OpenClaw: Skills That Stick Around and Silent Bot Wins
Today we're diving into 9 merged PRs and 30 commits that show OpenClaw really maturing! The standout story is how we fixed the frustrating problem of skills mysteriously disappearing from prompts when you have too many. Plus we added silent error replies for Telegram bots, expanded browser support beyond Chrome, and even got Claude marketplace plugins working.
Duration: PT3M46S
Episode overview
This episode is a short developer briefing from OpenClaw.
It explains recent repository work in plain language.
- Show: OpenClaw
- Published: 2026-03-16T00:00:00Z
- Audio duration: PT3M46S
Transcript excerpt
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Hey there, developers! Welcome back to another episode of OpenClaw. I'm your host, and wow - March 16th brought us some really solid improvements that I'm genuinely excited to share with you.
Let's start with something that's probably been bugging a lot of you - and honestly, it was one of those silent productivity killers that you might not have even realized was happening. You know how when you build up a nice collection of workspace skills, like 20 or more, they'd just... disappear from your prompts?…
Well, snese tackled this head-on with PR 47553, and the solution is actually pretty elegant. Instead of just dropping skills when we run out of space, we now have a three-tier approach. First, we try to fit everything in full format - that's the ideal case. But here's the clever part - if that doesn't work, we…
Speaking of user experience wins, auspic7 added something really thoughtful for Telegram bot users. You can now configure silent error replies! It's default-off, so nothing changes unless you want it to, but when enabled, error messages won't trigger those annoying notification sounds. Your bot can fail gracefully…
Now here's something that opens up a lot of doors -…
And for…
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