fix(onboard): skip web-search profile re-imports on rebuild

[harjothkhara]

Summary

ensureWebSearchProviderProfiles() re-imported the brave/tavily/tavily-hermes-v1 provider profiles on every onboard and every rebuild with no existence check. These profiles live in one host-global OpenShell custom-profile store, so every rebuild after the first collided with the profile the first onboard already registered — tolerated functionally, but echoed to the terminal as a diagnostic on every routine rebuild that reads as a failure. This probes for the profile first and skips the import when it's already registered, the same idiom an existing sibling function already uses for the identical reason.

Related Issue

Fixes #10371

Changes

• src/lib/onboard/brave-provider-profile.ts: ensureWebSearchProviderProfiles() probes with provider profile export <id> --output json before importing, and skips when the probe succeeds and the exported profile's boundary matches the checked-in one (see "A second correction," below). Mirrors ensureMessagingBridgeProfiles() in src/lib/onboard/messaging-bridge-provider.ts. The probe, the import, and the post-race re-export all set suppressOutput: true and a bounded OPENSHELL_OPERATION_TIMEOUT_MS, and the probe result is classified (genuinely missing vs. a failed read) before deciding whether to import — see "A third correction," below. The old Brave-only shouldEnableBraveWebSearch()/ensureBraveProviderProfile() wrappers are gone — see "A fourth correction," below.
• src/lib/adapters/openshell/provider-profile.ts: extracted the ANSI-escape/carriage-return/box-drawing normalization that isMissingProviderProfile() already used (added in fix(openshell): reconcile existing provider profiles #10159 for the same class of problem) into an exported normalizeOpenshellDiagnostic() helper, and applied it to the "already exists" race-tolerance check in brave-provider-profile.ts too — see "A first correction," below. Also exported isMissingProviderProfile() itself so the web-search path can reuse the same not-found classifier the more mature endpointless-profile precedent already relies on, and now owns credentialBoundary() (moved here from messaging-bridge-provider.ts — see "A fourth correction," below).
• src/lib/onboard/messaging-bridge-provider.ts: now imports credentialBoundary() from the OpenShell adapter instead of defining it, so web-search onboarding no longer depends on the messaging-channel module for a generic provider-profile comparison — see "A fourth correction," below.
• src/lib/onboard/brave-provider-profile.test.ts: tests for the skip behavior across all three provider ids, an id-aware mock that catches a probe using the wrong provider's id, suppressOutput and the operation timeout on the probe/import/race re-export, the box-drawing-wrapped tolerance case, the genuine concurrent-import race, boundary-mismatch rejection on both the direct probe and the post-race re-export, a probe failure that isn't a missing-profile diagnostic (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.
• src/lib/onboard/machine/handlers/sandbox-checkpoint-crash-recovery.test.ts: fixed a test-fixture gap this PR's new probe call exposed in two pre-existing crash-recovery tests — see "A fourth correction," below.

A first correction, made after an adversarial review of an earlier version of this fix: that version claimed the issue's destructive-host recreate failure was a separate, unreproduced symptom this fix couldn't explain, reasoning that the tolerated "already exists" collision structurally cannot reach the fatal exit path. That reasoning was wrong. rebuild replaces process.exit with a throw the recreate phase catches and turns into exactly the reported Recovery recreate failed output, so the fatal path is reachable through this function. What actually gates it is a plain, unnormalized /already exists/i substring test — and OpenShell can wrap styled output across a box-drawing continuation depending on terminal width/TTY-ness, the identical failure shape PR #10159 fixed for the sibling "not found" match in the file above. 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. This fix's new probe bypasses that fragile match entirely in the common case (the skip happens before any import attempt), so it likely closes the destructive variant as a side effect — though I have not independently reproduced that on the reporting host to confirm it, so I'm stating this as a credible mechanism, not a verified fix of that specific symptom.

A second correction, made after the automated PR Review Advisor's Trust and Operations specialists both independently flagged the same gap: the first probe-and-skip design treated a matching profile ID as proof it was our profile, and skipped without checking its content. That's not sound — OpenShell profiles are immutable after import, but that says nothing about what content was imported under this ID before this run ever probed it (a stale import from an older NemoClaw version, or an unrelated host-global registration sharing the name). Added webSearchProfileMatchesCheckedInBoundary(), comparing the exported profile's endpoints/credentials/binaries/inference_capable against the checked-in YAML via the same credentialBoundary() extractor ensureMessagingBridgeProfiles() already uses for its own equivalent check. Applied on both the initial probe and the post-race re-export (the advisor explicitly asked for both). A mismatch now fails closed with a diagnostic naming the profile and the openshell provider profile remove <id> recovery step, instead of silently trusting unverified host state.

