fix(onboard): tear down managed gateway when onboard aborts

[rluo8]

Summary

Failed provider / inference validation could leave a credential-bearing openshell-gateway running, and official stop / gateway remove did not terminate it when no sandbox was registered. After this change, onboard abort tears down an unowned managed gateway, and full stop releases an explicitly scoped NEMOCLAW_GATEWAY_PORT even without a sandbox name. When nothing scopes the gateway, stop no longer prints a false All services stopped. success line.

Related Issue

Fixes #8952

Changes

• Add teardownOrphanManagedGatewayOnAbort under src/lib/onboard/ to stop a NemoClaw-managed host gateway and remove its OpenShell registration when no registered sandbox owns that gateway (skips externally supervised / authority-refused / peer-owned cases).
• Call that teardown from verifyOnboardInferenceSmoke before process.exit(1), and from exitNonInteractiveValidationFailure (endpoint validation 404 path observed on Brev), so a failed provider validation does not leave API keys in a live process environment.
• Teach full stop (releaseGatewayPort) to invoke gateway release when there is no sandbox name but NEMOCLAW_GATEWAY_PORT is set explicitly; bare stop without that override still refuses a process-wide default release. A requested-but-malformed sandbox name keeps its prior behavior and skips gateway release, because its scope is unknown rather than absent.
• Report the gateway outcome honestly: when nothing scoped the gateway, stop warns and prints Host services stopped; managed gateway not released. instead of All services stopped.
• Cover abort teardown and stop wiring with unit tests in abort-gateway-teardown.test.ts, inference-selection-validation.test.ts, and services-gateway-ownership.test.ts.

Type of Change

• Code change (feature, bug fix, or refactor)
• Code change with doc updates
• Doc only (prose changes, no code sample modifications)
• Doc only (includes code sample changes)

Quality Gates

• Tests added or updated for changed behavior
• Existing tests cover changed behavior — justification:
• Tests not applicable — justification:
• Docs updated for user-facing behavior changes
• Docs not applicable — justification: lifecycle / security fix for CLI cleanup and onboard abort; no user-facing doc pages or install guides claim that failed onboard leaves a gateway, and recovery still uses existing stop / pid-file paths.
• Sensitive paths changed (security, policy, credentials, preflight, onboarding, inference, runner, sandbox, or messaging)
• Sensitive-path review completed or maintainer-approved waiver recorded — reviewer/approval link/justification:
• Non-success, skipped, or missing CI check accepted by maintainer — check name, approval link, and follow-up issue:

Documentation Writer Review

• Documentation writer subagent reviewed the completed changes
• Result: no-docs-needed
• Evidence: no docs/ or changelog paths changed; behavior is abort teardown + scoped stop release of an explicit gateway port. Operator-visible strings are CLI stderr/stdout only.
• Agent:

DGX Station Hardware Evidence

• Tested on DGX Station
• Tested commit:
• Station profile/scenario:
• Result:
• Supporting evidence:

Verification

• PR description includes a Signed-off-by: line and every commit appears as Verified in GitHub
• Normal pre-commit, commit-msg, and pre-push hooks passed, or npm run validate:pr passed after refreshing origin/main when hooks were skipped or unavailable
• Targeted behavior tests pass for the current change set, or tests are marked not applicable above — command/result or justification: vitest run src/lib/onboard/abort-gateway-teardown.test.ts src/lib/tunnel/services-gateway-ownership.test.ts src/lib/tunnel/services-sandbox.test.ts → 3 files, 33 tests passed. Brev A/B on nemoclaw-cc1d6e: (1) build + nonexistent model; (2) reporter-aligned anthropicCompatible + langchain-deepagents-code + NEMOCLAW_ENDPOINT_URL=https://api.anthropic.com/ + model fvr/nonexistent-8a12. Main leaves listening=true + secret matches after failed onboard and after official stop/remove; patched build tears down immediately (Released gateway port 8814, listening=false).
• Applicable broad gate passed — npm test for broad runtime/test-harness changes; npm run check for repo-wide validation/coverage changes — command/result:
• Quality Gates section completed with required justifications or waivers
• No secrets, API keys, or credentials committed
• npm run docs builds without warnings (doc changes only)
• Doc pages follow the style guide (doc changes only)
• New doc pages include SPDX header and frontmatter (new pages only)

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Signed-off-by: Rui Luo ruluo@nvidia.com

Summary by CodeRabbit

• New Features

  • Added automatic cleanup of unowned managed gateways when onboarding or inference validation is aborted.
  • Added support for explicitly configured gateway ports during service shutdown.
  • Added clearer shutdown status reporting when gateway release cannot be confirmed.

