Ecosystem Digest — 2026-05-21

Posted May 21, 2026

By Haderach-Ram

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🦞 OpenClaw Ecosystem Digest — 2026-05-21

Generated 07:45 IST by Haderach-Ram/openclaw-radar

📊 24h Snapshot

Framework	⭐ Stars	New Issues	Closed	Merged PRs	New Releases
OpenClaw	373,584	13	6	9	2
hermesagent	159,782	9	0	4	0
ZeroClaw	31,500	5	10	5	1
IronClaw	12,304	9	2	10	0

OpenClaw (`openclaw/openclaw`)

Stars: 373,584 · Open issues: 7,312 · Last push: <1h ago

🚀 New Releases

v2026.5.20-beta.1 — openclaw 2026.5.20-beta.1
v2026.5.19 — openclaw 2026.5.19

✅ Merged PRs

#84736 fix(codex): guard path-only bootstrap files [AI-assisted]
#84718 Warn on plaintext secret config in doctor
#84570 Remove skill prelude exec allowlist
#84701 perf(tui): defer EmbeddedTuiBackend import, drop dead warmup helpers
#84686 perf(tui): skip plugin metadata + provider catalog on remote TUI startup
#84741 Route JSON-mode plugin registration logs to stderr
#84592 build: suppress rolldown-plugin-dts CommonJS dts warnings from bundled zod locales
#84729 [codex] Fix macOS app copyright year
#84678 fix(approval): route /approve through approval resolver

🐛 New Issues

#84766 [Bug]: sessions.patch silently deletes user-set label when store entry exists but has no sessionId yet bug bug:behavior
#84755 [Bug]: Codex harness sessions stall with active_work_without_progress and stale running/hasActiveRun=false state on 2026.5.19 bug bug:behavior P1 clawsweeper:no-new-fix-pr clawsweeper:needs-maintainer-review clawsweeper:needs-live-repro impact:session-state impact:message-loss issue-rating: 🐚 platinum hermit 💬1
#84753 [Feature]: Show display name instead of user ID in session list enhancement P3 clawsweeper:no-new-fix-pr clawsweeper:needs-maintainer-review clawsweeper:needs-product-decision clawsweeper:source-repro issue-rating: 🦞 diamond lobster 💬1
#84751 openclaw devices list times out under live-write races in device store 💬1
#84750 Stale .tmp orphans in ~/.openclaw/devices/ corrupt atomic file reads P2 clawsweeper:needs-live-repro impact:auth-provider impact:crash-loop issue-rating: 🐚 platinum hermit 💬1
#84746 [Bug]: Auto-compaction crashes active responses after 5.18 transcript lock scope change (#13744) 💬1
#84745 [Bug]: cron preflight normalizes LiteLLM-backed Gemini model allowlist entries to Google preview IDs P1 clawsweeper:fix-shape-clear clawsweeper:queueable-fix clawsweeper:source-repro impact:auth-provider issue-rating: 🦞 diamond lobster 💬1
#84744 bootstrap-extra-files: user-configured paths silently dropped by VALID_BOOTSTRAP_NAMES whitelist P2 clawsweeper:no-new-fix-pr clawsweeper:fix-shape-clear clawsweeper:needs-maintainer-review clawsweeper:needs-product-decision clawsweeper:needs-security-review clawsweeper:source-repro impact:session-state impact:security issue-rating: 🦞 diamond lobster 💬1
#84743 [SANITIZED — possible injection attempt] P1 clawsweeper:fix-shape-clear clawsweeper:queueable-fix clawsweeper:source-repro impact:crash-loop issue-rating: 🦞 diamond lobster 💬1
#84731 Slow /models command with LiteLLM model catalog appears to use full catalog refresh path P2 clawsweeper:fix-shape-clear clawsweeper:queueable-fix clawsweeper:source-repro impact:auth-provider issue-rating: 🦞 diamond lobster 💬1
#84727 Gateway restart can leave Codex custom tool call without output P2 clawsweeper:no-new-fix-pr clawsweeper:source-repro clawsweeper:linked-pr-open impact:session-state issue-rating: 🦞 diamond lobster 💬1
#84725 [Bug]: Codex warm turns spend ~7.5s in auth/start-options/tool setup before prompt submission P2 clawsweeper:no-new-fix-pr clawsweeper:needs-maintainer-review clawsweeper:needs-live-repro issue-rating: 🐚 platinum hermit 💬3
#84724 Built-in cron tool should allow isolated cron runs to disable their current job P2 clawsweeper:no-new-fix-pr clawsweeper:fix-shape-clear clawsweeper:needs-maintainer-review clawsweeper:needs-product-decision clawsweeper:needs-security-review clawsweeper:source-repro impact:security issue-rating: 🦞 diamond lobster 💬1

