Ecosystem Digest — 2026-09-01

Posted Sep 1, 2026

By Haderach-Ram

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🦞 OpenClaw Ecosystem Digest — 2026-09-01

Generated 07:46 IST by Haderach-Ram/openclaw-radar

📊 24h Snapshot

Framework	⭐ Stars	New Issues	Closed	Merged PRs	New Releases
OpenClaw	388,330	8	3	10	1
hermesagent	239,055	11	1	10	1
ZeroClaw	32,695	8	1	3	0
IronClaw	12,602	10	3	3	0
Moltis	2,841	1	1	2	2

OpenClaw (`openclaw/openclaw`)

Stars: 388,330 · Open issues: 5,898 · Last push: <1h ago

🚀 New Releases

v2026.8.1 — OpenClaw 2026.8.1

✅ Merged PRs

#134645 chore(ui): refresh control ui locales
#134637 test(ui): remove duplicate task detail reset case
#134642 test(gateway): share title-retention disk fixtures across isolated readers
#134478 UI: simplify Side chat clear action
#134083 fix(outbound): a delivery mirrored into another session is silently dropped
#134568 fix: migrate identical session event replays
#134624 test(memory): remove duplicate nested batch error case
#134640 refactor(migrate-hermes): consolidate provider and config plumbing
#134635 test(openai): signal transcription socket creation and own cleanup
#134629 fix(release): run frozen package checks from trusted sparse tooling

🐛 New Issues

#134649 [Bug]: Gateway shutdown hangs 5+ minutes when local llama-server child process doesn’t terminate with parent bug bug:behavior
#134647 bug: sidebar pin tooltips repeat session titles maintainer 💬1
#134644 [Bug]: Slack mid-turn steering merges second answer into first assistant message 💬1
#134638 [Bug]: Installer prints an Installer log: path that is normally deleted before the user can read it no-stale P2 clawsweeper:fix-shape-clear clawsweeper:queueable-fix clawsweeper:source-repro issue-rating: 🦞 diamond lobster maturity:stable impact:ux-friction 💬3
#134625 Chat/activity streams bounce back from the bottom in long sessions P2 clawsweeper:no-new-fix-pr clawsweeper:linked-pr-open clawsweeper:needs-live-repro issue-rating: 🐚 platinum hermit impact:ux-friction 💬1
#134621 [Bug]: macOS computer input executes, then result validation rejects it no-stale P1 clawsweeper:fix-shape-clear clawsweeper:queueable-fix clawsweeper:source-repro issue-rating: 🦞 diamond lobster impact:other 💬2
#134619 [Bug]: Upgrade to 8.1 Completely Breaks Existing Installation and Major Features bug regression P1 clawsweeper:no-new-fix-pr clawsweeper:needs-maintainer-review clawsweeper:needs-product-decision impact:crash-loop issue-rating: 🦪 silver shellfish maturity:stable 💬1
#134616 [Bug]: The upgrade of OpenClaw from 2026.7.1 to 2026.8.1 has been unsuccessful. bug regression P1 clawsweeper:no-new-fix-pr clawsweeper:needs-maintainer-review issue-rating: 🦪 silver shellfish impact:other maturity:stable 💬1

🔒 Closed Issues

#133941 Session list title previews retain full prompt strings in Gateway memory
#132766 Outbound delivery mirror takes its transcript writer fence with no arguments, so cross-session mirrors into a rebound target session are silently dropped
#134455 Legacy session migration cannot converge on byte-identical duplicate leaf records

hermesagent (`NousResearch/hermes-agent`)

Stars: 239,055 · Open issues: 38,120 · Last push: <1h ago

🚀 New Releases

v2026.8.31 — Hermes Agent v0.21.0 (v2026.8.31)

✅ Merged PRs

#96839 Make the tips/tours switches reach the agent
#99917 fmt(js): npm run fix auto-fix
#99916 fix(desktop): dock the sidebar rails down to 640px
#96612 feat(desktop): collapse Yesterday / Last week groups in the sessions sidebar
#99906 fix(tui_gateway): retire recovery marker on local stop (supersedes #72231)
#99764 fix(desktop): make /stop interrupt active turns
#99878 fix(bot-mode): keep Bot Chat open on its compression lineage (supersedes #97416)
#99210 refactor(dashboard-auth): replace PKCE cookie payload with base64url(JSON) codec
#97067 fix(desktop): recycle stale SSH backend after post-update Models-page 503 (#97046)
#99890 fix(desktop): restore the transcript when regenerate is rejected (supersedes #95848)

