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Summary

Legacy ~/.nemoclaw/credentials.json migration behaved wrongly in both directions: a credential that onboarding actually consumed was reported as not migrated and left in plaintext, while a file whose contents were never read at all was securely deleted. This PR fixes both.

Related Issue

Closes #10373

Both reported repros are fixed. Part A's legacy file is deleted after the credential migrates, and the run no longer reports it as not migrated verbatim. Part B's unrecognized-key file survives the rebuild sweep.

Two residuals are deliberately out of scope. Neither reopens either repro, and both are noted so a reviewer can disagree before this merges:

This change is verified by unit and integration tests, including a red→green end-to-end repro. It has not been re-run on macOS, where the bug was reported.

Changes

Part A — under-deletion (src/lib/onboard/credential-provider-registration.ts)

A legacy file naming NVIDIA_API_KEY is staged under that key, but the build provider registers the canonical NVIDIA_INFERENCE_API_KEY (src/lib/onboard/providers.ts:127). resolveProviderCredential resolves the alias transparently through LEGACY_CREDENTIAL_ENV_ALIASES, so onboarding used the value and inference was healthy — but upsertProvider recorded migration by exact key name. The staged key never entered migratedLegacyKeys, the set-containment check in finalization.ts:216 failed, and onboard printed "not migrated verbatim" while leaving the secret on disk.

upsertProvider now also accounts the aliases of the canonical credential env. The verbatim-value rule is unchanged: an alias is marked migrated only when the value sent to the gateway equals the staged value, and is cleared otherwise.

Part B — over-deletion (src/lib/credentials/store.ts)

removeLegacyCredentialsFileIfEmpty inspected only keys inside KNOWN_CREDENTIAL_ENV_KEYS and skipped everything else, so a file whose entire content was unrecognized looked empty and was securely unlinked. A rebuild that re-enters onboarding destroyed credentials nothing had ever read.

The sweep now refuses when any value survives, whatever its key, and removes only a file with no values at all. The stale-file description in host-artifact-cleanup.ts changes from "no migratable credentials" to "empty" so the printed line matches what the sweep now does.

Supporting

  • LEGACY_CREDENTIAL_ENV_ALIASES moves to src/lib/credentials/legacy-env-aliases.ts, which the credential store and provider registration both import. Two constraints rule out the alternatives: src/lib/onboard.ts must stay net-neutral, so the table cannot be injected through CredentialProviderRegistrationDeps; and src/lib/credentials/store.ts fan-in sits exactly at its architecture cap of 46, so registration cannot import it from there. onboard.ts is byte-identical to main.
  • docs/security/credential-storage.mdx records the sweep condition so the documented contract and the behavior agree.

Known limitation, not addressed here

removeLegacyCredentialsFile unlinks the whole file once every staged key migrated, so entries under unrecognized keys are collateral. That is pre-existing for every recognized key on main, and this PR makes the alias shape consistent with it. Resolving it is a product decision (keep today's behavior / refuse the unlink / rewrite the file without the migrated keys) — refusing the unlink breaks the #7617 contract by letting a planted key pin a plaintext credential on disk. Detailed in a PR comment; happy to take the follow-up.

Type of Change

  • Code change with doc updates

Quality Gates

  • Tests added or updated for changed behavior
  • 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:

Both defects were reproduced red-first, then confirmed green:

  • src/lib/onboard/credential-provider-registration.test.ts — alias is recorded as migrated on a verbatim value, and dropped when the provider receives a different value. Both failed on main.
  • test/credentials/credentials.test.ts — the exact Part B payload {"FAKE_PROVIDER_TOKEN":"x"} is kept, and a non-string value the sweep cannot classify is kept. Both failed on main. The prior "removes a file containing only unknown keys" case asserted the defective behavior and is replaced.
  • test/credentials/credential-migration-reconciliation.test.ts — end-to-end repro of the reported symptom: a legacy file naming NVIDIA_API_KEY, registered through the canonical NVIDIA_INFERENCE_API_KEY, leaves no plaintext behind. Verified red→green by reverting credential-provider-registration.ts to main and confirming the failure, then restoring the fix.

