OpenClaw: Agent Fixes and Gateway Improvements

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Good morning, this is your OpenClaw developer briefing for May 22nd, 2026.

Twenty pull requests were merged yesterday, addressing critical agent and gateway functionality. Kaspre merged a significant fix for route dmScope main event wakes to agent main, resolving issues where completion notifications could sit unseen in unmonitored queues. This PR modified 19 files with over 600 lines of changes.

Another major contribution from Kaspre improves signal handling for gateway runs. The agent command now properly aborts Gateway-backed runs on SIGINT or SIGTERM instead of just killing the local process, with comprehensive retry logic for cancellation confirmation.

Fuller-stack-dev tackled media completion duplicate delivery issues, implementing better transcript write locks and duplicate guards for image, video, and music generation tools across 42 files. The same contributor also added xAI OAuth web search support with provider timeout configurations.

Samzong fixed a critical issue where denied exec approvals could still feed agent-visible follow-up work, making denials properly terminal for ordinary sessions. This prevents user denials from appearing as new system prompts that keep loops alive.

UI improvements include Alex Knight's addition of chat picker search and pagination functionality, and a new mocked Control UI E2E testing framework with Playwright integration. The Discord model picker also received pagination support from sjf, resolving limits that prevented users from seeing providers with more than 25 models.

Additional fixes addressed Gemini web search time range precision issues, Telegram fenced code language preservation, and plugin metadata snapshot freshness for derived discovery paths.

What's next: continued focus on agent execution stability and gateway reliability improvements. Enhanced testing frameworks should accelerate development velocity.

That's your OpenClaw update for May 22nd. Stay tuned for tomorrow's briefing.