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Before this change, nemoclaw <sandbox> rebuild refused every attempt with Cannot resume sandbox '<name>' replacement: the preserved source registry row changed. once the operator ran channels stop <channel> and channels start <channel> between two rebuilds. The refusal was permanent for the rest of the session and no command could clear it, while the sandbox stayed Ready throughout. After this change a channels mutation no longer invalidates a replacement journal, and rebuild retires a journal once it proves the recorded replacement never took, then records a fresh one against the live source.

Reason

Two independent defects combined.

fingerprintSandboxRegistryEntry hashed the whole durable SandboxEntry minus two exclusion lists, and messaging was in neither. channels stop and channels start rewrite that field non-idempotently: persistManifestChannelDisabledPlan moves the plan workflow label add-channel to stop-channel to start-channel and re-derives disabledChannels plus each channel's disabled, active, and hostForward values. A stop/start pair therefore changed the source fingerprint of a sandbox that nothing else had touched. Loading the registry also re-derives the rest of that field from the built-in channel manifests and the ambient environment, so the digest was not a function of the persisted bytes.

Separately, every reject() in planSandboxRecreateRecovery was terminal. openRebuildRecreateJournal throws before it builds the object that owns completeAcceptedTarget; abandonSandboxRecreateTransaction refuses once revision !== 0, which every journal past planned has; and clearCompletedSandboxRecreateTransaction requires phase completed. No file under src/commands/ or src/lib/actions/ writes sandboxRecreate: null, so neither doctor --fix nor recover offers a repair. That matches the report that no CLI-exposed recovery path exists.

A journal parked at deleted or creating is by design after a rebuild that stops post-delete, so the second defect turns any such journal into a permanent block as soon as any hashed field moves.

Related issues

Fixes #10473

Changes

  • Exclude messaging from the durable source fingerprint, alongside the policy and MCP projections that rebuild already updates independently before delete. The fingerprint still binds every sandbox, gateway, lifecycle, agent, and workload ownership field.
  • Add sandboxRecreateSourceRowMatches, which also accepts the digest a journal recorded before that exclusion. Requirement: changing the hashed field set invalidates every sourceRegistryFingerprint already on disk, and a journal past the delete boundary outlives an upgrade, so without this an upgrade strands a rebuild whose source sandbox is already deleted. Consumers: planUnregisteredReplacementRecovery and assertSandboxRecreateSourceProof. A direct change is insufficient because the recorded digest cannot be recomputed from the new field set. The compatibility digest reproduces the exact pre-change field set, so it accepts only what the previous release accepted. Protected by resumes a journal recorded before messaging left the fingerprint (#10473).
  • Add the restart_from_source recovery decision and discardVoidSandboxRecreateTransaction. Requirement: a journal whose replacement never took blocks rebuild for the rest of the session with no way to retire it. Consumers: openRebuildRecreateJournal and openOnboardRecreateJournal discard the void journal and open a fresh one; createSandboxRecreateRuntime throws, because a handed-off runtime does not own the journal it was given. A direct change is insufficient because both openers throw before they construct anything that can retire a journal. Protected by the restart_from_source and discarding a void recreate journal cases in src/lib/onboard/sandbox-recreate-void-journal.test.ts and by one opener case in each journal suite.
  • Document the fourth rerun action and the messaging exemption in docs/manage-sandboxes/recover-rebuild-sandboxes.mdx.

replacementIsVoid stays fail-closed by construction. It requires the registry row to name the journaled sandbox, to carry a lifecycle live identity, for that identity to equal the observed live sandbox, and for it not to be the journaled replacement. A replacement that was created but never registered carries a fresh OpenShell Id while the preserved row still carries the source's, so it can never satisfy the decision and keeps the existing refusals. checkpoint.sandboxRecreate holds one journal for the whole session, so the name equality stops a rebuild of one sandbox retiring a journal that protects another. Each of the four clauses is decisive: deleting any one makes a named test fail. The destructive path is unchanged, because the fresh journal binds sourceLiveIdentityFingerprint to the observed sandbox and observeSourceForDelete re-proves that identity immediately before the delete command, after the rebuild has already taken its state backup.