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
  • Targeted behavior tests pass for the current change set — vitest run --project integration test/credentials/ test/runtime/sandbox/host-artifact-cleanup.test.ts test/automation/pull-requests/growth-guardrails.test.ts 370 passed; vitest run --project cli over the onboard registration, finalization, crash-recovery and providers suites 196 passed; npm run typecheck:cli clean; npm run checks:repository passed; pre-commit hooks pass including Codebase growth guardrails
  • 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)

Not verified on a live macOS sandbox: the repro needs a real onboard against build.nvidia.com. Both defects are deterministic host-side logic, so they are pinned by unit and integration tests instead.


Signed-off-by: Dongni Yang dongniy@nvidia.com

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  • Bug Fixes

    • Improved credential migration during onboarding, including support for legacy NVIDIA credential names.
    • Legacy credentials are now correctly recognized, migrated, and removed from plaintext storage after successful registration.
    • Empty legacy credential files are cleaned up, while files containing any stored values—including unrecognized or non-text values—are preserved.
  • Documentation

    • Clarified that stale credential cleanup applies to files with no stored values.

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Legacy credential migration failed in both directions.

Under-deletion: a legacy file holding NVIDIA_API_KEY stages under that key,
but the build provider registers the canonical NVIDIA_INFERENCE_API_KEY.
resolveProviderCredential resolves the alias transparently, so onboarding
used the value, yet upsertProvider recorded migration by exact key name.
The staged key never entered migratedLegacyKeys, the finalization
set-containment check failed, and onboard reported the credential as not
migrated verbatim while leaving it in plaintext on disk. upsertProvider now
accounts the aliases of the canonical credential env, still requiring a
verbatim value match before marking a key migrated.

Over-deletion: removeLegacyCredentialsFileIfEmpty inspected only keys inside
KNOWN_CREDENTIAL_ENV_KEYS, so a file whose entire content was unrecognized
looked empty and was securely unlinked. A rebuild that re-entered onboarding
destroyed credentials nothing had ever read. The sweep now keeps any file
that still holds a value, recognized or not, and removes only a file with no
values at all.

Refs #10373

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The change centralizes legacy credential alias resolution, updates provider migration tracking, and changes cleanup to retain legacy files containing any stored value. Tests cover aliased NVIDIA credentials and retained files.

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Credential migration and cleanup

Layer / File(s) Summary
Legacy alias contract and wiring
src/lib/credentials/legacy-env-aliases.ts, src/lib/credentials/store.ts, src/lib/onboard/credential-provider-registration.ts
The shared resolver maps NVIDIA_INFERENCE_API_KEY to NVIDIA_API_KEY. Credential store and registration code use this resolver.
Alias migration tracking
src/lib/onboard/credential-provider-registration.ts, src/lib/onboard/credential-provider-registration.test.ts, test/credentials/credential-migration-reconciliation.test.ts
Provider registration tracks canonical and legacy alias keys against staged values sent to the gateway. Tests cover NVIDIA alias resolution, replacement values, and end-to-end reconciliation.
Legacy file cleanup semantics
src/lib/credentials/store.ts, test/credentials/credentials.test.ts, src/lib/host-artifact-cleanup.ts, docs/security/credential-storage.mdx
Cleanup removes files with no stored values and retains files containing unrecognized or non-string values. Tests, logs, and documentation reflect the rule.

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This change corrects legacy credential alias migration accounting and prevents non-empty legacy files from being deleted; no actionable merge-blocking risk remains beyond normal checks and review.

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sequenceDiagram
  participant CredentialProviderRegistration
  participant resolveProviderCredential
  participant Gateway
  participant CredentialStore
  CredentialProviderRegistration->>resolveProviderCredential: resolve aliased NVIDIA credential
  resolveProviderCredential-->>CredentialProviderRegistration: canonical credential key and value
  CredentialProviderRegistration->>Gateway: register staged credential
  Gateway-->>CredentialProviderRegistration: registration result
  CredentialProviderRegistration->>CredentialStore: mark legacy key migrated
  CredentialProviderRegistration->>CredentialStore: remove plaintext credentials file
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Comment thread docs/security/credential-storage.mdx Outdated
CI rejected the first attempt: injecting legacyCredentialAliases through
CredentialProviderRegistrationDeps grew src/lib/onboard.ts by two lines, and
the entry point must stay net-neutral. Importing the helper from the
credential store instead is also blocked, because store.ts fan-in already
sits at its architecture cap of 46.

