The highly anticipated open-source agent project OpenClaw released its core version 2026.3.7 on Sunday. This update not only introduced powerful features such as the Context Engine plugin and distributed channel binding, but also achieved full support for OpenAI's latest flagship model, GPT-5.4.

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Currently, OpenClaw has exceeded 280,000 stars on GitHub. Developers stated that the project is evolving from an experimental agent framework into a production-level "agent operating system" with high persistence and scalability.

The key highlights of this update include:

  • Context Engine Plugin: A new Context Engine interface has been added, allowing developers to freely mount RAG (Retrieval-Augmented Generation) or lossless compression algorithms. This solves the "forgetfulness" issue in long conversations for agents, paving the way for long-term autonomous operation.

  • Native Support for GPT-5.4 and Gemini: GPT-5.4 is now integrated, and it demonstrated better performance than the official native tools in the OOLONG benchmark test. Additionally, deep optimization for Google Gemini3.1 series models has been added.

  • Persistent Channel Binding: Agents can be deeply bound with Discord or Telegram channels through the ACP protocol. Even after server restarts, agents can "remember" previous communication progress and context, achieving true persistent service.

  • Local Model Experience Optimization: The streaming output mechanism for local models like Ollama has been restructured, perfectly isolating the model's "thinking process" from the formal response, avoiding interference from reasoning drafts to users.

In terms of performance, the new version of OpenClaw, combined with the lossless-claw plugin, showed impressive results when handling extremely long contexts. Test data shows that its score in long text comprehension tasks reached 74.8, fully surpassing competing products.

As this tool gained popularity, its application scope has expanded from professional programming to stock selection, report writing, and automated office work. More and more people are starting to deploy OpenClaw as their "virtual employee" to handle daily tedious tasks at a very low cost.