OpenClaw v2026.8.1 adds durable agent progress, scoped approvals and credential controls

The signed August 31, 2026 release of the open-source agent platform includes conversation search, subagent progress cards, structured question cards, workspace movement, masked credential requests, a destination-limited proxy, exact-operation approvals, team roles and plugin-provenance warnings.

These address the production failure points of delegation, observability, secrets and human approval.

Breaking migrations, including the OpenProse plugin removal and route and deprecation changes, are included. A staged upgrade, permission regression tests and recovery-audit validation are needed; there is no independent reliability benchmark.