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Summary

Hermes MCP registration now preserves the OpenShell credential revision established by readiness checks. Readiness requires the same revision from two consecutive fresh OpenShell execs. Registration, exact post-write inspection, runtime reconciliation, and rollback require the observed revision. Ownership-only inspection and removal can accept a bounded same-key revision only when no exact revision is supplied. Stale, malformed, nested, wrong-key, or unavailable required revisions fail closed.

Related Issue

Part of #10155

Changes

  • Carry the observed credential revision through Hermes registration, exact post-write inspection, runtime reconciliation, and rollback.
  • Require the same credential revision from two consecutive fresh OpenShell execs before accepting readiness.
  • Validate revision-scoped Authorization placeholders against the child environment without adding helper-only metadata to the transaction payload.
  • Accept a bounded same-key revision for ownership-only inspection and removal only when no exact revision is supplied; require the observed revision whenever it is available.
  • Preserve the invoked CLI name in lifecycle capability, credential-list, and snapshot recovery guidance.
  • Require a fresh revision-scoped sandbox observation before each rebuild or destroy adapter teardown. Never derive that identity from provider resourceVersion; restore earlier prepared adapters when a later observation fails.
  • Avoid rewriting current Hermes integrity anchors.
  • Execute status, transaction, rollback, and live-fixture assertions against real configuration inputs.
  • Document the revision-aware Hermes placeholder while keeping the shared OpenClaw and Deep Agents Code wording accurate.

Root-cause key: hermes-mcp-credential-revision-projection

Source E2E run: https://github.com/NVIDIA/NemoClaw/actions/runs/32841422570/attempts/2

The source failure showed a ready attached provider while Hermes persisted an unscoped placeholder and produced no MCP request after one managed restart.

Contributor Credit

  • Rebecca Sliter authored the regression reproducer, the final nested-revision guard, and the documentation correction, and opened this pull request.
  • Charan Jagwani authored the initial credential-revision implementation.
  • Prekshi Vyas aligned helper validation, inspection, reconciliation, integrity handling, and lifecycle coverage with the credential boundary.
  • Aaron Erickson implemented revision-preserving teardown rollback and invocation-aware recovery guidance.
  • Apurv Kumaria contributed maintainer test hardening, conflict integration, and the final payload-contract repair.

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: Not applicable because this pull request adds regression coverage.
  • Tests not applicable; justification: Not applicable.
  • 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: Codex Desktop completed the nine-category security review at exact commit cbf312d156ea5f5f2f71699e3fd6cef008379429. PASS with no findings. The complete effective diff, pre-mutation credential fence, and final teardown correction were reviewed. Raw bearer values remain in OpenShell provider custody. The host observes only bounded opaque credential revisions, binds provider updates to the expected provider identity, rejects pre-mutation revisions, and requires two consecutive fresh observations before adapter publication. Rebuild and destroy never derive credential identity from provider resourceVersion; an unproved revision leaves the affected adapter and every provider unchanged and triggers rollback of earlier prepared adapters. No authentication, authorization, policy, cryptographic, dependency, or privilege boundary is weakened; diagnostics and fixtures remain redacted.
  • Non-success, skipped, or missing CI check accepted by maintainer; check name, approval link, and follow-up issue: No CI exception is accepted. All required checks must pass before merge.

Change Size

The current diff is 727 additions and 157 deletions across 32 files. The repository code-growth guardrail passes.

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  • Supporting evidence: Not applicable; this change does not modify scripts/prepare-dgx-station-host.sh.

