OpenClaw v2026.3.1: Adaptive Thinking, WebSocket Transport, and Native K8s Probes
76 contributors shipped this one. Three changes worth knowing about:
Claude 4.6 models now get adaptive thinking by default. The old budget_tokens approach is deprecated. Instead of burning a fixed token budget on every request, the model decides whether to reason deeply or skip thinking entirely. Simple questions stay cheap.
OpenAI transport switched to WebSocket-first. For agents running 20+ tool calls in a workflow, persistent connections cut end-to-end execution time by roughly 40%. SSE is still there as fallback.
Native Kubernetes health probes: /health, /healthz, /ready, /readyz. No more TCP socket probes or custom sidecars.
https://clawhosters.com/blog/posts/openclaw-v2026-3-1-release
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