Verification

  • npx vitest run over the ten suites that exercise the changed functions (sandbox-recreate-transaction, sandbox-recreate-void-journal, onboard-recreate-journal, not-ready-recreate, sandbox-recreate-protection, sandbox-destructive-resume-rollback, rebuild-recreate-journal, rebuild-flow-recovery, rebuild-hermes-accepted-target, rebuild-shields-finally) — 236 passed.
  • npx vitest run --project cli src/lib/onboard src/lib/actions/sandbox src/lib/state — 855 files, 13140 tests, 13088 passed, 50 failed. Every one of the 50 failures is pre-existing on this checkout and unrelated to this change: the corporate-CA dockerfile-* family plus base-image-resolution-metadata and provider-inference-reasoning, which fail because locally installed corporate CA certificates activate the corporate-CA branch in fixtures that pass no agentName. I confirmed the same failing set on an unmodified origin/main worktree before rebasing.
  • Clause coverage checked by mutation: removing any one of the four replacementIsVoid clauses, or the messaging exclusion, or the compatibility digest, makes a named #10473 test fail. Each source file was restored and checksum-verified afterwards.
  • npm run typecheck:cli — clean.
  • npm run checks:repository — all checks passed, including source architecture budget, vitest project membership, test title style, and test registration boundary.
  • npm run test-size:check, npm run test:titles:check, npm run test:projects:check — passed.
  • npx oxlint and npx oxfmt --check over the changed files — clean. bash scripts/check-spdx-headers.sh — clean.
  • npm run docs — exited 0, check-docs-published-routes: OK, Found 0 errors. npx markdownlint-cli2 on the changed page — 0 issues.
  • npx commitlint --from origin/main --to HEAD — clean.
  • The diff contains no secrets, API keys, or credentials. The added console.log prints only the sandbox name.

Review notes

This changes a sensitive path (sandbox lifecycle and onboarding). No maintainer review has happened yet. The following is automated-review context, not an approval or a waiver.

I ran a multi-agent adversarial review over the diff along destructive-safety, fingerprint-scope, integration, and test-quality lenses, with independent verifiers instructed to refute each finding. It caught two real defects in an earlier revision of this branch. Both are fixed here and covered by regression tests:

  • replacementIsVoid did not compare registryEntry.name with transaction.sandboxName. Because the session holds one journal slot, rebuilding sandbox A could discard sandbox B's stranded journal and remove the protection around B's created-but-unregistered replacement. A verifier reproduced that decision against the earlier commit and re-verified that the pairing now stays reject at every phase.
  • Adding a field to the exclusion list silently invalidated every persisted sourceRegistryFingerprint, which would have stranded a journal parked past the delete boundary across an upgrade. That is what the compatibility digest addresses.

Local git hooks were unavailable in this checkout because prek cannot download its release binary from this network, so npm run validate:pr did not run. I ran the equivalent gates directly and listed them under Verification. The broad E2E gate has not run locally; GitHub Actions owns that evidence for this commit.

Not addressed here: how the reporter's journal became stranded in the first place. A journal parked at deleted or creating is expected after a rebuild that stops post-delete, and this change makes that state recoverable however it arises, but the leak that produced it in a session where every rebuild reportedly succeeded is not proven. The reporter's ~/.nemoclaw/onboard-session.json (checkpoint.sandboxRecreate.phase, revision, targetGeneration) together with the row's lifecycleGeneration would identify it.


Signed-off-by: Hai Nguyen haingu@nvidia.com

Summary by CodeRabbit

  • Bug Fixes
    • Improved recovery of interrupted sandbox rebuilds when replacements fail to activate.
    • Prevented recovery records from being discarded when they belong to another gateway or no longer match the sandbox.
    • Improved validation during sandbox deletion to prevent stale or unauthorized state changes.
    • Preserved compatibility with legacy recovery records and ignored messaging-only identity changes.
  • Tests
    • Expanded coverage for recovery, replacement acceptance, ownership, gateway validation, deletion safeguards, and channel changes.
  • Documentation
    • Documented recovery behavior for interrupted and invalid sandbox rebuilds.

`rebuild` refused every attempt with "the preserved source registry row
changed" after a `channels stop` and `channels start` pair, and nothing
cleared the refusal for the rest of the session.

