🚀 Clawdbot 2026.1.20: A Major Leap Forward
The clawdbot team is thrilled to announce version 2026.1.20, a comprehensive release that transforms how users interact with AI across multiple platforms. This update delivers substantial enhancements to the user experience, memory capabilities, and channel integrations, making clawdbot more powerful and intuitive than ever.
🎨 User Interface Refinements
Control UI Modernization
The Control UI receives a significant overhaul with developer-friendly features. Users can now copy content as Markdown with intelligent error feedback, streamlining the workflow for technical documentation and content sharing. The legacy list view has been deprecated, paving the way for a cleaner, more modern interface.
Terminal UI (TUI) Enhancements
The Terminal User Interface gets a major upgrade with several quality-of-life improvements:
✨ Syntax Highlighting: Code blocks now display with full syntax highlighting, making terminal-based interactions more readable and professional.
✨ Intelligent Session Picker: The session picker now shows derived titles, supports fuzzy search, displays relative timestamps, and previews the last message—helping users quickly navigate their conversation history.
✨ Searchable Model Selection: A new searchable model picker accelerates model selection, eliminating the need to scroll through lengthy lists.
✨ Input History Navigation: Users can now navigate through submitted messages using arrow keys (up/down), bringing familiar terminal conventions to clawdbot interactions.
🔧 Developer Tools and IDE Integration
Advanced Control Protocol (ACP)
Clawdbot introduces the new clawdbot acp command suite designed for seamless IDE integrations. The addition of clawdbot acp client provides an interactive harness for debugging, empowering developers to troubleshoot and optimize their implementations with precision.
📦 Skills and Tools Expansion
Enhanced Skills Management
The Skills system now supports downloadable installations with OS-filtered options, ensuring users get the right tools for their platform. A major addition is the local sherpa-onnx-tts skill, bringing text-to-speech capabilities directly to clawdbot without external dependencies.
⚡ Revolutionary Memory and Search System
The memory subsystem receives the most substantial improvements in this release:
Hybrid Search Technology
Clawdbot now implements a sophisticated hybrid search combining BM25 full-text search with vector embeddings (powered by FTS5). The system intelligently merges results with weighted scoring and provides intelligent fallback mechanisms for optimal retrieval accuracy.
Performance Optimization
🚀 SQLite Embedding Cache: A new caching layer dramatically speeds up reindexing and handles frequent updates efficiently.
🚀 OpenAI Batch Indexing: When configured, clawdbot leverages OpenAI's batch API for embeddings, now enabled by default for OpenAI embeddings. The system supports parallel batch jobs with a default concurrency of 2, significantly accelerating large-scale indexing operations.
Enhanced Monitoring and Debugging
Memory operations now provide immediate progress rendering with color-coded batch statuses in verbose logs. The system polls OpenAI batch status every 2 seconds by default, and users can enable --verbose logging to track detailed memory status and batch indexing information.
Multi-Provider Support
Clawdbot adds native Gemini embeddings provider support for memory search, giving users more flexibility in choosing their embedding infrastructure.
🌐 Channel and Platform Integration Upgrades
Browser Tool Enhancements
The browser tool now supports configurable defaults for efficient snapshots, streamlining both tool and CLI usage.
New: Nostr Channel Plugin
Clawdbot expands its social reach with a new Nostr channel plugin featuring profile management and intelligent onboarding defaults, enabling users to interact with the Nostr protocol ecosystem.
Matrix Protocol Modernization
The Matrix integration undergoes a major upgrade, migrating to matrix-bot-sdk with end-to-end encryption (E2EE) support, improved location handling, and enhanced group allowlist capabilities.
Slack: Webhook Mode Support
Slack users benefit from a new HTTP webhook mode via Bolt HTTP receiver, providing more flexible deployment options for serverless and cloud environments.
Telegram Context Enrichment
Forwarded messages now include enriched context with normalized origin details and legacy fallback support, improving conversation clarity and traceability.
Discord Improvements
Discord integration becomes more robust with fallback to /skill commands when native command limits are exceeded. The /skill command is now exposed globally, making skill invocation more accessible to all users.
Zalouser Channel Support
The new Zalouser channel plugin adds full support including channel dock metadata, comprehensive config schema, setup wiring, probe functionality, and status issue tracking.
🔐 Plugin System Enhancements
The plugin system now requires manifest-embedded config schemas with preflight validation warnings, ensuring better plugin quality and preventing configuration errors before they cause issues.
🎉 What's Next?
Clawdbot 2026.1.20 represents a significant milestone in making AI interactions more accessible, powerful, and user-friendly. Whether you're a developer leveraging the new ACP tools, a user enjoying the refined UI, or an organization deploying across multiple channels, this release delivers substantial value.
For detailed documentation on all features, visit the clawdbot documentation.