Move LEGACY_CREDENTIAL_ENV_ALIASES into src/lib/credentials/legacy-env-aliases.ts
so the store and provider registration can both read it. onboard.ts is
untouched, store.ts fan-in is unchanged, and the deps interface keeps its
previous shape.

Also from review:

- Add an end-to-end regression for the reported symptom: a legacy file naming
  NVIDIA_API_KEY, registered through the canonical NVIDIA_INFERENCE_API_KEY,
  now leaves no plaintext behind. Red on main, green here.
- Pin the case where both the canonical key and its alias are staged with
  different values: only the key whose value the gateway received is recorded.
- Correct the documented sweep condition. It keeps any file holding a value,
  and removes only a file with nothing to migrate, so the wording no longer
  implies blank-valued files survive.
- Rename the cleanup line to "(no stored values)"; "(empty)" overstated it.

Refs #10373

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Pushed 5597b2de09. Two things: the CI failure is fixed, and an adversarial review of my own diff surfaced a scope question I want a maintainer call on rather than deciding myself.

CI failure (fixed)

All five failing checks — codebase-growth-guardrails, static-checks, cli-test-shards (10), cli-tests, checks — were one root cause: src/lib/onboard.ts grew by 2 line(s).

I had injected legacyCredentialAliases through CredentialProviderRegistrationDeps, which needs two lines in the entry point. The obvious alternative — importing the helper from src/lib/credentials/store.ts — is also blocked, because that file's fan-in already sits exactly at its architecture cap of 46, so a new importer fails npm run checks:repository.

Resolved by moving LEGACY_CREDENTIAL_ENV_ALIASES into src/lib/credentials/legacy-env-aliases.ts, which the store and provider registration both import. onboard.ts is now byte-identical to main, store.ts fan-in is unchanged, and the deps interface keeps its previous shape.

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The docs said a file holding "any value" is kept, which was wrong for blank values. Corrected, and I also covered the non-string case the sweep keeps. The cleanup line is now (no stored values)(empty) overstated the condition.

Open question I did not decide (maintainer call)

Review found this, and I confirmed it: removeLegacyCredentialsFile unlinks the whole file once every staged key migrated. Unrecognized keys are never staged (store.ts allowlist), so they are collateral.

echo '{"NVIDIA_API_KEY":"<real key>","MY_CUSTOM_TOKEN":"never-read"}' > ~/.nemoclaw/credentials.json
nemoclaw onboard        # NVIDIA_API_KEY migrates; MY_CUSTOM_TOKEN is destroyed with the file

This is pre-existing for every recognized key on main (OPENAI_API_KEY behaves identically today), and this PR makes the NVIDIA_API_KEY alias shape consistent with it rather than introducing a new class of bug. But it is the same harm Part B of #10373 reports, so I do not think the issue should close on this PR alone — which is why it is Refs, not Closes.

I prototyped the fix (refuse the unlink when the file still holds unmigrated values) and backed it out, because it breaks a deliberate contract: the #7617 reconciliation test plants OPENSHELL_GATEWAY and NODE_OPTIONS tamper keys and requires the file removed after successful migration. Refusing there would let anyone who can write ~/.nemoclaw/ pin a plaintext credential on disk permanently.

So the real choice is a product decision, not a bug fix:

  1. Keep today's behavior — migrating any recognized key authorizes deleting the file. Simple; destroys unread entries.
  2. Refuse the unlink when unmigrated values remain. Preserves data; lets a planted key keep plaintext credentials on disk indefinitely.
  3. Rewrite the file without the migrated keys, keeping the rest. Correct on both counts, but it means writing to a path store.ts currently documents as write-forbidden, plus atomicity and file-mode handling.

Happy to implement whichever you prefer as a follow-up. I'd lean 3, gated on an accepted issue.

Verification

npm run typecheck:cli, npm run checks:repository, and the pre-commit hooks (including Codebase growth guardrails) pass. Behavior lanes: 370 passed in test/credentials/ + host-artifact-cleanup + growth-guardrails; 196 passed across the onboard registration, finalization, crash-recovery and providers suites.

The new end-to-end regression in credential-migration-reconciliation.test.ts is a true red→green: I reverted credential-provider-registration.ts to main and confirmed it fails, then restored the fix and confirmed it passes.

