fix(messaging): bind revisioned credentials to canonical providers

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Outcome

Revisioned Telegram, Slack, web-search, and extension credentials remain attached to each channel's canonical OpenShell provider. Messaging setup validates provider identity and lifecycle state before profile or provider mutation, attaches newly registered providers to the exact sandbox, and keeps inactive built-in routes out of rebuild policies.

Reason

Messaging routes could reference standalone providers created from revisioned placeholder names. Provider updates could retain valid namespaced credentials that a later exact-set check rejected, while provider-family validation ran too late to prevent an earlier web-search profile import. Channel enrollment could also publish a credential-bound route before its provider was attached to the sandbox.

The earlier broad policy and orchestration work in this branch overlapped with #10273. Commit 9edaf376d restores that work to current main; the remaining commits apply the focused provider-family, attachment, and route-reconciliation repair with deterministic and live validation.

Related issues

Part of #10153.

Changes

• Resolve canonical and revisioned placeholder names as one credential family owned by the selected canonical provider.
• Ignore absent extension values before provider registration and allow OpenShell to retain valid namespaced siblings that were not resubmitted.
• Validate every credential-family provider identity before web-search or messaging profile import, provider creation, or provider update.
• Require the canonical credential and every submitted planned key after mutation while rejecting arbitrary sibling keys and indeterminate provider state.
• Keep raw credential values in the OpenShell child environment. Command arguments and persisted state contain only key names and revision-scoped placeholders.
• Attach each newly registered messaging provider to the recorded sandbox only after checking its gateway and lifecycle identity, then check the identity again after attachment.
• Reconcile active messaging routes during channel add and rebuild, remove inactive built-in presets, and preserve exact custom policies even when their names match built-in presets.
• Update deterministic runtime proofs and integration fixtures for revision-scoped Telegram, Discord, terminal-dashboard, provider-attachment, and preset-pruning behavior.
• Document canonical provider ownership, missing-value omission, inactive-preset pruning, and the Hermes-only stopped-Discord provider exception.

Verification

• Focused provider and registration tests: 130 tests passed.
• Focused provider security boundary tests: 30 tests passed.
• Targeted changed CLI suites for the attachment and route-reconciliation update: 173 tests passed.
• Provider-attachment lifecycle regression: 7 tests passed after the exact CI fixture correction.
• Deterministic Telegram runtime-source contract: 1 test passed.
• Terminal-dashboard integration fixture: 2 tests passed.
• Codebase growth guardrails: 32 tests passed.
• Exact npm run validate:pr: passed at 3906975cd9c137c335d240f67477394cdccfde68.
• Exact npm run docs: passed with zero Fern errors and two existing warnings.
• Normal commit hooks and git diff --check: passed.
• GitHub commit verification: every newly published commit is Verified.
• No secrets, API keys, or credentials are committed.

Focused live E2E history is reconciled in the existing validation comment. Earlier runs exposed absent extension values treated as submitted credentials, valid retained family keys rejected after rebuild, and a stale Telegram runtime proof that expected persisted botToken state. Because the current head adds code after those runs, a fresh focused messaging-providers run remains required after exact-head managed-image prerequisites pass.

Review notes

• Nine-category sensitive-path review at exact head 3906975cd9: PASS, no findings.
• Independent documentation writer review at exact head 3906975cd9: PASS, result docs-updated, no findings.
• Exact-head required CI and automated reviews are running. An independent outside approval remains required before merge.

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Signed-off-by: Rebecca Sliter 571084+rsliter@users.noreply.github.com
Signed-off-by: Senthil Ravichandran senthilr@nvidia.com
Signed-off-by: San Dang sdang@nvidia.com

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📝 Walkthrough

Walkthrough

OpenClaw Telegram and Slack policies now use scoped, sandbox-specific credential bindings. Policy composition preserves exact live provider matches and removes unmatched messaging routes. Preset loading and runtime tests now use agent and sandbox context.

Changes

OpenClaw credential policy flow

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Define scoped Telegram and Slack bindings agents/openclaw/policy-permissive.yaml, src/lib/messaging/channels/{telegram,slack}/..., nemoclaw-blueprint/policies/...	Telegram routes use bridge credentials and scoped methods. Slack separates app and bridge credentials across REST, hook, and WebSocket routes.
Compose credential-bound policies src/lib/messaging/channels/policy.ts, src/lib/policy/index.ts, src/lib/shields/permissive-runtime.ts, src/lib/shields/index.ts	Policy composition parses target and live YAML, validates exact provider sets, materializes sandbox bindings, and applies the selected messaging agent.
Use sandbox-aware preset loading test/channels/..., test/package-contract/..., test/runtime/policy/policies.test.ts	Tests load channel presets with agent and sandbox context. Merged policies include sandbox-specific Slack app and bridge aliases.
Validate agent-aware policy scenarios src/lib/messaging/channels/policy.test.ts, src/lib/shields/openclaw-transition.test.ts, test/runtime/policy/..., src/lib/actions/sandbox/...	Tests cover route specificity, OpenClaw and Hermes provider combinations, fallback policy application, and preserved credential bindings.