🚀 Clawdbot 2026.1.20：重大升级发布
Clawdbot团队荣幸宣布2026.1.20版本正式发布，这是一次全面的升级，彻底改变了用户在多个平台上与AI交互的方式。本次更新在用户体验、内存管理和渠道集成方面带来了实质性的增强，使clawdbot变得更加强大和直观。
🎨 用户界面优化
控制UI现代化
控制UI进行了重大改进，新增了开发者友好的功能。用户现在可以将内容复制为Markdown格式，并获得智能错误反馈，大大简化了技术文档和内容分享的工作流程。已弃用的旧版列表视图已被移除，为更清洁、更现代的界面铺平道路。
终端UI (TUI) 增强
终端用户界面获得了多项质量改进：
✨ 语法高亮：代码块现在支持完整的语法高亮显示，使终端交互更加清晰专业。
✨ 智能会话选择器：会话选择器现在显示派生标题、支持模糊搜索、显示相对时间戳，并预览最后一条消息，帮助用户快速浏览对话历史。
✨ 可搜索的模型选择器：新的可搜索模型选择器加快了模型选择速度，无需滚动冗长的列表。
✨ 输入历史导航：用户现在可以使用方向键（上/下）在已提交的消息中导航，为clawdbot交互带来熟悉的终端操作习惯。
🔧 开发者工具和IDE集成
高级控制协议 (ACP)
Clawdbot引入了新的 clawdbot acp 命令套件，专为无缝IDE集成而设计。新增的 clawdbot acp client 提供交互式调试工具，使开发者能够精确地排查和优化其实现。
📦 技能和工具扩展
增强的技能管理
技能系统现在支持可下载的安装，并提供操作系统过滤选项，确保用户获得适合其平台的正确工具。重大补充是本地sherpa-onnx-tts技能，为clawdbot带来文本转语音功能，无需外部依赖。
⚡ 革命性的内存和搜索系统
内存子系统在本次发布中获得了最大的改进：
混合搜索技术
Clawdbot现在实现了结合BM25全文搜索与向量嵌入（由FTS5驱动）的复杂混合搜索。系统使用加权评分智能合并结果，并提供智能回退机制以获得最优检索精度。
性能优化
🚀 SQLite嵌入缓存：新的缓存层大幅加快了重新索引速度，并高效处理频繁更新。
🚀 OpenAI批量索引：配置时，clawdbot利用OpenAI的批处理API进行嵌入，现已默认为OpenAI嵌入启用。系统支持并行批处理任务，默认并发数为2，显著加速大规模索引操作。
增强的监控和调试
内存操作现在提供即时进度渲染，在详细日志中使用彩色编码的批处理状态。系统默认每2秒轮询一次OpenAI批处理状态，用户可启用 --verbose 日志记录以跟踪详细的内存状态和批处理索引信息。
多提供商支持
Clawdbot新增了对Gemini嵌入提供商的原生支持，用于内存搜索，为用户在选择嵌入基础设施时提供了更多灵活性。
🌐 渠道和平台集成升级
浏览器工具增强
浏览器工具现在支持可配置的默认设置，用于高效快照，简化了工具和CLI的使用。
新增：Nostr渠道插件
Clawdbot通过新的Nostr渠道插件扩展了其社交覆盖范围，该插件具有个人资料管理和智能入门默认设置，使用户能够与Nostr协议生态系统交互。
Matrix协议现代化
Matrix集成进行了重大升级，迁移到matrix-bot-sdk，支持端到端加密（E2EE）、改进的位置处理和增强的群组允许列表功能。
Slack：Webhook模式支持
Slack用户受益于新的HTTP Webhook模式（通过Bolt HTTP接收器），为无服务器和云环境提供了更灵活的部署选项。
Telegram上下文丰富
转发的消息现在包含丰富的上下文，具有规范化的来源详情和旧版回退支持，改进了对话清晰度和可追溯性。
Discord改进
Discord集成变得更加稳健，当本地命令限制被超出时，可回退到 /skill 命令。/skill 命令现已全局公开，使技能调用对所有用户更加便捷。
Zalouser渠道支持
新的Zalouser渠道插件添加了完整支持，包括渠道停靠元数据、全面的配置架构、设置接线、探针功能和状态问题跟踪。
🔐 插件系统增强
插件系统现在要求清单嵌入式配置架构，并进行预检验证警告，确保更好的插件质量，并在配置错误导致问题之前防止其发生。
🎉 展望未来
Clawdbot 2026.1.20代表了使AI交互更易访问、更强大和更用户友好的重要里程碑。无论您是利用新ACP工具的开发者、享受精细UI的用户，还是在多个渠道部署的组织，本次发布都提供了实质性的价值。
有关所有功能的详细文档，请访问clawdbot文档。