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Episode 18 · Friday, June 19, 2026 · 4:00 PM ET

The Weekly Claw

Skill Workshop is your homework. Peter built the thing that builds the thing.
One hour. The week, in claws.

🦞 OpenClaw Discord Host: Andy · @AndyML Changelog + DevRel: Henry · @HiM Live Events: Tim · @CompleteTech

"The Claw is the Law."

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02 / TONIGHT'S RUNDOWN

Tonight's Rundown

What we're chewing on

01Welcome & Housekeeping@AndyML3 min

02Community Guidelines@AndyML3 min

03OpenClaw in the News@AndyML8 min

04Changelog Roundup + DevRel@HiM12 min

05Video — Peter Steinberger @ MS Build@AndyML8 min

06Live Events@CompleteTech6 min

07Community Check-in & Q&A@AndyML5 min

08Closing & Happy Hour@AndyML3 min

Drop questions in text chat as we go. Henry and Tim drive their own slides.

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03 / HOUSEKEEPING

Quick housekeeping

Recording & the standing PSA

📼 This session may be recorded

Every Friday, same slot, same Stage. New here? Drop your questions in text chat as we go and I'll catch them between segments. Prefer not to be on the recording? Hang out in text chat — you're still in the room.

⚠️ Standing PSA — before anything else

OpenClaw has no token, no coin, no blockchain component. If you see a wallet, an airdrop, a presale, or any account claiming an association with this project — it's a scam. /report and move on.

Episode 18. Friday, June 19th, 4 PM Eastern. Settle in.

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04 / GUIDELINES

Keeping the room the room

House rules — the short version

SERVER

No spam, NSFW, harassment, or hate.

And — ever — no crypto, betting, or trading talk. That bar is what keeps serious builders and high-profile guests coming back. No self-promo without staff sign-off; don't DM members about your project.

CHANNELS

Right room, right question.

Help goes to #help & #users-helping-users — not #general. Model talk to #models. Something looks off? /report and a mod will see it.

VOICE

Listen for a beat. Share the mic.

If you've been talking a lot, make space for someone who hasn't. Keep the language kid-safe-ish — kids show up. /report-vc pings Audrey if something goes sideways.

Stuck on an install? The fastest unblock is almost always the git install: curl -fsSL https://openclaw.ai/install.sh | bash -s -- --install-method git

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05 / OPENCLAW IN THE NEWS

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OpenClaw in the News

Lighter week, and there's a reason. Peter's moved out to SF and is getting his head around his new role at OpenAI, so the project's running a little quieter while he gets settled.

One item worth real time → Skill Workshop

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06 / NEWS · SKILL WORKSHOP

The one to know · shipped June 3

Skill Workshop — an agent that makes itself better

Instead of you hand-building custom skills, it watches what you do, notices the recurring patterns, and proposes new SKILL.md files for you to review and activate. A loop that improves on its own.

Why it matters

This is OpenClaw's answer to "but I don't know how to configure it." It lowers the bar for non-technical users — and the more you use it, the smarter it gets at knowing what you need. That self-improving loop is what separates this from the toys.

📌 Your homework this week

If you haven't switched it on yet — do it. Then come back next Friday and tell us what it proposed for you, and whether you kept it.

docs.openclaw.ai/tools/skill-workshop

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07 / NEWS · MOMENTUM

Skipping the usual lap

You already know where this is heading

I won't run the momentum lap. The star count keeps climbing, and OpenClaw's showing up in home robots in China now. We've covered all of it.

The interesting question stopped being "is this the future" a long time ago. It's "what are you building with it."

369K+ stars Fastest in GitHub history Now in physical robots

GitHub star history · openclaw/openclaw — surpassed React's decade-long record in ~60 days

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08 / NEWS · THE HONEST FOOTNOTE

Because this show isn't a hype machine

On security — the straight answer

It's been a rocky security year

A couple of patched CVEs
The ClawHub marketplace episode — 341 malicious skills flagged
The npm supply-chain incident back in February

The part that matters

Everything known has been patched. And NemoClaw was built specifically to add enterprise security guardrails for that exact concern.

The line: known issues, all patched, and the enterprise hardening layer exists.

Not something to lead with — good to have straight if anyone asks.

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09 / HANDOFF · CHANGELOG + DEVREL

Up next · 12 min

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Over to Henry

@HiM · driving his own slides

Changelog Roundup + DevRel Read

For what actually shipped this week and the developer-experience read on it — the changelog and DevRel desk is yours.

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Host's slides come back for the video

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10 / VIDEO · BRK245

Outside Conversation of the Week

"Build the thing that builds the thing"

Peter Steinberger at Microsoft Build 2026, session BRK245

Peter Steinberger · Microsoft Build 2026 · session BRK245 · Microsoft Developer on YouTube · ~42 min

How the OpenClaw maintainer team uses agents to maintain OpenClaw. They used the thing to build the thing — and Peter walks you through it at a technical level.

