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Summary

Provider-profile setup now inspects existing OpenShell state before importing a profile. Exact profiles are reused, only a precise not-found result permits import, and incompatible or inconclusive state fails closed instead of producing false existence claims.

Related Issue

Part of #10155

Changes

  • Export and validate an existing provider profile before deciding whether to reuse or import.
  • Accept exact reuse only when the untrusted export JSON has the expected identifier, empty credentials, endpoints, and binaries, plus the required inference capability.
  • Import only after the exact OpenShell not-found result. Treat incompatible profiles and every other inspection failure as terminal.
  • Re-export and revalidate after an import race so a concurrent compatible import succeeds while incompatible state still fails closed.
  • Suppress raw OpenShell inspection and import diagnostics so provider output cannot expose credentials in logs.
  • Use one OpenShell-owned OpenAI profile contract for inference, credentials, messaging, MCP, snapshot clone, Portable Hermes, and onboarding provider mutations.
  • Inject token-rotation session loading so direct security tests do not mutate process-global module or home-directory state.

The shared reconciliation helper owns one provider-profile state machine for every current publication consumer. Repeating the export, import-race, validation, and diagnostic-suppression decisions in each caller would allow those security decisions to drift.

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: Independent review on exact commit 9dcfc31e5 passed all nine security categories with no findings. The review verified exact profile validation, authorization-before-mutation ordering, diagnostic suppression, bounded failure behavior, adapter ownership, test isolation, and the disjoint current-main merge. The earlier complete cumulative review chain remains applicable because the final feature correction is byte-identical to reviewed commit 5d2c4e45c and the merge had no conflict-resolution diff.
  • Non-success, skipped, or missing CI check accepted by maintainer, check name, approval link, and follow-up issue:

DGX Station Hardware Evidence

  • Tested on DGX Station
  • Tested commit: Not applicable
  • Station profile/scenario: Not applicable
  • Result: Not applicable
  • Supporting evidence: Not applicable

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. Exact current-head evidence: focused provider-profile and token-rotation tests 19/19; affected callers 184/184; changed-test growth guardrails 32/32; CLI typecheck and repository checks passed.
  • Applicable broad gate passed. npm run validate:pr passed on exact commit 9dcfc31e5, including repository checks, source-shape checks, growth guardrails, secret scanning, CLI typecheck, pre-commit, commitlint, and pre-push validation.
  • 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)

Documentation Writer Review

  • Documentation writer subagent reviewed the completed changes
  • Result: no-docs-needed
  • Evidence: The refreshed merge preserves the reviewed OpenAI provider-profile adapter contract and credential-rotation dependency injection byte-for-byte. Main changes are disjoint. The change does not alter a public command, configuration, workflow, default, supported behavior, or user-visible diagnostic.
  • Agent: Codex Desktop

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

Summary by CodeRabbit

  • Bug Fixes
    • Provider setup now validates exported profiles before importing credentials.
    • Added safer handling for missing, incompatible, unreadable, or failed profile exports.
    • Prevented invalid provider attachments when profile validation fails.
    • Improved reuse and verification of profiles created concurrently.
    • Updated diagnostics with clearer guidance while suppressing sensitive command output.
    • Improved OpenAI gateway credential setup and endpointless profile validation.
  • Tests
    • Expanded coverage across provider registration, messaging setup, gateway routes, onboarding, and recovery scenarios.

Signed-off-by: Rebecca Sliter <571084+rsliter@users.noreply.github.com>
@rsliter rsliter self-assigned this Aug 24, 2026
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Code Coverage Overview

Languages: TypeScript

TypeScript / code-coverage/plugin

The overall line coverage in commit 9dcfc31 in the codex/fix-provider-p... branch remains at 96%, unchanged from commit 722d75e in the main branch.

TypeScript / code-coverage/cli

The overall line coverage in commit 9dcfc31 in the codex/fix-provider-p... branch remains at 83%, unchanged from commit 722d75e in the main branch.

Show a line coverage summary of the most impacted files.
File main 722d75e codex/fix-provider-p... 9dcfc31 +/-
src/lib/onboard...host-forward.ts 84% 55% -29%
src/lib/messagi...hat/contract.ts 94% 87% -7%
src/lib/hermes-...rovider-auth.ts 75% 69% -6%
src/lib/adapter...shell/client.ts 89% 87% -2%
src/lib/sandbox/config.ts 79% 79% 0%
src/lib/onboard...uild-context.ts 74% 74% 0%
src/lib/actions...dentials-add.ts 58% 62% +4%
src/lib/name-validation.ts 82% 97% +15%
src/lib/sandbox...rotate-token.ts 0% 88% +88%
src/lib/adapter...ider-profile.ts 0% 96% +96%

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Walkthrough

The provider profile flow now exports profiles for validation, imports only missing profiles, suppresses command output, and distinguishes export failures. Tests across inference actions, messaging, MCP bridging, sandbox creation, and onboarding model the updated command sequence.

Changes

Provider profile export flow

Layer / File(s) Summary
Profile export and race validation
src/lib/messaging/provider-profile.ts, src/lib/messaging/provider-profile.test.ts
The runner exports profiles before import, validates imported profiles, suppresses command output, and handles concurrent profile creation.
Bundled OpenAI profile setup
src/lib/actions/credentials-add.ts, src/commands/credentials.test.ts
The bundled OpenAI gateway profile now validates endpointless compatibility before import and provider registration.
MCP profile attachment validation
src/lib/actions/sandbox/mcp-bridge-provider-mutation.ts, src/lib/actions/sandbox/mcp-bridge-provider-profile.test.ts
MCP bridge handling reports OpenAI and MCP export failures with distinct diagnostics.
Inference action profile fixtures
src/lib/actions/inference-set*.test.ts, src/lib/actions/inference-set.test-support.ts
Inference tests return serialized endpointless OpenAI and Anthropic profiles and expect export-based registration.
Onboarding and sandbox integrations
src/lib/onboard/..., src/lib/actions/sandbox/snapshot-managed-clone-providers.test.ts, src/lib/messaging/applier/setup-applier.test.ts
Integration tests provide exact exported profiles and verify export, import ordering, inspection, and failure paths.
Shared endpointless profile mocks
test/helpers/*, test/mcp/*, test/onboarding/*, test/support/setup-inference-test-harness.ts
Shared test helpers handle endpointless OpenAI and NemoClaw profile export and import commands across subprocess and onboarding tests.

Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~25 minutes

Merge Risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to 03e09

Provider-profile credential setup can hang if an export or import command stalls because the operation timeout is not applied. Merge should wait for the timeout handling and regression assertions to be added.

Sequence Diagram(s)

sequenceDiagram
  participant SetupFlow
  participant EndpointlessProviderProfileRunner
  participant OpenShell
  SetupFlow->>EndpointlessProviderProfileRunner: validate provider profile
  EndpointlessProviderProfileRunner->>OpenShell: export profile with suppressed output
  OpenShell-->>EndpointlessProviderProfileRunner: profile or missing-profile result
  EndpointlessProviderProfileRunner->>OpenShell: import profile when missing
  OpenShell-->>EndpointlessProviderProfileRunner: import result
  EndpointlessProviderProfileRunner->>OpenShell: export profile for post-import validation
  OpenShell-->>SetupFlow: validated endpointless profile
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Possibly related PRs

  • NVIDIA/NemoClaw#9913: Introduces the endpointless provider-profile infrastructure extended by this change.

Suggested labels: bug-fix

Suggested reviewers: cv, apurvvkumaria

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In `@src/lib/actions/inference-set.test-support.ts`:
- Around line 106-112: Update the provider:profile helper in
src/lib/actions/inference-set.test-support.ts at lines 106-112 to return an
Anthropic fixture when options.type is "anthropic", while preserving the OpenAI
fixture otherwise. Add the corresponding Anthropic endpointless profile fixture
in src/lib/actions/inference-set-https-pin-runtime.test.ts at lines 18-24, and
update the providerType-based selection at lines 53-59 to choose the matching
provider-family fixture.

In `@src/lib/messaging/provider-profile.ts`:
- Around line 95-97: Update the provider profile import flow around runOpenshell
and its result.diagnostic handling so OpenShell stdout/stderr are never
forwarded in McpBridgeError; return a fixed safe diagnostic or apply reliable
redaction before propagation. Preserve the existing import failure behavior and
add an MCP bridge regression test using a secret-like import error to verify
command output and secrets remain hidden.
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Security and technical review: FAIL until the current revision is corrected.

The fail-closed goal is sound, and the change avoids printing profile export/import output directly. The current implementation is not mergeable because it breaks first-time profile setup and leaves two narrower security/test gaps.

Blocking findings

  1. First-time profile setup no longer works with the repository's current OpenShell behavior. The implementation imports only when the export diagnostic matches provider profile ... not found. Managed-image qualification instead stops with OpenShell provider profile 'openai' could not be read for validation. Both OpenClaw MCP discovery passes and all-agent managed activation fail at this step. Classify the actual credential-free absent-profile response at the adapter boundary, preserve the fail-closed response for unknown export failures, and rerun managed-image qualification.

  2. The shared export-before-import call sequence is not migrated across the existing suite. Ten of twelve CLI shards fail because callers and harnesses return unrelated or malformed data for the new export call before reaching the behavior each test owns. Update every affected mock/helper to model profile export without masking its original contract, then run the full CLI suite. The focused 231 tests, CLI type-check, and repository checks pass locally, but they do not cover this aggregate migration gap.

  3. Provider-family fixtures are incomplete. createCompatibleProviderCapture() always returns the OpenAI endpointless profile even when options.type is anthropic, and the HTTPS pin runtime fixture makes the same assumption. Add the matching Anthropic profile fixture and select it by provider type so the tests preserve the provider-family contract.

  4. Import diagnostics can cross the MCP error boundary without a regression test. ensureEndpointlessProviderProfile() returns raw import command output in diagnostic, and both MCP profile callers use that value as the McpBridgeError message. Replace it with a fixed safe diagnostic or apply the repository's reliable redaction before propagation. Add a regression test with secret-like command output proving neither the command output nor the secret reaches the error.

Security rubric

  • Secrets and sensitive data: WARNING — command output is suppressed, but raw import diagnostics can still become MCP errors.
  • Input validation and injection: FAIL — the absent-profile classifier does not recognize the real supported-runtime response.
  • Authentication and authorization: PASS — no privilege or authorization expansion.
  • Dependencies and supply chain: PASS — no dependency or workflow change.
  • Error handling and information disclosure: FAIL — valid first-time setup becomes terminal, and raw import diagnostics remain available to an error path.
  • Cryptography: PASS — no cryptographic change.
  • Configuration and deployment: PASS — the endpointless profile contract remains fail-closed for incompatible profiles.
  • Security testing: FAIL — aggregate CI and managed-image qualification fail; the fixtures do not represent the supported runtime and both provider families.
  • System security: FAIL — affected consumers stop before their intended state transition, including managed activation and MCP discovery.

No user documentation change is required for this internal reconciliation fix. Please update the PR's CI assessment after the fixes; the current failures are caused by this change rather than unrelated infrastructure. The diff is 406 additions and 130 deletions, so it is below the large-change flag threshold. DCO and the contributor's verified commit are present.

Rebecca Sliter remains the original contributor and must receive attribution in the final squash commit.

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Advisor assessment: No blocking advisor findings reported
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Synthesis status: Completed · high confidence · 0 blockers · 0 warnings · 0 suggestions

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Rebecca Sliter remains the author of the provider-profile reconciliation, and her original commits are unchanged. I added one signed, test-only follow-up that updates nine onboarding fixtures to use the shared profile-export contract from her implementation.

Validation:

  • 367 of 368 affected integration tests passed. The remaining moved shell-safety test fails with the same missing helper path on current main, so it is a base regression rather than a PR failure.
  • 140 focused source tests passed.
  • npm run validate:pr passed, including repository policy, TypeScript, secret scanning, source-shape, and growth checks.
  • The maintainer follow-up is Verified, and the DCO check passes.

Large-change flag: the current PR changes 799 added and 198 removed lines across 45 files. Please review it as a large change.

Fresh CI and automated review are running. I will address actionable findings before merge.

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Security follow-up

The remaining PR Review Advisor blocker is addressed. credentials add --type openai now uses the same endpointless-profile validation as the inference and MCP paths:

  • an existing profile with credential, endpoint, or binary authority fails before provider create;
  • a missing profile is imported before provider creation;
  • failures use fixed diagnostics and do not expose command output or secrets.

Regression coverage proves both the fail-closed and first-time setup paths. The focused suite passed 117 tests, and the CLI build, CLI type-check, repository checks, normal hooks, and npm run validate:pr all passed. The new commit is Verified and signed off.

The large-change flag remains: the current PR changes 904 added and 198 removed lines across 47 files. Rebecca Sliter remains the original contributor and primary author of the reconciliation work. Fresh CI and automated review are running.

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In `@src/lib/actions/credentials-add.ts`:
- Around line 127-132: Update the ensureEndpointlessProviderProfile call to pass
a runOpenshellProviderCommand wrapper that sets timeout to
OPENSHELL_OPERATION_TIMEOUT_MS, ensuring endpointless profile export and import
commands use the action timeout. Add assertions in the relevant credential tests
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rsliter and others added 6 commits August 24, 2026 22:22
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Provider-profile timeout follow-up\n\nThe shared OpenShell provider-profile helper now applies the repository's 30-second operation bound to export, import, and concurrent-create reinspection. A timed-out inspection fails closed before any provider mutation.\n\nValidation:\n\n- 133 focused source and integration tests passed.\n- The previously failing sandbox fixture now supplies the checked-in endpointless messaging-profile contract and passes.\n- CLI type checking, repository checks, architecture and growth budgets, secret scanning, commit hooks, and full PR validation passed.\n- The follow-up commit is Verified and signed off.\n\nPrior CI classification:\n\n- CLI shard 5 was PR-related and is fixed in this update.\n- CLI shards 8 and 11 are inherited documentation-reference regressions in files unchanged by this PR.\n- CLI shard 10 failed in coverage-report parsing without a product test assertion.\n\nThis remains a large change and should receive the required review attention. Rebecca Sliter remains the original contributor and primary author. Fresh CI and automated review are running.

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Reviewed commit 9261dea80a889a7255b308af55bd0713122a2fc2. I found no concrete unresolved defect in the complete diff. The accepted scope in #10155 covers exact provider-profile reconciliation, so the Product Scope Gate does not block this change. The latest commit addresses the prior timeout finding, all review threads are resolved, DCO passes, and GitHub marks every PR commit as Verified.

I am submitting a neutral review because checks and the PR Review Advisor synthesis for this commit are still running. Those pending gates are not defects and are not the basis for a changes-requested review.

