks @rahthakor.
• TUI: render picker overlays via the overlay stack so /models and /settings display. (#921) — thanks @grizzdank.
• TUI: add a bright spinner + elapsed time in the status line for send/stream/run states.
• TUI: show LLM error messages (rate limits, auth, etc.) instead of (no output).
• Gateway/Dev: ensure pnpm gateway:dev always uses the dev profile config + state (~/.clawdbot-dev).

Agents / Auth / Tools / Sandbox

• Agents: make user time zone and 24-hour time explicit in the system prompt. (#859) — thanks @CashWilliams.
• Agents: strip downgraded tool call text without eating adjacent replies and filter thinking-tag leaks. (#905) — thanks @erikpr1994.
• Agents: cap tool call IDs for OpenAI/OpenRouter to avoid request rejections. (#875) — thanks @j1philli.
• Agents: scrub tuple items schemas for Gemini tool calls. (#926, fixes #746) — thanks @grp06.
• Agents: stabilize sub-agent announce status from runtime outcomes and normalize Result/Notes. (#835) — thanks @roshanasingh4.
• Auth: normalize Claude Code CLI profile mode to oauth and auto-migrate config. (#855) — thanks @sebslight.
• Embedded runner: suppress raw API error payloads from replies. (#924) — thanks @grp06.
• Logging: tolerate EIO from console writes to avoid gateway crashes. (#925, fixes #878) — thanks @grp06.
• Sandbox: restore docker.binds config validation and preserve configured PATH for docker exec. (#873) — thanks @akonyer.
• Google: downgrade unsigned thinking blocks before send to avoid missing signature errors.

macOS / Apps

• macOS: ensure launchd log directory exists with a test-only override. (#909) — thanks @roshanasingh4.
• macOS: format ConnectionsStore config to satisfy SwiftFormat lint. (#852) — thanks @mneves75.
• macOS: pass auth token/password to dashboard URL for authenticated access. (#918) — thanks @rahthakor.
• macOS: reuse launchd gateway auth and skip wizard when gateway config already exists. (#917)
• macOS: prefer the default bridge tunnel port in remote mode for node bridge connectivity; document macOS remote control + bridge tunnels. (#960, fixes #865) — thanks @kkarimi.
• Apps: use canonical main session keys from gateway defaults across macOS/iOS/Android to avoid creating bare main sessions.
• macOS: fix cron preview/testing payload to use channel key. (#867) — thanks @wes-davis.
• Telegram: honor channels.telegram.timeoutSeconds for grammY API requests. (#863) — thanks @Snaver.
• Telegram: split long captions into media + follow-up text messages. (#907) - thanks @jalehman.
• Telegram: migrate group config when supergroups change chat IDs. (#906) — thanks @sleontenko.
• Messaging: unify markdown formatting + format-first chunking for Slack/Telegram/Signal. (#920) — thanks @TheSethRose.
• Slack: drop Socket Mode events with mismatched api_app_id/team_id. (#889) — thanks @roshanasingh4.
• Discord: isolate autoThread thread context. (#856) — thanks @davidguttman.
• WhatsApp: fix context isolation using wrong ID (was bot's number, now conversation ID). (#911) — thanks @tristanmanchester.
• WhatsApp: normalize user JIDs with device suffix for allowlist checks in groups. (#838) — thanks @peschee.

2026.1.13

Fixes

• Postinstall: treat already-applied pnpm patches as no-ops to avoid npm/bun install failures.
• Packaging: pin @mariozechner/pi-ai to 0.45.7 and refresh patched dependency to match npm resolution.

2026.1.12-2

Fixes

• Packaging: include dist/memory/** in the npm tarball (fixes ERR_MODULE_NOT_FOUND for dist/memory/index.js).
• Agents: persist sub-agent registry across gateway restarts and resume announce flow safely. (#831) — thanks @roshanasingh4.
• Agents: strip invalid Gemini thought signatures from OpenRouter history to avoid 400s. (#841, #845) — thanks @MatthieuBizien.

2026.1.12-1

Fixes

• Packaging: include dist/channels/** in the npm tarball (fixes ERR_MODULE_NOT_FOUND for dist/channels/registry.js).

2026.1.12

Highlights

• BREAKING: rename chat “providers” (Slack/Telegram/WhatsApp/…) to channels across CLI/RPC/config; legacy config keys auto-migrate on load (and are written back as channels.*).
• Memory: add vector search for agent memories (Markdown-only) with SQLite index, chunking, lazy sync + file watch, and per-agent enablement/fallback.
• Plugins: restore full voice-call plugin parity (Telnyx/Twilio, streaming, inbound policies, tools/CLI).
• Models: add Synthetic provider plus Moonshot Kimi K2 0905 + turbo/thinking variants (with docs). (#811) — thanks @siraht; (#818) — thanks @mickahouan.
• Cron: one-shot schedules accept ISO timestamps (UTC) with optional delete-after-run; cron jobs can target a specific agent (CLI + macOS/Control UI).
• Agents: add compaction mode config with optional safeguard summarization and per-agent model fallbacks. (#700) — thanks @thewilloftheshadow; (#583) — thanks @mitschabaude-bot.

