Shipped alpha tags carry a dedicated ## X-alpha.N heading with no base
section (see v2026.6.20-alpha.1's tagged CHANGELOG.md); the renderer and
candidate provenance now prefer that dedicated heading for alpha and
correction tags while beta/stable remain pinned to the stable base
section per #103222.
Codex review + test findings on the pipeline convergence:
- candidate changelog provenance now validates the same section the
renderer publishes (correction tags may carry their own heading) via a
shared correctionVersionForTag helper
- guard_existing_public_release accepts a canonical proofless body with
intact dependency evidence, matching the renderer's documented
proof-omitted-at-limit state; retries re-append the proof
- ledgerFor regains main's noteReferences threading so prose-cited PRs
keep their contribution-record rows, and the ledger/verify tests pin
the merged entry shape (externalReferences) and highlight gate
Two competing release-notes pipelines existed: the release branch's
hardened render/verify/provenance pipeline (a486f3ab08 + dcee1da876,
battle-tested by 2026.7.1) and main's lighter prepare-github-release-notes
size gate (#103222). Repo policy is one canonical path; the release-branch
pipeline wins and main's unique value is grafted in:
- scripts/render-github-release-notes.mjs becomes the canonical release
body renderer (full/compact 125k char+byte modes, tag-pinned record
link, verification tail, canonical shipped-baseline format), now also
preferring a correction tag's dedicated changelog section (from
prepare's heading matrix).
- verify-release-notes.mjs is a three-way merge: release's --shipped-ref
cumulative baselines, provenance checks, highlights gate, and the
excluded-record rewrite fix, plus main's compact contribution rows,
externalReferences threading, and both-heading parser compat.
- release-candidate-checklist.mjs gains validateCandidateCheckout and
changelog-provenance gates that run before any dispatch.
- openclaw-release-publish.yml keeps main's fail-before-mutation early
notes gate (retargeted to the renderer) and adopts release's
render/verify_release_tag_target/canonical_release_body_matches flow.
- scripts/prepare-github-release-notes.mjs and its test are deleted;
release-notes-ledger.test.ts stays and pins the merged verify exports.
- .gitignore tracks every repo skill for Git-aware syncs; SKILL.md
runbooks and RELEASING.md document the converged contract.
* feat(channels): narrated progress drafts + activity receipt on the final answer
Progress mode replaces raw tool lines with short utility-model narration of
what the agent is doing (streaming.progress.narration, default on, requires
an explicit utilityModel). On Discord the final answer now carries the
-# activity receipt and the working draft is deleted once the answer lands,
so busy channels keep no orphaned tool log above the reply.
Formatting verified remotely via Testbox oxfmt --check (hook bypassed:
no node_modules in this worktree).
* fix(channels): keep narration toggle independent of channel-default stream mode
Discord resolves its own progress default, so the resolver must not re-derive
mode with the generic partial fallback (narration was off for unset config).
* fix(auto-reply): honor status-only command text in narration model input
streaming.progress.commandText: "status" hides raw exec/bash text from the
channel draft; narration input now mirrors that policy so the utility model
never receives more command detail than the draft shows (Codex review P2).
Formatting verified remotely via Testbox oxfmt --check.
* fix(auto-reply): share the draft's command-tool set for narration and regen channel metadata
Reuse isCommandToolName (exec|shell|bash) so narration's commandText policy
matches the draft formatter exactly, and regenerate bundled channel config
metadata for the new streaming.progress.narration key (Codex review round 2).
Gates verified on Testbox: config:channels:check, oxfmt --check, 4 test shards.
* fix(channels): clear stale narration when the narrator stops mid-turn
An empty narration update now falls the draft back to raw tool lines, and the
narrator emits that clear when it disables after consecutive failures or the
per-turn cap, so drafts never pin stale status text (Codex review round 3).
Gates verified on Testbox: oxfmt --check + 4 test shards.