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

Merge Risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to 64bcc

This change binds Telegram and Slack routes to provider credentials, but the current head still has a policy-enforcement risk where disabled channels can retain credential-bound network access, and one regression assertion may not actually verify provider selection. Merge should wait for these issues to be corrected or explicitly accepted by the owner.

Sequence Diagram(s)

sequenceDiagram
  participant RecordedGateway
  participant applyPermissivePolicy
  participant composeCredentialBoundMessagingPolicies
  participant AppliedPolicy
  RecordedGateway->>applyPermissivePolicy: return current policy YAML
  applyPermissivePolicy->>composeCredentialBoundMessagingPolicies: provide target and live policy YAML
  composeCredentialBoundMessagingPolicies-->>applyPermissivePolicy: return policy with matching bindings
  applyPermissivePolicy->>RecordedGateway: apply composed policy
  RecordedGateway-->>AppliedPolicy: update active policy

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src/lib/actions...licy-channel.ts	81%	81%	0%
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src/lib/onboard...uild-context.ts	74%	74%	0%
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_{Updated August 27, 2026 19:01 UTC}

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Review bound to current head 6ece337.

The head update only merges current main; it does not change the messaging files from the complete source review. The intended credential bindings are correct: Slack app-token traffic uses the path-specific app provider, Slack bot traffic uses the bridge provider, and Telegram API traffic uses its bridge provider. The tests assert those exact mappings. All nine security categories pass at source level.

The earlier Manual PR run https://github.com/NVIDIA/NemoClaw/actions/runs/32869315530 was bound to head 93c57b9 and stopped during trusted preflight while managed startup was incomplete. The candidate messaging-providers target never ran, so that result does not validate this head. Current ordinary checks pass except OpenClaw direct managed startup is still in progress.

Withholding approval until the remaining managed startup check completes and an exact messaging-providers run passes at 6ece337.

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The direct Telegram and Slack bindings are correct, but Shields down replaces the OpenClaw live policy without preserving them. At src/lib/shields/index.ts:5134, the runtime permissive composer receives the sandbox name only for Hermes. src/lib/shields/permissive-runtime.ts:106-115,156-168 therefore cannot preserve the OpenClaw Slack bindings and has no Telegram preservation path. The static OpenClaw permissive policy then supplies unbound Telegram and Slack endpoints. Pass the OpenClaw sandbox identity through, preserve the exact Telegram and Slack provider bindings, and add a Shields-down composition test that proves all three provider names survive the transition.

[senthilr-nv]

Addressed the Shields-down credential-binding blocker in 9feb2172b14b736994a8c8f531120604b49e216c.

• OpenClaw now passes the sandbox identity into permissive-policy composition.
• The permissive policy materializes the exact Telegram bridge, Slack app, and Slack bridge providers.
• Runtime composition removes Telegram or Slack egress when the live policy cannot prove the expected provider binding set.
• A full shieldsDown regression proves all three sandbox-scoped provider names survive the transition.

Validation on this head:

• permissive runtime and policy integration tests: 31/31 passed
• focused OpenClaw Shields-down regression: 1/1 passed
• CLI build and type-check passed
• normal pre-commit and pre-push hooks passed

I am not redispatching messaging-providers yet. This focused head intentionally omits #10280, and the prior exact candidate run already proves that the full target needs the connected Slack alias correction. A new run now would repeat a known failure rather than produce new evidence.

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• agents/openclaw/policy-permissive.yaml
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• src/lib/messaging/channels/policy.test.ts
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• src/lib/messaging/channels/telegram/policy/openclaw.yaml
• src/lib/shields/index.ts
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• src/lib/shields/permissive-runtime.ts
• test/channels/channels-add-preset.test.ts
• test/package-contract/cli/policy-dispatch.test.ts
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Maintainer E2E sequencing decision for commit 969b1e0:

• fix(messaging): bind revisioned credentials to canonical providers #10275 owns the messaging endpoint credential bindings.
• The complete messaging-providers target also requires the Slack alias revision in fix(messaging): preserve Slack credential revisions #10280. Keeping the PR diffs separate prevents an exact fix(messaging): bind revisioned credentials to canonical providers #10275 branch run from containing both changes.
• Merge fix(messaging): bind revisioned credentials to canonical providers #10275 after its required checks and reviews pass. Then update fix(messaging): preserve Slack credential revisions #10280 from main and require a separate passing messaging-providers run for the latest fix(messaging): preserve Slack credential revisions #10280 commit.
• After both PRs merge, run messaging-providers on main as backfill evidence.

This approved dependency exception is not a passing E2E result for #10275. Run 32881654668 remains the exact earlier failure evidence.

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