New & Improved

• Memory: add custom OpenAI-compatible embedding endpoints; support OpenAI/local node-llama-cpp embeddings with per-agent overrides and provider metadata in tools/CLI. (#819) — thanks @mukhtharcm.
• Memory: new clawdbot memory CLI plus memory_search/memory_get tools with snippets + line ranges; index stored under ~/.clawdbot/memory/{agentId}.sqlite with watch-on-by-default.
• Agents: strengthen memory recall guidance; make workspace bootstrap truncation configurable (default 20k) with warnings; add default sub-agent model config.
• Tools/Sandbox: add tool profiles + group shorthands; support tool-policy groups in tools.sandbox.tools; drop legacy memory shorthand; allow Docker bind mounts via docker.binds. (#790) — thanks @akonyer.
• Tools: add provider/model-specific tool policy overrides (tools.byProvider) to trim tool exposure per provider.
• Tools: add browser scrollintoview action; allow Claude/Gemini tool param aliases; allow thinking xhigh for GPT-5.2/Codex with safe downgrades. (#793) — thanks @hsrvc; (#444) — thanks @grp06.
• Gateway/CLI: add Tailscale binary discovery, custom bind mode, and probe auth retry; add clawdbot dashboard auto-open flow; default native slash commands to "auto" with per-provider overrides. (#740) — thanks @jeffersonwarrior.
• Auth/Onboarding: add Chutes OAuth (PKCE + refresh + onboarding choice); normalize API key inputs; default TUI onboarding to deliver: false. (#726) — thanks @FrieSei; (#791) — thanks @roshanasingh4.
• Providers: add discord.allowBots; trim legacy MiniMax M2 from default catalogs; route MiniMax vision to the Coding Plan VLM endpoint (also accepts @/path/to/file.png inputs). (#802) — thanks @zknicker.
• Gateway: allow Tailscale Serve identity headers to satisfy token auth; rebuild Control UI assets when protocol schema is newer. (#823) — thanks @roshanasingh4; (#786) — thanks @meaningfool.
• Heartbeat: default ackMaxChars to 300 so short HEARTBEAT_OK replies stay internal.

Installer

• Install: run clawdbot doctor --non-interactive after git installs/updates and nudge daemon restarts when detected.

Fixes

• Doctor: warn on pnpm workspace mismatches, missing Control UI assets, and missing tsx binaries; offer UI rebuilds.
• Tools: apply global tool allow/deny even when agent-specific tool policy is set.
• Models/Providers: treat credential validation failures as auth errors to trigger fallback; normalize ${ENV_VAR} apiKey values and auto-fill missing provider keys; preserve explicit GitHub Copilot provider config + agent-dir auth profiles. (#822) — thanks @sebslight; (#705) — thanks @TAGOOZ.
• Auth: drop invalid auth profiles from ordering so environment keys can still be used for providers like MiniMax.
• Gemini: normalize Gemini 3 ids to preview variants; strip Gemini CLI tool call/response ids; downgrade missing thought_signature; strip Claude msg_* thought_signature fields to avoid base64 decode errors. (#795) — thanks @thewilloftheshadow; (#783) — thanks @ananth-vardhan-cn; (#793) — thanks @hsrvc; (#805) — thanks @marcmarg.
• Agents: auto-recover from compaction context overflow by resetting the session and retrying; propagate overflow details from embedded runs so callers can recover.
• MiniMax: strip malformed tool invocation XML; include MiniMax-VL-01 in implicit provider for image pairing. (#809) — thanks @latitudeki5223.
• Onboarding/Auth: honor CLAWDBOT_AGENT_DIR / PI_CODING_AGENT_DIR when writing auth profiles (MiniMax). (#829) — thanks @roshanasingh4.
• Anthropic: handle overloaded_error with a friendly message and failover classification. (#832) — thanks @danielz1z.
• Anthropic: merge consecutive user turns (preserve newest metadata) before validation to avoid incorrect role errors. (#804) — thanks @ThomsenDrake.
• Messaging: enforce context isolation for message tool sends; keep typing indicators alive during tool execution. (#793) — thanks @hsrvc; (#450, #447) — thanks @thewilloftheshadow.
• Auto-reply: /status allowlist behavior, reasoning-tag enforcement on fallback, and system-event enqueueing for elevated/reasoning toggles. (#810) — thanks @mcinteerj.
• System events: include local timestamps when events are injected into prompts. (#245) — thanks @thewilloftheshadow.
• Auto-reply: resolve ambiguous /model matches; fix streaming block reply media handling; keep >300 char heartbeat replies instead of dropping.
• Discord/Slack: centralize reply-thread planning; fix autoThread routing + add per-channel autoThread; avoid duplicate listeners; keep reasoning italics intact; allow clearing channel parents via message tool. (#800, #807) — thanks @davidguttman; (#744) — thanks @thewilloftheshadow.
• Telegram: preserve forum topic thread ids, persist polling offsets, respect account bindings in webhook mode, and show typing indicator in General topics. (#727, #739) — thanks @thewilloftheshadow; (#821) — thanks @gumadeiras; (#779) — thanks @azade-c.
• Slack: accept slash commands with or without leading / for custom command configs. (#798) — thanks @thewilloftheshadow.
• Cron: persist disabled jobs correctly; accept jobId aliases for update/run/remove params. (#205, #252) — thanks @thewilloftheshadow.
• Gateway/CLI: honor CLAWDBOT_LAUNCHD_LABEL / CLAWDBOT_SYSTEMD_UNIT overrides; agents.list respects explicit config; reduce noisy loopback WS logs during tests; run clawdbot doctor --non-interactive during updates. (#781) — thanks @ronyrus.
• Onboarding/Control UI: refuse invalid configs (run doctor first); quote Windows browser URLs for OAuth; keep chat scroll position unless the user is near the bottom. (#764) — thanks @mukhtharcm; (#794) — thanks @roshanasingh4; (#217) — thanks @thewilloftheshadow.
• Tools/UI: harden tool input schemas for strict providers; drop null-only union variants for Gemini schema cleanup; treat maxChars: 0 as unlimited; keep TUI last streamed response instead of "(no output)". (#782) — thanks @AbhisekBasu1; (#796) — thanks @gabriel-trigo; (#747) — thanks @thewilloftheshadow.
• Connections UI: polish multi-account account cards. (#816) — thanks @steipete.

Maintenance

• Dependencies: bump Pi packages to 0.45.3 and refresh patched pi-ai.
• Testing: update Vitest + browser-playwright to 4.0.17.
• Docs: add Amazon Bedrock provider notes and link from models/FAQ.