A third correction, made after the advisor's Operations specialist reviewed the round-2 commit: two remaining gaps. First, none of the probe/import/race-re-export calls carried an OpenShell operation timeout, so a stalled gateway could block onboarding or rebuild indefinitely with no diagnostic — now all three pass OPENSHELL_OPERATION_TIMEOUT_MS, the same bound the endpointless-profile precedent already uses. Second, any nonzero probe status was treated as "profile missing" and fell through to import — conflating a genuine absence with a probe that failed for an unrelated reason (gateway unreachable, unauthorized, timed out, malformed response), which could attempt a state-changing import in response to a read that never completed, and would then surface a generic "update OpenShell" recovery message that may not match the real cause. The probe result is now classified with isMissingProviderProfile() before deciding whether to import; anything else fails closed immediately, naming the failed operation and the redacted cause.

A fourth correction, made after a second automated advisor pass (round 3 initially failed all 9 specialist lanes on a transient inference-configuration outage — confirmed against a sibling PR that passed the identical checks minutes earlier — and was retriggered): three findings addressed as reported, plus one caught independently while re-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 unrelated to 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 call sites 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/Hermes-Tavily in an earlier round. ensureBraveProviderProfile() had no production caller left at all; shouldEnableBraveWebSearch() had exactly one (onboard.ts's finalization wiring). Removed both, repointed that caller, 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" with a bare openshell provider profile remove <id>. The probe and import actually run through a gateway-scoped OpenShell runner (this PR's own tests already confirm the -g test-gateway scoping), so the recovery text now names the selected OpenShell gateway explicitly and notes other sandboxes on that gateway may share the profile before removing it.
• Independently, while re-verifying the above: npm run test:changed surfaced a real regression already on this branch (introduced in "A third correction," not by this round) — 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. Their shared OpenShell stub answered every provider profile call with one canned messaging-bridge profile regardless of which id was probed — harmless before this PR's probe existed, since nothing used to call provider profile export for brave/tavily. Once the probe was added, the 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) to return "not found" for any profile id other than the one it actually registers. Confirmed the regression predated this round by stashing these changes and rerunning the same two tests against the previously-pushed commit.

One specialist from that round raised a finding I investigated but did not act on (I did act on its Trust counterpart — see "A sixth correction," below):

• Test/Design 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: it reports source_shape_cases=0 — it does not currently flag this file. Left those tests unchanged rather than editing pre-existing, unrelated coverage on a claim the repo's own enforced tool contradicts; flagging in case the detector has a gap worth closing separately. (Re-raised as a "Blocker" a third time on the round described in "A sixth correction" — same claim, same verified-false-positive answer.)

A fifth correction, made after a third automated advisor pass (following the fixes above): three more real findings, fixed.

• Documentation: the corrected recovery command from "A fourth correction" used an unsupported OpenShell subcommand — provider profile remove isn't real; the CLI verb is delete (confirmed against this repo's own test/e2e/live/inference-routing.test.ts, which calls ["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 Documentation finding above had just been fixed for web-search profiles. Aligned its wording with the same gateway-scoped, corrected pattern.
• Trust: ensureMessagingBridgeProfiles()'s probe-failure handling only warned on an indeterminate export failure (empty diagnostic, or anything not literally containing "not found") and still proceeded to import — the same gap "A third correction" closed for web-search profiles, in a sibling function this PR hadn't touched until now. Applied the identical fix: gate the import path on isMissingProviderProfile() and fail closed on anything else, for both static and dynamic bridge profiles. Rewrote four existing tests whose stubbed diagnostics no longer satisfied the stricter, correct classifier, and added one new test isolating the indeterminate-probe-failure path.

