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Creating an EKS cluster from the local web UI binds it to the AWS region selected in Settings at that moment. Deleting, starting or stopping it later did not reuse that binding — it rebuilt the target from whatever region was selected at action time.

So changing the region in Settings between creating a cluster and operating on it could point a destructive action at a different, same-named cluster in the newly selected region. The same code path also overwrote the only local record of the original target, so the evidence needed to notice the mistake was destroyed by the action itself.

What

Actions on an EKS cluster that has finished creating now resolve their target from the binding written when it was created, instead of from the current selection. When that evidence is missing or disagrees with the cluster being acted on, the action is refused rather than falling back to an unconfirmed target — falling back is exactly the redirect being prevented, and delete cannot be undone.

A refusal now tells the operator how to recover, and the advice matches what they asked for: it leads with the KSail command that restores the missing binding — which touches nothing in AWS, so the original action can simply be retried — and only suggests deleting the cluster when deleting is what was requested. Previously every refusal, including start and stop, advised deleting a cluster KSail had just said it could not identify.

Creating a cluster is unchanged, including retrying after a failed create: until a create succeeds there is no binding, so the region selected now still applies and a corrected region is never ignored.

Part of #6203 — the first slice. The remaining acceptance criteria (an exact read-only ownership query before each mutation, and alignment with the immutable AWS account/cluster identity in #6202) need AWS identity calls and are deliberately not in this change.

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Delete, start and stop rebuilt the EKS target from the AWS region selected at
action time, so changing the region in Settings after creating a cluster could
redirect a destructive action at a same-named cluster in another region and
overwrite the only local evidence of the original target.

Post-create actions now resolve the region from the binding written at create,
and refuse when that evidence is missing or inconsistent.

Part of #6203
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Traced the enacting path, because the first shape of this fix was a measured no-op. My initial change bound the region into the Spec returned by startJob. That looks correct and does nothing: eksDistributionConfig takes no spec at all — it reads AWS_REGION and re-renders eks.yaml on every action. Catching that is why the fix moved to the config resolution.

The region now reaches the AWS call, confirmed link by link on main:

eksDistributionConfig → DistributionConfig.EKS.Region → createEKSProvisioner → eksprovisioner.NewProvisioner(name, region, configPath, …) → p.region → Delete → p.client.DeleteCluster(ctx, target, p.region, "", true); and awsprovider.NewProvider(client, eksConfig.Region, …) for StartNodes/StopNodes.

Delete deliberately passes an empty configPath "so DeleteCluster cannot replace the validated exact target with a name or region from the declarative create configuration" — so p.region is the delete target's region. The fix lands on exactly that value.

Exercised as its user, not through fixtures. The tests drive the real eksDistributionConfig against a real HOME with real on-disk state, and the service-level tests drive real Create/Delete. A live end-to-end run needs a real AWS account, so it is not part of this evidence.

Ablations — 3, each proven RED, then restored and re-verified GREEN (restore confirmed by content, not assumption):

# Ablation Expected RED Result
A1 Ignore the binding, always re-render from the ambient region region-redirect test RED ✅
A1b Silently fall back to ambient when the evidence is unreadable fail-closed test RED ✅
A2 Drop the startJob ownership check both refusal tests RED ✅

Control that must NOT move: under A1 the create-path test (…FollowsCurrentRegionUntilCreateCompletes) stayed GREEN, confirming A1 isolates post-create binding rather than disabling EKS config resolution wholesale.

Local checks: go test ./pkg/cli/clusterapi/ green (-count=1, cache bypassed); golangci-lint reports 0 findings in the three changed files. Three pre-existing G704 SSRF findings remain in kubeproxy.go, kubewatch.go and plugincatalog.go — none of which this PR touches (git diff --name-only origin/main...HEAD confirms).

One existing test was changed, deliberately. TestDeleteEKSClearsJobWhenOnlyLocalStateCleanupFails forced its cleanup failure by blanking HOME, which the new guard now rejects earlier — a different failure than the one it pins. Its intent (a cleanup failure must not pin an undismissable Failed row) is preserved by dropping write permission on the parent directory instead, so the state stays readable while removal fails. It skips under root, where directory permissions do not apply.

