openclaw - 💡(How to fix) Fix skill-workshop: crashes with Matrix room IDs — 'Bundled plugin dirName must be a single directory' [1 comments, 2 participants]

Summary

When the skill-workshop plugin is enabled and the agent is used via a Matrix DM, the plugin throws an error on every agent turn:

Error: Bundled plugin dirName must be a single directory: room:!dujllatvudbbdkaqkr:matrix.org

This error fires on both the main lane and the session:agent:main:main lane after every turn. The skill reviewer is also skipped:

[plugins] skill-workshop: reviewer skipped: Error: Bundled plugin dirName must be a single directory: room:!dujllatvudbbdkaqkr:matrix.org

Impact

• The repeated errors appear to prevent clean gateway shutdown — the gateway hangs on drain (draining 2 active task(s) and 1 active embedded run(s)) for up to 300 seconds before force-killing
• This caused in-flight agent turns to be replayed on restart, resulting in duplicate replies being sent to the user (both in Matrix and the TUI)
• Workaround: disable skill-workshop entirely

Steps to Reproduce

1. Enable the skill-workshop plugin (plugins.entries.skill-workshop.enabled: true)
2. Configure a Matrix DM channel with E2EE
3. Send any message via Matrix DM
4. Observe the error in gateway logs after every turn

Environment

• OpenClaw: 2026.5.2 (reproduced), updated to 2026.5.3-1 (not re-tested with skill-workshop enabled)
• Matrix channel plugin, E2EE enabled
• session.dmScope: "main"
• Linux Mint 22.3 / Ubuntu 24.04 base

Expected Behavior

skill-workshop should either handle Matrix room IDs gracefully in the session context, or skip cleanly when the session context is not a filesystem-compatible path.

Workaround

Disable skill-workshop in plugins.entries:

{ "skill-workshop": { "enabled": false } }