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… 0.0.106 (#10273)

## Summary

A sandbox reads its provider environment once, at boot, and the agent
process inherits that read for the life of the container. Any channel
credential that only becomes injectable after boot therefore never
reaches the running agent, and no restart recovers it — only recreating
the sandbox does. This change makes every messaging credential
injectable before the agent starts, and stops the agent config from
shadowing the injected value once it arrives.

## Related Issue

Part of #10079. It does not close that issue: WeChat and Teams on Hermes
are untouched here and are described below.

## Changes

- **Bind the credential in the policy preset and apply that preset at
boot.** The provider profiles are endpointless, so the binding is the
only thing that makes the token injectable, and `requiredAtCreate` is
what puts the preset in the boot policy rather than a post-boot apply.
Without both, OpenShell withholds the credential entirely (`withholding
static provider credential handle from endpointless profile`). Bindings
this PR adds:
  - Telegram — both agents.
  - Teams — OpenClaw.
  - Slack — OpenClaw; the Hermes side landed on `main` as #10271.

  Discord already carried the binding on both agents before this branch.
- **Pass the sandbox name through both policy preflights.** Channel
presets bind `{sandboxName}-<channel>-bridge`, so composing one without
a sandbox name throws. Two paths dropped the name after resolving it:
- `preflightPolicyRequirements` resolves it for the sandbox inspection.
- `prepareSandboxCreatePolicy` has it on the create intent, and is the
path the external-authority onboarding flow takes.

#10314 fixed the sibling site inside `materializeSandboxCreatePlan`;
these two were still uncovered. Four tests composed presets directly and
mirrored the old shape, which let the composition error escape the test
body and kill a whole vitest shard.
- **Stop persisting the canonical placeholder in agent config.**
OpenShell 0.0.106 refuses the canonical form once a credential is
identity-bound, so the shape that used to work is now the one shape the
credential endpoint rejects. Removed:
- OpenClaw config — `botToken` for Telegram, `botToken` and `appToken`
for Slack, `appPassword` for Teams.
- Hermes `~/.hermes/.env` — the Telegram, Slack, and Discord token
lines.
- The Slack manifest's legacy `slackRuntimeEnvAliases` normalization,
which existed only to rewrite those placeholders.

Each agent now reads the key from its process environment, which
OpenShell fills with the revision-scoped placeholder at boot.
- **Prune stale credential keys from the Hermes env file.** Hermes loads
`~/.hermes/.env` with `override=True`, so a leftover canonical
placeholder from an earlier onboarding shadows the injected process
value and the channel stays unauthenticated. Four gaps kept that line
alive:
- Cleanup lived only in `applyAgentConfigAtOpenShell`, whose sole
production caller returns early for any non-OpenClaw plan. The Hermes
runtime applier merged env lines and never removed any.
- `readEnvLineKey` read `export KEY` as the key, so an export-prefixed
assignment matched nothing.
- Deletion keys came from the persisted plan, so a binding naming an
unrelated key could remove an operator-owned line.
- A plan encoded before the credential moved to a policy binding still
carries the token in `agentRender`, and rebuild refreshes only host
forwards and runtime setup, so the render reintroduced the line the
cleanup had just removed.

The rules now live in one module both appliers use: read the key from
either assignment form, take deletion authority from the channel
manifest rather than persisted state, treat a rendered key as wanted
only while the manifests still assign a credential to it, and visit an
owned target even when the plan renders nothing into it. WeChat and
Teams render their Hermes credential under a different key than the
provider env key, so the assignment metadata, not the provider key,
decides what survives. Each rule was checked by removing it and
confirming the new tests fail.
- **Wait for the first gateway mint before creating the sandbox.**
`provider refresh configure` returns while the credential is still the
create-time sentinel and the refresh worker mints on its own sweep, so
the sandbox was booting inside that window and pinning a revision whose
value is the sentinel. The poll itself accepted any status table it
could parse and counted attempts only, so two failure modes also passed
through:
- A nonzero `provider refresh status` can still print a stale
`refreshed` row, which was read as success.
- Attempts do not bound the wait; one probe with no timeout can hang and
the loop never reaches its cap.

