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  • MSIX 2026.9.900.0: browser extension setup refuses WindowsApps owner/ACL; supported recovery and pairing-key replacement needed
    Open
    clawsweeper:needs-security-review clawsweeper:no-new-fix-pr impact:security impact:ux-friction issue-rating: 🦪 silver shellfish P2

    Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 8/100

    openclaw/openclaw-windows-packaging#181 · 1 comment · 1 reaction ·

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  • Failed QR wait puts the pairing image in selectable text
    Open
    clawsweeper:needs-security-review clawsweeper:no-new-fix-pr clawsweeper:source-repro impact:security issue-rating: 🦞 diamond lobster P2

    Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 45/100

    openclaw/openclaw-windows-node#1755 · 1 comment · 1 reaction ·

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  • Light mode window controls have insufficient contrast
    Open
    bug impact:ux-friction issue-rating: 🦪 silver shellfish P2

    Difficulty 3/5 Half a day Newbie friendliness 50/100

    openclaw/openclaw-windows-node#1753 · 1 comment · 1 reaction ·

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  • Clicking "Install Store version and migrate" shows migration consent/Store listing error
    Open
    clawsweeper:needs-maintainer-review clawsweeper:no-new-fix-pr clawsweeper:source-repro impact:ux-release-blocker issue-rating: 🦞 diamond lobster P0

    Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 30/100

    openclaw/openclaw-windows-node#1740 · 1 comment · 1 reaction ·

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  • [Windows ARM64] First-run native Gateway and Local AI setup take about 44 minutes
    Open
    bug clawsweeper:needs-live-repro impact:ux-friction issue-rating: 🐚 platinum hermit P2

    Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 30/100

    openclaw/openclaw-windows-node#1758 · 2 comments · 1 reaction ·

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  • [Windows ARM64] Companion gives misleading build guidance when Native Gateway capability check fails
    Open
    bug clawsweeper:source-repro impact:ux-friction issue-rating: 🦞 diamond lobster P2

    Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 25/100

    openclaw/openclaw-windows-node#1754 · 2 comments · 1 reaction ·

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  • Rejected channel save keeps the submitted secret in the banner
    Open
    clawsweeper:needs-security-review clawsweeper:no-new-fix-pr clawsweeper:source-repro impact:security issue-rating: 🦞 diamond lobster P2

    Difficulty 3/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 25/100

    openclaw/openclaw-windows-node#1739 · 1 comment · 1 reaction ·

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  • Typed Claude options for explicit settings, local plugins and prompt snapshots
    Open
    clawsweeper:needs-maintainer-review clawsweeper:needs-product-decision clawsweeper:no-new-fix-pr issue-rating: 🌊 off-meta tidepool P3

    Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 12/100

    openclaw/acpx#885 · 1 comment · 1 reaction ·

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  • Apply Claude setting-source isolation consistently through opaque launchers
    Open
    clawsweeper:fix-shape-clear clawsweeper:needs-maintainer-review clawsweeper:needs-product-decision clawsweeper:no-new-fix-pr clawsweeper:source-repro impact:session-state issue-rating: 🦞 diamond lobster P2

    Difficulty 3/5 Half a day Newbie friendliness 25/100

    openclaw/acpx#883 · 1 comment · 1 reaction ·

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  • [Bug]: 2026.10.10-beta.1 Linux gateway intermittently stalls up to 23.9s after startup
    Open
    clawsweeper:needs-info clawsweeper:needs-maintainer-review clawsweeper:no-new-fix-pr impact:crash-loop issue-rating: 🦪 silver shellfish P1

    Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 15/100

    openclaw/openclaw#173666 · 2 comments · 1 reaction ·

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  • [Bug]: subagent completion with completionTarget=parent commits the relay to the transcript without channel delivery and without a signal that it was not sent
    Open
    clawsweeper:needs-maintainer-review clawsweeper:no-new-fix-pr impact:message-loss issue-rating: 🦪 silver shellfish P2

    Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 25/100

    openclaw/openclaw#173650 · 1 comment · 1 reaction ·

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  • Update failure: candidate-gateway-startup (2026.10.2)
    Open
    clawsweeper:needs-info clawsweeper:needs-maintainer-review clawsweeper:no-new-fix-pr impact:ux-friction issue-rating: 🦪 silver shellfish P1

    Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 15/100

    openclaw/openclaw#173621 · 1 comment · 1 reaction ·

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  • [Feature]: Move Skill Workshop from core into a bundled plugin
    Open
    clawsweeper:needs-product-decision clawsweeper:no-new-fix-pr impact:other issue-rating: 🌊 off-meta tidepool P3

    Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 8/100

    openclaw/openclaw#173605 · 3 comments · 1 reaction ·

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  • Stale-final recovery emits delivery-failure notice after already_delivered suppression
    Open
    clawsweeper:needs-live-repro clawsweeper:needs-maintainer-review clawsweeper:no-new-fix-pr impact:ux-friction issue-rating: 🐚 platinum hermit P2

    Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 18/100

    openclaw/openclaw#173594 · 1 comment · 1 reaction ·

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  • [Feature]: Agent Guidance plugin for shared instructions without workspace rewrites
    Open
    clawsweeper:needs-maintainer-review clawsweeper:needs-product-decision clawsweeper:no-new-fix-pr enhancement issue-rating: 🌊 off-meta tidepool P3

    Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 32/100

    openclaw/openclaw#173586 · 1 comment · 1 reaction ·

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  • [Bug]: Android setup still fails AUTH_VERIFIED_USER_REQUIRED with named roles while browser access works
    Open
    clawsweeper:needs-product-decision clawsweeper:needs-security-review clawsweeper:no-new-fix-pr clawsweeper:source-repro impact:auth-provider impact:security impact:ux-release-blocker issue-rating: 🦞 diamond lobster P0

    Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 12/100

    openclaw/openclaw#173578 · 1 comment · 1 reaction ·

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  • [Bug]: Android dictation reports on-device speech unavailable for en-CA locale; works with en-US
    Open
    clawsweeper:needs-live-repro clawsweeper:needs-maintainer-review clawsweeper:needs-product-decision clawsweeper:no-new-fix-pr impact:ux-friction issue-rating: 🐚 platinum hermit P2

    Difficulty 3/5 Half a day Newbie friendliness 52/100

    openclaw/openclaw#173562 · 1 comment · 1 reaction ·

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  • Supported data-preserving upgrade or migration from Gateway MSIX 2026.9.9: full backup and restore validation
    Open
    clawsweeper:needs-product-decision clawsweeper:needs-security-review clawsweeper:no-new-fix-pr impact:security impact:ux-friction issue-rating: 🦪 silver shellfish P2

    Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 5/100

    openclaw/openclaw-windows-packaging#175 · 1 comment · 1 reaction ·

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  • Update failure: candidate-doctor (2026.9.9)
    Open
    clawsweeper:needs-info impact:ux-friction issue-rating: 🦪 silver shellfish P2

    Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 15/100

    openclaw/openclaw#173542 · 2 comments · 1 reaction ·

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  • Feature: select a web-search provider per isolated automation
    Open
    clawsweeper:needs-maintainer-review clawsweeper:needs-product-decision clawsweeper:no-new-fix-pr clawsweeper:source-repro impact:auth-provider issue-rating: 🦞 diamond lobster P2

    Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 18/100

    openclaw/openclaw#173518 · 1 comment · 1 reaction ·

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  • Update failure: package-swap (2026.9.8)
    Open
    clawsweeper:needs-info impact:ux-friction issue-rating: 🦪 silver shellfish P2

    Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 15/100

    openclaw/openclaw#173497 · 2 comments · 1 reaction ·

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  • Control UI composer: textarea does not scroll when long text is prefilled (quick-prompt / slash-command prefill)
    Open
    clawsweeper:needs-maintainer-review clawsweeper:no-new-fix-pr impact:ux-friction issue-rating: 🦪 silver shellfish P2

    Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 45/100

    openclaw/openclaw#173479 · 2 comments · 1 reaction ·

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  • [Bug]: Resolving an unregistered CLI command captures every external plugin (~54k files, ~0.9 GB) and takes minutes before "unknown command"
    Open
    clawsweeper:needs-maintainer-review clawsweeper:no-new-fix-pr clawsweeper:source-repro impact:other impact:ux-friction issue-rating: 🦞 diamond lobster P2

    Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

    openclaw/openclaw#173478 · 1 comment · 1 reaction ·

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  • Update failure: updater-runtime-retention (2026.9.7)
    Open
    clawsweeper:needs-info impact:ux-release-blocker issue-rating: 🦪 silver shellfish maturity:stable P0

    Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 18/100

    openclaw/openclaw#173476 · 2 comments · 1 reaction ·

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  • Update failure: retired-state-format (2026.9.9)
    Open
    clawsweeper:needs-info impact:ux-friction issue-rating: 🦪 silver shellfish P2

    Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 20/100

    openclaw/openclaw#173474 · 2 comments · 1 reaction ·

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  • Version-gate SDK deprecation warnings when replacement is absent from target OpenClaw release
    Open
    clawsweeper:source-repro impact:ux-friction issue-rating: 🦞 diamond lobster P2 security

    Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 25/100

    openclaw/clawhub#3964 · 1 comment · 1 reaction ·

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  • [Bug]: Session observer disables its run after transient Codex plugin-replacement admission errors
    Open
    clawsweeper:needs-info clawsweeper:needs-maintainer-review clawsweeper:no-new-fix-pr impact:ux-friction issue-rating: 🦐 gold shrimp P2

    Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 22/100

    openclaw/openclaw#173417 · 1 comment · 1 reaction ·

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  • Restart recovery archives the agent main session and its rollover; /reset, sessions.reset and "Resume in new session" all fail
    Open
    bug bug:behavior clawsweeper:needs-maintainer-review clawsweeper:needs-product-decision clawsweeper:no-new-fix-pr clawsweeper:source-repro impact:session-state impact:ux-friction issue-rating: 🦞 diamond lobster P1

    Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 22/100

    openclaw/openclaw#173412 · 1 comment · 1 reaction ·

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  • Same-model rate_limit retry never records a failure on the auth profile, so every concurrent run re-hits the limited profile and sleeps the full Retry-After
    Open
    clawsweeper:needs-maintainer-review clawsweeper:needs-product-decision clawsweeper:no-new-fix-pr clawsweeper:source-repro impact:auth-provider issue-rating: 🦞 diamond lobster P1

    Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 22/100

    openclaw/openclaw#173381 · 1 comment · 1 reaction ·

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  • Update failure: validating (2026.9.3)
    Open
    clawsweeper:needs-info impact:ux-release-blocker issue-rating: 🦪 silver shellfish P0

    Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 18/100

    openclaw/openclaw#173370 · 2 comments · 1 reaction ·

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  • [Bug]: Discord corrections wait until work finishes despite configured steer mode
    Open
    clawsweeper:needs-product-decision clawsweeper:needs-security-review clawsweeper:no-new-fix-pr clawsweeper:source-repro impact:session-state issue-rating: 🦞 diamond lobster P2

    Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 12/100

    openclaw/openclaw#173360 · 1 comment · 1 reaction ·

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  • [Feature]: Typed provider-authoring additions to the plugin SDK for external provider plugins
    Open
    clawsweeper:needs-maintainer-review clawsweeper:needs-product-decision clawsweeper:no-new-fix-pr impact:other issue-rating: 🌊 off-meta tidepool P2

    Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 12/100

    openclaw/openclaw#173338 · 1 comment · 1 reaction ·

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  • config get masks sensitive values (auth.password) — verification loop misleads for hours during a Funnel outage recovery
    Open
    clawsweeper:needs-maintainer-review clawsweeper:needs-product-decision clawsweeper:no-new-fix-pr clawsweeper:source-repro impact:auth-provider impact:ux-friction issue-rating: 🦞 diamond lobster P2