A sixth correction, made after a fourth automated advisor pass (after rebasing onto origin/main to clear an unrelated stale-base codebase-growth-guardrails failure — a same-day commit on main had added a loop and an if to a live-E2E test file this branch never touched):

• Behavior and Operations (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. Fixed, with a wrapped-diagnostic regression test mirroring the existing web-search one.
• Operations: messaging-bridge profile export, import, and post-race export still had no OPENSHELL_OPERATION_TIMEOUT_MS — the same gap "A third correction" closed for web-search profiles. Fixed, with a regression test asserting the timeout on all three calls.
• Trust (raised a third time) and Behavior (found the identical gap independently): reconsidered the standing decision not to extend credentialBoundary() validation to refreshing messaging profiles (e.g. Google Chat) from "A fourth correction." Two things changed: the fix no longer needs new design work — a small variant of the existing static-profile comparator, without its empty-endpoints/binaries narrowing, is exactly the generic comparison already proven for web-search profiles two rounds ago — and this function's other two paths were already being edited this round for the findings above, so the remaining asymmetry was the last unclosed gap in it. Removed the static-only gate on both the direct-probe and race-winner validation, so a refreshing profile with a drifted endpoint, binary, credential rule, or refresh field now fails closed exactly like a static one. Added direct and race-winner drift regression tests with a synthetic Google-Chat-shaped fixture. Every new/changed assertion in this fully-rewritten function — probe classification, timeout, normalization, and both boundary branches — was independently confirmed load-bearing by targeted mutation.

That same round also escalated a larger ask across three specialists at once — Design/Architecture, Dependency/Use, and Code/Reduction all independently proposed the same restructuring, each tagged "Blocker": generalize the existing ensureEndpointlessProviderProfile() adapter helper into one shared, adapter-owned provider-profile reconciliation primitive (parameterized by a caller-supplied boundary validator), and have ensureWebSearchProviderProfiles() and ensureMessagingBridgeProfiles() call it instead of each owning a parallel copy of the export/import/race state machine. This is real, well-argued, and now backed by three independent specialist lenses converging on the identical design — but it's a materially 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 #10371), to make its contract generic enough for two more callers with different boundary-validation shapes. I did not implement this unilaterally inside a bug-fix PR — it's the kind of new shared abstraction across subsystems this repo's own contribution guidelines ask for an accepted issue or design decision before building, and doing it here risks a coordinated, security-sensitive, cross-subsystem edit under this PR's narrower test-design budget rather than a properly-scoped one. Recommending a maintainer open a dedicated follow-up issue for this consolidation; happy to implement it there.

A seventh correction, made after a fifth automated advisor pass: Trust and Behavior are now both fully clean, plus one more real, narrowly-scoped bug found by Operations.

• Operations (blocker): the messaging-bridge post-race re-export path treated any nonzero export status the same as a real boundary mismatch — telling the operator to delete the profile — even when the export itself had simply failed (gateway unreachable, unauthorized, timed out) and the profile's actual content was never read. The web-search path already distinguished these two cases ("A third correction"); this round's rewrite of the messaging-bridge race path didn't carry that distinction into its post-race branch. Split the check so a failed post-race export reports its real cause instead of a fabricated conflict. Added a regression test asserting the failure message names the real cause and never suggests deletion; confirmed load-bearing by mutation.

Two more findings from that round were investigated and not acted on: Test/Design re-raised the same source-shape claim on two more pre-existing, untouched tests (discovers the Google Chat bridge..., authorizes only the Node executable...) — same verified-false-positive answer as before, the repo's own detector still reports zero cases. Migration/Completion re-raised, now at "Blocker" severity, the ensureBundledProviderProfile() gap already disclosed below as out-of-scope — standing by that call: it's a different command entry point (credentials add, not onboard/rebuild) with its own contract, not a small fix like the ones this round's other findings were.

An eighth correction, made after a sixth automated advisor pass: Trust fully clean again, plus 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 post-race export, but not the import itself) — a concurrent onboard winning the import race would print OpenShell's raw already exists diagnostic even though the code recovers successfully. Fixed, with a regression test.
• Operations: ensureEndpointlessProviderProfile() — the pre-existing OpenAI-endpointless-profile helper in the OpenShell adapter, not part of this PR's original diff — had the same unnormalized /already exists/ match "A first correction" and "A sixth correction" fixed elsewhere. normalizeOpenshellDiagnostic() already lived in that exact file, so this was a one-line fix reusing an already-proven helper on its own origin call site. Added a wrapped-diagnostic regression test.
• Migration/Completion: braveProviderProfilePath() was a dead pass-through wrapper left behind after "A fourth correction" generalized profile-path resolution — no production caller, only test call sites. Removed it.
• Documentation: both profile-mismatch recovery messages told the operator to run a gateway-scoped command with a literal <gateway-name> placeholder but never said how to find it. Added a sentence pointing to openshell gateway info.

