Clawd on Desk 1.4.0

What's new in 1.4.0

v1.4.0
Clawd v1.4.0 reorganizes Settings into five focused tabs, reduces idle CPU use
with sleep-aware rendering, and adds KiroCrew and Qoder CN integrations. It also
adds opt-in external permission review, read-only phone approval summaries,
local OpenCode/MiMo question answers, and herdr pane focus.
Settings
- Five-tab Settings redesign (#1218, #1220, #1179; related #969) — splits
General into General, Pet, Notifications, Sessions, and Permissions & approval;
moves Remote approval into the Permissions & approval tab with On this machine,
IM channels, and LAN approval sub-pages; preserves existing values and routes
old Remote approval navigation to IM channels. Quota reminders now link into
Sessions. Thanks to @YOIMIYA66.
Power and animation
- Sleep when unattended (#1206; issue #1202) — lets the pet roam briefly
after you leave and then sleep, while the falling and sleeping poses stop
consuming animation work. On Windows, the whole Electron tree averaged about
0.6% of one core in the one-hour post-fix measurement; the same-configuration
v1.3.0 baseline averaged about 23% over its 15-minute control run. Thanks to
@trvny for the report.
- Deep sleep pauses by default (#1212) — collapsing and sleeping pause even
when the optional low-power switch is off. The paused segment measured about
0.3% on macOS and 0.13% on Windows at 175 Hz, compared with about 5–6% and
22% before. These are whole-tree, single-core CPU percentages from the Clawd
theme; the macOS measurements used a 50 Hz display.
- Object-channel rendering and 24-step sampling (#1210, #1213, #1214;
test coverage #1216) — moves Clawd's thinking, long-lived, typing, and building
visuals through the Electron-verified <object> path and a 24-step sampling
grid without changing their appearance. On macOS, CPU fell about 57–73% for
active visuals and about 30% for idle visuals; on Windows at 175 Hz, idle fell
about 55% and active visuals were flat to about 24% lower. The same work
keeps long Windows theme configuration out of the renderer command line.
- Theme-specific sleep behavior (#1210, #1212, #1213, #1214) — Cloudling
switches to a static image on sleep; Calico and the official Hash Sage and
Whale-chan themes keep playing; third-party object-channel sleep visuals freeze
after roughly five seconds. These optimizations are enabled by default for
Clawd; external themes can opt in through rendering.objectChannelFiles / …

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