2026-08-25 · NextClaw v0.43.0

Published: 2026-08-25 Tags: release npm desktop minor

NextClaw v0.43.0 makes it easier to verify where an AI task came from and how it ran, while improving mid-run steering, child-session continuity, and queueing in long conversations.

Features

• Inspect run trigger details: The message overflow menu now shows who or what started a run, along with its source channel, related session, message, request, tool call, source model, and effective run model. Human input, agent delegation, scheduled tasks, and observations use the same details surface.

Enhancements

• Quieter background notifications: Only background tasks started directly by a person show completion notifications. Agent delegation, scheduled tasks, observations, and system runs stay quiet to avoid duplicate alerts.
• More reliable child sessions: Child sessions keep the model selected by their parent and no longer repeat inherited compaction records. Top-level sessions can still create child sessions, while child sessions cannot recursively create another level.
• Cleaner child-session content: The detail view removes repeated session type, model, and project metadata so the conversation follows the child-session tab directly.

Fixes

• Stable mid-run steering order: Messages steered into the next step remain after the current step's AI output during streaming, after completion, and after a reload.
• Faster queue admission in long chats: Sending another message while AI is running no longer reads and copies the complete conversation just to confirm queueing.
• No duplicate file-tool output: Read, write, edit, and patch operations show one structured file preview while preserving parse failures and error details.

Compatibility

This is a backward-compatible feature release. Run-trigger fields are additive, and existing messages and sessions remain readable. Session delegation is limited to one level: top-level sessions can create child sessions, while child sessions no longer create grandchildren.