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Summary

Originally four targeted improvements from the PR #4 follow-up list. While this PR was open, OpenClaw cut 2026.4.15 stable (April 16, 2026), so scope grew to also fold the stable-release changes into the guide:

  1. Fact-check + retire Part 16 + decision trees + Glossary + 2026.4.15 stable refresh #5 Fact-check flagged 2026.4.15-beta.1 items against public OpenClaw sources; hedge anything unverifiable.
  2. Refresh guide for OpenClaw 2026.4.15-beta.1 (ClawHub, Task Brain, 4.15 fixes) #3 Retire Part 16 (custom autoDream) entirely — delete the file, tombstone in Part 22, fix inbound links.
  3. Top-tier upgrade: Architecture primer, Migration guide, Gotchas/FAQ, themed README, contributor tooling #4 Decision trees — every part opens with a "Read this if / Skip if" callout.
  4. Claude subscriptions no longer viable #2 Glossary — new Part 28, cross-linked from README TOC, Navigate By Goal, and Primers.
  5. 2026.4.15 stable refresh — Opus 4.7 default, dreaming.storage.mode flip, memory_get excerpt cap + continuation metadata, gateway tool-name collision rejection, and the other stable-release items folded into existing parts (no new parts needed).

Type of change

  • Correction to an existing part
  • Version bump (OpenClaw version) — 2026.4.15-beta.1 → 2026.4.15 stable
  • New part (Part 28 Glossary)
  • Tooling / CI / meta

Review checklist

  • Added or updated cross-links from the README TOC and any related parts
  • Sources / release notes linked in this description (not inline)
  • Ran markdownlint-cli2 locally (CI runs lychee too)
  • No speculation presented as fact — uncertainty is called out in "Notes / flagged items"

What landed — 2026.4.15 stable refresh (new to this PR)

Stable-release item Where it landed
Anthropic default → Claude Opus 4.7 (opus aliases + Claude CLI defaults + bundled image understanding) README Opus/model sections; Part 28 glossary entry
dreaming.storage.mode default flipped inlineseparate (phase blocks now at memory/dreaming/{phase}/YYYY-MM-DD.md) README Part 22 callout; Part 26 Path 5; Part 27 gotcha; Part 28 glossary entry
memory_get default excerpt cap + continuation metadata; trimmed startup/skills prompt budgets README Part 4 callout; Part 26 Path 5; Part 27 gotcha; Part 28 glossary entry
Gateway tool-name normalize-collision rejection — client tools (Browser, Exec, exec + trailing space) that normalize-collide with a built-in return 400 invalid_request_error; closes local-media trust-inheritance vector New section + checklist item in Part 15; callout in Part 23; note in Part 25; gotcha in Part 27; glossary entry in Part 28
Webchat localRoots containment; Matrix pairing-auth tightening; Gemini TTS; false-positive Model Auth alert fix Listed in Part 25 version table + Part 26 Path 5
Version table v2026.4.15-beta.1 (Apr 15) and v2026.4.15 stable (Apr 16) now separate rows in Part 25

README badge + tested-version header moved to 2026.4.15 (April 16, 2026).

What landed — original four improvements

#5 Fact-check

Flagged Finding Action
openclaw tasks … CLI Wrong. Published verb is openclaw flows list / show / cancel, backed by "task flow registry" in release notes. Corrected across Part 24, 26, 27, README.
openclaw secrets reload Moved between betas. Canvas Model Auth status card + models.authStatus is the supported hot-reload path. Hedged; pointed at Canvas + models.authStatus.
agents.defaults.experimental.localModelLean Confirmed in 4.15-beta.1 notes. No change.
Semantic approval categories Confirmed in Task Brain blog post. No change.
"March CVE wave" Widened to the Feb–Mar ClawHavoc cluster: CVE-2026-25253 (one-click RCE), CVE-2026-25157 (command injection), CVE-2026-25158 (path traversal), WebSocket shared-auth scope escalation at CVSS 9.9. Expanded Part 23 ClawHavoc subsection + Part 24 opening.
Part 25 version table v4.0 Feb 20 "Agent OS", v4.1 Mar 15 ClawHub, v4.2 Mar 28 ACP, v2026.3.31-beta.1 Task Brain. Dates + codenames corrected.
openclaw-team/* skill names Placeholder — no public contradiction. Softened to role descriptions.
Literal unicode escapes 7 files had \u2014 / \u2013 / curly-quote byte sequences. Cleaned across Parts 10, 15, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27.

