ClawHosters
by Daniel Samer
2 min read
Twenty seconds to browse your available models. That was the reality before this release. OpenClaw v2026.5.22 drops that to roughly 5 milliseconds. A 4,100x improvement on the /models endpoint, measured after the gateway warms up at startup.
As maintainer Fred put it on OpenClaw Hub: "That is the kind of fix you feel immediately."
What Changed Under the Hood
The bottleneck was straightforward. Every call to /models waited for provider authentication to resolve at request time. Stack six providers on your gateway, and you stacked six auth round-trips. On a real-world gateway with six providers, independent testing measured response times around 22 seconds before the fix.
The solution: pre-warm provider auth-state maps at startup. After that initial warm-up, model listing calls skip the per-request resolution entirely. Cold-start time itself also dropped by about 40%.
Meeting Notes Plugin
A brand-new external plugin for capturing meeting content. Discord voice channels are the first live source, with auto-start capture when a call begins. You can also import transcripts manually from other platforms.
Worth noting: this ships outside of core OpenClaw as a source-only plugin. It reads data in but doesn't write back to external services. That's a deliberate design choice for a plugin handling private conversation data. Access is read-only through openclaw meeting-notes in the CLI. Zoom and Google Meet are on the roadmap as future sources.
Everything Else
Grok web search. If you already have xAI configured in OpenClaw, Grok's web search capabilities now work through the gateway. No new credentials needed. Your existing xAI OAuth profile covers it.
Sub-agent context pruning. PR #85283 narrows the files that sub-agents inherit on spawn. Previously, child agents received persona files, identity definitions, memory snapshots. Now they get AGENTS.md and TOOLS.md only. Less token waste, and sensitive context no longer leaks into delegated workers. For anyone running multi-agent workflows, that's both a cost and a privacy improvement.
Chat session pagination. Long conversation histories now paginate with a Load More flow instead of loading everything at once.
npm package roughly 30% smaller. Documentation images were excluded from the tarball.
Over 50 contributors shipped this release. If you're running OpenClaw on ClawHosters, you already have it. Managed instances received the update automatically. If you want to see our pricing or read the docs, those are good starting points.
