OpenClaw v2026.5.19: Global Skills CLI, QR Login for Admin RPC, Gateway Startup Overlap

OpenClaw has shipped the v2026.5.19 pre-release (May 18–19), bringing a mix of UX improvements, security-adjacent features, and infrastructure optimizations.

Skills CLI goes global. openclaw skills install and openclaw skills update can now target shared managed skills with --global, making it easier to install skills system-wide across machines.

Admin HTTP RPC gains QR login support. The plugins/admin-http-rpc module now allows trusted RPC clients to start and wait for web QR login flows — a useful quality-of-life improvement for automated admin workflows.

Gateway startup gets faster. Startup logging and plugin-service startup now overlap with channel sidecars, reducing restart ready latency while preserving /readyz sidecar gating. Startup probe, config, runtime, and resource-count costs are also now attributed in restart traces.

Docker/Podman build args evolve. OPENCLAW_IMAGE_APT_PACKAGES is introduced as the runtime-neutral image build arg for extra apt packages. OPENCLAW_DOCKER_APT_PACKAGES remains as a legacy fallback.

Dependency bumps. Pi packages move to 0.75.1 and the minimum supported Node.js line is raised to 22.19. The @openclaw/proxyline dependency is updated to 0.3.3.

Skills ecosystem tidies up. The repo-local Codex closeout review skill is renamed to autoreview with preserved Codex-first fallback behavior.

Full release notes are on GitHub.