Bug Report

Version: OpenClaw 2026.4.22 (00bd2cf)
OS: macOS Darwin 25.4.0 (arm64)
Node: v24.13.0

What happened

After updating to 2026.4.22, all Telegram bot accounts (default, and multi-account agents) immediately crash on startup with a crash-restart loop. None of the bots receive or respond to Telegram messages.

Error

[default] channel exited: Cannot find package 'openclaw' imported from /Users/<user>/.openclaw/plugin-runtime-deps/openclaw-2026.4.22-1cdd6313f129/dist/extensions/telegram/account-config-Cifs-fXF.js
[default] auto-restart attempt 6/10 in 171s

Same error for every configured Telegram account (iris, argus, venus, default).

Root Cause

The new plugin-runtime-deps directory for 2026.4.22 (openclaw-2026.4.22-1cdd6313f129/node_modules/) is missing the openclaw package itself. The Telegram extension code tries to import from 'openclaw' but the package isn't present in the plugin-runtime-deps node_modules.

Previous versions had this package available; the 2026.4.22 update appears to have omitted it.

Workaround

Manually symlinking the openclaw package fixes it:

ln -sf ~/.local/lib/node_modules/openclaw   ~/.openclaw/plugin-runtime-deps/openclaw-2026.4.22-1cdd6313f129/node_modules/openclaw
openclaw gateway restart

Impact

• All Telegram channels broken out of the box after update
• All agents dead on Telegram until workaround applied
• Auto-restart loop (6/10 attempts) burns resources