* docs: link macOS onboarding pages to app download
Add download handoff to both macOS app onboarding entry points so
first-time users can reach the app before following first-run steps.
- onboarding.md: add <Tip> linking to /platforms/macos#download
- onboarding-overview.md: update comparison table Command row and
macOS section opening sentence with download link
Closes#111338
* docs: tighten macOS download handoff
Co-authored-by: WangYan <wang.yan29@xydigit.com>
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Co-authored-by: Peter Steinberger <steipete@gmail.com>
* docs: recommend Node 26 in quickstart, landing, and platform install docs
- Problem: the user-facing quickstart (docs/start/getting-started.md), landing
page (docs/index.md), and Linux/macOS platform install docs still mark
Node 24 as the recommended default, contradicting maintainer PR #114399
('recommend Node 26 as the OpenClaw runtime') and the installer default
(scripts/install.sh NODE_DEFAULT_MAJOR=26, openclaw.mjs
RECOMMENDED_NODE_MAJOR=26). Users following the quickstart pick a slower,
heavier runtime against the project's stated recommendation.
- Fix: align the 4 missed user-facing install surfaces to 'Node 26
recommended', matching the phrasing already in docs/install/node.md,
docs/install/index.md, docs/install/ansible.md, docs/install/bun.md, and
docs/help/faq-first-run.md. Leave docs/start/setup.md (the source/dev
workflow where CI pins Node 24) unchanged on purpose.
- Verification: docs-only diff reviewed; supported-version floors
(22.22.3+/24.15+/25.9+) unchanged; consistent across all install surfaces.
* docs: complete Node 26 installation guidance
Co-authored-by: Santhi Prakash <b.santhiprakash@gmail.com>
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Co-authored-by: Peter Steinberger <steipete@gmail.com>
The runtime retirement already shipped: busy deferral is automatic,
reasoning payloads stay internal, the HEARTBEAT_OK ack budget is fixed at
300 chars, the Heartbeats prompt section follows cadence, and tool-error
warnings are always on. Docs still advertised skipWhenBusy, ackMaxChars,
includeReasoning, includeSystemPromptSection, and suppressToolErrorWarnings
as live options; this aligns seven pages with the fixed policies and the
strict heartbeat field list, locks the claw-profile skipWhenBusy rejection
diagnostic with a dedicated test, renames includeReasoning-era test/comments,
and canonicalizes claw add-plan workspace path assertions (macOS realpath).
* feat(models): add Claude Opus 5 support
* test(models): align Opus 5 setup fixtures
* test(models): update ambient Opus 5 detection
* fix(models): reconcile Opus 5 support with main
* feat(sdk): always persist media facts and ship facts-first replacements for legacy Media* surfaces
PR 1 of the media legacy retirement program (audit-frozen, 4 PRs).
- Every media-bearing user turn now persists normalized __openclaw.media
facts unconditionally while continuing to emit the legacy top-level
Media* projection byte-identically (dual-write bridge; the conditional
shouldPersistStructuredMediaEntries gate now always includes media).
- New replacement APIs, shipped before any removal: typed hook media
facts (media[], originalMedia[], mediaStagingPending) on message
events; {{AttachmentPath}}/{{AttachmentUrl}}/{{AttachmentContentType}}/
{{AttachmentDir}}/{{AttachmentIndex}} template variables; focused
openclaw/plugin-sdk/media-local-roots subpath split out of the
deprecated agent-media-payload facade.
- Every legacy surface carries @deprecated naming its replacement, under
one named compatibility record media-legacy-projection with the
operator-approved removeAfter 2026-10-01 (two release trains; deletion
additionally gates on a clean published-plugin artifact sweep).
- Generic transcript append invariant documented; SDK migration, hooks,
and configuration docs updated to the facts-first path.
Writer golden matrix proves legacy bytes and model prompt bytes are
unchanged while nested facts become unconditional. 2,189 broad media
tests green; SDK api-baseline regenerated on fresh-env Testbox.
