McPherson Governance OpenClaw v0.5.1

McPherson Governance OpenClaw v0.5.1

A narrow public install-contract patch for the shadow-only McPherson Governance connector.

What changed

• Corrected the public ClawHub installation and lifecycle instructions.
• Added profile-isolated connector state for named OpenClaw profiles.
• Added a runtime compatibility activation gate for supported OpenClaw versions.
• Made operationally disabled mode inert for ordinary tool observations.
• Corrected release-test accounting and coupled documented counts to actual execution.
• Removed profile-defeating state paths from the primary example configuration.
• Documented the UNKNOWN compatibility case and its support boundary.

Supported OpenClaw version

OpenClaw 2026.6.5 or newer is required for a supported deployment.

A host below the minimum refuses connector activation. Environments exposing no detectable version may report UNKNOWN; UNKNOWN does not mean verified compatible.

Authority boundary

This release remains shadow-only.

• remote_shadow: true
• remote_authority: false
• no enforceable remote decisions
• no authority to block, approve, deny, delay, or rewrite agent actions
• metadata-minimized receipts
• remote failures remain non-blocking

Verification

• 179 applicable upstream tests
• 51 public distribution, runtime, and v0.5.1 regression tests
• 20 package verification checks
• 250 passed, 0 failed, 0 skipped
• 53 packaged files
• exactly one executable: connector/connector-ctl.mjs

Release artifacts

ClawPack:

mcphersonai-mcpherson-governance-openclaw-0.5.1.tgz

SHA-256:

b998f5a95a6ef3397273880d08f6327f3174c6763f91c1b4bde2039394c01fbc

Evidence archive:

mcpherson-governance-openclaw-v0.5.1.tar.gz

SHA-256:

f254e489b4de5f940ad0d7536dceba1e2e00f5ae8922a9553ba4383a4a6424df

Read INSTALL.md, VERIFY.md, LIFECYCLE.md, and LIMITATIONS.md before installation.

McPherson Governance v0.5.0 — OpenClaw Shadow Governance Connector

McPherson Governance v0.5.0 is a shadow-only governance connector for OpenClaw.

It observes configured tool activity, sends metadata-minimized governance requests, and records attempt and completion receipts without blocking or altering ordinary tool execution.

Included

• Shadow-only policy evaluation
• Manual capability mappings
• Metadata-minimized requests and receipts
• Attempt and completion receipt correlation
• Circuit-breaker behavior
• Kill-switch and system-lock controls
• Installation, verification, disable, uninstall, and rollback documentation

Important limitations

• v0.5 does not provide active enforcement.
• Remote decisions have no authority over tool execution.
• Unmapped tools may produce registry 404 observations while the original tool continues normally.
• Manual capability mapping is required.
• This release is not a safety, security, or compliance certification.

Verification

Git commit:

f0e5dbf

ClawPack SHA-256:

2ddbd11e3a1d34e173a3811d8c107d01882be13534f62910f7c37a15e4315af8