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OpenClaw News Desk
A small editorial news hub for durable update pages, ecosystem context, and source-backed announcements.
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Curated Starting Points
Editor-picked entries to help you orient before diving into the full stack
OpenClaw Newsletter: Weekly Updates & How to Subscribe
Use the OpenClaw Blog RSS feed and the project's release channels to follow updates without an unverified newsletter promise.
Meet Peter Steinberger: The Mind Behind OpenClaw
A source-led profile of Peter Steinberger, from PSPDFKit and developer tooling to OpenClaw, its public foundation, and the operator lessons around agent infrastructure.
OpenClaw Platform Overview: Features & Capabilities
A practical OpenClaw overview covering the Gateway, channels, skills, model providers, and local-first deployment.
The Complete Guide to OpenClaw: From Zero to AI-Powered Productivity
A practical, evidence-led path from a fresh OpenClaw install to one bounded productivity workflow, with provider, channel, permission, extension, maintenance, and recovery checks.
OpenClaw Security: What You Need to Know
OpenClaw security depends on the trust boundary around the Gateway, not simply on whether the software runs locally. This guide maps documented advisories, affected configurations, practical controls, and residual risk.
OpenClaw vs ChatGPT: Why Local AI Matters
A balanced comparison of OpenClaw's self-managed Gateway with ChatGPT's hosted workspace and the tradeoffs that follow.
OpenClaw Platform Integrations: Connect Your AI Assistant Everywhere
Connect OpenClaw to your favorite messaging apps - WhatsApp, Telegram, Discord, Slack, and more. Complete setup guide.
Customizing OpenClaw Personality & Behavior
Make OpenClaw truly yours. Learn how to customize personality, behavior, responses, and system prompts.
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OpenClaw 2026.9.4: Skills, Plugins, and Safer Updates
The latest OpenClaw release adds unified plugin discovery, visible skill learning, prepared cloud sessions, GPT Image 2.5, terminal questions, and rollback safeguards.
OpenClaw 2026.9.3: Recovery, Browser, and Cloud Work
OpenClaw 2026.9.3 rehearses updates before activation and adds persistent skills, live browser tabs, revocable session links, and repository-backed cloud work.
OpenClaw 2026.9.1: Mermaid, Android, and Safer Updates
OpenClaw 2026.9.1 brings Mermaid diagrams to chat, a faster install-to-chat path, personal skill libraries, Android parity, and stronger update recovery.
OpenClaw 2.0 (2026.8.1): What Actually Changed
OpenClaw 2026.8.1, also called OpenClaw 2.0, rebuilt the web experience around sessions, memory, skills, connected devices, and recoverable work.
OpenClaw's summer 2026 local-hardware debate was really about deployment topology
OpenClaw's July work made local inference on a paired computer practical for short tasks. The important change was not a magic hardware specification, but a clearer split between Gateway, model host, node permissions, and recovery.
What summer 2026's OpenClaw agent research changed for practitioners
Three public benchmark efforts and a July evaluation snapshot moved the OpenClaw conversation from model scores to task design, harness behavior, cost, and failure evidence.
What public OpenClaw incident reports taught operators in May through July 2026
Public OpenClaw reports from May through July 2026 point to one practical lesson: a green Gateway is not proof that the operator's real workflow is healthy, durable, or recoverable.
OpenClaw's 2026 language update was a scoped locale rollout, not a global expansion
OpenClaw's May and July records document locale-aware CLI onboarding and wider app translation. The important detail is the boundary: coverage differs by surface, and English remains the fallback.
OpenClaw's plugin marketplace gained trust signals. Did moderation keep up?
Summer 2026 brought ClawHub Skill Cards, multi-scanner audits, reporting, and account actions. A June takedown and scanner-disagreement research show why those signals help without proving that a plugin is safe.