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Exact security review: PASS for commit against base .\n\nI reviewed the complete 71-file effective diff and accepted issue #10155. No blocking security finding remains.\n\n1. Secrets and credentials: PASS. Profile command output is suppressed, errors use fixed diagnostics, and representative secret values do not cross the error boundary.\n2. Input validation and data sanitization: PASS. Existing profiles must parse as one exact JSON object with the expected ID, empty credential, endpoint, and binary arrays, and the expected inference flag. Missing-profile classification is narrow and fails closed for ambiguous results.\n3. Authentication and authorization: PASS. Unavailable or unauthorized OpenShell profile inspection stops before provider mutation.\n4. Dependencies and third-party libraries: PASS. No dependency or artifact trust change.\n5. Error handling and logging: PASS. Timeouts, unreadable state, incompatible profiles, and import failures remain failures without raw command output.\n6. Cryptography and data protection: PASS. No cryptographic mechanism changes, and credential transport remains in the existing environment and OpenShell boundaries.\n7. Configuration and security headers: PASS. The endpointless profile contract does not accept credential, endpoint, or binary authority.\n8. Security testing: PASS. Focused tests cover exact reuse, missing import, malformed and conflicting profiles, concurrent import, timeout, secret redaction, credential rotation, routed resume, MCP, Hermes Portable, and clone paths.\n9. System security: PASS. Provider mutation remains ordered after profile validation, concurrent creation is re-inspected exactly, gateway scoping is preserved, and clone rollback and authority fences remain intact.\n\nAll current review threads are resolved. This is an exact security verdict, not merge approval. Required CI and the PR description receipt are still incomplete.

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Correction to my immediately preceding review: this version restores the exact revision binding and Markdown line breaks.

Exact security review: PASS for commit a78e69ba54a23a338e285a91881f1b3e3e85f951 against base 4bd9c1dbc72898753aa31fd878388c64b4099179.

I reviewed the complete 71-file effective diff and accepted issue #10155. No blocking security finding remains.

  1. Secrets and credentials: PASS. Profile command output is suppressed, errors use fixed diagnostics, and representative secret values do not cross the error boundary.
  2. Input validation and data sanitization: PASS. Existing profiles must parse as one exact JSON object with the expected ID, empty credential, endpoint, and binary arrays, and the expected inference flag. Missing-profile classification is narrow and fails closed for ambiguous results.
  3. Authentication and authorization: PASS. Unavailable or unauthorized OpenShell profile inspection stops before provider mutation.
  4. Dependencies and third-party libraries: PASS. No dependency or artifact trust change.
  5. Error handling and logging: PASS. Timeouts, unreadable state, incompatible profiles, and import failures remain failures without raw command output.
  6. Cryptography and data protection: PASS. No cryptographic mechanism changes, and credential transport remains in the existing environment and OpenShell boundaries.
  7. Configuration and security headers: PASS. The endpointless profile contract does not accept credential, endpoint, or binary authority.
  8. Security testing: PASS. Focused tests cover exact reuse, missing import, malformed and conflicting profiles, concurrent import, timeout, secret redaction, credential rotation, routed resume, MCP, Hermes Portable, and clone paths.
  9. System security: PASS. Provider mutation remains ordered after profile validation, concurrent creation is re-inspected exactly, gateway scoping is preserved, and clone rollback and authority fences remain intact.

All current review threads are resolved. This is an exact security verdict, not merge approval. Required CI and the PR description receipt are still incomplete.

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Approved commit 9dcfc31. Required and expanded CI pass, CodeRabbit passes, the PR Review Advisor reports no findings, and all review threads are resolved.

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ericksoa dismissed apurvvkumaria’s stale review August 25, 2026 14:19

All four requested changes were addressed on later commits. Exact commit 9dcfc31 passes required and expanded CI, CodeRabbit, managed-image qualification, and the PR Review Advisor with zero findings.

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<!-- markdownlint-disable MD041 -->
## Summary

Fix the Hermes Slack policy ambiguity reported by the E2E rerun. The
Slack app provider now owns the specific `/api/apps.connections.open`
endpoint path, while the bot provider remains the less-specific fallback
for other Slack REST routes.

OpenShell v0.0.106 selects request-pipeline metadata from the matching
endpoint with the most-specific path. This removes the equal-specificity
credential-provider conflict without combining or widening the app and
bot credentials.

## Related Issue

Part of #10153 and #10155.

## E2E Root-Cause Claim

E2E root cause: Hermes Slack policy / sandbox creation /
equal-specificity `slack.com:443` routes use different credential
providers

Source run: https://github.com/NVIDIA/NemoClaw/actions/runs/32841422570
(run 32841422570, attempt 2)

Affected jobs:

- #10153 item 3: common egress Hermes open-reference, job 97810110864
- #10153 item 7: channels stop/start Hermes, job 97810112918
- #10155 Hermes Discord, job 97810112417
- #10155 Hermes Slack, job 97810112828

Signature: `network policies 'slack' endpoint[0] and endpoint[1] overlap
with conflicting credential_binding.provider metadata`

Scope: one root cause across four jobs. The separate provider-profile
reconciliation failure from item 7 is not part of this PR and is already
present in the base branch through #10159.

## Changes

- Add the exact Slack app endpoint path to both shipped Hermes policy
variants.
- Verify the provider and path shape in the effective sandbox-create
policy.
- Verify the same shape in the permissive runtime policy.

## Type of Change

- [x] 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

- [x] Tests added or updated for changed behavior
- [ ] Existing tests cover changed behavior. Justification:
- [ ] Tests not applicable. Justification:
- [x] Sensitive paths changed (security, policy, credentials, preflight,
onboarding, inference, runner, sandbox, or messaging)
- [x] Sensitive-path review completed or maintainer-approved waiver
recorded. Reviewer/approval link/justification: The completed
nine-category review found no security blocker. The change narrows
credential selection by endpoint path and does not widen hosts, ports,
methods, protocols, provider access, or credential visibility.
- [ ] Non-success, skipped, or missing CI check accepted by maintainer.
Check name, approval link, and follow-up issue:

## DGX Station Hardware Evidence

- [ ] Tested on DGX Station
- Tested commit: Not applicable
- Station profile/scenario: Not applicable
- Result: Not applicable
- Supporting evidence: Not applicable

## Verification

- [x] PR description includes a `Signed-off-by:` line and every commit
appears as `Verified` in GitHub
- [x] 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
- [x] Targeted behavior tests pass for the current change set, or tests
are marked not applicable above. Focused source tests passed 131/131 and
`npm run validate:pr` passed at exact head
`77604a11c500223c300f908a767f059e9b9198e4`. Focused E2E run 32908363585
selected only `channels-stop-start-hermes`; all six lifecycle phases and
cleanup passed.
- [ ] Applicable broad gate passed. Exact-head managed-image run
32905477783 and focused E2E run 32908363585 passed. CI run 32905477471
still fails in two untouched local-gateway fixture tests after one
failed-jobs-only retry; both tests pass in isolated exact-head runs. No
further retry was requested.
- [x] Quality Gates section completed with required justifications or
waivers
- [x] No secrets, API keys, or credentials committed
- [ ] `npm run docs` builds without warnings (doc changes only)
- [ ] Doc pages follow the [style
guide](https://github.com/NVIDIA/NemoClaw/blob/main/docs/CONTRIBUTING.md)
(doc changes only)
- [ ] New doc pages include SPDX header and frontmatter (new pages only)

## Documentation Writer Review

- [x] Documentation writer subagent reviewed the completed changes
- Result: `no-docs-needed`
- Evidence: The change restores the existing Hermes Slack
credential-routing contract and changes no documented command,
configuration, workflow, default, or diagnostic. Reviewed exact head
`77604a11c500223c300f908a767f059e9b9198e4`; focused source tests passed
131/131, `npm run validate:pr` passed, and exact-head focused run
32908363585 passed `channels-stop-start-hermes` with all lifecycle and
cleanup phases successful.
- Agent: Codex Desktop
<!-- docs-review-head-sha: 77604a1 -->
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---
Signed-off-by: Rebecca Sliter <571084+rsliter@users.noreply.github.com>


<!-- This is an auto-generated comment: release notes by coderabbit.ai
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## Summary by CodeRabbit

* **Bug Fixes**
* Improved Slack connectivity by explicitly supporting the app
connections endpoint.
* Updated access validation to distinguish app-specific routes from
host-wide and WebSocket connections.
* Added credential-binding coverage to ensure Slack app connections use
the correct endpoint.

<!-- end of auto-generated comment: release notes by coderabbit.ai -->

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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>
harjothkhara added a commit to harjothkhara/NemoClaw that referenced this pull request Aug 26, 2026
ensureWebSearchProviderProfiles() ran `provider profile import` for every
selected web-search provider on every onboard and every rebuild, with no
check for whether the profile was already there. The brave, tavily, and
tavily-hermes-v1 profiles live in one host-global OpenShell custom-profile
store shared by every sandbox on the host, so the second onboard and every
rebuild after the first collided with the profile the first onboard had
already imported. The collision was tolerated, but the import call did not
set suppressOutput, so runner.ts echoed OpenShell's redacted "already
exists" diagnostic to the terminal on every routine rebuild, where it
reads as a failure.

Probe with `provider profile export <id> --output json` first and skip the
import when the profile is already registered, mirroring what
ensureMessagingBridgeProfiles() does for bridge profiles for the same
reason. Both calls now suppress raw output so a diagnostic only reaches
the user through the existing redacted error path.

A first pass at this fix stated the destructive-host recreate failure the
issue also describes was a separate symptom this couldn't explain, because
the tolerated collision path structurally cannot reach the fatal exit. That
was wrong: `rebuild` replaces process.exit with a throw that IS caught by
the recreate phase and produces exactly the reported "Recovery recreate
failed" output, so the fatal path is reachable through this exact function.
The regex gating that path (`/already exists/i` on raw stderr+stdout) is a
plain substring test with no normalization, while OpenShell can wrap styled
output across a box-drawing continuation depending on terminal width or
TTY-ness (the same failure shape NVIDIA#10159 fixed for the sibling "not found"
match, in src/lib/adapters/openshell/provider-profile.ts). A wrapped
"already exists" message would miss the old regex and fall through to the
fatal exit — a credible, host-conditional explanation for the issue's own
observation that the identical diagnostic was fatal on one host and benign
on another. Extracted that file's ANSI/CR/box-drawing normalization into an
exported normalizeOpenshellDiagnostic() helper and applied it to this
tolerance check too. The new probe now bypasses this fragile match entirely
in the common case (skip happens before any import attempt), so this PR
likely closes the destructive variant as a side effect, even though it
wasn't independently reproduced against the reporting host to confirm that.

A second review found the skip itself trusted a bare profile-ID match: an
existing host-global profile could share brave/tavily's ID while carrying
different endpoints, credentials, binaries, or inference capability — a
stale import from an older version, or an unrelated registration entirely
— and the code would accept it and register a provider against it without
ever checking. Added webSearchProfileMatchesCheckedInBoundary(), exporting
messaging-bridge-provider.ts's existing credentialBoundary() extractor to
compare the exported profile's boundary against the checked-in YAML's, on
both the initial probe and the post-race re-export. A mismatch now fails
closed with a diagnostic naming the profile and the removal command to
recover, instead of silently trusting unverified host state.

Two related, deliberately out-of-scope observations, disclosed rather than
folded in:

- src/lib/adapters/openshell/provider-profile.ts's own more general
  ensureEndpointlessProviderProfile() already centralizes an export/race/
  tolerate/validate state machine for a different profile family, and its
  own commit (NVIDIA#10159, "Part of NVIDIA#10155") explicitly warned that repeating
  these decisions per caller lets them drift. This is now a third
  hand-rolled copy alongside ensureMessagingBridgeProfiles(). It isn't a
  drop-in replacement here (it validates an empty endpoints/binaries
  contract that brave/tavily profiles don't have), so generalizing it is a
  design change beyond this issue's scope, not a blocking prerequisite for
  mirroring the existing bridge-profile idiom to fix a reported bug — but a
  maintainer may want to consolidate all of these into one shared helper.
- ensureBundledProviderProfile() in src/lib/actions/credentials-add.ts
  imports the same blueprint profile files with no probe and no
  suppressOutput, so `nemoclaw credentials add --type brave` still emits
  the same noise this PR fixes for onboard/rebuild. Not fixed here since
  it's a different command entry point; flagging for a maintainer.

Tests cover: no re-import for any of the three providers when already
registered; the probe uses each provider's own id rather than a
copy-pasted one; suppressOutput on both the probe and the import calls;
the box-drawing-wrapped tolerance case; the genuine race case; a race
winner whose profile fails boundary validation; an already-registered
profile that fails boundary validation directly; and the non-idempotent-
failure exit path. Every new/changed assertion was independently confirmed
load-bearing by targeted mutation.

Refs NVIDIA#10371

Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Signed-off-by: harjoth <harjoth.khara@gmail.com>
harjothkhara added a commit to harjothkhara/NemoClaw that referenced this pull request Aug 26, 2026
ensureWebSearchProviderProfiles() ran `provider profile import` for every
selected web-search provider on every onboard and every rebuild, with no
check for whether the profile was already there. The brave, tavily, and
tavily-hermes-v1 profiles live in one host-global OpenShell custom-profile
store shared by every sandbox on the host, so the second onboard and every
rebuild after the first collided with the profile the first onboard had
already imported. The collision was tolerated, but the import call did not
set suppressOutput, so runner.ts echoed OpenShell's redacted "already
exists" diagnostic to the terminal on every routine rebuild, where it
reads as a failure.

Probe with `provider profile export <id> --output json` first and skip the
import when the profile is already registered, mirroring what
ensureMessagingBridgeProfiles() does for bridge profiles for the same
reason. Both calls now suppress raw output so a diagnostic only reaches
the user through the existing redacted error path.

A first pass at this fix stated the destructive-host recreate failure the
issue also describes was a separate symptom this couldn't explain, because
the tolerated collision path structurally cannot reach the fatal exit. That
was wrong: `rebuild` replaces process.exit with a throw that IS caught by
the recreate phase and produces exactly the reported "Recovery recreate
failed" output, so the fatal path is reachable through this exact function.
The regex gating that path (`/already exists/i` on raw stderr+stdout) is a
plain substring test with no normalization, while OpenShell can wrap styled
output across a box-drawing continuation depending on terminal width or
TTY-ness (the same failure shape NVIDIA#10159 fixed for the sibling "not found"
match, in src/lib/adapters/openshell/provider-profile.ts). A wrapped
"already exists" message would miss the old regex and fall through to the
fatal exit — a credible, host-conditional explanation for the issue's own
observation that the identical diagnostic was fatal on one host and benign
on another. Extracted that file's ANSI/CR/box-drawing normalization into an
exported normalizeOpenshellDiagnostic() helper and applied it to this
tolerance check too. The new probe now bypasses this fragile match entirely
in the common case (skip happens before any import attempt), so this PR
likely closes the destructive variant as a side effect, even though it
wasn't independently reproduced against the reporting host to confirm that.

A second review found the skip itself trusted a bare profile-ID match: an
existing host-global profile could share brave/tavily's ID while carrying
different endpoints, credentials, binaries, or inference capability — a
stale import from an older version, or an unrelated registration entirely
— and the code would accept it and register a provider against it without
ever checking. Added webSearchProfileMatchesCheckedInBoundary(), exporting
messaging-bridge-provider.ts's existing credentialBoundary() extractor to
compare the exported profile's boundary against the checked-in YAML's, on
both the initial probe and the post-race re-export. A mismatch now fails
closed with a diagnostic naming the profile and the removal command to
recover, instead of silently trusting unverified host state.

