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What's New — 2026.08.20

Authentication

• Resolved an issue where users could get stuck in a redirect loop when signing in or when already signed out. Sign-in flow is now more reliable across all entry points.

Branding & Navigation

• The bot mention in Slack and Teams is now @Workmate — no action needed from users, the change takes effect automatically.
• Brand names visible in Slack and Teams have been updated to Workmate throughout.
• A dedicated Workforce login entry point is available, and the sign-in experience has been updated to match.

Microsoft Entra Integration

• Teams can now configure their own Entra (Azure AD) app directly within the workspace settings.
• Configured Entra app names are now displayed in the integration settings, making it easier to identify which app is connected.
• SharePoint connection setup now includes discovery guidance to help you find and connect the right resources.

Slack — Guest Access

• A new opt-in setting allows unlinked Slack users (those without a linked account) to interact via Slack. When enabled, access is extended to any member of the channel.

Slack — Conversation Continuity

• Slack routing context is now preserved when a session resumes, so conversations pick up correctly without losing prior routing state.

Teams on Hermes — Now Generally Available

• Microsoft Teams support on the Hermes platform is now generally available. This status is reflected in your plan header.

Device Panel

• A Browser Task tile has been added to the device panel, allowing you to monitor browser tasks directly from that view. (Note: this is an early-access tile and may change in a future release.)

Workbooks

• A new Pencil review workbook template is available to help structure review workflows.

Managed Agents (Early Access)

• Early-access infrastructure for Managed Agents has been introduced, including a runtime adapter, session management, and agent reconciliation. This feature is rolling out gradually and may not be visible to all workspaces yet.

What's new — August 2026

Microsoft Teams support

Your claws now work in Microsoft Teams. Chat with a claw in direct messages, group chats, and channels. Claws can share files with you: in channels, files land in the channel's own Files tab; in direct messages, you'll get a consent card so nothing arrives without your approval. Connecting your Microsoft account uses the standard Microsoft sign-in flow.

Browser tasks

• Watch a browser task live from chat while it runs.
• Sign in to a website once from the device panel, and your claw can run tasks on sites that need your login.
• Tasks now run in the background and report their results back to the conversation where you started them — including in Slack and Teams.
• The per-task spending cap was raised to $50.

Chat and app improvements

• Chat history now shows unread indicators and clearer session titles, and routine runs are grouped into a single row per routine.
• The app can be installed to your home screen or dock.
• Slack: your claw's photo now syncs to its Slack avatar, and routine messages arrive from the claw rather than Slackbot.
• Large file uploads from the workspace are now reliable.

Reliability

Dozens of behind-the-scenes fixes to message delivery, sign-in, mobile layouts, and overall stability.

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WorkClaw — Release Notes

Version 2026.07.08 Covers changes since 2026.06.26

Microsoft Teams Support

Your claws can now receive and respond to messages in Microsoft Teams. Mention a claw by name in a channel and it will respond naturally, without requiring tagged or structured messages.

Session Continuity

Chats with claws are now more reliable across sessions. The system correctly carries context forward, prevents unintended resets, and no longer causes conversations to disappear unexpectedly. Archived sessions are retained for up to 120 days.

AgentMail

Claws can now send and receive email via AgentMail. Inbound messages are properly routed and logged; outbound inboxes are provisioned automatically.

Claw Templates

A new template catalog makes it easier to set up a claw for a specific role. Each template includes a curated list of suggested apps, a grouped "Works with" overview, and a polished card and About overlay. The catalog loads with skeleton placeholders so there is no blank-screen wait.

Model Selection

Teams can now choose which AI model their claw uses. Settings are applied immediately and sync at runtime without requiring a restart.

Signup Credits & Onboarding

New users receive credits automatically during signup. The onboarding flow now includes a dedicated credits step, a "Build your team" step, and clearer computer provisioning status copy.

Slack Improvements

• Setup guidance now deep-links directly to the right Slack page with a one-step channel add.
• Channel and DM names resolve correctly in the Slack state block.
• Claws can now unbind themselves from Slack channels.
• Slack DM routing now uses mention-based routing for more predictable behavior.
• Fixed a case where the Surface split showed zero Slack signups.

Chat & File Delivery

• Fixed a race condition when sending attachments in chat.
• Like/dislike feedback on assistant messages is now saved.
• Chat messages now appear in the correct order before a page reload.
• Files created by a claw are delivered in the conversation where you asked for them.
• Aborted or timed-out turns are now surfaced clearly rather than disappearing silently.
• Gateway interruptions are now fast and actionable instead of silently hanging for up to three minutes.
• Generated web apps can now be previewed directly from file previews.

Reliability

• Browser sessions inside runtime containers are more resilient: wedged browser sessions are auto-recovered, profile contention during deploys is resolved, and crash-loop meltdowns are contained.
• A recurring classification error caused by malformed text content has been resolved.
• Session context is no longer lost when a session is paused and resumed.
• Recoverable terminal errors no longer surface as hard failures.

Team Access

• Team owners can now approve Workmate team access requests.
• A new account team switcher lets you move between teams without re-authenticating.
• Claws can now see their team's clawmate list.