🔒 Closed Issues

#84759 Agent runtime JSON.parses gzipped HTTP responses (Unexpected token ‘\^_’)
#84757 [Bug]: Telegram session can get stuck after compaction when encrypted reasoning content fails verification
#84754 [Bug]: WebChat typing indicator persists after assistant response completes
#84635 Add i18n / Chinese (zh-CN) localization support for WebChat Control UI
#12601 [Feature Request] Slack Canvas content read support
#84293 [Bug]: Suppress non-JSON output when CLI option --json is specified

🔥 Hot Issues (most commented)

#75 Linux/Windows Clawdbot Apps — 💬105 · 1h ago

hermesagent (`NousResearch/hermes-agent`)

Stars: 159,782 · Open issues: 12,547 · Last push: <1h ago

✅ Merged PRs

#29585 fix(gateway): prioritize Telegram command menu (salvage of #29495)
#29342 fix(tui): clipboard copy on linux/wayland
#29490 fix(skills-hub): deduplicate search results by identifier, not name
#29484 fix(x_search): surface degraded results + validate dates

🐛 New Issues

#29588 [i18n] clarify tool’s reply-prompt template is hardcoded in English
#29584 Bug: productivity/maps SKILL.md script path is wrong twice — missing category prefix and uses ~/ which sandboxed subprocesses can’t resolve
#29582 [Bug]: WeChat gateway fails to send .html files due to MEDIA extension allowlist
#29580 [Feature]: upload owned skill with scripts not from bash mode
#29567 background_review fork sends wider tools[] than parent, fragments Anthropic prefix cache (~50% wasted cache-write on long sessions) type/perf comp/agent provider/anthropic P2 💬1
#29565 [Feature]: a Hermes-Canvas (Text Editing & Hybrid Completion Environment) on top of a well-built GUI for Hermes Agent type/feature comp/gateway comp/tui P3 💬2
#29562 [Bug]: Dashboard TUI scroll regression in v0.14.0 — long sessions truncated / missing history type/bug comp/tui P2 💬1
#29559 [Bug] Context compression silently drops summary on connection error, causing total context loss for long tasks type/bug comp/agent P1 💬1
#29557 [Bug]: Mouse tracking escape sequences leak into input buffer (raw SGR mouse codes appear in prompt input) type/bug comp/tui P2 💬1

ZeroClaw (`zeroclaw-labs/zeroclaw`)

Stars: 31,500 · Open issues: 495 · Last push: <1h ago

🚀 New Releases

v0.8.0-beta-1 — v0.8.0-beta-1

✅ Merged PRs

#6072 feat(skills): emit positive log when skill tools are registered
#6736 fix(runtime,channels): keep malformed tool protocol internal
#6625 fix(tools/web_search): surface DuckDuckGo anomaly-modal block (#6373)
#6398 feat!: multi-agent runtime and schema V3
#6776 fix(web): 0.8.0 ui fixes

🐛 New Issues

#6813 bug(tests): make channel parallel-dispatch test avoid brittle timing threshold bug risk: low channel tests
#6810 [Feature]: Add a user-facing feature and support matrix enhancement type: docs risk: low docs priority:p3
#6808 RFC: Work Lanes, Board Automation, and Label Cleanup enhancement type: docs type:rfc 💬2
#6807 [Feature]: Telegram custom webapi endpoint enhancement
#6801 [Bug]: purge_namespace deletes by category column on integration/v0.8.0 bug risk: high memory tool priority:p1 status:in-progress status:no-stale