A third review (the automated PR Review Advisor's Operations specialist)
found two remaining gaps: the probe, import, and race re-export had no
OpenShell operation timeout, so a stalled gateway could block onboarding
or rebuild indefinitely with no diagnostic; and any nonzero probe status
was treated as "profile missing," conflating a genuine absence with a
probe that failed for an unrelated reason (gateway unreachable,
unauthorized, timed out, malformed response) — silently attempting a
state-changing import in response to a read that never actually
completed, and misdirecting the operator toward an "update OpenShell"
recovery message that may not match the real cause. Added
OPENSHELL_OPERATION_TIMEOUT_MS to all three calls, and exported
isMissingProviderProfile() (provider-profile.ts's own existing
not-found classifier, already used by the more mature endpointless-
profile precedent) to gate the import path on a genuine "not found"
diagnostic rather than any failure. A probe failure that isn't a
recognized "not found" now fails closed immediately, naming the failed
operation and the redacted cause, without ever attempting an import.

Two related, deliberately out-of-scope observations, disclosed rather than
folded in:

- src/lib/adapters/openshell/provider-profile.ts's own more general
  ensureEndpointlessProviderProfile() already centralizes an export/race/
  tolerate/validate state machine for a different profile family, and its
  own commit (NVIDIA#10159, "Part of NVIDIA#10155") explicitly warned that repeating
  these decisions per caller lets them drift. This is now a third
  hand-rolled copy alongside ensureMessagingBridgeProfiles() (though it now
  reuses that function's credentialBoundary() extractor and this file's
  own isMissingProviderProfile()/normalizeOpenshellDiagnostic() rather than
  duplicating them outright). It isn't a drop-in replacement here (it
  validates an empty endpoints/binaries contract that brave/tavily
  profiles don't have), so generalizing it is a design change beyond this
  issue's scope, not a blocking prerequisite for mirroring the existing
  bridge-profile idiom to fix a reported bug — but a maintainer may want to
  consolidate all of these into one shared helper.
- ensureBundledProviderProfile() in src/lib/actions/credentials-add.ts
  imports the same blueprint profile files with no probe and no
  suppressOutput, so `nemoclaw credentials add --type brave` still emits
  the same noise this PR fixes for onboard/rebuild. Not fixed here since
  it's a different command entry point; flagging for a maintainer.

Tests cover: no re-import for any of the three providers when already
registered; the probe uses each provider's own id rather than a
copy-pasted one; suppressOutput and the operation timeout on the probe,
import, and race re-export; the box-drawing-wrapped tolerance case; the
genuine race case; a race winner whose profile fails boundary validation;
an already-registered profile that fails boundary validation directly; a
probe failure for a reason other than a missing profile (gateway/auth);
a probe that times out or fails to spawn; a failed post-race re-export;
and the pre-existing non-idempotent-failure exit path. Every new/changed
assertion was independently confirmed load-bearing by targeted mutation.

Refs NVIDIA#10371

Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Signed-off-by: harjoth <harjoth.khara@gmail.com>
harjothkhara added a commit to harjothkhara/NemoClaw that referenced this pull request Aug 26, 2026
ensureWebSearchProviderProfiles() ran `provider profile import` for every
selected web-search provider on every onboard and every rebuild, with no
check for whether the profile was already there. The brave, tavily, and
tavily-hermes-v1 profiles live in one host-global OpenShell custom-profile
store shared by every sandbox on the host, so the second onboard and every
rebuild after the first collided with the profile the first onboard had
already imported. The collision was tolerated, but the import call did not
set suppressOutput, so runner.ts echoed OpenShell's redacted "already
exists" diagnostic to the terminal on every routine rebuild, where it
reads as a failure.

Probe with `provider profile export <id> --output json` first and skip the
import when the profile is already registered, mirroring what
ensureMessagingBridgeProfiles() does for bridge profiles for the same
reason. Both calls now suppress raw output so a diagnostic only reaches
the user through the existing redacted error path.

A first pass at this fix stated the destructive-host recreate failure the
issue also describes was a separate symptom this couldn't explain, because
the tolerated collision path structurally cannot reach the fatal exit. That
was wrong: `rebuild` replaces process.exit with a throw that IS caught by
the recreate phase and produces exactly the reported "Recovery recreate
failed" output, so the fatal path is reachable through this exact function.
The regex gating that path (`/already exists/i` on raw stderr+stdout) is a
plain substring test with no normalization, while OpenShell can wrap styled
output across a box-drawing continuation depending on terminal width or
TTY-ness (the same failure shape NVIDIA#10159 fixed for the sibling "not found"
match, in src/lib/adapters/openshell/provider-profile.ts). A wrapped
"already exists" message would miss the old regex and fall through to the
fatal exit — a credible, host-conditional explanation for the issue's own
observation that the identical diagnostic was fatal on one host and benign
on another. Extracted that file's ANSI/CR/box-drawing normalization into an
exported normalizeOpenshellDiagnostic() helper and applied it to this
tolerance check too. The new probe now bypasses this fragile match entirely
in the common case (skip happens before any import attempt), so this PR
likely closes the destructive variant as a side effect, even though it
wasn't independently reproduced against the reporting host to confirm that.

A second review found the skip itself trusted a bare profile-ID match: an
existing host-global profile could share brave/tavily's ID while carrying
different endpoints, credentials, binaries, or inference capability — a
stale import from an older version, or an unrelated registration entirely
— and the code would accept it and register a provider against it without
ever checking. Added webSearchProfileMatchesCheckedInBoundary(), reusing a
credentialBoundary() extractor (see the fourth review, below, on where that
now lives) to compare the exported profile's boundary against the
checked-in YAML's, on both the initial probe and the post-race re-export.
A mismatch now fails closed with a diagnostic naming the profile and the
removal command to recover, instead of silently trusting unverified host
state.

A third review (the automated PR Review Advisor's Operations specialist)
found two remaining gaps: the probe, import, and race re-export had no
OpenShell operation timeout, so a stalled gateway could block onboarding
or rebuild indefinitely with no diagnostic; and any nonzero probe status
was treated as "profile missing," conflating a genuine absence with a
probe that failed for an unrelated reason (gateway unreachable,
unauthorized, timed out, malformed response) — silently attempting a
state-changing import in response to a read that never actually
completed, and misdirecting the operator toward an "update OpenShell"
recovery message that may not match the real cause. Added
OPENSHELL_OPERATION_TIMEOUT_MS to all three calls, and exported
isMissingProviderProfile() (provider-profile.ts's own existing
not-found classifier, already used by the more mature endpointless-
profile precedent) to gate the import path on a genuine "not found"
diagnostic rather than any failure. A probe failure that isn't a
recognized "not found" now fails closed immediately, naming the failed
operation and the redacted cause, without ever attempting an import.

A fourth review (a second automated advisor pass, four more specialists)
raised three findings addressed here, plus one caught independently while
verifying them:

- Design/Architecture (blocker): credentialBoundary() lived in
  messaging-bridge-provider.ts, so web-search onboarding depended on the
  messaging-channel module for an operation that has nothing to do with
  messaging. Moved it to src/lib/adapters/openshell/provider-profile.ts —
  the module that already owns provider-profile export, diagnostic
  normalization, and validation — and both messaging-bridge-provider.ts
  and brave-provider-profile.ts now import it from there.
- Migration/Completion (blocker): shouldEnableBraveWebSearch() and
  ensureBraveProviderProfile() were left behind as thin pass-through
  wrappers after generalizing to shouldEnableWebSearch()/
  ensureWebSearchProviderProfiles() for tavily/tavily-hermes-v1 in an
  earlier review round. ensureBraveProviderProfile() had no production
  caller left at all; shouldEnableBraveWebSearch() had exactly one
  (onboard.ts's finalization wiring). Removed both, repointed that one
  caller at shouldEnableWebSearch(), and renamed the tests that still
  called the deleted wrappers.
- Documentation: the profile-mismatch recovery text told the operator the
  conflicting profile was registered "on this host" and gave a bare
  `openshell provider profile remove <id>`. The profile probe and import
  actually run through a gateway-scoped OpenShell runner
  (createGatewayScopedOpenshellRunner, confirmed by this PR's own
  "-g test-gateway" test coverage), so the recovery text now names the
  selected OpenShell gateway explicitly, asks for the gateway-scoped
  removal command, and notes other sandboxes on that gateway may share the
  profile before removing it.

The fourth specialist (Test/Design) also flagged deps.root = process.cwd()
in three pre-existing, untouched tests in credential-provider-registration
.test.ts (unrelated Hermes Discord coverage, not part of this PR's diff)
as a source-shape budget violation. Ran the repository's own detector,
scripts/find-source-shape-tests.mts, directly against the tree: it reports
source_shape_cases=0, i.e. it does not currently flag this file at all.
Left those tests unchanged rather than editing pre-existing, unrelated
coverage on the strength of a specialist claim the repo's own enforced
tool contradicts; flagging for a maintainer in case the detector itself
has a gap worth closing separately.

That same specialist round's Trust reviewer separately found that
ensureMessagingBridgeProfiles() does not apply the credentialBoundary()
check this PR just added for web-search profiles to bridge profiles with a
refresh strategy (e.g. Google Chat's gateway-minted tokens): those are
still trusted by profile ID alone. Real, but a change to a different
profile family's trust boundary, untouched by this PR's diff — flagging
for a maintainer rather than expanding this fix's scope.

Independently, while re-verifying test coverage end to end (not from a
specialist finding), `npm run test:changed` surfaced a real regression
already on this branch: two crash-recovery replay tests in
sandbox-checkpoint-crash-recovery.test.ts started failing with
"process.exit unexpectedly called" instead of the mid-registration crash
they simulate. Root cause: their shared OpenShell stub answered every
`provider profile` call, regardless of which profile id was probed, with
one canned messaging-bridge profile — harmless before this PR's probe
existed, since nothing used to call `provider profile export` for
brave/tavily. Once the probe was added, the same stub answered a "brave"
probe with an unrelated profile's content, and the new boundary check
correctly treated that as drift and failed closed before the test's
simulated crash ever ran. Fixed the fixture, not the production code: the
stub now returns "not found" for any profile id other than the one it
actually registers, matching what a fresh host's probe would return.
Confirmed this was already broken on the previously-pushed commit (not
introduced by this round) by stashing this round's changes and rerunning
the same two tests against it.

Two related, deliberately out-of-scope observations, disclosed rather than
folded in:

- src/lib/adapters/openshell/provider-profile.ts's own more general
  ensureEndpointlessProviderProfile() already centralizes an export/race/
  tolerate/validate state machine for a different profile family, and its
  own commit (NVIDIA#10159, "Part of NVIDIA#10155") explicitly warned that repeating
  these decisions per caller lets them drift. This is now a third
  hand-rolled copy alongside ensureMessagingBridgeProfiles() (though it now
  reuses that function's credentialBoundary() extractor, now owned by the
  OpenShell adapter, and this file's own isMissingProviderProfile()/
  normalizeOpenshellDiagnostic() rather than duplicating them outright).
  It isn't a drop-in replacement here (it validates an empty endpoints/
  binaries contract that brave/tavily profiles don't have), so
  generalizing it into one shared reconciliation helper — as the fourth
  review's Code/Reduction specialist also suggested — is a design change
  beyond this issue's scope, not a blocking prerequisite for mirroring the
  existing bridge-profile idiom to fix a reported bug.
- ensureBundledProviderProfile() in src/lib/actions/credentials-add.ts
  imports the same blueprint profile files with no probe and no
  suppressOutput, so `nemoclaw credentials add --type brave` still emits
  the same noise this PR fixes for onboard/rebuild. Not fixed here since
  it's a different command entry point; flagging for a maintainer.

Tests cover: no re-import for any of the three providers when already
registered; the probe uses each provider's own id rather than a
copy-pasted one; suppressOutput and the operation timeout on the probe,
import, and race re-export; the box-drawing-wrapped tolerance case; the
genuine race case; a race winner whose profile fails boundary validation;
an already-registered profile that fails boundary validation directly; a
probe failure for a reason other than a missing profile (gateway/auth);
a probe that times out or fails to spawn; a failed post-race re-export;
and the pre-existing non-idempotent-failure exit path. Every new/changed
assertion was independently confirmed load-bearing by targeted mutation.
`npm run test:changed` passes except for 15 pre-existing failures across
3 files (Docker llama.cpp authority, Hermes MCP config adapter, Hermes
config-drift detection) confirmed identical on a clean origin/main
checkout — unrelated host/environment flakiness, not this PR.

Refs NVIDIA#10371

Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Signed-off-by: harjoth <harjoth.khara@gmail.com>
harjothkhara added a commit to harjothkhara/NemoClaw that referenced this pull request Aug 26, 2026
ensureWebSearchProviderProfiles() ran `provider profile import` for every
selected web-search provider on every onboard and every rebuild, with no
check for whether the profile was already there. The brave, tavily, and
tavily-hermes-v1 profiles live in one host-global OpenShell custom-profile
store shared by every sandbox on the host, so the second onboard and every
rebuild after the first collided with the profile the first onboard had
already imported. The collision was tolerated, but the import call did not
set suppressOutput, so runner.ts echoed OpenShell's redacted "already
exists" diagnostic to the terminal on every routine rebuild, where it
reads as a failure.

Probe with `provider profile export <id> --output json` first and skip the
import when the profile is already registered, mirroring what
ensureMessagingBridgeProfiles() does for bridge profiles for the same
reason. Both calls now suppress raw output so a diagnostic only reaches
the user through the existing redacted error path.

A first pass at this fix stated the destructive-host recreate failure the
issue also describes was a separate symptom this couldn't explain, because
the tolerated collision path structurally cannot reach the fatal exit. That
was wrong: `rebuild` replaces process.exit with a throw that IS caught by
the recreate phase and produces exactly the reported "Recovery recreate
failed" output, so the fatal path is reachable through this exact function.
The regex gating that path (`/already exists/i` on raw stderr+stdout) is a
plain substring test with no normalization, while OpenShell can wrap styled
output across a box-drawing continuation depending on terminal width or
TTY-ness (the same failure shape NVIDIA#10159 fixed for the sibling "not found"
match, in src/lib/adapters/openshell/provider-profile.ts). A wrapped
"already exists" message would miss the old regex and fall through to the
fatal exit — a credible, host-conditional explanation for the issue's own
observation that the identical diagnostic was fatal on one host and benign
on another. Extracted that file's ANSI/CR/box-drawing normalization into an
exported normalizeOpenshellDiagnostic() helper and applied it to this
tolerance check too. The new probe now bypasses this fragile match entirely
in the common case (skip happens before any import attempt), so this PR
likely closes the destructive variant as a side effect, even though it
wasn't independently reproduced against the reporting host to confirm that.

A second review found the skip itself trusted a bare profile-ID match: an
existing host-global profile could share brave/tavily's ID while carrying
different endpoints, credentials, binaries, or inference capability — a
stale import from an older version, or an unrelated registration entirely
— and the code would accept it and register a provider against it without
ever checking. Added webSearchProfileMatchesCheckedInBoundary(), reusing a
credentialBoundary() extractor (see the fourth review, below, on where that
now lives) to compare the exported profile's boundary against the
checked-in YAML's, on both the initial probe and the post-race re-export.
A mismatch now fails closed with a diagnostic naming the profile and the
removal command to recover, instead of silently trusting unverified host
state.

