fix(podman): preserve gateway runtime and managed-service ownership by deepujain · Pull Request #12267 · NVIDIA/NemoClaw

deepujain · 2026-09-23T06:18:08Z

Outcome

Podman gateway reuse recognizes its trusted managed service after startup removes standalone ownership files. Selected gateway recovery and Hermes ACP retain the Podman runtime and rootless service context.

Reason

Readiness compared host loopback registration with the sandbox-facing address and required standalone files that managed-service startup deliberately removes. Recovery also filtered out the selected host runtime settings.

Related issues

Refs #11263. Supports gateway recovery validation associated with #12269.

Changes

Preserve six explicit host lifecycle settings through selected gateway startup and Hermes ACP, retaining credential filtering and bind/JWT enforcement.
Check host registration against loopback while retaining separate sandbox endpoint and standalone marker checks.
Verify a managed service through its trusted service identity, current-user process, executable, selected database, Podman socket, port and endpoint. Recheck ownership after querying the gateway binary's version. Reject stale, partial or unreadable standalone records.
Reuse the existing process-environment, state-identity and version-parsing helpers through dependency-free modules. Their existing exports and behavior remain available to current callers.
Discard protocol data after log prefixes, enforce Podman export refusal even when both aliases succeed, and finish supervised ACP cleanup before propagating a failed restart.

Verification

Candidate: e57ecfc57d617fefcc2e0eabdef5822e0e22261a.

The managed-service regression failed before repair. The runtime repair passed 276 focused tests and CLI TypeScript; one existing Linux-only test was skipped locally. Hosted CI, generic GPU qualification, and Docker/rootless Podman managed activation then passed on 83609544a6.
Three fixture regressions failed before repair: prefixed protocol retention, a successful export from a Podman source, and incomplete ACP cleanup after a restart error. The repair passes 60 fixture tests and seven growth checks. It covers an adapter that ignores SIGTERM and a failed remote cleanup observation.
Signed commit hooks and normal publication checks passed, including CLI TypeScript. All ten commits are GitHub Verified.
The fixture repair changes no managed-image inputs. The branch E2E run uses the successful immutable image publication from run 36097028768, revision 83609544a6c48a0a69af7371a8892e64308a4cc5.
The branch comparison completed all 56 selected executions: 40 passed and 16 failed. Of the original 27 Podman failures, 17 pass and 10 now fail later. The full Hermes Docker/Podman E2E passes. See the case-group disposition; this is not a claim of 27/27 passing.
The additional validation passed eight cases, including both native architectures, both OpenClaw install/agent-turn cases and all four security-posture cases. Two cloud cases reproduce the known legacy-credential-file fixture mismatch. The protected GPU build reproduces the baseline offline-build/cache mismatch before GPU/NIM/vLLM assertions execute; that coverage remains unproven.
Code CI passed on this candidate. All nine Advisor reports are clear after the authorized full rerun. CodeRabbit comments are resolved with tested repairs or verified inherited/advisory dispositions.
OpenShell remains pinned to 0.0.116. The diff contains no secrets, API keys or credentials.

Review notes

The gateway lifecycle changes under src/lib/onboard/** completed all nine Advisor reviews on this candidate. Review dispositions distinguish repaired fixture defects from inherited code. The extracted version parser is byte-identical to the base; its additional edge-case finding is inherited.

The maintainer merge disposition records the evidence and limits for admin merge after branch-workflow validation. The actual code CI run is green; the latest changes: SKIPPED is a metadata-only event. Remaining broader failures are recorded rather than marked passing. Brave HTTP 402 quota exhaustion is an explicitly accepted external blocker. #12269 is the next sequential change, and the same 27 scenarios will be measured again.

Signed-off-by: Deepak Jain deepujain@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Aaron Erickson aerickson@nvidia.com

Signed-off-by: Deepak Jain <deepujain@gmail.com>

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The changes update gateway environment handling and Podman readiness. They add bounded, redacted stderr artifacts to live Hermes ACP scenarios and validate Podman config-export refusals.

