On May 1, 2025, the ElizaOS project significantly enhanced its core framework by introducing API key authentication and custom embedding support, while also improving performance through model optimization and codebase simplification. Several long-standing bugs related to API key handling and agent responsiveness were resolved, though a new issue concerning text embedding delegation emerged.

## 🚨 Needs Attention
- **Urgent Discussions**:
    - [elizaos/eliza#4418](https://github.com/elizaos/eliza/issues/4418): Investigate an error message indicating no handler found for the delegate type: TEXT_EMBEDDING with OpenAI.

## ✅ Completed Work
### Security & API Enhancements
- [elizaos/eliza#4420](https://github.com/elizaos/eliza/pull/4420): Implemented API key authentication middleware and a dialog for unauthenticated users, bolstering security and connection management.
- [elizaos/eliza#4421](https://github.com/elizaos/eliza/pull/4421): Added support for a custom embedding endpoint via an environment variable, increasing flexibility for embedding requests.

### Performance & Codebase Optimization
- [elizaos/eliza#4416](https://github.com/elizaos/eliza/pull/4416): Updated the reply functionality to use a smaller model, improving response times.
- [elizaos/eliza#4414](https://github.com/elizaos/eliza/pull/4414): Eliminated unnecessary creation of express objects during server initialization, optimizing resource usage.
- [elizaos/eliza#4402](https://github.com/elizaos/eliza/pull/4402): Removed the S3 storage plugin and associated files, simplifying the codebase and reducing dependencies.
- [elizaos/eliza#4417](https://github.com/elizaos/eliza/pull/4417): Removed the forced addition of the bootstrap plugin, allowing for more straightforward project setups.

## 🏗️ Work in Progress
### New Pull Requests
- **elizaos/eliza**:
    - [elizaos/eliza#4421](https://github.com/elizaos/eliza/pull/4421)
    - [elizaos/eliza#4420](https://github.com/elizaos/eliza/pull/4420)
    - [elizaos/eliza#4416](https://github.com/elizaos/eliza/pull/4416)
    - [elizaos/eliza#4417](https://github.com/elizaos/eliza/pull/4417)
    - [elizaos/eliza#4414](https://github.com/elizaos/eliza/pull/4414)
    - [elizaos/eliza#4402](https://github.com/elizaos/eliza/pull/4402)

## 🐞 Issue Triage
### New Issues
- **elizaos/eliza**:
    - [elizaos/eliza#4418](https://github.com/elizaos/eliza/issues/4418): Error message indicating no handler found for the delegate type: TEXT_EMBEDDING with OpenAI.

### Closed Issues
- **elizaos/eliza**:
    - [elizaos/eliza#4054](https://github.com/elizaos/eliza/issues/4054): Twitter agent not replying to all specified accounts in `.env` file.
    - [elizaos/eliza#4049](https://github.com/elizaos/eliza/issues/4049): Missing Anthropic API key error.
    - [elizaos/eliza#3978](https://github.com/elizaos/eliza/issues/3978): Issues related to debugging on version 2.
    - [elizaos/eliza#3972](https://github.com/elizaos/eliza/issues/3972): Handling of raw newline characters in tweets.