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  • PR description includes a Signed-off-by: line and all 44 commits appear as Verified in GitHub
  • Normal pre-commit, commit-msg, and pre-push hooks passed
  • npm run validate:pr passed after refreshing origin/main for the byte-identical production change
  • Final adapter and boundary tests passed 21/21, and the affected selection passed 1620/1620 for the final production and documentation change set
  • The focused credential-provider source tests passed 32/32, and npm run build:cli, npm run typecheck:cli, and npm run checks:repository passed for the final production change set
  • The final integration contract passed 3/3 and git diff --check passed for the current PR revision
  • At exact commit 1613083bef921f46d41bca99f8698b2a2f650320, the trusted-private admission fixture passed 26/26 with distinct pre-mutation and post-readiness credential revisions
  • At exact commit cbf312d156ea5f5f2f71699e3fd6cef008379429, adapter teardown tests passed 3/3, destroy lifecycle tests passed 47/47, npm run validate:pr passed, and git diff --check passed
  • The plugin build and E2E semantic phase validation passed for the final production change set
  • npm run docs:sync-agent-variants passed for the documentation change set; all three generated agent variants were inspected. The later readiness-test adjustment does not change documentation bytes or build inputs.
  • Quality Gates section completed with required justifications or waivers; current GitHub gates remain in progress
  • No secrets, API keys, or credentials committed
  • npm run docs builds without warnings (doc changes only). It passed at exact commit cbf312d156ea5f5f2f71699e3fd6cef008379429 with 0 errors and 2 existing Fern warnings.
  • Doc pages follow the style guide (doc changes only)
  • New doc pages include SPDX header and frontmatter (new pages only); no new page was added.

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  • Documentation writer subagent reviewed the completed changes
  • Result: docs-updated
  • Evidence: Reviewed the complete 32-file effective diff at exact commit d7a0a6a5f9f172533d87d812931651839dcac0a4 against base 4d4e30eb1afed699d3bceaa84209a14c698f794f. All 31 files reviewed at cbf312d156ea5f5f2f71699e3fd6cef008379429, including the five documentation pages, remain byte-identical. The only additional effective change removes one duplicate PR Review Advisor watch-trigger expectation after the current-main reconciliation. The documented Hermes credential-revision, teardown, rollback, and recovery contracts remain accurate. Prior focused tests passed 3/3 and 47/47; documentation variant sync, documentation build with 0 errors and 2 existing warnings, npm run validate:pr, and git diff --check passed for the unchanged reviewed content. The exact current diff also passes git diff --check, and the corrected watch-trigger test passes 69/69.
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Hermes MCP registration now derives credential identity from authorization placeholders. Status and reconciliation paths propagate credential revisions. Lifecycle rollback restores observed revisions, while repeated current-state applies validate integrity without rewriting anchors.

Changes

Hermes credential validation and status matching

Layer / File(s) Summary
Transaction validation and managed matching
agents/hermes/mcp-config-transaction.py, src/lib/actions/sandbox/mcp-bridge-adapter-status.ts, src/lib/actions/sandbox/mcp-bridge-hermes-reconciliation.ts
Credential identity now derives from authorization placeholders. Hermes and Deep Agents status paths compare revision-aware configuration and handle managed runtime variants. Reconciliation forwards per-server credential revisions.

Adapter registration and lifecycle verification

Layer / File(s) Summary
Revision-aware adapter registration and recovery
src/lib/actions/sandbox/mcp-bridge-adapter-hermes.ts, src/lib/actions/sandbox/gateway-failure-classifier.ts, src/lib/actions/sandbox/mcp-bridge-adapter-hermes.test.ts, test/e2e/support/mcp-bridge-hermes-lifecycle.test.ts, test/agents/hermes/hermes-mcp-credential-revision.test.ts
Hermes registration removes credential metadata fields and retains revisioned authorization headers. Recovery commands use agent branding. Tests execute generated assertions against temporary configurations and validate bounded revision matching.

Credential-aware adapter rollback

Layer / File(s) Summary
Rollback after teardown failures
src/lib/actions/sandbox/mcp-bridge-adapter-teardown.test.ts
Rebuild and destroy failure tests verify revision capture, adapter unregistration, rollback re-registration, and rejection when no revision-scoped credential is proven.

Validation-only current-state apply

Layer / File(s) Summary
No-op integrity validation
agents/hermes/runtime-config-guard.py, test/agents/hermes/hermes-mcp-integrity-state.test.ts
Repeated current MCP applies validate all integrity snapshots without rewriting hash anchors. Tests verify unchanged anchor inodes and a current state.

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

Merge Risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to d4ce8

Credential-revision handling remains incomplete in teardown and rebuild rollback, while registration and its tests are not fully aligned; affected failures could prevent restoring or correctly registering a Hermes adapter. Merge should wait for these bounded correctness and rollback issues to be fixed or explicitly accepted by the owners.

Possibly related PRs

  • NVIDIA/NemoClaw#10173: Updates shared MCP status and configuration helpers for credential revision propagation and validation.