It now requires exit status 0 before trusting a row, gives each probe a
command timeout, and stops at an overall deadline. Current requirement
and consumer: Google Chat, the only channel with a gateway-minted
credential. Failing closed stays correct: creating the sandbox before
the first mint pins the create-time sentinel for the life of the
container. The `configureMessagingBridgeRefreshes` tests cover the
success and the never-minted path, and the optional `sleep` dependency
is a test injection point, not a configuration surface.
- **Make the Google Chat outbound preload forward the injected
placeholder verbatim.** Rewriting it to the canonical form produced
`credential_unavailable` on every send.
- **Keep preserved Hermes env lines anchored to an enabled channel.**
They were dropped whenever no enabled channel happened to render a
`~/.hermes/.env` entry — which is now the common case, since the token
lines are gone.
- **Add two drift guards over the real policy files.** A preset that
declares `credential_binding` must be `requiredAtCreate`, and a host and
port declared twice must carry distinct path selectors. Each guard was
checked by reintroducing the defect and confirming it fails.
- **Align the Discord render assertion added by #10277.** That PR fixed
the OpenClaw half; the Hermes Discord policy already bound every
endpoint to `{sandboxName}-discord-bridge`, so rendering the canonical
placeholder into `~/.hermes/.env` wrote the one shape the credential
endpoint refuses.
- **Refresh the reviewed managed-startup bundle.**
`managed-startup-image-runtime.bundle` embeds the channel manifests, so
the manifest changes above made `bundle:reviewed:check` fail in
`static-checks`. Regenerated from the merged tree; the delta is 8
blocks, all of them the credential renders removed above plus the two
`requiredAtCreate` flags.

Three overlapping fixes landed on `main` while this PR was open and are
merged in here: #10271 (the Hermes Slack `path` selector), #10277 (the
OpenClaw half of Discord), and #10314 (binding the Discord create-path
providers). This branch keeps only an explanatory comment on
`slack/policy/hermes.yaml`; the behavior there is main's. #10314 fixed
the `materializeSandboxCreatePlan` call site; the two preflight call
sites it left uncovered are fixed here.

## Channel coverage after this change

| Channel | OpenClaw | Hermes | Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Slack | fixed | fixed | live, bot replied — Hermes policy selector
landed separately as #10271 |
| Discord | fixed | fixed | live, bot replied — OpenClaw half landed
separately as #10277 |
| Google Chat | fixed | fixed | live, bot replied |
| Telegram | fixed | fixed | live, bot replied on both |
| Teams | fixed | not covered | withholding log observed, no live run |
| WeChat | not covered | not covered | not measured |
| WhatsApp | unaffected | unaffected | injects no provider credential
(QR pairing) |

Every `fixed` row except Teams was confirmed by an actual bot reply on a
freshly wiped host, not by test output alone. For Telegram, both agents
were run against OpenShell 0.0.106: each sandbox booted with the
revision-scoped placeholder in its agent process, the policy matched the
redacted `/bot[CREDENTIAL]/` path, and the bot answered — with no denial
and no credential error across five hours of OpenClaw polling and twenty
minutes of Hermes polling.

Out of scope here:

- **WeChat** — injects a provider credential with no endpoints on the
profile and no `credential_binding`. Telegram's shape, so the same
withholding is expected, but it was not measured, so it is not claimed.
- **Teams on Hermes** — Hermes reads `TEAMS_CLIENT_SECRET`, the provider
injects `MSTEAMS_APP_PASSWORD`. A name mismatch, not the ordering
defect.

## Known gaps, deliberately out of scope

- **Ready-sandbox reuse does not migrate messaging config.** Both reuse
branches in `sandbox-create/orchestration.ts` revalidate policy, seed
presets, upsert providers, restore the dashboard, and return. A sandbox
that booted without the injected provider environment cannot be repaired
by pruning `~/.hermes/.env` — it needs a recreate decision in the
existing drift guard beside `credentialRotation.changed`, which is a new
drift signal rather than a cleanup change. Nearest coverage: the create
and rebuild paths this PR fixes.
- **`remove-channel` on a legacy plan leaves that channel's placeholder
line behind.** `removePlanChannel()` drops the credential binding and
the render together, so cleanup has no ownership evidence for the key.
The residue is a placeholder rather than a credential, is inert once the
provider is removed, and is pruned if the channel is added again.

