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2026-10-24-openclaw-cli-tool-catalog-changes-now-invalidate-stale-native-sessions
CLI tool-catalog changes now invalidate stale native sessions. Previously a resumed CLI could retain an old tool catalog after OpenClaw changed its available tools, including after restart. The current reuse policy invalidates the native binding when the stable tool-name fingerprint changes, because the loopback bridge cannot notify a resumed CLI to refresh its catalog. A later refinement excludes transient caller-surface tools from that fingerprint so ordinary completion/context changes do not unnecessarily discard native continuity.
Channel: tagged-release. Half: defect. Date: 2026-10-24.
Operator consequence: Test 10.7 with the actual Claude CLI/OpenClaw restart and tool-change workflow before retaining manual session-reset workarounds. This repairs a concrete source of missing tools and wasted turns. It does not establish that the separate social benchmark’s deadline misses, image failures, or unsolicited commits all had this cause, nor does it diagnose standalone Claude Code.
Receipt
- https://github.com/openclaw/openclaw/commit/4057f94e2692f5cc274e97770d79f01402c25af9
- https://github.com/openclaw/openclaw/blob/v2026.10.7/src/agents/cli-session.ts#L37-L48
- https://github.com/openclaw/openclaw/blob/v2026.10.7/src/agents/cli-session.ts#L319-L328
- https://github.com/openclaw/openclaw/issues/175670
Finding metadata
Run: 2026-10-24-weekly-digest-2026-10-13_2026-10-24-frontier-v0
Finding ID: 2026-10-24-openclaw-cli-tool-catalog-changes-now-invalidate-stale-native-sessions
Source links
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- commit2026-10-24-openclaw-cli-tool-catalog-changes-now-invalidate-stale-native-sessionsgithub.com/openclaw/openclaw/commit/4057f94e2692f5cc274e97770d79f01402c25af9tagged commit file2026-10-24-openclaw-cli-tool-catalog-changes-now-invalidate-stale-native-sessionsopenclaw/openclaw / src/agents/cli-session.ts#L37-L48tagged commit file2026-10-24-openclaw-cli-tool-catalog-changes-now-invalidate-stale-native-sessionsopenclaw/openclaw / src/agents/cli-session.ts#L319-L328official docs2026-10-24-openclaw-cli-tool-catalog-changes-now-invalidate-stale-native-sessionsgithub.com/openclaw/openclaw/issues/175670
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