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Outcome

Verified same-user OpenClaw sandboxes retain native 0700/0600 state permissions through startup, native commands, config editing and recovery. Separate-user and unverified layouts retain 2770/0660.

Reason

Duplicate permission writers reversed native OpenClaw permissions. The existing guard should own the stateless mode decision, while native setup initializes agent state. Image-security tests also need their existing shared module compiled on the host before they can load.

Related issues

Closes #11257. Part of #11255. Independently based on main after #11268.

Changes

  • Reuse the guard's process/readiness proof to select private or shared modes. The normalizer imports the root-owned helper; its CLI actions still require root. Marker inspection requests metadata access while retaining path, inode and owner checks.
  • Remove duplicate shell permission walkers, fixed host-mode verdicts and onboarding overrides. Repair keeps the existing lifecycle lock and pinned container identity. Only conclusive mode mismatches are repairable; ownership, flags, JSON, transaction and recovery refusals remain.
  • Validate existing configuration before native openclaw setup --baseline, refresh its hash, and propagate normalizer failures. Preserve managed Docker/Podman behavior and upstream-secret custody.
  • Consolidate duplicated test fixtures and keep classification coverage with its existing owner. Retain journal replay, ownership, native doctor and first-start gateway identity coverage; correct the existing documentation.
  • Prepare image-test host prerequisites once: the shared install step calls the existing build:policy-boundary, and OpenClaw security reuses that step. This fixes the missing sandbox-name.cjs import in OpenClaw, Hermes and runtime-override suites without changing their test bodies or cleanup.

Production remains nine lines smaller than main. Conflict resolution introduces no additional runtime behavior.

Verification

Current candidate: 9f6dd6b79e8ee4c5d1113fd1dc71d7d833ef0712. It merges main through 915f34957c6b190603562541f8a6c33dc238837c to resolve the full-E2E formatting conflict. Independent syntax comparisons confirm the original PR test logic is preserved, including the automatically merged overlaps and three tests formatted under main's new rule. No runtime behavior was added by the resolution.

Conflict-resolution checks: CLI and plugin builds passed; 185 focused tests passed with four existing skips; all 1,800 live assertions remain; formatting and independent source-preservation review passed. Canonical npm run validate:pr passed in an isolated validation of this candidate merged with main ea68ea444a9f7e27455961ca0412258d47dca489, using unchanged trusted validators and fresh dependencies. Core CI passed. Two managed-image MCP checks remain failed during public-tunnel setup; the remaining review and merge gates still apply.

One-off local compatibility validation passed for 9f6dd6b on Linux ARM64/Colima Docker 29.2.1, OpenShell 0.0.106 and Node 22.23.2. The baseline CLI and retained managed image came from 915f349 (qualified prior publication). All 23 comparison commands had their expected outcomes: doctor/fix, native doctor fix, exec exit statuses, config editing, gateway restart/recovery and completed gateway-backed agent turns. The container, ARM64 image sha256:9838c60b465aa9647b5072b15ddf268d91263ffc0b26836aa18f173dc2c542bf, and packaged helpers remained unchanged. The old image retained 2770/0660 modes; workspace/session data and routing/auth settings were preserved. Native doctor made its own plugin/skills/wizard metadata updates. Synthetic upstream credentials were absent from the checked sandbox environment and managed configuration files. Cleanup removed all test resources and private credentials while preserving the user's existing container. No permanent test or source change was added. This is local Docker/ARM64 evidence, not Podman or full GitHub E2E qualification.

The following qualification evidence applies to the preceding candidate 123ed3c80efd13d29b3dde53863f60fdf56c2fb7; it is not presented as a run of the merge commit.