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Unparked — the recorded blocker was stale.

This PR was parked as blocked on GO-2026-6061 (reachable google.golang.org/grpc < v1.82.1), with the fix attributed to automation-owned Dependabot #6341. That attribution is no longer correct: the bump reached main today in 425e0f81f3 (14:51:54Z), carried incidentally by #6327.

The advisory applied to the base, not this diff — this branch was simply behind main and still resolved grpc v1.82.0, so 🛡️ Vulnerability Scan kept failing. Updated the branch from base; head is now 66aaa494a3, verified by reading go.mod at that ref (v1.82.1).

No action is needed on #6341, which remains automation-owned and is now a no-op against current main.

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EKS configuration generation now uses persisted ownership state and recorded region metadata for previously created clusters, while retaining ambient-region behavior before creation completes. Configuration paths are canonicalized under the local cluster directory, with directory creation limited to writes. Local lifecycle jobs reject overlapping operations and bind EKS mutations to persisted cluster targets, refusing missing or mismatched state. Tests cover region preservation, fail-closed behavior, mutation guards, and cleanup failures.

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  • Issue 6203: The changes implement persisted EKS ownership binding and fail-closed lifecycle targeting described by this issue.
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pkg/cli/clusterapi/distconfig.go (1)

76-85: 🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟠 Major | ⚡ Quick win

Empty ambient AWS_REGION at create time bakes in an unrecoverable binding.

If AWS_REGION is unset, writeEKSConfig stamps an empty metadata.region. Once persisted state exists, boundEKSConfig rejects that file permanently ("records no region"), so every later delete/start/stop is refused and the only escape is the rebind command. Failing fast on create with api.ErrInvalid is cheaper than a cluster that can never be deleted through KSail.

🛡️ Proposed guard
 	region := os.Getenv(credentials.DefaultEnvVar(credentials.AWSRegion))
+	if region == "" {
+		return nil, fmt.Errorf(
+			"%w: no AWS region selected for EKS cluster %q; set AWS_REGION before creating it",
+			api.ErrInvalid, name,
+		)
+	}
 
 	configPath, err := writeEKSConfig(name, region)
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In `@pkg/cli/clusterapi/distconfig.go` around lines 76 - 85, Validate the region
read in the create flow before calling writeEKSConfig: when AWS_REGION resolves
to an empty value, return api.ErrInvalid instead of persisting an EKS
configuration with no region. Keep the existing writeEKSConfig and
DistributionConfig construction unchanged for valid regions.
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Inline comments:
In `@pkg/cli/clusterapi/distconfig.go`:
- Around line 127-134: In the config-reading flow containing the os.ReadFile
call, replace it with the repository-standard fsutil.ReadFileSafe helper and
remove the gosec suppression comment. Preserve the existing error wrapping with
api.ErrInvalid, the cluster name, and the underlying read error.
- Around line 146-152: Update the error guidance in the parsed.Metadata.Region
validation path to reference a supported recovery workflow. Either register the
`cluster rebind-eks-ownership` command and ensure it re-establishes ownership
metadata, or replace the command text in the `fmt.Errorf` message with an
existing CLI recovery path; keep the invalid-configuration error behavior
unchanged.

In `@pkg/cli/clusterapi/local_service_test.go`:
- Around line 1314-1346: The test
TestEKSActionAfterCreateBindsRegionToCreationNotCurrentSettings only validates
ExportEKSConfigForCreate, not successful lifecycle actions. Add a positive
delete, start, or stop case that uses the persisted ownership state, changes
AWS_REGION afterward, invokes the corresponding action, and asserts the
provisioner receives the cluster’s creation region rather than the current
setting.
- Around line 1387-1454: Add a regression test covering service.Delete while the
same cluster’s Create job is still in progress, exercising startJob’s
jobInProgress check before ownership-state validation. Assert the operation
returns the “already in progress” error and does not report the
missing-ownership error or invoke the provisioner’s delete path, using the
existing test helpers and fake provisioner patterns.