A third review (the automated PR Review Advisor's Operations specialist)
found two remaining gaps: the probe, import, and race re-export had no
OpenShell operation timeout, so a stalled gateway could block onboarding
or rebuild indefinitely with no diagnostic; and any nonzero probe status
was treated as "profile missing," conflating a genuine absence with a
probe that failed for an unrelated reason (gateway unreachable,
unauthorized, timed out, malformed response) — silently attempting a
state-changing import in response to a read that never actually
completed, and misdirecting the operator toward an "update OpenShell"
recovery message that may not match the real cause. Added
OPENSHELL_OPERATION_TIMEOUT_MS to all three calls, and exported
isMissingProviderProfile() (provider-profile.ts's own existing
not-found classifier, already used by the more mature endpointless-
profile precedent) to gate the import path on a genuine "not found"
diagnostic rather than any failure. A probe failure that isn't a
recognized "not found" now fails closed immediately, naming the failed
operation and the redacted cause, without ever attempting an import.

A fourth review (a second automated advisor pass, four more specialists)
raised three findings addressed here, plus one caught independently while
verifying them:

- Design/Architecture (blocker): credentialBoundary() lived in
  messaging-bridge-provider.ts, so web-search onboarding depended on the
  messaging-channel module for an operation that has nothing to do with
  messaging. Moved it to src/lib/adapters/openshell/provider-profile.ts —
  the module that already owns provider-profile export, diagnostic
  normalization, and validation — and both messaging-bridge-provider.ts
  and brave-provider-profile.ts now import it from there.
- Migration/Completion (blocker): shouldEnableBraveWebSearch() and
  ensureBraveProviderProfile() were left behind as thin pass-through
  wrappers after generalizing to shouldEnableWebSearch()/
  ensureWebSearchProviderProfiles() for tavily/tavily-hermes-v1 in an
  earlier review round. ensureBraveProviderProfile() had no production
  caller left at all; shouldEnableBraveWebSearch() had exactly one
  (onboard.ts's finalization wiring). Removed both, repointed that one
  caller at shouldEnableWebSearch(), and renamed the tests that still
  called the deleted wrappers.
- Documentation: the profile-mismatch recovery text told the operator the
  conflicting profile was registered "on this host" and gave a bare
  `openshell provider profile remove <id>`. The profile probe and import
  actually run through a gateway-scoped OpenShell runner
  (createGatewayScopedOpenshellRunner, confirmed by this PR's own
  "-g test-gateway" test coverage), so the recovery text now names the
  selected OpenShell gateway explicitly, asks for the gateway-scoped
  removal command, and notes other sandboxes on that gateway may share the
  profile before removing it.
- Independently, while re-verifying test coverage end to end (not from a
  specialist finding): `npm run test:changed` surfaced a real regression
  already on this branch — two crash-recovery replay tests in
  sandbox-checkpoint-crash-recovery.test.ts started failing with
  "process.exit unexpectedly called" instead of the mid-registration crash
  they simulate. Root cause: their shared OpenShell stub answered every
  `provider profile` call, regardless of which profile id was probed, with
  one canned messaging-bridge profile — harmless before this PR's probe
  existed, since nothing used to call `provider profile export` for
  brave/tavily. Once the probe was added, the same stub answered a "brave"
  probe with an unrelated profile's content, and the boundary check
  correctly treated that as drift and failed closed before the test's
  simulated crash ever ran. Fixed the fixture, not the production code:
  the stub now returns "not found" for any profile id other than the one
  it actually registers, matching what a fresh host's probe would return.
  Confirmed this predated this round (not introduced by it) by stashing
  the round's changes and rerunning the same two tests against the
  previously-pushed commit.

A fifth review (a third automated advisor pass, after the second pass's
findings above were fixed) found three more real issues, plus flagged two
claims investigated and not acted on:

- Documentation: the corrected recovery command from the fourth review
  used an unsupported subcommand (`provider profile remove`) — the real
  OpenShell CLI verb is `delete` (confirmed against
  test/e2e/live/inference-routing.test.ts's own use of
  `["provider", "profile", "delete", providerType]`). Fixed the wording
  in brave-provider-profile.ts.
- Operations: messaging-bridge-provider.ts's pre-existing
  rejectMismatchedStaticProfile() gave the same vague "Remove the
  conflicting profile" guidance the fourth review's Documentation finding
  had just fixed for web-search profiles. Aligned its wording with the
  same gateway-scoped, corrected pattern.
- Trust (blocker, one of two raised): ensureMessagingBridgeProfiles()'s
  probe-failure handling only warned on an indeterminate export failure
  (empty diagnostic, or anything not containing "not found") and still
  proceeded to import — the same gap the third review closed for
  web-search profiles, in a sibling function this PR hadn't touched.
  Applied the same fix: gate the import path on isMissingProviderProfile()
  and fail closed on anything else, for both static and dynamic bridge
  profiles (the probe-failure check runs before the strategy branch).
  Rewrote four existing tests whose stubbed diagnostics
  ("not found" with no "profile"/"custom" prefix in this file's own
  fixtures, or an unrealistic same-response-for-every-call shape) no
  longer satisfy the stricter, correct classifier, and added one new test
  isolating the indeterminate-probe-failure path Trust asked for.

Two claims from the fifth review were investigated and not acted on:

- Test/Design (blocker, raised in both the fourth and fifth review):
  three pre-existing, untouched tests in
  credential-provider-registration.test.ts read the checked-in Hermes
  Discord YAML via `deps.root = process.cwd()`, which the specialist
  calls a source-shape budget violation (`ci/source-shape-test-budget.json`
  sets `maxSourceShapeCases: 0` with no exception for this file). Ran the
  repository's own detector, scripts/find-source-shape-tests.mts, directly
  against the tree: it reports `source_shape_cases=0` — it does not
  currently flag this file. Left this pre-existing, unrelated coverage
  unchanged rather than editing it on a claim the repo's own enforced tool
  contradicts; flagging for a maintainer in case the detector has a gap
  worth closing separately.
- Trust (blocker, the other of two raised): ensureMessagingBridgeProfiles()
  does not extend the credentialBoundary() check this PR added for static
  profiles to profiles with a refresh strategy (e.g. Google Chat's
  gateway-minted tokens) — those are still trusted by profile ID alone
  after either the initial export or an import-race win. Real, but a
  different profile family's trust boundary that predates this PR and is
  untouched by its diff, with schema and edge cases (refresh-strategy
  YAML, existing-installation compatibility) this PR's test design and
  domain knowledge weren't built to cover safely in this round. Flagging
  for a maintainer as a dedicated follow-up rather than expanding this
  bug fix's scope into a second security-relevant change with its own
  regression-test design.

Two related, deliberately out-of-scope observations, disclosed rather than
folded in:

- src/lib/adapters/openshell/provider-profile.ts's own more general
  ensureEndpointlessProviderProfile() already centralizes an export/race/
  tolerate/validate state machine for a different profile family, and its
  own commit (NVIDIA#10159, "Part of NVIDIA#10155") explicitly warned that repeating
  these decisions per caller lets them drift. This is now a third
  hand-rolled copy alongside ensureMessagingBridgeProfiles() (though it now
  reuses that function's credentialBoundary() extractor, now itself owned
  by the OpenShell adapter, and this file's own isMissingProviderProfile()/
  normalizeOpenshellDiagnostic() rather than duplicating them outright).
  It isn't a drop-in replacement here (it validates an empty endpoints/
  binaries contract that brave/tavily profiles don't have), so
  generalizing it into one shared reconciliation helper (as the fourth
  review's Code/Reduction specialist also suggested) is a design change
  beyond this issue's scope, not a blocking prerequisite for mirroring the
  existing bridge-profile idiom to fix a reported bug.
- ensureBundledProviderProfile() in src/lib/actions/credentials-add.ts
  imports the same blueprint profile files with no probe and no
  suppressOutput, so `nemoclaw credentials add --type brave` still emits
  the same noise this PR fixes for onboard/rebuild. Not fixed here since
  it's a different command entry point; flagging for a maintainer.

Tests cover: no re-import for any of the three web-search providers when
already registered; the probe uses each provider's own id rather than a
copy-pasted one; suppressOutput and the operation timeout on the probe,
import, and race re-export; the box-drawing-wrapped tolerance case; the
genuine race case; a race winner whose profile fails boundary validation;
an already-registered profile that fails boundary validation directly; a
probe failure for a reason other than a missing profile (gateway/auth);
a probe that times out or fails to spawn; a failed post-race re-export;
and the pre-existing non-idempotent-failure exit path — plus, for the
messaging-bridge probe-failure fix, an indeterminate-probe-failure case
isolated from the pre-existing already-exists-tolerance and
import-fails-for-another-reason cases. Every new/changed assertion was
independently confirmed load-bearing by targeted mutation.

`npm run test:changed` passes except for 15 pre-existing failures across
3 files (Docker llama.cpp authority, Hermes MCP config adapter, Hermes
config-drift detection) confirmed identical on a clean origin/main
checkout — unrelated host/environment flakiness, not this PR.

Refs NVIDIA#10371

Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Signed-off-by: harjoth <harjoth.khara@gmail.com>
harjothkhara added a commit to harjothkhara/NemoClaw that referenced this pull request Aug 26, 2026
ensureWebSearchProviderProfiles() ran `provider profile import` for every
selected web-search provider on every onboard and every rebuild, with no
check for whether the profile was already there. The brave, tavily, and
tavily-hermes-v1 profiles live in one host-global OpenShell custom-profile
store shared by every sandbox on the host, so the second onboard and every
rebuild after the first collided with the profile the first onboard had
already imported. The collision was tolerated, but the import call did not
set suppressOutput, so runner.ts echoed OpenShell's redacted "already
exists" diagnostic to the terminal on every routine rebuild, where it
reads as a failure.

Probe with `provider profile export <id> --output json` first and skip the
import when the profile is already registered, mirroring what
ensureMessagingBridgeProfiles() does for bridge profiles for the same
reason. Both calls now suppress raw output so a diagnostic only reaches
the user through the existing redacted error path.

A first pass at this fix stated the destructive-host recreate failure the
issue also describes was a separate symptom this couldn't explain, because
the tolerated collision path structurally cannot reach the fatal exit. That
was wrong: `rebuild` replaces process.exit with a throw that IS caught by
the recreate phase and produces exactly the reported "Recovery recreate
failed" output, so the fatal path is reachable through this exact function.
The regex gating that path (`/already exists/i` on raw stderr+stdout) is a
plain substring test with no normalization, while OpenShell can wrap styled
output across a box-drawing continuation depending on terminal width or
TTY-ness (the same failure shape NVIDIA#10159 fixed for the sibling "not found"
match, in src/lib/adapters/openshell/provider-profile.ts). A wrapped
"already exists" message would miss the old regex and fall through to the
fatal exit — a credible, host-conditional explanation for the issue's own
observation that the identical diagnostic was fatal on one host and benign
on another. Extracted that file's ANSI/CR/box-drawing normalization into an
exported normalizeOpenshellDiagnostic() helper and applied it to this
tolerance check too. The new probe now bypasses this fragile match entirely
in the common case (skip happens before any import attempt), so this PR
likely closes the destructive variant as a side effect, even though it
wasn't independently reproduced against the reporting host to confirm that.

A second review found the skip itself trusted a bare profile-ID match: an
existing host-global profile could share brave/tavily's ID while carrying
different endpoints, credentials, binaries, or inference capability — a
stale import from an older version, or an unrelated registration entirely
— and the code would accept it and register a provider against it without
ever checking. Added webSearchProfileMatchesCheckedInBoundary(), reusing a
credentialBoundary() extractor (see the fourth review, below, on where that
now lives) to compare the exported profile's boundary against the
checked-in YAML's, on both the initial probe and the post-race re-export.
A mismatch now fails closed with a diagnostic naming the profile and the
removal command to recover, instead of silently trusting unverified host
state.

A third review (the automated PR Review Advisor's Operations specialist)
found two remaining gaps: the probe, import, and race re-export had no
OpenShell operation timeout, so a stalled gateway could block onboarding
or rebuild indefinitely with no diagnostic; and any nonzero probe status
was treated as "profile missing," conflating a genuine absence with a
probe that failed for an unrelated reason (gateway unreachable,
unauthorized, timed out, malformed response) — silently attempting a
state-changing import in response to a read that never actually
completed, and misdirecting the operator toward an "update OpenShell"
recovery message that may not match the real cause. Added
OPENSHELL_OPERATION_TIMEOUT_MS to all three calls, and exported
isMissingProviderProfile() (provider-profile.ts's own existing
not-found classifier, already used by the more mature endpointless-
profile precedent) to gate the import path on a genuine "not found"
diagnostic rather than any failure. A probe failure that isn't a
recognized "not found" now fails closed immediately, naming the failed
operation and the redacted cause, without ever attempting an import.

A fourth review (a second automated advisor pass, four more specialists)
raised three findings addressed here, plus one caught independently while
verifying them:

- Design/Architecture (blocker): credentialBoundary() lived in
  messaging-bridge-provider.ts, so web-search onboarding depended on the
  messaging-channel module for an operation that has nothing to do with
  messaging. Moved it to src/lib/adapters/openshell/provider-profile.ts —
  the module that already owns provider-profile export, diagnostic
  normalization, and validation — and both messaging-bridge-provider.ts
  and brave-provider-profile.ts now import it from there.
- Migration/Completion (blocker): shouldEnableBraveWebSearch() and
  ensureBraveProviderProfile() were left behind as thin pass-through
  wrappers after generalizing to shouldEnableWebSearch()/
  ensureWebSearchProviderProfiles() for tavily/tavily-hermes-v1 in an
  earlier review round. ensureBraveProviderProfile() had no production
  caller left at all; shouldEnableBraveWebSearch() had exactly one
  (onboard.ts's finalization wiring). Removed both, repointed that one
  caller at shouldEnableWebSearch(), and renamed the tests that still
  called the deleted wrappers.
- Documentation: the profile-mismatch recovery text told the operator the
  conflicting profile was registered "on this host" and gave a bare
  `openshell provider profile remove <id>`. The profile probe and import
  actually run through a gateway-scoped OpenShell runner
  (createGatewayScopedOpenshellRunner, confirmed by this PR's own
  "-g test-gateway" test coverage), so the recovery text now names the
  selected OpenShell gateway explicitly, asks for the gateway-scoped
  removal command, and notes other sandboxes on that gateway may share the
  profile before removing it.
- Independently, while re-verifying test coverage end to end (not from a
  specialist finding): `npm run test:changed` surfaced a real regression
  already on this branch — two crash-recovery replay tests in
  sandbox-checkpoint-crash-recovery.test.ts started failing with
  "process.exit unexpectedly called" instead of the mid-registration crash
  they simulate. Root cause: their shared OpenShell stub answered every
  `provider profile` call, regardless of which profile id was probed, with
  one canned messaging-bridge profile — harmless before this PR's probe
  existed, since nothing used to call `provider profile export` for
  brave/tavily. Once the probe was added, the same stub answered a "brave"
  probe with an unrelated profile's content, and the boundary check
  correctly treated that as drift and failed closed before the test's
  simulated crash ever ran. Fixed the fixture, not the production code:
  the stub now returns "not found" for any profile id other than the one
  it actually registers, matching what a fresh host's probe would return.
  Confirmed this predated this round (not introduced by it) by stashing
  the round's changes and rerunning the same two tests against the
  previously-pushed commit.

