# Self-improvement Slice 6 receipt — 2026-05-12

## Summary

Implemented the local staged mutation framework for OpenClaw Mem self-improvement work.

New command group:

```bash
openclaw-mem mutation plan
openclaw-mem mutation validate
openclaw-mem mutation stage
openclaw-mem mutation apply
openclaw-mem mutation rollback
```

## Authority posture

- Synthetic/local fixture apply only.
- `--allowed-root` confines writes to a bounded local directory.
- L3/L4/protected/manual-approval mutations are blocked.
- No OpenClaw core, gateway, plugin config, cron, model routing, or live skill mutation is enabled.

## Verification plan

- targeted unit tests and CLI integration tests
- CLI smoke for plan/stage/apply/rollback
- MkDocs strict build
- Claude public-facing review
- local editable install smoke

## Topology impact

Unchanged.

## Rollback

Revert the implementation commit or release from the previous tag. No runtime topology rollback is needed.