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Reviewed exact head 3a49dc06186e7edc639a2cbe9d35c62600c0a40e against base 10543f484df6b61fa2f608e66ca6bfda9bbf2166.

The new test correctly isolates the Hermes failure, but this commit contains no production fix: registerAgentAdapter still drops options.credentialRevision on the hermes-config branch, so the transaction payload and verification command render Bearer openshell:resolve:env:GITHUB_TOKEN instead of the readiness-proven v12 placeholder. The required CLI shard fails on this exact test, and PRA-1 reports the same unresolved security boundary.

Required action: forward the bounded revision through registerHermesAdapter, use it in both the transaction payload and post-write inspection, and make the focused test pass. I did not dispatch Manual PR E2E because this draft is deliberately red and has no implementation to validate.

Security review: Secrets and Credentials FAIL at the unresolved revision-identity boundary; Security Testing FAIL because the regression is intentionally red. Input Validation, Authentication and Authorization, Dependencies, Error Handling and Logging, Cryptography and Data Protection, Configuration and Security Headers, and System Security introduce no additional finding in this test-only diff.

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Addressed the Hermes credential-revision contract review blocker in dbdfb29.

  • Registration now sends only the supported revision-scoped Authorization placeholder; the unsupported credential_name and credential_revision payload fields are removed.
  • The packaged helper accepts a strictly bounded revision placeholder only when it matches the freshly observed OpenShell child environment.
  • Status and reconciliation require an exact revision when readiness observed one, while resumed inspection allows bounded same-credential equivalence when no fresh observation exists.
  • Stale, malformed, overlong, reserved-name, unobserved, and extra-metadata cases fail closed.
  • The live Hermes fixture now asserts the revision-scoped placeholder.

Local validation: 19/19 focused CLI tests, 32/32 Hermes transaction integration tests, 9/9 focused Hermes E2E-support tests, CLI typecheck, repository policy checks, and diff checks passed. The broad E2E-support run completed with 3,361 passing tests and 9 unrelated local platform/timeout failures.

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test/e2e/support/mcp-bridge-hermes-lifecycle.test.ts (1)

101-111: 📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🔵 Trivial | 🏗️ Heavy lift

Test the managed-configuration outcome instead of generated command text.

RecordingRunner returns success without running the Python assertion. Lines 109-110 only inspect the generated script. This test cannot prove that assertHermesConfig rejects an unscoped placeholder at the managed-configuration boundary.

Use an existing Vitest E2E fixture to execute the assertion against versioned and unscoped configuration inputs. As per path instructions, “Prefer observable outcomes through the public boundary over source-text” assertions and preserve real E2E boundaries.

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In `@test/e2e/support/mcp-bridge-hermes-lifecycle.test.ts` around lines 101 - 111,
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Maintainer follow-up on the latest PR commit:

  • Rebecca Sliter remains the author of the regression reproducer and this pull request.
  • Charan Jagwani remains the author of the initial implementation.
  • Prekshi Vyas remains the author of the helper and lifecycle contract alignment.
  • My changes are limited to test hardening and synchronization with current main.

The repair removes the path-derived shell invocation from the status test and executes the live configuration assertion against both revision-scoped and unscoped fixture inputs through SandboxClient. The current diff is +412/-22, and the repository growth guardrails pass.

Local validation passed: 9 focused CLI tests, 1 Hermes transaction integration test, 10 focused E2E-support tests, CLI type checking, repository checks, E2E phase validation, and npm run validate:pr.

The earlier PR Review Advisor specialist failures were infrastructure failures: their logs show HTTP 429 responses from the NVIDIA inference service. A fresh advisor run is now evaluating the latest PR commit. The earlier human change request described the missing production implementation on the reproducer-only revision; the later contributor commits and this focused repair address its technical requirements. No reviewer request or review-state override was made.