Sign-in

• Fixed a false "Verification failed" error and stuck-signed-in loop affecting phone/email sign-in.

"Team ClawDrive" Rename

What was previously called "Shared ClawDrive" is now called Team ClawDrive to better reflect its purpose.

Website

• Refreshed homepage hero design and copy.
• Navigation is consistent across all marketing pages and includes a new Security link.
• Mobile keyboard now raises correctly when typing in the browser panel.

WorkClaw Release Notes

Released 2026-06-26

Highlights

Slack Integration — Deeper and More Reliable

WorkClaw's Slack integration has received significant investment this release. Agents now correctly identify the current user on every turn, eliminating identity mix-ups. The default WorkClaw agent is reachable directly via @WorkClaw in Slack, and its channel presence and join actions are now visible from the agent detail view. A verified-teammate lookup tool lets agents reliably resolve Slack user identities. Slack marketplace listing pages are also now live.

Native App Support: GitHub & Figma

GitHub and Figma are now available as native app integrations on the /apps page, joining Slack. Post-launch polish has been applied based on early feedback.

Improved File Handling

File delivery has been unified through a single rendering channel, giving agents a consistent way to share files. Canonical download links are now available, and file paths shown to users have been cleaned up.

Analytics & Digest — Accuracy and Clarity

Several rounds of improvements make the analytics digest more accurate and easier to act on:

• Safety flags are now grouped by session (one row per session) and the full severity record is visible in detail views; executive summaries remain focused on high and medium severity.
• Dismissed items are correctly excluded from Bugs and Friction headline counts.
• Incomplete week and month buckets are now visually distinguished in charts.
• Weekly and monthly Active Users charts now aggregate correctly.
• The 'Issues to investigate' section includes an explanatory caption.
• Internal-team filtering is now consistent across all digest sections.
• Left-rail counts update immediately when filters are changed.

Warm Host Readiness

Warm hosts now carry readiness profiles and preserve volume metadata, which supports faster workspace startup.

Signup & Onboarding Improvements

• /sign-up is now a dedicated page with purpose-built copy.
• The verification code input is automatically focused when the page loads.
• Signup credits are now gated behind qualification to ensure a better-matched experience.
• The welcome page has been redesigned with a launch video section, founder card, and clearer call-to-action.

Direct API Fallback

When an agent's broker tools are insufficient for a task, the platform now surfaces a Direct API fallback path, reducing dead ends.

Reliability & Infrastructure

• Shared ingress migration recovery path has been hardened.
• Runtime pause sweep is now automated.
• Analytics ingest durability has been improved with wider incremental overlap and gap alerting.
• The Clerk session refresh loop has been resolved.
• Better Stack alert recovery semantics have been tuned.
• Sleeping workspace messaging has been clarified.

What's New — WorkClaw

Release 2026.06.23-beta.2

Runtime Stability & Lifecycle

• Improved runtime pause reliability. A condition that could cause unintended runtime pauses has been corrected.
• Manual pause & wake controls. Workspaces can now be manually paused and subsequently woken, giving operators more direct control over runtime state.
• Lifecycle safety gates. Additional safeguards now protect runtime state transitions from unsafe conditions.
• Inactive teams hidden from Runtime Status. Teams with no recent activity no longer appear in the status view, keeping the display focused and actionable.

Agent Files in Chat

• Files created by agents now appear inline in the chat thread. When an agent produces a file during a session, it is surfaced directly in the conversation rather than requiring a separate lookup.

Chat Media Fix

• Images generated asynchronously in chat now render correctly. A fix resolves a false error state that previously prevented async-generated images from appearing.

Mobile Improvements

• iOS home-screen icon is now full-bleed and opaque, matching the expected icon presentation when the app is added to the home screen.
• Chat layout and device height handling improved on mobile. Addresses display issues in the mobile chat view.
• Live activity status mark alignment corrected.

Workspace Management

• App slug deletion now performs a full cleanup, removing associated records and connected resources when an app slug is deleted.

Observability

• Runtime host CPU and memory metrics are now collected and monitored by default. Operators gain visibility into host-level resource usage with alerting in place.

Reliability & Infrastructure

• Automated analytics pipelines for classification, clustering, and cross-check validation are now running on scheduled cadences with improved fault isolation — individual job failures no longer affect other pipeline steps.
• Scheduled digest reporting delivers daily, weekly, and monthly summaries with trend baselines.
• Deploy queue now supports priorities, allowing more important deployments to be processed first.
• OpenClaw image size reduced while preserving build metadata.

Operator Tooling

• System jobs page provides a live view of scheduled background jobs and their current schedule state.
• Stable rollback flow is now available for release management.
• Release channel commit metadata is now visible in the release UI.

WorkClaw 2026.06.23

This release follows the 2026.06.22 stable build. No user-facing changes have been identified for this promotion.

If you have questions about what is included in this update, please contact your WorkClaw operator.

WorkClaw — Release 2026.06.22

This release brings a large set of reliability, workflow, and observability improvements across agent execution, onboarding, integrations, and operator tooling.

