fix(qa-lab): address telegram qa review comments

extensions/qa-lab/src/cli.runtime.test.ts

@@ -185,6 +185,20 @@ describe("qa cli runtime", () => {
     });
   });
 
+  it("defaults telegram qa runs onto the live provider lane", async () => {
+    await runQaTelegramCommand({
+      repoRoot: "/tmp/openclaw-repo",
+      scenarioIds: ["telegram-help-command"],
+    });
+
+    expect(runTelegramQaLive).toHaveBeenCalledWith(
+      expect.objectContaining({
+        repoRoot: path.resolve("/tmp/openclaw-repo"),
+        providerMode: "live-frontier",
+      }),
+    );
+  });
+
   it("normalizes legacy live-openai suite runs onto the frontier provider mode", async () => {
     await runQaSuiteCommand({
       repoRoot: "/tmp/openclaw-repo",

extensions/qa-lab/src/cli.runtime.ts

@@ -292,10 +292,12 @@ export async function runQaTelegramCommand(opts: {
   sutAccountId?: string;
 }) {
   const repoRoot = path.resolve(opts.repoRoot ?? process.cwd());
+  const providerMode: QaProviderMode =
+    opts.providerMode === undefined ? "live-frontier" : normalizeQaProviderMode(opts.providerMode);
   const result = await runTelegramQaLive({
     repoRoot,
     outputDir: opts.outputDir ? path.resolve(repoRoot, opts.outputDir) : undefined,
-    providerMode: opts.providerMode,
+    providerMode,
     primaryModel: opts.primaryModel,
     alternateModel: opts.alternateModel,
     fastMode: opts.fastMode,

extensions/qa-lab/src/cli.ts

@@ -163,7 +163,7 @@ export function registerQaLabCli(program: Command) {
     .option(
       "--provider-mode <mode>",
       "Provider mode: mock-openai or live-frontier (legacy live-openai still works)",
-      "mock-openai",
+      "live-frontier",
     )
     .option("--model <ref>", "Primary provider/model ref")
     .option("--alt-model <ref>", "Alternate provider/model ref")

extensions/qa-lab/src/telegram-live.runtime.test.ts

@@ -151,4 +151,25 @@ describe("telegram live qa runtime", () => {
       "Confirm the SUT bot is present in the target private group and can receive /help@BotUsername commands there.",
     );
   });
+
+  it("treats null canary context as a non-canary error", () => {
+    const error = new Error("boom");
+    error.name = "TelegramQaCanaryError";
+    Object.assign(error, {
+      phase: "sut_reply_timeout",
+      context: null,
+    });
+
+    const message = __testing.canaryFailureMessage({
+      error,
+      groupId: "-100123",
+      driverBotId: 42,
+      driverUsername: "driver_bot",
+      sutBotId: 88,
+      sutUsername: "sut_bot",
+    });
+
+    expect(message).toContain("Phase: unknown");
+    expect(message).toContain("boom");
+  });
 });

extensions/qa-lab/src/telegram-live.runtime.ts

@@ -95,7 +95,8 @@ function isTelegramQaCanaryError(error: unknown): error is TelegramQaCanaryError
     (typeof error === "object" &&
       error !== null &&
       typeof (error as { phase?: unknown }).phase === "string" &&
-      typeof (error as { context?: unknown }).context === "object")
+      typeof (error as { context?: unknown }).context === "object" &&
+      (error as { context?: unknown }).context !== null)
   );
 }
 
@@ -306,8 +307,9 @@ async function getBotIdentity(token: string) {
 }
 
 async function flushTelegramUpdates(token: string) {
+  const startedAt = Date.now();
   let offset = 0;
-  while (true) {
+  while (Date.now() - startedAt < 15_000) {
     const updates = await callTelegramApi<TelegramUpdate[]>(token, "getUpdates", {
       offset,
       timeout: 0,
@@ -318,6 +320,7 @@ async function flushTelegramUpdates(token: string) {
     }
     offset = (updates.at(-1)?.update_id ?? offset) + 1;
   }
+  return offset;
 }
 
 async function sendGroupMessage(token: string, groupId: string, text: string) {
@@ -580,7 +583,7 @@ export async function runTelegramQaLive(params: {
   await fs.mkdir(outputDir, { recursive: true });
 
   const runtimeEnv = resolveTelegramQaRuntimeEnv();
-  const providerMode = normalizeQaProviderMode(params.providerMode ?? "mock-openai");
+  const providerMode = normalizeQaProviderMode(params.providerMode ?? "live-frontier");
   const primaryModel = params.primaryModel?.trim() || defaultQaModelForMode(providerMode);
   const alternateModel = params.alternateModel?.trim() || defaultQaModelForMode(providerMode, true);
   const sutAccountId = params.sutAccountId?.trim() || "sut";