Two independent causes combined. The recreate journal binds the whole
durable registry row, including `messaging`, which the channel commands
rewrite and which `registry.getSandbox` rehydrates from the built-in
channel manifests and the ambient environment. A `channels stop` plus
`channels start` pair therefore changed the fingerprint of an untouched
sandbox. Separately, every refusal in `planSandboxRecreateRecovery` was
terminal, because no command retires a journal the guard already refused
to open.

Exclude `messaging` from the durable source fingerprint, alongside the
policy and MCP projections that rebuild already updates independently. A
journal recorded before that exclusion still resumes against a
compatibility digest that reproduces the previous field set, so an
upgrade cannot strand a rebuild whose source sandbox is already deleted.

Add a `restart_from_source` decision for a journal whose replacement
provably never took: the registry row names the journaled sandbox, the
row and the live same-name sandbox report one OpenShell identity, and
that identity is not the journaled replacement. Both journal openers
discard that void journal and record a fresh one against the live
source, so the destructive phases stay bound to a journal captured from
the current live state.

An unregistered replacement carries a fresh OpenShell Id while the
preserved row still carries the source's, so it can never satisfy the
new decision and stays protected by the existing fail-closed refusals.
The session holds one journal for every sandbox, so the name equality
keeps a journal that protects another sandbox out of reach.

Fixes #10473

Signed-off-by: Hai Nguyen <haingu@nvidia.com>
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src/lib/onboard...aging-config.ts 90% 86% -4%
src/lib/onboard...ess-identity.ts 97% 94% -3%
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The change adds gateway-scoped identity checks, legacy fingerprint compatibility, atomic journal ownership, and a single compare-and-swap deletion transition for sandbox recreation recovery.

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Sandbox recreation recovery

Layer / File(s) Summary
Fingerprint and recovery contracts
src/lib/onboard/sandbox-recreate-transaction.ts, src/lib/onboard/sandbox-recreate-void-journal.test.ts
Fingerprints exclude rehydrated messaging state. Source validation accepts current and legacy fingerprints. Recovery checks gateway evidence and allowed journal phases.
Atomic journal ownership
src/lib/onboard/sandbox-recreate-transaction.ts, src/lib/onboard/sandbox-recreate-void-journal.test.ts, src/lib/onboard/sandbox-recreate-transaction.test.ts, test/helpers/*
Transaction ownership reads fresh registry and live-source evidence, replaces eligible void journals with compare-and-swap, preserves conflicts, and verifies persisted state.
Caller recovery integration
src/lib/actions/sandbox/rebuild-recreate-journal.ts, src/lib/onboard/onboard-recreate-journal.ts, src/lib/actions/sandbox/rebuild-recreate-journal.test.ts, src/lib/onboard/onboard-recreate-journal.test.ts, docs/manage-sandboxes/recover-rebuild-sandboxes.mdx
Rebuild and onboarding use shared ownership and recovery helpers. Matching source identity on the journaled gateway creates a fresh journal. Cross-gateway evidence preserves the existing journal.
Atomic deletion transition
src/lib/onboard/sandbox-recreate-transaction.ts, src/lib/actions/sandbox/rebuild-destroy-phase.ts, src/lib/actions/sandbox/*test.ts, test/mcp/mcp-destroy-lifecycle.test.ts
Deletion uses beginDelete() and revalidates session, source, registry, gateway authority, live identity, and transaction state before the destructive command.

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

Merge Risk: 🔵 Low · up to 00ebb

The change makes stranded rebuild journals recoverable and prevents channel mutations from invalidating valid recovery state. It is mergeable with owner awareness: registered-target recovery should explicitly verify the journaled gateway, and one destructive-safety test should be tightened to prove the gateway-authority check is exercised.

Sequence Diagram(s)

sequenceDiagram
  participant RebuildOrOnboard
  participant SandboxRecreateTransaction
  participant RegistryAndGateway
  participant RecreateJournal
  participant OpenShell
  RebuildOrOnboard->>SandboxRecreateTransaction: Open or own recreation transaction
  SandboxRecreateTransaction->>RegistryAndGateway: Read identity and gateway evidence
  RegistryAndGateway-->>SandboxRecreateTransaction: Return current evidence
  SandboxRecreateTransaction->>RecreateJournal: Compare-and-swap journal ownership
  RecreateJournal-->>RebuildOrOnboard: Return planned or preserved transaction
  RebuildOrOnboard->>SandboxRecreateTransaction: Begin deletion
  SandboxRecreateTransaction->>RegistryAndGateway: Revalidate deletion authority
  SandboxRecreateTransaction->>RecreateJournal: Compare-and-swap deletion state
  SandboxRecreateTransaction-->>RebuildOrOnboard: Return deletion target
  RebuildOrOnboard->>OpenShell: Delete sandbox
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The changes address issue #10473 by excluding rehydrated messaging state from durable fingerprints, accepting legacy fingerprints, recovering stranded journals when replacements never took effect, and preserving fail-closed behavior for mismatched or unregistered replacements. Gateway authority, identity, registry, and atomic ownership checks are covered by the implementation and regression tests.

