Summary:
- The PR changes Gateway reload planning, CLI plugin install-index writes, plugin runtime/cache cleanup, docs, changelog, and tests so plugin enable/disable hot reloads while install/update/uninstall stay restart-backed.
- Reproducibility: yes. The earlier blocker has a source-level reproduction: run an external plugin install/up ... watches config and only the managed plugin index changes; the PR now tests that path and queues a restart.
ClawSweeper fixups:
- Included follow-up commit: fix: hot reload plugin management changes
- Included follow-up commit: fix(clawsweeper): address review for automerge-openclaw-openclaw-7597…
- Ran the ClawSweeper repair loop before final review.
Validation:
- ClawSweeper review passed for head 860594f722.
- Required merge gates passed before the squash merge.
Prepared head SHA: 860594f722
Review: https://github.com/openclaw/openclaw/pull/75976#issuecomment-4363168379
Co-authored-by: Peter Steinberger <steipete@gmail.com>
Co-authored-by: clawsweeper <274271284+clawsweeper[bot]@users.noreply.github.com>
