OpenClaw v2026.7.1-beta.1: GPT-5.6, Telegram Codex, and iOS 26 Redesign
OpenClaw’s July beta, v2026.7.1-beta.1, landed today with a packed changelog — GPT-5.6 support headline a release that also deepens Telegram integration, refreshes the mobile UI, and adds event-driven automation.
GPT-5.6 Support
OpenAI’s newest model family is now recognized across OpenClaw’s catalog, capability, and runtime selection paths. Contributors @steipete-oai and team also preserved explicit OpenRouter authentication headers and wired in Nemotron Super’s 1M context window.
External Harness Attachment
openclaw attach joins the CLI toolkit, letting users launch an external harness against an existing Gateway session. The use case is interactive Codex-style workflows that are easier to resume and inspect mid-run. PRs #96454 from contributors @anagnorisis2peripeteia and @obviyys.
Telegram Codex Workflows
Telegram now supports the full Codex pairing lifecycle natively in-chat:
/loginstarts Codex pairing- Inline commands steer active runs
- Final replies recover across transient API failures
This closes a gap where Codex required a browser or desktop session to manage — it’s now operable from any Telegram client.
Event-Driven Cron
The new on-exit schedule kind wakes an agent when a watched command exits, while session-targeted runs can detach cleanly. This enables automation pipelines where an agent reacts to a background job completing rather than polling on a timer.
iOS 26 Visual Refresh + Localization
The mobile app adopts Apple’s iOS 26 visual system across navigation, settings, Chat, Talk, and onboarding flows. Localization also expands significantly — Swedish joins the supported mobile locales, and core Apple and Android surfaces get broader language coverage.
iMessage Polls + Usage Footers
Native poll creation and voting land in iMessage. Separately, built-in usage footers now provide per-turn accounting directly in chat, giving users visibility into token consumption without leaving the conversation.
Scoped Conversation Profiles
A new capability profiles system prepares per-conversation tool and access boundaries — the existing default profile is unchanged, but operators can now define scoped roles with restricted tool access per conversation.
Expanded Doctor Diagnostics
The diagnostic runner gains checks for auth-profile, workspace, device-pairing, channel-plugin, memory-provider, systemd exhaustion, and Windows LAN firewall — giving self-hosted operators much fuller coverage before problems escalate.
The release also includes Telegram durability fixes (stalled ingress recovery, media retry, polling error survival), agent runtime fixes (preserve overrides, subagent isolation for cron sessions), and Cursor Agent added as an autoreview engine option.