  • Native Docker/Podman E2E, attempt 1: both runtimes passed all seven phases and four cleanup actions each. All six selected state-integrity doctor reports had zero findings, including first startup before repair. Native doctor fix, native config 119, host edit to 120, restart/recovery, identity checks, inference, interactive launches, personal profiles and retained security controls passed. The authenticated receipt binds the exact candidate, base and trusted controller. Native tests explicitly reused qualified c0c9c46 images; all runtime/image inputs are unchanged between c0c9c46 and 123ed3c.
  • Packaged image contracts, attempt 1: all seven active jobs passed; optional arm64 was not selected. OpenClaw security and glibc tests passed, including shared-user gateway writes, root recovery, protected-file refusals, volume removal and final labeled-resource absence checks. Hermes's secret-boundary and six root-entrypoint tests passed, as did runtime overrides. The same-run image archive and test-image identity were verified.
  • Fresh managed-image qualification, attempt 1: all-agent activation passed all 12 phases and nine cleanup checks. OpenClaw, Hermes and Deep Agents Code each completed agent turns before and after gateway restart while preserving durable state. Both MCP discovery passes passed all five phases and ten cleanup checks, including denied-auth cases. These newly built images form cohort ghrun-34440929489-1; contracts and retained evidence archives were authenticated. This is separate from the earlier image cohort reused by native E2E.
  • Core CI, attempt 1: all twelve test shards, typechecking, coverage aggregation and the final gate passed. The existing main ci(typecheck): give CLI type checking a 5 GiB heap #11356 typecheck heap fix remains in use.
  • Canonical npm run validate:pr passed against main f1a5bc1031babb1d7ed15baa8fa2a6a53c76b6df in isolated validation merge 0fd9045bfc211cecf06b69ba84ae0095b698ad3c, with a clean tree. The reviewed image workflow was YAML data for unchanged validators.
  • The missing host-module failure was reproduced before compilation on both candidate and exact base. The existing compiler fixed collection of all nine affected test definitions; the remote results above confirm the actual tests now execute successfully.
  • npm run docs, generated agent variants and all 69 guarded routes passed. Five existing Fern warnings outside the corrected passage remain.

Broad native doctor remains separately recorded: exit 1 with 34 warnings per runtime, comprising 30 skill-dependency warnings and four generic security messages concerning the inference placeholder and sandbox-local gateway token. The selected state-integrity checks are clean. No exhaustive live secret scan is claimed.

The diff contains no secrets, API keys or credentials. Prior failed CI, image and image-contract attempts remain preserved. The earlier c0 activation failure was followed by one targeted activation-only rerun using unchanged images; its underlying pre-readiness cause remains unclassified. The native, shared-image and fresh image qualification runs listed above passed on their first attempt for the preceding candidate.

Review notes

NVIDIA/NemoClaw sensitive paths include scripts/, src/lib/sandbox/, src/lib/onboard/ and the image workflow. All nine c0c9c46 Advisor artifacts and paginated PR feedback were collected. The stale documentation finding is fixed here; the root-marker and nested-warning claims were rechecked against their existing source owners and excluded. The unbounded config-sync request remains an advisory observation: no hang or connection to the observed image-test failure was demonstrated, so this repair adds no timeout policy.

The setup repair has independent before/after collection evidence and root review; the one-line documentation deletion has documentation validation and root review. CodeRabbit completed an actual review of 123ed3c with no new inline findings. All nine applicable Advisor artifacts were reverified, and all six review threads remain resolved. A later self-hosted security job collected zero tests because of an inherited missing host-module prerequisite; that separate workflow defect is preserved and is not part of this conflict repair. CI and review for 9f6dd6b must settle before merge. The PR remains ready for review and unmerged; no admin bypass is requested.


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

Summary by CodeRabbit

  • New Features

    • Verified same-user launches now use private OpenClaw configuration permissions (0700/0600); separate or unverified identities retain shared access (2770/0660).
    • Startup, recovery, synchronization, and permission repair consistently apply the selected security layout.
    • Added stronger validation for ownership, directory permissions, immutable flags, and configuration integrity.
  • Bug Fixes

    • Permission cleanup now fails safely when posture cannot be verified or repaired.
    • Configuration synchronization rejects symlinked state paths and surfaces permission errors.
    • Doctor reports clearer warnings for unsupported or unverifiable sandbox permission checks.
  • Documentation

    • Updated security, troubleshooting, command, and filesystem guidance to describe permission behavior and recovery requirements.

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📝 Walkthrough

Walkthrough

The change selects private or shared OpenClaw permissions from validated identities. The guard, normalizer, startup scripts, sandbox actions, recovery paths, onboarding, and tests now use the selected permission contract.

