From 40f6be315868cae3ffd703ee3e2c237596afeab5 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: stablegenius49 <185121704+stablegenius49@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Sun, 8 Mar 2026 12:47:36 -0700
Subject: [PATCH] fix(macos): stop relaunching app after quit

---
 .../Sources/OpenClaw/LaunchAgentManager.swift | 10 ++++++----
 .../LaunchAgentManagerTests.swift             | 19 +++++++++++++++++++
 2 files changed, 25 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
 create mode 100644 apps/macos/Tests/OpenClawIPCTests/LaunchAgentManagerTests.swift

diff --git a/apps/macos/Sources/OpenClaw/LaunchAgentManager.swift b/apps/macos/Sources/OpenClaw/LaunchAgentManager.swift
index af318b330d4..004d575d5d5 100644
--- a/apps/macos/Sources/OpenClaw/LaunchAgentManager.swift
+++ b/apps/macos/Sources/OpenClaw/LaunchAgentManager.swift
@@ -26,7 +26,12 @@ enum LaunchAgentManager {
     }
 
     private static func writePlist(bundlePath: String) {
-        let plist = """
+        let plist = self.plistContents(bundlePath: bundlePath)
+        try? plist.write(to: self.plistURL, atomically: true, encoding: .utf8)
+    }
+
+    static func plistContents(bundlePath: String) -> String {
+        """
         <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
         <!DOCTYPE plist PUBLIC "-//Apple//DTD PLIST 1.0//EN" "http://www.apple.com/DTDs/PropertyList-1.0.dtd">
         <plist version="1.0">
@@ -41,8 +46,6 @@ enum LaunchAgentManager {
           <string>\(FileManager().homeDirectoryForCurrentUser.path)</string>
           <key>RunAtLoad</key>
           <true/>
-          <key>KeepAlive</key>
-          <true/>
           <key>EnvironmentVariables</key>
           <dict>
             <key>PATH</key>
@@ -55,7 +58,6 @@ enum LaunchAgentManager {
         </dict>
         </plist>
         """
-        try? plist.write(to: self.plistURL, atomically: true, encoding: .utf8)
     }
 
     @discardableResult
diff --git a/apps/macos/Tests/OpenClawIPCTests/LaunchAgentManagerTests.swift b/apps/macos/Tests/OpenClawIPCTests/LaunchAgentManagerTests.swift
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..c9a17d57577
--- /dev/null
+++ b/apps/macos/Tests/OpenClawIPCTests/LaunchAgentManagerTests.swift
@@ -0,0 +1,19 @@
+import Foundation
+import Testing
+@testable import OpenClaw
+
+struct LaunchAgentManagerTests {
+    @Test func `launch at login plist does not keep app alive after manual quit`() throws {
+        let plist = LaunchAgentManager.plistContents(bundlePath: "/Applications/OpenClaw.app")
+        let data = try #require(plist.data(using: .utf8))
+        let object = try #require(
+            PropertyListSerialization.propertyList(from: data, format: nil) as? [String: Any]
+        )
+
+        #expect(object["RunAtLoad"] as? Bool == true)
+        #expect(object["KeepAlive"] == nil)
+
+        let args = try #require(object["ProgramArguments"] as? [String])
+        #expect(args == ["/Applications/OpenClaw.app/Contents/MacOS/OpenClaw"])
+    }
+}