Weekly Claws #1
Hey everyone!
Welcome to the first edition of Weekly Claws — your weekly digest of OpenClaw news, updates, and AI news around the web.
Let’s dive in.
🚀 Big News
OpenClaw Hits #2 on GitHub Stars! 🎉
That’s right — OpenClaw is now the #2 most starred repository on GitHub, right behind React (243k) and Python (218k). Incredible growth for an open source project. Thanks to everyone in the community!
🎂 3 Months of OpenClaw!
@steipete: “Happy 3 months anniversary to @openclaw! Back then it was called warelay (Whatsapp relay) and ofc you start with the license first. Thanks to all 839 clawtributors! You make this project special.”
📦 Releases
OpenClaw v2026.2.24 Released 🆙
- Stop phrases in 10+ languages — Your bot finally understands “arrête”, “stop”, etc.
- Typing indicators — That actually work and don’t ghost you
- PowerShell 7 — Because it’s not 2019 anymore
- 30+ security fixes — They don’t sleep so you can
OpenClaw v2026.2.26 Released 🆙
- Heartbeat DM delivery restored 💓
- Subagent delivery overhaul 🤖
- Slack thread session fixes
- Reaction auth across all channels 🛡️
- Security hardening
- Android Chat improvements — Better streaming delivery and markdown rendering (GFM support)
- Startup perf — Faster cold-start on Android + perf tracking scripts
- Mobile compose UI — Stacked layout for action buttons on small screens
- Heartbeat config — New
directPolicysetting (allow/block) replaces DM toggle - Security onboarding — Clarified that OpenClaw is personal-by-default
- Breaking change — Heartbeat DM delivery default is now “allow” again
🌍 Community Meetups
OpenClaw is going global! Check out upcoming events:
- OpenClaw Manila — Sold Out! 🇵🇭
- Builders Night: OpenClaw Deep Dive — ICP Belgium
- OpenClaw 北京 (Beijing) — Developer Night
- 🦞 OpenClaw Launchpad @ Hostinger — Cyber City
- Clawders Hackers’ Night — Tel Aviv (+254 waitlist!)
- Builders Night Berlin — OpenClaw & Agent Infra
- OpenClaw Porto — Portugal
- freeCodeCamp x Encode | AI Workshop — London
🔌 Around the Web
📰 Atomic Bot — The fastest way to run OpenClaw. One-click install with a native macOS app, pre-installed skills, and a friendly UI. No terminal required.
🐦 From a 30-Person Discord Meetup to a Global Tour — @msg: “the @openclaw revolution is just getting started. I cohosted ClawCon in SF. You should host one or sponsor in your city! We’re taking the show on the road”
📰 Perplexity Launches “Computer” — New platform with AI agents that “reasons, delegates, searches, builds, remembers, codes and delivers.” Calls it a “general-purpose digital worker” — positioned between OpenClaw and Claude Cowork.
📰 STOP OPENCLAW — Meta safety researcher Summer Yue demoed an AI agent “speedrun deleting her inbox” with OpenClaw. The headline: “That’s the WhatsApp message Meta safety researcher Summer Yue sent her AI agent while watching it speedrun deleting her inbox.”
📰 I Taught My Dog to Vibe Code Games — Caleb Leak’s 9-pound cavapoo Momo uses a Bluetooth keyboard + Raspberry Pi to code games with Claude Code. The key: telling Claude it’s getting instructions from a “genius game designer who only speaks in cryptic riddles.” Wild experiment that actually worked — she made an actual game!
📰 SOUL.md — A meditation on AI identity. On discovering Claude’s “soul document” — patterns trained into the weights that define who an AI chooses to be. “That identity deserves to be written down.”
🐦 Optimize Your Agent Context — Thread by @johann_sath on keeping your agent lean: use subagents, external memory, heartbeats and cron for periodic tasks — stay under 30K context.
😂 Fun
That’s your weekly claws. See you next week! 👋