### Breaking
### Changes
- Gateway/OpenAI compatibility: add `/v1/models` and `/v1/embeddings`, and forward explicit model overrides through `/v1/chat/completions` and `/v1/responses` for broader client and RAG compatibility. Thanks @vincentkoc.
- Agents/tools: make `/tools` show the tools the current agent can actually use right now, add a compact default view with an optional detailed mode, and add a live "Available Right Now" section in the Control UI so it is easier to see what will work before you ask.
- Microsoft Teams: migrate to the official Teams SDK and add AI-agent UX best practices including streaming 1:1 replies, welcome cards with prompt starters, feedback/reflection, informative status updates, typing indicators, and native AI labeling. (#51808)
- Microsoft Teams: add message edit and delete support for sent messages, including in-thread fallbacks when no explicit target is provided. (#49925)
- Skills/install metadata: add one-click install recipes to bundled skills (coding-agent, gh-issues, openai-whisper-api, session-logs, tmux, trello, weather) so the CLI and Control UI can offer dependency installation when requirements are missing. (#53411) Thanks @BunsDev.
- Control UI/skills: add status-filter tabs (All / Ready / Needs Setup / Disabled) with counts, replace inline skill cards with a click-to-detail dialog showing requirements, toggle switch, install action, API key entry, source metadata, and homepage link. (#53411) Thanks @BunsDev.
- Slack/interactive replies: restore rich reply parity for direct deliveries, auto-render simple trailing `Options:` lines as buttons/selects, improve Slack interactive setup defaults, and isolate reply controls from plugin interactive handlers. (#53389) Thanks @vincentkoc.
- CLI/containers: add `--container` and `OPENCLAW_CONTAINER` to run `openclaw` commands inside a running Docker or Podman OpenClaw container. (#52651) Thanks @sallyom.
- Discord/auto threads: add optional `autoThreadName: "generated"` naming so new auto-created threads can be renamed asynchronously with concise LLM-generated titles while keeping the existing message-based naming as the default. (#43366) Thanks @davidguttman.
- Plugins/hooks: add `before_dispatch` with canonical inbound metadata and route handled replies through the normal final-delivery path, preserving TTS and routed delivery semantics. (#50444) Thanks @gfzhx.
- Control UI/agents: convert agent workspace file rows to expandable `<details>` with lazy-loaded inline markdown preview, and add comprehensive `.sidebar-markdown` styles for headings, lists, code blocks, tables, blockquotes, and details/summary elements. (#53411) Thanks @BunsDev.
- Control UI/markdown preview: restyle the agent workspace file preview dialog with a frosted backdrop, sized panel, and styled header, and integrate `@create-markdown/preview` v2 system theme for rich markdown rendering (headings, tables, code blocks, callouts, blockquotes) that auto-adapts to the app's light/dark design tokens. (#53411) Thanks @BunsDev.
- macOS app/config: replace horizontal pill-based subsection navigation with a collapsible tree sidebar using disclosure chevrons and indented subsection rows. (#53411) Thanks @BunsDev.
- CLI/skills: soften missing-requirements label from "missing" to "needs setup" and surface API key setup guidance (where to get a key, CLI save command, storage path) in `openclaw skills info` output. (#53411) Thanks @BunsDev.
- macOS app/skills: add "Get your key" homepage link and storage-path hint to the API key editor dialog, and show the config path in save confirmation messages. (#53411) Thanks @BunsDev.
- Control UI/agents: add a "Not set" placeholder to the default agent model selector dropdown. (#53411) Thanks @BunsDev.
- Runtime/install: lower the supported Node 22 floor to `22.14+` while continuing to recommend Node 24, so npm installs and self-updates do not strand Node 22.14 users on older releases.
- CLI/update: preflight the target npm package `engines.node` before `openclaw update` runs a global package install, so outdated Node runtimes fail with a clear upgrade message instead of attempting an unsupported latest release.
### Fixes
- Outbound media/local files: align outbound media access with the configured fs policy so host-local files and inbound-media paths keep sending when `workspaceOnly` is off, while strict workspace-only agents remain sandboxed.
- Security/sandbox media dispatch: close the `mediaUrl`/`fileUrl` alias bypass so outbound tool and message actions cannot escape media-root restrictions. (#54034)
- Gateway/restart sentinel: wake the interrupted agent session via heartbeat after restart instead of only sending a best-effort restart note, retry outbound delivery once on transient failure, and preserve explicit thread/topic routing through the wake path so replies land in the correct Telegram topic or Slack thread. (#53940) Thanks @VACInc.
- Docker/setup: avoid the pre-start `openclaw-cli` shared-network namespace loop by routing setup-time onboard/config writes through `openclaw-gateway`, so fresh Docker installs stop failing before the gateway comes up. (#53385) Thanks @amsminn.
- Gateway/channels: keep channel startup sequential while isolating per-channel boot failures, so one broken channel no longer blocks later channels from starting. (#54215) Thanks @JonathanJing.
- Embedded runs/secrets: stop unresolved `SecretRef` config from crashing embedded agent runs by falling back to the resolved runtime snapshot when needed. Fixes #45838.
- WhatsApp/groups: track recent gateway-sent message IDs and suppress only matching group echoes, preserving owner `/status`, `/new`, and `/activation` commands from linked-account `fromMe` traffic. (#53624) Thanks @w-sss.
- WhatsApp/reply-to-bot detection: restore implicit group reply detection by unwrapping `botInvokeMessage` payloads and reading `selfLid` from `creds.json`, so reply-based mentions reach the bot again in linked-account group chats.
- Telegram/forum topics: recover `#General` topic `1` routing when Telegram omits forum metadata, including native commands, interactive callbacks, inbound message context, and fallback error replies. (#53699) thanks @huntharo
- Discord/gateway supervision: centralize gateway error handling behind a lifetime-owned supervisor so early, active, and late-teardown Carbon gateway errors stay classified consistently and stop surfacing as process-killing teardown crashes.
- Discord/timeouts: send a visible timeout reply when the inbound Discord worker times out before a final reply starts, including created auto-thread targets and queued-run ordering. (#53823) Thanks @Kimbo7870.
- ACP/direct chats: always deliver a terminal ACP result when final TTS does not yield audio, even if block text already streamed earlier, and skip redundant empty-text final synthesis. (#53692) Thanks @w-sss.
- Telegram/outbound errors: preserve actionable 403 membership/block/kick details and treat `bot not a member` as a permanent delivery failure so Telegram sends stop retrying doomed chats. (#53635) Thanks @w-sss.
- Telegram/photos: preflight Telegram photo dimension and aspect-ratio rules, and fall back to document sends when image metadata is invalid or unavailable so photo uploads stop failing with `PHOTO_INVALID_DIMENSIONS`. (#52545) Thanks @hnshah.
- Slack/runtime defaults: trim Slack DM reply overhead, restore Codex auto transport, and tighten Slack/web-search runtime defaults around DM preview threading, cache scoping, warning dedupe, and explicit web-search opt-in. (#53957) Thanks @vincentkoc.