fix(cli): preserve Matrix QA profile flag

src/cli/profile.test.ts

@@ -69,6 +69,64 @@ describe("parseCliProfileArgs", () => {
     expect(res.argv).toEqual(["node", "openclaw", "status", "--deep"]);
   });
 
+  it("preserves Matrix QA --profile for the command parser", () => {
+    const res = parseCliProfileArgs([
+      "node",
+      "openclaw",
+      "qa",
+      "matrix",
+      "--profile",
+      "fast",
+      "--fail-fast",
+    ]);
+    if (!res.ok) {
+      throw new Error(res.error);
+    }
+    expect(res.profile).toBeNull();
+    expect(res.argv).toEqual([
+      "node",
+      "openclaw",
+      "qa",
+      "matrix",
+      "--profile",
+      "fast",
+      "--fail-fast",
+    ]);
+  });
+
+  it("preserves Matrix QA --profile after leading root options", () => {
+    const res = parseCliProfileArgs([
+      "node",
+      "openclaw",
+      "--no-color",
+      "qa",
+      "matrix",
+      "--profile=fast",
+    ]);
+    if (!res.ok) {
+      throw new Error(res.error);
+    }
+    expect(res.profile).toBeNull();
+    expect(res.argv).toEqual(["node", "openclaw", "--no-color", "qa", "matrix", "--profile=fast"]);
+  });
+
+  it("still parses root --profile before Matrix QA", () => {
+    const res = parseCliProfileArgs([
+      "node",
+      "openclaw",
+      "--profile",
+      "work",
+      "qa",
+      "matrix",
+      "--fail-fast",
+    ]);
+    if (!res.ok) {
+      throw new Error(res.error);
+    }
+    expect(res.profile).toBe("work");
+    expect(res.argv).toEqual(["node", "openclaw", "qa", "matrix", "--fail-fast"]);
+  });
+
   it("parses interleaved --dev after the command token", () => {
     const res = parseCliProfileArgs(["node", "openclaw", "status", "--dev"]);
     if (!res.ok) {

src/cli/profile.ts

@@ -1,5 +1,6 @@
 import os from "node:os";
 import path from "node:path";
+import { isValueToken } from "../infra/cli-root-options.js";
 import { resolveRequiredHomeDir } from "../infra/home-dir.js";
 import {
   normalizeLowercaseStringOrEmpty,
@@ -14,6 +15,11 @@ export type CliProfileParseResult =
   | { ok: true; profile: string | null; argv: string[] }
   | { ok: false; error: string };
 
+function isCommandLocalProfileOption(out: string[]): boolean {
+  const [primary, secondary] = resolveCliArgvInvocation(out).commandPath;
+  return primary === "qa" && secondary === "matrix";
+}
+
 export function parseCliProfileArgs(argv: string[]): CliProfileParseResult {
   let profile: string | null = null;
   let sawDev = false;
@@ -33,6 +39,14 @@ export function parseCliProfileArgs(argv: string[]): CliProfileParseResult {
     }
 
     if (arg === "--profile" || arg.startsWith("--profile=")) {
+      if (isCommandLocalProfileOption(out)) {
+        out.push(arg);
+        if (arg === "--profile" && isValueToken(args[index + 1])) {
+          out.push(args[index + 1]);
+          return { kind: "handled", consumedNext: true };
+        }
+        return { kind: "handled" };
+      }
       if (sawDev) {
         return { kind: "error", error: "Cannot combine --dev with --profile" };
       }