* feat(sdk): register media-local-roots subpath exports and deprecation metadata
Completes PR 1: package export map for openclaw/plugin-sdk/media-local-roots
plus the deprecated-subpath inventory and doc metadata entries for the
media-legacy-projection record.
* chore(sdk): track media-local-roots entrypoint and deprecated-export budgets
* fix(sdk): keep deprecated MSTeams buildMediaPayload re-export through the compat window
Deleting shipped runtime-api re-exports belongs to retirement PR 4 after
the media-legacy-projection window; PR 1 only deprecates. Also formats
the migration-guide schedule table.
* docs: regenerate docs map for media migration additions
Each legacy heartbeat tasks: entry becomes an editable system-created cron
job (declaration key heartbeat-task:<agentId>:<hash>, per-occurrence
identity for duplicate names) that fires a guarded heartbeat wake carrying
the task prompt plus current monitor scratch context. Task cadence is now
independent of the base heartbeat interval; active-hours, busy-retry,
min-spacing, and flood guards are preserved, deferred payload-carrying
wakes are retained and retried after the spacing floor, and colliding
task/event wakes cannot starve each other.
openclaw doctor --fix migrates existing blocks: async parse/plan, then one
synchronous SQLite transaction that rereads the pinned scratch revision,
upserts job rows, and strips the tasks: block atomically — concurrent
doctors serialize on the database and a losing run aborts untouched.
Orphan fields, invalid intervals, and incomplete entries block migration
of their block with a clear finding instead of silent text loss. The
runtime tasks: parser is deleted; leftover text is ordinary scratch prose.
Nine Codex gpt-5.6-sol xhigh autoreview cycles; final verdict clean.
* feat(channels): add channel-owned setup contracts
* test(channels): align legacy setup fixtures
* chore(channels): regenerate config and SDK baselines after rebase
* fix(update): run fresh doctor after current-process core changes
* fix(channels): align add pre-scan with execution precedence
* style(cli): format channels-cli test additions
* fix(channels): restore option-before-positional channel resolution via metadata arity scan
* fix(channels): keep help flags out of metadata arity escalation
* test(update): mock fresh post-update doctor in current-process suites
* style: format review fixes and correct entrypoint mock type
* fix(channels): register only modern contract options for dual-publishing plugins
* test(update): align downgrade suites with fresh-doctor child invocation
* docs(channels): record empty-contract and input-forwarding invariants
* fix(line): keep the shipped --token switch as a channel access token alias
* fix(signal): stop treating exact cross-family loopback endpoints as bind-aligned
* chore(config): regenerate docs config baselines after second rebase
* style: format rebased channels add tests
* fix(channels): enforce field-key and flag-name agreement in setup contracts
* fix(signal): detect container endpoints for bare --http-url setup
* fix(signal): ignore unconfigured accounts in transport collision checks
* fix(channels): validate negated setup flags in contract and normalizer
* fix(signal): preserve existing transport kind when setup detection is unreachable
* style(signal): use direct boolean check in collision guard
* style(signal): type test config literals
* docs(update): record two-read design of fresh-doctor validation gate
* fix(channels): satisfy post-rebase architecture gates
* docs: refresh channel setup map
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Co-authored-by: Peter Steinberger <steipete@gmail.com>
* feat(onboarding): persist app recommendations once
* feat(onboarding): add self-naming birth sequence
* chore(wizard): hoist bootstrap-defer imports to the top of the module
* docs(bootstrap): persist agreed identity into IDENTITY.md and SOUL.md as well
* docs: regenerate docs map after onboarding plan merge
* fix(wizard): reuse a pending stored offer instead of rescanning apps
* fix(onboard): deduplicate bootstrap recommendations
* feat(onboard): add browser-first guided handoff
* chore: drop release-only CHANGELOG edit from browser-handoff branch
* fix(onboard): make browser handoff reach the gateway on real installs
The presence probe connected as a raw shared-auth client with a possibly
SecretRef-managed token, which the gateway rejects as an unpaired Control UI
client ("device identity required"), so the handoff never fired and always
fell through to the terminal hatch. Read presence as a CLI-mode loopback client
(the trusted path every openclaw command uses) so operator.read is granted, and
share that one auth path between the reachability gate and the wait loop. Also
short-circuit when gateway.controlUi.enabled is false so onboarding does not open
a dead dashboard URL and block for the full timeout.
