Mission Control 2.0.0

Released: 2026-03-11

Mission Control 2.0.0 is the major release that lands the feat/refactor branch as the new baseline for the project. It rolls up 189 commits on top of main and shifts Mission Control from an early dashboard into a broader agent operations console for both local and gateway-driven setups.

Highlights

Dual-mode operation

• Mission Control now supports both OpenClaw gateway mode and local workstation mode cleanly.
• Onboarding, runtime detection, security checks, and panel behavior were reworked so the app can adapt to the active environment instead of assuming one deployment shape.

Broader agent observability

• Hermes observability was added across sessions, memory, tasks, cron, and transcripts.
• OpenClaw coverage was expanded across channels, chat, sessions, cron, devices, approvals, logs, usage, and config editing.
• Agent communication, session routing, and inline transcript visibility were strengthened throughout the app.

Memory system redesign

• The memory panel was redesigned into an Obsidian-style knowledge surface.
• Mission Control now ships with a filesystem memory browser, link/context endpoints, memory health signals, and an interactive graph view for linked knowledge.
• Loading and navigation performance in the memory panel were improved substantially, including lazy tree loading and graph prefetching.

Onboarding, security, and doctor workflows

• The onboarding experience was rebuilt into a guided walkthrough with stronger separation between per-user progress and per-session display behavior.
• The security scan now has clearer severity handling, improved autofix behavior, and better reporting of manual vs auto-fixable issues.
• OpenClaw doctor warnings, doctor fix, and state-integrity handling are now surfaced directly in the UI.

Deployment and runtime hardening

• Node support was standardized on 22.x across local development, CI, Docker, and standalone deploys.
• Build-time SQLite handling was isolated from runtime SQLite state to avoid noisy or fragile deploy behavior.
• Standalone deploys were hardened around asset inclusion, runtime data directories, backups, and restart detection.
• Dynamic host handling and safer env mutation behavior improved self-hosted reliability.

Agent lifecycle and operator UX

• Agent/workspace creation and deletion flows were hardened end to end, including OpenClaw config normalization and cleanup.
• The boot loader was redesigned with real progress phases and framework logos.
• Cost tracking, approvals, channels, chat, and session controls were all tightened during the refactor.

Everything Included In The v2 Update

Core platform and mode handling

• Local mode and OpenClaw gateway mode were hardened into first-class operating modes.
• Gateway discovery and connection handling improved across configured runtimes, systemd-managed gateways, Tailscale Serve, proxied websocket paths, forwarded-proto setups, and token-preserving websocket URLs.
• Mission Control can register itself as the dashboard for an OpenClaw runtime without the earlier device-auth and dashboard URL failure cases.
• Managed-gateway UX was tightened across health, status, mode badges, and startup auto-connect behavior.

Agents, sessions, chat, and comms

• Embedded chat became a shared workspace rather than a fragmented set of views.
• Session navigation was unified into Chat, with local Claude/Codex sessions included alongside gateway sessions.
• Hermes sessions, transcripts, memory, tasks, and cron surfaced throughout the app.
• Session transcript handling improved across local, Hermes, aggregated gateway, and disk-backed OpenClaw transcript sources.
• Agent comms, runtime tool visibility, coordinator inbox behavior, session-thread routing, and agent feed ergonomics were hardened.
• Agent registration, self-registration, rate limiting, attribution, wake/spawn actions, and agent detail editing all received follow-up fixes.

Tasks, quality flow, and automation

• Task dispatch now polls assigned tasks and runs agents through OpenClaw with session linkage.
• Aegis quality review became an automated scheduled workflow for review-stage tasks.
• Natural-language recurring tasks now parse into cron-backed template spawning.
• Spawn/task flows were consolidated, old spawn-only UI was removed, and task/session linking became more traceable.
• Cost tracking moved into a unified Cost Tracker panel.

Memory, knowledge, and browsing

• The memory experience was redesigned into a graph-first, Obsidian-style knowledge system.
• The memory browser now supports faster loading, lazy directory hydration, better overflow handling, and improved graph fitting behavior.
• Memory APIs expanded around graph, health, links, context, and processing actions.
• Boot-time prefetching and panel persistence reduced the need to re-fetch heavy memory state on every navigation.