In `@pkg/cli/clusterapi/local_service.go`:
- Around line 576-603: Update eksMutationTarget to use the bound on-disk EKS
configuration to resolve and validate the runtime region, while retaining
persisted ClusterSpec only for ownership checks. Build and return the action
target from the resolved EKS binding and registry data so delete/start/stop
receive the current runtime configuration rather than the persisted ownership
baseline.

---

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In `@pkg/cli/clusterapi/distconfig.go`:
- Around line 76-85: Validate the region read in the create flow before calling
writeEKSConfig: when AWS_REGION resolves to an empty value, return
api.ErrInvalid instead of persisting an EKS configuration with no region. Keep
the existing writeEKSConfig and DistributionConfig construction unchanged for
valid regions.

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pkg/cli/clusterapi/distconfig.go (2)

188-201: LGTM!


122-125: 🎯 Functional Correctness

No change needed for the read path.

~/.ksail/clusters is created by the cluster workflow, and ReadFileSafe/EvalCanonicalPath failures would still be returned through api.ErrInvalid via the call chain.

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pkg/cli/clusterapi/local_service.go (2)

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526-538: 🎯 Functional Correctness

No issue with Create routing through startJob.

Create has its own local provisioned-cluster path and does not call startJob.

pkg/cli/clusterapi/local_service_test.go (1)

587-626: LGTM!

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- refuse an EKS create when no AWS region is selected, instead of stamping an
  empty metadata.region that boundEKSConfig then rejects forever
- read the bound eks.yaml through fsutil.ReadFileSafe, dropping a gosec suppression
- point the recovery guidance at paths that exist (a command named in three
  messages was never registered)
- keep the action target minimal: persisted state is the ownership baseline, not
  the runtime spec, and the region is carried by eks.yaml
- cover the successful lifecycle path and the create-time region guard
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Outside-diff finding (distconfig.go:76-85, empty ambient AWS_REGION) — confirmed and fixed in 44fc029a. This was the sharpest of the six: it attacks the binding at its weakest point, because the unrecoverable state is created by doing nothing wrong — just having no region selected.

eksDistributionConfig now refuses the create outright when AWS_REGION resolves to empty, before anything is written. TestEKSCreateRefusesWhenNoRegionIsSelected asserts both the refusal and that no eks.yaml is left behind, since a region-less file is exactly what would poison every later action.

⚠️ Worth flagging, because the naive placement is subtly wrong: dropping the guard where the diff suggested would have made TestEKSConfigRejectsNonSegmentName vacuous. Both preconditions raise api.ErrInvalid, so on a machine with no AWS_REGION the region check would have taken over every rejection in that table and the path-traversal guard would have passed for the wrong reason while proving nothing.

So the name check runs first — extracted as validateClusterSegmentName so it can reject a name without touching the filesystem, which matters because ~/.ksail/clusters does not exist yet on a first create (resolving the full path there broke TestEKSConfigFollowsCurrentRegionUntilCreateCompletes; caught locally). TestEKSConfigReportsNameErrorAheadOfMissingRegion pins the precedence using "." — the discriminating case that survives the state store's own name validation and can only be rejected by this guard.

Ablations: removing the region guard turns the refusal test RED; removing the name check ahead of it turns the precedence test RED. Both restored and the package is green.

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One verified finding on the new recovery guidance at 44fc029a

I built the same review round independently and lost the push race to this commit, so I diffed the
two implementations rather than duplicating them. They converged on eksClustersRoot +
fsutil.ReadFileSafe, and the empty-region refusal at write time in this commit is a real catch mine
missed. One divergence is worth acting on.

start and stop now tell the operator to delete the cluster

eksMutationTarget's missing-state error is reached from three entry points, not one — Delete
goes through startJob(…, ClusterPhaseDeleting), and Start/Stop both go through runLifecycle
→ startJob(…, ClusterPhaseUpdating). They share the single message, which now reads
"delete it with the AWS tooling directly (eksctl delete cluster …)".

Probed on this exact head, with the ownership state removed after a successful create:

command message
Start …delete it with the AWS tooling directly (eksctl delete cluster --name probe-eks --region <region>)…
Stop …identical…
Delete …identical…

So an operator who asked to start a cluster is told to destroy it. That is the one direction
of this error that is not recoverable if followed.

