Changelog

All notable changes to OnionClaw™ are documented here.

Format follows Keep a Changelog. Versioning follows Semantic Versioning.

[1.1.0] — 2026-03-15

setup.py — first-run wizard: auto-creates .env, patches/creates torrc with ControlPort 9051 + CookieAuthentication 1, checks Python deps
pipeline.py --no-llm flag — skips refine/filter/ask LLM steps; outputs raw scraped content without requiring an API key
SICRY_CACHE_TTL env var (default 600 s) to .env.example

SKILL.md: updated engine count 18 → 12, removed dead engine names, added --no-llm to pipeline options, updated setup instructions

Version 1.1.0
Removed 6 permanently-dead engines: Torgle, Kaizer, Anima, Tornado, TorNet, FindTor
fetch() HTTPS → HTTP automatic fallback for .onion addresses that don't serve TLS
fetch() SOCKS-level retry: rebuilds session and retries once on SOCKS5 handshake or circuit timeout before giving up
fetch() TTL result cache (_FETCH_CACHE, keyed by normalised URL, evicted after FETCH_CACHE_TTL seconds; avoids redundant Tor round-trips)

7 standalone scripts: check_tor, renew, search, fetch, ask, check_engines, pipeline
OpenClaw SKILL.md with full metadata: requires.pip, version, author, license, repo
sync_sicry.py — pull latest sicry.py from upstream SICRY™ repo
NOTICE file (Apache 2.0 requirement — credits Robin OSINT and SICRY™)
CODE_OF_CONDUCT.md, CONTRIBUTING.md, SECURITY.md
GitHub Actions CI (Python 3.9–3.12, syntax checks all scripts)
__version__ = "1.0.0" in bundled sicry.py

All scripts: except ImportError replaced with except Exception as _e — correct error message when python-dotenv missing vs sicry.py missing
check_tor.py: removed spurious Error: None printed on success
renew.py: sys.exit(1) on failure (was exiting 0)
pipeline.py: hardcoded engine count replaced with len(engine_status); engine name validation added
search.py: engine name validation with WARN message

Version 1.0.0
URL extraction clearnet fallback, Ahmia redirect decoder, CSS selector targeting