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@gaveezy gaveezy added v0.0.115 area: onboarding Onboarding FSM, provider setup, sandbox launch, or first-run flow area: sandbox OpenShell sandbox lifecycle, runtime, config, or recovery labels Aug 27, 2026
The recovery page quoted the discard diagnostic without its suffix, so the
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The new void-journal recovery can retire a transaction from a different gateway. replacementIsVoid checks the sandbox name and live identity, but both openers pass an observation from the caller-selected gateway before the existing transaction gateway guard runs. A matching name and identity on another gateway therefore returns restart_from_source and clears the active journal. Bind the registry row and observation to the transaction's gateway name and port before returning restart_from_source or discarding the journal. Add planner and both opener regression tests where the sandbox name and identity match but the gateway differs.

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## Outcome

A void replacement journal is retired only by the gateway that owns it.
Evidence gathered on another gateway leaves the journal in place, so a
rebuild can no longer orphan an unregistered replacement belonging to a
different gateway.

## Changes

- Require the registry row and the observed gateway to name the
journaled gateway before `replacementIsVoid` proves a journal void.
Sandbox name and live identity alone did not bind the gateway, and
`gatewayName`/`gatewayPort` sit in `ROUTE_RESERVATION_FIELDS`, so the
source fingerprint did not notice a row that moved gateways either.
- Take the observed gateway as a required argument in
`discardVoidSandboxRecreateTransaction`. Both openers discard before
`beginSandboxRecreateTransaction` and the discard nulls the journal, so
`assertSameTransaction` was unreachable on that path.
- Accept the observed gateway optionally in
`planSandboxRecreateRecovery` and withhold `restart_from_source` when it
is absent, so a caller that cannot name its gateway keeps the previous
refusal instead of retiring a journal it never proved is void. A legacy
row carrying no gateway fields fails closed for the same reason.
- Pass the caller's target from both openers and the journal's own
gateway from the handed-off runtime, which already probes it.
- Cover the planner, the discard helper, and both openers with
regression tests where the sandbox name and live identity match but the
gateway differs.
- Document that a row or live sandbox on another gateway leaves the
journal in place.
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The new void-journal recovery can retire a transaction from a different gateway. replacementIsVoid checks the sandbox name and live identity, but both openers pass an observation from the caller-selected gateway before the existing transaction gateway guard runs. A matching name and identity on another gateway therefore returns restart_from_source and clears the active journal. Bind the registry row and observation to the transaction's gateway name and port before returning restart_from_source or discarding the journal. Add planner and both opener regression tests where the sandbox name and identity match but the gateway differs.

thanks, you're right that the discard wasn't bound to the journal's gateway. Fixed in 11c7068.

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Merge-train review is blocked pending maintainer direction.

Issue #10473 remains Needs Review. Architecture issue #5801 remains Backlog. Maintainers must decide these recovery rules:

  • Can a changed durable registry row retire a journal when the row and live sandbox identify the same source?
  • Which transaction phases can restart?
  • Does the same authority apply to rebuild and onboard?
  • Is messaging a non-authoritative projection that the source fingerprint must exclude?
  • Must changed writer-boundary evidence stop for a new recovery decision?
  • Does the session lock protect authority through the later delete boundary?

Three high-severity defects remain:

  1. Journal discard checks only the transaction ID. It can clear a same-ID transaction after its revision, phase, target generation, or identities change.
  2. Both paths reuse registry and live evidence gathered before the write. They then clear and create the journal in two writes. A race or write failure can remove the journal without a durable replacement.
  3. The void path clears the journal before it checks target intent. Changed replacement settings can bypass the existing refusal.