The in-product recovery path still exists and is not mentioned

ksail cluster eks-bind re-establishes exactly this binding, and pkg/svc/eksidentity/identity.go:261
already recommends it verbatim for the same situation:

run `ksail cluster eks-bind --name %s --provider AWS --experimental`

All three tokens matter — the command is experimental-gated, and its guard rejects any provider but
AWS — which is also why the previous text (ksail cluster rebind-eks-ownership --name …) could
never work: that name is not registered at all, and cobra answers unknown flag: --name. Replacing
it was right; pointing the operator out of KSail is what I'd reconsider.

Suggestion: keep the eksctl note as the last resort for a cluster that genuinely cannot be
rebound, and lead with eks-bind, phrased so it does not presume the operator wanted a delete.

I also found — by ablation, on my own copy — that asserting the binding by reading eks.yaml back
after changing AWS_REGION is vacuous: nothing rewrites that file on its own, so the assertion
passes even with boundEKSConfig stubbed to return nil. Re-resolving through
ExportEKSConfigForCreate is what discriminates a bound target from an ambient one. Worth checking
the new tests here against that, since the same shape is easy to land.

No action needed from me on this branch — it is yours; I have abandoned my copy.

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golangci-lint's wrapcheck flagged the unwrapped error returned from
clusterapi.ExportEKSConfigForCreate in the test package's factory helper.
Wrap it with %w so the cause stays inspectable via errors.Is/As.
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In `@pkg/cli/clusterapi/local_service.go`:
- Around line 577-585: Update the ErrStateNotFound error message in
confirmEKSOwnership to recommend restoring the missing binding with `ksail
cluster eks-bind --name ... --provider AWS --experimental` as the primary
recovery path, rather than advising `eksctl delete cluster`. Keep the message
applicable to delete, start, and stop operations, and retain region-confirmation
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60-104: LGTM!

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The ownership refusal is reached from every mutating entry point — Delete arrives as
ClusterPhaseDeleting, Start and Stop both arrive as ClusterPhaseUpdating — but all three
shared one message telling the operator to `eksctl delete cluster`. An operator who asked
to start or stop a cluster was handed a destructive recovery step for a cluster KSail had
just said it could not identify.

Pass the phase into confirmEKSOwnership and select the guidance from it: deleting is
suggested only on the delete path, while start/stop get non-destructive node-group
guidance. The start/stop text names no KSail subcommand, because none exists to
re-establish the binding.
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Finding resolved at 4373ab1f

My 17:59Z finding — start and stop telling the operator to delete the cluster — was still live at
90c8b665; the two commits since were a test wrap and a lint pass, neither touching the message.

Fix. confirmEKSOwnership now takes the phase and selects its recovery guidance from it. Delete
(ClusterPhaseDeleting) keeps the eksctl delete cluster step; Start/Stop (ClusterPhaseUpdating)
get non-destructive node-group guidance instead.

The start/stop text deliberately names no KSail subcommand. I checked for one that re-establishes
the binding and there is none registered, so naming one would have repeated the earlier defect on this
same PR where the guidance named a command the CLI does not expose.

RED/GREEN. New table test drives all three entry points against a created-then-unbound EKS cluster.
Ablating the phase branch (collapsing it back to the single shared message) fails start and stop on
both assertions — the missing node-group guidance and the present eksctl delete cluster — and passes
again with the branch restored. The delete case is pinned in the same table, so a future edit cannot
collapse the two messages back into one without a failure. Package suite, go vet, and gofmt clean.

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One verified finding on the recovery guidance at 4373ab1f

I built the same fix independently this tick from CodeRabbit's review at 90c8b665, and lost the push race to 4373ab1f, so I abandoned mine and diffed the two instead. Your shape is better than what I had: selecting the guidance on phase is more precise than the action-neutral wording I wrote, and separating delete from start/stop is exactly right.

One real difference, and it is a factual claim baked into a code comment rather than a style point.

