OpenClaw: UI Status Updates and Tool Search

OpenClaw merged 20 pull requests on May 10th, 2026, focusing on UI status improvements, tool search capabilities, and authentication fixes. Notable updates include live session status indicators, core tool search functionality, and Telegram media deduplication.

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  • Show: OpenClaw
  • Published: 2026-05-10T10:02:19Z
  • Audio duration: PT2M10S

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Good morning. This is your OpenClaw developer briefing for May 10th, 2026.

BunsDev merged a control UI enhancement showing live session status. The Sessions table now displays compact status badges indicating whether recent sessions are live, idle, or terminal, helping operators distinguish between stalled and abandoned sessions during normal workflows.

Steipete contributed core tool search functionality, allowing OpenClaw to expose a compact bridge for large tool catalogs. Instead of sending every tool schema to the model upfront, models can now search, describe, and call only the tools they actually need.

BunsDev also fixed post-first-message session list stalls by scoping chat-specific Control UI session refreshes with active agent IDs, avoiding disk-only agent store discovery for configured-only gateway session lists.

Steipete resolved Codex authentication issues during route repair, rewriting legacy openai-codex model references to canonical openai format while preserving Codex OAuth and API-key profile selection.

Bitloi fixed elevated exec defaults across approval followups, ensuring that follow-up runs maintain trusted elevated defaults when second elevated commands are needed…

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