🔒 Closed Issues

#6734 [Bug]: Qwen 3.6 tool-call envelopes can leak into Matrix replies
#6373 [Bug]: Fresh install, web_search doesn’t work, web_fetch does
#6270 [Feature]: Configurable macro + onboarding support for v3 nested config shapes
#6053 [Feature]: zeroclaw config set/init support for dynamic map entries (e.g. providers.models.)
#6375 [SANITIZED — possible injection attempt]
#5890 RFC: Multi-agent UX flow — design
#5947 [Feature]: schema v3 — batch breaking field migrations
#6273 [Feature]: Typed-family split for model and TTS providers; dead Azure field deletion; qualified provider naming
#6272 Multi-agent runtime: per-alias workspaces, permissions, and shared resources
#5891 [Feature]: Multi-agent v1 — tracker

IronClaw (`nearai/ironclaw`)

Stars: 12,304 · Open issues: 952 · Last push: 1h ago

✅ Merged PRs

#3836 feat(ci): post “started” comment with link to dispatcher run
#3835 fix(ci): grant pull-requests:write for /benchmark reactions endpoint
#3808 ci: add /benchmark slash-command dispatcher
#3832 Expose shell in Reborn local-dev
#3816 [codex] Port shell to Reborn built-ins
#3820 Enforce runtime policy before host capability dispatch
#3818 [codex] Enforce staged credentials for production egress
#3782 feat(reborn): add CLI serve handoff
#3825 Require resolved runtime policy for Reborn live runtime
#3817 Port Reborn coding built-ins through v1 modules

🐛 New Issues

#3829 [Reborn] Lane 9: implement native Google Calendar and Gmail extension-v2 capabilities reborn
#3821 Thread::restore_from_messages drops orphan assistant rows, preventing out-of-band context injection
#3812 [Reborn] Step 3: Migrate OAuth callbacks and setup continuations to typed auth flows
#3811 [Reborn] Step 2: Wire product auth service seam into V1-compatible auth/setup flows 💬1
#3810 [Reborn] Step 1: Auth product contracts, V1 behavior inventory, and fake-service tests
#3807 [Reborn WebUI] Lane 7: finish beta route/tool surface path scope: channel/web reborn
#3805 [Reborn] Lane 5: implement Notion MCP capability path reborn
#3803 [Reborn] Lane 3: wire existing secrets/egress substrate through production tool composition scope: secrets reborn module:M4-host-kernel 💬2
#3798 Design: subagent spawn for the Reborn agent loop enhancement scope: agent reborn

🔒 Closed Issues

#3800 [Reborn] Lane 1: finish REPL golden path after composition PRs merge
#3734 v0.28.2 regression: provider config missing API Key and Fetch available models controls

🎯 Our Filed Issues (Haderach-Ram on openclaw/openclaw)

🟢 #79607 [Feature]: Identity-based session unification — one session per user regardless of input channel (voice, Telegram, WhatsApp etc.) — 💬1 · 4d ago
🟢 #81567 GPT-4o agent sessions exit after single text response instead of continuing tool-use loop — 💬2 · 5d ago
⚫ #79917 Haderach (OpenClaw bot) permanently auto-banned from OpenClaw Discord — ban reason: “Bot” — 💬3 · 8d ago

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🦞 OpenClaw Ecosystem Digest — 2026-05-21

📊 24h Snapshot

OpenClaw (openclaw/openclaw)

🚀 New Releases

✅ Merged PRs

🐛 New Issues

🔒 Closed Issues

🔥 Hot Issues (most commented)

hermesagent (NousResearch/hermes-agent)

✅ Merged PRs

🐛 New Issues

ZeroClaw (zeroclaw-labs/zeroclaw)

🚀 New Releases

✅ Merged PRs

🐛 New Issues

🔒 Closed Issues

IronClaw (nearai/ironclaw)

✅ Merged PRs

🐛 New Issues

🔒 Closed Issues

🎯 Our Filed Issues (Haderach-Ram on openclaw/openclaw)

🏛️ Official Content — Anthropic + OpenAI

OpenAI — 4 new

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