* fix(onboard): share resolved target between handoff gate and wait
The reachability preflight now resolves the same target (and shared secret) the
wait loop uses, and presents the configured secret to the CLI-mode presence
read. Known remaining limitation: on fresh quickstart gateways whose auth token
is written to config but resolved differently at runtime, the presence read is
rejected with a token mismatch and the handoff falls back to the terminal hatch.
Tracked for follow-up before enabling the browser handoff by default.
* docs(onboarding): mark phase 3 browser handoff as held with diagnosis
* docs(onboarding): phase 3 proven end-to-end; token-mismatch hold was a test artifact
* fix(onboard): satisfy docs-map and test-type gates for the handoff branch
* refactor(onboard): split guided manual stage
* feat(onboarding): recommend plugins and skills from installed apps
Scan installed macOS apps during classic onboarding (TCC-free), gather
candidates from official catalogs + ClawHub search, let the configured
model pick genuine matches, and offer an opt-in multiselect install step.
Adds a device.apps node-host command (default-off sharing, Android-parity
envelope) so remote gateways can request a paired Mac's inventory, and a
wizard.appRecommendations kill switch. Custom setup-inference completions
no longer inherit the 32-token verification-probe output cap.
* feat(onboarding): recommend apps in guided flow
* fix(onboarding): harden app recommendations against ClawHub self-promotion
Third-party ClawHub skills are never pre-selected regardless of model tier
(publisher-controlled listing text reaches the matcher prompt and could
promote itself); their labels now say they install third-party code.
Installed-app scans follow symlinked .app bundles. Matcher output stays
bounded by the resolved model's own maxTokens budget (documented invariant).
* fix(onboarding): key official catalog candidates by resolved plugin id
Real catalog entries are package manifests without a top-level id; keying the
candidate map and channel/provider classification by entry.id collapsed the
whole official catalog into one undefined-keyed entry, so no official plugin
or channel was ever recommended. Regression test runs against the bundled
catalogs.
* fix(onboarding): satisfy lint, types, deadcode, and migration gates
Split the guided-onboarding test into a self-contained custodian suite to stay
under max-lines. Narrow app-recommendation exports (drop dead node-payload
normalizer, unexport internal types/helpers, route candidate tests through the
public API), replace map-spread with a helper, unexport device.apps result
types, add installedAppsSharing to node-host migration expectations, cast the
wizard multiselect mock, and regenerate the docs map.
* test(onboarding): register new live test in the shard classifier
* feat(onboard): guided onboarding becomes the custodian flow
Question zero asks for discovery consent up front (full access recommended,
guarded asks once or configures manually; persisted as wizard.accessMode and
honored on reruns). Discovery quietly collects auto-ladder failures into one
summary with details behind 'See other options', quips about detected coding
agents, and announces the working route as a default with an easy undo.
After inference and the memory offer (skipped when discovery was declined),
fresh installs auto-apply the standard setup plan and hatch the agent
directly in the terminal; configured installs (pre-existing model or gateway
config) stay verification-only and never reinstall or restart the Gateway
service. Setup-apply failures fall back to the conversational chat.
Remote-gateway onboarding keeps its legacy chat handoff explicitly.
listManualSetupInferenceOptions lists manual providers without scanning.