Test/Design and the three-specialist consolidation ask were both re-raised again this round — standing by the same declines as before.

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

1. src/lib/adapters/openshell/provider-profile.ts already has a more general ensureEndpointlessProviderProfile() that centralizes an export/race/tolerate/validate state machine for a different profile family (OpenAI-compatible endpointless profiles), and its own commit (fix(openshell): reconcile existing provider profiles #10159, "Part of Fix high-priority E2E runtime and fixture failures on main #10155") explicitly warned that repeating these decisions per call site lets the underlying security/consistency decisions drift. This PR adds a third hand-rolled copy alongside the pre-existing ensureMessagingBridgeProfiles() (though it now reuses that function's credentialBoundary() extractor, now itself owned by this adapter module, rather than duplicating it 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 automated advisor's Code/Reduction specialist also suggested, in the round described in "A fourth correction," above) is a design change beyond this issue's scope, not a prerequisite for mirroring an already-established in-repo idiom to fix a reported bug. Flagging in case a maintainer wants a consolidation follow-up.
2. 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. (Re-raised at "Blocker" severity in "A seventh correction," above — standing by this scope call.)

No new abstraction, configuration, fallback, or compatibility path — this restores the existing idempotent-import idiom already established for the sibling profile family to a call site that never had it.

Type of Change

• Code change (feature, bug fix, or refactor)
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Quality Gates

• Tests added or updated for changed behavior
• Existing tests cover changed behavior — justification:
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• 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: the automated PR Review Advisor's Trust and Operations specialists both flagged the profile-boundary gap on round 1 of this fix; addressed in this commit (see "A second correction," above) — see the advisor comment history on this PR for the full round-by-round record. A maintainer pass is still expected before merge; this checkbox records contributor-side security review completion, not a waiver of maintainer review.
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• Targeted behavior tests pass for the current change set, or tests are marked not applicable above — command/result: npx vitest run --project cli src/lib/onboard/brave-provider-profile.test.ts src/lib/adapters/openshell/provider-profile.test.ts src/lib/onboard/messaging-bridge-provider.test.ts src/lib/onboard/credential-provider-registration.test.ts src/lib/onboard/machine/handlers/sandbox-checkpoint-crash-recovery.test.ts — 5 files, 148 tests passed (22 in brave-provider-profile.test.ts, 44 in messaging-bridge-provider.test.ts including the import-suppressOutput case from "A eighth correction," 16 in provider-profile.test.ts including its new wrapped-diagnostic race case, 43 in sandbox-checkpoint-crash-recovery.test.ts). npm run typecheck:cli, npm --prefix nemoclaw run typecheck, and npm run checks:repository all clean. Ran the full npm run test:changed sweep after this round's changes (this round touches the shared OpenShell adapter, so the full suite ran): 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 a regression from this PR.
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• Bug Fixes

  • Improved provider profile registration when profiles already exist or are created concurrently.
  • Added validation to detect credential mismatches and prevent setup from continuing with incorrect profile data.
  • Improved handling of diagnostic output, including formatting artifacts and suppressed command output.
  • Ensured non-recoverable profile import failures are surfaced correctly.

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  • Expanded coverage for profile registration, race conditions, provider-specific checks, and credential validation.

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The change validates existing OpenShell provider profiles against checked-in credential boundaries. Registration skips matching profiles, rejects drift, handles concurrent imports, suppresses command output, and centralizes diagnostic normalization. Tests cover these paths with YAML fixtures and OpenShell mocks.