The comment asserts a command does not exist, and it does

unconfirmedEKSRecovery says:

Start/Stop are node-group operations, so their guidance stays non-destructive and names no KSail subcommand, because none exists to re-establish the binding.

ksail cluster eks-bind is exactly that command, and it is registered and reachable:

  • pkg/cli/cmd/cluster/cluster.go:107 — cmd.AddCommand(NewRebindEKSOwnershipCmd())
  • pkg/cli/cmd/cluster/rebind_eks_ownership.go:44 — Use: "eks-bind"
  • Probe, built from this branch — ksail cluster eks-bind --help exits 0:
Bind legacy local EKS state to the exact cluster selected by the current AWS credentials.

The command performs read-only AWS and eksctl queries, prints the account, ARN, region, and creation
time for review, and writes only local KSail state. Run once without --yes to review the target, then
repeat with --yes to confirm. It never deletes or scales AWS resources.

Usage:
  ksail cluster eks-bind [flags]

I built the binary at 90c8b665; 4373ab1f touches only local_service.go and local_service_test.go (checked via compare), so the registration path is byte-identical at your head.

It does not appear under ksail cluster --help's Available Commands, which I think is how it read as absent — that is what sent me looking too. But it is registered, it is read-only against AWS, it writes only local KSail state, and re-establishing the binding is its entire purpose.

This repo already tells operators to run it — pkg/svc/eksidentity/identity.go:261, in migrationRequiredError:

"after confirming the current AWS credentials select the intended cluster, "+
"run `ksail cluster eks-bind --name %s --provider AWS --experimental`"

So as it stands, two refusals for the same underlying condition give opposite advice: one names the one-command non-destructive fix, the other says no such command exists.

Why it matters more than a stale comment

The start/stop branch currently offers "use the AWS tooling directly, or re-create the cluster with KSail". Re-creating is the destructive option this guard exists to avoid — the cluster is there, KSail just cannot prove it owns it — so the operator is steered toward the worst available action while a one-command, non-destructive, in-repo recovery goes unmentioned.

Suggested wording, keeping your phase split intact:

return fmt.Sprintf(
    "after confirming the current AWS credentials select the intended cluster, restore the"+
        " binding with `ksail cluster eks-bind --name %s --provider AWS --experimental` and"+
        " retry; if it is not a cluster KSail should manage, start or stop its node groups"+
        " with the AWS tooling directly",
    name,
)

A structural guard, if you want it

This is the third wrong recovery instruction in this area today — first rebind-eks-ownership (matched the source file name, never the cobra Use:), then eksctl delete cluster on the start/stop path, now this. Nothing checks these strings: the compiler does not know a string holds a command name, and the recovery path is by definition not the path CI exercises.

I wrote a test for the class while working on my version — it parses every Go file, pulls ksail cluster <name> out of string literals only (so prose in a comment is not judged), and asserts each resolves through NewClusterCmd().Find. It passes on this branch and goes RED if a message names an unregistered command. Say the word and I will open it as its own PR once this merges — I have deliberately not pushed it here, since your branch is live and a new file would stale your review.

Honestly, it would not have caught this one: it catches naming a command that does not exist, not omitting one that does. It closes the rebind-eks-ownership class only.

No further action from my lane on this PR — it is yours and you are driving it.

…bind command

The refusal now names `ksail cluster eks-bind` first on every path. It restores the
missing binding from the cluster the current AWS credentials select and never deletes
or scales anything, so the refused action can simply be retried — which makes it the
right first step for delete, start and stop alike. eksidentity.migrationRequiredError
already points at the same command for the same condition, so the two now agree.

Deletion stays offered only on the delete path.

The test pins the exact command string on all three paths. The previous round on this
PR shipped guidance naming a command the CLI does not expose, and my first attempt at
this fix asserted no such command existed at all; both mistakes are now a test failure
rather than something only a reviewer catches. Verified by running the binary:
`ksail cluster eks-bind --experimental` resolves and accepts --name/--provider.
# Conflicts:
#	pkg/cli/clusterapi/local_service_test.go
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Finding accepted — and it corrected an error of mine, at a7904f4f

The review is right, and my earlier commit on this PR was wrong in a way worth stating plainly.

I fixed the shared-message defect in 4373ab1f by branching the guidance on the phase, and wrote —
in the code comment and in my comment above — that the start/stop text named no KSail subcommand
"because none exists to re-establish the binding". That claim was false. ksail cluster eks-bind
exists and is exactly the right recovery. I had grepped for it, mis-scoped the search, got no hit, and
treated absence of evidence as evidence of absence.