* docs(onboarding): add custodian redesign implementation plan (living doc)
* docs: regenerate docs map for onboarding-redesign page
* feat(migrate): add Hermes memory-only import and a shared memory-import core
* feat(onboarding): offer detected memory imports during CLI setup and guided onboarding
* feat(ui): show a first-run memory-import offer in Control UI onboarding mode
* feat(linux-app): open the first-run dashboard in onboarding mode
* feat(macos): add the onboarding memory-import page
* docs: document the onboarding memory-import page across surfaces
* chore(i18n): translate onboarding memory-import strings for control-ui and native locales
* refactor: keep memory-import internals unexported for deadcode gates
* fix(ci): resolve lint findings in onboarding memory import
* chore(i18n): refresh native inventory after lint refactor
* fix(ci): skip updater artifacts in the unsigned Linux companion PR lane
* chore(i18n): reconcile locale artifacts after rebase
User-facing name is now OpenClaw (the system speaks); internal code name is
system-agent. Gateway methods crestodian.* -> openclaw.chat/openclaw.setup.*,
agent tool -> openclaw, reserved agent ids openclaw + retired crestodian.
openclaw setup routes: onboarding flags -> onboard, -m/--yes -> system agent,
bare configured interactive -> OpenClaw chat, unconfigured -> onboarding.
Hidden crestodian CLI and /crestodian TUI aliases kept; docs moved to
docs/cli/openclaw.md with redirect stub. macOS/Android strings in lockstep.
Refs #107237
Restore the grouped provider/auth picker for fresh guided onboarding, keep secondary providers under More, expose OAuth and device-code methods, and bound the setup probe session identifier so ChatGPT login is not rejected by the prompt cache key limit.
* refactor(sessions): migrate runtime storage to sqlite
* test(sessions): fix sqlite CI regressions
* test(sessions): align remaining sqlite fixtures
* fix(codex): require sqlite trajectory recorder
* test(sessions): align orphan recovery sqlite fixture
* test(sessions): align sqlite rebase fixtures
* fix(sessions): finish current-main integration of the sqlite flip
Resolve the whole-store SDK removal across its owner boundary: drop the
loadSessionStore re-export and the registry whole-store wrappers, wire
hasTrackedActiveSessionRun into gateway chat, complete the
preserveLockedHarnessIds cleanup contract, flip the codex thread-history
import to storePath targets, and port remaining main-side tests from
file-store helpers to session accessor reads.
* chore: drop committed pebbles log, revert plugin-inspector bump, refresh generated docs
Remove the 1.8k-line .pebbles/events.jsonl work log from the branch, restore
the plugin-inspector advisory lane to main's pinned 0.3.10 so the supply-chain
bump gets its own review, and regenerate docs_map, the plugin SDK API baseline,
and the export-surface ratchet for the merged tree.
* feat(sessions): keep archived transcripts by default with zstd cold storage
Codex-style retention: deleting or resetting a session archives its
transcript as a zstd-compressed JSONL artifact (plain when the runtime
lacks node:zlib zstd) and keeps it until the disk budget evicts oldest
first. resetArchiveRetention now governs both deleted and reset archives
and defaults to keep; maxDiskBytes defaults to 2gb so retention stays
bounded, with archives evicted before live sessions. The cron reaper
follows the same knob instead of deleting archives on its own timer.
* fix(state): converge agent DB migration lineages and bound database growth
Merge coherence: run both structure-gated legacy memory-schema repairs
(flip-lineage drop, main-lineage identity rebuild) before the flip
migration so pre-flip v1/v2 and pre-merge flip v1/v4 databases all
converge, and hoist foreign_keys=OFF outside the schema transaction
where the pragma was silently ignored and the v1 sessions rebuild
cascade-deleted session_entries.
Growth guards: fresh agent DBs enable auto_vacuum=INCREMENTAL, WAL
maintenance releases freed pages in bounded passes (never a blocking
full VACUUM), and doctor reports state/agent DB bloat from freelist
stats.