2026.1.11

Highlights

• Plugins are now first-class: loader + CLI management, plus the new Voice Call plugin.
• Config: modular $include support for split config files. (#731) — thanks @pasogott.
• Agents/Pi: reserve compaction headroom so pre-compaction memory writes can run before auto-compaction.
• Agents: automatic pre-compaction memory flush turn to store durable memories before compaction.

Changes

• CLI/Onboarding: simplify MiniMax auth choice to a single M2.1 option.
• CLI: configure section selection now loops until Continue.
• Docs: explain MiniMax vs MiniMax Lightning (speed vs cost) and restore LM Studio example.
• Docs: add Cerebras GLM 4.6/4.7 config example (OpenAI-compatible endpoint).
• Onboarding/CLI: group model/auth choice by provider and label Z.AI as GLM 4.7.
• Onboarding/Docs: add Moonshot AI (Kimi K2) auth choice + config example.
• CLI/Onboarding: prompt to reuse detected API keys for Moonshot/MiniMax/Z.AI/Gemini/Anthropic/OpenCode.
• Auto-reply: add compact /model picker (models + available providers) and show provider endpoints in /model status.
• Control UI: add Config tab model presets (MiniMax M2.1, GLM 4.7, Kimi) for one-click setup.
• Plugins: add extension loader (tools/RPC/CLI/services), discovery paths, and config schema + Control UI labels (uiHints).
• Plugins: add clawdbot plugins install (path/tgz/npm), plus list|info|enable|disable|doctor UX.
• Plugins: voice-call plugin now real (Twilio/log), adds start/status RPC/CLI/tool + tests.
• Docs: add plugins doc + cross-links from tools/skills/gateway config.
• Docs: add beginner-friendly plugin quick start + expand Voice Call plugin docs.
• Tests: add Docker plugin loader + tgz-install smoke test.
• Tests: extend Docker plugin E2E to cover installing from local folders (plugins.load.paths) and file: npm specs.
• Tests: add coverage for pre-compaction memory flush settings.
• Tests: modernize live model smoke selection for current releases and enforce tools/images/thinking-high coverage. (#769) — thanks @steipete.
• Agents/Tools: add apply_patch tool for multi-file edits (experimental; gated by tools.exec.applyPatch; OpenAI-only).
• Agents/Tools: rename the bash tool to exec (config alias maintained). (#748) — thanks @myfunc.
• Agents: add pre-compaction memory flush config (agents.defaults.compaction.*) with a soft threshold + system prompt.
• Config: add $include directive for modular config files. (#731) — thanks @pasogott.
• Build: set pnpm minimum release age to 2880 minutes (2 days). (#718) — thanks @dan-dr.
• macOS: prompt to install the global clawdbot CLI when missing in local mode; install via clawd.bot/install-cli.sh (no onboarding) and use external launchd/CLI instead of the embedded gateway runtime.
• Docs: add gog calendar event color IDs from gog calendar colors. (#715) — thanks @mjrussell.
• Cron/CLI: add --model flag to cron add/edit commands. (#711) — thanks @mjrussell.
• Cron/CLI: trim model overrides on cron edits and document main-session guidance. (#711) — thanks @mjrussell.
• Skills: bundle skill-creator to guide creating and packaging skills.
• Providers: add per-DM history limit overrides (dmHistoryLimit) with provider-level config. (#728) — thanks @pkrmf.
• Discord: expose channel/category management actions in the message tool. (#730) — thanks @NicholasSpisak.
• Docs: rename README “macOS app” section to “Apps”. (#733) — thanks @AbhisekBasu1.
• Gateway: require client.id in WebSocket connect params; use client.instanceId for presence de-dupe; update docs/tests.
• macOS: remove the attach-only gateway setting; local mode now always manages launchd while still attaching to an existing gateway if present.

Installer

• Postinstall: replace git apply with builtin JS patcher (works npm/pnpm/bun; no git dependency) plus regression tests.
• Postinstall: skip pnpm patch fallback when the new patcher is active.
• Installer tests: add root+non-root docker smokes, CI workflow to fetch clawd.bot scripts and run install sh/cli with onboarding skipped.
• Installer UX: support CLAWDBOT_NO_ONBOARD=1 for non-interactive installs; fix npm prefix on Linux and auto-install git.
• Installer UX: add install.sh --help with flags/env and git install hint.
• Installer UX: add --install-method git|npm and auto-detect source checkouts (prompt to update git checkout vs migrate to npm).

