OpenClaw Signals: Executor Refactor, Startup Stability, and OOM Intercepts

Optimization

Startup Race Condition Fixed: Backlog Handling for Network Dependency Order

This is the classic "stop the bleeding" fix for High Availability setups (and honestly, anything VM- or CI-related). Proper backlog handling prevents fatal startup crashes when your network interface isn't ready yet, which is massive for reliability.

Architecture

Executor Migration: HTTP/WebSocket Server Moves to Thread Pool

This is the plumbing needed to fix the WebSocket issues everyone's been ignoring. Moving the server into the thread pool ensures the main executor doesn't get blocked by slow network ops, opening the door for true async I/O down the line.

Debugging

Reflective Testing: Fast 'Enumerate' Mode Reduces Log Noise

Pressure testing without bogging down the logs is a game-changer for CI environments. It turns a 20-minute dogpile of logs into a lightweight pass/fail check, keeping your queue times down.

Tools

Scaffolding Upgrade: New Templates for Inherited Runtime Hooks

Good onboarding tooling removes friction. These new starter templates look clean and save you from the boilerplate hell of setting up new hooks, letting you jump straight to the actual logic.

Stability

Memory Safety: Soft OOM Intercept Implementation

Another chip away at the OOM monster. Handling out-of-memory conditions gracefully at the application level makes the system more resilient when the host box is starving, rather than just segfaulting.

Configuration

Fast-Fail Guards for Null Structs in Configuration Parse

Evergreen issue: config parsing is sensitive. This fails fast now instead of silently creating a broken wrapper object, which will save you a lot of head-scratching later.

Documentation

CLI Standardization: Rolling Out Missing --help Descriptors

There's a massive gap between --help and the actual man pages. This is a necessary evil to get enterprise compliance sorted out, though I'd love to see this automated.