perf(plugins): cache manifest metadata loads

CHANGELOG.md

@@ -15,6 +15,7 @@ Docs: https://docs.openclaw.ai
 - Channels/Discord: suppress duplicate gateway monitors when multiple enabled accounts resolve to the same bot token, preferring config tokens over default env fallback and reporting skipped duplicates as disabled. Supersedes #73608. Thanks @kagura-agent.
 - Channels/Discord: ignore stale route-shaped conversation bindings after a Discord channel is reconfigured to another agent, while preserving explicit focus and subagent bindings. Fixes #73626. Thanks @ramitrkar-hash.
 - Gateway/sessions: add conservative stuck-session recovery that releases only stale session lanes while active embedded runs, reply operations, and lane tasks remain serialized, so queued follow-ups can drain without aborting legitimate long-running turns. Refs #73581, #73655, #73652, #73705, #73647, #73602, #73592, and #73601. Thanks @WS-Q0758, @bryangauvin, @spenceryang1996-dot, @bmilne1981, @mattmcintyre, @Vksh07, and @Spolen23.
+- Plugins: cache unchanged plugin manifest loads by file signature, reducing repeated JSON/JSON5 parsing and manifest normalization in bursty startup and runtime registry paths. Refs #73532 and #73647; carries forward #73678. Thanks @TheDutchRuler.
 - NVIDIA/NIM: persist the `NVIDIA_API_KEY` provider marker and mark bundled NVIDIA Chat Completions models as string-content compatible, so NIM models load from `models.json` and OpenAI-compatible subagent calls send plain text content. Fixes #73013 and #50107; refs #73014. Thanks @bautrey, @iot2edge, @ifearghal, and @futhgar.
 - Channels/Discord: let text-only configs drop the `GuildVoiceStates` gateway intent and expose a bounded `/gateway/bot` metadata timeout with rate-limited fallback logs, reducing idle CPU and warning floods. Fixes #73709 and #73585. Thanks @sanchezm86 and @trac3r00.
 - Agents/sessions: mark same-turn `sessions_send` and A2A reply prompts with an inter-session `isUser=false` envelope before they reach the model, so foreign session output no longer lands as bare active user text. Fixes #73702; refs #73698, #73609, #73595, and #73622. Thanks @alvelda.

extensions/googlechat/src/config-schema.ts

@@ -1,3 +1,6 @@
-import { buildChannelConfigSchema, GoogleChatConfigSchema } from "../runtime-api.js";
+import {
+  buildChannelConfigSchema,
+  GoogleChatConfigSchema,
+} from "openclaw/plugin-sdk/bundled-channel-config-schema";
 
 export const GoogleChatChannelConfigSchema = buildChannelConfigSchema(GoogleChatConfigSchema);

src/plugins/manifest.json5-tolerance.test.ts

@@ -2,7 +2,11 @@ import fs from "node:fs";
 import path from "node:path";
 import JSON5 from "json5";
 import { afterEach, describe, expect, it, vi } from "vitest";
-import { loadPluginManifest, MAX_PLUGIN_MANIFEST_BYTES } from "./manifest.js";
+import {
+  clearPluginManifestLoadCache,
+  loadPluginManifest,
+  MAX_PLUGIN_MANIFEST_BYTES,
+} from "./manifest.js";
 import { cleanupTrackedTempDirs, makeTrackedTempDir } from "./test-helpers/fs-fixtures.js";
 
 const tempDirs: string[] = [];
@@ -13,6 +17,7 @@ function makeTempDir() {
 
 afterEach(() => {
   vi.restoreAllMocks();
+  clearPluginManifestLoadCache();
   cleanupTrackedTempDirs(tempDirs);
 });
 
@@ -53,6 +58,26 @@ describe("loadPluginManifest JSON5 tolerance", () => {
     expect(json5Parse).not.toHaveBeenCalled();
   });
 
+  it("reuses unchanged manifest loads by file signature", () => {
+    const dir = makeTempDir();
+    fs.writeFileSync(
+      path.join(dir, "openclaw.plugin.json"),
+      JSON.stringify({
+        id: "cached-json",
+        configSchema: { type: "object" },
+      }),
+      "utf-8",
+    );
+    const readFileSync = vi.spyOn(fs, "readFileSync");
+
+    const first = loadPluginManifest(dir, false);
+    const second = loadPluginManifest(dir, false);
+
+    expect(first.ok).toBe(true);
+    expect(second.ok).toBe(true);
+    expect(readFileSync).toHaveBeenCalledTimes(1);
+  });
+
   it("parses a manifest with trailing commas", () => {
     const dir = makeTempDir();
     const json5Content = `{

src/plugins/manifest.ts

@@ -33,6 +33,20 @@ import type { PluginKind } from "./plugin-kind.types.js";
 export const PLUGIN_MANIFEST_FILENAME = "openclaw.plugin.json";
 export const PLUGIN_MANIFEST_FILENAMES = [PLUGIN_MANIFEST_FILENAME] as const;
 export const MAX_PLUGIN_MANIFEST_BYTES = 256 * 1024;
+const MAX_PLUGIN_MANIFEST_LOAD_CACHE_ENTRIES = 512;
+
+type PluginManifestLoadCacheEntry = {
+  result: PluginManifestLoadResult;
+  size: number;
+  mtimeMs: number;
+  ctimeMs: number;
+};
+
+const pluginManifestLoadCache = new Map<string, PluginManifestLoadCacheEntry>();
+
+export function clearPluginManifestLoadCache(): void {
+  pluginManifestLoadCache.clear();
+}
 
 export type PluginManifestChannelConfig = {
   schema: JsonSchemaObject;
@@ -1148,6 +1162,62 @@ export function resolvePluginManifestPath(rootDir: string): string {
   return path.join(rootDir, PLUGIN_MANIFEST_FILENAME);
 }
 