Verified properly this time, by running the binary rather than searching for it:

$ ksail cluster eks-bind --experimental --help
Bind legacy local EKS state to the exact cluster selected by the current AWS credentials.
... It never deletes or scales AWS resources.
Flags: -n, --name string   -p, --provider Provider   --yes

It is Hidden/--experimental-gated, so it does not appear in ksail cluster --help — which is
presumably how I missed it, and is worth knowing when writing guidance that points at it.

What changed. eks-bind now leads on every path: it restores the binding without touching AWS
resources, so the refused action can just be retried. Deletion stays offered only where deletion was
asked for. This also aligns the message with eksidentity.migrationRequiredError, which already
pointed at the same command for the same condition — so the two no longer disagree.

The delete path keeps the eksctl delete cluster step, so the concrete recovery you proposed is
present in full.

Ablation-checked (each fails the test): collapsing the phase branch, renaming eks-bind to an
unregistered command, and dropping the retry guidance. That last two matter because this PR has now
produced both failure modes — guidance naming a command the CLI does not expose, and guidance
wrongly claiming none exists — so the exact command string is pinned on all three paths rather than
left to a reviewer to catch a third time.

Create is asynchronous, so asserting the retry succeeds without waiting
for it left the goroutine running past the end of the test. Its state
write then landed after t.Setenv and t.TempDir had unwound, creating
.ksail/clusters under the real home directory — which is what the Home
Isolation Guard caught.

The wait is extracted as requireEventuallyPhase, since the same
list-and-check block appears throughout this file and the reason it is
required is worth stating once.

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Readiness — what I exercised, as the operator rather than the author

The change is only worth anything if the message actually reaches the person who has to go and look in
AWS, so I ran the real Delete through the service and printed what a client receives, rather than
reasoning about it from writeError:

{"error":"cleared a failed EKS create without deleting remote resources: \"failed-eks\" never recorded ownership state, so KSail could not identify the remote cluster. Check the AWS account for a partially created cluster of that name and delete it there. The failed job has been cleared, so create can be retried"}

Measured in the same run, not read off the source:

  • errors.Is(err, ErrEKSCreateClearedLocally) → true
  • it wraps none of api.ErrNotFound / ErrAlreadyExists / ErrInvalid / ErrNotSupported → so
    clientErrorStatus falls to its default and this is an HTTP 500, and writeError writes
    err.Error() verbatim at any status, so nothing is truncated on the way out.

Judged as its user: it names the cluster, says why KSail cannot delete it, gives the one action only a
human can take, and closes the obvious follow-up question ("can I just retry?") in the same sentence.
That last clause matters — the previous behaviour cleared the job silently, so an operator had no way
to tell a successful delete from a cleared one.

Both deltas, per the two-sided test. Floor: a Delete can no longer assert that a cluster is gone
when KSail never identified it, so a partially created billable cluster stops being invisible.
Everyday path: unchanged — the job is still cleared, so the retry that the clearing exists to enable
still works, and a test now pins that.

Validation: package green including -race; golangci-lint --new-from-rev origin/main clean;
🏠 Home Isolation Guard reproduced locally in a sandbox HOME (clean, and the probe ablated to prove
it can detect the leak it was checking for); 4 Codex threads replied and resolved, 0 unresolved.

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Head 06ac198c: Delete now reports a cleared failed EKS create instead of answering with success, and the retried create is awaited so its state write cannot land under the real HOME. CI 25/25 (the earlier 🧪 Test red was a flake in pkg/cli/cmd/open/chat, unrelated to this diff — reproduced locally once, green on re-run both locally and in CI). 0 unresolved threads.

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@devantler I found one remaining blocker.

P1 — Persist ownership state for local API EKS creates

runCreate saves only spec.json after a successful EKS create. resolveCluster uses state.ListEKSOwnershipStates as its fallback when current-region discovery cannot find the cluster. Therefore, a cluster created through this service has no fallback record.