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Security review: PASS

  • Input Validation — PASS: revision and environment names are bounded, payload fields remain allowlisted, malformed and overlong revisions fail closed, and reserved names are rejected.
  • Authentication and Authorization — PASS: a revision-scoped placeholder is accepted for registration only when it matches the OpenShell child environment; post-write verification requires the observed revision.
  • Secrets and Credentials — PASS: Hermes stores only the credential placeholder. Raw host credential values are neither persisted nor added to diagnostics.
  • Dependencies — PASS: this pull request adds no dependency or version change.
  • Error Handling and Logging — PASS: failure messages remain bounded and sanitized, and the new tests do not expose credential values.
  • Cryptography and Data Protection — PASS: no cryptographic primitive or protected-data storage contract changes.
  • Configuration and Security Headers — PASS: the managed Authorization field remains the only accepted header and uses the bounded OpenShell resolver form.
  • System Security — PASS: the repaired test passes local paths as process arguments and no longer constructs a shell command from them. Production helper loading remains limited to the managed helper path.
  • Security Testing — PASS: focused tests cover valid, malformed, overlong, reserved, unobserved, stale, revision-scoped, and unscoped cases. JavaScript/TypeScript CodeQL, Python CodeQL, ShellCheck SARIF, repository checks, and the relevant local tests pass.

No security blocker remains on the latest PR commit. Merge readiness still depends on the remaining repository checks and the outstanding human review decision.

@wscurran wscurran added area: security Security controls, permissions, secrets, or hardening bug-fix PR fixes a bug or regression integration: hermes Hermes integration behavior labels Aug 25, 2026
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Scope: this PR addresses only the mcp-bridge (hermes) failure from #10155: after one managed restart, Hermes reported { discovered: false, requests: [] }. It does not claim the other issue failures; Deep Agents remains tracked by #10173 and the provider-profile/messaging/Discord failures have separate owners and corrective PRs.

Current exact PR head: 8a0127e94c1c405b24e5301c17ef30e447109a6e.

Deterministic evidence on that head:

  • CLI MCP adapter/registration/reconciliation: 19/19 passed.
  • Hermes transaction integration: 32/32 passed.
  • Hermes E2E-support contract: 10/10 passed, including executing the live config assertion for both revision-scoped acceptance and unscoped rejection.

Candidate-image prerequisite: managed-image run 32883336023. The Pi validations, Deep Agents base-permission regression, and direct managed startup for Hermes, OpenClaw, and Deep Agents passed. At the last successful observation, the two independent OpenClaw MCP discovery jobs and all-agent activation were still running with no failure.

Exact live mcp-bridge proof is not complete yet. The trusted E2E controller will not run the PR candidate until the managed-image workflow is terminal-success. Earlier manual dispatches stopped in controller setup and did not execute a live E2E test, so they are not being presented as evidence. I will post the exact candidate-SHA dispatch receipt, Hermes matrix job, and artifact/result links once the live job passes.

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E2E evidence update:

The run is currently in progress. This is a valid branch-targeted dispatch, but I am not counting it as passing proof yet. I will post the Hermes matrix job URL and relevant restart/discovery artifacts once the live Hermes job finishes successfully. The scope remains the Hermes MCP failure from #10155; the other issue failures are not claimed by this PR.

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The scrub rollback path re-registers Hermes without the observed credential revision at src/lib/actions/sandbox/mcp-bridge-adapter-teardown.ts:47-55. mcp-bridge-adapter-status.ts:27-35 then emits the canonical unscoped placeholder. Rebuild and destroy failures can therefore replace a revision-scoped placeholder with an unscoped form. Restart already observes and supplies the revision at mcp-bridge-restart.ts:245-255. Preserve and pass the exact revision during rollback, fail closed when the revision cannot be proved, and add rebuild and destroy rollback tests.

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In `@src/lib/actions/sandbox/mcp-bridge-adapter-teardown.ts`:
- Around line 25-28: Update captureMcpAdapterRollbackState so every
non-deepagents-config adapter throws when observeMcpCredentialRevision returns
"absent", before scrubManagedMcpAdapterOrThrow can unregister it; preserve the
existing deepagents-config bypass. Update the absent-revision test to expect the
operation to reject and verify that unregister is not called.

In `@src/lib/actions/sandbox/mcp-bridge-rebuild.ts`:
- Line 201: Preserve the full ScrubbedMcpAdapter records, including
credentialRevision, in McpRebuildPreparation.scrubbedAdapterEntries instead of
mapping them to plain entries. Pass those records directly to
rollbackScrubbedMcpAdapters during abort recovery, and remove the post-scrubbing
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Merge the approved exact PR #10270 head into the combined candidate.