Fixes

• Models/Onboarding: configure MiniMax (minimax.io) via Anthropic-compatible /anthropic endpoint by default (keep minimax-api as a legacy alias).
• Models: normalize Gemini 3 Pro/Flash IDs to preview names for live model lookups. (#769) — thanks @steipete.
• CLI: fix guardCancel typing for configure prompts. (#769) — thanks @steipete.
• Gateway/WebChat: include handshake validation details in the WebSocket close reason for easier debugging; preserve close codes.
• Gateway/Auth: send invalid connect responses before closing the handshake; stabilize invalid-connect auth test.
• Gateway: tighten gateway listener detection.
• Control UI: hide onboarding chat when configured and guard the mobile chat sidebar overlay.
• Auth: read Codex keychain credentials and make the lookup platform-aware.
• macOS/Release: avoid bundling dist artifacts in relay builds and generate appcasts from zip-only sources.
• Doctor: surface plugin diagnostics in the report.
• Plugins: treat plugins.load.paths directory entries as package roots when they contain package.json + clawdbot.extensions; load plugin packages from config dirs; extract archives without system tar.
• Config: expand ~ in CLAWDBOT_CONFIG_PATH and common path-like config fields (including plugins.load.paths); guard invalid $include paths. (#731) — thanks @pasogott.
• Agents: stop pre-creating session transcripts so first user messages persist in JSONL history.
• Agents: skip pre-compaction memory flush when the session workspace is read-only.
• Auto-reply: ignore inline /status directives unless the message is directive-only.
• Auto-reply: align /think default display with model reasoning defaults. (#751) — thanks @gabriel-trigo.
• Auto-reply: flush block reply buffers on tool boundaries. (#750) — thanks @sebslight.
• Auto-reply: allow sender fallback for command authorization when SenderId is empty (WhatsApp self-chat). (#755) — thanks @juanpablodlc.
• Auto-reply: treat whitespace-only sender ids as missing for command authorization (WhatsApp self-chat). (#766) — thanks @steipete.
• Heartbeat: refresh prompt text for updated defaults.
• Agents/Tools: use PowerShell on Windows to capture system utility output. (#748) — thanks @myfunc.
• Docker: tolerate unset optional env vars in docker-setup.sh under strict mode. (#725) — thanks @petradonka.
• CLI/Update: preserve base environment when passing overrides to update subprocesses. (#713) — thanks @danielz1z.
• Agents: treat message tool errors as failures so fallback replies still send; require to + message for action=send. (#717) — thanks @theglove44.
• Agents: preserve reasoning items on tool-only turns.
• Agents/Subagents: wait for completion before announcing, align wait timeout with run timeout, and make announce prompts more emphatic.
• Agents: route subagent transcripts to the target agent sessions directory and add regression coverage. (#708) — thanks @xMikeMickelson.
• Agents/Tools: preserve action enums when flattening tool schemas. (#708) — thanks @xMikeMickelson.
• Gateway/Agents: canonicalize main session aliases for store writes and add regression coverage. (#709) — thanks @xMikeMickelson.
• Agents: reset sessions and retry when auto-compaction overflows instead of crashing the gateway.
• Providers/Telegram: normalize command mentions for consistent parsing. (#729) — thanks @obviyus.
• Providers: skip DM history limit handling for non-DM sessions. (#728) — thanks @pkrmf.
• Sandbox: fix non-main mode incorrectly sandboxing the main DM session and align /status runtime reporting with effective sandbox state.
• Sandbox/Gateway: treat agent:<id>:main as a main-session alias when session.mainKey is customized (backwards compatible).
• Auto-reply: fast-path allowlisted slash commands (inline /help//commands//status//whoami stripped before model).

2026.1.10

Highlights

• CLI: clawdbot status now table-based + shows OS/update/gateway/daemon/agents/sessions; status --all adds a full read-only debug report (tables, log tails, Tailscale summary, and scan progress via OSC-9 + spinner).
• CLI Backends: add Codex CLI fallback with resume support (text output) and JSONL parsing for new runs, plus a live CLI resume probe.
• CLI: add clawdbot update (safe-ish git checkout update) + --update shorthand. (#673) — thanks @fm1randa.
• Gateway: add OpenAI-compatible /v1/chat/completions HTTP endpoint (auth, SSE streaming, per-agent routing). (#680).

Changes

• Onboarding/Models: add first-class Z.AI (GLM) auth choice (zai-api-key) + --zai-api-key flag.
• CLI/Onboarding: add OpenRouter API key auth option in configure/onboard. (#703) — thanks @mteam88.
• Agents: add human-delay pacing between block replies (modes: off/natural/custom, per-agent configurable). (#446) — thanks @tony-freedomology.
• Agents/Browser: add browser.target (sandbox/host/custom) with sandbox host-control gating via agents.defaults.sandbox.browser.allowHostControl, allowlists for custom control URLs/hosts/ports, and expand browser tool docs (remote control, profiles, internals).
• Onboarding/Models: add catalog-backed default model picker to onboarding + configure. (#611) — thanks @jonasjancarik.
• Agents/OpenCode Zen: update fallback models + defaults, keep legacy alias mappings. (#669) — thanks @magimetal.
• CLI: add clawdbot reset and clawdbot uninstall flows (interactive + non-interactive) plus docker cleanup smoke test.
• Providers: move provider wiring to a plugin architecture. (#661).
• Providers: unify group history context wrappers across providers with per-provider/per-account historyLimit overrides (fallback to messages.groupChat.historyLimit). Set 0 to disable. (#672).
• Gateway/Heartbeat: optionally deliver heartbeat Reasoning: output (agents.defaults.heartbeat.includeReasoning). (#690)
• Docker: allow optional home volume + extra bind mounts in docker-setup.sh. (#679) — thanks @gabriel-trigo.

