OpenClaw Signals: Async Patterns, Storage Hooks, and the Ownership Question
Tools
This PR reworks how tasks handle async callbacks, cutting down on thread pool contention under load. If you're running high-throughput pipelines, this is the kind of plumbing change that compounds.
Persistent Storage Middleware Hooks
New middleware hooks let you intercept and transform data before it hits persistent storage. Useful for adding custom serialization or encryption layers without forking core.
Task Timeout Granularity Improvements
Finer-grained timeout controls per task stage instead of blanket timeouts. This matters for long-running tasks where a single slow phase shouldn't kill the whole pipeline.
Analysis
Plugin Ownership Semantics Under Scrutiny
An open discussion on who owns plugin state when a task fails mid-execution. This is a real design decision with security and reliability tradeoffs worth watching.
News
Graceful Shutdown Edge Cases Reported
Users are flagging that in-flight tasks get silently dropped during orchestrator shutdown. If you're running in production, worth tracking this one closely.
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