Contributing to OpenClaw

Welcome! We appreciate your interest in contributing to OpenClaw. This document guides you through the process of fetching issues, planning your contribution, and submitting a Pull Request (PR).

1. Finding Issues to Work On

We track our work on GitHub Issues.

Current Focus Issues

We have identified the following issues as high priority or good starting points:

Issue #4629: Include day of week in date/time context injection
- Problem: The agent sometimes hallucinates the day of the week because it's not explicitly provided in the system prompt.
- Goal: Update src/agents/system-prompt.ts to include the weekday (e.g., "Friday, January 30, 2026").
Issue #4631: Add Simplified Chinese (zh-CN) localization support for Control UI
- Problem: The UI lacks zh-CN support.
- Goal: Add localization strings for the Control UI.

2. Setting Up Your Environment

Clone the repository:

git clone https://github.com/openclaw/openclaw.git
cd openclaw

Install dependencies:
```
npm install
# or
pnpm install
```

3. Making Changes

Create a new branch:

git checkout -b feature/your-feature-name

Implement your changes.

Run tests to ensure no regressions:

npm test
# or specific tests
vitest src/agents/system-prompt.test.ts

4. Submitting a Pull Request (PR)

Once you are happy with your changes, follow these steps to submit them:

Stage your changes:
```
git add .
```

Commit your changes with a meaningful message:

git commit -m "fix(agent): include day of week in system prompt (#4629)"

Push to your fork (or the main repo if you have access):
```
git push origin feature/your-feature-name
```
Open a Pull Request:
- Go to the OpenClaw GitHub repository.
- You should see a prompt to compare & pull request.
- Fill in the PR template, linking the issue you fixed (e.g., "Fixes #4629").
- Submit!

Happy coding! 🦞

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