Fixes

• Auto-reply: suppress draft/typing streaming for NO_REPLY (silent system ops) so it doesn’t leak partial output.
• CLI/Status: expand tables to full terminal width; clarify provider setup vs runtime warnings; richer per-provider detail; token previews in status while keeping status --all redacted; add troubleshooting link footer; keep log tails pasteable; show gateway auth used when reachable; surface provider runtime errors (Signal/iMessage/Slack); harden tailscale status --json parsing; make status --all scan progress determinate; and replace the footer with a 3-line “Next steps” recommendation (share/debug/probe).
• CLI/Gateway: clarify that clawdbot gateway status reports RPC health (connect + RPC) and shows RPC failures separately from connect failures.
• CLI/Update: gate progress spinner on stdout TTY and align clean-check step label. (#701) — thanks @bjesuiter.
• Telegram: add /whoami + /id commands to reveal sender id for allowlists; allow @username and prefixed ids in allowFrom prompts (with stability warning).
• Heartbeat: strip markup-wrapped HEARTBEAT_OK so acks don’t leak to external providers (e.g., Telegram).
• Control UI: stop auto-writing telegram.groups["*"] and warn/confirm before enabling wildcard groups.
• WhatsApp: send ack reactions only for handled messages and ignore legacy messages.ackReaction (doctor copies to whatsapp.ackReaction). (#629) — thanks @pasogott.
• Sandbox/Skills: mirror skills into sandbox workspaces for read-only mounts so SKILL.md stays accessible.
• Terminal/Table: ANSI-safe wrapping to prevent table clipping/color loss; add regression coverage.
• Docker: allow optional apt packages during image build and document the build arg. (#697) — thanks @gabriel-trigo.
• Gateway/Heartbeat: deliver reasoning even when the main heartbeat reply is HEARTBEAT_OK. (#694) — thanks @antons.
• Agents/Pi: inject config temperature/maxTokens into streaming without replacing the session streamFn; cover with live maxTokens probe. (#732) — thanks @peschee.
• macOS: clear unsigned launchd overrides on signed restarts and warn via doctor when attach-only/disable markers are set. (#695) — thanks @jeffersonwarrior.
• Agents: enforce single-writer session locks and drop orphan tool results to prevent tool-call ID failures (MiniMax/Anthropic-compatible APIs).
• Docs: make clawdbot status the first diagnostic step, clarify status --deep behavior, and document /whoami + /id.
• Docs/Testing: clarify live tool+image probes and how to list your testable provider/model ids.
• Tests/Live: make gateway bash+read probes resilient to provider formatting while still validating real tool calls.
• WhatsApp: detect @lid mentions in groups using authDir reverse mapping + resolve self JID E.164 for mention gating. (#692) — thanks @peschee.
• Gateway/Auth: default to token auth on loopback during onboarding, add doctor token generation flow, and tighten audio transcription config to Whisper-only.
• Providers: dedupe inbound messages across providers to avoid duplicate LLM runs on redeliveries/reconnects. (#689) — thanks @adam91holt.
• Agents: strip <thought>/<antthinking> tags from hidden reasoning output and cover tag variants in tests. (#688) — thanks @theglove44.
• macOS: save model picker selections as normalized provider/model IDs and keep manual entries aligned. (#683) — thanks @benithors.
• Agents: recognize "usage limit" errors as rate limits for failover. (#687) — thanks @evalexpr.
• CLI: avoid success message when daemon restart is skipped. (#685) — thanks @carlulsoe.
• Commands: disable /config + /debug by default; gate via commands.config/commands.debug and hide from native registration/help output.
• Agents/System: clarify that sub-agents remain sandboxed and cannot use elevated host access.
• Gateway: disable the OpenAI-compatible /v1/chat/completions endpoint by default; enable via gateway.http.endpoints.chatCompletions.enabled=true.
• macOS: stabilize bridge tunnels, guard invoke senders on disconnect, and drain stdout/stderr to avoid deadlocks. (#676) — thanks @ngutman.
• Agents/System: clarify sandboxed runtime in system prompt and surface elevated availability when sandboxed.
• Auto-reply: prefer RawBody for command/directive parsing (WhatsApp + Discord) and prevent fallback runs from clobbering concurrent session updates. (#643) — thanks @mcinteerj.
• WhatsApp: fix group reactions by preserving message IDs and sender JIDs in history; normalize participant phone numbers to JIDs in outbound reactions. (#640) — thanks @mcinteerj.
• WhatsApp: expose group participant IDs to the model so reactions can target the right sender.
• Cron: wakeMode: "now" waits for heartbeat completion (and retries when the main lane is busy). (#666) — thanks @roshanasingh4.
• Agents/OpenAI: fix Responses tool-only → follow-up turn handling (avoid standalone reasoning items that trigger 400 “required following item”) and replay reasoning items in Responses/Codex Responses history for tool-call-only turns.
• Sandbox: add clawdbot sandbox explain (effective policy inspector + fix-it keys); improve “sandbox jail” tool-policy/elevated errors with actionable config key paths; link to docs.
• Hooks/Gmail: keep Tailscale serve path at / while preserving the public path. (#668) — thanks @antons.
• Hooks/Gmail: allow Tailscale target URLs to preserve internal serve paths.
• Auth: update Claude Code keychain credentials in-place during refresh sync; share JSON file helpers; add CLI fallback coverage.
• Auth: throttle external CLI credential syncs (Claude/Codex), reduce Keychain reads, and skip sync when cached credentials are still fresh.
• CLI: respect CLAWDBOT_STATE_DIR for node pairing + voice wake settings storage. (#664) — thanks @azade-c.
• Onboarding/Gateway: persist non-interactive gateway token auth in config; add WS wizard + gateway tool-calling regression coverage.
• Gateway/Control UI: make chat.send non-blocking, wire Stop to chat.abort, and treat /stop as an out-of-band abort. (#653)
• Gateway/Control UI: allow chat.abort without runId (abort active runs), suppress post-abort chat streaming, and prune stuck chat runs. (#653)
• Gateway/Control UI: sniff image attachments for chat.send, drop non-images, and log mismatches. (#670) — thanks @cristip73.
• macOS: force restart-mac.sh --sign to require identities and keep bundled Node signed for relay verification. (#580) — thanks @jeffersonwarrior.
• Gateway/Agent: accept image attachments on agent (multimodal message) and add live gateway image probe (CLAWDBOT_LIVE_GATEWAY_IMAGE_PROBE=1).
• CLI: clawdbot sessions now includes elev:* + usage:* flags in the table output.
• CLI/Pairing: accept positional provider for pairing list|approve (npm-run compatible); update docs/bot hints.
• Branding: normalize user-facing “ClawdBot”/“CLAWDBOT” → “Clawdbot” (CLI, status, docs).
• Auto-reply: fix native /model not updating the actual chat session (Telegram/Slack/Discord). (#646)
• Doctor: offer to run clawdbot update first on git installs (keeps doctor output aligned with latest).
• Doctor: avoid false legacy workspace warning when install dir is ~/clawdbot. (#660)
• iMessage: fix reasoning persistence across DMs; avoid partial/duplicate replies when reasoning is enabled. (#655) — thanks @antons.
• Models/Auth: allow MiniMax API configs without models.providers.minimax.apiKey (auth profiles / MINIMAX_API_KEY). (#656) — thanks @mneves75.
• Agents: avoid duplicate replies when the message tool sends. (#659) — thanks @mickahouan.
• Agents: harden Cloud Code Assist tool ID sanitization (toolUse/toolCall/toolResult) and scrub extra JSON Schema constraints. (#665) — thanks @sebslight.
• Agents: sanitize tool results + Cloud Code Assist tool IDs at context-build time (prevents mid-run strict-provider request rejects).
• Agents/Tools: resolve workspace-relative Read/Write/Edit paths; align bash default cwd. (#642) — thanks @mukhtharcm.
• Discord: include forwarded message snapshots in agent session context. (#667) — thanks @rubyrunsstuff.
• Telegram: add telegram.draftChunk to tune draft streaming chunking for streamMode: "block". (#667) — thanks @rubyrunsstuff.
• Tests/Agents: add regression coverage for workspace tool path resolution and bash cwd defaults.
• iOS/Android: enable stricter concurrency/lint checks; fix Swift 6 strict concurrency issues + Android lint errors (ExifInterface, obsolete SDK check). (#662) — thanks @KristijanJovanovski.
• Auth: read Codex CLI keychain tokens on macOS before falling back to ~/.codex/auth.json, preventing stale refresh tokens from breaking gateway live tests.
• iOS/macOS: share AsyncTimeout, require explicit bridgeStableID on connect, and harden tool display defaults (avoids missing-resource label fallbacks).
• Telegram: serialize media-group processing to avoid missed albums under load.
• Signal: handle dataMessage.reaction events (signal-cli SSE) to avoid broken attachment errors. (#637) — thanks @neist.
• Docs: showcase entries for ParentPay, R2 Upload, iOS TestFlight, and Oura Health. (#650) — thanks @henrino3.
• Agents: repair session transcripts by dropping duplicate tool results across the whole history (unblocks Anthropic-compatible APIs after retries).
• Tests/Live: reset the gateway session between model runs to avoid cross-provider transcript incompatibilities (notably OpenAI Responses reasoning replay rules).