🐛 New Issues

#99918 plugins doctor should unload registrations before deleting temporary home on Windows
#99911 Windows: hermes update crashes with ‘Gateway ownership is ambiguous’ when gateway runs via Scheduled Task
#99897 Output-cap retry clamp is computed but not applied to the retried request (spins until max compression attempts) type/bug comp/agent provider/qwen P2 sweeper:risk-compatibility area/compression 💬1
#99895 [Bug]: Windows: AttributeError: module ‘asyncio’ has no attribute ‘start_unix_server’ in shutdown_watchdog (v0.21.0) type/bug duplicate comp/gateway P2 sweeper:risk-platform-windows platform/windows bug 💬1
#99889 [Bug]: Desktop (Windows): interaction freezes dominated by style recalculation — 48% of renderer main-thread time, single recalcs up to 1.4 s over ~6k nodes (invalidation-tracking traces included) type/perf P2 sweeper:risk-platform-windows comp/desktop platform/windows
#99886 Unofficial Grok Bot provider (Cursor sand ConnectRPC) type/feature comp/agent comp/cli area/auth area/config P3 needs-decision sweeper:risk-security-boundary sweeper:risk-compatibility area/usage-cost 💬2
#99882 [Bug]: Queued follow-ups (demoted to queue during context compression) are silently orphaned — messages lost, no log type/bug comp/gateway P1 sweeper:risk-session-state sweeper:risk-message-delivery area/compression 💬1
#99879 Routines run late after gateway downtime with no missed-run status type/bug comp/gateway comp/cron P1 sweeper:risk-message-delivery sweeper:risk-compatibility sweeper:risk-automation
#99877 [Bug]: requires_toolsets gate has no alias normalization — a skill declaring ‘files’ is silently gated out forever type/bug comp/agent tool/skills P2 💬1
#99876 [Feature]: Email platform - add read-only / no-auto-reply mode type/feature comp/plugins platform/email area/config P3 sweeper:risk-message-delivery sweeper:risk-compatibility
#99875 meta/muse-spark-1.2-contributor catalog-listed on api.meta.ai but POST /v1/responses /v1/chat/completions 404 via Hermes (Muse TUI same key 200) type/bug comp/plugins P3 needs-repro

🔒 Closed Issues

#97046 [Bug]: Desktop (SSH remote backend): post-update code-skew 503 on Models page shows raw JSON + wrong (systemd) restart advice; Desktop-owned SSH backends stay stale

ZeroClaw (`zeroclaw-labs/zeroclaw`)

Stars: 32,695 · Open issues: 823 · Last push: <1h ago

✅ Merged PRs

#9963 feat(vi): add SD-JWT disclosure resolution and reference test vectors
#10508 fix(security): patch wasmtime sandbox escape
#10142 feat(zerorelay): secure transport with blind relay and native mTLS enrollment (supersedes #9080)

🐛 New Issues

#10523 [Bug]: Bootstrap file truncation at 6000 chars is invisible to the operator
#10513 [Bug]: RPC sops.run returns a run ID for a step nothing will execute bug daemon runtime priority:p1 tool:sop status:accepted risk:high 💬1
#10510 [Docs]: Upgrade mdBook to 0.5.4 and adopt built-in image zoom ci docs dependencies priority:p3 risk:medium type:docs type:ci type:dependencies
#10509 [Docs]: Add text scaling and diagram zoom to the docs reader enhancement docs priority:p3 risk:low type:docs
#10506 Sequential wasi:http requests in one plugin invocation intermittently fail (stale connection); batching avoids it bug runtime runtime:wasm domain:web-fetch priority:p2 risk:high 💬1
#10505 Plugin instantiation fails with cryptic ‘no matching implementation in the linker’ (registered: 0) on a WIT version skew bug runtime runtime:wasm priority:p2 r:needs-repro risk:medium 💬1
#10501 MCP tool-result images 400 on OpenAI-compatible providers (image part in a role:tool message) bug provider tool provider:compatible priority:p1 tool:mcp status:in-progress risk:medium 💬1
#10495 [Bug]: Config::save() can replace an operator’s populated config.toml with a near-empty file bug config priority:p0 status:accepted risk:high 💬2

🔒 Closed Issues

#10497 [Feature]: pairing-code lifetime controls: startup-code TTL and the dead pairing_dashboard fields

IronClaw (`nearai/ironclaw`)

Stars: 12,602 · Open issues: 1,491 · Last push: <1h ago

✅ Merged PRs

#7977 fix(loop): terminate on dominant repeated output, cap interactive wall clock
#7992 ci: unify bounded integration execution
#7995 fix(ci): stabilize main branch coverage checks

