From a32c4e43b4183f09665e323302c505d5b4242a4f Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Richard Poelderl <richard.poelderl@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 2 Apr 2026 16:43:42 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] Update Corepack prompt handling

---
 src/infra/update-global.test.ts | 15 +++++++++++++++
 src/infra/update-global.ts      | 12 +++++++++---
 2 files changed, 24 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/src/infra/update-global.test.ts b/src/infra/update-global.test.ts
index 92a83b09de6..92c86205e7d 100644
--- a/src/infra/update-global.test.ts
+++ b/src/infra/update-global.test.ts
@@ -11,6 +11,7 @@ import {
   cleanupGlobalRenameDirs,
   detectGlobalInstallManagerByPresence,
   detectGlobalInstallManagerForRoot,
+  createGlobalInstallEnv,
   globalInstallArgs,
   globalInstallFallbackArgs,
   isExplicitPackageInstallSpec,
@@ -89,6 +90,20 @@ describe("update global helpers", () => {
     ).toBe("https://example.com/openclaw-main.tgz");
   });
 
+  it("defaults corepack download prompts off for global install env", async () => {
+    await expect(createGlobalInstallEnv({})).resolves.toMatchObject({
+      COREPACK_ENABLE_DOWNLOAD_PROMPT: "0",
+    });
+
+    await expect(
+      createGlobalInstallEnv({
+        COREPACK_ENABLE_DOWNLOAD_PROMPT: "1",
+      }),
+    ).resolves.toMatchObject({
+      COREPACK_ENABLE_DOWNLOAD_PROMPT: "1",
+    });
+  });
+
   it("classifies main and raw install specs separately from registry selectors", () => {
     expect(isMainPackageTarget("main")).toBe(true);
     expect(isMainPackageTarget(" MAIN ")).toBe(true);
diff --git a/src/infra/update-global.ts b/src/infra/update-global.ts
index ce2da669ab1..a7b1b7ac951 100644
--- a/src/infra/update-global.ts
+++ b/src/infra/update-global.ts
@@ -29,6 +29,7 @@ const PRIMARY_PACKAGE_NAME = "openclaw";
 const ALL_PACKAGE_NAMES = [PRIMARY_PACKAGE_NAME] as const;
 const GLOBAL_RENAME_PREFIX = ".";
 export const OPENCLAW_MAIN_PACKAGE_SPEC = "github:openclaw/openclaw#main";
+const COREPACK_ENABLE_DOWNLOAD_PROMPT_DEFAULT = "0";
 const NPM_GLOBAL_INSTALL_QUIET_FLAGS = ["--no-fund", "--no-audit", "--loglevel=error"] as const;
 const NPM_GLOBAL_INSTALL_OMIT_OPTIONAL_FLAGS = [
   "--omit=optional",
@@ -140,6 +141,13 @@ function applyWindowsPackageInstallEnv(env: Record<string, string>) {
   env.NODE_LLAMA_CPP_SKIP_DOWNLOAD = "1";
 }
 
+function applyCorepackDownloadPromptEnv(env: Record<string, string>) {
+  const current = env.COREPACK_ENABLE_DOWNLOAD_PROMPT?.trim();
+  if (!current) {
+    env.COREPACK_ENABLE_DOWNLOAD_PROMPT = COREPACK_ENABLE_DOWNLOAD_PROMPT_DEFAULT;
+  }
+}
+
 export function resolveGlobalInstallSpec(params: {
   packageName: string;
   tag: string;
@@ -165,9 +173,6 @@ export async function createGlobalInstallEnv(
   env?: NodeJS.ProcessEnv,
 ): Promise<NodeJS.ProcessEnv | undefined> {
   const pathPrepend = await resolvePortableGitPathPrepend(env);
-  if (pathPrepend.length === 0 && process.platform !== "win32") {
-    return env;
-  }
   const merged = Object.fromEntries(
     Object.entries(env ?? process.env)
       .filter(([, value]) => value != null)
@@ -175,6 +180,7 @@ export async function createGlobalInstallEnv(
   ) as Record<string, string>;
   applyPathPrepend(merged, pathPrepend);
   applyWindowsPackageInstallEnv(merged);
+  applyCorepackDownloadPromptEnv(merged);
   return merged;
 }