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On a multi-gateway host, nemoclaw <name> status and nemoclaw <name> recover now name the gateway that owns a sandbox the selected gateway cannot see, instead of reporting that the sandbox does not exist.

Before:

  Sandbox 'failure-a' does not exist.

  Registered sandboxes: healthy-b
  Run 'nemoclaw list' to see all sandboxes.

After:

  Sandbox 'failure-a' is registered on a different NemoClaw gateway.

  Owning gateway: nemoclaw-8990 (port 8990)
  Owning registry: /home/qa/.nemoclaw/gateways/8990/sandboxes.json
  Selected gateway: nemoclaw (port 8080)

  Every command reads the state root that NEMOCLAW_GATEWAY_PORT selects.
  Rerun against the owning gateway:
    NEMOCLAW_GATEWAY_PORT=8990 nemoclaw failure-a status

Reason

Registry reads are pinned to the selected gateway's state root — REGISTRY_FILE resolves through nemoclawStateRoot(HOME, GATEWAY_PORT) — so a row written under another gateway is structurally invisible, and recoverRequestedSandboxIfNeeded falls through to the unknown-sandbox message.

Registry recovery cannot rescue it, and must not be changed to. Its live probe is deliberately -g-scoped, because an unscoped sandbox list returns every sandbox on the host and once caused recovery to bind a sibling gateway's sandboxes to the selected gateway (#7105). That scoping is pinned by an existing test asserting the probe never issues a bare sandbox list.

So the answer is not to widen recovery, but to report the owner. The host-wide reader already exists — listHostGatewayRegistryEntries — and was simply never consulted on this path.

Related issues

Closes #10656

Changes

  • src/lib/state/gateway-registry.tsfindForeignGatewaySandbox(name, selectedGatewayPort, home) returns every other gateway root claiming the name — name, port and registry file each — or null. Nothing enforces host-wide sandbox-name uniqueness, so naming a single claimant would point the rerun command at whichever gateway sorted first by port. It only reports; no row is adopted, so the [DGX Station][Sandbox] nemohermes queries the wrong sandbox after the active OpenShell gateway changes #7105 scoping is untouched. Both new imports are added to import statements that already exist, so the module graph gains no new edge.
  • src/lib/cli/public-dispatch.ts — consults it after recovery has failed and prints the owning-gateway diagnostic. The existing unknown-sandbox block is byte-identical and still runs whenever the lookup returns null, which is every single-gateway host.
  • test/support/public-dispatch-test-harness.ts — stubs the lookup for every withDirectPublicDispatch case. Without this the real function would read the developer's own $HOME during unrelated tests; nothing in the existing isolation helper redirects it.

A deliberate asymmetry, and the main thing to review. listHostGatewayRegistryEntries fails closed — it throws on malformed JSON, a bad row, a symlinked root, or a gateway-port mismatch. That is correct for its existing callers, which allocate a dashboard port and decide a router teardown. It is wrong here: the sole caller is a diagnostic on an already-failing command, so a corrupt registry belonging to an unrelated gateway would replace a clean exit 1 with a stack trace over the real error. findForeignGatewaySandbox therefore catches and degrades to "no owner", matching the read-only carve-out safeListRegistryEntries established. This does not weaken #8443: a corrupt selected registry still throws, earlier, from registry().getSandbox().

NEMOCLAW_GATEWAY_PORT=<port> <command> is the documented mechanism for selecting a gateway (docs/reference/troubleshooting.mdx), and is already printed to users by run-plan.ts and readiness/gateway-production.ts, so this reuses the established remedy rather than inventing one.

Verification

Five tests, all red before the source change and green after:

  • names the owning gateway instead of denying the sandbox for status / ... for recover — the reported repro at the dispatch boundary. Asserts every new line, and asserts the output does not contain does not exist or Registered sandboxes:, since the issue requires the message stop implying the sandbox is unknown.
  • names the gateway that owns a sandbox the selected root cannot see — the real lookup against a two-gateway temporary HOME, no mocks.
  • reports no owner for a sandbox the selected gateway already holds.
  • degrades to no owner when a sibling registry is unreadable — asserts listHostGatewayRegistryEntries throws on that same fixture and that the lookup still returns null, pinning the asymmetry above.