Skills and local discovery

• Skills Hub support expanded across browsing, installation, bidirectional sync, registry search, security scanning, and local disk roots.
• Local agent discovery now covers ~/.agents, ~/.codex/agents, and Claude agent roots more reliably.
• Skill roots and E2E skill paths can now be overridden cleanly for isolated test and self-hosted environments.

Security, audit, and approvals

• Security audit posture scoring, secret detection, evals, optimization, and security events were substantially expanded.
• Security scan severity scoring, infrastructure checks, OpenClaw hardening checks, autofix behavior, and agent-side scan APIs improved.
• Global exec approval overlay and approval flows were added/refined.
• Auth hardening covered timing-safe behavior, CSRF, session revocation, host allowlists, and safer trusted-host resolution.
• Audit trail coverage expanded across grouped action types and more complete operator activity logging.

Onboarding and first-run experience

• The onboarding wizard went through several iterations and now combines runtime capability detection, gateway setup, security scan, credentials, and guided getting-started flow.
• Walkthrough visibility is session-aware while progress persists per user.
• The loading experience was redesigned with branded motion, framework logos, and real boot phases instead of generic spinner states.

UI, navigation, and operator polish

• Agent cards, the agent detail modal, the cron calendar, activity/history views, interface mode toggles, sidebar categories, and panel loading states were redesigned.
• Shared loader patterns replaced ad-hoc spinners across more panels.
• Navigation state, URL synchronization, and panel persistence were tightened to reduce remount churn and stale data flashes.
• Branding assets and logos for Mission Control, OpenClaw, Claude, Codex, and Hermes were refreshed across the interface.

Runtime, deployment, and template hardening

• Standalone deploys were hardened across static assets, runtime data directories, sqlite migration/backup flow, restart detection, and build/runtime separation.
• Build-time DB/token isolation removed noisy runtime coupling during next build.
• Node support was standardized on 22.x, with matching local, CI, Docker, and deploy expectations.
• Proxy and host validation logic became more template-safe and more dynamic for self-hosted environments.
• OpenClaw doctor drift handling, doctor fix, config normalization, and workspace lifecycle cleanup were tightened to better support real self-hosted installs.

E2E, CI, and release readiness

• The E2E harness now uses isolated OpenClaw runtime state, isolated skill roots, deterministic scheduler behavior, and safer env handling.
• Several regressions that only showed up in CI were fixed around security autofix, workload signals, and agent deletion behavior.
• README, landing page assets, and release documentation were refreshed for the v2 release.

Notable Improvements

• Unified cost tracker replacing the split token/cost views
• Global exec approval overlay
• Better local agent discovery and skill sync behavior
• More reliable gateway config concurrency handling
• Better navigation responsiveness and less panel reload churn
• Stronger E2E runtime isolation for CI and local test harnesses

Detailed Functional Additions

• Framework adapters and normalized multi-agent registration flow
• Self-update banner and admin-triggered update flow
• Tenant-scoped workspaces and free-tier extraction cleanup
• Google Workspace integration
• Plugin capabilities system and Hyperbrowser integration
• Claude Code task bridge
• OpenClaw backup creation and restore-oriented backup directory handling
• Embedded /chat panel and provider-session-first chat workspace
• Memory graph upgrades from Canvas to Reagraph WebGL
• Security audit panel, agent eval framework, and optimization endpoint
• OpenClaw update-now trigger from the UI
• Approvals overlay, channels parity, chat parity, usage parity, device parity, and logs parity with the newer OpenClaw surface

Detailed Fix Areas

• Login autofill, redirect race, CSP/theme flash, and auth/session regressions
• Channels auth and RPC fallback behavior
• Gateway websocket stability and device identity handshake behavior
• Memory graph blank states, overflow, sizing, auto-fit, and speed issues
• Agent detail/model-shape crashes and delete/provisioning edge cases
• Doctor warning misclassification and state-integrity surfacing
• Security scan autofix false positives and active-host preservation
• Standalone deploy asset/runtime drift and SQLite migration contention
• README and docs freshness so product marketing reflects the shipped interface

Upgrade Notes

• Mission Control 2.0.0 expects Node 22.x.
• Self-hosted installs should verify env files, host allowlist configuration, and runtime data directory settings after upgrade.
• If you run OpenClaw, use the in-app doctor and security panels after upgrade to catch any stale config drift.

Links

• Changelog: CHANGELOG.md
• README: README.md
• Security hardening guide: docs/SECURITY-HARDENING.md