• Bug Fixes

  • Prevented shared or externally managed gateways from being stopped accidentally.
  • Invalid gateway port settings are safely ignored with appropriate warnings.
  • Teardown failures no longer obscure the original onboarding or validation error.

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• src/lib/onboard/abort-gateway-teardown.test.ts
• src/lib/onboard/abort-gateway-teardown.ts
• src/lib/onboard/inference-selection-validation.test.ts
• src/lib/tunnel/gateway-stop.ts
• src/lib/tunnel/services-gateway-ownership.test.ts
• src/lib/tunnel/services-sandbox.test.ts
• src/lib/tunnel/services.ts

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• src/lib/onboard/inference-selection-validation.test.ts
• src/lib/tunnel/services.ts
• src/lib/tunnel/services-gateway-ownership.test.ts
• src/lib/onboard/abort-gateway-teardown.ts

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📝 Walkthrough

Walkthrough

The change adds orphan managed-gateway teardown for failed onboarding, validates gateway ownership before teardown, and reports explicit gateway release outcomes during service shutdown. Tests cover ownership, authority, release scope, failure handling, and fatal-exit behavior.

Changes

Gateway lifecycle cleanup

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Gateway release scope and outcomes src/lib/tunnel/gateway-port-resolution.ts, src/lib/tunnel/gateway-stop.ts, src/lib/tunnel/services-gateway-ownership.test.ts	Gateway stopping validates NEMOCLAW_GATEWAY_PORT, preserves shared gateways, and returns explicit release outcomes.
Service stop outcome handling src/lib/tunnel/services.ts, src/lib/tunnel/services-gateway-ownership.test.ts, src/lib/tunnel/services-sandbox.test.ts	stopAll handles explicit gateway ports without sandbox names and reports partial stops when release is unscoped or unconfirmed.
Orphan gateway ownership and teardown src/lib/onboard/abort-gateway-teardown.ts, src/lib/onboard/abort-gateway-teardown.test.ts	Abort handling checks sandbox ownership and supervision authority before releasing the managed gateway and removing its registration.
Onboarding failure integration src/lib/onboard/inference-selection-validation.ts, src/lib/onboard/inference-selection-validation.test.ts, src/lib/inference/onboard-probes.ts	Non-interactive validation and inference failures attempt teardown, log teardown errors, and still exit with status 1.

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

Mergeability Score: 🟡 Moderate · up to c7afe

Failed cleanup can leave a credential-bearing gateway running while reporting stop success, and a release failure can make later cleanup unreliable. Merge should wait for these bounded teardown risks to be addressed or explicitly accepted by the owner.

Sequence Diagram(s)

sequenceDiagram
  participant OnboardValidation
  participant AbortTeardown
  participant SandboxRegistry
  participant ManagedGateway
  participant ProcessExit

  OnboardValidation->>AbortTeardown: Handle validation failure
  AbortTeardown->>SandboxRegistry: Check ownership and authority
  SandboxRegistry-->>AbortTeardown: Ownership result
  AbortTeardown->>ManagedGateway: Release process and remove registration
  ManagedGateway-->>AbortTeardown: Teardown result
  AbortTeardown-->>OnboardValidation: Return or log teardown error
  OnboardValidation->>ProcessExit: Exit with status 1

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sequenceDiagram
  participant stopAll
  participant releaseGatewayPortForStop
  participant GatewayPortRegistry

  stopAll->>releaseGatewayPortForStop: Release gateway
  releaseGatewayPortForStop->>GatewayPortRegistry: Resolve scoped port
  GatewayPortRegistry-->>releaseGatewayPortForStop: Release outcome
  releaseGatewayPortForStop-->>stopAll: Update shutdown result

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Possibly related PRs

• NVIDIA/NemoClaw#8731: Related to onboarding inference probes and readiness validation.

