NEW OpenClaw Update is MASSIVE! (Sub-agent Flow)

Sub-agent visibility is the real win in v2.25

OpenCloud 2.25 makes sub-agents finally tell you when they fail — and that is the only thing that has actually changed. The two hosts frame the release around two features: heartbeat DM delivery and a rebuilt sub-agent delivery pipeline, with the rest sitting under "gateway hardening and security." Nothing in the underlying model moved; they stress this is "just the process the procedure is a little bit more vocal about what is good and bad."

What changed mechanically

Before v2.25, sub-agents would vanish mid-task — "it tries to do the sub agent, it vanishes and you never see it again." The new build surfaces timeouts in-chat and tracks cron jobs that previously failed silently (wrong timezone on the VPS, missed runs, or skipped triggers). It also adds a cleanup pass for those cron jobs. If your bot isn't spawning sub-agents yet, the hosts say: "right after they update, immediately test sub agents."

The sub-agent is still not fully baked

The crew hit the limits live on camera. When Stark was asked to stack a new presentation on top of an existing deck and reorder slides, "the sub agent left the file truncated. It's cut off midway." Stark had to self-correct: "Let me do this myself." They are now splitting that workload into a research sub-agent, a writing sub-agent, and a planned QA sub-agent that "will scan to make sure it's not cut off."

Why use them anyway

Sub-agents are still worth spawning because they run with a clean context window. As one host puts it, Stark's "brain is full of other things like crypto updates" — the sub-agent only carries the research task. The catch: "technically speaking, these sub agents are all running Opus 4.6 or whatever model that you want on the back end." Same model, isolated context.

What is still missing

The hosts want named sub-agents so they can tell whether the orchestrator actually delegated or is "gaslighting again and saying 'I deployed a sub agent'" while doing the work itself. Personality, separate identities, and verifiable handoff are not in 2.25. Neither is the new Kimi/Moonshot video-vision feature or the Android client update — both shipped in recent builds but were not tested in this video.