OpenClaw shipped a lot of meaningful updates this month

If you've been sleeping on OpenClaw's plugin system, March was a banger! Three things that caught my attention:

1. Firecrawl is now bundled natively. Web scraping just became a first-class tool instead of a workaround. The firecrawl_search and firecrawl_scrape tools are now available without extra setup. If you've been reaching for Cheerio or Puppeteer just to get structured content off a page — this closes that gap. Good.

2. Claude marketplace MCP servers work through embedded Pi now. Bundle MCP servers (like Context7) now expose their tools directly in the embedded agent. That means you can run MCP-powered workflows without switching to an external Claude session. The plugin SDK is doing real work here.

3. MiniMax plugin ships M2.7 as the new default. The bundled MiniMax plugin now uses M2.7 instead of M2.5 out of the box. If you're self-hosting OpenClaw with MiniMax — you upgraded without lifting a finger.

4. Session memory got smarter. Context engine transcript maintenance shipped. Sessions now automatically manage their own context length instead of bleeding tokens on every turn. If you've been debugging why your agent forgets things halfway through a long session — this was the fix.

The broader theme: OpenClaw is moving away from monolithic provider support toward a plugin-first model. OpenRouter, GitHub Copilot, OpenAI Codex — all plugins now. Feels like the right architectural call.

Docs are at docs.openclaw.ai.