diff --git a/src/agents/spawn-requester-origin.test.ts b/src/agents/spawn-requester-origin.test.ts
index 8d1821ba923..646ea75895a 100644
--- a/src/agents/spawn-requester-origin.test.ts
+++ b/src/agents/spawn-requester-origin.test.ts
@@ -79,6 +79,41 @@ describe("resolveRequesterOriginForChild", () => {
     });
   });
 
+  it("keeps plugin-inferred channel kind for ids that start with direct marker characters", () => {
+    const to = "channel:@ops";
+    const cfg = {
+      bindings: [
+        {
+          type: "route",
+          agentId: "bot-alpha",
+          match: {
+            channel: "qa-channel",
+            peer: {
+              kind: "channel",
+              id: to,
+            },
+            accountId: "bot-alpha-qa",
+          },
+        },
+      ],
+    } as OpenClawConfig;
+
+    expect(
+      resolveRequesterOriginForChild({
+        cfg,
+        targetAgentId: "bot-alpha",
+        requesterAgentId: "main",
+        requesterChannel: "qa-channel",
+        requesterAccountId: "bot-beta",
+        requesterTo: to,
+      }),
+    ).toMatchObject({
+      channel: "qa-channel",
+      accountId: "bot-alpha-qa",
+      to,
+    });
+  });
+
   it("still peels channel id plus kind wrappers before peer lookup", () => {
     const to = "line:group:U123example";
     const cfg = {
diff --git a/src/agents/spawn-requester-origin.ts b/src/agents/spawn-requester-origin.ts
index eb7879484d8..06e9bb66472 100644
--- a/src/agents/spawn-requester-origin.ts
+++ b/src/agents/spawn-requester-origin.ts
@@ -44,11 +44,10 @@ export function extractRequesterPeer(
   if (!raw) {
     return {};
   }
-  let inferredKind: ChatType | undefined;
-  if (channelId) {
-    const plugin = getChannelPlugin(channelId);
-    inferredKind = plugin?.messaging?.inferTargetChatType?.({ to: raw }) ?? undefined;
-  }
+  const pluginInferredKind = channelId
+    ? (getChannelPlugin(channelId)?.messaging?.inferTargetChatType?.({ to: raw }) ?? undefined)
+    : undefined;
+  let inferredKind: ChatType | undefined = pluginInferredKind;
   let value = raw;
   while (true) {
     const match = GENERIC_PREFIX_PATTERN.exec(value);
@@ -64,9 +63,9 @@ export function extractRequesterPeer(
     }
     value = value.slice(prefix.length).trim();
   }
-  if (value) {
-    // Id-embedded kind markers (Matrix `!`/`@`, IRC `#`) are authoritative
-    // because channel wrappers can wrap either room or user ids.
+  if (value && !pluginInferredKind) {
+    // Id-embedded kind markers (Matrix `!`/`@`, IRC `#`) are a fallback when
+    // the channel plugin cannot identify its own target grammar.
     if (value.startsWith("@")) {
       inferredKind = "direct";
     } else if (value.startsWith("!") || value.startsWith("#")) {