diff --git a/src/config/sessions/explicit-session-key-normalization.ts b/src/config/sessions/explicit-session-key-normalization.ts
index 6a2bc61ea7f..c8ba4af8127 100644
--- a/src/config/sessions/explicit-session-key-normalization.ts
+++ b/src/config/sessions/explicit-session-key-normalization.ts
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 import type { MsgContext } from "../../auto-reply/templating.js";
-import { getChannelPlugin, listChannelPlugins } from "../../channels/plugins/index.js";
+import { getLoadedChannelPlugin, listChannelPlugins } from "../../channels/plugins/index.js";
 import {
   normalizeLowercaseStringOrEmpty,
   normalizeOptionalLowercaseString,
@@ -38,7 +38,7 @@ function resolveExplicitSessionKeyNormalizerCandidates(
 export function normalizeExplicitSessionKey(sessionKey: string, ctx: MsgContext): string {
   const normalized = normalizeLowercaseStringOrEmpty(sessionKey);
   for (const channelId of resolveExplicitSessionKeyNormalizerCandidates(normalized, ctx)) {
-    const normalize = getChannelPlugin(channelId)?.messaging?.normalizeExplicitSessionKey;
+    const normalize = getLoadedChannelPlugin(channelId)?.messaging?.normalizeExplicitSessionKey;
     const next = normalize?.({ sessionKey: normalized, ctx });
     if (typeof next === "string" && next.trim()) {
       return normalizeLowercaseStringOrEmpty(next);