A fifth review (a third automated advisor pass, after the second pass's
findings above were fixed) found three more real issues, plus flagged two
claims investigated and not acted on:

- Documentation: the corrected recovery command from the fourth review
  used an unsupported subcommand (`provider profile remove`) — the real
  OpenShell CLI verb is `delete` (confirmed against
  test/e2e/live/inference-routing.test.ts's own use of
  `["provider", "profile", "delete", providerType]`). Fixed the wording
  in brave-provider-profile.ts.
- Operations: messaging-bridge-provider.ts's pre-existing
  rejectMismatchedStaticProfile() gave the same vague "Remove the
  conflicting profile" guidance the fourth review's Documentation finding
  had just fixed for web-search profiles. Aligned its wording with the
  same gateway-scoped, corrected pattern.
- Trust (blocker, one of two raised): ensureMessagingBridgeProfiles()'s
  probe-failure handling only warned on an indeterminate export failure
  (empty diagnostic, or anything not containing "not found") and still
  proceeded to import — the same gap the third review closed for
  web-search profiles, in a sibling function this PR hadn't touched.
  Applied the same fix: gate the import path on isMissingProviderProfile()
  and fail closed on anything else, for both static and dynamic bridge
  profiles (the probe-failure check runs before the strategy branch).
  Rewrote four existing tests whose stubbed diagnostics
  ("not found" with no "profile"/"custom" prefix in this file's own
  fixtures, or an unrealistic same-response-for-every-call shape) no
  longer satisfy the stricter, correct classifier, and added one new test
  isolating the indeterminate-probe-failure path Trust asked for.

Two claims from the fifth review were investigated and not acted on:

- Test/Design (blocker, raised in both the fourth and fifth review):
  three pre-existing, untouched tests in
  credential-provider-registration.test.ts read the checked-in Hermes
  Discord YAML via `deps.root = process.cwd()`, which the specialist
  calls a source-shape budget violation (`ci/source-shape-test-budget.json`
  sets `maxSourceShapeCases: 0` with no exception for this file). Ran the
  repository's own detector, scripts/find-source-shape-tests.mts, directly
  against the tree: it reports `source_shape_cases=0` — it does not
  currently flag this file. Left this pre-existing, unrelated coverage
  unchanged rather than editing it on a claim the repo's own enforced tool
  contradicts; flagging for a maintainer in case the detector has a gap
  worth closing separately.
- Trust (blocker, the other of two raised): ensureMessagingBridgeProfiles()
  does not extend the credentialBoundary() check this PR added for static
  profiles to profiles with a refresh strategy (e.g. Google Chat's
  gateway-minted tokens) — those are still trusted by profile ID alone
  after either the initial export or an import-race win. Real, but a
  different profile family's trust boundary that predates this PR and is
  untouched by its diff, with schema and edge cases (refresh-strategy
  YAML, existing-installation compatibility) this PR's test design and
  domain knowledge weren't built to cover safely in this round. Flagging
  for a maintainer as a dedicated follow-up rather than expanding this
  bug fix's scope into a second security-relevant change with its own
  regression-test design.

Two related, deliberately out-of-scope observations, disclosed rather than
folded in:

- src/lib/adapters/openshell/provider-profile.ts's own more general
  ensureEndpointlessProviderProfile() already centralizes an export/race/
  tolerate/validate state machine for a different profile family, and its
  own commit (NVIDIA#10159, "Part of NVIDIA#10155") explicitly warned that repeating
  these decisions per caller lets them drift. This is now a third
  hand-rolled copy alongside ensureMessagingBridgeProfiles() (though it now
  reuses that function's credentialBoundary() extractor, now itself owned
  by the OpenShell adapter, and this file's own isMissingProviderProfile()/
  normalizeOpenshellDiagnostic() rather than duplicating them outright).
  It isn't a drop-in replacement here (it validates an empty endpoints/
  binaries contract that brave/tavily profiles don't have), so
  generalizing it into one shared reconciliation helper (as the fourth
  review's Code/Reduction specialist also suggested) is a design change
  beyond this issue's scope, not a blocking prerequisite for mirroring the
  existing bridge-profile idiom to fix a reported bug.
- ensureBundledProviderProfile() in src/lib/actions/credentials-add.ts
  imports the same blueprint profile files with no probe and no
  suppressOutput, so `nemoclaw credentials add --type brave` still emits
  the same noise this PR fixes for onboard/rebuild. Not fixed here since
  it's a different command entry point; flagging for a maintainer.

Tests cover: no re-import for any of the three web-search providers when
already registered; the probe uses each provider's own id rather than a
copy-pasted one; suppressOutput and the operation timeout on the probe,
import, and race re-export; the box-drawing-wrapped tolerance case; the
genuine race case; a race winner whose profile fails boundary validation;
an already-registered profile that fails boundary validation directly; a
probe failure for a reason other than a missing profile (gateway/auth);
a probe that times out or fails to spawn; a failed post-race re-export;
and the pre-existing non-idempotent-failure exit path — plus, for the
messaging-bridge probe-failure fix, an indeterminate-probe-failure case
isolated from the pre-existing already-exists-tolerance and
import-fails-for-another-reason cases. Every new/changed assertion was
independently confirmed load-bearing by targeted mutation.

`npm run test:changed` passes except for 15 pre-existing failures across
3 files (Docker llama.cpp authority, Hermes MCP config adapter, Hermes
config-drift detection) confirmed identical on a clean origin/main
checkout — unrelated host/environment flakiness, not this PR.

Refs NVIDIA#10371

Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Signed-off-by: harjoth <harjoth.khara@gmail.com>
harjothkhara added a commit to harjothkhara/NemoClaw that referenced this pull request Aug 26, 2026
ensureWebSearchProviderProfiles() ran `provider profile import` for every
selected web-search provider on every onboard and every rebuild, with no
check for whether the profile was already there. The brave, tavily, and
tavily-hermes-v1 profiles live in one host-global OpenShell custom-profile
store shared by every sandbox on the host, so the second onboard and every
rebuild after the first collided with the profile the first onboard had
already imported. The collision was tolerated, but the import call did not
set suppressOutput, so runner.ts echoed OpenShell's redacted "already
exists" diagnostic to the terminal on every routine rebuild, where it
reads as a failure.

Probe with `provider profile export <id> --output json` first and skip the
import when the profile is already registered, mirroring what
ensureMessagingBridgeProfiles() does for bridge profiles for the same
reason. Both calls now suppress raw output so a diagnostic only reaches
the user through the existing redacted error path.

A first pass at this fix stated the destructive-host recreate failure the
issue also describes was a separate symptom this couldn't explain, because
the tolerated collision path structurally cannot reach the fatal exit. That
was wrong: `rebuild` replaces process.exit with a throw that IS caught by
the recreate phase and produces exactly the reported "Recovery recreate
failed" output, so the fatal path is reachable through this exact function.
The regex gating that path (`/already exists/i` on raw stderr+stdout) is a
plain substring test with no normalization, while OpenShell can wrap styled
output across a box-drawing continuation depending on terminal width or
TTY-ness (the same failure shape NVIDIA#10159 fixed for the sibling "not found"
match, in src/lib/adapters/openshell/provider-profile.ts). A wrapped
"already exists" message would miss the old regex and fall through to the
fatal exit — a credible, host-conditional explanation for the issue's own
observation that the identical diagnostic was fatal on one host and benign
on another. Extracted that file's ANSI/CR/box-drawing normalization into an
exported normalizeOpenshellDiagnostic() helper and applied it to this
tolerance check too. The new probe now bypasses this fragile match entirely
in the common case (skip happens before any import attempt), so this PR
likely closes the destructive variant as a side effect, even though it
wasn't independently reproduced against the reporting host to confirm that.

A second review found the skip itself trusted a bare profile-ID match: an
existing host-global profile could share brave/tavily's ID while carrying
different endpoints, credentials, binaries, or inference capability — a
stale import from an older version, or an unrelated registration entirely
— and the code would accept it and register a provider against it without
ever checking. Added webSearchProfileMatchesCheckedInBoundary(), reusing a
credentialBoundary() extractor (see the fourth review, below, on where that
now lives) to compare the exported profile's boundary against the
checked-in YAML's, on both the initial probe and the post-race re-export.
A mismatch now fails closed with a diagnostic naming the profile and the
removal command to recover, instead of silently trusting unverified host
state.

A third review (the automated PR Review Advisor's Operations specialist)
found two remaining gaps: the probe, import, and race re-export had no
OpenShell operation timeout, so a stalled gateway could block onboarding
or rebuild indefinitely with no diagnostic; and any nonzero probe status
was treated as "profile missing," conflating a genuine absence with a
probe that failed for an unrelated reason (gateway unreachable,
unauthorized, timed out, malformed response) — silently attempting a
state-changing import in response to a read that never actually
completed, and misdirecting the operator toward an "update OpenShell"
recovery message that may not match the real cause. Added
OPENSHELL_OPERATION_TIMEOUT_MS to all three calls, and exported
isMissingProviderProfile() (provider-profile.ts's own existing
not-found classifier, already used by the more mature endpointless-
profile precedent) to gate the import path on a genuine "not found"
diagnostic rather than any failure. A probe failure that isn't a
recognized "not found" now fails closed immediately, naming the failed
operation and the redacted cause, without ever attempting an import.

A fourth review (a second automated advisor pass, four more specialists)
raised three findings addressed here, plus one caught independently while
verifying them:

- Design/Architecture (blocker): credentialBoundary() lived in
  messaging-bridge-provider.ts, so web-search onboarding depended on the
  messaging-channel module for an operation that has nothing to do with
  messaging. Moved it to src/lib/adapters/openshell/provider-profile.ts —
  the module that already owns provider-profile export, diagnostic
  normalization, and validation — and both messaging-bridge-provider.ts
  and brave-provider-profile.ts now import it from there.
- Migration/Completion (blocker): shouldEnableBraveWebSearch() and
  ensureBraveProviderProfile() were left behind as thin pass-through
  wrappers after generalizing to shouldEnableWebSearch()/
  ensureWebSearchProviderProfiles() for tavily/tavily-hermes-v1 in an
  earlier review round. ensureBraveProviderProfile() had no production
  caller left at all; shouldEnableBraveWebSearch() had exactly one
  (onboard.ts's finalization wiring). Removed both, repointed that one
  caller at shouldEnableWebSearch(), and renamed the tests that still
  called the deleted wrappers.
- Documentation: the profile-mismatch recovery text told the operator the
  conflicting profile was registered "on this host" and gave a bare
  `openshell provider profile remove <id>`. The profile probe and import
  actually run through a gateway-scoped OpenShell runner
  (createGatewayScopedOpenshellRunner, confirmed by this PR's own
  "-g test-gateway" test coverage), so the recovery text now names the
  selected OpenShell gateway explicitly, asks for the gateway-scoped
  removal command, and notes other sandboxes on that gateway may share the
  profile before removing it.
- Independently, while re-verifying test coverage end to end (not from a
  specialist finding): `npm run test:changed` surfaced a real regression
  already on this branch — two crash-recovery replay tests in
  sandbox-checkpoint-crash-recovery.test.ts started failing with
  "process.exit unexpectedly called" instead of the mid-registration crash
  they simulate. Root cause: their shared OpenShell stub answered every
  `provider profile` call, regardless of which profile id was probed, with
  one canned messaging-bridge profile — harmless before this PR's probe
  existed, since nothing used to call `provider profile export` for
  brave/tavily. Once the probe was added, the same stub answered a "brave"
  probe with an unrelated profile's content, and the boundary check
  correctly treated that as drift and failed closed before the test's
  simulated crash ever ran. Fixed the fixture, not the production code:
  the stub now returns "not found" for any profile id other than the one
  it actually registers, matching what a fresh host's probe would return.
  Confirmed this predated this round (not introduced by it) by stashing
  the round's changes and rerunning the same two tests against the
  previously-pushed commit.

A fifth review (a third automated advisor pass, after the second pass's
findings above were fixed) found three more real issues, plus flagged two
claims investigated and not acted on:

- Documentation: the corrected recovery command from the fourth review
  used an unsupported subcommand (`provider profile remove`) — the real
  OpenShell CLI verb is `delete` (confirmed against
  test/e2e/live/inference-routing.test.ts's own use of
  `["provider", "profile", "delete", providerType]`). Fixed the wording
  in brave-provider-profile.ts.
- Operations: messaging-bridge-provider.ts's pre-existing
  rejectMismatchedStaticProfile() gave the same vague "Remove the
  conflicting profile" guidance the fourth review's Documentation finding
  had just fixed for web-search profiles. Aligned its wording with the
  same gateway-scoped, corrected pattern.
- Trust (blocker, one of two raised): ensureMessagingBridgeProfiles()'s
  probe-failure handling only warned on an indeterminate export failure
  (empty diagnostic, or anything not containing "not found") and still
  proceeded to import — the same gap the third review closed for
  web-search profiles, in a sibling function this PR hadn't touched.
  Applied the same fix: gate the import path on isMissingProviderProfile()
  and fail closed on anything else, for both static and dynamic bridge
  profiles (the probe-failure check runs before the strategy branch).
  Rewrote four existing tests whose stubbed diagnostics
  ("not found" with no "profile"/"custom" prefix in this file's own
  fixtures, or an unrealistic same-response-for-every-call shape) no
  longer satisfy the stricter, correct classifier, and added one new test
  isolating the indeterminate-probe-failure path Trust asked for.

Two claims from the fifth review were investigated and not acted on:

- Test/Design (blocker, raised in the fourth, fifth, and sixth review):
  three pre-existing, untouched tests in
  credential-provider-registration.test.ts read the checked-in Hermes
  Discord YAML via `deps.root = process.cwd()`, which the specialist
  calls a source-shape budget violation (`ci/source-shape-test-budget.json`
  sets `maxSourceShapeCases: 0` with no exception for this file). Ran the
  repository's own detector, scripts/find-source-shape-tests.mts, directly
  against the tree: it reports `source_shape_cases=0` — it does not
  currently flag this file. Left this pre-existing, unrelated coverage
  unchanged rather than editing it on a claim the repo's own enforced tool
  contradicts; flagging for a maintainer in case the detector has a gap
  worth closing separately.

