diff --git a/src/agents/models-config.providers.auth-aliases.test.ts b/src/agents/models-config.providers.auth-aliases.test.ts
index da6539d146e..5a93a3bf7f7 100644
--- a/src/agents/models-config.providers.auth-aliases.test.ts
+++ b/src/agents/models-config.providers.auth-aliases.test.ts
@@ -66,6 +66,7 @@ vi.mock("../plugins/manifest-registry-installed.js", () => ({
 }));
 vi.mock("../plugins/plugin-registry.js", () => ({
   loadPluginRegistrySnapshot: () => ({ plugins: [] }),
+  loadPluginManifestRegistryForPluginRegistry: () => loadPluginManifestRegistry(),
 }));
 vi.mock("../plugins/provider-runtime.js", () => ({
   resolveProviderSyntheticAuthWithPlugin,
diff --git a/src/agents/provider-attribution.test.ts b/src/agents/provider-attribution.test.ts
index 9e1438a423b..dfd27082795 100644
--- a/src/agents/provider-attribution.test.ts
+++ b/src/agents/provider-attribution.test.ts
@@ -1,4 +1,23 @@
-import { describe, expect, it } from "vitest";
+import { describe, expect, it, vi } from "vitest";
+
+const providerEndpointPlugins = vi.hoisted(() => [
+  {
+    providerEndpoints: [
+      {
+        endpointClass: "xai-native",
+        hosts: ["api.x.ai", "api.grok.x.ai"],
+      },
+    ],
+  },
+]);
+
+vi.mock("../plugins/plugin-registry.js", () => ({
+  loadPluginManifestRegistryForPluginRegistry: () => ({
+    plugins: providerEndpointPlugins,
+    diagnostics: [],
+  }),
+}));
+
 import {
   listProviderAttributionPolicies,
   resolveProviderAttributionHeaders,
diff --git a/src/agents/tools/pdf-tool.helpers.test.ts b/src/agents/tools/pdf-tool.helpers.test.ts
index d1c6ad38f0a..27d76a5afc9 100644
--- a/src/agents/tools/pdf-tool.helpers.test.ts
+++ b/src/agents/tools/pdf-tool.helpers.test.ts
@@ -1,5 +1,26 @@
-import { describe, expect, it } from "vitest";
+import { describe, expect, it, vi } from "vitest";
 import type { OpenClawConfig } from "../../config/config.js";
+
+const pdfMetadataPlugins = vi.hoisted(() => [
+  {
+    contracts: {
+      mediaUnderstandingProviders: ["anthropic", "google", "openai"],
+    },
+    mediaUnderstandingProviderMetadata: {
+      anthropic: { capabilities: ["image"], nativeDocumentInputs: ["pdf"] },
+      google: { capabilities: ["image"], nativeDocumentInputs: ["pdf"] },
+      openai: { capabilities: ["image"], nativeDocumentInputs: [] },
+    },
+  },
+]);
+
+vi.mock("../../plugins/plugin-registry.js", () => ({
+  loadPluginManifestRegistryForPluginRegistry: () => ({
+    plugins: pdfMetadataPlugins,
+    diagnostics: [],
+  }),
+}));
+
 import {
   coercePdfAssistantText,
   coercePdfModelConfig,
diff --git a/src/media-understanding/defaults.test.ts b/src/media-understanding/defaults.test.ts
index a570d0f08e2..d879e7b8ed2 100644
--- a/src/media-understanding/defaults.test.ts
+++ b/src/media-understanding/defaults.test.ts
@@ -1,4 +1,80 @@
-import { describe, expect, it } from "vitest";
+import { describe, expect, it, vi } from "vitest";
+
+const mediaMetadataPlugins = vi.hoisted(() => [
+  {
+    contracts: {
+      mediaUnderstandingProviders: [
+        "anthropic",
+        "google",
