### Fixes

- Channels/Telegram: skip the optional webhook-info API call during polling-mode status checks and startup bot-label probes so long-polling setups avoid an unnecessary Telegram round trip. Carries forward #72990. Thanks @danielgruneberg.

- CLI/models: keep route-first `models status --json` stdout reserved for the JSON payload by routing auth-profile and startup diagnostics to stderr. Fixes #72962. Thanks @vishutdhar.

- Sessions: ignore future-dated session activity timestamps during reset freshness checks and cap future `updatedAt` values at the merge boundary so clock-skewed messages cannot keep stale sessions alive forever. Fixes #72989. Thanks @martingarramon.

- Plugins/CLI: allow managed plugin installs when the active extensions root is a symlink to a real state directory, while keeping nested target symlinks blocked and suppressing misleading hook-pack fallback errors for install-boundary failures. Fixes #72946. Thanks @mayank6136.

- Gateway/startup: keep hot Gateway boot paths on leaf config imports and add max-RSS reporting to the gateway startup bench so low-memory startup regressions are visible before release. Thanks @vincentkoc.

- `--probe-max-tokens <n>`

- `--agent <id>` (configured agent id; overrides `OPENCLAW_AGENT_DIR`/`PI_CODING_AGENT_DIR`)

`--json` keeps stdout reserved for the JSON payload. Auth-profile, provider,

and startup diagnostics are routed to stderr so scripts can pipe stdout directly

into tools such as `jq`.

Probe status buckets:

- `ok`

expect(ensurePluginRegistryLoadedMock).toHaveBeenCalledWith({ scope: "channels" });

});

it("routes logs to stderr during plugin loading in --json mode and restores after", async () => {

it("keeps logs routed to stderr for routed --json commands", async () => {

findRoutedCommandMock.mockReturnValue({

loadPlugins: true,

run: runRouteMock,

expect(ensurePluginRegistryLoadedMock).toHaveBeenCalled();

expect(captured[0]).toBe(true);

expect(loggingState.forceConsoleToStderr).toBe(false);

expect(loggingState.forceConsoleToStderr).toBe(true);

});

it("routes command-run logs to stderr for config-guard-skipping --json routes", async () => {

const captured: boolean[] = [];

runRouteMock.mockImplementationOnce(async () => {

captured.push(loggingState.forceConsoleToStderr);

return true;

});

await expect(tryRouteCli(["node", "openclaw", "models", "status", "--json"])).resolves.toBe(

true,

);

expect(ensureConfigReadyMock).not.toHaveBeenCalled();

expect(captured).toEqual([true]);

});

it("does not route logs to stderr during plugin loading without --json", async () => {

const { VERSION } = await import("../version.js");

await applyCliExecutionStartupPresentation({

argv: params.argv,

routeLogsToStderrOnSuppress: false,

startupPolicy,

showBanner: process.stdout.isTTY && !startupPolicy.suppressDoctorStdout,

version: VERSION,