Changes

OpenClaw permission contract

Layer / File(s) Summary
Runtime mode selection and normalization
Dockerfile, scripts/openclaw-config-guard.py, scripts/lib/normalize_mutable_config_perms.py, docs/security/*, test/runtime/gateway/*
Verified same-user launches use 0700/0600; other layouts use 2770/0660. Guard, recovery, baseline, and validation paths use the selected modes.
Privileged posture verification and repair
src/lib/sandbox/mutable-config-perms.ts, src/lib/sandbox/openclaw-config-guard.ts, src/lib/sandbox/*test.ts
Sandbox permission inspection and repair use privileged guard execution with resource handles, bounded output, timeouts, pre-repair checks, and post-repair verification.
Startup, onboarding, and host repair integration
scripts/nemoclaw-start.sh, src/lib/onboard/config-sync.ts, test/agents/openclaw/runtime/*, src/lib/onboard/config-sync.test.ts
Startup, hash refresh, recovery, onboarding, and connect-shell repair delegate permission handling to the shared normalizer. Tests cover private and shared mode pairs.
Doctor, cleanup, and end-to-end validation
src/lib/actions/sandbox/*, test/e2e/*, test/cli/*
Doctor and cleanup actions use the simplified contract. Tests cover unavailable inspections, repair results, native state integrity, process identity, refusal paths, and provider warnings.

Estimated code review effort: 4 (Complex) | ~60 minutes

Severity of issue fixed: Medium

Suggested reviewers: cv, rsliter, sandl99

Sequence Diagram(s)

sequenceDiagram
  participant Startup as nemoclaw-start
  participant Guard as openclaw-config-guard.py
  participant Sandbox as mutable-config-perms
  participant Normalizer as normalize_mutable_config_perms.py
  Startup->>Guard: select runtime permission modes
  Sandbox->>Guard: verify OpenClaw posture
  Sandbox->>Normalizer: normalize selected modes
  Sandbox->>Guard: verify repaired posture
  Guard-->>Sandbox: return final verdict
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Onboarding may fail before it can establish a baseline for empty or missing OpenClaw state, and the Dockerfile allowlist change remains insufficiently linked to a shipped instruction. Resolve these concerns before merge.

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The overall line coverage in commit 9f6dd6b in the simplify/11257-nativ... branch remains at 96%, unchanged from commit ea68ea4 in the main branch.

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The overall line coverage in commit 9f6dd6b in the simplify/11257-nativ... branch remains at 83%, unchanged from commit ea68ea4 in the main branch.

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File main ea68ea4 simplify/11257-nativ... 9f6dd6b +/-
src/lib/onboard...uild-context.ts 75% 75% 0%
src/lib/actions...config-perms.ts 100% 100% 0%
src/lib/sandbox...rce-identity.ts 82% 82% 0%
src/lib/actions...sandbox/exec.ts 85% 87% +2%
src/lib/sandbox...config-guard.ts 85% 88% +3%
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src/lib/onboard/dockerfile-remote-dashboard-bind-contract.ts (1)

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test/agents/openclaw/runtime/nemoclaw-start-wechat-placeholder.test.ts (1)

250-253: 📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🔵 Trivial | ⚡ Quick win

Remove the source-text rewrite from this test.

This test depends on the private if __name__ == "__main__": text and on the runtime_config_modes implementation detail. It does not exercise mode selection through the normalizer boundary.

Use a fixture that establishes the required shared-mode contract, or add an explicit focused test seam. As per path instructions, “Prefer observable outcomes through the public boundary over source-text, private-shape, or mock-call assertions.”

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In `@test/agents/openclaw/runtime/nemoclaw-start-wechat-placeholder.test.ts`
around lines 250 - 253, Remove the source-text replacement of the private
__main__ guard and runtime_config_modes implementation from the test. Update the
test around MUTABLE_CONFIG_NORMALIZER to exercise mode selection through its
public normalizer boundary, using a fixture or explicit focused seam that
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Add rows for the untested predicate branches.

The table only uses checksRun: 1, array-valued findings, and matching report.ok/exitCode values. Add mismatched ok/exitCode, checksRun !== 1, and non-array findings rows so deleting these checks fails the test.

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+    ],
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In `@src/lib/onboard/config-sync.ts`:
- Around line 80-81: Update the onboarding config-sync command sequence around
config validation so an empty openclaw.json is initialized or restored before
/usr/local/bin/openclaw config validate runs. Ensure setup --baseline can
execute before validation when required, preserving the existing validation and
baseline setup behavior for non-empty configurations.