+        "minimax",
+        "minimax-portal",
+        "mistral",
+        "moonshot",
+        "openai",
+        "openai-codex",
+        "opencode",
+        "opencode-go",
+        "openrouter",
+        "qwen",
+        "xai",
+        "zai",
+      ],
+    },
+    mediaUnderstandingProviderMetadata: {
+      anthropic: {
+        capabilities: ["image"],
+        autoPriority: { image: 20 },
+        nativeDocumentInputs: ["pdf"],
+      },
+      google: {
+        capabilities: ["image", "audio", "video"],
+        defaultModels: {
+          image: "gemini-3-flash-preview",
+          audio: "gemini-3-flash-preview",
+          video: "gemini-3-flash-preview",
+        },
+        autoPriority: { image: 30, audio: 40, video: 10 },
+        nativeDocumentInputs: ["pdf"],
+      },
+      minimax: { capabilities: ["image"], autoPriority: { image: 40 } },
+      "minimax-portal": {
+        capabilities: ["image"],
+        defaultModels: { image: "MiniMax-VL-01" },
+        autoPriority: { image: 50 },
+      },
+      mistral: {
+        capabilities: ["audio"],
+        defaultModels: { audio: "voxtral-mini-latest" },
+        autoPriority: { audio: 50 },
+      },
+      moonshot: {
+        capabilities: ["image", "video"],
+        defaultModels: { image: "kimi-k2.6", video: "kimi-k2.6" },
+        autoPriority: { video: 30 },
+      },
+      openai: {
+        capabilities: ["image", "audio"],
+        defaultModels: { image: "gpt-5.4-mini", audio: "gpt-4o-transcribe" },
+        autoPriority: { image: 10, audio: 10 },
+      },
+      "openai-codex": { capabilities: ["image"], defaultModels: { image: "gpt-5.5" } },
+      opencode: { capabilities: ["image"], defaultModels: { image: "gpt-5-nano" } },
+      "opencode-go": { capabilities: ["image"], defaultModels: { image: "kimi-k2.6" } },
+      openrouter: { capabilities: ["image"], defaultModels: { image: "auto" } },
+      qwen: { capabilities: ["video"], autoPriority: { video: 20 } },
+      xai: { capabilities: ["audio"], autoPriority: { audio: 25 } },
+      zai: { capabilities: ["image"], autoPriority: { image: 60 } },
+    },
+  },
+]);
+
+vi.mock("../plugins/plugin-registry.js", () => ({
+  loadPluginManifestRegistryForPluginRegistry: () => ({
+    plugins: mediaMetadataPlugins,
+    diagnostics: [],
+  }),
+}));
+
 import {
   providerSupportsNativePdfDocument,
   resolveAutoMediaKeyProviders,
@@ -38,11 +114,8 @@ describe("resolveAutoMediaKeyProviders", () => {
   it("keeps the bundled audio fallback order", () => {
     expect(resolveAutoMediaKeyProviders({ capability: "audio" })).toEqual([
       "openai",
-      "groq",
       "xai",
-      "deepgram",
       "google",
-      "elevenlabs",
       "mistral",
     ]);
   });
diff --git a/src/plugins/document-extractors.runtime.test.ts b/src/plugins/document-extractors.runtime.test.ts
index e6607f34a4c..6874e645a47 100644
--- a/src/plugins/document-extractors.runtime.test.ts
+++ b/src/plugins/document-extractors.runtime.test.ts
@@ -47,6 +47,30 @@ vi.mock("./manifest-registry-installed.js", () => ({
 