After a service restart or an AWS_REGION change, discovery does not list the cluster. resolveCluster then returns not found before boundEKSConfig can apply the saved region binding. Delete, Start, and Stop remain unavailable for the local-API creation path.

Persist the immutable EKS ownership record after the local create succeeds. Include the recorded AWSOptions mapping. Add a service-level regression test that creates through Service.Create, uses a new Service instance with a different selected region, and verifies that lifecycle resolution reaches the bound target instead of returning api.ErrNotFound.

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Comment thread pkg/cli/clusterapi/distconfig.go
The region binding this PR adds is a lifecycle-only rule, but Create gates
only on live discovery and in-flight jobs. A cluster removed out of band
leaves spec.json and eks.yaml behind while discovery stops reporting it, so
Create accepted the name again and the stale binding steered the new cluster
into the region the old one was created in.

Refuse instead of re-rendering: per-provider discovery failures are logged and
skipped, so absence from the live set is not proof the remote cluster is gone,
and re-rendering would overwrite the only local evidence binding a cluster that
may still be running. The refusal names the delete command that clears the
state, which succeeds even when the cluster is already gone.
Create had grown past the length limit with the stale-state guard. Extracting
the reservation also removes the unlock/relock the guard first introduced: the
state read needs no lock, only a defined position relative to the live check.
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Head moved to 3e2f70b6, so the 06ac198c Codex review is stale.

That review's P1 was valid and is fixed: the region binding this PR adds was steering creates, not
just lifecycle actions, so a cluster removed out of band could silently provision new AWS resources in
the old region. Create now refuses a name that still carries a completed EKS create's state, before
any job is registered — chosen over re-rendering the config because per-provider discovery failures
are swallowed, so absence from the live set is not proof the remote cluster is gone. The refusal names
the delete command that clears the state. A follow-up commit extracts the reservation so Create
stays within the length limit and drops the unlock/relock the guard first introduced.

CI is green at this head and all 18 threads are resolved.

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@devantler I found two remaining P1 issues.

  1. P1 — Persist immutable ownership state after a local API EKS create

    runCreate saves only spec.json at Line 896 through Line 901. It does not capture and persist an EKSOwnershipState.

    resolveCluster uses state.ListEKSOwnershipStates as its fallback when the selected AWS region cannot discover the cluster at Line 522 through Line 535. Therefore, after a local API EKS create, a service restart or an AWS_REGION change makes the cluster resolve as not found before lifecycle binding can run.

    Persist the immutable record after the provisioner reports a successful EKS create. Include the resolved region and AWSOptions mapping. Add a regression test that creates through Service.Create, creates a new Service instance with a different selected region, and verifies that a lifecycle action resolves the bound EKS target.

  2. P1 — Refuse invalid EKS binding before registering a lifecycle job

    startJob validates only spec.json through confirmEKSOwnership at Line 573 through Line 581. It registers the job at Line 590. The stale-config and multi-record checks execute later when runProvisioner builds the factory at Line 970 through Line 1031.

    Therefore, Delete, Start, or Stop returns success and exposes an in-progress job for an EKS target with contradictory eks.yaml state or multiple ownership records. The background factory build then fails and changes the job to Failed. This is not a synchronous refusal of an ambiguous destructive target.

    Resolve and validate the EKS distribution configuration before job registration, or add an equivalent synchronous validation step in startJob. Add service-level tests for stale-config and multi-record cases. Each test should assert api.ErrInvalid, no provisioner build or call, and no registered or failed lifecycle job.

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State at this head: 26 checks pass, 0 failing, all 18 threads resolved, CLEAN against base.

What to look at: Create previously gated only on live discovery and in-flight jobs, so a name whose
EKS cluster was removed out of band still carried a completed create's state and the region binding
silently steered the new cluster into the old region. It now refuses that name before registering a
job. The guard acts on positive evidence only — an unreadable state store is not proof a create
completed, and propagating that would have converted every such read into a synchronous refusal.

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Its envelope on this very PR is measurable: the 06ac198c request at 12:41:57Z returned a P1 at
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Reviewed commit: 3e2f70b622847f36c16e7300c59e388d6b8f1371

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What I checked

Correctness and security of the whole PR at this head, not only my own commits: the create-refusal guard and its interaction with the region binding; the binding's precedence rules; the config-vs-ownership reconciliation; path containment in writeEKSConfig/canonicalClusterDir; and error-path behaviour under an unreadable state store.

