SmallClaw 1.7.0 makes Skills more powerful, structured, and easier to trust. The Skill Creator is now a guided workflow designer for defining applicability, required inputs, expected outputs, approvals, escalation requirements, and governance metadata.
Highlights
- Skill Creator is now a guided workflow designer
- Skills can define when they apply, what inputs they need, what output they should produce, and when approval or escalation is required
- Skill match explanations are clearer, making it easier to understand why a Skill was selected
- Work Items can now receive workflow progression proposals
- Review and governance metadata are stronger across the Skills flow
- Risk level, automation mode, and testing status are easier to inspect
- Skills remain local, readable, and governed by SmallClaw's existing permissions and approval boundaries
- Mac App Store version information is unchanged by this Direct release
SmallClaw 1.6.0 adds multimodal model routing for text, image, audio, and video workflows, allowing each modality to use its own provider configuration. This Direct release also improves generation flows and strengthens launch authorization.
Highlights
- Added multimodal model routing for text, image, audio, and video workflows
- Each modality can now use its own provider configuration
- Improved image and audio generation flows
- Added Azure OpenAI endpoint handling
- Strengthened helper and worker launch authorization
- Mac App Store version information is unchanged by this Direct release
Maintenance update for the SmallClaw 1.5 line, keeping the current Direct and Mac App Store release information aligned.
Highlights
- Current public version updated to 1.5.0.3
- Direct and Mac App Store appcast metadata updated for the 1.5.0.3 release
- Continues the clearer license, purchase, first-run privacy, and distribution handling introduced in the 1.5 line
Clarifies license and purchase management, improves the first-run legal and privacy review flow, and separates Direct and Mac App Store behavior more cleanly.
Highlights
- Clearer license and purchase management
- Improved first-run legal and privacy review flow
- Better separation between Direct and Mac App Store versions
- More App Store-friendly handling of local data, permissions, updates, and purchases
- Continued support for Personal and Organization workflows
Improves WeChat connection reliability with clearer enable and reconnect flows, automatic QR cleanup, better session restore behavior, and clearer first-use messaging.
Highlights
- WeChat connection reliability is improved across enable and reconnect flows
- Enable and reconnect steps now make the current connection state easier to understand
- QR codes are cleaned up automatically after WeChat connects
- Session restore behavior is more reliable when returning to an existing WeChat connection
- First-use welcome messaging now clarifies that the chat is connected to SmallClaw
Improves how SmallClaw handles human role takeover through existing channel bots.
Highlights
- Human role takeover through existing channel bots is more reliable
- Channel bot handoff behavior is clearer when a human needs to step into a role
- SmallClaw better preserves the existing channel context during takeover flows
Improves how SmallClaw talks back to you across channels, with a strong focus on ClawBot reliability and proactive notifications.
Highlights
- SmallClaw can now send more structured outbound updates, not just direct replies
- Important events such as task results, blockers, approval requests, and key status changes can be pushed back to your active channel conversation
- Conversation binding and routing are more reliable, so notifications are more likely to return to the correct chat
- WeChat and ClawBot support are significantly improved, including better proactive delivery for project and task updates
- Notification controls and diagnostics are improved, giving you more control over what gets sent and better visibility when something fails
Improves SmallClaw's channel integration foundations with better WeChat helper stability, clearer connection lifecycle handling, and stronger inbound media awareness.
Highlights
- Improved WeChat helper stability across channel connection workflows
- Made connection lifecycle handling clearer and easier to reason about
- Improved inbound media awareness, including progress on voice and image ingestion
- Refined helper cleanup and QR/connect UX for a smoother channel setup flow
- Added better channel-side diagnostics to make channel issues easier to inspect
Adds WeChat support to SmallClaw, including QR-code connection, direct messaging, Agent Console visibility, and a cleaner setup flow.
Highlights
- Connect SmallClaw with WeChat by scanning a QR code
- Send and receive WeChat messages directly through SmallClaw
- View WeChat interactions in Agent Console
- Improved WeChat connection flow and cleaner setup UI
Improves project lifecycle flow and workspace clarity across Personal and Organization modes, with cleaner rename handling, safer archived projects, and smoother project navigation.
