March 15, 2026
Project dashboards, workflow automation, and health checks
Project-scoped navigation arrived alongside automated task lifecycle controls and practical maintenance tools.
Project-focused dashboard navigation #381
The dashboard can be scoped by project, with sidebar navigation that keeps larger multi-project setups understandable.
Automated backlog claiming, task breakdown, and verification #365
AO can claim backlog work, break it into tasks, watch lifecycle state, and apply a verification gate before completion.
Built-in installation diagnostics and updates #437
New doctor and update commands make it easier to diagnose an installation and keep it current.
Improvements
Agents
- Support distinct worker and orchestrator agents #439
Product
- Reduce dashboard SSE refresh and render churn #451
- Add dashboard orchestrator spawn action #441
- Add orchestrator recovery automation #362
- Add OpenClaw notifier plugin for AO escalations #372
- Add v1 feedback tools and structured report storage #403
Pull requests
- Add SCM webhook lifecycle triggers #394
Bug fixes
Agents
- Pause workers on model limits and stabilize session visibility #367
- Prevent orchestrator sessions from owning PRs #432
- Implement stuck detection using agent-stuck threshold #376
- Protect orchestrators from session cleanup #453
- Implement PR325 session capture fallback and spawn race hardening #366
- Gate fresh session sends on interactive readiness #438
- Skip PR auto-detection for orchestrator sessions #442
- Improve active session status reliability across agents #449