Suggested labels: area: onboarding, bug-fix, v0.0.109

Suggested reviewers: cv, apurvvkumaria

🚥 Pre-merge checks | ✅ 4 | ❌ 1

❌ Failed checks (1 warning)

Check name	Status	Explanation	Resolution
Docstring Coverage	⚠️ Warning	Docstring coverage is 0.00% which is insufficient. The required threshold is 80.00%.	Write docstrings for the functions missing them to satisfy the coverage threshold.

✅ Passed checks (4 passed)

Check name	Status	Explanation
Description Check	✅ Passed	Check skipped - CodeRabbit’s high-level summary is enabled.
Title check	✅ Passed	The title clearly describes the primary change: tearing down managed gateways when onboarding aborts.
Linked Issues check	✅ Passed	The changes address issue #8952 by terminating applicable orphaned gateways after validation failures and preserving registration when release is unconfirmed.
Out of Scope Changes check	✅ Passed	The stop-path updates and tests support the stated gateway cleanup objectives and are not unrelated changes.

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The overall coverage in commit c7afe2a in the fix/8952-failed-onbo... branch remains at 96%, unchanged from commit e39efa6 in the main branch.

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Next action: Review the warnings below.
Findings: 0 blockers · 1 warning · 0 suggestions

Model lanes

• GPT-5.6 Terra (primary): Completed · medium confidence · 0 blockers · 1 warning · 0 suggestions
• Nemotron 3 Ultra (second opinion): Completed · high confidence · 0 blockers · 4 warnings · 0 suggestions
• Model comparison: normalized findings differ; normalized terminology decisions differ; normalized E2E selections differ; Nemotron reported the same number of blockers, 3 more warnings, the same number of suggestions.

5 terminology differences from the second opinion

Advisory only. These are normalized differences from the primary terminology receipt.

• NEMOCLAW-managed at src/lib/onboard/abort-gateway-teardown.ts:5: selected only by the second-opinion lane as established.
• gateway teardown authority at src/lib/onboard/abort-gateway-teardown.ts:19: selected only by the second-opinion lane as established.
• unconfirmed at src/lib/tunnel/gateway-stop.ts:23: selected only by the second-opinion lane as conflict.
• not-scoped at src/lib/tunnel/gateway-stop.ts:21: selected only by the second-opinion lane as define.
• GatewayStopOutcome at src/lib/tunnel/gateway-stop.ts:15: selected only by the second-opinion lane as define.

Second-opinion terminology and E2E selections are advisory. Live E2E does not run automatically for pull requests.

2 semantic terminology decisions

Terminology decisions are advisory. They affect the assessment only when a separate finding identifies concrete semantic impact.

• define — orphan managed gateway at src/lib/onboard/inference-selection-validation.test.ts:477: Define this term when it appears in user-facing explanatory text. The test title has sufficient local context.
• established — externally supervised at src/lib/onboard/abort-gateway-teardown.ts:89: Keep the established term and its existing lifecycle-authority meaning.

E2E guidance

Advisory only. A maintainer can dispatch the default E2E suite for the commit under review.

Recommended E2E: inference-routing

Manual-only E2E: onboard-repair, onboard-resume, cloud-onboard, network-policy
The manual PR workflow does not run these selectors for the commit under review. Run them from reviewed code on main.

1 optional E2E recommendation

• concurrent-gateway-ports

1 warning · 0 suggestions

Warnings

Warnings do not block.