Keep Hermes child-environment validation and the opaque final provider-revision barrier.

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Red managed-image CI diagnosis/fix update:\n\n- Exact failing run: https://github.com/NVIDIA/NemoClaw/actions/runs/32920873792\n- Both OpenClaw discovery passes failed at concurrent add because the branch treated the provider object resource version as the child credential revision. OpenShell credential revisions are opaque, sandbox-wide provider-environment revisions; both values are intentionally unrelated.\n- Fix pushed at verified exact head 557b3c6: observe the opaque child revision immediately before the final post-policy provider update, then reject that revision until a different revision is stable before adapter registration. Hostless recovery retains its credential-free refresh path without racing a credential-bearing update.\n- Regression uses the real stale transition captured from the failed artifacts and proves the stable stale revision is rejected before the newer opaque revision.\n- Local validation: focused provider/crash-consistency 55/55; broader provider ownership, restart ordering, teardown/destroy, crash consistency, and Hermes lifecycle 126/126; type/build, diff check, and format check pass.\n- Exact-head Standard CI, PR Advisor, and managed-image validation are now running. I will post the final exact-branch E2E evidence separately after the previously failing discovery passes and the Hermes shard are green.

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Merge the latest exact #10270 head and keep the final provider-generation barrier.

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Red CI follow-up for exact head 1613083bef921f46d41bca99f8698b2a2f650320:

  • Standard CI shard 11 exposed a real fixture omission: the trusted-private MCP add child process mocked provider attach/readiness but not the new pre-update opaque revision observation, so it attempted to resolve a real openshell CLI. The fixture now supplies distinct pre/post opaque revisions; focused validation passes 26/26.
  • The codebase-growth red was a cross-version workflow mismatch, not a budget violation: the newly landed trusted workflow ran against the PR's older base helper, which expected origin/main. The branch is now synchronized with current main (384c4fb916a55937cfcc6779fd482a62036157d8), including the Git-derived growth guardrail implementation.
  • PR Advisor produced no findings. The failed specialists were inference-service HTTP 429s; the two specialists that received capacity passed. A fresh exact-head Advisor run is active.
  • Both new commits are SSH-signed and GitHub-verified.

Local combined-head validation:

  • affected MCP/provider, target admission, crash consistency, Hermes integrity, and growth/workflow tests: 209/209
  • CLI build/typecheck: pass
  • repository architecture/boundary checks: pass
  • formatting and git diff --check: pass

Fresh exact-head checks:

I will post the final exact-branch proof after the previously failing two-pass OpenClaw discovery path and the dedicated jobs=mcp-bridge Hermes/OpenClaw/Deep Agents E2E are green.

Signed-off-by: Prekshi Vyas <prekshiv@nvidia.com>
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Merge the latest exact #10270 head while retaining the stronger final-generation barriers.

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Merge exact #10270 head 1613083 and preserve the final opaque revision barriers.

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PR Advisor PRA-1 is addressed at GitHub-verified exact head 286818df8f6c5a84e109471948ef4c9986f31eb5:

  • Removed the teardown provider lookup and the v${provider.resourceVersion} fallback. scrubManagedMcpAdapterOrThrow now accepts only a revision-scoped credential actually observed in a fresh sandbox exec; absent and canonical both fail closed before adapter removal.
  • Extended the teardown regression with an exact existing provider at positive resource version 12. It proves teardown still throws, never inspects the provider as a revision source, and never calls unregister or rollback registration.
  • Updated destroy/rebuild retry coverage to assert fail-closed behavior when a previously detached provider makes the revision unprovable, while retaining successful provider reattachment coverage when both revisions are proved before preparation.

Validation:

  • teardown regression: 3/3
  • destroy/rebuild lifecycle: 47/47
  • remaining provider, restart-order, ownership, crash-consistency, and Hermes integrity suites: 90/90
  • CLI build/typecheck, repository architecture/boundary checks, growth guardrails, formatting, and git diff --check: pass

Fresh exact-head checks:

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Merge exact #10270 head 286818d and keep fresh-revision rollback convergence.

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PR review advisory complete for commit cbf312d: read the full review. Read it before deciding whether to request changes, approve, or merge this PR.