Changes

Web-search provider registration

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Profile validation contracts src/lib/adapters/openshell/provider-profile.ts, src/lib/onboard/messaging-bridge-provider.ts, src/lib/onboard/brave-provider-profile.ts	Exports credentialBoundary, adds diagnostic normalization, and reuses shared boundary extraction for profile validation.
Registration and race handling src/lib/onboard/brave-provider-profile.ts, src/lib/onboard/messaging-bridge-provider.ts, src/lib/onboard.ts	Existing profiles are probed by provider ID and skipped only when their boundaries match. Boundary drift, probe failures, and failed re-exports stop registration. Imports and exports use suppressed output and bounded timeouts.
Registration validation coverage src/lib/onboard/brave-provider-profile.test.ts, src/lib/onboard/messaging-bridge-provider.test.ts, src/lib/onboard/credential-provider-registration.test.ts, src/lib/onboard/machine/handlers/sandbox-checkpoint-crash-recovery.test.ts	Tests cover provider-specific probes, matching and mismatched profiles, suppressed output, race recovery, import failures, timeouts, enablement wiring, and missing-profile fixtures.

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Merge Risk: 🔵 Low · up to 5ed12

The change prevents repeated provider-profile imports and validates existing profiles, but a failed concurrent re-export can still be reported as a profile mismatch and lead operators toward unnecessary deletion, while wrapped diagnostics may still bypass a separate race check. This is a bounded follow-up risk and the PR is mergeable with explicit owner awareness.

Suggested reviewers: jyaunches, hunglp6d, cv

Sequence Diagram(s)

sequenceDiagram
  participant Registration as Provider registration
  participant OpenShell
  participant YAML as Checked-in YAML profiles
  participant Boundary as credentialBoundary
  Registration->>OpenShell: Export provider profile
  OpenShell-->>Registration: Return exported profile or diagnostic
  Registration->>YAML: Read checked-in profile
  Registration->>Boundary: Extract comparable boundaries
  Boundary-->>Registration: Return boundary or null
  Registration->>OpenShell: Import missing provider profile
  OpenShell-->>Registration: Return success or already-exists diagnostic
  Registration->>OpenShell: Re-export concurrent winner
  OpenShell-->>Registration: Return concurrent profile

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src/lib/onboard/messaging-bridge-provider.ts (1)

144-152: 📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🔵 Trivial | 💤 Low value

Consider moving the shared boundary extractor to a neutral module.

credentialBoundary is now a shared pure comparison helper. src/lib/onboard/brave-provider-profile.ts imports it from this messaging-bridge module, which couples web-search profile validation to the messaging-bridge feature module. A provider-profile domain module (next to the OpenShell provider-profile adapter or a src/lib/domain peer) keeps the dependency direction clear and matches the guidance that reusable comparison logic stays pure and separate.

No behavior change is required for this PR; the current placement works.

As per path instructions: "Keep reusable policy or comparison logic pure where practical" and "adapters own host/process/network boundaries".

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In `@src/lib/onboard/messaging-bridge-provider.ts` around lines 144 - 152, Move
the pure credentialBoundary helper out of the messaging-bridge feature module
into a neutral provider-profile/domain module, then update
brave-provider-profile.ts and any other callers to import it from the new
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In `@src/lib/onboard/brave-provider-profile.ts`:
- Around line 84-107: Update webSearchProfileMatchesCheckedInBoundary to return
a discriminated outcome distinguishing a confirmed boundary mismatch from
repository/checked-in YAML problems and export parsing failures; preserve the
existing match validation. In src/lib/onboard/brave-provider-profile.ts lines
84-107, define and return the appropriate status for each case. In lines
227-243, update rejectDriftedProfile to handle raced.status !== 0 separately
from confirmed drift, retrying or asking the operator to rerun onboarding rather
than advising profile removal for indeterminate outcomes.

Apply the same fix in `@src/lib/onboard/brave-provider-profile.ts` around lines
227 - 243: Covers the post-race export failure branch and its current
destructive guidance.

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In `@src/lib/onboard/messaging-bridge-provider.ts`:
- Around line 144-152: Move the pure credentialBoundary helper out of the
messaging-bridge feature module into a neutral provider-profile/domain module,
then update brave-provider-profile.ts and any other callers to import it from
the new location. Preserve the existing signature and behavior without changing
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src/lib/onboard/brave-provider-profile.ts (1)

91-108: 🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

Separate a repository-side read or parse failure from host-profile drift.

The catch at Lines 105-107 returns false for three different causes: a genuine boundary mismatch, an unparsable exported JSON payload, and a failed readFileSync or YAML.parse of the checked-in profile. Callers at Lines 219 and 286 map false to rejectDriftedProfile, which tells the operator to run openshell provider profile remove <provider>. If the checked-in YAML is missing or corrupt in the checkout, the host profile is correct and that guidance destroys valid host state.

