Environment

• OpenClaw 2026.4.10 (44e5b62)
• macOS 26.1.0 (arm64), Mac Mini M2 Pro
• Codex CLI 0.120.0
• Node v25.9.0

Config

• plugins.entries.codex.enabled: true
• codex in plugins.allow
• agents.defaults.model.primary: "codex/gpt-5.4"
• plugins.entries.codex.config.discovery.enabled: true
• plugins.entries.codex.config.discovery.timeoutMs: 10000

Symptoms

1. Gateway startup logs startup model warmup failed for codex/gpt-5.4: Error: Unknown model: codex/gpt-5.4 on every restart
2. openclaw models list shows only the 2 hardcoded fallback models (gpt-5.4, gpt-5.4-mini) under codex/, not the full discovered catalog
3. openclaw models list --all --provider codex returns "No models found"
4. openclaw models list --all --json shows 0 models with provider=codex, while openai-codex has 9 discovered models
5. openclaw models status --agent claude reports "Missing auth - codex"
6. The Codex plugin shows as "loaded" in openclaw plugins list but is NOT in the gateway ready plugin list (10 plugins listed, codex absent)

What Works

• codex app-server --listen stdio:// responds to initialize + model/list in <100ms, returning 5+ models
• openclaw agent --agent claude --message "test" successfully uses codex/gpt-5.4 (provider=codex, model=gpt-5.4, status=ok)
• The Codex harness works at runtime for actual messages — the provider catalog registration is the only broken part

Root Cause Hypothesis

The Codex provider registers with catalog.order: "late" in the plugin code. The gateway warmup check runs before the late-order catalog has completed, so warmup fails with "Unknown model." The catalog builder (buildCodexProviderCatalog) either never runs or its result is not persisted into the gateway's model registry.

Evidence: gateway log shows agent model: codex/gpt-5.4 and ready (10 plugins: ...) at 09:55:15, but codex is not in the 10 plugins. Warmup fails at 09:55:31 with Unknown model. The openai-codex provider (which uses the older registration path) has 9 models fully discovered and available.

Similar Issues

• Plugin tools not registered when loaded twice with different cacheKey (preferSetupRuntimeForChannelPlugins) #60219 (plugin tools not registered on second load)
• Ollama provider not registered in gateway runtime despite OLLAMA_API_KEY=ollama-local and implicit config #61209 (Ollama Unknown model despite config)
• [Bug]: claude-cli backend fails to register model catalog — Unknown model: claude-cli/* (model_not_found) #61093 (claude-cli zero models at startup)
• [Bug]: CLI-backed model fails in follow-up path (codex-cli/gpt-5.4) #64251 (codex-cli Unknown model in follow-up)

Expected Behavior

The native codex provider catalog should be fully registered before warmup runs, with the full discovered model list visible in openclaw models list.