Bun (Experimental)

Bun is an optional local runtime for running TypeScript directly (bun run ..., bun --watch ...). The default package manager remains pnpm, which is fully supported and used by docs tooling. Bun cannot use pnpm-lock.yaml and will ignore it.

Install

Install dependencies
Terminal window
```
bun install
```
bun.lock / bun.lockb are gitignored, so there is no repo churn. To skip lockfile writes entirely:
Terminal window
```
bun install --no-save
```
Build and test
Terminal window
```
bun run build
bun run vitest run
```

Lifecycle Scripts

Bun blocks dependency lifecycle scripts unless explicitly trusted. For this repo, the commonly blocked scripts are not required:

@whiskeysockets/baileys preinstall — checks Node major >= 20 (OpenClaw defaults to Node 24 and still supports Node 22 LTS, currently 22.14+)
protobufjs postinstall — emits warnings about incompatible version schemes (no build artifacts)

If you hit a runtime issue that requires these scripts, trust them explicitly:

bun pm trust @whiskeysockets/baileys protobufjs

Caveats

Some scripts still hardcode pnpm (for example docs:build, ui:*, protocol:check). Run those via pnpm for now.