- Gateway/startup: move chat run/subscriber registries onto a lightweight state module and defer chat/session event projection until the first event so Gateway boot skips session IO imports. Thanks @vincentkoc.

- Gateway/startup: keep node session runtime on a lightweight JSON parser instead of importing gateway method validation helpers during boot. Thanks @vincentkoc.

- Gateway/startup: read embedded-run activity from a lightweight shared state module so restart deferral no longer imports the embedded runner during Gateway boot. Thanks @vincentkoc.

- Gateway/startup: defer MCP loopback server imports until Gateway shutdown so normal boot no longer loads the loopback HTTP/tool schema stack just to register close handlers. Thanks @vincentkoc.

- CLI/Gateway: use a parse-only config snapshot for plain `gateway status` reads and reuse same-path service config context so status no longer spends tens of seconds in full config validation before printing. Thanks @vincentkoc.

- Lobster/Gateway: memoize repeated Ajv schema compilation before loading the embedded Lobster runtime so scheduled workflows and `llm.invoke` loops stop growing gateway heap on content-identical schemas. Fixes #71148. Thanks @cmi525, @vsolaz, and @vincentkoc.

- Codex harness: normalize cached input tokens before session/context accounting so prompt cache reads are not double-counted in `/status`, `session_status`, or persisted `sessionEntry.totalTokens`. Fixes #69298. Thanks @richardmqq.

} from "../tasks/task-registry.maintenance.js";

import { createAuthRateLimiter, type AuthRateLimiter } from "./auth-rate-limit.js";

import { resolveGatewayAuth } from "./auth.js";

import { closeMcpLoopbackServer } from "./mcp-http.js";

import { createGatewayAuxHandlers } from "./server-aux-handlers.js";

import { createChannelManager } from "./server-channels.js";

import { createGatewayCloseHandler, runGatewayClosePrelude } from "./server-close.js";

return cachedChannelRuntime;

}

async function closeMcpLoopbackServerOnDemand(): Promise<void> {

const { closeMcpLoopbackServer } = await import("./mcp-http.js");

await closeMcpLoopbackServer();

}

const logHealth = log.child("health");

const logCron = log.child("cron");

const logReload = log.child("reload");

stopModelPricingRefresh: runtimeState.stopModelPricingRefresh,

stopChannelHealthMonitor: () => runtimeState?.channelHealthMonitor?.stop(),

clearSecretsRuntimeSnapshot,

closeMcpServer: async () => await closeMcpLoopbackServer(),

closeMcpServer: closeMcpLoopbackServerOnDemand,

});

const { getRuntimeSnapshot, startChannels, startChannel, stopChannel, markChannelLoggedOut } =

channelManager;