2026.1.9

Highlights

• Microsoft Teams provider: polling, attachments, outbound CLI send, per-channel policy.
• Models/Auth expansion: OpenCode Zen + MiniMax API onboarding; token auth profiles + auth order; OAuth health in doctor/status.
• CLI/Gateway UX: message subcommands, gateway discover/status/SSH, /config + /debug, sandbox CLI.
• Provider reliability sweep: WhatsApp contact cards/targets, Telegram audio-as-voice + streaming, Signal reactions, Slack threading, Discord stability.
• Auto-reply + status: block-streaming controls, reasoning handling, usage/cost reporting.
• Control UI/TUI: queued messages, session links, reasoning view, mobile polish, logs UX.

Breaking

• CLI: clawdbot message now subcommands (message send|poll|...) and requires --provider unless only one provider configured.
• Commands/Tools: /restart and gateway restart tool disabled by default; enable with commands.restart=true.

New Features and Changes

• Models/Auth: OpenCode Zen onboarding (#623) — thanks @magimetal; MiniMax Anthropic-compatible API + hosted onboarding (#590, #495) — thanks @mneves75, @tobiasbischoff.
• Models/Auth: setup-token + token auth profiles; clawdbot models auth order {get,set,clear}; per-agent auth candidates in /model status; OAuth expiry checks in doctor/status.
• Agent/System: claude-cli runner; session_status tool (and sandbox allow); adaptive context pruning default; system prompt messaging guidance + no auto self-update; eligible skills list injection; sub-agent context trimmed.
• Commands: /commands list; /models alias; /usage alias; /debug runtime overrides + effective config view; /config chat updates + /config get; config --section.
• CLI/Gateway: unified message tool + message subcommands; gateway discover (local + wide-area DNS-SD) with JSON/timeout; gateway status human-readable + JSON + SSH loopback; wide-area records include gatewayPort/sshPort/cliPath + tailnet DNS fallback.
• CLI UX: logs output modes (pretty/plain/JSONL) + colorized health/daemon output; global --no-color; lobster palette in onboarding/config.
• Dev ergonomics: gateway --dev/--reset + dev profile auto-config; C-3PO dev templates; dev gateway/TUI helper scripts.
• Sandbox/Workspace: sandbox list/recreate commands; sync skills into sandbox workspace; sandbox browser auto-start.
• Config/Onboarding: inline env vars; OpenAI API key flow to shared ~/.clawdbot/.env; Opus 4.5 default prompt for Anthropic auth; QuickStart auto-install gateway (Node-only) + provider picker tweaks + skip-systemd flags; TUI bootstrap prompt (tui --message); remove Bun runtime choice.
• Providers: Microsoft Teams provider (polling, attachments, outbound sends, requireMention, config reload/DM policy). (#404) — thanks @onutc
• Providers: WhatsApp broadcast groups for multi-agent replies (#547) — thanks @pasogott; inbound media size cap configurable (#505) — thanks @koala73; identity-based message prefixes (#578) — thanks @p6l-richard.
• Providers: Telegram inline keyboard buttons + callback payload routing (#491) — thanks @azade-c; cron topic delivery targets (#474/#478) — thanks @mitschabaude-bot, @nachoiacovino; [[audio_as_voice]] tag support (#490) — thanks @jarvis-medmatic.
• Providers: Signal reactions + notifications with allowlist support.
• Status/Usage: /status cost reporting + /cost lines; auth profile snippet; provider usage windows.
• Control UI: mobile responsiveness (#558) — thanks @carlulsoe; queued messages + Enter-to-send (#527) — thanks @YuriNachos; session links (#471) — thanks @HazAT; reasoning view; skill install feedback (#445) — thanks @pkrmf; chat layout refresh (#475) — thanks @rahthakor; docs link + new session button; drop explicit ui:install.
• TUI: agent picker + agents list RPC; improved status line.
• Doctor/Daemon: audit/repair flows, permissions checks, supervisor config audits; provider status probes + warnings for Discord intents and Telegram privacy; last activity timestamps; gateway restart guidance.
• Docs: Hetzner Docker VPS guide + cross-links (#556/#592) — thanks @Iamadig; Ansible guide (#545) — thanks @pasogott; provider troubleshooting index; hook parameter expansion (#532) — thanks @mcinteerj; model allowlist notes; OAuth deep dive; showcase refresh.
• Apps/Branding: refreshed iOS/Android/macOS icons (#521) — thanks @fishfisher.