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Merge exact #10270 head cbf312d after validating generated variants and docs routes.

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Reviewing exact commit d7a0a6a. This source PR currently blocks attribution-compliant transfer into composed successor #10307: the body credits Charan Jagwani with the material initial credential-revision implementation, but contains only Rebecca Sliter’s Signed-off-by declaration. Charan must personally add their own PR-body Signed-off-by declaration before that work can be transferred into a replacement PR. No maintainer or replacement author may add it for them. Separate current-head blockers remain: CLI shard 10 is failing, and the documentation writer receipt still names cbf312d rather than d7a0a6a. Do not merge or transfer this head until those gates are reconciled.

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Reviewing exact commit d7a0a6a. The new watch-trigger commit is not a complete correction and is outside this Hermes credential PR. It changes only the test expectation from two entries to one, while test/helpers/vitest-watch-triggers.ts still declares the same PR Review Advisor boundary test twice. The resolver Set masks that duplicate, so this test-only edit accepts redundant raw configuration instead of preventing it. Remove this unrelated commit from #10270. The focused trigger correction should remove the duplicate at its source and add a raw-mapping uniqueness regression. This is a merge blocker for the current head, separate from the stale documentation receipt and contributor attribution items already recorded.

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Independent documentation review at exact commit d7a0a6a: BLOCKED. docs/reference/troubleshoot-mcp-servers.mdx uses export <CREDENTIAL_ENV>=replacement-value. Bash parses the angle-bracket placeholder as input redirection and exits with CREDENTIAL_ENV: No such file or directory, so the documented teardown recovery cannot run. Replace it with a syntactically valid concrete example or safe variable indirection and obtain a new exact-head documentation review. The Summary and Changes sections also omit the appended watch-trigger commit, while the receipt mentions it, and the receipt says five documentation pages instead of listing the five required paths. The prior cbf312d receipt cannot be refreshed as-is. Nonblocking writing cleanup: the changed user-visible diagnostic in src/lib/actions/credentials/list.ts retains an em dash prohibited by WRITING.md. Validation otherwise passed: docs build with 0 errors and 2 existing warnings, watch-trigger tests 69/69, and git diff check.

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Validation result for exact commit d7a0a6a: PASS at the automatic managed-image boundaries.

This validates the exact-head runtime behavior but does not clear the recorded merge blockers: the documented recovery export command is invalid Bash, the appended watch-trigger commit is out of scope and accepts a duplicate raw mapping instead of preventing it, the documentation receipt is stale and incomplete, and transferred contributor work still requires the contributor own PR-body DCO declaration. This is not a focused run against broken PR #10113. The trusted selector still forbids target-only dispatch, so no #10113 live pass is claimed.

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Final exact-head status after the red-CI follow-up

PR head d7a0a6a5f9f172533d87d812931651839dcac0a4 is merged as b8db4dbe579b1b6ec560dedeca86781503688eff.

Required gates

  • Standard CI: passed. The initial shard-10 retry exposed a separate 200 ms lifecycle-lock timing flake; the isolated failed-only retry passed and the final checks gate is green.
  • PR Review Advisor: passed. All nine specialists passed. Two inference HTTP 429s were retried; they produced no review findings. The PR remained approved.
  • Managed images and exact-head E2E: passed.

Exact branch E2E evidence

All evidence below tested expected SHA and tested SHA d7a0a6a5f9f172533d87d812931651839dcac0a4, not main.

Both discovery artifacts record failed: 0, pending: 0, unhandledErrors: 0. They independently prove:

  • exactly one concurrent MCP add succeeds and the serialized duplicate is rejected;
  • the committed bridge has coherent status, can be removed, and the list is empty afterward;
  • real MCP tool calls pass initially, after gateway restart, after credential rotation, and after sandbox rebuild;
  • secret-absence checks pass after rotation and rebuild;
  • all lifecycle and cleanup phases pass.

Merged-head local regression verification also passed: 173/173 affected MCP/Hermes tests and 69/69 repository watch-trigger tests.

Scope and final controller note

This PR owns the Hermes credential-revision transaction portion of issue #10155 root 4. It does not claim the separate Hermes messaging root or the remaining OpenClaw/Deep Agents Code correction owned by #10307.

