fix: speed up status json channel detection

Signed-off-by: sallyom <somalley@redhat.com>

CHANGELOG.md

@@ -180,6 +180,7 @@ Docs: https://docs.openclaw.ai
 - Gateway/macOS: `openclaw gateway stop` now uses `launchctl bootout` by default instead of unconditionally calling `launchctl disable`, so KeepAlive auto-recovery still works after unexpected crashes; use the new `--disable` flag to opt into the persistent-disable behavior when a manual stop should survive reboots. Fixes #77934. Thanks @bmoran1022.
 - Gateway/macOS: `repairLaunchAgentBootstrap` no longer kickstarts an already-running LaunchAgent, preventing unnecessary service restarts and session disconnects when repair runs against a healthy gateway. Fixes #77428. Thanks @ramitrkar-hash.
 - Gateway/macOS: `openclaw gateway stop --disable` now persists the LaunchAgent disable bit even after a previous bootout left the service not loaded, keeping the explicit stay-down path reliable. (#78412) Thanks @wdeveloper16.
+- CLI/status: keep lean `openclaw status --json` off manifest-backed channel discovery so configured-channel checks do not repeatedly rescan plugin metadata. Fixes #79129.
 - Control UI/chat: hide retired and non-public Google Gemini model IDs from chat model catalogs and route the bare `gemini-3-pro` alias to Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview instead of the shut-down Gemini 3 Pro Preview. Thanks @BunsDev.
 - CLI/install: refuse state-mutating OpenClaw CLI runs as root by default, keep an explicit `OPENCLAW_ALLOW_ROOT=1` escape hatch for intentional root/container use, and update DigitalOcean setup guidance to run OpenClaw as a non-root user. Fixes #67478. Thanks @Jerry-Xin and @natechicago.
 - Auto-reply/media: resolve `scp` from `PATH` when staging sandbox media so nonstandard OpenSSH installs can copy remote attachments.

src/commands/status.scan.fast-json.test.ts

@@ -55,6 +55,7 @@ describe("scanStatusJsonFast", () => {
 
     await scanStatusJsonFast({}, {} as never);
 
+    expect(mocks.hasConfiguredChannelsForReadOnlyScope).not.toHaveBeenCalled();
     expect(mocks.ensurePluginRegistryLoaded).not.toHaveBeenCalled();
     expect(loggingStateRef.forceConsoleToStderr).toBe(false);
   });

src/commands/status.scan.fast-json.ts

@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
+import { hasPotentialConfiguredChannels } from "../channels/config-presence.js";
 import type { OpenClawConfig } from "../config/types.js";
-import { hasConfiguredChannelsForReadOnlyScope } from "../plugins/channel-plugin-ids.js";
 import type { RuntimeEnv } from "../runtime.js";
 import { executeStatusScanFromOverview } from "./status.scan-execute.ts";
 import {
@@ -58,11 +58,8 @@ export async function scanStatusJsonFast(
     commandName: "status --json",
     allowMissingConfigFastPath: true,
     includeChannelSummary: false,
-    resolveHasConfiguredChannels: (cfg, sourceConfig) =>
-      hasConfiguredChannelsForReadOnlyScope({
-        config: cfg,
-        activationSourceConfig: sourceConfig,
-        env: process.env,
+    resolveHasConfiguredChannels: (cfg) =>
+      hasPotentialConfiguredChannels(cfg, process.env, {
         includePersistedAuthState: false,
       }),
     resolveMemory: async ({ cfg, agentStatus, memoryPlugin }) =>

src/commands/status.scan.test-helpers.ts

@@ -8,6 +8,7 @@ type ResolveConfigPathMock = Mock<() => string>;
 type StatusScanSharedMocks = {
   resolveConfigPath: ResolveConfigPathMock;
   hasPotentialConfiguredChannels: UnknownMock;
+  hasConfiguredChannelsForReadOnlyScope: UnknownMock;
   readBestEffortConfig: UnknownMock;
   resolveCommandSecretRefsViaGateway: UnknownMock;
   getUpdateCheckResult: UnknownMock;
@@ -26,6 +27,7 @@ export function createStatusScanSharedMocks(configPathLabel: string): StatusScan
   return {
     resolveConfigPath: vi.fn(() => `/tmp/openclaw-${configPathLabel}-missing-${process.pid}.json`),
     hasPotentialConfiguredChannels: vi.fn(),
+    hasConfiguredChannelsForReadOnlyScope: vi.fn(),
     readBestEffortConfig: vi.fn(),
     resolveCommandSecretRefsViaGateway: vi.fn(),
     getUpdateCheckResult: vi.fn(),
@@ -187,16 +189,7 @@ export async function loadStatusScanModuleForTest(
       config: OpenClawConfig;
       env?: NodeJS.ProcessEnv;
       includePersistedAuthState?: boolean;
-    }) =>
-      Boolean(
-        mocks.hasPotentialConfiguredChannels(
-          params.config,
-          params.env,
-          params.includePersistedAuthState === undefined
-            ? undefined
-            : { includePersistedAuthState: params.includePersistedAuthState },
-        ),
-      ),
+    }) => mocks.hasConfiguredChannelsForReadOnlyScope(params),
     listConfiguredChannelIdsForReadOnlyScope: (params: {
       config: OpenClawConfig;
       env?: NodeJS.ProcessEnv;
@@ -409,6 +402,22 @@ export function applyStatusScanDefaults(
   const resolvedConfig = options.resolvedConfig ?? sourceConfig;
 
   mocks.hasPotentialConfiguredChannels.mockReturnValue(options.hasConfiguredChannels ?? false);
+  mocks.hasConfiguredChannelsForReadOnlyScope.mockImplementation((rawParams: unknown) => {
+    const params = rawParams as {
+      config: OpenClawConfig;
+      env?: NodeJS.ProcessEnv;
+      includePersistedAuthState?: boolean;
+    };
+    return Boolean(
+      mocks.hasPotentialConfiguredChannels(
+        params.config,
+        params.env,
+        params.includePersistedAuthState === undefined
+          ? undefined
+          : { includePersistedAuthState: params.includePersistedAuthState },
+      ),
+    );
+  });
   mocks.readBestEffortConfig.mockResolvedValue(sourceConfig);
   mocks.resolveCommandSecretRefsViaGateway.mockResolvedValue({
     resolvedConfig,