* fix(codex): resolve the store path for thread-history import via the SDK
The supervision catalog passed the legacy sessionFile locator to the
storePath-targeted transcript mirror; resolve the agent store path with
the session-store SDK helper instead of a runtime-object seam so test
fakes and headless callers need no extra surface. Drop the obsolete
missing-session-id preprocessing case: sessions rows are NOT NULL on
session_id and upsert repairs id-less patches at write time.
* fix(sessions): fail safe on malformed disk-budget config and doctor stat errors
A malformed explicit maxDiskBytes disables the budget instead of
falling back to the destructive 2gb default the user never chose, and
the doctor bloat check skips databases whose paths stat-fail instead of
aborting doctor.
* fix(sessions): complete sqlite conflict translations
* test(sqlite): align hardening checks with maintenance
* test(sessions): inspect compressed transcript archives
* fix(tests): await session seeds and drop unused helpers flagged by CI lint
The five unawaited writeSessionStoreSeed calls raced their SQLite seeds
against the assertions, failing compact shards; the bloat probe drops a
useless initializer and the merged tests drop now-unused helpers.
* test(sessions): type legacy proof events directly
* test(sessions): align hardening contracts
* perf(sessions): read usage transcript sizes from SQL aggregates
Usage/cost scans walked every session and materialized every transcript
event just to re-stringify it for a byte estimate — the #86718 stall
class reborn on the DB. readTranscriptStatsSync sums stored JSON bytes
in SQLite without loading a single row.
* fix(sessions): re-root foreign-root transcript paths onto the current sessions dir
Restored backups, moved OPENCLAW_STATE_DIR, and rehearsal copies carry
absolute sessionFile paths from the old root; the containment fallback
kept those foreign paths, so migration read (and would archive) files in
the original root and reported local copies missing. Re-root the
canonical agents/<id>/sessions suffix onto the current dir when the file
exists there; genuine cross-root layouts still fall through unchanged.
* test(agents): seed harness admission through sqlite
* fix(sqlite): close agent db on pragma setup failure
* fix(doctor): compact and retrofit incremental auto-vacuum after session import
The migration is the sanctioned offline window: post-import compact
reclaims import churn and applies auto_vacuum=INCREMENTAL to databases
created before the fresh-DB pragma existed, so runtime maintenance can
release pages in bounded passes on every install.
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Co-authored-by: Peter Steinberger <steipete@gmail.com>
* feat(onboard): guided CLI onboarding with live AI verification and classic fallback
Interactive `openclaw onboard` (and bare `openclaw` on a fresh install) now
runs a guided flow with macOS-app parity: detect existing AI access, live-test
candidates with a real completion before persisting anything, walk down the
ladder on failure with mapped reasons, and offer verified manual API-key entry
from installed provider manifests (masked input). In-flow escapes: classic
wizard, Crestodian chat, skip-AI. Classic wizard gains an optional post-auth
live verification step. `--classic`, `--modern`, and `--non-interactive`
contracts unchanged. Docs corrected for post-#99935 routing.
Closes#101851
* improve(onboard): quiet probe diagnostics in wizard TTY, carry risk ack into classic escape
Candidate live-tests during guided setup are probes: rename their run id and
lane to the existing probe conventions (logging/subsystem.ts console
suppression, command-queue quiet probe lanes) so expected failures stop
leaking raw diagnostics into the Clack UI; file diagnostics unchanged. The
classic-wizard escape now passes the already-collected risk acknowledgement
through instead of re-prompting in the same session.
* fix(onboard): quiet the session-derived setup-inference probe lane too
The live-test run enqueues on two lanes: the explicit probe lane and one
derived from its temp session key. Extend the shared quiet-probe predicate to
cover the derived lane so a failing candidate cannot leak lane-task
diagnostics into the wizard TTY.
* improve(onboard): suppress subsystem console output during wizard live tests
Provider-transport subsystem loggers (model-fetch start/response, transport
errors) carry no run id, so probe suppression cannot catch them and a failing
candidate printed raw log lines into the Clack TTY. Reuse the TUI console
subsystem-filter seam via a finally-safe scoped helper around guided
activation and the classic live-verify; file logging is unchanged and the
gateway (macOS app) surface is unaffected.