A sixth review (a fourth automated advisor pass, after a rebase onto
origin/main to clear an unrelated stale-base codebase-growth-guardrails
failure — a same-day commit on main added a loop and an `if` to
test/e2e/live/launchable-smoke.test.ts, a file this branch never touched;
confirmed by diffing that file's history and rebasing) raised the Trust
finding above a third time, this time joined by Behavior independently
finding the same gap, plus two more concrete, narrowly-scoped findings
from Behavior and Operations:

- Behavior and Operations (both independently, same finding): the
  messaging-bridge import-race "already exists" check used the raw,
  unnormalized diagnostic — the exact gap "A first correction" closed for
  web-search profiles, missed when "A fifth correction" touched this same
  function for a different reason. Applied `normalizeOpenshellDiagnostic`
  to the messaging-bridge race check too, and added a wrapped-diagnostic
  regression test mirroring the existing web-search one.
- Operations (blocker): messaging-bridge profile export, import, and
  post-race export had no `OPENSHELL_OPERATION_TIMEOUT_MS` — the same gap
  "A third correction" closed for web-search profiles. Added the timeout
  to all three calls and a regression test asserting it.
- Trust (raised a third time, now joined by Behavior finding the identical
  gap independently) and Behavior: reconsidered the standing decision not
  to extend `credentialBoundary()` validation to refreshing messaging
  profiles (e.g. Google Chat). Two things changed the calculus from the
  fourth/fifth review's disclose-and-defer: the fix no longer needs new
  design work — `profileMatchesCheckedInBoundary()`, a small variant of
  `staticProfileMatchesCheckedInBoundary()` without its empty-endpoints/
  binaries narrowing, is exactly the same generic comparison already
  proven for web-search profiles two reviews ago; and this function's
  probe-failure and normalization paths were already being edited this
  round for the two findings above, so the remaining asymmetry was the
  only unclosed gap left in it. Removed the `profile.strategy === null`
  gate on both the direct-probe and race-winner validation and applied
  `profileMatchesCheckedInBoundary()` unconditionally, so a refreshing
  profile with a drifted endpoint, binary, credential rule, or refresh
  field now fails closed exactly like a static one. Added a synthetic
  Google-Chat-shaped profile-boundary fixture and direct-drift and
  race-winner-drift regression tests; fixed two existing tests whose
  stubs implicitly relied on the removed skip (no boundary content, or a
  filesystem `readFileSync` that would have thrown against the test's
  fake root) to supply a matching synthetic boundary instead. Every new
  and changed assertion in this function — probe-failure classification,
  timeout, normalization, and both boundary-validation branches — was
  independently confirmed load-bearing by targeted mutation.

The same sixth review escalated a related, larger ask across three
specialists at once — Design/Architecture, Dependency/Use, and Code/
Reduction all independently proposed the same restructuring, each tagged
"Blocker": generalize `ensureEndpointlessProviderProfile()` in
src/lib/adapters/openshell/provider-profile.ts into one shared, adapter-
owned reconciliation primitive (export → missing-profile classification →
import → race recovery, parameterized by a caller-supplied boundary
validator), and rewrite `ensureWebSearchProviderProfiles()` and
`ensureMessagingBridgeProfiles()` to call it instead of each owning a
parallel copy of that state machine. This is real, well-argued, and now
backed by three independent specialist lenses converging on the same
concrete design — but it is a materially different, larger change than
this issue: it would rewrite `ensureEndpointlessProviderProfile()` itself,
which today only serves the OpenAI-compatible endpointless inference-
provider path — production code with no reported defect and no connection
to NVIDIA#10371 — to make it generic enough for two more callers with different
boundary-validation contracts (empty-only vs. full-boundary vs. this PR's
own two flavors of full-boundary). Implementing that unilaterally inside a
bug-fix PR risks the exact kind of coordinated, security-sensitive,
cross-subsystem edit the specialists themselves warn a *lack* of
consolidation causes, done under this PR's narrower test-design budget
and without a maintainer-accepted design for the adapter's new contract —
squarely the kind of new shared abstraction NemoClaw's own contribution
guidelines ask for an accepted issue or design decision before building,
not a drive-by expansion of a targeted rebuild-noise fix. Recommending a
maintainer open a dedicated follow-up issue for this consolidation; happy
to implement it there with a proper adapter-level test design once one
exists.

Two related, deliberately out-of-scope observations, disclosed rather than
folded in:

- src/lib/adapters/openshell/provider-profile.ts's own more general
  ensureEndpointlessProviderProfile() already centralizes an export/race/
  tolerate/validate state machine for a different profile family, and its
  own commit (NVIDIA#10159, "Part of NVIDIA#10155") explicitly warned that repeating
  these decisions per caller lets them drift. This is now a third
  hand-rolled copy alongside ensureMessagingBridgeProfiles() (though it now
  reuses that function's credentialBoundary() extractor, now itself owned
  by the OpenShell adapter, and this file's own isMissingProviderProfile()/
  normalizeOpenshellDiagnostic() rather than duplicating them outright).
  It isn't a drop-in replacement here (it validates an empty endpoints/
  binaries contract that brave/tavily profiles don't have), so
  generalizing it into one shared reconciliation helper (as the fourth
  review's Code/Reduction specialist also suggested) is a design change
  beyond this issue's scope, not a blocking prerequisite for mirroring the
  existing bridge-profile idiom to fix a reported bug.
- ensureBundledProviderProfile() in src/lib/actions/credentials-add.ts
  imports the same blueprint profile files with no probe and no
  suppressOutput, so `nemoclaw credentials add --type brave` still emits
  the same noise this PR fixes for onboard/rebuild. Not fixed here since
  it's a different command entry point; flagging for a maintainer.

Tests cover, for the web-search path: no re-import for any of the three
providers when already registered; the probe uses each provider's own id
rather than a copy-pasted one; suppressOutput and the operation timeout on
the probe, import, and race re-export; the box-drawing-wrapped tolerance
case; the genuine race case; a race winner whose profile fails boundary
validation; an already-registered profile that fails boundary validation
directly; a probe failure for a reason other than a missing profile
(gateway/auth); a probe that times out or fails to spawn; a failed
post-race re-export; and the pre-existing non-idempotent-failure exit
path. For the messaging-bridge path: an indeterminate-probe-failure case
isolated from the pre-existing already-exists-tolerance and
import-fails-for-another-reason cases; the box-drawing-wrapped tolerance
case; the operation timeout on probe/import/race re-export; and, for
refreshing (not just static) profiles, direct and race-winner
boundary-drift rejection. Every new/changed assertion in both files was
independently confirmed load-bearing by targeted mutation.

`npx vitest run --project cli` across the five changed test files: 5
files, 145 tests, all passing. `npm run test:changed` passes except for 15
pre-existing failures across 3 files (Docker llama.cpp authority, Hermes
MCP config adapter, Hermes config-drift detection) confirmed identical on
a clean origin/main checkout — unrelated host/environment flakiness, not
this PR.

Refs NVIDIA#10371

Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Signed-off-by: harjoth <harjoth.khara@gmail.com>
harjothkhara added a commit to harjothkhara/NemoClaw that referenced this pull request Aug 26, 2026
ensureWebSearchProviderProfiles() ran `provider profile import` for every
selected web-search provider on every onboard and every rebuild, with no
check for whether the profile was already there. The brave, tavily, and
tavily-hermes-v1 profiles live in one host-global OpenShell custom-profile
store shared by every sandbox on the host, so the second onboard and every
rebuild after the first collided with the profile the first onboard had
already imported. The collision was tolerated, but the import call did not
set suppressOutput, so runner.ts echoed OpenShell's redacted "already
exists" diagnostic to the terminal on every routine rebuild, where it
reads as a failure.

Probe with `provider profile export <id> --output json` first and skip the
import when the profile is already registered, mirroring what
ensureMessagingBridgeProfiles() does for bridge profiles for the same
reason. Both calls now suppress raw output so a diagnostic only reaches
the user through the existing redacted error path.

A first pass at this fix stated the destructive-host recreate failure the
issue also describes was a separate symptom this couldn't explain, because
the tolerated collision path structurally cannot reach the fatal exit. That
was wrong: `rebuild` replaces process.exit with a throw that IS caught by
the recreate phase and produces exactly the reported "Recovery recreate
failed" output, so the fatal path is reachable through this exact function.
The regex gating that path (`/already exists/i` on raw stderr+stdout) is a
plain substring test with no normalization, while OpenShell can wrap styled
output across a box-drawing continuation depending on terminal width or
TTY-ness (the same failure shape NVIDIA#10159 fixed for the sibling "not found"
match, in src/lib/adapters/openshell/provider-profile.ts). A wrapped
"already exists" message would miss the old regex and fall through to the
fatal exit — a credible, host-conditional explanation for the issue's own
observation that the identical diagnostic was fatal on one host and benign
on another. Extracted that file's ANSI/CR/box-drawing normalization into an
exported normalizeOpenshellDiagnostic() helper and applied it to this
tolerance check too. The new probe now bypasses this fragile match entirely
in the common case (skip happens before any import attempt), so this PR
likely closes the destructive variant as a side effect, even though it
wasn't independently reproduced against the reporting host to confirm that.

A second review found the skip itself trusted a bare profile-ID match: an
existing host-global profile could share brave/tavily's ID while carrying
different endpoints, credentials, binaries, or inference capability — a
stale import from an older version, or an unrelated registration entirely
— and the code would accept it and register a provider against it without
ever checking. Added webSearchProfileMatchesCheckedInBoundary(), reusing a
credentialBoundary() extractor (see the fourth review, below, on where that
now lives) to compare the exported profile's boundary against the
checked-in YAML's, on both the initial probe and the post-race re-export.
A mismatch now fails closed with a diagnostic naming the profile and the
removal command to recover, instead of silently trusting unverified host
state.

A third review (the automated PR Review Advisor's Operations specialist)
found two remaining gaps: the probe, import, and race re-export had no
OpenShell operation timeout, so a stalled gateway could block onboarding
or rebuild indefinitely with no diagnostic; and any nonzero probe status
was treated as "profile missing," conflating a genuine absence with a
probe that failed for an unrelated reason (gateway unreachable,
unauthorized, timed out, malformed response) — silently attempting a
state-changing import in response to a read that never actually
completed, and misdirecting the operator toward an "update OpenShell"
recovery message that may not match the real cause. Added
OPENSHELL_OPERATION_TIMEOUT_MS to all three calls, and exported
isMissingProviderProfile() (provider-profile.ts's own existing
not-found classifier, already used by the more mature endpointless-
profile precedent) to gate the import path on a genuine "not found"
diagnostic rather than any failure. A probe failure that isn't a
recognized "not found" now fails closed immediately, naming the failed
operation and the redacted cause, without ever attempting an import.

A fourth review (a second automated advisor pass, four more specialists)
raised three findings addressed here, plus one caught independently while
verifying them:

- Design/Architecture (blocker): credentialBoundary() lived in
  messaging-bridge-provider.ts, so web-search onboarding depended on the
  messaging-channel module for an operation that has nothing to do with
  messaging. Moved it to src/lib/adapters/openshell/provider-profile.ts —
  the module that already owns provider-profile export, diagnostic
  normalization, and validation — and both messaging-bridge-provider.ts
  and brave-provider-profile.ts now import it from there.
- Migration/Completion (blocker): shouldEnableBraveWebSearch() and
  ensureBraveProviderProfile() were left behind as thin pass-through
  wrappers after generalizing to shouldEnableWebSearch()/
  ensureWebSearchProviderProfiles() for tavily/tavily-hermes-v1 in an
  earlier review round. ensureBraveProviderProfile() had no production
  caller left at all; shouldEnableBraveWebSearch() had exactly one
  (onboard.ts's finalization wiring). Removed both, repointed that one
  caller at shouldEnableWebSearch(), and renamed the tests that still
  called the deleted wrappers.
- Documentation: the profile-mismatch recovery text told the operator the
  conflicting profile was registered "on this host" and gave a bare
  `openshell provider profile remove <id>`. The profile probe and import
  actually run through a gateway-scoped OpenShell runner
  (createGatewayScopedOpenshellRunner, confirmed by this PR's own
  "-g test-gateway" test coverage), so the recovery text now names the
  selected OpenShell gateway explicitly, asks for the gateway-scoped
  removal command, and notes other sandboxes on that gateway may share the
  profile before removing it.
- Independently, while re-verifying test coverage end to end (not from a
  specialist finding): `npm run test:changed` surfaced a real regression
  already on this branch — two crash-recovery replay tests in
  sandbox-checkpoint-crash-recovery.test.ts started failing with
  "process.exit unexpectedly called" instead of the mid-registration crash
  they simulate. Root cause: their shared OpenShell stub answered every
  `provider profile` call, regardless of which profile id was probed, with
  one canned messaging-bridge profile — harmless before this PR's probe
  existed, since nothing used to call `provider profile export` for
  brave/tavily. Once the probe was added, the same stub answered a "brave"
  probe with an unrelated profile's content, and the boundary check
  correctly treated that as drift and failed closed before the test's
  simulated crash ever ran. Fixed the fixture, not the production code:
  the stub now returns "not found" for any profile id other than the one
  it actually registers, matching what a fresh host's probe would return.
  Confirmed this predated this round (not introduced by it) by stashing
  the round's changes and rerunning the same two tests against the
  previously-pushed commit.

A fifth review (a third automated advisor pass, after the second pass's
findings above were fixed) found three more real issues, plus flagged two
claims investigated and not acted on:

- Documentation: the corrected recovery command from the fourth review
  used an unsupported subcommand (`provider profile remove`) — the real
  OpenShell CLI verb is `delete` (confirmed against
  test/e2e/live/inference-routing.test.ts's own use of
  `["provider", "profile", "delete", providerType]`). Fixed the wording
  in brave-provider-profile.ts.
- Operations: messaging-bridge-provider.ts's pre-existing
  rejectMismatchedStaticProfile() gave the same vague "Remove the
  conflicting profile" guidance the fourth review's Documentation finding
  had just fixed for web-search profiles. Aligned its wording with the
  same gateway-scoped, corrected pattern.
- Trust (blocker, one of two raised): ensureMessagingBridgeProfiles()'s
  probe-failure handling only warned on an indeterminate export failure
  (empty diagnostic, or anything not containing "not found") and still
  proceeded to import — the same gap the third review closed for
  web-search profiles, in a sibling function this PR hadn't touched.
  Applied the same fix: gate the import path on isMissingProviderProfile()
  and fail closed on anything else, for both static and dynamic bridge
  profiles (the probe-failure check runs before the strategy branch).
  Rewrote four existing tests whose stubbed diagnostics
  ("not found" with no "profile"/"custom" prefix in this file's own
  fixtures, or an unrealistic same-response-for-every-call shape) no
  longer satisfy the stricter, correct classifier, and added one new test
  isolating the indeterminate-probe-failure path Trust asked for.

Two claims from the fifth review were investigated and not acted on:

- Test/Design (blocker, raised in the fourth, fifth, and sixth review):
  three pre-existing, untouched tests in
  credential-provider-registration.test.ts read the checked-in Hermes
  Discord YAML via `deps.root = process.cwd()`, which the specialist
  calls a source-shape budget violation (`ci/source-shape-test-budget.json`
  sets `maxSourceShapeCases: 0` with no exception for this file). Ran the
  repository's own detector, scripts/find-source-shape-tests.mts, directly
  against the tree: it reports `source_shape_cases=0` — it does not
  currently flag this file. Left this pre-existing, unrelated coverage
  unchanged rather than editing it on a claim the repo's own enforced tool
  contradicts; flagging for a maintainer in case the detector has a gap
  worth closing separately.