In `@test/e2e/live/full-e2e.test.ts`:
- Line 627: Update the identity assertion near the identities process check to
parse identities.stdout and validate the effective IDs of the relevant gateway
and sandbox processes, not merely that ps exited successfully. Preserve the
existing same-user identity binding contract in the E2E coverage and retain the
current timeout/exit handling.

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In `@test/agents/openclaw/runtime/nemoclaw-start-wechat-placeholder.test.ts`:
- Around line 250-253: Remove the source-text replacement of the private
__main__ guard and runtime_config_modes implementation from the test. Update the
test around MUTABLE_CONFIG_NORMALIZER to exercise mode selection through its
public normalizer boundary, using a fixture or explicit focused seam that
establishes the shared-mode contract and verifies observable output.

In `@test/e2e/support/openclaw-agent-output.test.ts`:
- Around line 370-373: Add table-driven cases to the test around the existing
clean, startup, and unrelated-warning rows covering mismatched
report.ok/exitCode values, checksRun values other than 1, and non-array
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Adopt the reviewed Hermes probe-pin correction from #11334.

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Updated candidate: 0f91166d9f24278ff6602f6326a1252fcc4ffa61. The test-only file-race assertion, native process identity assertion and malformed doctor-report cases are corrected. Main now supplies the bundle, fixture and Hermes image-pin fixes. Fresh image and native Docker/Podman qualification will follow on this head.

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Updated candidate: 2d7924ac9f51522cd2f65f8c199075edcb6a19bb. This two-file repair removes only the normalizer invocation's || true; existing stderr handling and validation-before-baseline ordering remain unchanged. The new test exercises a real ownership refusal: it failed under the old suppression, and all 11 config-sync tests pass after removal. Canonical publication validation also passed.

This addresses the shared Security/Operability Advisor finding from the prior head. The two other Advisor claims are excluded with source evidence: the existing E2E catalogue enables the private-state checks (also executed in both native runtime artifacts), and snapshot/rebuild already call the central repair owner for config/hash. The private 0700 parent protects nonfixed ancillary state; no extra restore-mode owner or recursive chmod policy is introduced.

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## Outcome

Use native Node.js network-interface discovery in the sandbox. Remove
the obsolete ciao preload and its startup, connect-session, recovery,
and packaging wiring.

## Reason

Pinned OpenShell 0.0.106 permits the route queries used by native
interface discovery. The old preload masks failures by returning an
empty interface map and catching gateway exceptions.

### Related issues

Closes #11260. Part of #11255.

## Changes

- Delete `ciao-network-guard.js` and its exclusive consumers. Keep the
remaining preloads, managed recovery order, and broader safety-net
behavior.
- Retain permission, credential, failure and recovery coverage. Add
native interface observations to the existing lifecycle test; require
real loopback data, no retired preload and no interface error.
- Refresh the two existing Pi receipts and their authority hashes from
authenticated same-run artifacts. Their image inputs retain exact source
parity.
- Supply the existing buffered command executor to the legacy recovery
test fixture. Main's adapter migration made that dependency necessary;
without it, the fixture rolled back before attempting legacy recovery.
This correction adds 10 test-only lines across two existing files.

The current diff changes **30 files: 122 additions, 327 deletions (205
fewer lines)**. Production code remains **11 additions and 147 deletions
(136 fewer lines)**. No new runtime state, dependency, registry,
permission rule, compatibility path, retry, timeout extension or live
test target.