Reliability & Response Quality

• Fewer incomplete responses. Addressed a class of errors where agent responses would fail to complete, producing "couldn't finish" or "no final response" messages. Interstitial aborted turns no longer generate spurious error messages.
• More robust scheduled tasks. Scheduled agent actions now run in isolated sessions, preventing silent failures that could occur when main crons were interrupted.
• Stable long-running sessions. Improved heartbeat handling during heavy workloads prevents sessions from being incorrectly terminated as stale.
• Better chat error feedback. Improved error messaging in chat when something goes wrong, so users see clearer information rather than generic failures.

Onboarding

• Unified onboarding flow. Sales-assisted and self-serve (PLG) onboarding now follow a single, consistent path.
• Team invite step. Workspace owners now see a dedicated step to invite teammates during onboarding.
• Reliability fixes. Resolved several edge cases in team join state sync, redirect handling, and completion loops during onboarding.

Integrations

• Pipedream Connect Proxy. Connected apps with zero pre-built actions are now accessible to agents via the Pipedream Connect Proxy — expanding the range of apps that can be used without custom tooling.
• Proactive Slack DMs. Proactive Slack direct messages are now routed through the correct DM channel.
• Consistent Slack announcements. Slack cron announcements now deliver the final message text exactly once, matching the behavior already in place for Discord and Telegram.
• Improved Slack metadata handling. Relay envelope metadata is now correctly stripped from inbound Slack messages, improving conversation parsing accuracy.
• Bridge app call improvements. The bridge app call interface now accepts --slug, --tool, and --json arguments, and no longer silently drops unrecognized arguments.
• Google skill routing. Built-in Google skills are now correctly redirected when the underlying bridge integration is disabled.

Settings & Controls

• Team and Claw model settings. Operators can now configure team-level and Claw model preferences from settings.
• Deploy safety gate. Team deploys are now blocked until workspace setup is complete, preventing partial-state deployments.
• Static approval rules. A static rule flow is now available for AI-approved requests.

Operator Tooling & Observability

• Expanded alerting. New alerts cover runtime queue age, gateway outages, Slack and webhook delivery, router ingress, and runtime container health — with tuned thresholds and standardized runbooks.
• Runtime cost visibility. Runtime costs are now tracked per category with forecasting support.
• OpenTelemetry on runtime hosts. OTel is now enabled by default on runtime hosts, including CPU metrics, with volume tuned for production use.
• Skill drift logs. Observability logs now surface skill drift over time.
• Skill library install counts fixed. Install counts in the skill library now reflect accurate data.
• Image builds moved to CodeBuild. Runtime image builds now use AWS CodeBuild for improved reliability and build-time caching.
• Scheduled stable deploys. Stable releases now follow a scheduled deploy cadence.
• Custom build picker. Operators can now select and inspect custom build commits directly from deploy pickers.

God Mode (Operator Analytics)

This release includes a major expansion of God Mode, WorkClaw's internal operator analytics surface.

Conversation Analytics

• Issues and Use Cases lenses. Conversations are now automatically classified and clustered into Problems (bug/friction issues) and Use Cases (goal clusters). Both lenses support External/Internal/All scope filters, sortable columns, and clickable detail pages.
• Incremental refresh. A "Morning refresh" button runs the full incremental pipeline (ingest → classify → cluster) in one press. New conversations can be filed into existing issues without a full re-cluster.
• Daily digest to Slack. A daily analytics digest is now delivered to a Slack channel, including an exec summary, PEOPLE and SHIFTS sections, and an App Connections summary. A stale-data warning banner appears when data is out of date.
• Automated pipeline schedules. Classify, cluster, cross-check, and ingest sweeps now run on automated EventBridge schedules, with Slack alerts on failure and an hourly ingest health check.
• Safety lens. Per-conversation abuse and safety classification is now available, with a dedicated Safety lens and rail counts.
• Legitimacy tiers. Teams now receive a legitimacy score and tier (including VIP gating), visible in the God Mode UI with crown indicators and filters.
• Linear integration. Issue detail pages now include a "Create Linear ticket" button with prefilled project, label, and back-link, plus an unlink option.
• Transcript viewer improvements. The transcript viewer now offers a 3-way toggle (Timeline / Readable / Raw), persisted translations, content-sized user bubbles, and a behind-the-scenes timeline view. Large assistant messages are no longer dropped during translation.
• Pipeline cost tracking. Token and cost usage is now tracked per classify and cluster job.
• Signups charts. Active Users Over Time chart now includes automated vs. real-user and new vs. returning splits.

Data Quality

• Fixed ingest freezes. An infinite loop and O(n²) regex backtracking in the message parser — which caused ingest to stall for over 19 minutes — have been resolved.
• Cleaner conversation data. Relay envelope metadata, async-exec-completion noise, and delivery-mirror-only sessions are now correctly excluded from analytics. One-sided conversations caused by missing reply extraction are also fixed.

This release covers 251 commits. Some internal tooling, test infrastructure, and documentation changes are not listed above.