Changes

Gateway runtime and Podman readiness

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Share and forward gateway runtime environment `src/lib/onboard/gateway/process-environment.ts`, `src/lib/onboard/gateway/state-ownership.ts`, `src/lib/onboard/docker-driver-gateway-config.ts`, `src/lib/onboard/docker-driver-gateway-process-identity.ts`, `src/lib/onboard/runtime-provider/configured-runtime.ts`, `src/lib/onboard/gateway/docker-driver-start.ts`, `src/lib/onboard/gateway/late-binding.test.ts`, `test/e2e/fixtures/availability-env.ts`, `test/e2e/support/hermes-acp-live.test.ts`	Shared helpers handle gateway process environments and selected-state checks. Selected gateway startup uses allowlisted host runtime settings. Tests check retained runtime settings and excluded values.
Verify managed Podman gateway readiness `src/lib/onboard/runtime-provider/contract.ts`, `src/lib/onboard/runtime-provider/podman-gateway-readiness.ts`, `src/lib/onboard/runtime-provider/podman-gateway-readiness.test.ts`, `src/lib/readiness/gateway-production.ts`, `src/lib/readiness/gateway-production.test.ts`	Readiness checks can verify a trusted managed service when standalone ownership files are absent. They check process identity, configuration, state, and version, and classify endpoint binding against the host-loopback HTTPS endpoint.
Share OpenShell version parsing `src/lib/adapters/openshell/client.ts`, `src/lib/adapters/openshell/version-text.ts`	The OpenShell client uses a shared version parser. The parser checks executable-specific output and searches the full text when applicable.

Hermes ACP diagnostics

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Capture bounded, filtered diagnostics `test/e2e/fixtures/hermes-acp-diagnostics.ts`, `test/e2e/support/hermes-acp-diagnostics.test.ts`	The helper buffers complete lines, redacts retained content, filters protocol-shaped lines, and enforces line and byte limits. Tests cover redaction, discarded content, progress lines, and stopped capture.
Integrate diagnostics with live ACP scenarios `test/e2e/fixtures/hermes-acp-live.ts`, `test/e2e/support/hermes-acp-live.test.ts`	The live scenario collects child stderr, stops collection after successful initialization, and writes a scenario-specific artifact. It records failures, completes cleanup and evidence writing, then rethrows. Tests cover runtime environment filtering and saved evidence.

Hermes config-export refusals

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Validate Podman config-export refusals `test/e2e/fixtures/hermes-config-export-live.ts`, `test/e2e/support/hermes-config-export-live.test.ts`	The fixture checks expected diagnostics and exit codes for Podman and credential-bearing HTTP refusals. Tests reject unrelated diagnostics, incorrect exit codes, and published output files.

Priority: ➖ Normal

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

Change: Bug fix

Sequence Diagram(s)

sequenceDiagram
  participant HermesACPAdapter
  participant runHermesAcpLiveScenario
  participant createHermesAcpDiagnostics
  participant ArtifactSink
  HermesACPAdapter->>runHermesAcpLiveScenario: emit child stderr chunks
  runHermesAcpLiveScenario->>createHermesAcpDiagnostics: append stderr chunks
  runHermesAcpLiveScenario->>createHermesAcpDiagnostics: stop after successful initialization response
  runHermesAcpLiveScenario->>createHermesAcpDiagnostics: write scenario diagnostics
  createHermesAcpDiagnostics->>ArtifactSink: write filtered diagnostic artifact

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Gateway readiness may report the wrong version status when a version probe includes another tool’s version. Fix the scoped parser before merging.

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The overall line coverage in commit e57ecfc in the codex/fix-hermes-acp... branch remains at 84%, unchanged from commit 5871fcb in the main branch.

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deepujain · 2026-09-23T06:40:26Z

I reviewed all nine Advisor reports for 791ae55bc4335d36c88701f2f59a88d3519acdbe. Eight are clear. Migration finding F-migration-completion-dacbe775b9f23d4f164a appears to conflate two phases:

src/lib/acp/command.ts awaits recoverNamedGatewayRuntime in the ACP process before creating the SSH transport, requires healthy_named, and validates the live sandbox identity. The repaired fixture supplies Podman context to that process.
hermes-acp-ssh-cli.ts subsequently runs the OpenShell version check, named sandbox lookup/SSH configuration, and the validated named SSH proxy. It does not start or select a native gateway runtime. Its narrower environment preserves explicit gateway/workspace authority and credential isolation.