* fix(onboard): never auto-replace a configured model when its live check fails
The re-run verification probe executes outside the configured workspace (setup
never runs workspace plugins), so a workspace-backed current model can fail
the check while working fine in the agent. Stop the auto ladder on an
existing-model failure and hand the decision to the manual stage instead of
silently persisting a different candidate as the default. Docs note the
fail-safe and the workspace caveat.
* feat(onboard): two-way switching between Crestodian chat and the menu wizards
From the chat, `open setup wizard`, `open classic wizard`, and `open channel
wizard for <channel>` hand off to the guided flow, the classic wizard, or the
masked `channels add` wizard after the chat TUI tears down (mirrors the
open-tui handoff; gateway surface gets a text pointer instead). The hosted
channel wizard no longer dead-ends at sensitive steps — it offers the switch
and remembers the channel. New read-only `channel info <channel>` operation
and ring-zero action surface label, blurb, configured state, and the real
docs URL from channel-setup discovery so the assistant can explain Slack or
Telegram prerequisites instead of guessing; both prompts instruct it to use
them. `channels add --channel <id>` now preselects the channel. Docs cover
the interchangeable flows.
* fix(onboard): avoid param reassignment in open-setup handoff
* improve(onboard): separate ask-about vs connect intent in channel prompt guidance
Live test showed the agent detouring an explicit connect request through
channel_info because the guidance said to consult it first. Both prompts now
distinguish asking about a channel (channel info + docs link) from asking to
connect (connect right away).
* fix(channels): mark channel token entry as sensitive input
The shared single-token prompt lacked sensitive:true, so terminal wizards
echoed pasted channel tokens and the Crestodian chat bridge (which refuses
plain-text secrets based on this flag) hosted the Telegram token step in
visible chat. Found live-testing the chat-to-wizard switch; pre-existing on
main but load-bearing for the masked-wizard contract this PR documents.
* fix(onboard): restore terminal state around the guided flow's TUI launch
Mirror the classic finalize handoff so the chat TUI never inherits the wizard
prompter's raw/paused terminal state on the default first-run path.
* fix(channels): type the token prompter mock for the sensitive-flag assertion
* fix(gateway): map the TUI-only open-setup action to none for app clients
Engine-side surface gating already prevents open-setup replies on the gateway
surface; this keeps the client-visible action enum stable even if that gate
ever regresses. (Reviewed with the switching round; missed in its commit.)
* docs: regenerate docs map for onboarding page changes
Fixes rough edges in the standalone install flow (install.sh -> openclaw onboard), found and verified by running the flow in a clean container and on a clean macOS Tahoe VM:
- Provider auth setup failures (e.g. the preselected "Anthropic Claude CLI" option on a host without a Claude CLI login) no longer kill the whole wizard. The interactive wizard notes the error and returns to the provider picker; explicit --auth-choice automation still fails fast.
- Onboarding config now persists before the channel/search/skills steps, so a crash or cancel during channel pairing no longer loses auth + gateway decisions.
- With model auth skipped, finalize no longer auto-sends the "Wake up, my friend!" message (which always failed with a provider auth error). The hatch seed is gated on usable model credentials and a "Model auth missing" note explains the next step.
- Search provider picker no longer labels non-key credentials (e.g. SearXNG base URL) as "API key required".
- install.sh no longer warns "PATH missing npm global bin dir" with manual fix steps after it already persisted the export line; it reports the PATH was updated and how to reload the current shell.
- Removed the dead interactive hooks onboarding step (setupInternalHooks); quickstart enables default hooks silently.
Verified live per fix in a clean Debian/Node 24 container and on a clean macOS 26.5 Parallels VM (wizard re-prompt, SearXNG label), plus wizard/onboard test suites and tsgo:core.
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