diff --git a/src/lib/global-cli-actions.ts b/src/lib/global-cli-actions.ts
index 12b7211c53b..49334c3adbe 100644
--- a/src/lib/global-cli-actions.ts
+++ b/src/lib/global-cli-actions.ts
@@ -15,6 +15,7 @@ import {
 } from "./onboard-action";
 import { recoverNamedGatewayRuntime as recoverNamedGatewayRuntimeAction } from "./gateway-runtime-action";
 import { getNemoClawRuntimeBridge } from "./nemoclaw-runtime-bridge";
+import { runOpenshell } from "./openshell-runtime";
 import { help, version } from "./root-help-action";
 
 export async function runOnboardAction(args: string[] = []): Promise<void> {
@@ -72,5 +73,11 @@ export function runOpenshellProviderCommand(
     timeout?: number;
   },
 ) {
-  return getNemoClawRuntimeBridge().runOpenshell(args, opts);
+  const runtime = getNemoClawRuntimeBridge() as {
+    runOpenshell?: typeof runOpenshell;
+  };
+  if (typeof runtime.runOpenshell === "function") {
+    return runtime.runOpenshell(args, opts);
+  }
+  return runOpenshell(args, opts);
 }
diff --git a/src/lib/nemoclaw-runtime-bridge.ts b/src/lib/nemoclaw-runtime-bridge.ts
index 15754d23733..645aee00737 100644
--- a/src/lib/nemoclaw-runtime-bridge.ts
+++ b/src/lib/nemoclaw-runtime-bridge.ts
@@ -3,26 +3,11 @@
 
 /* v8 ignore start -- transitional bridge until command actions are extracted from src/nemoclaw.ts. */
 
-export interface SpawnLikeResult {
-  status: number | null;
-  stdout?: string | Buffer;
-  stderr?: string | Buffer;
-}
-
 export interface SandboxConnectOptions {
   probeOnly?: boolean;
 }
 
 export interface NemoClawRuntimeBridge {
-  runOpenshell: (
-    args: string[],
-    opts?: {
-      env?: Record<string, string | undefined>;
-      ignoreError?: boolean;
-      stdio?: import("node:child_process").StdioOptions;
-      timeout?: number;
-    },
-  ) => SpawnLikeResult;
   sandboxConnect: (sandboxName: string, options?: SandboxConnectOptions) => Promise<void>;
   sandboxDestroy: (sandboxName: string, args?: string[]) => Promise<void>;
   sandboxLogs: (sandboxName: string, follow: boolean) => void;
diff --git a/src/nemoclaw.ts b/src/nemoclaw.ts
index a42f2382c56..177a4fdc5b6 100644
--- a/src/nemoclaw.ts
+++ b/src/nemoclaw.ts
@@ -451,7 +451,6 @@ function checkAndRecoverSandboxProcesses(
 }
 
 exports.runtimeBridge = {
-  runOpenshell,
   sandboxConnect,
   sandboxDestroy,
   sandboxRebuild,