Return a discriminated outcome so the checked-in-side failure produces a "repair your checkout and re-run onboarding" message instead.

A previous review raised this together with the post-race export-failure case. The export-failure half is now handled by rejectProbeFailure; the checked-in read and parse half remains.

🛠️ Proposed shape

-): boolean {
-  try {
-    const actual = credentialBoundary(JSON.parse(exportedJson) as Record<string, unknown>);
-    const expected = credentialBoundary(
-      YAML.parse(readFileSync(webSearchProviderProfilePath(root, provider))) as Record<
-        string,
-        unknown
-      >,
-    );
-    return (
-      actual !== null &&
-      expected !== null &&
-      expected.id === provider &&
-      isDeepStrictEqual(actual, expected)
-    );
-  } catch {
-    return false;
-  }
+): "match" | "mismatch" | "checked-in-unreadable" {
+  let expected: Record<string, unknown> | null;
+  try {
+    expected = credentialBoundary(
+      YAML.parse(readFileSync(webSearchProviderProfilePath(root, provider))) as Record<
+        string,
+        unknown
+      >,
+    );
+  } catch {
+    return "checked-in-unreadable";
+  }
+  if (expected === null || expected.id !== provider) return "checked-in-unreadable";
+  let actual: Record<string, unknown> | null;
+  try {
+    actual = credentialBoundary(JSON.parse(exportedJson) as Record<string, unknown>);
+  } catch {
+    return "mismatch";
+  }
+  return actual !== null && isDeepStrictEqual(actual, expected) ? "match" : "mismatch";
 }

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In `@src/lib/onboard/brave-provider-profile.ts` around lines 91 - 108, Update the
profile comparison flow around credentialBoundary and
webSearchProviderProfilePath so failures reading or parsing the checked-in YAML
return a distinct discriminated outcome from a genuine credential mismatch;
preserve false-equivalent handling for malformed exported JSON or boundary
mismatch as appropriate, and update callers such as rejectDriftedProfile at the
onboarding call sites to show a checkout-repair and re-run message for the
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src/lib/adapters/openshell/provider-profile.ts (1)

47-58: 🎯 Functional Correctness | 🔵 Trivial | ⚡ Quick win

Apply the new normalization to this module's own "already exists" check.

normalizeOpenshellDiagnostic now exists in this module, and ensureEndpointlessProviderProfile still tests the raw import output at Line 165 with /already exists/iu. The sibling path in src/lib/onboard/brave-provider-profile.ts (Line 266) normalizes before the same test. A wrapped or box-drawn diagnostic therefore still falls through to import-failed in this module, which is the failure shape this helper was added to remove.

♻️ Proposed change outside the selected range (Line 165)

-  if (!/already exists/iu.test(importOutput)) {
+  if (!/already exists/iu.test(normalizeOpenshellDiagnostic(importOutput))) {
     return { ok: false, reason: "import-failed" };
   }

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In `@src/lib/adapters/openshell/provider-profile.ts` around lines 47 - 58, Update
the “already exists” check in ensureEndpointlessProviderProfile to apply
normalizeOpenshellDiagnostic to the imported output before testing the /already
exists/ pattern, while preserving the existing import-failed behavior for other
diagnostics.

src/lib/onboard/brave-provider-profile.test.ts (1)

28-60: 📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🔵 Trivial | ⚡ Quick win

Add one test that validates the real checked-in profile YAML.

boundary() generates both sides of the comparison: makeReadFileSync serializes it as the checked-in YAML, and makeRunOpenshell serializes it as the OpenShell export. The pair is self-consistent by construction, so these tests cannot detect a checked-in nemoclaw-blueprint/provider-profiles/*.yaml file that credentialBoundary rejects, for example a file missing inference_capable or with a credential entry that is not an object. That case returns null on the expected side, and onboarding then aborts with drift guidance on every host.

Add one test that reads each real profile YAML with the actual fs.readFileSync and asserts credentialBoundary returns a non-null value whose id equals the provider id.

As per path instructions, tests should prefer observable outcomes over fixtures that "bypass the behavior under test".

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In `@src/lib/onboard/brave-provider-profile.test.ts` around lines 28 - 60, Add a
test in the profile test suite that uses the real fs.readFileSync to load every
checked-in provider profile YAML, then passes each parsed profile through
credentialBoundary and asserts the result is non-null with an id matching the
corresponding provider id; do not use makeReadFileSync or generated boundary
fixtures for this validation.

