Plugin Manifest missing for all plugins

[madebydamo]

After starting the current master, the logs get filled with:
13:46:42 error gateway {"subsystem":"gateway"} [plugins] plugin manifest not found: /nix/store/3fs9j5vcl0rd6b4d1lx9ccdb37zd8wz8-openclaw-gateway-unstable-823a09ac/lib/openclaw/dist/extensions/acpx/openclaw.plugin.json (source=/nix/store/3fs9j5vcl0rd6b4d1lx9ccdb37zd8wz8-openclaw-gateway-unstable-823a09ac/lib/openclaw/dist/extensions/acpx/openclaw.plugin.json) 13:46:42 error gateway {"subsystem":"gateway"} [plugins] plugin manifest not found: /nix/store/3fs9j5vcl0rd6b4d1lx9ccdb37zd8wz8-openclaw-gateway-unstable-823a09ac/lib/openclaw/dist/extensions/amazon-bedrock/openclaw.plugin.json (source=/nix/store/3fs9j5vcl0rd6b4d1lx9ccdb37zd8wz8-openclaw-gateway-unstable-823a09ac/lib/openclaw/dist/extensions/amazon-bedrock/openclaw.plugin.json) 13:46:42 error gateway {"subsystem":"gateway"} [plugins] plugin manifest not found: /nix/store/3fs9j5vcl0rd6b4d1lx9ccdb37zd8wz8-openclaw-gateway-unstable-823a09ac/lib/openclaw/dist/extensions/anthropic/openclaw.plugin.json (source=/nix/store/3fs9j5vcl0rd6b4d1lx9ccdb37zd8wz8-openclaw-gateway-unstable-823a09ac/lib/openclaw/dist/extensions/anthropic/openclaw.plugin.json) 13:46:42 error gateway {"subsystem":"gateway"} [plugins] plugin manifest not found: /nix/store/3fs9j5vcl0rd6b4d1lx9ccdb37zd8wz8-openclaw-gateway-unstable-823a09ac/lib/openclaw/dist/extensions/bluebubbles/openclaw.plugin.json (source=/nix/store/3fs9j5vcl0rd6b4d1lx9ccdb37zd8wz8-openclaw-gateway-unstable-823a09ac/lib/openclaw/dist/extensions/bluebubbles/openclaw.plugin.json) 13:46:42 error gateway {"subsystem":"gateway"} [plugins] plugin manifest not found: /nix/store/3fs9j5vcl0rd6b4d1lx9ccdb37zd8wz8-openclaw-gateway-unstable-823a09ac/lib/openclaw/dist/extensions/brave/openclaw.plugin.json (source=/nix/store/3fs9j5vcl0rd6b4d1lx9ccdb37zd8wz8-openclaw-gateway-unstable-823a09ac/lib/openclaw/dist/extensions/brave/openclaw.plugin.json)

This basically disabled all functionality like telegram, that relies on those plugins. The manifest file is actually not there, so its not a wrong reading fluke. According to the documentation every plugin must ship a openclaw.plugin.json file and i bet they are somewhere available. I don't see through were those plugins get loaded, but there is probably something off there. I read on other threads, that pnpm likes to hardlink some files, which might cause troubles for nix.

If i can be any help on debugging this, lmk

[madebydamo]

Related to Pullrequest #81

[Weirdei]

Can confirm this affects both f569001 (2026-03-17) and 64d4106 (2026-03-18) revisions.

Key finding: npm package stores manifests in extensions/*/openclaw.plugin.json, but the nix build outputs to dist/extensions/*/ which only contains index.js + setup-entry.js — no manifests.

Workaround: install via npm install -g openclaw@latest inside a NixOS VM and run as a custom systemd system service. The npm version has all 72 manifests intact.