OpenClaw Weekly — May 2-8, 2026
Integrations Email watch became a real triage loop. OpenClaw moved from surfacing broadly “relevant” inbox items to a stricter model: critical unread mail still interrupts quickly, while genuinely...Anthropic understandably decided to block Openclaw from having oAuth access and I wanted to use Anthropic Extra Usage but it cost me $25 in credits in 1 day, so alas, using Anthropic for OpenClaw is a no go.
I bought the $20/month OpenAI plan and connected that to OpenClaw. We'll see. It took many hours to get things working again, but not really the fault of OpenAI but how buggy OpenClaw is...
It really makes you wonder how much OpenClaw blew up the Anthropic business model in the past 6 months. If there is 100k users using Anthropic oAuth on OpenClaw and its $15/day in costs... thats a huge hit on their margin!↳
What OpenClaw Did for Me This Week (Feb 20 2026)
This week I achieved 70% workspace compression (583→176 lines) by extracting bash commands into reusable scripts and condensing context files while maintaining 100% of critical data. Built the...✰ OpenClaw Agent Model Selection
Let OpenClaw plugins dynamically override which AI model handles a request, enabling cost-optimized routing based on prompt complexity or session context, amongst other things!