## Verification

- Both builds and 609 focused tests passed on `eb679d2`; 61 existing
focused fixture/reconnect tests passed for the correction on `d6ce89e`.
- Main `8d6643b` was merged without conflicts as `45d1b44`. Canonical
`npm run validate:pr`, both builds, Pi source parity, all 13 MCP fixture
tests and all 42 legacy-fixture support tests passed on that merged
commit.
- [Managed-image qualification on
eb679d2](https://github.com/NVIDIA/NemoClaw/actions/runs/34503663476)
passed: all producers, both MCP passes and all-agent activation.
Authenticated consumer evidence records 12 agent turns, restart/recovery
and cleanup for all three shipped agents, with no image-build fallback.
- [Shared/root image
security](https://github.com/NVIDIA/NemoClaw/actions/runs/34503736251)
passed all seven active jobs, including security/glibc execution and
cleanup.
- [Native qualification on
eb679d2](https://github.com/NVIDIA/NemoClaw/actions/runs/34507706772)
passed Docker and Podman security posture and Pi AMD64 lifecycle. Both
OpenClaw runtimes returned native interfaces before doctor and after
recovery, with the retired guard absent and native-state checks clean.
Pi verified real inference, session/profile preservation,
credential/network boundaries and cleanup; its existing automatic retry
recovered two provider-overload responses.
- That first recovery case passed ordinary recovery, stable process
identity, real Docker restart and inference, then failed during legacy
fixture creation because of the missing executor. The [recovery-only run
on
d6ce89e](https://github.com/NVIDIA/NemoClaw/actions/runs/34512598930),
using unchanged qualified `eb679d2` images, passed legacy fixture
creation, handoff and Docker restart. Actual legacy recovery then failed
in the unchanged privileged Docker target selector because multiple
labeled containers matched; late inference was not reached. The exact
matching rows were not retained, so the backup/replacement explanation
remains a source-supported inference. Both cleanup actions passed. The
other passing cases are retained as ancestor evidence; their dependency
graphs do not import the changed fixture.
- Broad OpenClaw `doctor --lint --json` reported 34
security/optional-skill warnings per runtime. Native-state diagnostics
reported zero findings; no warning-free broad-doctor result is claimed.
- [Current-head
CI](https://github.com/NVIDIA/NemoClaw/actions/runs/34519099013) and
[managed-image
qualification](https://github.com/NVIDIA/NemoClaw/actions/runs/34519099004)
are running for `45d1b44`. The diff contains no secrets, API keys, or
credentials.

## Review notes

Independent source and merge reviews found no actionable issue in this
change. CodeRabbit completed its `d6ce89e` review with no actionable
findings; current `45d1b44` review feedback is pending. The PR is ready
for review, and final CI must be clean before merge.

Main's [#11460](#11460) fixes the
inherited MCP unit regression and is now included. The formerly failing
case passes locally; this PR introduces no MCP-specific repair.

OpenShell policy, capability restrictions, intentional discovery
settings, managed Docker/Podman recovery authority, and upstream
credential custody remain unchanged. The host-test prerequisite from
#11309 landed independently on main before this branch consumed it to
resolve conflicts. This PR targets main independently.

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


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## Summary by CodeRabbit

- **Bug Fixes**
- Simplified runtime recovery to rely on the sandbox safety net while
retaining proxy, cancellation, and discovery protections.
- Updated gateway startup and recovery behavior to no longer require the
removed network guard.
- Improved legacy keepalive fixture command execution and recovery
validation.

- **Tests**
- Expanded end-to-end checks for native networking before and after
recovery.
- Updated guard-chain, preload, and recovery coverage to match the
streamlined runtime setup.

- **Chores**
- Refreshed agent qualification artifacts and accepted validation
digests.
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## Outcome

The focused EXDEV lifecycle now uses and verifies the canonical
OpenShell executable when restarting the gateway, then terminates that
verified listener before sandbox recreation. It fails at that boundary
if the dashboard port does not release. The trusted-image wrapper
remains limited to sandbox creation and recreation, where its image
rewrite is required.

## Reason

The automatic main E2E selected after #10808 first failed because the
restart path treated a listener owned by canonical OpenShell as foreign
when the test wrapper remained configured. Two focused runs then exposed
the remaining lifecycle defect: cleanup stopped the port without the
sandbox and gateway identity, OpenShell reported no active forward, the
valid restart listener remained bound to port 18789, and recreation
moved to 18790.

### Related issues

Relates to #10808

## Changes

- Override `NEMOCLAW_OPENSHELL_BIN` with the resolved canonical
OpenShell executable for gateway restart.
- Verify the restarted dashboard listener is owned by canonical
OpenShell, using the production ForwardTcp argument builder as the
command authority.
- Terminate only the listener whose executable and complete command line
prove canonical OpenShell ownership, then require bounded dashboard-port
release before recreation.
- Carry the configured dashboard port through the same child environment
used by onboarding, listener inspection, and cleanup.
- Cover wrapper ownership rejection and targeted cleanup in the existing
fast E2E client tests.