#3 Retire Part 16

  • part16-autodream-memory-consolidation.md deleted.
  • Part 22 opens with a "What Changed (and the Part 16 Retirement)" paragraph.
  • README-embedded setup checklist / context-size table / migration steps / "older versions" fallback rewritten.
  • Part 26 Path 3 retires the old pattern inline.
  • CONTRIBUTING.md deprecation guidance points at Part 22's tombstone as canonical example.
  • grep -rn 'part16\|part-16-' → zero matches.

#4 Decision trees

Every part opens with a two-line "Read this if / Skip if" callout:

  • External files (14): Parts 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 15, 18, 19, 20, 21, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27.
  • README-embedded (12): Parts 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 14, 16, 17, 22.
  • New: Part 28 Glossary.

#2 Glossary

Part 28 — Glossary & Terminology: ~30 alphabetical entries, each cross-linked to the part that introduces the term. New 4.15-stable entries: Claude Opus 4.7, dreaming.storage.mode, memory_get excerpt cap (default), Tool-name normalize-collision rejection. Linked from README in three places.

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Notes / flagged items

These are softened rather than asserted — public sources don't contradict them, but I can't fully verify them either:

  • Exact openclaw secrets reload CLI verb spelling (verb has moved across betas; left hedged).
  • Part 23 openclaw-team/* skill slugs (placeholder; read as role descriptions, not specific slugs).
  • Part 24 default approval-policy JSON block (opinionated starting point, not an official recommendation).

CI

markdownlint + lychee (internal) + Devin Review — 3/3 green at 735f204.

Link to Devin session: https://app.devin.ai/sessions/df6f8c16f82e448b915735660ed94fb7
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- Fact-check (#5): openclaw tasks -> openclaw flows across Part 24, 26, 27, README; expanded March CVE wave to Feb-Mar with CVE-2026-25253/25157/25158 and CVSS 9.9 WebSocket bypass; added ClawHavoc / Antiy CERT / Trend Micro / Kaspersky framing to Part 23; hedged 'openclaw secrets reload' verb since it varies across 2026.4.x betas and pointed at the Canvas Model Auth status card + models.authStatus gateway method; added OpenClaw docs (clawdocs.org) + changelog (openclawai.io/changelog) links; tightened Part 25 version table (v4.0 Agent OS, v4.1 ClawHub, v4.2 ACP with accurate dates); Unicode em-dash cleanup across files.
- Retire Part 16 (#3): deleted part16-autodream-memory-consolidation.md; added one-paragraph retirement note in Part 22 (README) and updated inbound links in README, Part 26, CONTRIBUTING.md; retired-pattern checklist items now point at Part 22 / Part 26.
- Decision trees (#4): every part (14 external + 12 README-embedded + the new Part 28) now opens with a 'Read this if / Skip if' callout so readers can self-route.
- Glossary (#2): new Part 28 with ~30 terms (MOC, autoDream, Task Brain, ACP, Ralph loop, ClawHub, ClawHavoc, memory-lancedb, LightRAG, DREAMS.md, semantic approval categories, localModelLean, gateway daemon, coordinator protocol, CVE wave, etc.), cross-linked from the themed TOC, 'Navigate By Goal', and 'Primers & references' blocks.