* chore(config): regen bundled channel metadata after rebase onto main
* chore: CI fixups — lint nits, test harness types, docs map, SDK surface budget
Two deliberate public SDK additions (resolveChannelStreamingProgressNarration,
isCommandToolName via the streaming wildcard re-export) bump the pinned
public-surface budgets to current counts (exports 10488, callable 5235).
Gates verified on Testbox: oxfmt, targeted oxlint, docs:map:check,
config:channels:check, check:test-types, 5 test shards.
Codex review round four: workflows execute helper scripts from the
workflow ref, so comparing only the .github/workflows tree missed
script-only harness changes. Harness equivalence now means the git tree
diff between the candidate run's head SHA and the current workflow SHA
is itself release-metadata-only, using the same canonical classifier as
the target delta. The classifier's worktree overlay no longer applies
when --head is an explicit SHA, keeping SHA-exact comparisons exact.
Codex review round three: a prior green run may have executed with
different lane definitions; the resolver now compares the candidate
run head SHA's .github/workflows tree against the current workflow
ref before accepting its manifest.
Codex review round two: the reusable advisory input is global, so beta
would also have softened hermetic repo/OpenShell E2E — add a scoped
live_advisory input that only covers the live-provider suite jobs and
narrow the umbrella fail-fast exclusion to those job names. Evidence
reuse now also runs the macOS source-version consistency check against
the target (release-preflight --macos-versions-only) so version-stamp
deltas cannot reuse evidence while version surfaces disagree.
Codex review findings: evidence reuse must not let a default-input run
stand in for a focused provider/mode/filter/package-spec run, and
recorded child runs can be re-run to failure while the parent stays
green. Manifests now record validationInputs; the resolver requires an
exact input match and healthy child runs, and the summary re-verifies
the chain root plus its recorded children. Reuse-mode evidence dispatch
notes now disclose the chain-root relationship.
- Full Release Validation now checks for a prior green validation whose
target differs only by release metadata (changelog/version stamps) and
reuses that evidence instead of re-running every lane; disable with
reuse_evidence=false. Evidence manifests chain through reuse runs via
evidenceReuse.runId and the summary re-verifies the chain root.
- The Docker runtime-assets preflight no longer serializes the CI,
plugin-prerelease, release-checks, and performance lanes; it runs in
parallel and stays enforced by the umbrella verifier.
- Umbrella runs for release/* refs now supersede in-progress runs with
the same ref and rerun group instead of requiring manual cancels.
- release_profile=beta treats the live-provider E2E suites as advisory
(third-party model deployments move underneath releases); stable and
full profiles keep them blocking, and beta live failures no longer
fail-fast-cancel the remaining release-check matrix.
* fix(anthropic): don't crash models list when a configured Sonnet 5 model has no cost
applyAnthropicSonnet5Cost read params.model.cost.input unconditionally, so
'openclaw models list' aborted with 'Cannot read properties of undefined
(reading input)' whenever config supplied an anthropic Sonnet 5 model row
without cost metadata (e.g. an agents.defaults.models runtime binding).
Guard with optional chaining — a costless model now falls through and gets
the canonical Sonnet 5 cost applied.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
* fix(models): normalize missing Sonnet 5 costs
Co-authored-by: VACInc <3279061+VACInc@users.noreply.github.com>
* chore(plugin-sdk): refresh API baseline
* ci(plugin-sdk): update surface budgets
---------
Co-authored-by: VACInc <3279061+VACInc@users.noreply.github.com>
Co-authored-by: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Co-authored-by: Peter Steinberger <steipete@gmail.com>
* fix(release): validate prepared npm package sets
Forward-port the beta3 package-set preflight, Telegram, and Parallels validation to main while preserving main's existing Bun install smoke. Recompute decoded proxy response lengths and require artifact tarballs to exactly match the verified manifest.
* fix(release): lock fixture registry proxy origin
