diff --git a/src/plugins/bundled-web-search.test.ts b/src/plugins/bundled-web-search.test.ts
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..7db116a426f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/plugins/bundled-web-search.test.ts
@@ -0,0 +1,13 @@
+import { expect, it } from "vitest";
+import { resolveBundledWebSearchPluginIds } from "./bundled-web-search.js";
+
+it("keeps bundled web search compat ids aligned with bundled manifests", () => {
+  expect(resolveBundledWebSearchPluginIds({})).toEqual([
+    "brave",
+    "firecrawl",
+    "google",
+    "moonshot",
+    "perplexity",
+    "xai",
+  ]);
+});
diff --git a/src/plugins/bundled-web-search.ts b/src/plugins/bundled-web-search.ts
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..248928b093c
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/plugins/bundled-web-search.ts
@@ -0,0 +1,29 @@
+import type { PluginLoadOptions } from "./loader.js";
+import { loadPluginManifestRegistry } from "./manifest-registry.js";
+
+export const BUNDLED_WEB_SEARCH_PLUGIN_IDS = [
+  "brave",
+  "firecrawl",
+  "google",
+  "moonshot",
+  "perplexity",
+  "xai",
+] as const;
+
+const bundledWebSearchPluginIdSet = new Set<string>(BUNDLED_WEB_SEARCH_PLUGIN_IDS);
+
+export function resolveBundledWebSearchPluginIds(params: {
+  config?: PluginLoadOptions["config"];
+  workspaceDir?: string;
+  env?: PluginLoadOptions["env"];
+}): string[] {
+  const registry = loadPluginManifestRegistry({
+    config: params.config,
+    workspaceDir: params.workspaceDir,
+    env: params.env,
+  });
+  return registry.plugins
+    .filter((plugin) => plugin.origin === "bundled" && bundledWebSearchPluginIdSet.has(plugin.id))
+    .map((plugin) => plugin.id)
+    .toSorted((left, right) => left.localeCompare(right));
+}
diff --git a/src/plugins/web-search-providers.ts b/src/plugins/web-search-providers.ts
index 2cf44d9eac4..b415d7c7675 100644
--- a/src/plugins/web-search-providers.ts
+++ b/src/plugins/web-search-providers.ts
@@ -3,6 +3,7 @@ import {
   withBundledPluginAllowlistCompat,
   withBundledPluginEnablementCompat,
 } from "./bundled-compat.js";
+import { resolveBundledWebSearchPluginIds } from "./bundled-web-search.js";
 import { loadOpenClawPlugins, type PluginLoadOptions } from "./loader.js";
 import { createPluginLoaderLogger } from "./logger.js";
 import { getActivePluginRegistry } from "./runtime.js";
@@ -41,25 +42,11 @@ function resolveBundledWebSearchCompatPluginIds(params: {
   workspaceDir?: string;
   env?: PluginLoadOptions["env"];
 }): string[] {
-  const registry = loadOpenClawPlugins({
-    config: {
-      ...params.config,
-      plugins: {
-        enabled: true,
-      },
-    },
+  return resolveBundledWebSearchPluginIds({
+    config: params.config,
     workspaceDir: params.workspaceDir,
     env: params.env,
-    cache: false,
-    activate: false,
-    logger: createPluginLoaderLogger(log),
   });
-  const bundledPluginIds = new Set(
-    registry.plugins.filter((plugin) => plugin.origin === "bundled").map((plugin) => plugin.id),
-  );
-  return [...new Set(registry.webSearchProviders.map((entry) => entry.pluginId))]
-    .filter((pluginId) => bundledPluginIds.has(pluginId))
-    .toSorted((left, right) => left.localeCompare(right));
 }
 
 function withBundledWebSearchVitestCompat(params: {