Independent source review reached the same conclusion. The unchanged command/transport suites passed 45 cases, including preventing transport startup when recovery fails. I am retaining the narrow transport environment rather than adding unrelated provider settings.

This is a documented finding disposition, not a claim that the Advisor gate passed. Exact-head Hermes Podman live recovery still needs qualification.

Signed-off-by: Deepak Jain <deepujain@gmail.com>

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ericksoa · 2026-09-25T05:40:34Z

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The architecture and migration findings describe an inherited duplicate. The runtime-facade file is byte-identical to base 5871fcbcd7a6ae6043e947a32d469068b07a999e. That base already routes startup through gateway/state-ownership.ts, including the same namespace and database predicate. This PR moves that predicate without changing its body. These findings do not identify a new ownership path or regression, so the inherited code remains unchanged.
The forwarding-export suggestion is advisory. These static exports refer to the single function implementation in the extracted module; they introduce no alternate runtime decision. Keeping the established import surfaces lets native Podman readiness reuse the helpers without importing runtime selection. The reduction specialist also reviewed and accepted this arrangement.
The prefixed-protocol diagnostic leak and unexpected Podman export success are reproduced. A rejecting restart callback also bypasses cleanup and the new diagnostic receipt. The repair now aborts the supervised process group, waits for bounded cleanup, records failure even when remote verification rejects, and then propagates the original error.

All three regressions failed before repair. The affected fixture suite now passes all 60 tests, including an adapter that ignores SIGTERM. No existing live assertion is removed or weakened. hermes-e2e remains the live owner for ACP recovery, process cleanup and both export aliases; deterministic fixture behavior is covered in e2e-support.

CI and both Docker and rootless Podman managed-image activation passed for 83609544a6. The pending repair changes only Hermes fixtures and their tests, so managed-image reuse will be checked against that successful immutable publication. The original 27-scenario comparison has not been dispatched yet.

Signed-off-by: Aaron Erickson <aerickson@nvidia.com>

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src/lib/onboard/gateway/state-ownership.ts
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src/lib/onboard/runtime-provider/podman-gateway-readiness.test.ts
src/lib/onboard/runtime-provider/podman-gateway-readiness.ts
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ericksoa · 2026-09-25T06:56:57Z

Validation update for e57ecfc57d617fefcc2e0eabdef5822e0e22261a:

Code CI passed, all ten commits are Verified, and all nine Advisor reports are clear after the complete unchanged-source rerun (36101764762, attempt 2). CodeRabbit findings are resolved; the additional parser edge case was verified byte-identical on the base and classified as inherited.
The branch comparison completed all 56 planned executions: 40 passed, 16 failed. Within the original 27 Podman failures, 17 now pass and 10 fail later. The full Hermes Podman E2E and credential-generation-window case pass. Passing logs confirm the selected tests executed; the non-selected common-egress variants are the expected selector skips.
The original gateway-ownership/startup blocker is no longer the primary failure in those ten cases. This does not make the ten cases passing.

Remaining group among the original 27	Count	Observed failure
MCP fixtures	3	The known contention matcher rejects the current lock-owner recovery guidance. The Docker controls fail the same way.
Brave/search qualification	2	Brave key validation returns HTTP 402 and disables search; the user directed this to remain an external blocker. The Podman export-success expectation is a separate unsupported-contract test issue.
Repeat onboarding	1	Second onboarding refuses the existing dashboard forward on port 18789.
Hermes inference switch	1	The privileged config write is denied access to `.nemoclaw-hermes-restart-seal`.
Native repair/resume	2	Missing resumable session or failed post-restore maintenance convergence; retained cleanup then refuses mutable-name deletion.
Sandbox final cleanup	1	Final reinstall follows gateway-registration removal, then readiness reports an unknown gateway.