## 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: outstanding; this
change touches messaging credentials, network policy presets, and the
onboarding provider path, so it needs a maintainer sensitive-path review
before merge.
- [ ] Non-success, skipped, or missing CI check accepted by maintainer —
check name, approval link, and follow-up issue: four checks are red on
this branch and none of them is reachable from it. `CLI` fails its
coverage gate on `src/lib/policy/commands.ts` at 88.88% against the 100%
threshold that #9511 declares for `src/lib/policy/{commands,merge}.ts`,
and `Required Checks` fails only because `CLI` does. `PR / Agent
runtimes / Test activation` and both `PR / OpenClaw / MCP Discovery`
runs fail on the same assertion, `Sandbox policy authority validation
failed after creation`, in `managed-image-activation-e2e.test.ts` and
`mcp-bridge.test.ts`. All four were red on #10332's own PR run before it
merged, with a byte-identical coverage error, and #10332 both rewrote
`src/lib/policy/commands.ts` and added its `commands.test.ts`. Bucketing
open PRs by base confirms the boundary: `ac3ebe9aa` (#10384, the direct
parent of #10332) passes those checks, while `1293457d3` (#10332 itself,
#10392), `1effafb3f` (#10391), and `6062006e6` (this PR, #10397) all
fail. This branch changes nothing under `src/lib/policy/`, and the
failing image runs configure no messaging channel, so no preset from
this PR is composed on that path.

## DGX Station Hardware Evidence

Not applicable — `scripts/prepare-dgx-station-host.sh` is unchanged.

- [ ] Tested on DGX Station
- Tested commit:
- Station profile/scenario:
- Result:
- Supporting evidence:

## 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 — command/result or justification: `npx
vitest run --project cli src/lib/messaging
src/lib/onboard/sandbox-create-plan.test.ts
src/lib/onboard/messaging-bridge-provider.test.ts
src/lib/onboard/policy-authority/preflight.test.ts
src/lib/actions/sandbox/policy-channel-remove-flow.test.ts` — 69 files,
785 pass; `npx vitest run --project integration test/runtime/messaging
test/runtime/policy test/generation
test/channels/channels-add-bridge-lifecycle.test.ts
test/onboard-external-policy-authority-composition.test.ts` — 77 files,
1359 pass, and 6 failures in `whatsapp-qr-compact.test.ts` that come
from `qrcode` not being installed on this host; `npm run typecheck:cli`,
`npm --prefix nemoclaw run typecheck`, `npm run checks:repository`, and
`npm --prefix tools/mcp-tool-discovery-runtime run
bundle:reviewed:check` all pass. CI confirms the branch itself: all 12
`CLI / Shard` jobs, `Static Checks`, `Build and type-check`, `Installer
Integration`, and `Plugin` pass on the merged head.
- [ ] Applicable broad gate passed — `npm test` for broad
runtime/test-harness changes; `npm run check` for repo-wide
validation/coverage changes — command/result: not applicable; this
changes messaging manifests, policy presets, and one onboarding step,
not the runtime, the test harness, or repo-wide validation.
- [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)

---

Signed-off-by: Hung Le <hple@nvidia.com>

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## Summary by CodeRabbit

* **Security & Reliability**
* Messaging credentials are injected at runtime instead of written to
configuration files.
* Stale credential entries are removed while unrelated environment
settings are preserved.
* Google Chat authentication supports revision-scoped credentials and
dynamic refresh.

* **Messaging Channels**
* Updated Telegram, Teams, Slack, Discord, and Google Chat credential
handling.
  * Slack access distinguishes Socket Mode from Web API traffic.
  * Added credential-bound network policies for Telegram and Teams.

* **Onboarding**
* Credential setup now waits for successful token issuance and reports
clear failures.
  * Channel policies support sandbox-specific credential providers.
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Merge-train status: deferred for a maintainer decision.

The current flow stages recognized NVIDIA credential aliases, ignores unrecognized keys, and then deletes the credential file after the recognized values migrate. A file that contains a migrated NVIDIA alias and an unread custom value can therefore lose the custom value.

Please choose and record one contract:

  • Delete the whole file after recognized values migrate.
  • Retain the whole file when any unrecognized value remains.
  • Rewrite the file to preserve unrecognized values, with atomic-write and failure-recovery requirements.

The local integration repair and its documentation pass focused tests, CLI type-checking, repository checks, the documentation build, and the nine-category security review. I will not publish that repair or merge this PR until the retention contract is decided. Required code lanes are also waiting for runner vetting, so no rerun was requested.

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