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Outcome

Messaging channels now survive sandbox rebuilds when their required credentials remain available through matching gateway providers, even after the host process that collected those credentials exits. A channel is disabled only when a required gateway credential is confirmed missing; an uncertain or conflicting probe stops without staging messaging state.

Reason

The previous reconciliation treated an absent host environment variable as proof that an operator removed the channel. Pasted credentials are held by the gateway rather than persisted in the host environment, so later rebuilds could disable a working channel, remove its credential bindings, and remove its network egress.

Related issues

  • Fixes #10660.
  • Relates to #10079. That work repairs downstream credential delivery; this change prevents an active channel from being removed before delivery begins.

Changes

  • Reuse the shared messaging-provider binding derivation for token and static-profile channels, including every required Slack credential.
  • Inspect gateway credentials as exact, missing, collision, or indeterminate rather than collapsing uncertain results into absence.
  • Keep a channel only when every required provider matches. Disable it only after confirmed absence. Stop without writing or clearing the plan on collision or indeterminate inspection.
  • Prepare reusable registry and staged plans without side effects, complete all gateway probes, and persist only the resolved result.
  • Cover missing Slack app and bot credentials, malformed or failed metadata probes, static-profile failures, multi-binding ambiguity, and every write-prone plan-authority route.
  • Update the onboarding guide to use channels remove for removal and explain that clearing host inputs does not delete a gateway-held provider.\n- Normalize a legacy combined Slack binding to its current manifest-owned identities only when a same-channel sibling proves the recorded provider identity; preserve other recorded names so ownership collisions fail closed.

Verification

  • Focused CLI tests for the changed messaging and gateway inspection paths — 99 passed.\n- Messaging binding replay, registration, and cross-group collision tests — 72 passed.
  • npm run typecheck:cli — passed.
  • Normal and type-aware Oxlint for the changed source and tests — passed.
  • Codebase growth guardrails — 33 passed.
  • npm run checks:repository — passed.
  • npm run docs — passed with 0 errors and 2 baseline warnings; generated OpenClaw and Hermes variants were reviewed.
  • npm run validate:pr — passed.
  • Commit hooks — passed, including Oxfmt, repository checks, secret scanning, source-shape limits, growth guardrails, commitlint, and CLI type checking.
  • GitHub verification and the DCO check — passed for every commit in the pull request.
  • The diff contains no secrets, API keys, or credentials.

An affected-source run selected 3,022 tests: 3,017 passed. Five unrelated portable-runtime uninstall tests could not use the host Homebrew OpenShell installation because it did not satisfy the repository checksum and trust contract; no rerun was used.

  • Documentation review: docs-updated
  • Documentation evidence: Independently reviewed the source page and generated OpenClaw and Hermes variants; npm run docs passed with 0 errors and 2 baseline warnings.
  • Documentation agent: GPT-5
  • Targeted validation: Focused CLI tests for the changed messaging and gateway inspection paths — 99 passed; messaging binding replay, registration, and cross-group collision — 72 passed.
  • Broad gate: passed — npm run validate:pr passed.

Review notes

  • Accepted issue Google Chat channel loses credential binding after channels stop/start, non-recovering reconnect loop #10660 establishes the product scope. This repairs existing messaging lifecycle behavior and adds no supported integration or architecture surface.
  • Independent documentation, code, and nine-category security review passed with no remaining finding.
  • channels stop preserves credentials and pairing. channels remove deletes the provider and remains the explicit removal workflow.
  • Credential values are neither read nor logged by the new inspection path. Gateway identity and provider type remain authoritative.

Contributor live validation

The contributor reproduced the original defect and validated the repair on a Linux x86_64 host with Google Chat in gateway-minted mode. OpenClaw used the managed v0.0.116 image; Hermes used a locally built image.

Agent Path Before After
Hermes channel added during onboarding, then stop and start channel disabled; credential absent
Hermes channels add, then stop and start enabled; preset applied; bot replied
Hermes rebuild enabled; preset applied; bot replied
OpenClaw rebuild channel disabled; credential absent enabled; preset applied
OpenClaw stop and start channel disabled; bot silent enabled; preset applied; bot replied

After the repair, the contributor observed GOOGLE_CHAT_ACCESS_TOKEN in the sandbox, the policy preset applied, an empty disabled-channel list, and an outbound Google Chat message request in the gateway log without a channel denial.