Highlights
- Projects can now be renamed after creation
- Tasks and work items can also be renamed after creation
- Archived projects are easier to review and restore
- Archived projects now stay view-only, so finished work is safer from accidental changes
- Personal and Organization modes are more consistent in how project status works
- Overview and project navigation have been cleaned up for a smoother experience
- Project rename updates now show up more cleanly across related session metadata
Makes Personal mode much easier to start, with built-in project templates, starter task previews before creation, and a more practical first batch of work instead of an empty project.
Highlights
- Create a Personal project from built-in templates
- Preview starter tasks before creating the project
- Begin with a practical first batch of work instead of an empty project
- Added lighter Personal workspace polish for a cleaner, simpler experience
Refines AI model setup with a cleaner provider experience, adds the first hosted-access foundation for Smallsoft Models, and introduces Doubao as a new provider option.
Highlights
- A simpler AI Models experience with cleaner provider setup
- New foundation for Smallsoft Models sign-in and hosted access
- Added Doubao as a new model provider option
- Small sign-in and sign-out flow improvements for hosted access
Expands SmallClaw from browser-first execution into desktop app interaction, while keeping desktop actions inside the same permission and approval model as other sensitive operations.
Highlights
- You can now ask SmallClaw to interact with desktop apps, not just browser pages
- SmallClaw can help open apps, focus windows, click visible controls, type text, press keys, scroll, and capture full-screen screenshots
- Desktop actions now follow the same permission and approval flow as other sensitive actions
- In-app Help and documentation have been updated with clearer guidance for desktop automation
Makes it easier to set up an Organization and get started faster, with clearer templates, better starting structure, and a smoother role setup flow.
Highlights
- Organization templates are clearer and more practical, with better guidance on what each setup is for
- Template setup now gives a better starting structure, including useful starter work and next-step guidance
- Role setup is smoother, with clearer creation, better organization, and easier visual scanning
Refined scheduling so it is easier to create, edit, and launch work right away, with more flexible recurrence options and clearer feedback after runs complete.
Highlights
- Schedules are now easier to create, edit, and run immediately
- Scheduling supports both interval-based and fixed-time recurrence
- Schedules can explicitly select skills and can be created directly from work items or tasks
- Completed runs now surface result previews and lightweight in-app notifications
Improved the Personal workflow with direct skill support, making it faster to run a skill from active work and turn the result into a concrete next action.
Highlights
- Run skills directly from projects, tasks, and inbox items
- Turn skill results into tasks, next steps, project summaries, or reply drafts
- Move from an idea to follow-up action more quickly in Personal mode
Added initial English and Chinese interface support. You can now switch languages in settings, and the first group of major screens and navigation areas will follow your selection.
Made the overall workflow feel more unified across the app, console, and connected channels, with smoother continuation when work moves between the system and the user.
Improved how SmallClaw understands and carries out discussion-based requests, with clearer approval handling and better recovery when work is paused or handed back to a person.
Made SmallClaw's core workspace more stable, especially around projects, tasks, approvals, and discussion-based coordination.
This release improves license activation reliability, fixes Organization workspace access detection, and polishes channel status visibility and technical documentation layout. It also includes general stability and UX improvements.
Highlights
- Improved license activation reliability across common activation flows
- Fixed Organization workspace access detection
- Polished channel status visibility for clearer runtime feedback
- Refined technical documentation layout for easier scanning and readability
- Included broader stability and user experience improvements across the app
This update improves model usage visibility, strengthens runtime stability, and refines version checking and update handling.
Highlights
- Better model usage reporting across supported providers
- Improved stability in core runtime flows
- Refined startup version checking with silent pass-through when offline
- Added About page update visibility for optional newer versions
Security and reliability
- Strengthened version enforcement flow for unsupported builds
- Improved handling of network failure during appcast checks
- Reduced unnecessary interruption when no forced update is required
Notes
- This release may require users on older unsupported builds to update before launch
This release focused on packaging, signing, notarization, and early product polish for public distribution.
Highlights
- Improved distribution readiness for notarized macOS builds
- Refined About page product presentation
- Improved activation and licensing display details
Early preview build used for packaging validation, notarization testing, and internal runtime adjustments.