diff --git a/frontends/conductor.py b/frontends/conductor.py
index 316b86c8..a92f289e 100644
--- a/frontends/conductor.py
+++ b/frontends/conductor.py
@@ -431,7 +431,17 @@ API: {base}；requests，GET /readme查用法，GET /chat读未读对话，GET /
 conductor = Conductor()
 
 # ---- IM poller: 探测conductor_im_plugins/下各插件,信号变化→唤醒总管 ----
-IM_DIR, IM_COOLDOWN = os.path.join(os.path.dirname(__file__), "conductor_im_plugins"), 300
+def _resolve_im_dir() -> str:
+    # 方案三: conductor.py itself is bundle-owned, but IM plugins are user/environment
+    # integrations. Prefer the external core's plugins when GA_ROOT points at one; fall back
+    # to the bundle templates/examples when the external core has no plugin directory.
+    external = os.path.join(ROOT, "frontends", "conductor_im_plugins")
+    if os.path.isdir(external):
+        return external
+    return os.path.join(os.path.dirname(os.path.abspath(__file__)), "conductor_im_plugins")
+
+
+IM_DIR, IM_COOLDOWN = _resolve_im_dir(), 300
 IM_PROMPTS: Dict[str, str] = {}   # source -> 采集prompt（派采集subagent时按需取）
 
 def im_poll_loop():
diff --git a/frontends/ga_contract_probe.py b/frontends/ga_contract_probe.py
index 6fa5da65..ffa8dd36 100644
--- a/frontends/ga_contract_probe.py
+++ b/frontends/ga_contract_probe.py
@@ -3,11 +3,15 @@
 
 Given a target ga_root, verify the external核 satisfies the symbol/signature contract that
 the desktop bridge + conductor + cost_tracker rely on — WITHOUT instantiating GenericAgent
-(that would read mykey, build LLM clients, and mutate the核). We only:
+(that would read mykey and build LLM clients). We only:
   - import the核 modules against `ga_root` (this doubles as a dependency check: if the bundle
     python can't import the核's deps, the import fails and we report incompatible), and
   - introspect the GenericAgent class + module-level functions via `inspect`.
 
+Note: importing agentmain/llmcore can still run module top-level create-if-missing
+initializers in the target核 (for example seeding default memory/config files). The probe
+does not intentionally overwrite existing files and never constructs a GenericAgent instance.
+
 Runtime-only surface (instance attrs like llmclient.backend.history, llmclients, task_queue,
 handler.working, backend.current_name) cannot be checked statically and is intentionally not
 probed here; it is covered by the "核 ≈ upstream" compatibility and graceful degrade.