diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index 38585c6613a..724ae2b6669 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -88,6 +88,7 @@ Docs: https://docs.openclaw.ai
 
 - Discord/streaming: show live reasoning text in progress drafts instead of a bare `Reasoning` status line.
 - Doctor/status: warn when `OPENCLAW_GATEWAY_TOKEN` would shadow a different active `gateway.auth.token` source for local CLI commands, while avoiding false positives when config points at the same env token. Fixes #74271. Thanks @yelog.
+- Gateway/HTTP: avoid loading managed outgoing-image media handlers for unrelated requests, so disabled OpenAI-compatible routes return 404 without waiting on lazy media sidecars. Thanks @vincentkoc.
 - Gateway/OpenAI-compatible: send the assistant role SSE chunk as soon as streaming chat-completion headers are accepted, so cold agent setup cannot leave `/v1/chat/completions` clients with a bodyless 200 response until their idle timeout fires.
 - Agents/media: avoid direct generated-media completion fallback while the announce-agent run is still pending, so async video and music completions do not duplicate raw media messages. (#77754)
 - TUI/sessions: bound the session picker to recent rows and use exact lookup-style refreshes for the active session, so dusty stores no longer make TUI hydrate weeks-old transcripts before becoming responsive. Thanks @vincentkoc.
diff --git a/src/gateway/server-http.ts b/src/gateway/server-http.ts
index cf9cd84a10c..b613fd7f9f9 100644
--- a/src/gateway/server-http.ts
+++ b/src/gateway/server-http.ts
@@ -214,6 +214,10 @@ function isToolsInvokePath(pathname: string): boolean {
   return pathname === "/tools/invoke";
 }
 
+function isManagedOutgoingImagePath(pathname: string): boolean {
+  return pathname.startsWith("/api/chat/media/outgoing/");
+}
+
 function isSessionKillPath(pathname: string): boolean {
   return /^\/sessions\/[^/]+\/kill$/.test(pathname);
 }
@@ -724,20 +728,22 @@ export function createGatewayHttpServer(opts: {
         }),
       );
 
-      requestStages.push({
-        name: "chat-managed-image-media",
-        run: async () =>
-          (await getManagedImageAttachmentsModule()).handleManagedOutgoingImageHttpRequest(
-            req,
-            res,
-            {
-              auth: resolvedAuth,
-              trustedProxies,
-              allowRealIpFallback,
-              rateLimiter,
-            },
-          ),
-      });
+      if (isManagedOutgoingImagePath(scopedRequestPath)) {
+        requestStages.push({
+          name: "chat-managed-image-media",
+          run: async () =>
+            (await getManagedImageAttachmentsModule()).handleManagedOutgoingImageHttpRequest(
+              req,
+              res,
+              {
+                auth: resolvedAuth,
+                trustedProxies,
+                allowRealIpFallback,
+                rateLimiter,
+              },
+            ),
+        });
+      }
 
       if (controlUiEnabled) {
         requestStages.push({