fix: fall back when external OpenClaw lacks app deps

electron/utils/paths.ts

@@ -23,6 +23,15 @@ type OpenClawRuntimeResolution = {
 
 let cachedOpenClawRuntime: OpenClawRuntimeResolution | null = null;
 
+// Packages that Zhinian loads from the OpenClaw package context at main-process
+// module initialization time.  Some user-installed OpenClaw packages are valid
+// CLIs but do not include these app-side integration dependencies; selecting
+// them would crash before the UI opens.
+const REQUIRED_OPENCLAW_CONTEXT_PACKAGES = [
+  '@whiskeysockets/baileys',
+  'qrcode-terminal',
+] as const;
+
 export {
   quoteForCmd,
   needsWinShell,
@@ -139,6 +148,28 @@ function isValidOpenClawPackageDir(dir: string): boolean {
     && existsSync(fsPath(join(dir, 'openclaw.mjs')));
 }
 
+function hasRequiredOpenClawContextPackages(dir: string): boolean {
+  if (!isValidOpenClawPackageDir(dir)) return false;
+
+  try {
+    const runtimeRequire = createRequire(join(realpathSync(fsPath(dir)), 'package.json'));
+    for (const packageName of REQUIRED_OPENCLAW_CONTEXT_PACKAGES) {
+      runtimeRequire.resolve(`${packageName}/package.json`);
+    }
+    return true;
+  } catch {
+    try {
+      const runtimeRequire = createRequire(join(dir, 'package.json'));
+      for (const packageName of REQUIRED_OPENCLAW_CONTEXT_PACKAGES) {
+        runtimeRequire.resolve(`${packageName}/package.json`);
+      }
+      return true;
+    } catch {
+      return false;
+    }
+  }
+}
+
 function samePath(left: string, right: string): boolean {
   try {
     return realpathSync(fsPath(left)) === realpathSync(fsPath(right));
@@ -219,7 +250,12 @@ function findExternalOpenClawDir(excludedDirs: string[]): string | null {
     if (seen.has(candidate)) continue;
     seen.add(candidate);
     if (excludedDirs.some((excluded) => samePath(candidate, excluded))) continue;
-    if (isValidOpenClawPackageDir(candidate)) return candidate;
+    if (!isValidOpenClawPackageDir(candidate)) continue;
+    if (hasRequiredOpenClawContextPackages(candidate)) return candidate;
+    logOpenClawRuntime('[openclaw-runtime] Ignoring external OpenClaw installation because required app dependencies are missing', {
+      candidate,
+      requiredPackages: REQUIRED_OPENCLAW_CONTEXT_PACKAGES,
+    });
   }
 
   return null;