ZeroClaw v0.8.1 — Stabilizing the Rewrite

ZeroClaw v0.8.1 is the first patch release on the v0.8.x line, and it goes where v0.8.0 upgraders were hurting: channel routing, cron delivery, provider replay, and config save round-trips. Of its 207 commits from 45 contributors, 123 are bug fixes — this is the release that picks up the rough edges of the multi-agent rewrite.

Highlights

• Cascading config edits — delete_with_cascade and rename_with_cascade ripple through agents, providers, channels, model providers, and skill bundles instead of leaving dangling references, built on a find_all_references / plan_delete foundation.
• Discord slash commands from skills — installed skills generate dynamic slash commands with typed options, chunked interaction followups, and archive sync on edit and delete. Discord joins the default-channels bundle.
• Operator Console redesign — the gateway web UI ships a schema-driven config editor, multi-agent chat, and a read-only skills browser.
• Cached-input pricing — cost tracking captures cached_input_tokens for any OpenAI-compatible provider that reports them, including OpenRouter system-prompt caching.
• Agent eval harness, Phase 0 — deterministic replay-driven evaluation lands as the foundation of the eval story.

Elsewhere in the release

Email channels gain XOAUTH2 auth, observer mode, and read-only IMAP tools. Slack backfills thread context on first encounter. A voice-pipeline facade lands for channels that want audio I/O. NEAR AI Cloud joins the provider list, Azure OpenAI gets a dedicated reasoning_effort wire-up, any OpenAI-compatible provider accepts extra_body, and MCP auto-reconnects on stale sessions. The three legacy agent turn engines consolidate onto a single run_tool_call_loop path.

If you upgraded to v0.8.0 and hit rough edges — this is the one to take. Full details in the release notes.