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Outcome

A missing or non-executable OpenShell forward binary returns a catchable startup error. A child that exits before binding reports its exit status or signal. Onboarding and recovery await forwarding before continuing dependent work; channel add and start report incomplete operations when forwarding fails.

Reason

Synchronous polling blocked Node from delivering child error and exit events. Failed spawns could terminate the CLI after its caller caught an error, and early child exits appeared as bind timeouts.

Related issues

Fixes #11648. Part of #11573.

Changes

  • Observe child errors and exits in the existing forward service, yield while polling, and cancel pending timers after failure. Clean up started children when startup or an injected sleep fails. Preserve the first child failure and avoid process-group cleanup when spawn produced no PID.
  • Await forwarding through existing onboarding, messaging, gateway, process recovery, and Portable inference callers. Preserve listener ownership and post-wait authority checks.
  • Make Portable settlement yield to timers. Preserve only errno, exit status, or signal in Portable connect diagnostics; omit raw executable paths and error messages.
  • Stop all three channel add/start success paths when post-rebuild forward verification returns false.
  • Extend existing tests with real subprocess failures, pending sequential startup, cleanup failures, and production onboarding action coverage. The onboarding test injects the forward launcher through the existing dashboard dependency; its other phases use the existing isolated FSM fixture.

Partial-forward transaction rollback remains separately tracked in #11649.

Verification

Tested commit: 962f28784ada7c5b140b4121ecf5f551654fea12.

  • Real subprocess controls reproduce ENOENT, EACCES, and early child exit before the fix. Afterward, callers catch the direct startup failure and the enclosing process survives. Ten additional cleanup, channel, settlement, and diagnostic regressions fail before their repairs and pass afterward.
  • Five focused CLI suites: 243 passed. Final fixture and assertion refinements passed the affected suites (134 adapter/recovery tests and 39 channel tests). The production onboarding ENOENT test passes; removing the production dashboard launch await makes it fail.
  • Integration selection: 100 passed; one existing providerless-component test fails local gateway readiness, also reproduced with the unchanged 3093a12 test. No test or gate was disabled. All 12 hosted CLI shards pass on this candidate.
  • Full CLI typecheck, normal commit hooks, normal pre-push validation, and installed dependency identity checks passed. All three published commits are GitHub Verified.
  • Required CI passed. The first attempt passed all 1,093 plugin tests but failed the coverage upload with HTTP 500; one bounded failed-job retry passed. Original failure evidence is retained.
  • Rootless E2E passed. Its receipts identify this commit and confirm authenticated routing, restored forwarding, stopped recovery resources, and cleanup. Managed-image checks passed.

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The full CodeRabbit review reports no actionable findings for this commit. All five review threads are resolved, including the four findings from the previous candidate. The outside-diff diagnostic finding and sequential-startup test gap were also repaired. The generated docstring percentage remains an advisory style warning.

All nine Advisor specialists succeeded on attempt 1. Every findings file, complete summary, and E2E recommendation file was read and verified against this commit: all clear, no additional or unresolved E2E recommendations.

Self-review covers child ownership, error propagation, post-wait identity checks, and absence of premature success in the changed forwarding and onboarding sources and tests. No secrets, API keys, or credentials were added. The PR remains a draft.

Security / Code Scanning passed after one failed-job retry of result-upload failures. The separate, non-required CodeQL quality Go result upload remains incomplete: analysis produced its report, upload failed without a specific server error or code annotation, and GitHub refused the single retry request with “This workflow run cannot be retried.” No gate was changed or waived.


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📝 Walkthrough

Walkthrough

Forward-service startup and sandbox forwarding recovery now use asynchronous APIs. Callers await launches, dependency preparation, recovery, cleanup, and readiness checks. Child-process errors and early exits are detected during startup.

