feat: backend selector setting

electron/main/index.ts

@@ -474,8 +474,9 @@ async function initialize(): Promise<void> {
   });
 
   // Start Gateway automatically (this seeds missing bootstrap files with full templates)
+  const gatewayBackend = await getSetting('gatewayBackend');
   const gatewayAutoStart = await getSetting('gatewayAutoStart');
-  if (!isE2EMode && gatewayAutoStart) {
+  if (!isE2EMode && gatewayBackend === 'openclaw' && gatewayAutoStart) {
     try {
       await syncAllProviderAuthToRuntime();
       logger.debug('Auto-starting Gateway...');
@@ -487,6 +488,8 @@ async function initialize(): Promise<void> {
     }
   } else if (isE2EMode) {
     logger.info('Gateway auto-start skipped in E2E mode');
+  } else if (gatewayBackend !== 'openclaw') {
+    logger.info(`Gateway auto-start skipped (backend=${gatewayBackend})`);
   } else {
     logger.info('Gateway auto-start disabled in settings');
   }

electron/utils/store.ts

@@ -35,6 +35,7 @@ export interface AppSettings {
   gatewayAutoStart: boolean;
   gatewayPort: number;
   gatewayToken: string;
+  gatewayBackend: 'openclaw' | 'hermes';
   proxyEnabled: boolean;
   proxyServer: string;
   proxyHttpServer: string;
@@ -86,6 +87,7 @@ function createDefaultSettings(): AppSettings {
     gatewayAutoStart: true,
     gatewayPort: 18789,
     gatewayToken: generateToken(),
+    gatewayBackend: 'openclaw',
     proxyEnabled: false,
     proxyServer: '',
     proxyHttpServer: '',