A sixth review (a fourth automated advisor pass, after a rebase onto
origin/main to clear an unrelated stale-base codebase-growth-guardrails
failure — a same-day commit on main added a loop and an `if` to
test/e2e/live/launchable-smoke.test.ts, a file this branch never touched;
confirmed by diffing that file's history and rebasing) raised the Trust
finding above a third time, this time joined by Behavior independently
finding the same gap, plus two more concrete, narrowly-scoped findings
from Behavior and Operations:

- Behavior and Operations (both independently, same finding): the
  messaging-bridge import-race "already exists" check used the raw,
  unnormalized diagnostic — the exact gap "A first correction" closed for
  web-search profiles, missed when "A fifth correction" touched this same
  function for a different reason. Applied `normalizeOpenshellDiagnostic`
  to the messaging-bridge race check too, and added a wrapped-diagnostic
  regression test mirroring the existing web-search one.
- Operations (blocker): messaging-bridge profile export, import, and
  post-race export had no `OPENSHELL_OPERATION_TIMEOUT_MS` — the same gap
  "A third correction" closed for web-search profiles. Added the timeout
  to all three calls and a regression test asserting it.
- Trust (raised a third time, now joined by Behavior finding the identical
  gap independently) and Behavior: reconsidered the standing decision not
  to extend `credentialBoundary()` validation to refreshing messaging
  profiles (e.g. Google Chat). Two things changed the calculus from the
  fourth/fifth review's disclose-and-defer: the fix no longer needs new
  design work — `profileMatchesCheckedInBoundary()`, a small variant of
  `staticProfileMatchesCheckedInBoundary()` without its empty-endpoints/
  binaries narrowing, is exactly the same generic comparison already
  proven for web-search profiles two reviews ago; and this function's
  probe-failure and normalization paths were already being edited this
  round for the two findings above, so the remaining asymmetry was the
  only unclosed gap left in it. Removed the `profile.strategy === null`
  gate on both the direct-probe and race-winner validation and applied
  `profileMatchesCheckedInBoundary()` unconditionally, so a refreshing
  profile with a drifted endpoint, binary, credential rule, or refresh
  field now fails closed exactly like a static one. Added a synthetic
  Google-Chat-shaped profile-boundary fixture and direct-drift and
  race-winner-drift regression tests; fixed two existing tests whose
  stubs implicitly relied on the removed skip (no boundary content, or a
  filesystem `readFileSync` that would have thrown against the test's
  fake root) to supply a matching synthetic boundary instead. Every new
  and changed assertion in this function — probe-failure classification,
  timeout, normalization, and both boundary-validation branches — was
  independently confirmed load-bearing by targeted mutation.

The same sixth review escalated a related, larger ask across three
specialists at once — Design/Architecture, Dependency/Use, and Code/
Reduction all independently proposed the same restructuring, each tagged
"Blocker": generalize `ensureEndpointlessProviderProfile()` in
src/lib/adapters/openshell/provider-profile.ts into one shared, adapter-
owned reconciliation primitive (export → missing-profile classification →
import → race recovery, parameterized by a caller-supplied boundary
validator), and rewrite `ensureWebSearchProviderProfiles()` and
`ensureMessagingBridgeProfiles()` to call it instead of each owning a
parallel copy of that state machine. This is real, well-argued, and now
backed by three independent specialist lenses converging on the same
concrete design — but it is a materially different, larger change than
this issue: it would rewrite `ensureEndpointlessProviderProfile()` itself,
which today only serves the OpenAI-compatible endpointless inference-
provider path — production code with no reported defect and no connection
to NVIDIA#10371 — to make it generic enough for two more callers with different
boundary-validation contracts (empty-only vs. full-boundary vs. this PR's
own two flavors of full-boundary). Implementing that unilaterally inside a
bug-fix PR risks the exact kind of coordinated, security-sensitive,
cross-subsystem edit the specialists themselves warn a *lack* of
consolidation causes, done under this PR's narrower test-design budget
and without a maintainer-accepted design for the adapter's new contract —
squarely the kind of new shared abstraction NemoClaw's own contribution
guidelines ask for an accepted issue or design decision before building,
not a drive-by expansion of a targeted rebuild-noise fix. Recommending a
maintainer open a dedicated follow-up issue for this consolidation; happy
to implement it there with a proper adapter-level test design once one
exists.

A seventh review (a fifth automated advisor pass, following the sixth
correction) found Trust and Behavior both now clean, and one more real,
narrowly-scoped bug:

- Operations (blocker): the messaging-bridge post-race re-export path
  treated any nonzero export status the same as a real boundary mismatch,
  calling rejectMismatchedProfile() — which tells the operator to delete
  the profile — even when the export itself failed (gateway unreachable,
  unauthorized, timed out) and the profile's actual content was never
  read. The web-search path already got this right ("A third correction"
  taught it to distinguish an unreadable probe from a real mismatch); this
  round's rewrite of the messaging-bridge race path didn't carry that same
  distinction into its post-race branch. Split the check: a failed
  post-race export now reports the real cause via rejectProbeFailure()
  (naming the failed operation, matching the direct-probe path's existing
  message) instead of a fabricated conflict, and only a successful export
  with a different boundary reaches rejectMismatchedProfile(). Added a
  regression test asserting the failure message names the real cause and
  never suggests deleting the profile; confirmed load-bearing by mutation
  (reverting to the combined check reproduces exactly the false-conflict
  message the fix removes).

Two more findings from that round were investigated and not acted on:

- Test/Design (blocker): flagged two pre-existing, untouched tests in
  messaging-bridge-provider.test.ts ("discovers the Google Chat bridge...",
  "authorizes only the Node executable...") as source-shape violations.
  Same pattern as the Test/Design finding already declined above: both
  tests exist verbatim on origin/main, this PR's diff never touches them,
  and scripts/find-source-shape-tests.mts still reports
  `source_shape_cases=0` against the tree — the repo's own detector does
  not flag either test. Left them unchanged for the same reason as before.
- Migration/Completion (blocker): re-raised, at "Blocker" severity, the
  ensureBundledProviderProfile() gap already disclosed below as an
  out-of-scope observation — that `nemoclaw credentials add` still
  imports profiles with no probe, no boundary validation, and no
  suppressOutput. Standing by the original scope call: this is a
  different, separate command entry point (`credentials add`, not
  onboard/rebuild) with its own test suite and its own CLI contract: the
  fix isn't a small wording or ordering change like the ones this review
  round found real, it's applying this PR's entire new
  export/import/race/boundary-validation contract to a command this issue
  never reported a problem with. Flagging for a maintainer rather than
  expanding this PR into a second command's behavior change.

Two related, deliberately out-of-scope observations, disclosed rather than
folded in:

- src/lib/adapters/openshell/provider-profile.ts's own more general
  ensureEndpointlessProviderProfile() already centralizes an export/race/
  tolerate/validate state machine for a different profile family, and its
  own commit (NVIDIA#10159, "Part of NVIDIA#10155") explicitly warned that repeating
  these decisions per caller lets them drift. This is now a third
  hand-rolled copy alongside ensureMessagingBridgeProfiles() (though it now
  reuses that function's credentialBoundary() extractor, now itself owned
  by the OpenShell adapter, and this file's own isMissingProviderProfile()/
  normalizeOpenshellDiagnostic() rather than duplicating them outright).
  It isn't a drop-in replacement here (it validates an empty endpoints/
  binaries contract that brave/tavily profiles don't have), so
  generalizing it into one shared reconciliation helper (as the fourth
  review's Code/Reduction specialist also suggested) is a design change
  beyond this issue's scope, not a blocking prerequisite for mirroring the
  existing bridge-profile idiom to fix a reported bug.
- ensureBundledProviderProfile() in src/lib/actions/credentials-add.ts
  imports the same blueprint profile files with no probe and no
  suppressOutput, so `nemoclaw credentials add --type brave` still emits
  the same noise this PR fixes for onboard/rebuild. Not fixed here since
  it's a different command entry point; flagging for a maintainer. (Raised
  a second time, at "Blocker" severity, in the seventh review above —
  standing by the original scope call there.)

Tests cover, for the web-search path: no re-import for any of the three
providers when already registered; the probe uses each provider's own id
rather than a copy-pasted one; suppressOutput and the operation timeout on
the probe, import, and race re-export; the box-drawing-wrapped tolerance
case; the genuine race case; a race winner whose profile fails boundary
validation; an already-registered profile that fails boundary validation
directly; a probe failure for a reason other than a missing profile
(gateway/auth); a probe that times out or fails to spawn; a failed
post-race re-export; and the pre-existing non-idempotent-failure exit
path. For the messaging-bridge path: an indeterminate-probe-failure case
isolated from the pre-existing already-exists-tolerance and
import-fails-for-another-reason cases; the box-drawing-wrapped tolerance
case; the operation timeout on probe/import/race re-export; for
refreshing (not just static) profiles, direct and race-winner
boundary-drift rejection; and a failed post-race re-export reporting its
real cause rather than a fabricated conflict. Every new/changed assertion
in both files was independently confirmed load-bearing by targeted
mutation.

`npx vitest run --project cli` across the five changed test files: 5
files, 146 tests, all passing. `npm run test:changed` passes except for
15 pre-existing failures across 3 files (Docker llama.cpp authority,
Hermes MCP config adapter, Hermes config-drift detection) confirmed
identical on a clean origin/main checkout — unrelated host/environment
flakiness, not this PR.

Refs NVIDIA#10371

Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Signed-off-by: harjoth <harjoth.khara@gmail.com>
harjothkhara added a commit to harjothkhara/NemoClaw that referenced this pull request Aug 26, 2026
ensureWebSearchProviderProfiles() ran `provider profile import` for every
selected web-search provider on every onboard and every rebuild, with no
check for whether the profile was already there. The brave, tavily, and
tavily-hermes-v1 profiles live in one host-global OpenShell custom-profile
store shared by every sandbox on the host, so the second onboard and every
rebuild after the first collided with the profile the first onboard had
already imported. The collision was tolerated, but the import call did not
set suppressOutput, so runner.ts echoed OpenShell's redacted "already
exists" diagnostic to the terminal on every routine rebuild, where it
reads as a failure.

Probe with `provider profile export <id> --output json` first and skip the
import when the profile is already registered, mirroring what
ensureMessagingBridgeProfiles() does for bridge profiles for the same
reason. Both calls now suppress raw output so a diagnostic only reaches
the user through the existing redacted error path.

A first pass at this fix stated the destructive-host recreate failure the
issue also describes was a separate symptom this couldn't explain, because
the tolerated collision path structurally cannot reach the fatal exit. That
was wrong: `rebuild` replaces process.exit with a throw that IS caught by
the recreate phase and produces exactly the reported "Recovery recreate
failed" output, so the fatal path is reachable through this exact function.
The regex gating that path (`/already exists/i` on raw stderr+stdout) is a
plain substring test with no normalization, while OpenShell can wrap styled
output across a box-drawing continuation depending on terminal width or
TTY-ness (the same failure shape NVIDIA#10159 fixed for the sibling "not found"
match, in src/lib/adapters/openshell/provider-profile.ts). A wrapped
"already exists" message would miss the old regex and fall through to the
fatal exit — a credible, host-conditional explanation for the issue's own
observation that the identical diagnostic was fatal on one host and benign
on another. Extracted that file's ANSI/CR/box-drawing normalization into an
exported normalizeOpenshellDiagnostic() helper and applied it to this
tolerance check too. The new probe now bypasses this fragile match entirely
in the common case (skip happens before any import attempt), so this PR
likely closes the destructive variant as a side effect, even though it
wasn't independently reproduced against the reporting host to confirm that.

A second review found the skip itself trusted a bare profile-ID match: an
existing host-global profile could share brave/tavily's ID while carrying
different endpoints, credentials, binaries, or inference capability — a
stale import from an older version, or an unrelated registration entirely
— and the code would accept it and register a provider against it without
ever checking. Added webSearchProfileMatchesCheckedInBoundary(), reusing a
credentialBoundary() extractor (see the fourth review, below, on where that
now lives) to compare the exported profile's boundary against the
checked-in YAML's, on both the initial probe and the post-race re-export.
A mismatch now fails closed with a diagnostic naming the profile and the
removal command to recover, instead of silently trusting unverified host
state.

A third review (the automated PR Review Advisor's Operations specialist)
found two remaining gaps: the probe, import, and race re-export had no
OpenShell operation timeout, so a stalled gateway could block onboarding
or rebuild indefinitely with no diagnostic; and any nonzero probe status
was treated as "profile missing," conflating a genuine absence with a
probe that failed for an unrelated reason (gateway unreachable,
unauthorized, timed out, malformed response) — silently attempting a
state-changing import in response to a read that never actually
completed, and misdirecting the operator toward an "update OpenShell"
recovery message that may not match the real cause. Added
OPENSHELL_OPERATION_TIMEOUT_MS to all three calls, and exported
isMissingProviderProfile() (provider-profile.ts's own existing
not-found classifier, already used by the more mature endpointless-
profile precedent) to gate the import path on a genuine "not found"
diagnostic rather than any failure. A probe failure that isn't a
recognized "not found" now fails closed immediately, naming the failed
operation and the redacted cause, without ever attempting an import.

A fourth review (a second automated advisor pass, four more specialists)
raised three findings addressed here, plus one caught independently while
verifying them:

- Design/Architecture (blocker): credentialBoundary() lived in
  messaging-bridge-provider.ts, so web-search onboarding depended on the
  messaging-channel module for an operation that has nothing to do with
  messaging. Moved it to src/lib/adapters/openshell/provider-profile.ts —
  the module that already owns provider-profile export, diagnostic
  normalization, and validation — and both messaging-bridge-provider.ts
  and brave-provider-profile.ts now import it from there.
- Migration/Completion (blocker): shouldEnableBraveWebSearch() and
  ensureBraveProviderProfile() were left behind as thin pass-through
  wrappers after generalizing to shouldEnableWebSearch()/
  ensureWebSearchProviderProfiles() for tavily/tavily-hermes-v1 in an
  earlier review round. ensureBraveProviderProfile() had no production
  caller left at all; shouldEnableBraveWebSearch() had exactly one
  (onboard.ts's finalization wiring). Removed both, repointed that one
  caller at shouldEnableWebSearch(), and renamed the tests that still
  called the deleted wrappers.
- Documentation: the profile-mismatch recovery text told the operator the
  conflicting profile was registered "on this host" and gave a bare
  `openshell provider profile remove <id>`. The profile probe and import
  actually run through a gateway-scoped OpenShell runner
  (createGatewayScopedOpenshellRunner, confirmed by this PR's own
  "-g test-gateway" test coverage), so the recovery text now names the
  selected OpenShell gateway explicitly, asks for the gateway-scoped
  removal command, and notes other sandboxes on that gateway may share the
  profile before removing it.
- Independently, while re-verifying test coverage end to end (not from a
  specialist finding): `npm run test:changed` surfaced a real regression
  already on this branch — two crash-recovery replay tests in
  sandbox-checkpoint-crash-recovery.test.ts started failing with
  "process.exit unexpectedly called" instead of the mid-registration crash
  they simulate. Root cause: their shared OpenShell stub answered every
  `provider profile` call, regardless of which profile id was probed, with
  one canned messaging-bridge profile — harmless before this PR's probe
  existed, since nothing used to call `provider profile export` for
  brave/tavily. Once the probe was added, the same stub answered a "brave"
  probe with an unrelated profile's content, and the boundary check
  correctly treated that as drift and failed closed before the test's
  simulated crash ever ran. Fixed the fixture, not the production code:
  the stub now returns "not found" for any profile id other than the one
  it actually registers, matching what a fresh host's probe would return.
  Confirmed this predated this round (not introduced by it) by stashing
  the round's changes and rerunning the same two tests against the
  previously-pushed commit.