Changes

Asynchronous forwarding lifecycle

Layer / File(s) Summary
Forward-service startup and failure handling
src/lib/adapters/openshell/forward-service.ts, src/lib/adapters/openshell/forward-service.test.ts, test/onboarding/onboard-fsm-live-slices.test.ts
launchForwardService returns a promise, observes child error and exit events, aborts startup polling on failure, and preserves cleanup behavior. Tests cover spawn failures, early exits, occupied ports, timeouts, and cleanup failures.
Hermes Portable recovery preparation
src/lib/actions/sandbox/probe/*, src/lib/actions/sandbox/connect.ts, test/support/connect-flow-test-harness.ts
Hermes Portable preparation and recovery await asynchronous launches, dependency preparation, timing, and release operations. Startup failure details are sanitized before they are reported.
Sandbox recovery orchestration
src/lib/actions/sandbox/*, test/networking/*
Port, dashboard, messaging, declared-port, gateway-restart, rebuild, and policy flows await asynchronous recovery results. Failed host-forward verification stops channel operations before health checks.
Onboarding and sandbox reuse forwarding
src/lib/onboard/*, test/onboarding/*
Dashboard, agent, Hermes dashboard, messaging-host, and reused-sandbox forwarding flows await asynchronous setup and preserve existing validation and rollback behavior. Onboarding failure handling has dedicated coverage for cancellation and non-cancellation errors.

Priority: ➖ Normal

Estimated code review effort: 4 (Complex) | ~45 minutes

Change: Bug fix · Severity of issue fixed: Medium

Sequence Diagram(s)

sequenceDiagram
  participant Caller
  participant ForwardRecovery
  participant launchForwardService
  participant ChildProcess
  Caller->>ForwardRecovery: await forwarding recovery
  ForwardRecovery->>launchForwardService: await launch
  launchForwardService->>ChildProcess: spawn and monitor
  ChildProcess-->>launchForwardService: bind, error, or exit
  launchForwardService-->>ForwardRecovery: startup result
  ForwardRecovery-->>Caller: recovery result
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Merge Risk: ⚪ Minimal · up to 962f2

Forward startup failures now surface actionable diagnostics, and channel operations stop when required host forwarding cannot be verified. No unresolved merge-blocking risk remains.

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Linked Issues check ✅ Passed Issue #11648 requirements are covered. launchForwardService now returns a promise, handles child error and exit events, reports exit status or signal before the bind timeout, and skips process-t…
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The overall line coverage in commit 962f287 in the codex/lifecycle-forw... branch is 84%. The line coverage in commit 3c1aa15 in the main branch is 83%.

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src/lib/onboard...eway-process.ts 90% 89% -1%
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src/lib/onboard/messaging-host-forward.test.ts (1)

118-122: 📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🔵 Trivial | ⚡ Quick win

Cover deferred forwarding completion.

The current success tests use synchronous ensureForward mocks. Add a test with a pending promise that asserts note is not called before the promise settles and is called afterward. This detects a regression that notifies before ensureMessagingHostForwardIfConfigured completes its asynchronous forward.

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In `@src/lib/onboard/messaging-host-forward.test.ts` around lines 118 - 122, Add a
test for ensureMessagingHostForwardIfConfigured using an ensureForward mock that
returns a pending promise; assert note is not called while the promise is
unresolved, then resolve it and assert note is called after the function
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Inline comments:
In `@src/lib/adapters/openshell/forward-service.ts`:
- Around line 559-562: Update launchForwardService’s polling loop around
options.sleep so synchronous or already-settled custom sleep hooks still yield
to the event loop before retrying the !isReachable branch. Preserve the default
delay behavior and ensure child error/exit handlers can run before the deadline,
allowing missing executables to surface ENOENT rather than a bind-timeout error.

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Nitpick comments:
In `@src/lib/onboard/messaging-host-forward.test.ts`:
- Around line 118-122: Add a test for ensureMessagingHostForwardIfConfigured
using an ensureForward mock that returns a pending promise; assert note is not
called while the promise is unresolved, then resolve it and assert note is
called after the function completes.