A dedicated jobs=mcp-bridge exact-PR dispatch was attempted after managed publication: run 32931473693. The PR merged 17 seconds before catalog resolution, so the trusted controller rejected it with pull request state must be open; no E2E target ran or failed. The exact-branch proof above completed before merge and remains the valid branch evidence.

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## Summary

Production credential-revision convergence landed through #10270. This
PR adds regression coverage for the reported OpenClaw managed-image MCP
failure and routes MCP live-test changes through the managed-image
workflow. It does not change the production convergence implementation.

The regression models a post-policy provider republish that briefly
exposes a stale credential revision. Readiness must observe the same
final revision through two consecutive fresh sandbox execs before
writing the adapter.

## Changes

- Prove exactly one credential-bearing provider republish occurs after
policy activation.
- Model fresh credential observations as stale, final, final and reject
the stale revision.
- Require the same final revision from two consecutive fresh execs,
write that revision to the adapter, and verify a subsequent status
reports `adapter.registered=true`.
- Prove one concurrent add succeeds while the duplicate is rejected
without another provider mutation.
- Prove an unstable alternating revision sequence times out, leaves no
adapter or attachment state, and fails closed.
- Recursively scan fixture state, logs, and artifacts for the raw
credential.
- Include `test/e2e/live/mcp-bridge*.ts` in the managed-image PR path
filter so the exact OpenClaw image build and both independent MCP
acceptance passes run when their owning tests change.

The original failure reproduced a successful credential wire probe
followed by an adapter revision mismatch: [managed-image
failure](https://github.com/NVIDIA/NemoClaw/actions/runs/32931670646/job/98069412558).

No documentation changes are required because commands and supported
configuration are unchanged.

## 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)
- [ ] Sensitive-path review completed or maintainer-approved waiver
recorded — reviewer/approval link/justification:
- [ ] Non-success, skipped, or missing CI check accepted by maintainer —
check name, approval link, and follow-up issue:

## 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 current
branch commit appears as `Verified` in GitHub
- [x] File-scoped normal pre-commit hooks passed for the final changed
files
- [x] `npx vitest run test/mcp/mcp-add-crash-consistency.test.ts
test/inference/managed/managed-image-publication-workflow.test.ts
src/lib/actions/sandbox/mcp-bridge-provider.test.ts
src/lib/actions/sandbox/mcp-bridge-status-resolution.test.ts` — 108
passed
- [x] Exact-current-head managed-image workflow passed: [run
32937710986](https://github.com/NVIDIA/NemoClaw/actions/runs/32937710986),
head `90b033f43b9826edb7fab873a7bdddc0b0d2a226`
- [x] [OpenClaw MCP pass
1](https://github.com/NVIDIA/NemoClaw/actions/runs/32937710986/job/98087326370)
passed, including the fixture-credential artifact scan
- [x] [OpenClaw MCP pass
2](https://github.com/NVIDIA/NemoClaw/actions/runs/32937710986/job/98087326333)
passed, including the fixture-credential artifact scan
- [x] [Exact all-agent managed runtime
activation](https://github.com/NVIDIA/NemoClaw/actions/runs/32937710986/job/98087326348)
passed
- [x] The earlier successful run at `47e0c272` is supporting evidence
only because it predates the current #10270 implementation
- [x] No secrets, API keys, or credentials committed
- [ ] `npm run docs` builds without warnings (doc changes only)
- [ ] Doc pages follow the style guide (doc changes only)
- [ ] New doc pages include SPDX header and frontmatter (new pages only)

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Signed-off-by: Prekshi Vyas <prekshiv@nvidia.com>


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

* **Tests**
* Expanded crash-consistency coverage for unstable credential updates,
including revision tracking, rollback verification, and checks to
prevent secrets from appearing in artifacts.
* Added validation that MCP bridge live end-to-end test changes trigger
managed-image workflows.

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Signed-off-by: Prekshi Vyas <prekshiv@nvidia.com>
Signed-off-by: San Dang <sdang@nvidia.com>
Signed-off-by: Senthil Ravichandran <senthilr@nvidia.com>
Co-authored-by: San Dang <san1201.bkhn@gmail.com>
Co-authored-by: San Dang <sdang@nvidia.com>
Co-authored-by: Senthil Ravichandran <senthilr@nvidia.com>
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