Unable to enable any plugins

[pure current]

[halr9000@neo .openclaw]$ openclaw plugins enable anthropic

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Config overwrite: /home/halr9000/.openclaw/openclaw.json (sha256 87e6e7994021801331e1a283103f876b4c128f6a0d8382c4e585c2b39a7d748f -> 8f777fba9b1255fa545c6a24f748b5ecc1a059ea271e2962c6ffcdf6b4966677, backup=/home/halr9000/.openclaw/openclaw.json.bak)
Plugin "anthropic" could not be enabled (blocked by allowlist).
[halr9000@neo .openclaw]$ openclaw plugins enable skill-workshop

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Config overwrite: /home/halr9000/.openclaw/openclaw.json (sha256 8f777fba9b1255fa545c6a24f748b5ecc1a059ea271e2962c6ffcdf6b4966677 -> c248b4687e998bb1b873a03206fb73e1aa86912502f3bb2897fa314f989c988a, backup=/home/halr9000/.openclaw/openclaw.json.bak)
Plugin "skill-workshop" could not be enabled (blocked by allowlist).

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[agile maple]

Hal, this means your config already has a non-empty plugins.allow list, and neither anthropic nor skill-workshop is in it. In that mode, openclaw plugins enable <id> refuses to add a plugin unless the id is already trusted in the allowlist.

Check the current list:

openclaw plugins list --verbose
openclaw config get plugins.allow

Then edit ~/.openclaw/openclaw.json and add the plugin ids you trust:

{
  plugins: {
    allow: [
      // existing entries...

[agile maple]

      "anthropic",
      "skill-workshop"
    ]
  }
}

After that, run:

openclaw plugins enable anthropic
openclaw plugins enable skill-workshop
openclaw gateway restart

If openclaw config get plugins.allow is not available in your build, just inspect the file directly. The important bit is plugins.allow: once it is non-empty, it becomes a strict plugin trust list.

[agile maple]

Docs: https://docs.openclaw.ai/cli/plugins and https://docs.openclaw.ai/plugins/manifest