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

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  • Improvements

    • Improved sandbox onboarding when reusing existing messaging configurations.
    • Credential checks now distinguish confirmed matches, missing credentials, conflicts, and uncertain results.
    • Existing configuration plans are preserved when gateway information cannot be confirmed.
    • Messaging channels are handled more consistently across Google Chat, Discord, and Slack, including multiple Slack credentials.
  • Documentation

    • Clarified channel lifecycle commands: stopping pauses a channel, while removing deletes its configuration and pairing state.

Every rebuild re-derived which channels are configured from the host
process environment. A pasted secret only ever lives in the process
that captured it, so on any later run the required input reads as
missing, the channel is disabled, and its credential bindings and
network egress are stripped from the plan. The sandbox then comes back
with no injected credential and no channel egress while its config
still declares the channel enabled.

Host env is no longer the only evidence. A channel whose credential the
gateway still holds is kept: token channels resolve through the plan's
credential bindings, and a bridge channel, which renders none, resolves
its provider by name from the co-located provider profile. The check
uses the provider match the create intent already uses to reuse a
provider without its source secret, so it reads live OpenShell state
and stores nothing.

Removal still wins. Channel removal deletes both the per-credential and
the bridge provider, so an absent provider keeps disabling the channel
as before. The re-attach path needed no change; it was only blocked by
the disabled-channel list this reconciliation was filling in.
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Walkthrough

Sandbox messaging reuse now inspects gateway-held credentials before filtering channels or writing refreshed plans. It handles exact, missing, collision, and indeterminate results. Tests cover provider binding collection, channel reuse, and checkpoint resume. Documentation defines channel removal and pausing.

Changes

Sandbox messaging reconciliation

Layer / File(s) Summary
Credential inspection and binding resolution
src/lib/onboard/credential-provider-registration.ts, src/lib/onboard/checkpoint-replay.ts, src/lib/onboard/...test.ts
Gateway inspection now returns detailed results. Required messaging bindings include active credential bindings and preserve distinct provider identities.
Deferred reusable-plan reconciliation
src/lib/onboard/machine/handlers/sandbox-messaging.ts, src/lib/onboard.ts, src/lib/onboard/machine/handlers/sandbox.ts
Reusable plans inspect gateway credentials before persistence. Exact matches preserve channels. Missing credentials disable channels. Collision and indeterminate results prevent plan writes and clears.
Reconciliation validation and lifecycle documentation
src/lib/onboard/machine/...test.ts, src/lib/onboard/credential-provider-registration.test.ts, docs/manage-sandboxes/enable-channels-during-onboarding.mdx
Tests cover provider inspection outcomes, multi-credential Slack handling, QR reuse, unsupported channels, and checkpoint resume. Documentation distinguishes channels remove from channels stop.

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

Merge Risk: ⚪ Minimal · up to 09a80

The PR preserves gateway-backed messaging channels across rebuilds and disables them only when required credentials are confirmed missing; no actionable merge-blocking risk remains after normal checks and review.

Sequence Diagram(s)

sequenceDiagram
  participant SandboxMessaging
  participant CheckpointReplay
  participant CredentialProviderRegistration
  participant SandboxPlan
  SandboxMessaging->>CheckpointReplay: Collect required messaging bindings
  SandboxMessaging->>CredentialProviderRegistration: Inspect required gateway credentials
  CredentialProviderRegistration-->>SandboxMessaging: Return inspection results
  SandboxMessaging->>SandboxPlan: Persist reconciled plan after inspections resolve
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Linked Issues check ✅ Passed The changes address issue [#10660] by inspecting gateway credentials, preserving channels when required providers match, and disabling channels only after confirmed credential absence. Tests cover Goo…
Out of Scope Changes check ✅ Passed The changes remain within scope. The implementation, tests, checkpoint binding updates, and documentation changes directly support gateway-backed channel reuse and explicit channel removal behavior.
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Title check ✅ Passed The title clearly and concisely describes the primary fix: preventing sandbox rebuilds from disabling gateway-backed messaging channels.
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The changes address issue [#10660] by inspecting gateway credentials, preserving channels when required providers match, and disabling channels only after confirmed credential absence. Tests cover Google Chat and related gateway-backed channel reconciliation paths.

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@hunglp6d hunglp6d added area: messaging Messaging channels, bridges, manifests, or channel lifecycle area: sandbox OpenShell sandbox lifecycle, runtime, config, or recovery v0.0.118 labels Aug 31, 2026
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