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Comment thread README.md
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**📖 Reference**
25. [Architecture Overview (v4.0+)](./part25-architecture-overview.md) — gateway / agents / memory / skills / surfaces primer
26. [Migration Guide](./part26-migration-guide.md) — opinionated upgrade paths with rollback
27. [Common Gotchas & FAQ](./part27-gotchas-and-faq.md) — symptom-indexed troubleshooting
28. [Glossary & Terminology](./part28-glossary-and-terminology.md) — every term this guide assumes, on one page
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🟡 Parts 25–28 duplicated in the Full Table of Contents ("Links > inline duplication" rule violation)

The PR adds a new 📖 Reference section (lines 168–172) to the Full Table of Contents that re-lists Parts 25, 26, 27, and 28 — all of which are already listed under the 🎯 Primers & references section (lines 128–131). This violates the CONTRIBUTING.md style rule: "Links > inline duplication. If something is already covered in another part, link to it." The same four parts appear twice in the same TOC with slightly different descriptions, creating maintenance burden and visual noise.

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- **Covered in:** [Part 15 — Infrastructure Hardening](./part15-infrastructure-hardening.md), [Part 25 — Architecture Overview](./part25-architecture-overview.md).

## MOC — Map of Contents
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🟡 Glossary defines MOC as "Map of Contents" but the rest of the guide consistently uses "Map of Content"

The glossary entry at part28-glossary-and-terminology.md:148 defines MOC as "Map of Contents" (with a trailing 's' on "Contents"). Every other usage across the guide says "Maps of Content" (plural, no 's') or "Map of Content" (singular, no 's') — see README.md:1039 ("MOCs (Maps of Content)"), README.md:1068 ("MOCs - Maps of Content"), part9-vault-memory.md:46 ("MOCs (Maps of Content)"), and part9-vault-memory.md:70 ("MOCs — Maps of Content"). Since the glossary is the canonical terminology reference for the guide, this inconsistency is especially problematic — readers will learn the wrong expansion.

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| **v2026.4.x** | 2026-04 | memory-core built-in dreaming; plus rolling fixes | Part 22 replaces the custom autoDream from Part 16. |
| **v2026.4.15-beta.1** | 2026-04-15 | memory-lancedb cloud storage, Copilot embeddings, `localModelLean`, compaction reserve-token cap, gateway auth hot-reload, approvals secret redaction, `memory_get` canonical-only | This guide's current baseline. |
| **v4.0 — "The Agent OS"** | 2026-02-20 | Ground-up rewrite: gateway daemon, Canvas UI, native cron scheduling, 15+ messaging platforms (WhatsApp, Telegram, Discord, Slack, iMessage, WeChat, Line, Signal, Matrix, Teams…), new plugin API | The architecture the rest of this guide assumes. |
| **v4.1 — ClawHub** | 2026-03-15 | Official skills marketplace, Claude Code ACP harness, Soul.md semantic memory | 13K+ skills in a week; also the ClawHavoc supply-chain incident (1,184 malicious skills confirmed by Antiy CERT). See [Part 23](./part23-clawhub-skills-marketplace.md). |
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🟡 Factual contradiction: glossary and Part 25 say "13K+ skills in the first week" but Part 23 says "first ~30 days"

This PR introduces two new claims that contradict the existing authoritative source:

  • part25-architecture-overview.md:112: "13K+ skills in a week"
  • part28-glossary-and-terminology.md:55: "13K+ skills published in the first week"

But part23-clawhub-skills-marketplace.md:26 (the dedicated skills marketplace part and the canonical source for this claim) says "13,000+ skills published in the first ~30 days." A week vs ~30 days is a 4x difference in timeframe. Since Part 23 is the detailed source, the new text in Parts 25 and 28 should match it.