The remaining repository-selected onboarding, security, native-architecture and protected-runtime qualification is running separately. #12269 will be evaluated next against the same 27 cases; its cleanup changes must not be assumed to fix these later product failures.

ericksoa · 2026-09-25T07:27:32Z

Admin-merge disposition for e57ecfc57d617fefcc2e0eabdef5822e0e22261a, under the maintainer's existing instruction to validate on the branch and admin merge once there is reasonable confidence:

The actual code CI run 36100643039 passed. The trusted gate snapshot reports only the later metadata-only changes: SKIPPED result; there are no pending code checks, conflicts, unresolved major CodeRabbit findings, or commit-verification failures.
All nine Advisor reports, attempt 2 are clear for this commit. Inherited/advisory review findings have source-backed dispositions.
The 56-case branch comparison establishes 17 passing cases from the original 27 Podman failures, including Hermes recovery. Ten cases reach later failures that remain tracked; this is not 27/27 passing.
The 11-case supplemental run passed both native architectures, both OpenClaw install/agent-turn cases, and four security-posture cases. Its two cloud-onboarding failures repeat the baseline legacy-credential fixture mismatch. The protected GPU lane repeats the baseline offline-build/cache mismatch (--network none plus an uncached apt stage); GPU/NIM/vLLM assertions did not run. The offline boundary remains intact.
Brave quota exhaustion is an explicitly accepted external blocker. None of these non-passes is relabeled as a pass. Remaining feature and fixture work is separate from the repaired common gateway blocker; test(e2e): avoid starting gateways during owned cleanup #12269 is next in the requested sequence.

This decision lands the bounded gateway/runtime recovery fix with the stated evidence and limits. It does not claim that main is release-qualified or that all 27 scenarios are green.

