openclaw - 💡(How to fix) Fix [Bug]: 2026.4.26 ships incomplete typebox bundles in extensions/xai and extensions/browser, breaking plugin load [1 comments, 2 participants]

Summary

The ghcr.io/openclaw/openclaw:2026.4.26 image ships incomplete copies of typebox 1.1.28 in extensions/xai/node_modules/typebox/ and extensions/browser/node_modules/typebox/. Multiple subdirectories are missing files that the bundled index.mjs barrel-re-exports try to require:

• system/memory/index.mjs does export * as Memory from './memory.mjs' but the file isn't there. It's also missing metrics.mjs and update.mjs.
• guard/guard.mjs does ... from './string.mjs' — also missing.

Result: at every CLI invocation, the loader logs

[plugins] xai failed to load from /app/dist/extensions/xai/index.js:
  Error: Cannot find module './memory.mjs'
  Require stack:
  - /app/dist/extensions/xai/node_modules/typebox/build/system/memory/index.mjs

then (after a workaround patches that) the next missing file:

Cannot find module './string.mjs'
- /app/dist/extensions/xai/node_modules/typebox/build/guard/guard.mjs

If xai (or browser) is enabled in plugins.entries.<name>.enabled, this blocks every openclaw agent invocation with the loader stack trace cascading up to runCli.

Reproduction (any host with podman/docker)

docker run --rm --entrypoint sh ghcr.io/openclaw/openclaw:2026.4.26 -c '
  ls /app/dist/extensions/xai/node_modules/typebox/build/system/memory/
'
# observed: assign.mjs clone.mjs create.mjs discard.mjs index.mjs   (5 files)

docker run --rm --entrypoint sh ghcr.io/openclaw/openclaw:2026.4.26 -c '
  ls /app/dist/extensions/openai/node_modules/typebox/build/system/memory/
'
# expected: 16 files including memory.mjs, metrics.mjs, update.mjs, and their .d.mts pairs

10+ other extensions ship the complete typebox bundle (openai, anthropic, brave, kimi-coding, discord, lmstudio, diffs, slack, whatsapp, tavily). Only xai and browser are truncated. The missing files exist in the runtime-deps cache at /home/node/.openclaw/plugin-runtime-deps/openclaw-2026.4.26-*/node_modules/typebox/build/system/memory/memory.mjs, so the source artifact is fine — this is a packaging step truncation, not an upstream typebox issue.

Workaround (in-image patch)

docker exec --user root <container> sh -c '
  rm -rf /app/dist/extensions/xai/node_modules/typebox /app/dist/extensions/browser/node_modules/typebox
  cp -r /app/dist/extensions/openai/node_modules/typebox /app/dist/extensions/xai/node_modules/typebox
  cp -r /app/dist/extensions/openai/node_modules/typebox /app/dist/extensions/browser/node_modules/typebox
'

After this patch + a docker restart, agent invocations succeed and the xai/browser plugins load cleanly.

Adjacent

• #71233 (closed 2026-04-26) — same shape (typebox barrel re-export), but fixed loader-side ("ESM-safe aliases for mirrored runtime deps"). Our finding is image-side: the extensions still ship incomplete bundles.
• #73685 (open) — @openclaw/[email protected] fails on [email protected] with a missing plugin-sdk/discord export. Pattern: 4.26 has plugin-bundling regressions on multiple extensions.

Versions

• ghcr.io/openclaw/openclaw:2026.4.26, sha256 04e27383656941e59fba80a5a9c28b709f240ea980bd2cb375e4a7786d5a7a20
• typebox 1.1.28 (bundled inside extensions); 1.1.33 also exists in plugin-runtime-deps/