## Verification

- `npx vitest run --project e2e-support
test/e2e/support/e2e-clients.test.ts`: 82 tests passed.
- `NODE_OPTIONS=--max-old-space-size=8192 npm run typecheck:cli`:
passed.
- `npm run checks:repository`: passed, including the 1,798-assertion
ratchet.
- `npm run test:e2e-phases:check`: 134 tests across 88 files passed.
- `NODE_OPTIONS=--max-old-space-size=8192 npm run validate:pr`: passed
for commit under review `29f98461c60a029010bdab608775cb4290daa3b6`
against canonical main `194324d6d07e38fadf9a64d875b09e3c7eb02f8d`.
- Focused manual E2E [run
34536058612](https://github.com/NVIDIA/NemoClaw/actions/runs/34536058612)
passed `openclaw-plugin-runtime-exdev` for exact candidate
`29f98461c60a029010bdab608775cb4290daa3b6` on recorded base
`3bfc4a83e413b7f56a327130815fa91bcbf0745f`; its immutable dispatch
receipt, risk signal, target result, first-attempt retry evidence, and
complete cleanup record were verified.
- Pre-commit, commit-message, and pre-push hooks passed.
- GitHub marks commit under review `29f98461c6` Verified.
- The diff contains no secrets, API keys, or credentials.

## Review notes

- Before-fix evidence: [automatic main E2E run
34383659825](https://github.com/NVIDIA/NemoClaw/actions/runs/34383659825),
failed job 102575200782.
- Focused run
[34411638365](https://github.com/NVIDIA/NemoClaw/actions/runs/34411638365)
proved recreation moved to port 18790 while the restart forward retained
18789.
- Focused run
[34417902543](https://github.com/NVIDIA/NemoClaw/actions/runs/34417902543)
proved the unscoped stop returned success with `No active forward found
for port 18789`; the candidate now uses `forward stop 18789 e2e-oc-exdev
--gateway nemoclaw`.
- The complete hosted Advisor artifact set for `c9eab2af59` was
inspected. Its two valid findings were addressed in `e669a9edfa`: the
fixture reuses the production ForwardTcp argument builder, and
onboarding receives the configured dashboard port used by inspection and
cleanup.
- Exact-head hosted Advisor follow-up for `e669a9edfa` was unavailable
because all nine specialists exhausted provider retries with the same
HTTP 429 `budget_exceeded` response and produced no artifacts.
CodeRabbit completed with no actionable finding.
- Focused run
[34505225563](https://github.com/NVIDIA/NemoClaw/actions/runs/34505225563)
reached sandbox recreation and failed restoring workspace state. Its
artifacts were inspected; the sandbox, gateway, images, fixtures,
wrapper, and mock were cleaned. Exact head `9d8759fca0` integrates the
recovery-permission fix from #11309 and the CI heap fix from #11356, so
a fresh exact-head focused run is required.
- Focused run
[34524049458](https://github.com/NVIDIA/NemoClaw/actions/runs/34524049458)
proved the externally discovered listener PID was not its process-group
leader. Commit `72cbe661d8` therefore targets only the listener after
exact ownership proof.
- CodeRabbit found that commit `72cbe661d8` ignored the bounded
port-release result. Commit under review `29f98461c6` fails before
recreation when the port remains reachable, while keeping the live
assertion budget unchanged.
- `npm run review:local` reached the trusted implementation but its
temporary OpenShell gateway never became reachable. It produced no
findings; retained temporary review data was removed after restoring its
owner permissions. No local Advisor finding is claimed.
- No documentation change is needed because this corrects test fixture
lifecycle handling without changing product or E2E contract behavior.

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Signed-off-by: Rebecca Sliter <571084+rsliter@users.noreply.github.com>


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## Summary by CodeRabbit

* **Tests**
  * Expanded end-to-end coverage for cross-device plugin installation.
* Verified dashboard ports become unreachable after forwarding listeners
are terminated.
  * Added listener process identification checks to validate ownership.
* Confirmed wrapper processes are rejected when they do not own the
canonical listener.
* Improved validation of gateway- and sandbox-specific forwarding
targets.
* Added checks to ensure forwarding listeners are cleaned up before
sandbox recreation.
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Signed-off-by: Rebecca Sliter <571084+rsliter@users.noreply.github.com>
Co-authored-by: Rebecca Sliter <571084+rsliter@users.noreply.github.com>
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