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  • src/lib/actions/sandbox/forward-recovery-declared-ports.test.ts
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  • src/lib/actions/sandbox/probe/hermes-portable-forward-recovery.ts
  • src/lib/actions/sandbox/probe/hermes-portable-inference-recovery.ts
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  • src/lib/adapters/openshell/forward-service.test.ts
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Published 3093a1220f7a72e8ee8d36cc9c5767ce94fef6f9: custom sleep now yields a timer turn, messaging success waits for forward settlement, and the mapped fast onboarding test exercises real forward ENOENT. The repair regression failed before and passes after; 130 focused tests pass. Please review the current complete diff.

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src/lib/actions/sandbox/probe/hermes-portable-forward-recovery.ts (1)

522-522: 🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟠 Major | 🏗️ Heavy lift

Preserve the forward startup failure cause.

At line 522, failure creates a new HermesPortableForwardRecoveryError with only the generic context. Its constructor stores no Error cause. The connect reporter receives only failure and context, then emits a generic forward-mutation message. Preserve a redacted startup cause, including ENOENT, EACCES, exit-code, or signal details, and pass it through the reachable connect reporting path.

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In `@src/lib/actions/sandbox/probe/hermes-portable-forward-recovery.ts` at line
522, Update the forward startup failure path around failure and the reachable
connect reporter to retain and propagate a redacted underlying error cause,
including ENOENT, EACCES, exit-code, and signal details, instead of constructing
only generic context. Ensure the reporter receives that cause and emits it with
the existing forward-mutation failure while preserving current sanitization.
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src/lib/actions/sandbox/probe/hermes-portable-forward-recovery.test.ts (1)

40-40: 📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🔵 Trivial | ⚡ Quick win

Make the sequential-launch test use a pending promise.

The fixture’s launchForwardService records the launch and updates state synchronously. The test only checks the final launch list and final state, so it would also pass if the second launch started before the first asynchronous launch resolved. Return a deferred promise for the first launch and assert that the second launch starts only after that promise resolves. This keeps coverage through recoverHermesPortableLaunchForwards and protects serialized startup.

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In `@src/lib/actions/sandbox/probe/hermes-portable-forward-recovery.test.ts` at
line 40, Update the sequential-launch test around
recoverHermesPortableLaunchForwards so the first launchForwardService invocation
returns a deferred pending promise. Assert that the second launch is not started
while the first promise is pending, then resolve the first promise and verify
the second launch begins afterward, while preserving the existing final
launch-list and state assertions.
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Inline comments:
In `@src/lib/actions/sandbox/policy-channel.ts`:
- Line 1476: Handle a false result from ensureMessagingHostForwardAfterRebuild
in all three policy-channel callers, including the add and start flows, instead
of discarding it. When verification returns false, stop the success path or
report the channel operation as incomplete; ensure rebuildSandbox’s post-restore
warning does not imply successful completion.

In `@src/lib/actions/sandbox/probe/hermes-portable-forward-recovery.ts`:
- Line 635: Update settleTouchedPorts and its sleep helper to use asynchronous
timer-based waiting via measureAsync instead of Atomics.wait, and await the
resulting settlement from the caller around the final assignment. Preserve the
existing retry timing and settlement behavior while ensuring repeated readiness
observations yield to the event loop.

In `@src/lib/adapters/openshell/forward-service.ts`:
- Around line 559-566: Update the polling loop around Promise.race so
synchronous or rejected errors from options.sleep are caught, recorded as
polling failures, and cause the loop to break while still reaching startup
cleanup. Ensure childFailure remains the prioritized error when both failures
are present.

In `@src/lib/onboard/command.test.ts`:
- Around line 1464-1469: Update the test fixture’s runOnboard dependency to use
the production onboarding entrypoint rather than calling launchForwardService
directly, injecting the existing forwardService.launch dependency. Exercise the
full runOnboardAction → onboard → dashboard-forwarding chain, and assert that a
missing executable yields ENOENT without requesting process-tree cleanup.

---

Outside diff comments:
In `@src/lib/actions/sandbox/probe/hermes-portable-forward-recovery.ts`:
- Line 522: Update the forward startup failure path around failure and the
reachable connect reporter to retain and propagate a redacted underlying error
cause, including ENOENT, EACCES, exit-code, and signal details, instead of
constructing only generic context. Ensure the reporter receives that cause and
emits it with the existing forward-mutation failure while preserving current
sanitization.