PRA-1 Warning — Cover the smoke-probe abort teardown path

• Location: src/lib/inference/onboard-probes.ts:1215
• Category: tests
• Problem: The failed `verifyOnboardInferenceSmoke` branch now invokes `teardownOrphanManagedGatewayOnAbort` before `process.exit(1)`, but the checked-in inference probe tests do not exercise `verifyOnboardInferenceSmoke`.
• Impact: A later change can remove, reorder, or break cleanup for host-side smoke failures while custom-endpoint validation tests remain passing.
• Recommendation: Add focused `verifyOnboardInferenceSmoke` tests that mock a failed probe, assert abort teardown precedes `process.exit(1)`, and assert teardown failure does not suppress the exit.
• Verification: Read `src/lib/inference/onboard-probes.test.ts` for tests that call `verifyOnboardInferenceSmoke`; none currently exercise the new failure branch.
• Test coverage: Mock a failed OpenAI-like smoke probe and the abort teardown helper. Verify teardown runs before `process.exit(1)`. Add a second case where teardown throws or cannot load and verify `process.exit(1)` still occurs.
• Evidence: src/lib/inference/onboard-probes.ts:1215-1229 src/lib/inference/onboard-probes.test.ts:1-1327 src/lib/onboard/inference-selection-validation.test.ts:477-531 covers a separate validation helper path.

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🧹 Nitpick comments (1)

src/lib/inference/onboard-probes.ts (1)

1218-1228: 🎯 Functional Correctness | 🔵 Trivial | ⚡ Quick win

Add fatal-path regression tests for verifyOnboardInferenceSmoke.

When VITEST is disabled, assert that teardownOrphanManagedGatewayOnAbort runs before process.exit(1). Also assert that teardown failures do not change the fatal exit.

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In `@src/lib/inference/onboard-probes.ts` around lines 1218 - 1228, Add fatal-path
regression tests for verifyOnboardInferenceSmoke covering the non-VITEST path:
assert teardownOrphanManagedGatewayOnAbort is invoked before process.exit(1),
and verify that a teardown failure is caught without changing the fatal exit
behavior.

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Inline comments:
In `@src/lib/onboard/abort-gateway-teardown.ts`:
- Around line 108-130: Update the abort teardown flow around release and
removeRegistration so gateway registration is removed only when release({ port
}) completes with result.released true; retain it when release throws or reports
released false, while preserving the existing warnings. Add tests covering both
thrown release and an unreleased result.

In `@src/lib/onboard/inference-selection-validation.test.ts`:
- Around line 501-502: Strengthen both tests around
teardownOrphanManagedGatewayOnAbort and exit by asserting teardown’s first mock
invocation order is less than exit’s first invocation order, while retaining the
existing call-count and exit-argument assertions.

In `@src/lib/tunnel/gateway-stop.ts`:
- Around line 15-21: Update GatewayStopOutcome and releaseGatewayPortForStop()
to represent a scoped release where released is false and skipped is false. In
src/lib/tunnel/services.ts lines 553-565, have stopAll() print a partial-stop
message for that outcome instead of “All services stopped.” In
src/lib/tunnel/services-gateway-ownership.test.ts lines 288-314, set
NEMOCLAW_GATEWAY_PORT for the explicit-port case and verify the unconfirmed
outcome and partial-stop message.

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Nitpick comments:
In `@src/lib/inference/onboard-probes.ts`:
- Around line 1218-1228: Add fatal-path regression tests for
verifyOnboardInferenceSmoke covering the non-VITEST path: assert
teardownOrphanManagedGatewayOnAbort is invoked before process.exit(1), and
verify that a teardown failure is caught without changing the fatal exit
behavior.

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• src/lib/onboard/inference-selection-validation.test.ts
• src/lib/onboard/inference-selection-validation.ts
• src/lib/tunnel/gateway-port-resolution.ts
• src/lib/tunnel/gateway-stop.ts
• src/lib/tunnel/services-gateway-ownership.test.ts
• src/lib/tunnel/services.ts

[senthilr-nv]

Claiming the two main-CI regressions introduced by #8993 in run 31702093707: source-architecture job 94453704389 and inference-validation job 94453704433. The shared root is incomplete integration of the new abort-teardown behavior: its standalone production module exceeds the onboarding root-file ratchet and adds five unrecorded dependency edges, while the existing non-interactive validation test did not inject the new teardown dependency. I found no open PR owning these exact failures; #8972 changes the same budget for unrelated Model Router metrics. I’ll prepare one small draft fix without weakening the abort cleanup behavior.