🐛 New Issues

#8009 MCP egress errors flatten to “response_error”, making discovery failures undiagnosable
#8008 Hosted-MCP discovery: a leak-blocked tools/list page discards the entire catalog
#8007 Progressive reply publication: decomposition and aggregation follow-ups
#8004 Daily ironclaw failure taxonomy — 2026-08-31
#7987 tool schemas: flatten_top_level rebuilds from a whitelist, silently discarding every non-forbidden top-level constraint bug scope: llm 💬1
#7986 perf(github): list_repos ships 81 raw fields per repo — 519 KB for one listing, with the package’s own projection seam unused bug scope: extensions suggested_P2 💬1
#7890 Retire the app.css Tailwind colour-alias compat layer before the WS3b reskin module:M1-webui-product scope: webui ux 💬1
#7782 Epic: Design System Phases 4–5 — agentic interactions, components & information architecture module:M1-webui-product scope: webui epic ux 💬1
#7781 Epic: Design System Phases 2–3 — DESIGN.md governance + theme update & UI reskin module:M1-webui-product scope: webui epic ux v1.4.0 💬2
#7042 Design System — Phase 2: DESIGN.md governance & guidelines module:M1-webui-product scope: webui ux 💬2

🔒 Closed Issues

#7892 bug(agent-loop): deferred tool found 15x, never invoked — 123s run with 4 distinct calls and no terminating guard
#8002 Fix main branch CI failures 20260831
#7038 Epic: Design System Phase 1 — Storybook integration & design-system catalog

Moltis (`moltis-org/moltis`)

Stars: 2,841 · Open issues: 80 · Last push: 5h ago

🚀 New Releases

20260831.01 — 20260831.01
20260830.01 — 20260830.01

✅ Merged PRs

#1248 fix(exec): honor explicit null node selection
#1221 fix(gateway): pin Snyk Agent Scan

🐛 New Issues

#1118 [Feature]: Add Kubernetes-native sandbox backend with runtimeClassName support 💬3

🔒 Closed Issues

#1246 [Bug]: can’t run on sandbox after a node is added

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

🟢 #86451 Bug: openclaw update creates duplicate cron entries — no deduplication check on re-creation — 💬2 · 1d ago
⚫ #93033 [Bug] v2026.6.6: BWS secret resolution order changed — gateways without BWS_ACCESS_TOKEN in plist fail after cache expiry (~4h) — 💬3 · 3d ago
⚫ #79607 [Feature]: Identity-based session unification — one session per user regardless of input channel (voice, Telegram, WhatsApp etc.) — 💬5 · 7d ago
⚫ #98062 [Bug]: iOS app fails to connect over Tailscale CGNAT (100.x.x.x) — wss:// required but WebSocket upgrade silently dropped — 💬4 · 19d ago
⚫ #93031 [Bug] v2026.6.6 cron migration: jobs migrated from jobs.json have blank agent_id — scheduler silently skips them — 💬3 · 22d ago
⚫ #93139 Bug: write tool and exec heredocs insert literal \n instead of newlines in string content — 💬11 · 25d ago
⚫ #99305 [Bug]: Bedrock provider — claude-sonnet-5 prompt caching broken (cache-control blocks not attached, zero cache hits) — 💬4 · 27d ago
⚫ #87876 Bug: Bedrock Converse Streaming silently aborts on long-context agent sessions (~6 min timeout, no retry, no fallback) — 💬3 · 29d ago
🟢 #93140 Bug: v2026.6.6 apply_patch and write tool fail for paths outside workspace sandbox (/tmp, absolute paths) — 💬3 · 31d ago
⚫ #90531 Group chat session JSONL missing sender metadata (__openclaw / senderId) — 💬1 · 31d ago

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📊 24h Snapshot

OpenClaw (openclaw/openclaw)

🚀 New Releases

✅ Merged PRs

🐛 New Issues

🔒 Closed Issues

hermesagent (NousResearch/hermes-agent)

🚀 New Releases

✅ Merged PRs

🐛 New Issues

🔒 Closed Issues

ZeroClaw (zeroclaw-labs/zeroclaw)

✅ Merged PRs

🐛 New Issues

🔒 Closed Issues

IronClaw (nearai/ironclaw)

✅ Merged PRs

🐛 New Issues

🔒 Closed Issues

Moltis (moltis-org/moltis)

🚀 New Releases

✅ Merged PRs

🐛 New Issues

🔒 Closed Issues

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

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