Changelog

0.7.2 2026-03-20

Netclaw v0.7.2 — Session passivation recovery, memory recall activation, skill loading fixes, and per-session log directories

Stability

• Fixed sessions going silent after idle passivation — when a session actor passivated due to inactivity and was later re-created, its subscriber list was empty so channels never received output. Channels now re-assert their subscription on each inbound message, recovering transparently. Passivation is also deferred while active subscribers exist. (#325)

Memory

• Enabled memory recall in production — MemorySidecarsEnabled and DeterministicRetrievalEnabled were both defaulting to false since initial development, which meant store_memory wrote to SQLite but nothing read it back automatically. Every session received zero recalled memories on every turn. Both flags now default to true. (#334)

Identity

• Added bot identity grounding to the SOUL.md template — the system prompt now starts with "You are {name}" so the LLM knows its own identity from the first turn instead of confabulating a different persona. Also adds the Netclaw GitHub repo URL to TOOLING.md so the agent can file issues and check releases without web searching. (#334)

Skills

• Fixed skill auto-loading failures for identity queries — "netclaw" was in the keyword blacklist so queries like "What version of Netclaw?" could not trigger netclaw-manual. TF-IDF weighting already handles common tokens, so the blacklist entry was unnecessary. Also fixed a startup race where skills had zero keywords until LLM enrichment completed, and stale keyword cache files are now purged during rescan. (#333)

Diagnostics

• Moved session logs into per-session directories — logs now live at {sessionsBase}/{session_id}/logs/ instead of the shared global ~/.netclaw/logs/sessions/ directory. Multiple log files within a session directory clearly show passivation and rehydration cycles. (#332)