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11 / VIDEO · THE SYSTEM

The maintainer problem → an agent system

A loop that does the first pass, so humans do the second pass well

Thousands of issues, Discord in a dozen languages at once, PRs faster than humans can review. His answer wasn't to hire — it was to build a system of agents.

0:00

Issue-review loop

Every few minutes an orchestrator wakes up and hands a queue of issues to worker agents. Triage, label, respond, route. Mechanical work — dupes, missing repro steps, stale issues — gets handled; hard cases get flagged for a human.

~8:30

Dashboards: GitHub + the Discord crawl

By the time something's a GitHub issue, the context was already hashed out in chat. A crawl system ingests Discord and distributes that signal into GitHub as comments, labels, and links. You don't have to live in Discord to benefit from what Discord knows.

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12 / VIDEO · VISIBILITY + TESTING

Not just closing tickets — knowing the true state

The Release Bar, and an agent that reproduces your bug for you

~15 MIN

The Release Bar

A dashboard that tracks how ready a release really is — not just "are the tests passing," but open critical issues, blockers, recent CVE activity, and the PR backlog in one view. Closing tickets is one thing; knowing the true state of the codebase is another.

~22–24 MIN

Cross-platform testing + VNC

Agent-driven testing across Mac, Windows, and Linux. Then VNC: an agent operates a full desktop, clicks the UI like a user, reproduces a vague bug, records a 30-second clip, and attaches it to the issue. A completely different way to work.

Someone in Germany files a vague bug → the agent spins up a Windows VM, walks the UI, reproduces it, records the clip, attaches it. The maintainer reviews 30 seconds of video instead of two paragraphs of text.

— The VNC reproduction workflow

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13 / VIDEO · THE TURN AT 33:00

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The line I'd take home · ~33 min

"AI models are no longer limited by intelligence — they're limited by imagination."

What he means

The models are capable of more than we're asking of them. The Discord crawl, the Release Bar, the VNC workflow — none needed a smarter model. They needed someone to imagine you could wire things together that way.

Why this one's worth 42 minutes

A working maintainer showing you his actual system, down to the architecture — not a vision talk. If you maintain a plugin, skill, fork, or contrib workflow, the ideas translate. Closes on composability: keep each skill narrow and replaceable.

📺 youtube.com/watch?v=o5IQMijn-Ks 🗓 Published June 4 ⏱ ~42 min · Microsoft Developer 🔗 github.com/steipete/agent-scripts

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14 / HANDOFF · LIVE EVENTS

Up next · 6 min

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Over to Tim

@CompleteTech · driving his own slides

Live Events — meetups & ClawCons

For where to meet this community in person over the next couple of weeks — the events desk is yours.

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Pulled from the ClawExplorer calendar · Host returns to close

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15 / COMMUNITY CHECK-IN

Open floor · ~5 min

Your turn — three ways to use it

NEW HERE?

Introduce yourself.

Name, where you're calling in from, and what brought you to OpenClaw.

TRIED IT?

Skill Workshop reports.

What did it propose for you — and did you keep it? I want to hear it.

SPARKED AN IDEA?

"Build the thing."

If Peter's talk sparked something you'd wire together — drop it in chat.

Taking questions from text chat here.

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16 / THANK YOU

Andy and family in a gondola in the Austrian Alps

📍 Austria · the reason I was away

A genuine thank you

To Henry & Tim — thank you for covering.

While I was off the grid in the Alps with the family, these two kept The Weekly Claw running without missing a beat. Henry on the changelog and DevRel desk, Tim on live events — they carried the show.

That’s the whole point of this community: people show up for each other. I came back to a show that never skipped a week. I owe you both one.

🟢 @HiM — changelog + DevRel 🔵 @CompleteTech — live events

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17 / CLOSING

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Closing · ~3 min

That's Episode 18.

Two things to take with you, then we head straight into happy hour.

① Switch on Skill Workshop

Turn it on this week and report back next Friday — what it proposed, and whether you kept it.

② Watch Peter's talk

The agent system that maintains OpenClaw itself. "Models aren't limited by intelligence anymore — they're limited by imagination."

Where to go

github.com/openclaw/openclaw
openclaw.ai · openclaw.org
@openclaw · @steipete

Tonight's crew

@AndyML — host, news & video
@HiM — Changelog & DevRel
@CompleteTech — Live Events

Next up

Friday, June 26 · 4 PM ET
Same slot, same Stage
🍻 Happy hour now in Community VC

Grab a drink and stick around. 🦞 · "The Claw is the Law."