From 18fe752c4872929030ba05302daaa50ff8c7a4ad Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Tak Hoffman <781889+Takhoffman@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Fri, 27 Mar 2026 21:25:15 -0500
Subject: [PATCH] fix(regression): restore googlechat cold-runtime chunking

---
 extensions/googlechat/src/channel.test.ts | 9 +++++++++
 extensions/googlechat/src/channel.ts      | 3 ++-
 src/plugin-sdk/googlechat.ts              | 1 +
 3 files changed, 12 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/extensions/googlechat/src/channel.test.ts b/extensions/googlechat/src/channel.test.ts
index 1b29ab00fee..7b623956bc0 100644
--- a/extensions/googlechat/src/channel.test.ts
+++ b/extensions/googlechat/src/channel.test.ts
@@ -102,6 +102,15 @@ function setupRuntimeMediaMocks(params: { loadFileName: string; loadBytes: strin
 }
 
 describe("googlechatPlugin outbound sendMedia", () => {
+  it("chunks outbound text without requiring Google Chat runtime initialization", () => {
+    const chunker = googlechatPlugin.outbound?.chunker;
+    if (!chunker) {
+      throw new Error("Expected googlechatPlugin.outbound.chunker to be defined");
+    }
+
+    expect(chunker("alpha beta", 5)).toEqual(["alpha", "beta"]);
+  });
+
   it("loads local media with mediaLocalRoots via runtime media loader", async () => {
     const { loadWebMedia, fetchRemoteMedia } = setupRuntimeMediaMocks({
       loadFileName: "image.png",
diff --git a/extensions/googlechat/src/channel.ts b/extensions/googlechat/src/channel.ts
index 70f6f7d3cac..04257101575 100644
--- a/extensions/googlechat/src/channel.ts
+++ b/extensions/googlechat/src/channel.ts
@@ -24,6 +24,7 @@ import {
 } from "openclaw/plugin-sdk/status-helpers";
 import {
   buildChannelConfigSchema,
+  chunkTextForOutbound,
   DEFAULT_ACCOUNT_ID,
   createAccountStatusSink,
   getChatChannelMeta,
@@ -349,7 +350,7 @@ export const googlechatPlugin = createChatChannelPlugin({
   outbound: {
     base: {
       deliveryMode: "direct",
-      chunker: (text, limit) => getGoogleChatRuntime().channel.text.chunkMarkdownText(text, limit),
+      chunker: chunkTextForOutbound,
       chunkerMode: "markdown",
       textChunkLimit: 4000,
       resolveTarget: ({ to }) => {
diff --git a/src/plugin-sdk/googlechat.ts b/src/plugin-sdk/googlechat.ts
index 7b880497479..3416ef742cd 100644
--- a/src/plugin-sdk/googlechat.ts
+++ b/src/plugin-sdk/googlechat.ts
@@ -27,6 +27,7 @@ export { formatPairingApproveHint } from "../channels/plugins/helpers.js";
 export { fetchRemoteMedia } from "../media/fetch.js";
 export { resolveChannelMediaMaxBytes } from "../channels/plugins/media-limits.js";
 export { loadWebMedia } from "./web-media.js";
+export { chunkTextForOutbound } from "./text-chunking.js";
 export {
   addWildcardAllowFrom,
   mergeAllowFromEntries,