fix(messaging): retain stopped channel providers

[prekshivyas]

Summary

PR #10047 retained a stopped Discord provider only when Discord also appeared in the active channel list. Sandbox rebuilds exclude stopped channels from that list, so this change retains the exact existing static provider for the actual rebuild state.

Changes

• Include retained static provider definitions when a channel is stopped and absent from enabledChannels.
• Continue to exclude stopped-channel token definitions and runtime activation.
• Test the production state with enabledChannels: [] and disabledChannels: ["discord"].
• Confirm that active and stopped channels reject a provider with the wrong type.

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:
• 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: Exact provider name, type, and credential-key matching remains required. The regression test confirms that mismatched active and stopped providers remain detached.
• Non-success, skipped, or missing CI check accepted by maintainer — check name, approval link, and follow-up issue:

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• 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 — npx vitest run --project cli src/lib/onboard/messaging-prep.test.ts src/lib/onboard/sandbox-messaging-preflight.test.ts (29 passed); npx vitest run --project integration test/hermes-discord-credential-binding.test.ts (7 passed)
• Applicable broad gate passed — npm test for broad runtime/test-harness changes; npm run check for repo-wide validation/coverage changes — command/result:
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• 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: Prekshi Vyas prekshiv@nvidia.com

Summary by CodeRabbit

• Bug Fixes
  • Preserved static provider credentials when a messaging channel is disabled but retained in the selected configuration.
  • Improved provider matching for disabled channels while preventing reuse of incompatible or untyped providers.
  • Added coverage for both active and stopped channel states.

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📝 Walkthrough

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Changes

Messaging credential retention

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Retain disabled provider credentials src/lib/onboard/messaging-prep.ts	Credential filtering retains disabled-channel definitions when their provider uses retainWhileDisabled. Provider reuse accepts matching retained bindings while excluding non-retained disabled credentials.
Validate active and stopped channel reuse test/hermes-discord-credential-binding.test.ts	Discord test setup represents disabled channels with an empty enabled-channel list. The provider-reuse test covers both active and stopped channel states.

Estimated code review effort: 2 (Simple) | ~10 minutes

Merge Risk: 🔵 Low · up to b20f1

The change is mergeable with explicit owner follow-up because the regression test does not directly assert that a matching stopped-channel provider is retained and reusable, leaving a bounded correctness gap in the intended behavior.

Suggested reviewers: brandonpelfrey, cv, dnandakumar-nv

🚥 Pre-merge checks | ✅ 5

✅ Passed checks (5 passed)

Check name	Status	Explanation
Description Check	✅ Passed	Check skipped - CodeRabbit’s high-level summary is enabled.
Title check	✅ Passed	The title clearly and concisely describes retaining providers for stopped messaging channels, which is the main change.
Docstring Coverage	✅ Passed	Docstring check was indeterminate for this PR — some files could not be analyzed in time. Not blocking.
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Code Coverage Overview

Languages: TypeScript

TypeScript / code-coverage/plugin

The overall line coverage in commit fd89170 in the fix/stopped-discord-... branch remains at 96%, unchanged from commit b6e5936 in the main branch.

TypeScript / code-coverage/cli

The overall line coverage in commit fd89170 in the fix/stopped-discord-... branch remains at 84%, unchanged from commit b6e5936 in the main branch.

Show a line coverage summary of the most impacted files.

File	main b6e5936	fix/stopped-discord-... fd89170	+/-
src/lib/state/m...-acquisition.ts	82%	82%	0%
src/lib/onboard...ssaging-prep.ts	100%	100%	0%
src/lib/sandbox...rce-identity.ts	82%	82%	0%
src/lib/onboard...uild-context.ts	73%	74%	+1%
src/lib/core/wait.ts	97%	99%	+2%
src/lib/onboard...host-forward.ts	61%	84%	+23%

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_{Updated August 24, 2026 03:53 UTC}

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Actionable comments posted: 1

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Inline comments:
In `@test/hermes-discord-credential-binding.test.ts`:
- Around line 69-74: The test cases around prepareDiscord should include a
stopped-channel scenario with a providerMatches result of true, then assert that
the matching provider is included in reusableMessagingProviders. Retain the
existing rejection case while adding this positive reuse assertion to verify
stopped credentials are reusable when the provider matches.

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