OpenClaw 1.8 lands deterministic policy packs and cleaner diffs
Policy is only as reviewable as its diff. The new pack format aims to make audits boring—in the best way.
OpenClaw 1.8 focuses on the work that never shows up in screenshots: stable ordering, deterministic output, and predictable artifacts. The headline is “deterministic policy packs,” a packaging format designed to make the same inputs produce the same bytes—every time.
That matters for operators because policies ship like code. If you can’t reproduce the artifact, you can’t confidently verify what’s running. Deterministic packs make it easier to compare environments, pin hashes in CI, and avoid “why did this change?” churn during review.
Teams adopting the new format report smaller diffs, fewer false alarms, and faster approvals. The benefit is compounding: every clean change today makes the next incident response clearer tomorrow.
Start by enabling deterministic packs in a staging pipeline. If you like what you see, roll forward and make “diff clarity” a release requirement—not a nice-to-have.