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Duplicate comments:
In `@src/lib/onboard/brave-provider-profile.ts`:
- Around line 91-108: Update the profile comparison flow around
credentialBoundary and webSearchProviderProfilePath so failures reading or
parsing the checked-in YAML return a distinct discriminated outcome from a
genuine credential mismatch; preserve false-equivalent handling for malformed
exported JSON or boundary mismatch as appropriate, and update callers such as
rejectDriftedProfile at the onboarding call sites to show a checkout-repair and
re-run message for the checked-in-side failure.

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Nitpick comments:
In `@src/lib/adapters/openshell/provider-profile.ts`:
- Around line 47-58: Update the “already exists” check in
ensureEndpointlessProviderProfile to apply normalizeOpenshellDiagnostic to the
imported output before testing the /already exists/ pattern, while preserving
the existing import-failed behavior for other diagnostics.

In `@src/lib/onboard/brave-provider-profile.test.ts`:
- Around line 28-60: Add a test in the profile test suite that uses the real
fs.readFileSync to load every checked-in provider profile YAML, then passes each
parsed profile through credentialBoundary and asserts the result is non-null
with an id matching the corresponding provider id; do not use makeReadFileSync
or generated boundary fixtures for this validation.

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src/lib/onboard/brave-provider-profile.test.ts (1)

459-468: 📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🔵 Trivial | ⚡ Quick win

Make the timeout assertion independent of the call list.

Both sides of the comparison derive from calls, so the assertion passes for any call count, including zero calls. It does not prove that a probe call and an import call each received the timeout.

Assert the expected call count, or assert the timeout on the probe and the import calls explicitly.

As per path instructions: "Flag ... conditionals that make a test pass without exercising its claim."

♻️ Proposed assertion

-    const calls = runOpenshell.mock.calls as unknown as Array<[string[], { timeout?: number }]>;
-    const timeouts = calls.map(([, options]) => options.timeout);
-    expect(timeouts).toEqual(calls.map(() => OPENSHELL_OPERATION_TIMEOUT_MS));
+    const calls = runOpenshell.mock.calls as unknown as Array<[string[], { timeout?: number }]>;
+    const probe = calls.find(([args]) => args.includes("export"));
+    const importCall = calls.find(([args]) => args.includes("import"));
+    expect(probe?.[1].timeout).toBe(OPENSHELL_OPERATION_TIMEOUT_MS);
+    expect(importCall?.[1].timeout).toBe(OPENSHELL_OPERATION_TIMEOUT_MS);

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In `@src/lib/onboard/brave-provider-profile.test.ts` around lines 459 - 468,
Update the test around ensureWebSearchProviderProfiles and runOpenshell so it
independently verifies that both the probe and import calls occur and each
receives OPENSHELL_OPERATION_TIMEOUT_MS; do not derive the expected timeout list
or call count solely from runOpenshell.mock.calls.

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src/lib/onboard/brave-provider-profile.ts (1)

4-15: 📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🔵 Trivial | ⚡ Quick win

Move the profile read and parse into the OpenShell adapter.

This onboard module now imports node:fs, yaml, and isDeepStrictEqual to read and parse a checked-in profile. src/lib/onboard/messaging-bridge-provider.ts lines 149-173 performs the same read, parse, and boundary compare. src/lib/README.md asks for filesystem interactions in adapter modules and for reuse of shared adapter helpers instead of duplicated credential-boundary logic.

Add a single helper next to credentialBoundary in src/lib/adapters/openshell/provider-profile.ts that takes the exported JSON, the profile path, and an injected readFileSync, and returns the comparison outcome. Then call it from both onboard modules.

As per path instructions: "Keep OpenShell and filesystem interactions isolated in adapter modules" and "Reuse shared adapter helpers rather than duplicating credential-boundary logic."

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In `@src/lib/onboard/brave-provider-profile.ts` around lines 4 - 15, Move profile
file reading, YAML parsing, and credential-boundary comparison out of the
onboard modules into a shared helper beside credentialBoundary in the OpenShell
provider-profile adapter. Have the helper accept the exported JSON, profile
path, and injected readFileSync, return the comparison outcome, and update both
onboard flows to call it while removing their direct fs, YAML, and
isDeepStrictEqual usage.

