API Constantly tries to connect to workspace service even if its unavailable

[kalinon]

If no OPENCLAW_WORKSPACE_URL is provided, the api will still try to connect to the default endpoint. With 3 retries at 1s each, this makes evey request to /status take ~4 seconds.

{"timestamp":"2026-03-02T21:04:28.462Z","level":"INFO","message":"Checking OpenClaw workspace status","userId":"51036a98-eeb6-4bd1-9e67-1d4b002f9bc8"}
{"timestamp":"2026-03-02T21:04:28.463Z","level":"WARN","message":"OpenClaw workspace request failed, retrying","method":"GET","path":"/status","url":"http://openclaw-workspace.agents.svc.cluster.local:8080/status","retryCount":1,"maxRetries":3,"delayMs":500,"error":"fetch failed"}
{"timestamp":"2026-03-02T21:04:28.965Z","level":"WARN","message":"OpenClaw workspace request failed, retrying","method":"GET","path":"/status","url":"http://openclaw-workspace.agents.svc.cluster.local:8080/status","retryCount":2,"maxRetries":3,"delayMs":1000,"error":"fetch failed"}
{"timestamp":"2026-03-02T21:04:29.967Z","level":"WARN","message":"OpenClaw workspace request failed, retrying","method":"GET","path":"/status","url":"http://openclaw-workspace.agents.svc.cluster.local:8080/status","retryCount":3,"maxRetries":3,"delayMs":2000,"error":"fetch failed"}
{"timestamp":"2026-03-02T21:04:31.970Z","level":"WARN","message":"OpenClaw workspace service unavailable after retries","method":"GET","path":"/status","url":"http://openclaw-workspace.agents.svc.cluster.local:8080/status","retryCount":3,"hint":"Set OPENCLAW_WORKSPACE_URL to disable or conf
igure the service URL"}

If there is no workspace service available, all features that use it should be disabled.

[kalinon]

I confirmed this still happens when NODE_ENV=production