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OpenClaw fixes session picker stall, honors system agent, atomic skill revisions

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steipete Vito Cappello openclaw-docs-sync[bot]
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OpenClaw shipped three behavioral fixes: the New Session picker no longer stays on 'Models unavailable' after a missing catalog owner, ambient owner resolution now honors agents.defaults.systemAgent.agentId on multi-agent rosters, and Skill Workshop revisions stage atomically instead of tearing on interruption. [ref:1][ref:4][ref:5]

OpenClaw fixed a session-recovery bug where the Control UI could be stuck on 'Models unavailable'. chat.metadata cached the first unavailable snapshot, and a partial auth-bind publication could fail-close the picker while sibling owners were stale. The fix recovers cleanly once the missing catalog owner is resolved. [1]

Multi-agent operators get the behavior they configured: commands and checks that resolve an agent-owned model or auth state without an explicit --agent used to ignore agents.defaults.systemAgent.agentId, causing openclaw doctor to fail outright under agents.ownership: "explicit" with two agents. That setting is now honored. Separately, Skill Workshop used to leave SQLite describing the previous revision while PROPOSAL.md or support files were partially replaced after an interruption; revisions now stage as immutable filesystem generations, so inspect/evaluate/apply won't reject a torn bundle. Worker artifact parsing is also bounded, closing a gap where a malformed canonical worker artifact could bypass the 6 MiB file limit. [2][3][4]

On the provider side, Crabbox consolidated redirect-security hardening across 17 HTTP-API providers into shared SecureHTTPClient and SameOrigin policies, keeping existing error text and custom error types byte-identical. Machine class profiles became authoritative for provider sizing, with tiny and small classes added below the heavy standard (32-vCPU) class. Machine0 support landed, including fixed idempotent lease IDs for automation that replays a canonical lease identity after a lost response; warmup previously rejected --lease-id there and exited 2. [5][6][7][8]

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  1. [1] fix: New Session stays on Models unavailable after a missing catalog owner (#125450) ↗ openclaw/openclaw
  2. [2] fix(agents): honor the configured system agent for ambient owner resolution ↗ openclaw/openclaw
  3. [3] fix(skills): keep workshop revisions atomic ↗ openclaw/openclaw
  4. [4] fix(package): bound installed worker artifact parsing ↗ openclaw/openclaw
  5. [5] refactor(providers): share the redirect-security HTTP client policy (#1418) ↗ openclaw/crabbox
  6. [6] fix(providers): make machine class profiles authoritative (#1404) ↗ openclaw/crabbox
  7. [7] feat(providers): add tiny and small machine classes ↗ openclaw/crabbox
  8. [8] feat(machine0): support fixed idempotent lease IDs (#1414) ↗ openclaw/crabbox

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Quick answers

What shipped in OpenClaw on August 20, 2026?
OpenClaw shipped three behavioral fixes: the New Session picker no longer stays on 'Models unavailable' after a missing catalog owner, ambient owner resolution now honors agents.defaults.systemAgent.agentId on multi-agent rosters, and Skill Workshop revisions stage atomically instead of tearing on interruption. [ref:1][ref:4][ref:5] In total, 90 commits, 49 pull requests, and 1 releases landed.
Who contributed to OpenClaw on August 20, 2026?
3 developers shipped this update, including Vito Cappello, steipete, and openclaw-docs-sync[bot].
What were the notable OpenClaw updates?
fix: New Session stays on Models unavailable after a missing catalog owner (#125450), fix(agents): honor the configured system agent for ambient owner resolution, and fix(skills): keep workshop revisions atomic.
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