* fix(infra): stop package-root walks at node_modules boundaries
Nested git worktrees (.worktrees/<pr>, .claude/worktrees/*) have no local
node_modules, so vitest workers run with argv1 inside the enclosing
checkout's node_modules. resolveOpenClawPackageRoot* walked up past that
boundary, resolved the enclosing checkout as the openclaw package root,
and bundled plugin discovery loaded the ancestor's stale extension
manifests, failing ~12 test shards and the scripts/pr prepare-run test
gate whenever the primary checkout sat on a different branch.
A package.json above a node_modules directory belongs to the workspace
that installed the tooling, never to the package owning the running code,
so the ancestor walk now stops there. Installed layouts
(node_modules/openclaw, .bin shims, global installs) match at or below
the boundary and are unaffected.
* fix(scripts): pin bundled plugin discovery in nested PR worktree gates
scripts/pr gates run pnpm test inside .worktrees/<pr>, which resolves
vitest tooling from the primary checkout's node_modules. PR branches that
predate the openclaw-root node_modules-boundary fix would still discover
the primary checkout's stale bundled plugin manifests, so pin
OPENCLAW_BUNDLED_PLUGINS_DIR to the worktree's own extensions before the
build/check/test gates.
One-time maintainer-authorized bootstrap merge for the release-gate verifier policy. Exact hosted CI and all supporting workflow gates passed on 66133de419.
The hardcoded `OPENCLAW_VITEST_MAX_WORKERS=4` default in gates.sh
short-circuits the host-aware scheduling introduced in c247e366.
`resolveLocalVitestScheduling` sees the explicit override and returns
maxWorkers=4, which falls below the >= 5 threshold required by
`shouldUseLargeLocalFullSuiteProfile`, so every machine—regardless of
resources—gets the DEFAULT profile (4 shard parallelism) instead of
the LARGE profile (10 shard parallelism).
Drop the hardcoded default so `test-projects.mjs` can detect actual
host resources and pick the appropriate profile automatically. When
the user explicitly sets OPENCLAW_VITEST_MAX_WORKERS, forward it as
before.
