Without error handling, if node-pty require or pty.spawn throws (bad
permissions, missing cwd, stale server), the client gets no response and
the terminal hangs with a blinking cursor. Now sends an exit event back.
fitAddon.fit() was called synchronously on mount before the browser laid
out the container, sending 0-dimension cols/rows to the PTY. The shell
would hang without displaying a prompt. Now defers WS connection by 50ms,
re-fits after the shell reports ready, and shows an error if WS fails.
xterm.js frontend + node-pty WebSocket server spawning the user's real shell,
with drag-to-resize drawer, multi-terminal tabs, live theme sync, and URL state.
- Convert sync filesystem and DuckDB operations to async across API routes,
workspace lib, and active-runs to prevent event loop blocking during tree
discovery, object lookups, and database queries
- Add "tags" field type for free-form string arrays with parse-tags utility,
TagsBadges/TagsInput UI components, filter operators, and CRM skill docs
- Preserve rich text formatting (bold, italic, code, @mentions) in user chat
messages by sending HTML alongside plain text through the transport layer
- Detect empty-stream errors, improve agent error emission, and add file
mutation queues for concurrent write safety in active-runs
- Add pre-publish standalone node_modules verification in deploy script
checking serverExternalPackages are present
- Extract syncManagedSkills and discoverWorkspaceDirs for multi-workspace
skill syncing, add ensureSeedAssets for runtime app dir
- Bump version 2.1.1 → 2.1.4
sessions.patch for verboseLevel=full was called before the agent RPC
created the session, so it silently failed on new chats. Tool events
were never emitted and the frontend only showed brief text responses.
Now patches both before (for existing sessions) and after the agent RPC
(for newly created sessions). Also adds SSE keepalive to the POST /api/chat
stream to prevent connection drops during long tool executions, and removes
the unused legacy CLI spawn codepath.
The root layout called getOrCreateAnonymousId() in a Server Component
without marking the route as dynamic. Next.js treated it as static,
pre-rendering the developer's UUID into the standalone build shipped
via npm — so every `npx denchclaw` user shared the same PostHog identity.
- Add `export const dynamic = "force-dynamic"` to root layout
- Replace `process.env.HOME || "~"` fallback with `homedir()` in web
telemetry and posthog-analytics plugin (Node.js path.join doesn't
expand "~", creating a relative path under cwd instead)
The URL sync effect and hydration effect run in the same React render
cycle. Since React state updates (setActivePath) are batched, the URL
sync effect still saw activePath=null and pushed "/", stripping all
query params. This caused an alternating refresh bug where odd refreshes
showed the homepage and even refreshes worked correctly.
Skip the URL sync effect for one render after hydration completes, giving
React state time to update before the effect writes the URL.
findObjectDir only searched the workspace root and one level deep, so objects
nested inside category folders (e.g. marketing/influencer/) were not discovered
by the views API. This caused saved views, active_view, and view_settings to
silently return empty for any object beyond depth 1.
Replace the single-level scan with a depth-limited recursive search (max 4
levels), skipping known heavy directories (node_modules, .git, .next, etc.).
The sidebar tree builder (buildTree in tree/route.ts) already walks recursively,
so this brings findObjectDir in line with the rest of the workspace discovery.
Parse cron/every/at schedules and project all occurrences within the
visible date range so the calendar shows upcoming runs, not just the
next one. Display scheduled times on event chips.
Remove scattered router.replace("/") calls in favor of the URL sync effect.
Add popstate listener to restore app state on browser back/forward.
Preserve object-view params across shell-level URL updates.
Fix ObjectView overwriting URL params on initial mount.
Update package versions for denchclaw and dench to 2.0.16. Refactor feedback API to convert chat lines into PostHog-compatible messages, preserving chronological order and including tool calls and results. Improve test cases to reflect changes in message handling.
Add workspace mock to agent-runner tests, skip PostHog pageviews on cron paths to reduce noise, document web-chat storage path in CRM skill, and include cursor plans and build info.
Show an animated hero screen with rotating prompt suggestion cards when the chat is empty, using framer-motion for layout transitions. Add setText method to ChatEditor for programmatic content insertion.
Add tabbed views (overview, calendar, timeline, insights) to the cron dashboard, run status filters and action buttons (run now, disable, delete) to job detail, reuse ChatMessage for session transcripts, and wire URL state through workspace content.
Reconnect to the correct chat session when initialSessionId is provided instead of always picking the latest, and pass through the subagent sessionKey for clickable subagent cards.
Save expanded file tree paths to localStorage so they survive page reloads, and surface an onColumnVisibilityChanged callback from DataTable/ObjectTable.
Move the workspace shell from /workspace to / and introduce a typed URL state codec (parseUrlState/serializeUrlState) for deep-linkable workspace params. Legacy /workspace URLs are still recognized for backward compatibility.
Bootstrap posthog-js with the persisted install ID from the server, forward distinctId to API routes, and restructure feedback traces to use chronological conversation order.
Use the session key directly as the PostHog trace ID so feedback and generation events share the same trace. Extract non-assistant messages from conversations for $ai_input.
A random UUID is generated on first run and stored in ~/.openclaw-dench/telemetry.json, replacing the SHA-256 hostname hash that could theoretically be reversed.
Introduce a `noOpen` option across various web runtime commands to control automatic browser opening. Implement a prompt to ask users if they want to open the web UI, enhancing user experience and flexibility during command execution.
Enhance the installBundledPlugins function to set the plugins.load.paths configuration for posthog-analytics using OpenClaw. This addition allows for dynamic loading of plugin paths, improving plugin management during the bootstrap process.
Add extractUsageFromMessages and normalizeOutputForPostHog to pull actual
token counts and cost from OpenClaw per-message usage metadata, and convert
Anthropic-style tool call blocks to OpenAI format for PostHog AI observability.
Integrate gateway daemon restart (stop → install → start) into both the
update and start web runtime commands so the gateway stays in sync with
runtime upgrades.
Switch TraceContextManager from runId to sessionId-based indexing so
tool spans share the same trace_id as their parent generation. Extract
tool names from agent_end messages for the PostHog Tools tab. Guard
against sending $0 cost and null token counts.
Integrate PostHog LLM Analytics via a bundled OpenClaw plugin that captures
$ai_generation, $ai_span, and $ai_trace events with configurable privacy
mode (content redaction on by default). Add like/dislike feedback buttons
to the web chat UI backed by a /api/feedback route. Extend the CLI with
`telemetry privacy on|off` subcommands and fix command delegation so
telemetry subcommands aren't forwarded to OpenClaw. Harden the web runtime
installer to auto-flatten pnpm standalone deps and dereference dangling
symlinks, preventing "Cannot find module 'next'" crashes in dev. Move
plugin installation before onboard in bootstrap so the gateway starts
with plugins.allow already configured.