## Outcome MCP and onboarding E2E cleanup uses the recorded gateway authority. Fresh sandbox state does not start a gateway; retained registrations recover only their selected gateway after verified absence. Uncertain ownership fails closed. ## Reason Pre-cleanup could start a gateway before a fresh sandbox existed and select the wrong runtime. This follows transport cleanup #12181 and consumes the merged lifecycle prerequisites #12256 and #12267. ## Changes - Share owned cleanup across MCP, credential-window, onboarding repair and resume tests. Preserve the caller's allowed runtime environment and reject mixed retained gateway bindings before mutation. - Retain shared-fixture parity obligations from the base manifest across deletion, rename and removed ownership. Require semantic changes to the original owner's mapped fast tests. - Capture bounded, fixed-schema Podman ownership observations without changing authoritative command results or publishing raw child output. - Pin the private relay image by digest, retain stopped-container diagnostics, validate bounded counters in private temporary storage and remove owned resources after startup or diagnostic failures. - Close HTTPS listeners and event streams before final diagnostic persistence. Capture completed requests, bound persistence at ten seconds and preserve shutdown and persistence errors. Later cleanup entries can continue after a stalled writer. - Bound certificate and FIFO creation. Accept the current portable lock-owner remediation only after the existing committed-bridge verification, preserving the single retry and rejection of unknown diagnostics. ## Verification Current candidate: `93a494b880fd9d9c7e3d34d39c6045a2e5c8a3bd`; base: `3a4eb285aee17d2c57ce991dc6fed93bad315d53`. - Fifty focused tests passed for HTTPS diagnostics, cleanup continuation, relay behavior, MCP servers and shared HTTP behavior. The new stalled-writer regression failed before the fix, then passed while its writer remained pending. Earlier fixture and parity validation covered 220 tests, including 52 parity regressions. The final socket-close correction also passed its four existing diagnostic tests. - Normal signed commit hooks, isolated normal pre-push validation, host publication validation and the full CLI compiler check passed. The live assertion budget remains unchanged and passes. - [CI](https://github.com/NVIDIA/NemoClaw/actions/runs/36126011093), [managed-image qualification](https://github.com/NVIDIA/NemoClaw/actions/runs/36126011070), [GPU/security qualification](https://github.com/NVIDIA/NemoClaw/actions/runs/36126014176), CodeRabbit and all nine [Advisor reports](https://github.com/NVIDIA/NemoClaw/actions/runs/36127406377) pass on this commit. All 19 commits are GitHub Verified; no review thread remains unresolved. - The final [66-case branch run](https://github.com/NVIDIA/NemoClaw/actions/runs/36128375262) tests this exact candidate as both source and branch-workflow controller: 17/27 original Podman cases pass, 41/56 comparison cases pass, and 8/10 additional onboarding/startup/security cases pass. All successful executions have real passing test summaries. No previously passing comparison case regressed. The ten original failures remain unresolved and are not represented as passing. - The MCP lock-message failure was removed, exposing trusted-private TLS failures in five agent/runtime cases. Their diagnostics show zero secure connections or HTTP requests and fixed TLS-error counts; their owned cleanup completed successfully. Deep Agents Docker passes the full trusted-private route. The Docker inference control encountered the known public-tunnel transport failure. All six MCP cleanup reports pass: 86 cleanup entries, zero failures. - Remaining Podman failures include dashboard-port reuse, Hermes sealed-config permissions, OpenClaw restore maintenance convergence and gateway registration after cleanup. Brave HTTP 402 quota exhaustion is tracked as an external blocker by maintainer direction. The unsupported Podman export assertion and legacy credential-file assertions remain separate fixture issues. - OpenShell remains 0.0.116. The development-OpenShell MCP compatibility lane is outside this stable-version assessment. ## Review notes The modified parity checker has source review and real-Git positive/negative coverage. Publication validation used the canonical-base validator entry and dependency inputs in a container with no host credentials, host mounts or runtime socket; resolved tool bytes matched a fresh trusted-base installation. All nine current-head reports were read and are clear. The prior diagnostic-persistence deadline finding is fixed here. The repeated fixture-rename finding is a false positive: the checker explicitly includes deleted fixture paths with `--no-renames`. An isolated real-Git R098 rename with a behavior change and removed ownership retained both paths and rejected the missing original fast-test change. The [disposition](#12269 (comment)) preserves the failed aggregate rather than representing it as passing; the checker is unchanged since that reproduction. The live concurrency assertions remain intact. The shared listener supplies its already-validated TCP port, replacing a duplicate local check. Diagnostic artifacts contain bounded facts and counters; diagnostics do not authorize lifecycle decisions. --- Signed-off-by: Deepak Jain <deepujain@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Aaron Erickson <aerickson@nvidia.com> --------- Signed-off-by: Deepak Jain <deepujain@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Aaron Erickson <aerickson@nvidia.com> Co-authored-by: Aaron Erickson <aerickson@nvidia.com>