---

Nitpick comments:
In `@src/lib/actions/sandbox/probe/hermes-portable-forward-recovery.test.ts`:
- Line 40: Update the sequential-launch test around
recoverHermesPortableLaunchForwards so the first launchForwardService invocation
returns a deferred pending promise. Assert that the second launch is not started
while the first promise is pending, then resolve the first promise and verify
the second launch begins afterward, while preserving the existing final
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  • src/lib/actions/sandbox/connect-flow.test.ts
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  • src/lib/actions/sandbox/forward-recovery-declared-ports.test.ts
  • src/lib/actions/sandbox/forward-recovery.ts
  • src/lib/actions/sandbox/gateway-restart.ts
  • src/lib/actions/sandbox/hermes-dashboard-recovery.test.ts
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  • src/lib/actions/sandbox/messaging-host-forward-lifecycle.test.ts
  • src/lib/actions/sandbox/messaging-host-forward-lifecycle.ts
  • src/lib/actions/sandbox/policy-channel-conflict.test.ts
  • src/lib/actions/sandbox/policy-channel.ts
  • src/lib/actions/sandbox/probe/hermes-portable-forward-recovery.test.ts
  • src/lib/actions/sandbox/probe/hermes-portable-forward-recovery.ts
  • src/lib/actions/sandbox/probe/hermes-portable-inference-recovery.ts
  • src/lib/actions/sandbox/process-recovery.ts
  • src/lib/actions/sandbox/rebuild-post-restore-phase.test.ts
  • src/lib/actions/sandbox/rebuild-post-restore-phase.ts
  • src/lib/adapters/openshell/forward-service.test.ts
  • src/lib/adapters/openshell/forward-service.ts
  • src/lib/onboard/agent-dashboard-forward.ts
  • src/lib/onboard/command-failures.test.ts
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  • test/e2e/live/portable-profile-rootless-linux.test.ts
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Please review commit 962f28784ada7c5b140b4121ecf5f551654fea12, including all four inline findings, the outside-diff cause-propagation finding, and the sequential-launch test suggestion from the prior review.

The repair rejects failed channel-forward verification, yields during settlement, cleans up after polling errors, and preserves classified startup causes in Portable connect. The onboarding regression now reaches the production action, onboard function, and dashboard launcher. Regression controls failed before each behavioral repair; the onboarding regression also fails when the production launch await is removed. Focused tests and normal publication checks are recorded in the PR description.

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@prekshivyas I will review commit 962f28784ada7c5b140b4121ecf5f551654fea12.

I will check the repaired channel-forward rejection, settlement yielding, polling-error cleanup, Portable connect cause propagation, onboarding regression path, and sequential-launch coverage.

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PR Review Advisor finished for commit 962f287. Include the Advisor findings in the complete PR feedback collection. Verify and group valid findings before repair.

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The focused repair is published at 962f28784ada7c5b140b4121ecf5f551654fea12; this PR remains a draft.

  • The four prior CodeRabbit findings, Portable startup-cause propagation, and sequential-startup test gap are repaired. Before/after regressions pass, including the production onboarding path and a missing-await mutation control.
  • Required CI, rootless E2E, managed-image checks, and security scanning passed. The bounded retries preserved original result-upload failures; no gate changed.
  • CodeRabbit's full review has no actionable findings and all five threads are resolved. All nine Advisor specialists succeeded on attempt 1. I read all 27 findings, summary, and E2E recommendation files, verified this commit, and found no findings or additional E2E recommendations.
  • The separate, non-required CodeQL quality Go upload remains incomplete. Report generation finished, upload failed without a specific server error or code annotation, and GitHub refused the single retry request. This is retained as an external result-upload limitation.

The PR description contains the full validation and review disposition. Partial-forward transaction rollback stays in #11649. No merge or issue closure was performed.

