v0.25.0-beta.4

Pre-release July 14, 2026

Netclaw 0.25.0-beta.4

0.25.0-beta.4 (2026-07-14)

Preserve Git working context across sessions and subagents — A bounded, audience-aware Git working-context snapshot (branch, worktree, repository, upstream, changed files) now stays current in the system prompt, and coding subagents inherit recent-file/project context so parent sessions merge back only confirmed successful child edits. Measured 20% → 100% success rate on a linked-worktree coding eval (#1630)
User-written AGENTS.md for application-specific agent guidance — Operators can now author ~/.netclaw/identity/AGENTS.md, layered after Netclaw's embedded operating core and inherited by sub-agents, to give the running agent deployment-specific mission and workflow guidance. Seeded with a minimal scaffold during init without overwriting existing guidance (#1622)

Memory curation no longer overwrites existing documents on collision — Fixed: when a curation Create decision targeted an anchor that already had a document, the write silently overwrote the existing title, body, and classification with no history — observed 88 times in 14 days in production, including one case that destroyed an LLM-merged document. Collisions now append the new content under a dated separator instead of overwriting; a verbatim duplicate is skipped as a no-op (#1637)
STDIO MCP server arguments no longer rewritten — Fixed: configured STDIO MCP server arguments were being rewritten by the daemon; the daemon now preserves them as configured. Also simplified to one daemon-owned client per configured MCP server, removing Playwright-specific session-scoped process handling (#1636)

Logical skill access and authoritative inventory refresh — Skill loading now resolves through logical skill_load/skill_read_resource access instead of physical skill-root paths, with native > managed-feed > external precedence. Startup, sync, watcher, and skill_manage inventory rebuilds are now centralized through one live-source refresher publishing atomic registry snapshots (#1634)

Bump SkillServer to stable — Netclaw.SkillClient 0.4.0-beta.4 → 0.4.0 (stable release) (#1638)