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The version history table in part25-architecture-overview.md line 112 says '13K+ skills in a week' but the authoritative source — part23-clawhub-skills-marketplace.md line 26 — says '13,000+ skills published in the first ~30 days.' The same incorrect 'first week' claim also appears in the new part28-glossary-and-terminology.md line 55. Both should be updated to match Part 23's '~30 days' timeframe. Check for any other occurrences of this claim and ensure consistency.
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…_get excerpt cap, tool-name collision rejection

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| Cause | Fix |
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| 2026.4.15 stable flipped `dreaming.storage.mode` default from `inline` → `separate` | They're now at `memory/dreaming/{light-sleep,rem-sleep}/YYYY-MM-DD.md`. If you want the old behavior, set `plugins.entries.memory-core.config.dreaming.storage.mode: "inline"` in memory-core config. See [Part 22](./README.md#part-22-built-in-dreaming) + [Part 26](./part26-migration-guide.md#path-5-v20264-15-beta-1-v20264-15-stable). |
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🟡 Broken anchor fragment in link to Part 26 Path 5 (dot-to-hyphen mismatch in slug)

The link ./part26-migration-guide.md#path-5-v20264-15-beta-1-v20264-15-stable uses a hand-written anchor that doesn't match the slug GitHub actually generates from the heading ## Path 5: v2026.4.15-beta.1 → v2026.4.15 (stable) at part26-migration-guide.md:131. GitHub's github-slugger strips dots (.) entirely, producing path-5-v2026415-beta1--v2026415-stable, but the link treats dots as hyphens yielding path-5-v20264-15-beta-1-v20264-15-stable. Users clicking the link land on the page but don't scroll to the section. CI won't catch this because lychee.toml sets include_fragments = false.

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The anchor fragment #path-5-v20264-15-beta-1-v20264-15-stable does not match the GitHub-generated slug for the heading '## Path 5: v2026.4.15-beta.1 → v2026.4.15 (stable)' in part26-migration-guide.md. GitHub's github-slugger strips dots entirely, so '2026.4.15' becomes '2026415' not '20264-15', and '.1' in 'beta.1' becomes '1' not '-1'. The correct anchor is likely #path-5-v2026415-beta1--v2026415-stable (note the double-hyphen from the arrow removal leaving adjacent spaces). This same broken anchor also appears in part28-glossary-and-terminology.md line 170. Fix both occurrences, or alternatively add an explicit HTML anchor id to the heading in part26-migration-guide.md to match the slug used in the links.
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As of **2026.4.15 stable**, `memory_get` no longer returns whole files by default. Excerpts are capped and the tool response includes **explicit continuation metadata** (a cursor the agent uses to fetch the next chunk deterministically). Combined with trimmed startup/skills prompt budgets, this keeps long sessions from silently ballooning. Skills that assumed full-file reads need a small cursor loop after the upgrade.

- **Covered in:** [Part 4 — Memory](./README.md#part-4-memory-stop-forgetting-everything), [Part 26 — Migration Guide](./part26-migration-guide.md#path-5-v20264-15-beta-1-v20264-15-stable), [Part 27 — Gotchas & FAQ](./part27-gotchas-and-faq.md).
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🟡 Same broken anchor fragment in Part 28 glossary link to Part 26 Path 5

Same issue as the Part 27 instance: part26-migration-guide.md#path-5-v20264-15-beta-1-v20264-15-stable won't resolve because GitHub's slug generation strips dots rather than converting them to hyphens. The actual anchor generated from the heading at part26-migration-guide.md:131 would be path-5-v2026415-beta1--v2026415-stable.

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The anchor fragment #path-5-v20264-15-beta-1-v20264-15-stable does not match the GitHub-generated slug for the heading at part26-migration-guide.md:131. GitHub's github-slugger strips dots, so the correct slug is approximately #path-5-v2026415-beta1--v2026415-stable. Fix the anchor here and in part27-gotchas-and-faq.md:103 which has the same issue, or add an explicit HTML anchor to the heading in part26.
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@devin-ai-integration devin-ai-integration bot changed the title Fact-check + retire Part 16 + decision trees on every part + Part 28 Glossary Fact-check + retire Part 16 + decision trees + Glossary + 2026.4.15 stable refresh Apr 17, 2026
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