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Forward startup failures now propagate through awaited caller contracts, early child exit and cleanup paths preserve ownership, and Portable diagnostics retain classified causes without leaking executable paths or raw errors. The complete packet review and focused validation are clear; all live approval gates pass. The non-required Go CodeQL upload failure is infrastructure-only and does not affect this TypeScript change.

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## Outcome

Portable lifecycle recovery uses one monotonic startup allowance across
qualification, start, exec readiness, and authenticated health. Forward
recovery shares its allowance across observations, ownership checks,
both launches, and settlement. Timeout errors identify the exhausted
lifecycle phase, and existing bounded cleanup remains available after
expiry.

## Reason

Independent stage timers let recovery exceed the caller's total
allowance. Wall-clock rollback could also extend polling. A timeout must
stop further startup work while permitting reconciliation and cleanup
after a partial start.

### Related issues

Fixes #11652
Refs #11573

## Changes

- Introduce one operation deadline at each owning lifecycle or
forward-recovery boundary. Pass remaining time into commands, probes,
and ownership checks, including the production forwarding wrapper.
- Preserve the 240,000 ms default from the prior 60 + 90 + 90 second
stage sum. Callers can supply a smaller allowance; the cumulative
regression uses 120 seconds.
- Reject work after expiry, including child creation after an initial
probe and late readiness results. Preserve correct entry-qualification,
health, and final-authority diagnostics.
- Preserve independent bounded reconciliation and cleanup after timeout.
Resolve conflicts with merged asynchronous forward startup (#11661) and
saved-state recovery (#11668), retaining their behavior and tests.

## Verification

Tested commit: `ef2f5576556838683c68085208125a28aa68ef9c`.

- Original deadline, clock-rollback, and review regressions fail before
their fixes and pass afterward. Coverage includes the production
ownership-budget handoff, reduced time for sequential forwards, late
readiness, phase diagnostics, and timeout rollback.
- Five affected suites: 226 passed. Normal signed-commit and pre-push
hooks passed, including full CLI TypeScript checking. All ten published
commits are GitHub Verified.
- [Full
CI](https://github.com/NVIDIA/NemoClaw/actions/runs/34782396224/attempts/2):
40,891 passed, zero failed, 52 pending tests. One inherited
CI-classifier process-cleanup assertion passed in isolation and after
one failed-job retry; its original failure evidence is retained.
- [Rootless Portable
E2E](https://github.com/NVIDIA/NemoClaw/actions/runs/34782396269):
passed. Exact-source receipts confirm public-start recovery, restored
forwards, authenticated health, and a stopped container afterward.
- [Managed-image
validation](https://github.com/NVIDIA/NemoClaw/actions/runs/34782396210):
passed.
- [Required repair/resume
E2E](https://github.com/NVIDIA/NemoClaw/actions/runs/34783478263): all
three selected cases passed. Immutable dispatch and result receipts
match the candidate, base, trusted workflow, and selectors.

## Review notes

Self-review covered all ten changed paths. All valid in-scope CodeRabbit
and Advisor findings are repaired. CodeRabbit's latest exact-commit
review reports no actionable comments. All nine complete [Advisor
summaries, findings ledgers, and E2E
recommendations](https://github.com/NVIDIA/NemoClaw/actions/runs/34783788567)
were read and are clear, with no additional E2E recommendations.

The PR remains non-draft at the author's request and awaits maintainer
review. Cleanup may continue after the primary allowance expires. This
default ceiling establishes no GFN startup performance promise.
Partial-forward process-identity rollback remains the separately
assigned #11649 / #11670 scope.

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Signed-off-by: Prekshi Vyas
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## Summary by CodeRabbit

* **Bug Fixes**
* Improved portable recovery when time limits are nearly exhausted or
system clocks move backward.
* Prevented launches and probes from continuing after recovery time
expires.
* Improved cleanup and rollback after unsuccessful startup or recovery.
* Improved lifecycle recovery for already-running containers and stopped
services.
  * Added safeguards for unsupported or inconsistent lifecycle states.

* **Reliability**
* Recovery time is now shared consistently across startup, readiness
checks, polling, and ownership verification.
* Improved listener ownership checks and timeout handling during service
startup.
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