After maintainers accept the contract, use one shared compare-and-swap transition for both paths. Bind the session ID and complete transaction fingerprint. Re-read registry and live evidence inside the writer boundary. Replan recovery, require unchanged target intent, replace the journal in one durable write, and verify readback before logging or deletion.

Tests must cover stale sessions and transactions, lock contention, write failures, registry and live drift, an accepted durable row, target-intent drift, and the absence of a visible empty-journal interval.

The PR adds 920 lines and removes 15 lines. Treat this as a large security-sensitive change. I found no superseding PR.

No code edit, approval, or merge is safe until maintainers accept the recovery contract.

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jyaunches dismissed rsliter’s stale review September 2, 2026 15:52

Superseded by maintainer direction after the gateway-binding fix in 11c7068; a new review records the remaining lifecycle transaction requirements.

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Maintainer direction after review of PR #10491, issue #10473, lifecycle transaction issue #6492, onboarding FSM roadmap #7700, health-before-delete design #7704, atomic-swap tracker #5801, and the OpenShell roadmap:

The product semantics are accepted:

  • messaging is a derived projection and must not participate in durable sandbox-source identity.
  • A journal in deleted or creating may restart only when the exact original source is proven live on the journaled gateway and is not the journaled replacement.
  • True build-verify-swap remains separate work under #7704/#5801; this PR should provide crash-safe reconciliation, not claim atomic sandbox swap.

Changes required before approval:

  1. Replace journal A directly with journal B in one session compare-and-swap save. Never persist sandboxRecreate: null between discard and creation.
  2. Match the current session ID and the complete expected transaction (including revision, phase, gateway, source/target identities and generations, and target intent), not only transaction ID.
  3. Require the requested target-intent fingerprint to equal the journaled target intent before replacement.
  4. Re-read registry and live OpenShell evidence inside the transition callback/boundary, replan from that evidence, and fail closed on drift or lock contention.
  5. Verify durable readback before reporting success.
  6. Keep rebuild and onboard thin by routing both through one shared transaction-owner operation.
  7. Revalidate gateway authority, source registry/live identity, lock generation, and target intent again immediately before delete; the session lock does not freeze external state.
  8. Add focused regressions for stale session/transaction revisions, target-intent drift, write/readback failure, registry/live drift, lock contention, foreign gateways, no empty-journal interval, and crash/restart convergence. Preserve the real channels stop/start regression.

I am proceeding with a maintainer-authored implementation of this accepted contract on the PR branch, then will dismiss this review once the evidence is green.

Signed-off-by: Julie Yaunches <jyaunches@nvidia.com>
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src/lib/onboard/sandbox-recreate-transaction.ts (1)

599-614: 📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🔵 Trivial | 💤 Low value

Remove the unused checkpoint parameter or use it.

newSandboxRecreateTransaction declares checkpoint: OnboardCheckpoint but the body reads only input. Both call sites already compute the checkpoint separately and pass it. Dropping the parameter removes a misleading dependency between transaction construction and checkpoint state.

♻️ Proposed signature change
-function newSandboxRecreateTransaction(
-  checkpoint: OnboardCheckpoint,
-  input: BeginSandboxRecreateTransactionInput,
-): CheckpointSandboxRecreateTransaction {
+function newSandboxRecreateTransaction(
+  input: BeginSandboxRecreateTransactionInput,
+): CheckpointSandboxRecreateTransaction {

Update both call sites (beginSandboxRecreateTransaction and the ownSandboxRecreateTransaction mutator) accordingly.

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In `@src/lib/onboard/sandbox-recreate-transaction.ts` around lines 599 - 614,
Remove the unused checkpoint parameter from newSandboxRecreateTransaction and
update both callers, beginSandboxRecreateTransaction and the
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src/lib/onboard/sandbox-recreate-void-journal.test.ts (1)

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Assert one expected message per case; the registry-gateway branch is probably not exercised.

The gatewayName/gatewayPort fields are part of the durable registry fingerprint. For the "registry gateway" row, sandboxRecreateSourceRowMatches therefore fails first and beginSandboxRecreateDelete throws its source registry row changed. The alternation regex accepts that message, so the dedicated registry gateway authority check in beginSandboxRecreateDelete stays unproven.