## Outcome Ordinary sandbox commands, probes and diagnostics use native OpenShell execution. Failed or ambiguous commands do not retry through SSH or privileged local execution. Supported provider recovery, interactive SSH and file transfer retain their existing authority checks. ## Reason Multiple ordinary-command transports could run equivalent commands with different identities or repeat an ambiguous mutation through a more privileged path. ### Related issues Fixes #11263, part of #11255. Includes merged prerequisites #12214, #12222, #12236, #11911, #12258 and #12256. ## Changes - Remove ordinary SSH execution, compatibility wiring and privileged fallbacks. Preserve named-gateway targeting, runtime identity, filtered environments, timeouts and distinguishable failures. - Route status through the same native executor while preserving its deadline and nullable transport-failure behavior. The OpenClaw readiness probe also preserves unavailable transport evidence after integrating #12256. - Retire unsupported custom gateway SSH recovery after auditing shipped manifests. Keep supported recovery, interactive access and file transfer. - Prevent WeChat removal when orphaned physical-session cleanup cannot be confirmed; document that behavior even without a channel entry. - Refresh corporate-CA trust through native stop/start of the same sandbox, and bound/redact MCP diagnostics. - Avoid evaluating a sandbox-controlled shell file for ordinary commands, and test actual process boundaries to reject SSH retries. ## Verification Current candidate: `836320e005cdb041c28afe12a7986bd4b8f05a5a`, integrating canonical `main` at `350a9863cd83b5a8ee7932d4ab916393d7e69279`. The merge resolves the base conflict, preserves the newer bounded MCP HTTPS diagnostics, and repairs native-version CLI fixtures to emit the required sandbox-exec marker while rejecting SSH fallback. The final follow-up pins the Hermes diagnostics support test to its asserted runtime and restores the ambient environment after each case. Local evidence: 14 CLI integration tests, 94 E2E-support tests, and 72 focused transport/version/debug tests passed. CLI TypeScript passed with an 8 GiB heap ceiling; lint, formatting, all 18 repository checks, signed commit hooks, publication validation, and pre-push CLI/plugin TypeScript checks passed. Hosted CI on this exact head is green, including all 12 CLI shards, aggregate CLI, managed startup for OpenClaw/Hermes/Deep Agents Code, exact all-agent activation on Docker and rootless Podman, both Pi image builds, rootless lifecycle and portable profile, CodeQL, audits, docs, and static checks. The only red attempt was an external HTTP 429 fetching the pinned Hermes archive; its single rerun passed. The earlier managed-image failure at `ceca9ae56` was an external `ImagePullFailed` ("bytes remaining on stream"); fail-closed cleanup remained intact and the explicit OpenShell cleanup removed the sandbox. Evidence below that names another candidate or says current-head is historical for `836320e00`. Previous candidate: `3caba6799cc006bd6ee2a891719509d73f773d73`. This follows the conflict-resolution merge `908a0b4`, which integrated main `2e162f266f583d78392494feff44c360d1390ad0`, without another base integration. The follow-up preserves later diagnostics and archive creation when endpoint authority refuses sandbox-internals collection. Cancellation and unexpected errors still propagate. It replaces an obsolete nullable DeepAgents transport mock with typed failure coverage and adds public-create coverage proving corporate-CA refresh finishes before registration. All 94 tests across seven affected suites passed, along with CLI TypeScript, source-shape, lint and formatting. Independent review, signed commit hooks, isolated pre-push validation, container cleanup and actual push hooks passed. Current-head [required CI](https://github.com/NVIDIA/NemoClaw/actions/runs/35967107832), [all nine Advisor reports and aggregate](https://github.com/NVIDIA/NemoClaw/actions/runs/35968484852), substantive CodeRabbit review, [managed images](https://github.com/NVIDIA/NemoClaw/actions/runs/35967107774), and [portable rootless checks](https://github.com/NVIDIA/NemoClaw/actions/runs/35967107785) passed. Image qualification covered all three agents on Docker and rootless Podman, with 36 activation turns and 18 cleanup actions total. Five current-head manual runs passed: - [Native CPU startup](https://github.com/NVIDIA/NemoClaw/actions/runs/35969691815): all three agents on AMD64 and ARM64; cleanup verified. - [Docker onboarding](https://github.com/NVIDIA/NemoClaw/actions/runs/35971477529): three repair/resume scenarios; 28 cleanup actions. - [Standard Docker lifecycle](https://github.com/NVIDIA/NemoClaw/actions/runs/35972475425): eight scenarios; 38 cleanup actions. - [Docker MCP](https://github.com/NVIDIA/NemoClaw/actions/runs/35973673916): all three agents and the credential-generation-window test; 51 cleanup actions, including explicit successful removal of all three private relays. - [Hermes Docker lifecycle](https://github.com/NVIDIA/NemoClaw/actions/runs/35975851054): all eight phases, including restart, ACP and configuration integrity; seven cleanup actions. These results qualify the stated scopes only. Remaining Podman lifecycle prerequisites, development-runtime policy disposition and unexecuted