ZeroClaw v0.8.1

ZeroClaw v0.8.1 is the first patch release on the v0.8.x line, focused on stabilizing the multi-agent runtime, channels, and provider stack that landed in v0.8.0. It spans 207 commits from 45 contributors since v0.8.0 — heavy on bug fixes (123), with substantial new features (46) including a delete/rename-with-cascade configuration story, Discord slash commands derived from installed skills, an OpenAI-compatible cached-input pricing path, and a Phase 0 agent eval harness.

If you upgraded to v0.8.0 and hit rough edges with channel routing, cron delivery, provider replay, or config save round-trips, this is the release that picks those up.

Highlights

• Cascading config edits: delete_with_cascade and rename_with_cascade now ripple through agents, providers, channels, model providers, and skill bundles instead of leaving dangling references (#7837, #7838, #7839, #7830, #7840, #7841, #7842, #7785).
• Discord skill-driven slash commands: dynamic slash commands generated from installed skills, with typed options, chunked interaction followups, edit/delete/bulk-delete archive sync, and configurable reaction recording (#7490, #7489, #7525, #7526, #7844).
• Operator Console redesign: the gateway web UI ships a schema-driven config editor, multi-agent chat, read-only skills browser, and a long list of ported fixes (#7665, #6700).
• Cached-input pricing for OpenAI-compatible providers: cost tracking now captures cached_input_tokens for any provider that reports them, including OpenRouter system-prompt caching (#7492, #7634).
• Phase 0 agent eval harness: deterministic replay-driven evaluation lands as the foundation for the eval story going forward (#7067).
• Workflow hardening for releases and docs: a canonical install spec drives every generated installer surface (#7558), gh-pages becomes ephemeral with bounded clone size (#7676), and rustdoc is published once and deduped per locale (#7754).

What's New

Multi-agent and config

• Typed delete_with_cascade and rename_with_cascade for aliased entries thread through agents, channels, model providers, and skill bundles, with a find_all_references / plan_delete foundation under the hood (#7785, #7837, #7838, #7839, #7830, #7840, #7841, #7842).
• Per-agent delegate roster with cross-profile reach (#7590).
• Type-driven alias-ref pickers and self-declaring config enums in the Config menu, plus declarative section grouping (#7556, #7594).
• Agent eval harness — Phase 0 with deterministic replay (#7067).

Channels

• Discord: dynamic slash commands derived from installed skills, dispatched over the existing Gateway WebSocket, with typed options and chunked interaction followups (#7489, #7490, #7844). Inbound reactions are recorded behind a scope config (#7526). Archive syncs on message edit, delete, and bulk delete (#7525). Gateway intents are derived from config instead of hardcoded (#7524). The internals were split into a module tree behind a structured outgoing payload (#7832), and Discord is now part of the default-channels bundle (#7825).
• Slack: backfills thread context on first agent encounter (#6428).
• Email: XOAUTH2 auth, observer mode, and read-only IMAP tools (#7021).
• WhatsApp: Web media markers are sent natively (#7811).
• Voice pipeline facade for channels that want to plug into audio I/O (#7394).

Providers and runtime

• Cached input token pricing surfaces for OpenAI-compatible providers (#7492); OpenRouter system prompts are cached (#7634).
• NEAR AI Cloud provider added (#6842); Azure OpenAI gains a dedicated reasoning_effort wire-up (#7350); extra_body is supported on any OpenAI-compatible provider (#7163); custom inference providers can specify tls_ca_cert_path (#5797).
• Provider Manifest is re-added under the schema v3 provider system (#7791).
• MCP auto-reconnects on stale session or dropped stream (#7351).
• The three legacy agent turn engines consolidate onto a single run_tool_call_loop path (#7540).

Gateway, web, and CLI

• Inbound webhooks route per channel alias (#7367).
• Web chat input supports slash commands (#7223).
• Agents/providers/channels CRUD lands in the CLI with skill-bundle cascade (#7842).
• Gateway: agent owned-state rename/delete cascade and wiring (#7838, #7841).

zerocode and security

• New doctor pane in zerocode (#7802); session controls and provider diagnostics improvements (#7515).
• models list/doctor lists configured models, adds --check, and collapses probe rows (#7450).
• Agent posture status command (#7321).
• Shell tools see the current session id via the ZEROCLAW_SESSION_ID environment variable (#7813).

Skills, plugins, and memory

• Background review fork plus the skill_manage tool (agentskills.io SKILL.md) (#6667).
• Frontmatter tags surface in the skill editor with a slash-command toggle (#7734).
• Skill-directory loads are cached, content-validated, and audit-correct (#7786).
• Wasmtime dependency and feature flags land for the plugin host (#7429).
• Memory hygiene extends to pruning daily and core DB rows (#7081).
• Runtime memory ops are instrumented with OTel GenAI spans (#7570).

Build, install, and docs infrastructure

• Canonical install spec + cargo generate installers drives setup.bat, AUR PKGBUILD, Scoop manifest, flake.nix, Dockerfile/Containerfile feature sets, and dev/ci/docker-tags.toml, with an Installer Drift CI gate (#7558).
• gh-pages becomes ephemeral with bounded clone size (#7676); rustdoc is published once and deduped per locale, with print pages dropped (#7754).
• macOS and Windows build legs in CI run as cargo check to keep the matrix fast (#7669).

Improvements (refactor)

• Extract duplicate domain/URL validation into shared helpers in zeroclaw-tools (#7340).
• before_llm_call now takes mutable borrows, simplifying provider implementations (#7667).

Documentation

• First-party extension architecture guide for contributors (#7788).
• Fluent strings and mdbook translation catalogs refreshed for v0.8.1 (#7939).
• Discussions stewardship and issue intake forms for governance (#7654, #7652).
• API events stream semantics for the gateway (#7474); ACP wire shape pinned to v1 spec (#7595); MCP tool control boundaries clarified (#7473).
• Rootless Debian compose example for the container (#7475); Linux uninstall script in setup docs (#7715); OpenAI Codex over a ChatGPT subscription documented for providers (#7116).
• README installer options synced (#7708) and the providers routing link fixed (#7185).

Performance

• Rustdoc published once with per-locale asset dedup (#7754).
• WeChat markdown regex compilations cached via LazyLock (#7494).
• Skill-directory loads cached with content validation (#7786).

Bug Fixes

Breaking Changes

• feat(providers)!: span attribution — model provider calls now route through the attribution dispatcher (#7748). The dispatcher centralizes per-provider span attribution and is the only sanctioned path for model provider calls; downstream consumers of the provider call API may need to update if they were bypassing it.

Contributors

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