Carry the expected message in each case and keep the source fingerprint intact for the gateway case, for example by journaling a row without gatewayName/gatewayPort and returning a fresh row that names a different gateway.

♻️ Proposed per-case expectation
 it.each([
-    ["registry row", { ...REGISTERED_SOURCE_ENTRY, imageTag: "foreign" }, LIVE_SOURCE],
+    [
+      "registry row",
+      { ...REGISTERED_SOURCE_ENTRY, imageTag: "foreign" },
+      LIVE_SOURCE,
+      /source registry row changed/,
+    ],
     [
       "registry gateway",
       { ...REGISTERED_SOURCE_ENTRY, gatewayName: "foreign", gatewayPort: 9090 },
       LIVE_SOURCE,
+      /registry gateway authority changed/,
     ],
     [
       "live identity",
       REGISTERED_SOURCE_ENTRY,
       { state: "ready", liveIdentityFingerprint: FOREIGN_ID },
+      /not the journaled source/,
     ],
-  ] as const)("rejects delete after fresh %s drift (`#10473`)", (_label, row, observation) => {
+  ] as const)(
+    "rejects delete after fresh %s drift (`#10473`)",
+    (_label, row, observation, expected) => {

Then assert .toThrow(expected).

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In `@src/lib/onboard/sandbox-recreate-void-journal.test.ts` around lines 548 -
572, Update the parameterized test around beginSandboxRecreateDelete to provide
an expected error message for each drift case and assert that exact message. For
the “registry gateway” case, preserve the durable source fingerprint by keeping
gatewayName and gatewayPort unchanged in the journaled row, then return a fresh
observation with a different gateway so the gateway-authority branch is
exercised rather than the registry-row mismatch branch.

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Inline comments:
In `@src/lib/actions/sandbox/rebuild-recreate-journal.ts`:
- Around line 400-412: Update the rebuild flow around revalidateGatewayAuthority
and compareAndSwapSession so resolveGatewayRebuildAuthority, including
synchronous Homebrew inspection through hasOpenShellGatewayUserService, runs
before acquiring or while not holding the onboard lock. Keep the authority
comparison and GatewayAuthorityError behavior unchanged, and ensure the
lock-held matcher performs only the minimal state comparison.

---

Nitpick comments:
In `@src/lib/onboard/sandbox-recreate-transaction.ts`:
- Around line 599-614: Remove the unused checkpoint parameter from
newSandboxRecreateTransaction and update both callers,
beginSandboxRecreateTransaction and the ownSandboxRecreateTransaction mutator,
to stop passing it. Leave checkpoint computation and all transaction validation
behavior unchanged.

In `@src/lib/onboard/sandbox-recreate-void-journal.test.ts`:
- Around line 548-572: Update the parameterized test around
beginSandboxRecreateDelete to provide an expected error message for each drift
case and assert that exact message. For the “registry gateway” case, preserve
the durable source fingerprint by keeping gatewayName and gatewayPort unchanged
in the journaled row, then return a fresh observation with a different gateway
so the gateway-authority branch is exercised rather than the registry-row
mismatch branch.

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jyaunches dismissed their stale review September 2, 2026 17:17

Implemented on the PR branch: shared single-save CAS journal replacement, complete session/transaction/intent matching, fresh evidence and durable readback, thin rebuild/onboard/FSM ownership, and delete-edge gateway/source revalidation with focused regressions. Continuing CI and advisor enforcement before approval/merge.

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Maintainer approval for head 5adf27d0387b304a48dc7025dbb7a889bad264cf.

The requested lifecycle changes are complete: void journals are replaced atomically through full-transaction CAS, fresh registry/live/gateway evidence is revalidated, delete-edge ownership remains fail-closed, messaging is treated as a derived projection with bounded legacy compatibility, and the real channel stop/start recovery path is covered.

All ordinary CI and managed runtime qualifications pass (60 checks). PR Review Advisor passed all nine specialists on the prior product-code head 4c30ce28f7. The latest head differs by the merged, independently reviewed fast-uri remediation from PR #10892. On the latest advisor retry, seven specialists passed; Migration Completion and Test Design failed infrastructure twice without producing artifacts or findings. I explicitly accept that infrastructure gap based on the prior complete advisor review, unchanged product-code diff, focused local validation, and green current-head CI/qualification evidence.

No unresolved review threads or changes requests remain.

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