Fixes

• Packaging: include MS Teams send module in npm tarball.
• Sandbox/Browser: auto-start CDP endpoint; proxy CDP out of container for attachOnly; relax Bun fetch typing; align sandbox list output with config images.
• Agents/Runtime: gate heartbeat prompt to default sessions; /stop aborts between tool calls; require explicit system-event session keys; guard small context windows; fix model fallback stringification; sessions_spawn inherits provider; failover on billing/credits; respect auth cooldown ordering; restore Anthropic OAuth tool dispatch + tool-name bypass; avoid OpenAI invalid reasoning replay; harden Gmail hook model defaults.
• Agent history/schema: strip/skip empty assistant/error blocks to prevent session corruption/Claude 400s; scrub unsupported JSON Schema keywords + sanitize tool call IDs for Cloud Code Assist; simplify Gemini-compatible tool/session schemas; require raw for config.apply.
• Auto-reply/Streaming: default audioAsVoice false; preserve audio_as_voice propagation + buffer audio blocks + guard voice notes; block reply ordering (timeout) + forced-block fence-safe; avoid chunk splits inside parentheses + fence-close breaks + invalid UTF-16 truncation; preserve inline directive spacing + allow whitespace in reply tags; filter NO_REPLY prefixes + normalize routed replies; suppress leakage with separate Reasoning; block streaming defaults (off by default, minChars/idle tuning) + coalesced blocks; dedupe followup queue; restore explicit responsePrefix default.
• Status/Commands: provider prefix in /status model display; usage filtering + provider mapping; auth label + usage snapshots (claude-cli fallback + optional claude.ai); show Verbose/Elevated only when enabled; compact usage/cost line + restore emoji-rich status; /status in directive-only + multi-directive handling; mention-bypass elevated handling; surface provider usage errors; wire /usage to /status; restore hidden gateway-daemon alias; fallback /model list when catalog unavailable.
• WhatsApp: vCard/contact cards (prefer FN, include numbers, show all contacts, keep summary counts, better empty summaries); preserve group JIDs + normalize targets; resolve @lid mappings/JIDs (Baileys/auth-dir) + inbound mapping; route queued replies to sender; improve web listener errors + remove provider name from errors; record outbound activity account id; fix web media fetch errors; broadcast group history consistency.
• Telegram: keep streamMode draft-only; long-poll conflict retries + update dedupe; grammY fetch mismatch fixes + restrict native fetch to Bun; suppress getUpdates stack traces; include user id in pairing; audio_as_voice handling fixes.
• Discord/Slack: thread context helpers + forum thread starters; avoid category parent overrides; gateway reconnect logs + HELLO timeout + stop provider after reconnect exhaustion; DM recipient parsing for numeric IDs; remove incorrect limited warning; reply threading + mrkdwn edge cases; remove ack reactions after reply; gateway debug event visibility.
• Signal: reaction handling safety; own-reaction matching (uuid+phone); UUID-only senders accepted; ignore reaction-only messages.
• MS Teams: download image attachments reliably; fix top-level replies; stop on shutdown + honor chunk limits; normalize poll providers/deps; pairing label fixes.
• iMessage: isolate group-ish threads by chat_id.
• Gateway/Daemon/Doctor: atomic config writes; repair gateway service entrypoint + install switches; non-interactive legacy migrations; systemd unit alignment + KillMode=process; node bridge keepalive/pings; Launch at Login persistence; bundle ClawdbotKit resources + Swift 6.2 compat dylib; relay version check + remove smoke test; regen Swift GatewayModels + keep agent provider string; cron jobId alias + channel alias migration + main session key normalization; heartbeat Telegram accountId resolution; avoid WhatsApp fallback for internal runs; gateway listener error wording; serveBaseUrl param; honor gateway --dev; fix wide-area discovery updates; align agents.defaults schema; provider account metadata in daemon status; refresh Carbon patch for gateway fixes; restore doctor prompter initialValue handling.
• Control UI/TUI: persist per-session verbose off + hide tool cards; logs tab opens at bottom; relative asset paths + landing cleanup; session labels lookup/persistence; stop pinning main session in recents; start logs at bottom; TUI status bar refresh + timeout handling + hide reasoning label when off.
• Onboarding/Configure: QuickStart single-select provider picker; avoid Codex CLI false-expiry warnings; clarify WhatsApp owner prompt; fix Minimax hosted onboarding (agents.defaults + msteams heartbeat target); remove configure Control UI prompt; honor gateway --dev flag.

Maintenance

• Dependencies: bump pi-* stack to 0.42.2.

• Dependencies: Pi 0.40.0 bump (#543) — thanks @mcinteerj.

• Build: Docker build cache layer (#605) — thanks @zknicker.

• Auth: enable OAuth token refresh for Claude Code CLI credentials (anthropic:claude-cli) with bidirectional sync back to Claude Code storage (file on Linux/Windows, Keychain on macOS). This allows long-running agents to operate autonomously without manual re-authentication (#654 — thanks @radek-paclt).

2026.1.8

Highlights

• Security: DMs locked down by default across providers; pairing-first + allowlist guidance.
• Sandbox: per-agent scope defaults + workspace access controls; tool/session isolation tuned.
• Agent loop: compaction, pruning, streaming, and error handling hardened.
• Providers: Telegram/WhatsApp/Discord/Slack reliability, threading, reactions, media, and retries improved.
• Control UI: logs tab, streaming stability, focus mode, and large-output rendering fixes.
• CLI/Gateway/Doctor: daemon/logs/status, auth migration, and diagnostics significantly expanded.