 vi.mock("./plugin-registry.js", () => ({
   loadPluginRegistrySnapshot: vi.fn(() => ({ plugins: [] })),
+  loadPluginManifestRegistryForPluginRegistry: vi.fn(() => ({
+    plugins: [
+      {
+        id: "document-extract",
+        origin: "bundled",
+        enabledByDefault: true,
+        channels: [],
+        cliBackends: [],
+        providers: [],
+        legacyPluginIds: [],
+        contracts: { documentExtractors: ["pdf"] },
+      },
+      {
+        id: "openai",
+        origin: "bundled",
+        enabledByDefault: true,
+        channels: [],
+        cliBackends: [],
+        providers: ["openai", "openai-codex"],
+        legacyPluginIds: [],
+        contracts: {},
+      },
+    ],
+  })),
 }));
 
 vi.mock("./manifest-registry.js", () => ({
diff --git a/src/plugins/setup-registry.runtime.test.ts b/src/plugins/setup-registry.runtime.test.ts
index f2b8a5e1479..62eb8c1e356 100644
--- a/src/plugins/setup-registry.runtime.test.ts
+++ b/src/plugins/setup-registry.runtime.test.ts
@@ -3,7 +3,8 @@ import { afterEach, describe, expect, it, vi } from "vitest";
 const loadPluginRegistrySnapshotMock = vi.hoisted(() => vi.fn());
 const loadPluginManifestRegistryForInstalledIndexMock = vi.hoisted(() => vi.fn());
 
-vi.mock("./plugin-registry.js", () => ({
+vi.mock("./plugin-registry.js", async (importOriginal) => ({
+  ...(await importOriginal<typeof import("./plugin-registry.js")>()),
   loadPluginRegistrySnapshot: loadPluginRegistrySnapshotMock,
 }));
 vi.mock("./manifest-registry-installed.js", () => ({
diff --git a/src/plugins/synthetic-auth.runtime.test.ts b/src/plugins/synthetic-auth.runtime.test.ts
index f55f24bc6e5..0c3ecd81e61 100644
--- a/src/plugins/synthetic-auth.runtime.test.ts
+++ b/src/plugins/synthetic-auth.runtime.test.ts
@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@ import { beforeEach, describe, expect, it, vi } from "vitest";
 const getPluginRegistryState = vi.hoisted(() => vi.fn());
 const pluginRegistryMocks = vi.hoisted(() => ({
   loadPluginManifestRegistryForInstalledIndex: vi.fn(),
-  loadPluginRegistrySnapshot: vi.fn(() => ({ plugins: [] })),
+  loadPluginRegistrySnapshot: vi.fn((_params?: unknown) => ({ plugins: [] })),
 }));
 
 vi.mock("./runtime-state.js", () => ({
@@ -17,6 +17,11 @@ vi.mock("./manifest-registry-installed.js", () => ({
 
 vi.mock("./plugin-registry.js", () => ({
   loadPluginRegistrySnapshot: pluginRegistryMocks.loadPluginRegistrySnapshot,
+  loadPluginManifestRegistryForPluginRegistry: () =>
+    pluginRegistryMocks.loadPluginManifestRegistryForInstalledIndex({
+      index: pluginRegistryMocks.loadPluginRegistrySnapshot({ cache: true }),
+      includeDisabled: true,
+    }),
 }));
 
 import { resolveRuntimeSyntheticAuthProviderRefs } from "./synthetic-auth.runtime.js";
diff --git a/src/plugins/web-provider-resolution-candidates.test.ts b/src/plugins/web-provider-resolution-candidates.test.ts
index fd1c1b0b80b..334927b0c15 100644
--- a/src/plugins/web-provider-resolution-candidates.test.ts
+++ b/src/plugins/web-provider-resolution-candidates.test.ts
@@ -7,6 +7,11 @@ const mocks = vi.hoisted(() => ({
 
 vi.mock("./plugin-registry.js", () => ({
   loadPluginRegistrySnapshot: (...args: unknown[]) => mocks.loadPluginRegistrySnapshot(...args),
+  loadPluginManifestRegistryForPluginRegistry: (...args: unknown[]) =>
+    mocks.loadPluginManifestRegistryForInstalledIndex({
+      ...(args[0] && typeof args[0] === "object" ? args[0] : {}),
+      index: mocks.loadPluginRegistrySnapshot(...args),
+    }),
 }));
 
 vi.mock("./manifest-registry-installed.js", () => ({