A fifth review (a third automated advisor pass, after the second pass's
findings above were fixed) found three more real issues, plus flagged two
claims investigated and not acted on:

- Documentation: the corrected recovery command from the fourth review
  used an unsupported subcommand (`provider profile remove`) — the real
  OpenShell CLI verb is `delete` (confirmed against
  test/e2e/live/inference-routing.test.ts's own use of
  `["provider", "profile", "delete", providerType]`). Fixed the wording
  in brave-provider-profile.ts.
- Operations: messaging-bridge-provider.ts's pre-existing
  rejectMismatchedStaticProfile() gave the same vague "Remove the
  conflicting profile" guidance the fourth review's Documentation finding
  had just fixed for web-search profiles. Aligned its wording with the
  same gateway-scoped, corrected pattern.
- Trust (blocker, one of two raised): ensureMessagingBridgeProfiles()'s
  probe-failure handling only warned on an indeterminate export failure
  (empty diagnostic, or anything not containing "not found") and still
  proceeded to import — the same gap the third review closed for
  web-search profiles, in a sibling function this PR hadn't touched.
  Applied the same fix: gate the import path on isMissingProviderProfile()
  and fail closed on anything else, for both static and dynamic bridge
  profiles (the probe-failure check runs before the strategy branch).
  Rewrote four existing tests whose stubbed diagnostics
  ("not found" with no "profile"/"custom" prefix in this file's own
  fixtures, or an unrealistic same-response-for-every-call shape) no
  longer satisfy the stricter, correct classifier, and added one new test
  isolating the indeterminate-probe-failure path Trust asked for.

Two claims from the fifth review were investigated and not acted on:

- Test/Design (blocker, raised in the fourth, fifth, and sixth review):
  three pre-existing, untouched tests in
  credential-provider-registration.test.ts read the checked-in Hermes
  Discord YAML via `deps.root = process.cwd()`, which the specialist
  calls a source-shape budget violation (`ci/source-shape-test-budget.json`
  sets `maxSourceShapeCases: 0` with no exception for this file). Ran the
  repository's own detector, scripts/find-source-shape-tests.mts, directly
  against the tree: it reports `source_shape_cases=0` — it does not
  currently flag this file. Left this pre-existing, unrelated coverage
  unchanged rather than editing it on a claim the repo's own enforced tool
  contradicts; flagging for a maintainer in case the detector has a gap
  worth closing separately.

A sixth review (a fourth automated advisor pass, after a rebase onto
origin/main to clear an unrelated stale-base codebase-growth-guardrails
failure — a same-day commit on main added a loop and an `if` to
test/e2e/live/launchable-smoke.test.ts, a file this branch never touched;
confirmed by diffing that file's history and rebasing) raised the Trust
finding above a third time, this time joined by Behavior independently
finding the same gap, plus two more concrete, narrowly-scoped findings
from Behavior and Operations:

- Behavior and Operations (both independently, same finding): the
  messaging-bridge import-race "already exists" check used the raw,
  unnormalized diagnostic — the exact gap "A first correction" closed for
  web-search profiles, missed when "A fifth correction" touched this same
  function for a different reason. Applied `normalizeOpenshellDiagnostic`
  to the messaging-bridge race check too, and added a wrapped-diagnostic
  regression test mirroring the existing web-search one.
- Operations (blocker): messaging-bridge profile export, import, and
  post-race export had no `OPENSHELL_OPERATION_TIMEOUT_MS` — the same gap
  "A third correction" closed for web-search profiles. Added the timeout
  to all three calls and a regression test asserting it.
- Trust (raised a third time, now joined by Behavior finding the identical
  gap independently) and Behavior: reconsidered the standing decision not
  to extend `credentialBoundary()` validation to refreshing messaging
  profiles (e.g. Google Chat). Two things changed the calculus from the
  fourth/fifth review's disclose-and-defer: the fix no longer needs new
  design work — `profileMatchesCheckedInBoundary()`, a small variant of
  `staticProfileMatchesCheckedInBoundary()` without its empty-endpoints/
  binaries narrowing, is exactly the same generic comparison already
  proven for web-search profiles two reviews ago; and this function's
  probe-failure and normalization paths were already being edited this
  round for the two findings above, so the remaining asymmetry was the
  only unclosed gap left in it. Removed the `profile.strategy === null`
  gate on both the direct-probe and race-winner validation and applied
  `profileMatchesCheckedInBoundary()` unconditionally, so a refreshing
  profile with a drifted endpoint, binary, credential rule, or refresh
  field now fails closed exactly like a static one. Added a synthetic
  Google-Chat-shaped profile-boundary fixture and direct-drift and
  race-winner-drift regression tests; fixed two existing tests whose
  stubs implicitly relied on the removed skip (no boundary content, or a
  filesystem `readFileSync` that would have thrown against the test's
  fake root) to supply a matching synthetic boundary instead. Every new
  and changed assertion in this function — probe-failure classification,
  timeout, normalization, and both boundary-validation branches — was
  independently confirmed load-bearing by targeted mutation.

The same sixth review escalated a related, larger ask across three
specialists at once — Design/Architecture, Dependency/Use, and Code/
Reduction all independently proposed the same restructuring, each tagged
"Blocker": generalize `ensureEndpointlessProviderProfile()` in
src/lib/adapters/openshell/provider-profile.ts into one shared, adapter-
owned reconciliation primitive (export → missing-profile classification →
import → race recovery, parameterized by a caller-supplied boundary
validator), and rewrite `ensureWebSearchProviderProfiles()` and
`ensureMessagingBridgeProfiles()` to call it instead of each owning a
parallel copy of that state machine. This is real, well-argued, and now
backed by three independent specialist lenses converging on the same
concrete design — but it is a materially different, larger change than
this issue: it would rewrite `ensureEndpointlessProviderProfile()` itself,
which today only serves the OpenAI-compatible endpointless inference-
provider path — production code with no reported defect and no connection
to NVIDIA#10371 — to make it generic enough for two more callers with different
boundary-validation contracts (empty-only vs. full-boundary vs. this PR's
own two flavors of full-boundary). Implementing that unilaterally inside a
bug-fix PR risks the exact kind of coordinated, security-sensitive,
cross-subsystem edit the specialists themselves warn a *lack* of
consolidation causes, done under this PR's narrower test-design budget
and without a maintainer-accepted design for the adapter's new contract —
squarely the kind of new shared abstraction NemoClaw's own contribution
guidelines ask for an accepted issue or design decision before building,
not a drive-by expansion of a targeted rebuild-noise fix. Recommending a
maintainer open a dedicated follow-up issue for this consolidation; happy
to implement it there with a proper adapter-level test design once one
exists.

A seventh review (a fifth automated advisor pass, following the sixth
correction) found Trust and Behavior both now clean, and one more real,
narrowly-scoped bug:

- Operations (blocker): the messaging-bridge post-race re-export path
  treated any nonzero export status the same as a real boundary mismatch,
  calling rejectMismatchedProfile() — which tells the operator to delete
  the profile — even when the export itself failed (gateway unreachable,
  unauthorized, timed out) and the profile's actual content was never
  read. The web-search path already got this right ("A third correction"
  taught it to distinguish an unreadable probe from a real mismatch); this
  round's rewrite of the messaging-bridge race path didn't carry that same
  distinction into its post-race branch. Split the check: a failed
  post-race export now reports the real cause via rejectProbeFailure()
  (naming the failed operation, matching the direct-probe path's existing
  message) instead of a fabricated conflict, and only a successful export
  with a different boundary reaches rejectMismatchedProfile(). Added a
  regression test asserting the failure message names the real cause and
  never suggests deleting the profile; confirmed load-bearing by mutation
  (reverting to the combined check reproduces exactly the false-conflict
  message the fix removes).

Two more findings from that round were investigated and not acted on:

- Test/Design (blocker): flagged two pre-existing, untouched tests in
  messaging-bridge-provider.test.ts ("discovers the Google Chat bridge...",
  "authorizes only the Node executable...") as source-shape violations.
  Same pattern as the Test/Design finding already declined above: both
  tests exist verbatim on origin/main, this PR's diff never touches them,
  and scripts/find-source-shape-tests.mts still reports
  `source_shape_cases=0` against the tree — the repo's own detector does
  not flag either test. Left them unchanged for the same reason as before.
- Migration/Completion (blocker): re-raised, at "Blocker" severity, the
  ensureBundledProviderProfile() gap already disclosed below as an
  out-of-scope observation — that `nemoclaw credentials add` still
  imports profiles with no probe, no boundary validation, and no
  suppressOutput. Standing by the original scope call: this is a
  different, separate command entry point (`credentials add`, not
  onboard/rebuild) with its own test suite and its own CLI contract: the
  fix isn't a small wording or ordering change like the ones this review
  round found real, it's applying this PR's entire new
  export/import/race/boundary-validation contract to a command this issue
  never reported a problem with. Flagging for a maintainer rather than
  expanding this PR into a second command's behavior change.

An eighth review (a sixth automated advisor pass) found Trust fully clean
again, and three more small, real, narrowly-scoped fixes:

- Behavior (blocker): the messaging-bridge profile import call was missing
  `suppressOutput: true` (present on its export probe and its post-race
  export, but not the import itself). A concurrent onboard winning the
  import race would print OpenShell's raw `already exists` diagnostic to
  the terminal even though the code goes on to recover successfully —
  exactly the noise NVIDIA#10371 reports, just on the import call this time
  instead of the export probe. Added the missing option and a regression
  test asserting it's set and that the race still recovers without
  exiting.
- Operations: `ensureEndpointlessProviderProfile()` in
  src/lib/adapters/openshell/provider-profile.ts — the pre-existing
  OpenAI-endpointless-profile helper, not part of this PR's original
  diff, only touched this round to add exports — had the same
  unnormalized `/already exists/` match "A first correction" fixed for
  web-search profiles and "A sixth correction" fixed for messaging-bridge
  profiles. `normalizeOpenshellDiagnostic()` already lived in this exact
  file (it's where the other two paths import it from), so this was a
  one-line fix using an already-proven, already-tested helper on its own
  origin call site. Added a wrapped-diagnostic regression test mirroring
  the existing race-recovery tests in that file.
- Migration/Completion: `braveProviderProfilePath()` in
  brave-provider-profile.ts was a dead pass-through wrapper left behind
  after "A fourth correction" generalized profile-path resolution to
  `webSearchProviderProfilePath()` — no production caller, only three
  test call sites. Removed it and updated those three call sites to the
  generic helper directly.
- Documentation: both profile-mismatch recovery messages (web-search and
  messaging-bridge) told the operator to run a gateway-scoped removal
  command with a literal `<gateway-name>` placeholder but never said how
  to find that name. Added one sentence pointing to
  `openshell gateway info`, which reports the currently-selected gateway.

Two findings from that round were investigated and not acted on, both
re-raises of standing scope calls: Test/Design flagged the same two
pre-existing, untouched tests as before (source-shape claim, same
verified-false-positive answer). Design/Architecture, Dependency/Use, and
Code/Reduction all re-raised the three-owner consolidation ask from "A
sixth correction" — standing by the decision not to implement it
unilaterally in this PR.

Two related, deliberately out-of-scope observations, disclosed rather than
folded in:

- src/lib/adapters/openshell/provider-profile.ts's own more general
  ensureEndpointlessProviderProfile() already centralizes an export/race/
  tolerate/validate state machine for a different profile family, and its
  own commit (NVIDIA#10159, "Part of NVIDIA#10155") explicitly warned that repeating
  these decisions per caller lets them drift. This is now a third
  hand-rolled copy alongside ensureMessagingBridgeProfiles() (though it now
  reuses that function's credentialBoundary() extractor, now itself owned
  by the OpenShell adapter, and this file's own isMissingProviderProfile()/
  normalizeOpenshellDiagnostic() rather than duplicating them outright).
  It isn't a drop-in replacement here (it validates an empty endpoints/
  binaries contract that brave/tavily profiles don't have), so
  generalizing it into one shared reconciliation helper (as the fourth
  review's Code/Reduction specialist also suggested) is a design change
  beyond this issue's scope, not a blocking prerequisite for mirroring the
  existing bridge-profile idiom to fix a reported bug.
- ensureBundledProviderProfile() in src/lib/actions/credentials-add.ts
  imports the same blueprint profile files with no probe and no
  suppressOutput, so `nemoclaw credentials add --type brave` still emits
  the same noise this PR fixes for onboard/rebuild. Not fixed here since
  it's a different command entry point; flagging for a maintainer. (Raised
  a second time, at "Blocker" severity, in the seventh review above —
  standing by the original scope call there.)

Tests cover, for the web-search path: no re-import for any of the three
providers when already registered; the probe uses each provider's own id
rather than a copy-pasted one; suppressOutput and the operation timeout on
the probe, import, and race re-export; the box-drawing-wrapped tolerance
case; the genuine race case; a race winner whose profile fails boundary
validation; an already-registered profile that fails boundary validation
directly; a probe failure for a reason other than a missing profile
(gateway/auth); a probe that times out or fails to spawn; a failed
post-race re-export; and the pre-existing non-idempotent-failure exit
path. For the messaging-bridge path: an indeterminate-probe-failure case
isolated from the pre-existing already-exists-tolerance and
import-fails-for-another-reason cases; the box-drawing-wrapped tolerance
case; the operation timeout on probe/import/race re-export; for
refreshing (not just static) profiles, direct and race-winner
boundary-drift rejection; a failed post-race re-export reporting its real
cause rather than a fabricated conflict; and the import call's suppressed
output surviving a race-winner recovery. `provider-profile.test.ts`
(the OpenShell adapter, touched this round for the first time) adds a
wrapped-diagnostic race-recovery case for `ensureEndpointlessProviderProfile()`,
mirroring its own pre-existing race tests. Every new/changed assertion
across all three files was independently confirmed load-bearing by
targeted mutation.

`npx vitest run --project cli` across the five changed test files under
src/lib/onboard/ and src/lib/onboard/machine/: 5 files, 148 tests, all
passing. `npm run test:changed` ran the full suite this round (this
round's diff touches the shared OpenShell adapter): 6666 passed, 2
skipped; the only 15 failures are the same 3 pre-existing, unrelated
files (Docker llama.cpp authority, Hermes MCP config adapter, Hermes
config-drift detection) confirmed identical on a clean origin/main
checkout — unrelated host/environment flakiness, not this PR.

Refs NVIDIA#10371

Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Signed-off-by: harjoth <harjoth.khara@gmail.com>
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