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Nitpick comments:
In `@src/lib/onboard/brave-provider-profile.test.ts`:
- Around line 459-468: Update the test around ensureWebSearchProviderProfiles
and runOpenshell so it independently verifies that both the probe and import
calls occur and each receives OPENSHELL_OPERATION_TIMEOUT_MS; do not derive the
expected timeout list or call count solely from runOpenshell.mock.calls.

In `@src/lib/onboard/brave-provider-profile.ts`:
- Around line 4-15: Move profile file reading, YAML parsing, and
credential-boundary comparison out of the onboard modules into a shared helper
beside credentialBoundary in the OpenShell provider-profile adapter. Have the
helper accept the exported JSON, profile path, and injected readFileSync, return
the comparison outcome, and update both onboard flows to call it while removing
their direct fs, YAML, and isDeepStrictEqual usage.

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♻️ Duplicate comments (1)

src/lib/onboard/brave-provider-profile.ts (1)

82-104: 🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟠 Major

Separate validation failures from confirmed profile drift.

catch returns false for malformed OpenShell JSON and unreadable or malformed checked-in YAML. The caller then invokes rejectDriftedProfile and instructs the operator to delete a host profile that can be valid.

Return a discriminated result. Use rerun or checkout-repair guidance for parse and file failures. Use profile-removal guidance only for a confirmed credential-boundary mismatch.

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In `@src/lib/onboard/brave-provider-profile.ts` around lines 82 - 104, Update
webSearchProfileMatchesCheckedInBoundary to return a discriminated result that
distinguishes parse/read failures from a successfully compared profile. Have
callers use rerun or checkout-repair guidance for malformed exported JSON or
unreadable/malformed checked-in YAML, and invoke rejectDriftedProfile only when
both credential boundaries are valid but do not match.

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Duplicate comments:
In `@src/lib/onboard/brave-provider-profile.ts`:
- Around line 82-104: Update webSearchProfileMatchesCheckedInBoundary to return
a discriminated result that distinguishes parse/read failures from a
successfully compared profile. Have callers use rerun or checkout-repair
guidance for malformed exported JSON or unreadable/malformed checked-in YAML,
and invoke rejectDriftedProfile only when both credential boundaries are valid
but do not match.

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In `@src/lib/onboard/messaging-bridge-provider.ts`:
- Around line 565-573: Update the race result handling so a nonzero
racedProfile.status calls rejectProbeFailure() with its redacted diagnostic;
only invoke rejectMismatchedProfile() when the export succeeds but
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Round 7 advisor pass on 890da6b: no new actionable finding. Six lanes clean (Trust, Behavior, Operations, Documentation, Migration/Completion, and everything in Design/Architecture outside the consolidation ask). Both CodeRabbit inline findings are marked addressed. Two items repeat from earlier rounds; neither changes code.

Test/Design "Blocker" — source-shape tests. The two tests it names, listMessagingBridgeProfiles (real registry + co-located YAML) and authorizes only the Node executable for the injected bearer credential, are on origin/main unchanged at lines 675 and 695 of src/lib/onboard/messaging-bridge-provider.test.ts. They read as 714 and 734 here only because this PR adds tests above them. The repo's own detector still reports source_shape_cases=0 on this branch:

$ npx tsx scripts/find-source-shape-tests.mts
METRIC source_shape_cases=0
METRIC source_shape_assertions=0
METRIC source_shape_files=0

Same answer as the three earlier rounds that raised this: I'm not editing pre-existing, unrelated tests on a claim the enforced tool contradicts. If the detector has a real gap, that's worth closing separately.

Consolidation ask (Design/Architecture, Code/Reduction, Dependency/Use). Same proposal as round 6, well argued again: make the OpenShell adapter the sole owner of provider-profile reconciliation and have both onboarding callers use it. Standing by the earlier call to not do it here. It rewrites ensureEndpointlessProviderProfile(), which today only serves the endpointless inference path — production code with no reported defect and no connection to #10371 — so it's a new shared abstraction across subsystems, which the contributing guide asks for an accepted issue or design decision first. Happy to implement it in a follow-up if a maintainer opens one.

Required checks are green. Still waiting on copy-pr-bot vetting before NVIDIA runners will run anything else.