+function buildPluginManifestLoadCacheKey(params: {
+  manifestPath: string;
+  rejectHardlinks: boolean;
+  rootRealPath?: string;
+  stats: fs.Stats;
+}): string {
+  return JSON.stringify([
+    path.resolve(params.manifestPath),
+    params.rejectHardlinks,
+    params.rootRealPath ?? "",
+    params.stats.dev,
+    params.stats.ino,
+    params.stats.size,
+    params.stats.mtimeMs,
+    params.stats.ctimeMs,
+  ]);
+}
+
+function getCachedPluginManifestLoadResult(
+  key: string,
+  stats: fs.Stats,
+): PluginManifestLoadResult | undefined {
+  const entry = pluginManifestLoadCache.get(key);
+  if (
+    !entry ||
+    entry.size !== stats.size ||
+    entry.mtimeMs !== stats.mtimeMs ||
+    entry.ctimeMs !== stats.ctimeMs
+  ) {
+    return undefined;
+  }
+  pluginManifestLoadCache.delete(key);
+  pluginManifestLoadCache.set(key, entry);
+  return entry.result;
+}
+
+function setCachedPluginManifestLoadResult(
+  key: string,
+  stats: fs.Stats,
+  result: PluginManifestLoadResult,
+): void {
+  pluginManifestLoadCache.set(key, {
+    result,
+    size: stats.size,
+    mtimeMs: stats.mtimeMs,
+    ctimeMs: stats.ctimeMs,
+  });
+  if (pluginManifestLoadCache.size <= MAX_PLUGIN_MANIFEST_LOAD_CACHE_ENTRIES) {
+    return;
+  }
+  const oldestKey = pluginManifestLoadCache.keys().next().value;
+  if (typeof oldestKey === "string") {
+    pluginManifestLoadCache.delete(oldestKey);
+  }
+}
+
 function parsePluginKind(raw: unknown): PluginKind | PluginKind[] | undefined {
   if (typeof raw === "string") {
     return raw as PluginKind;
@@ -1186,28 +1256,44 @@ export function loadPluginManifest(
       }),
     });
   }
+  const stats = opened.stat;
+  const cacheKey = buildPluginManifestLoadCacheKey({
+    manifestPath,
+    rejectHardlinks,
+    ...(rootRealPath !== undefined ? { rootRealPath } : {}),
+    stats,
+  });
+  const cached = getCachedPluginManifestLoadResult(cacheKey, stats);
+  if (cached) {
+    fs.closeSync(opened.fd);
+    return cached;
+  }
+  const cacheResult = (result: PluginManifestLoadResult): PluginManifestLoadResult => {
+    setCachedPluginManifestLoadResult(cacheKey, stats, result);
+    return result;
+  };
   let raw: unknown;
   try {
     raw = parseJsonWithJson5Fallback(fs.readFileSync(opened.fd, "utf-8"));
   } catch (err) {
-    return {
+    return cacheResult({
       ok: false,
       error: `failed to parse plugin manifest: ${String(err)}`,
       manifestPath,
-    };
+    });
   } finally {
     fs.closeSync(opened.fd);
   }
   if (!isRecord(raw)) {
-    return { ok: false, error: "plugin manifest must be an object", manifestPath };
+    return cacheResult({ ok: false, error: "plugin manifest must be an object", manifestPath });
   }
   const id = normalizeOptionalString(raw.id) ?? "";
   if (!id) {
-    return { ok: false, error: "plugin manifest requires id", manifestPath };
+    return cacheResult({ ok: false, error: "plugin manifest requires id", manifestPath });
   }
   const configSchema = isRecord(raw.configSchema) ? raw.configSchema : null;
   if (!configSchema) {
-    return { ok: false, error: "plugin manifest requires configSchema", manifestPath };
+    return cacheResult({ ok: false, error: "plugin manifest requires configSchema", manifestPath });
   }
 
   const kind = parsePluginKind(raw.kind);
@@ -1260,7 +1346,7 @@ export function loadPluginManifest(
     uiHints = raw.uiHints as Record<string, PluginConfigUiHint>;
   }
 
-  return {
+  return cacheResult({
     ok: true,
     manifest: {
       id,
@@ -1302,7 +1388,7 @@ export function loadPluginManifest(
       channelConfigs,
     },
     manifestPath,
-  };
+  });
 }
 
 // package.json "openclaw" metadata (used for setup/catalog)