OpenClaw Codex Methodology

How we decide what is worth confirming for technical readers, and how to read the evidence behind each update.

Source roles

Primary sources include official announcements, release notes, model cards, documentation, repositories, and papers. Established reporting and discovery feeds help us find leads, but they do not replace the primary source trail.

Evidence labels

Strong, cross-checked means a strong primary source is connected to supporting evidence. Strong primary source means the official source is clear. Other labels indicate a narrower source trail, not a guarantee of outcomes.

Confirmed and monitored lanes

  • Confirmed signals have a clear source trail and a reader-facing reason to matter.
  • Monitored leads remain separate until their source, timing, and practical impact are clearer.
  • Social chatter and secondary reporting can start a review, but are not presented as confirmed facts.

What affects prominence

Reader-facing prominence considers source quality, technical impact, novelty, depth, recency, and usefulness for planning. These factors guide ordering; they are not a claim that a vendor benchmark or forecast will hold for every workload.

Public boundary

Source-backed, not source-replacing

We publish concise summaries and links for discovery. Readers should open the original source before relying on numbers, pricing, policy language, benchmark results, or implementation details. Corrections and source changes are recorded in the public changelog.