    Difficulty 3/5 Half a day Newbie friendliness 45/100

    openclaw/openclaw#173313 · 1 comment · 1 reaction ·

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  • Update failure: package-swap (2026.10.3)
    Open
    clawsweeper:needs-info impact:ux-friction issue-rating: 🦪 silver shellfish P2

    Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 15/100

    openclaw/openclaw#173303 · 2 comments · 1 reaction ·

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  • [Bug]: [Windows] Gateway exits silently ~1s after Telegram provider starts (exit code 0xE0000027)
    Open
    bug bug:crash clawsweeper:needs-maintainer-review clawsweeper:no-new-fix-pr impact:crash-loop issue-rating: 🦪 silver shellfish P1

    Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 25/100

    openclaw/openclaw#173296 · 1 comment · 1 reaction ·

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  • Update failure: managed-service-preflight (2026.9.8)
    Open
    clawsweeper:needs-info impact:ux-friction issue-rating: 🦐 gold shrimp P2

    Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 30/100

    openclaw/openclaw#173290 · 2 comments · 1 reaction ·

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  • [Feature]: QA Lab discovery for plugin-owned eval scenario packs
    Open
    clawsweeper:needs-maintainer-review clawsweeper:needs-product-decision clawsweeper:no-new-fix-pr enhancement impact:other issue-rating: 🌊 off-meta tidepool P3

    Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 12/100

    openclaw/openclaw#173287 · 2 comments · 1 reaction ·

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  • Telegram: admitted non-owners lose all commands except /new /reset once commands.ownerAllowFrom is set; /help fails silently
    Open
    clawsweeper:needs-product-decision clawsweeper:needs-security-review clawsweeper:no-new-fix-pr clawsweeper:source-repro impact:security impact:ux-friction issue-rating: 🦞 diamond lobster P2

    Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 14/100

    openclaw/openclaw#173244 · 1 comment · 1 reaction ·

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  • [Bug]: Control UI "Add agent" spins forever on 2026.10.3; asks for a Control UI confirmation that never appears, no RPC reaches gateway
    Open
    clawsweeper:needs-maintainer-review clawsweeper:no-new-fix-pr impact:ux-release-blocker issue-rating: 🦪 silver shellfish P0

    Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 25/100

    openclaw/openclaw#173204 · 6 comments · 1 reaction ·

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  • Agent model runtime publication times out on startup (2026.10.3), Slack agent goes silent
    Open
    clawsweeper:needs-maintainer-review clawsweeper:no-new-fix-pr impact:auth-provider impact:message-loss issue-rating: 🦪 silver shellfish P1

    Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 22/100

    openclaw/openclaw#173198 · 1 comment · 1 reaction ·

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  • [Feature]: Retire obsolete external delivery routes without replacing the conversation
    Open
    clawsweeper:needs-maintainer-review clawsweeper:needs-product-decision clawsweeper:no-new-fix-pr clawsweeper:source-repro impact:message-loss issue-rating: 🦞 diamond lobster P2

    Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 12/100

    openclaw/openclaw#173194 · 1 comment · 1 reaction ·

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  • [Feature]: Config-driven retention policy for trajectory_runtime_events
    Open
    clawsweeper:needs-product-decision clawsweeper:needs-security-review clawsweeper:no-new-fix-pr clawsweeper:source-repro enhancement impact:security issue-rating: 🦞 diamond lobster P2

    Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 45/100

    openclaw/openclaw#173184 · 3 comments · 1 reaction ·

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  • [Bug]: Control UI "Gateway busy, retrying…" page polls /healthz forever after a WebSocket drop but never re-attempts the WS handshake — only a manual reload recovers
    Open
    clawsweeper:needs-maintainer-review clawsweeper:no-new-fix-pr impact:ux-friction issue-rating: 🦪 silver shellfish P1

    Difficulty 4/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 22/100

    openclaw/openclaw#173172 · 3 comments · 1 reaction ·

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