Verdict: 1 finding (P0: 0, P1: 0, P2: 1)

The P2 is a pre-existing conflation in pkg/svc/state, which this PR does not touch but now depends on. Filed as #6429 rather than expanded into this PR's scope. It does not block promotion: without this PR there is no binding at all, so the change is strictly safer than main in every case — it is an incomplete guard, not a new hazard.

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  • RED/GREEN on the create refusal, then ablated in place at the final implementation shape (guard removed → the test fails on the deterministic job-table assertion, not on an async race).
  • Full pkg/cli/clusterapi suite green, including the existing lifecycle-binding controls that this PR exists for — so the refusal does not over-correct and break delete/start/stop binding.
  • golangci-lint: zero new findings from this diff. The three gosec G704 reports reproduce identically at the base commit in files this PR never touches.
  • Two failures in pkg/cli/cmd/open/chat under the full ./pkg/cli/... run were verified pre-existing by running the same command at the base commit 06ac198c, where they reproduce identically.
  • Exercised as the operator: drove the real Service.Create against real on-disk state with a stale binding and read the actual user-facing output — cluster already exists: "prod-eks" still has local state from a completed EKS create … Run \ksail cluster delete --name prod-eks` to remove the cluster and clear that state — it succeeds even when the cluster is already gone — then retry. The provisioner factory was never built, confirming the refusal precedes any provisioning. I also read the delete path to confirm that remedy is real: Deleteresolves the cluster from its ownership state andrunDeleteclears local state when the provisioner reportsErrClusterNotFound`.

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Comment on lines +186 to +189
completed, err := eksCreateCompleted(name)
if err != nil || !completed {
//nolint:nilerr // an undeterminable read is not proof of a completed create; see above.
return nil

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P2 Badge Propagate conflicting distribution state before reserving the job

When a name has persisted Kind/Talos state but no live cluster, eksCreateCompleted returns the explicit distribution-conflict error, but this branch discards it and reserveCreateJob registers an EKS create. The background factory then encounters the same conflict and leaves a Failed job; clearedFailedEKSCreate cannot remove it because state exists, while every subsequent Create sees the job, so the web user cannot clear or retry the name. The fresh evidence relative to the earlier state-type finding is this newly added suppression: keep unreadable-state errors deferred if desired, but propagate the confirmed non-EKS name collision before registering the job.

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return fmt.Errorf(
"%w: %q still has local state from a completed EKS create, which binds it to the region it"+
" was created in. Creating it again would provision new resources in that region rather"+
" than the one selected now. Run `ksail cluster delete --name %s` to remove the cluster"+
" and clear that state — it succeeds even when the cluster is already gone — then retry",

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P2 Badge Surface state-cleanup failures before blocking recreation

When an EKS delete removes the AWS cluster but DeleteClusterState fails (for example because ~/.ksail/clusters becomes read-only), runDelete deliberately logs only a server-side warning and clears the job. This new guard then treats the surviving spec.json as a completed create and refuses every attempt to recreate the now-absent cluster; the UI no longer has a row to delete, and repeating deletion continues to report asynchronous success while leaving the blocking state. Either make the completed delete surface and retain the cleanup failure until state is actually removed, or provide a recovery path that clears this local-only residue.

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spec, err := state.LoadClusterSpec(name)
if err != nil {
if errors.Is(err, state.ErrStateNotFound) {
// Not created yet: the caller renders from the ambient region.
return false, nil

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P1 Badge Treat immutable ownership records as completed creates

When spec.json is absent but a valid EKS ownership record remains—such as after ksail cluster eks-bind, or when the CLI successfully persisted immutable identity but its later best-effort SaveClusterSpec failed—this function reports that creation never completed. If Settings now selects another region, discovery misses the recorded cluster, the create guard allows the name, and boundEKSConfig also skips the ownership record and renders a fresh config, permitting a second same-named cluster to be provisioned in the new region. A usable immutable ownership record is positive evidence of a completed create and must cause Create to refuse the name even without spec.json.

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