diff --git a/extensions/facetime/tests/package-manifest.test.ts b/extensions/facetime/tests/package-manifest.test.ts
index 366fabd501b8..ad2c3a84e819 100644
--- a/extensions/facetime/tests/package-manifest.test.ts
+++ b/extensions/facetime/tests/package-manifest.test.ts
@@ -91,7 +91,7 @@ describe("FaceTime plugin manifest", () => {
       clawhubSpec: "clawhub:@openclaw/facetime",
       npmSpec: "@openclaw/facetime",
       defaultChoice: "npm",
-      minHostVersion: `>=${hostVersion}`,
+      minHostVersion: ">=2026.9.4",
       allowInvalidConfigRecovery: true,
     });
     expect(packageManifest.openclaw.compat.pluginApi).toBe(`>=${hostVersion}`);
diff --git a/test/vitest/vitest.plugins.config.ts b/test/vitest/vitest.plugins.config.ts
index b66fa532000a..ab9e3bc57b6a 100644
--- a/test/vitest/vitest.plugins.config.ts
+++ b/test/vitest/vitest.plugins.config.ts
@@ -1,9 +1,26 @@
 // Vitest plugins config wires the plugins test shard.
+import { defineConfig } from "vitest/config";
 import { databaseWorkerCoreTestFiles } from "./vitest.database-worker-core-paths.mjs";
+import { relativizeScopedPatterns } from "./vitest.pattern-file.ts";
 import { createScopedVitestConfig } from "./vitest.scoped-config.ts";
 
+// These suites exercise the plugin loader's own native require()/import()
+// semantics on fixture packages. The shared tsx/esm worker preload rewrites
+// .ts and ambiguous .js loading in-process and would replace the runtime under
+// test, so they run in Node workers without it.
+export const nativeLoaderPluginTestFiles = [
+  "src/plugins/bundled-plugin-metadata.public-surfaces.test.ts",
+  "src/plugins/capability-provider-runtime.generation.test.ts",
+  "src/plugins/manifest-registry.test.ts",
+  "src/plugins/plugin-module-generation.interop.test.ts",
+  "src/plugins/plugin-module-generation.test.ts",
+  "src/plugins/plugin-runtime-artifact-resolution.test.ts",
+  "src/plugins/public-surface-loader.test.ts",
+  "src/plugins/stage-bundled-plugin-runtime.test.ts",
+];
+
 export function createPluginsVitestConfig(env?: Record<string, string | undefined>) {
-  return createScopedVitestConfig(["src/plugins/**/*.test.ts"], {
+  const options = {
     dir: "src/plugins",
     env,
     exclude: [
@@ -12,10 +29,40 @@ export function createPluginsVitestConfig(env?: Record<string, string | undefine
       ...databaseWorkerCoreTestFiles,
     ],
     isolate: true,
-    name: "plugins",
     // Runtime ingress uses the application main-thread SQLite worker broker.
-    pool: "forks",
+    pool: "forks" as const,
     passWithNoTests: true,
+  };
+  const config = createScopedVitestConfig(["src/plugins/**/*.test.ts"], {
+    ...options,
+    name: "plugins",
+  });
+  const nativeLoader = createScopedVitestConfig(nativeLoaderPluginTestFiles, {
+    ...options,
+    execArgv: [],
+    intersectIncludeFile: true,
+    name: "plugins-native-loader",
+  });
+  return defineConfig({
+    ...config,
+    test: {
+      ...config.test,
+      // Config discovery retains the complete inventory; only the inline leaves run.
+      projects: [
+        {
+          ...config,
+          extends: false,
+          test: {
+            ...config.test,
+            exclude: [
+              ...(config.test?.exclude ?? []),
+              ...relativizeScopedPatterns(nativeLoaderPluginTestFiles, options.dir),
+            ],
+          },
+        },
+        { ...nativeLoader, extends: false },
+      ],
+    },
   });
 }
 
diff --git a/test/vitest/vitest.scoped-config.ts b/test/vitest/vitest.scoped-config.ts
index e9d359c9273a..0145346b7b77 100644
--- a/test/vitest/vitest.scoped-config.ts
+++ b/test/vitest/vitest.scoped-config.ts
@@ -183,6 +183,7 @@ export function createScopedVitestConfig(
     env?: Record<string, string | undefined>;
     environment?: string;
     exclude?: string[];
+    execArgv?: string[];
     argv?: string[];
     includeOpenClawRuntimeSetup?: boolean;
     isolate?: boolean;
@@ -245,6 +246,7 @@ export function createScopedVitestConfig(
       ...(options?.deps ? { deps: options.deps } : {}),
       ...(options?.name ? { name: options.name } : {}),
       ...(options?.environment ? { environment: options.environment } : {}),
+      ...(options?.execArgv ? { execArgv: options.execArgv } : {}),
       isolate,
       ...(runner ? { runner } : { runner: undefined }),
       setupFiles,