provider/protected scopes still prevent a full review-readiness claim. At parent `908a0b4`, managed images activated all three agents on Docker and Podman: 18 turns and nine cleanup passes per runtime. Its portable rootless fixture failed an initial PID identity check before onboarding. The unchanged fixture passed ten isolated Linux cycles, but the hosted cause remains unresolved. Neither result qualifies this new candidate. ### Historical evidence The following results belong to earlier commits and do not qualify the current candidate. The transport repair moves ordinary execution and its environment wrapper into the sandbox transport adapter, retargets all callers, improves public health-outcome coverage, and gives the OpenClaw skill fixture an account-home workspace with immediate cleanup registration. - Local affected suites: 1,234 tests passed, with 14 skips; 943 additional integration tests passed, with 15 skips. The sole remaining affected-suite failure is the unchanged Hermes Python fixture on a host without PyYAML. The dependency-boundary follow-up passed 466 targeted tests. TypeScript, lint, formatting, mock/live parity, focused cleanup tests and the architecture census passed; four stale architecture limits were lowered, with no increases. Current-head hosted evidence remains required after publication. - At `81936456060c102fe1d88795ffe31f6830d39a6a`, CI passed and all nine Advisor reports were inspected. The architecture finding and CodeRabbit's startup-test duplication finding are addressed by this repair. - [Live validation at 8193645](https://github.com/NVIDIA/NemoClaw/actions/runs/35832734620) finished with 41 selected scenarios passing and 17 failing. Thirteen Podman scenarios reported incompatible or ambiguous gateway ownership; another failed rebuild preflight. The selected-gateway runtime fix is isolated in #12267 and has not yet qualified this main PR. - Other failures: Docker provider selection exceeded its 8-second budget; the protected amd64 OpenClaw normalization probe timed out; and the Docker skill fixture failed finalization. The unsafe skill workspace placement is corrected here, but the complete live failure cause has not been proved. No latency, timeout, or baseline waiver is claimed. - Of 64 ordinary cleanup receipts, 63 were clear. Skill CLI cleanup failed; its fallback sandbox deletion, gateway removal and home cleanup passed. Both protected qualification daemon-removal receipts passed. Historical results do not qualify the new commit. - At parent `85256b3`, CI and all nine Advisor reports passed. Exact managed images activated all three agents on Docker and Podman, with 18 turns and nine clean teardown actions per runtime. CodeRabbit identified two dead duplicate mock setups; the preceding test-only correction replaces them with fail-fast unexpected-call stubs and explicit zero-call assertions. All 52 focused/growth tests, source-shape and parity checks passed. The trusted matcher still requires fresh managed-image qualification for this candidate; no ancestor-image override is used. - At parent `4c4dc76`, CI and CodeRabbit passed. All nine Advisor reports were collected; one reduction finding identified an impossible null return in the native-command facade type. The current repair narrows that contract and removes unreachable direct-consumer branches, retaining explicit typed transport-error mappings and remote nonzero exit handling. 364 affected tests passed, 14 skipped; seven growth tests, TypeScript, parity, source-shape, lint and formatting passed. Docker and Podman core image activation passed at that parent, but its image workflow failed an upstream Pi Perl DNS test. No parent result clears the current commit. - Advisor additionally requires the OpenShell gateway-auth contract scenario. It remains part of the outstanding current-head E2E work. ## Review notes The merged Podman artifact renewal and full-install cleanup prerequisite are included. Remaining fixture prerequisites are #12267 (Hermes ACP Podman context) and #12269 (MCP cleanup). Full Podman lifecycle coverage remains pending. Protected GPU coverage needs the offline npm prerequisite. Observer coverage is tracked by #12238/#12197. The dev MCP lane conflicts with the supported installer channel and needs disposition. Real-provider messaging and exact staging Launchable coverage are not claimed. No human approval, gate waiver or merge-readiness claim is made. --- Signed-off-by: Deepak Jain <deepujain@gmail.com>  ## Summary by CodeRabbit * **Improvements** * Sandbox version checks, diagnostics, and maintenance commands now use native OpenShell execution. * Managed sandbox onboarding refreshes corporate CA trust before completing setup when a CA is configured. * CLI recovery messages now direct you to relevant OpenShell commands. * **Reliability** * Channel removal stops when cleanup cannot be confirmed, rather than proceeding with an uncertain result. * Sandbox transport failures are reported without retrying through SSH or a local runtime.  --------- Signed-off-by: Deepak Jain <deepujain@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Prekshi Vyas <prekshiv@nvidia.com> Co-authored-by: github-actions[bot] <41898282+github-actions[bot]@users.noreply.github.com> Co-authored-by: Prekshi Vyas <prekshiv@nvidia.com>

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