OpenClaw Signals: Automation Hooks and Resolver Decoupling

Tools

PR #328: Fix silent deploy auth errors

This fixes a long-standing annoyance where the CLI silently ate authentication errors when deploying to remote clusters. If you've been seeing spurious deployment failures, check your config; this patch ensures the errors actually surface to the operator.

Bugfixes

PR #331: Stabilize heartbeat lifecycle hooks

Tracking down race conditions in the engine is brutal, but this PR tightens the hooks for the heartbeat lifecycle to prevent spurious agent timeouts. It's a boring stability fix, but it means less noise in your alerting and fewer zombie process cleanups.

Core Architecture

PR #332: Decouple resolvers for testability

Refactoring how the core resolves external dependencies should make the resolver logic much easier to test in isolation. This is classic tech debt paydown that unblocks faster iteration on the plugin system without breaking existing integrations.

RFCs

Issue #1564: RFC for automated memory reclamation

If you run OpenClaw at scale, memory bloat on long-running jobs is a constant battle. The proposal suggests introducing an automated reclamation phase, but the team is debating the performance cost versus the memory gain.

Tooling

PR #333: Add deep-event inspection hooks

The new debug hooks provide much better visibility into the event loop without tanking performance. This is essential if you're trying to automate complex agent chains and need to pinpoint exactly where a task stalled.

Health

Repo Pulse: High reliability focus this week

There's a pretty consistent push of patches landing across the heartbeat lifecycle and core adapters this week. It suggests the team is prioritizing reliability over new features, which is exactly what you want if you're running this in production.