Breaking

• SECURITY (update ASAP): inbound DMs are now locked down by default on Telegram/WhatsApp/Signal/iMessage/Discord/Slack.
  • Previously, if you didn’t configure an allowlist, your bot could be open to anyone (especially discoverable Telegram bots).
  • New default: DM pairing (dmPolicy="pairing" / discord.dm.policy="pairing" / slack.dm.policy="pairing").
  • To keep old “open to everyone” behavior: set dmPolicy="open" and include "*" in the relevant allowFrom (Discord/Slack: discord.dm.allowFrom / slack.dm.allowFrom).
  • Approve requests via clawdbot pairing list <provider> + clawdbot pairing approve <provider> <code>.
• Sandbox: default agent.sandbox.scope to "agent" (one container/workspace per agent). Use "session" for per-session isolation; "shared" disables cross-session isolation.
• Timestamps in agent envelopes are now UTC (compact YYYY-MM-DDTHH:mmZ); removed messages.timestampPrefix. Add agent.userTimezone to tell the model the user’s local time (system prompt only).
• Model config schema changes (auth profiles + model lists); doctor auto-migrates and the gateway rewrites legacy configs on startup.
• Commands: gate all slash commands to authorized senders; add /compact to manually compact session context.
• Groups: whatsapp.groups, telegram.groups, and imessage.groups now act as allowlists when set. Add "*" to keep allow-all behavior.
• Auto-reply: removed autoReply from Discord/Slack/Telegram channel configs; use requireMention instead (Telegram topics now support requireMention overrides).
• CLI: remove update, gateway-daemon, gateway {install|uninstall|start|stop|restart|daemon status|wake|send|agent}, and telegram commands; move login/logout to providers login/logout (top-level aliases hidden); use daemon for service control, send/agent/wake for RPC, and nodes canvas for canvas ops.

Fixes

• CLI/Gateway/Doctor: daemon runtime selection + improved logs/status/health/errors; auth/password handling for local CLI; richer close/timeout details; auto-migrate legacy config/sessions/state; integrity checks + repair prompts; --yes/--non-interactive; --deep gateway scans; better restart/service hints.
• Agent loop + compaction: compaction/pruning tuning, overflow handling, safer bootstrap context, and per-provider threading/confirmations; opt-in tool-result pruning + compact tracking.
• Sandbox + tools: per-agent sandbox overrides, workspaceAccess controls, session tool visibility, tool policy overrides, process isolation, and tool schema/timeout/reaction unification.
• Providers (Telegram/WhatsApp/Discord/Slack/Signal/iMessage): retry/backoff, threading, reactions, media groups/attachments, mention gating, typing behavior, and error/log stability; long polling + forum topic isolation for Telegram.
• Gateway/CLI UX: clawdbot logs, cron list colors/aliases, docs search, agents list/add/delete flows, status usage snapshots, runtime/auth source display, and /status/commands auth unification.
• Control UI/Web: logs tab, focus mode polish, config form resilience, streaming stability, tool output caps, windowed chat history, and reconnect/password URL auth.
• macOS/Android/TUI/Build: macOS gateway races, QR bundling, JSON5 config safety, Voice Wake hardening; Android EXIF rotation + APK naming/versioning; TUI key handling; tooling/bundling fixes.
• Packaging/compat: npm dist folder coverage, Node 25 qrcode-terminal import fixes, Bun/Playwright/WebSocket patches, and Docker Bun install.
• Docs: new FAQ/ClawdHub/config examples/showcase entries and clarified auth, sandbox, and systemd docs.

Maintenance

• Skills additions (Himalaya email, CodexBar, 1Password).
• Dependency refreshes (pi-* stack, Slack SDK, discord-api-types, file-type, zod, Biome, Vite).
• Refactors: centralized group allowlist/mention policy; lint/import cleanup; switch tsx → bun for TS execution.

2026.1.5

Highlights

• Models: add image-specific model config (agent.imageModel + fallbacks) and scan support.
• Agent tools: new image tool routed to the image model (when configured).
• Config: default model shorthands (opus, sonnet, gpt, gpt-mini, gemini, gemini-flash).
• Docs: document built-in model shorthands + precedence (user config wins).
• Bun: optional local install/build workflow without maintaining a Bun lockfile (see docs/bun.md).

Fixes

• Control UI: render Markdown in tool result cards.
• Control UI: prevent overlapping action buttons in Discord guild rules on narrow layouts.
• Android: tapping the foreground service notification brings the app to the front. (#179) — thanks @Syhids
• Cron tool uses id for update/remove/run/runs (aligns with gateway params). (#180) — thanks @adamgall
• Control UI: chat view uses page scroll with sticky header/sidebar and fixed composer (no inner scroll frame).
• macOS: treat location permission as always-only to avoid iOS-only enums. (#165) — thanks @Nachx639
• macOS: make generated gateway protocol models Sendable for Swift 6 strict concurrency. (#195) — thanks @andranik-sahakyan
• macOS: bundle QR code renderer modules so DMG gateway boot doesn't crash on missing qrcode-terminal vendor files.
• macOS: parse JSON5 config safely to avoid wiping user settings when comments are present.
• WhatsApp: suppress typing indicator during heartbeat background tasks. (#190) — thanks @mcinteerj
• WhatsApp: mark offline history sync messages as read without auto-reply. (#193) — thanks @mcinteerj
• Discord: avoid duplicate replies when a provider emits late streaming text_end events (OpenAI/GPT).
• CLI: use tailnet IP for local gateway calls when bind is tailnet/auto (fixes #176).
• Env: load global $CLAWDBOT_STATE_DIR/.env (~/.clawdbot/.env) as a fallback after CWD .env.
• Env: optional login-shell env fallback (opt-in; imports expected keys without overriding existing env).
• Agent tools: OpenAI-compatible tool JSON Schemas (fix browser, normalize union schemas).
• Onboarding: when running from source, auto-build missing Control UI assets (bun run ui:build).
• Discord/Slack: route reaction + system notifications to the correct session (no main-session bleed).
• Agent tools: honor agent.tools allow/deny policy even when sandbox is off.
• Discord: avoid duplicate replies when OpenAI emits repeated message_end events.
• Commands: unify /status (inline) and command auth across providers; group bypass for authorized control commands; remove Discord /clawd slash handler.
• CLI: run clawdbot agent via the Gateway by default; use --local to force embedded mode.