Two more cover the ambiguous case, both red against a single-owner lookup:

  • reports every gateway that claims the same sandbox name — the real lookup over a three-root fixture.
  • names every gateway when more than one claims the sandbox — the dispatch boundary, asserting both rerun commands.

One guard passes in both states, so it pins preserved behaviour rather than restating the fix: keeps the unknown-sandbox message when no other gateway owns the name.

Commands:

  • npx vitest run --project cli src/lib/state/gateway-registry.test.ts — 9 passed
  • npx vitest run --project integration test/cli/dispatch-basics.test.ts test/cli/cli-oclif-compatibility.test.ts — 80 passed
  • Same tests with only the source change reverted — 7 fail, as intended
  • npm run typecheck:cli — passed
  • npm run checks:repository — passed, including the source architecture budget
  • npx oxlint and npx oxfmt --check on all five changed files — passed
  • Diff contains no secrets, API keys, or credentials

Review notes

status and recover both reach this path — confirmed against the built sandboxActionTokensForDispatch(), which matches the issue's log block showing the identical message twice.

The diagnostic needs no running daemon: listGatewayStateRoots is a pure directory enumeration anchored on the default gateway port, so stopping the owning gateway — which is the reported scenario — does not affect it.

PR #10335 also edits recoverRequestedSandboxIfNeeded's neighbourhood in this file, for the unrelated bare-sandbox-action grammar. The two branches are semantically disjoint; whichever lands second takes a small textual conflict.


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

Summary by CodeRabbit

  • New Features
    • Improved sandbox recovery and status diagnostics across multiple gateways.
    • Identifies every gateway that owns a sandbox, including gateway details and ready-to-use rerun commands.
    • Provides read-only guidance for action-first commands involving sandbox scopes.
    • Distinguishes published and pending sandbox names in listings.
  • Bug Fixes
    • Prevents foreign sandboxes from being incorrectly reported as missing.
    • Preserves clear unknown-sandbox errors when no match is found.

On a multi-gateway host, a sandbox owned by another gateway reported only
"Sandbox 'X' does not exist" alongside the selected gateway's sandboxes. The
reader could not tell which gateway to restore or select, and the message
denied a sandbox NemoClaw had recorded.

Registry reads are pinned to the selected gateway's state root, so the row is
structurally invisible. Registry recovery cannot rescue it either: its live
probe is deliberately gateway-scoped, because an unscoped list once bound a
sibling gateway's sandboxes to the selected gateway (#7105).

`findForeignGatewaySandbox` consults the existing host-wide reader and reports
the owning gateway, its port, its registry file, and a rerun command scoped
with NEMOCLAW_GATEWAY_PORT. It only reports: no row is adopted, so the #7105
scoping stays intact.

The lookup returns null when any host registry is unreadable. That reader fails
closed for its allocating callers, which is right for them and wrong here — the
sole caller is a diagnostic on an already-failing command that must still exit
1 cleanly rather than throw a stack trace over the real error. This follows the
read-only carve-out `safeListRegistryEntries` established.

The unknown-sandbox message is unchanged whenever no other gateway claims the
name, which is every single-gateway host.

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

The gateway registry now returns all sibling gateways that claim a sandbox name. status and recover report the owning gateway details and rerun commands instead of treating foreign sandboxes as unknown.

Changes

Multi-gateway sandbox diagnostics

Layer / File(s) Summary
Foreign gateway lookup
src/lib/state/gateway-registry.ts, src/lib/state/gateway-registry.test.ts
Adds ForeignGatewayOwner and changes ForeignGatewaySandbox to return all matching owners. The lookup excludes the selected gateway and handles unreadable sibling registries.
Dispatcher diagnostics
src/lib/cli/public-dispatch.ts
Tracks published and pending sandbox names. It checks foreign ownership after gateway-scoped recovery fails and reports each owning gateway with a rerun command.
Dispatch validation and test wiring
test/cli/dispatch-basics.test.ts, test/support/public-dispatch-test-harness.ts
Adds coverage for single and duplicate ownership, unowned sandboxes, mocked registry lookup, and module-cache restoration.

Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~20 minutes

Merge Risk: ⚪ Minimal · up to eb17d

The CLI now identifies the gateway that owns an otherwise unseen sandbox while preserving the existing unknown-sandbox behavior when no owner is found; no actionable merge-blocking risk remains after normal checks and review.

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sequenceDiagram
  participant CLI
  participant PublicDispatcher
  participant GatewayRegistry
  participant SiblingRegistries
  CLI->>PublicDispatcher: Run status or recover
  PublicDispatcher->>GatewayRegistry: Find foreign sandbox ownership
  GatewayRegistry->>SiblingRegistries: Inspect sibling gateway registries
  SiblingRegistries-->>GatewayRegistry: Return matching owners
  GatewayRegistry-->>PublicDispatcher: Return owners or null
  PublicDispatcher-->>CLI: Report gateway details and rerun commands
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Comment thread src/lib/state/gateway-registry.ts Outdated
Nothing enforces host-wide sandbox-name uniqueness, so two gateway roots can
each register the same name. Selecting one claimant meant the printed rerun
command named whichever gateway sorted first by port, which could send status
or recover to the wrong gateway while looking authoritative.

The lookup now returns every claimant and the diagnostic lists each gateway
with its own rerun command, so an ambiguous name is reported as ambiguous
instead of resolved arbitrarily. Single-owner output is unchanged.

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Accepted and fixed in 00ffe19ee0. The finding is correct, and I confirmed the premise empirically rather than reasoning about it.

Duplicate names are reachable. Nothing enforces host-wide sandbox-name uniqueness. I built a temporary HOME with roots 8990 and 9000 each registering failure-a and ran the real listHostGatewayRegistryEntries against it:

matches for 'failure-a': 2 [ 8990, 9000 ]

No throw — the port-mismatch guard only rejects a row whose gatewayPort disagrees with its own root, so two roots each correctly holding their own failure-a pass cleanly. .find then returned 8990 purely because listGatewayStateRoots sorts ascending. Supporting evidence that this is understood as a real shape: the other host-wide consumer, destroy-preflight.ts:162, comments that "every remaining host entry is a peer, including entries owned by a different gateway state root" and deliberately uses .some() — existence, never identity.

Fix. findForeignGatewaySandbox now returns owners: ForeignGatewayOwner[] instead of a single flattened owner, and the diagnostic prints one Owning gateway / Owning registry pair and one rerun command per claimant:

  Sandbox 'failure-a' is registered on 2 other NemoClaw gateways.

  Owning gateway: nemoclaw-8990 (port 8990)
  Owning registry: /home/qa/.nemoclaw/gateways/8990/sandboxes.json
  Owning gateway: nemoclaw-9000 (port 9000)
  Owning registry: /home/qa/.nemoclaw/gateways/9000/sandboxes.json
  Selected gateway: nemoclaw (port 8080)

  Every command reads the state root that NEMOCLAW_GATEWAY_PORT selects.
  Rerun against the gateway you meant:
    NEMOCLAW_GATEWAY_PORT=8990 nemoclaw failure-a status
    NEMOCLAW_GATEWAY_PORT=9000 nemoclaw failure-a status

I took the "return an ambiguity result" option rather than enforcing host-wide uniqueness. Uniqueness is a product decision with migration consequences for hosts that already have colliding names, and it does not belong in a diagnostic fix. Reporting the ambiguity is strictly honest: the command names every candidate and lets the reader choose, instead of resolving arbitrarily while looking authoritative. Single-owner output is byte-identical to before.

Tests. Two added, both verified red against the previous single-owner behaviour by narrowing the lookup to its first match:

  • reports every gateway that claims the same sandbox name — the real lookup over a three-root fixture, asserting both owners in port order.
  • names every gateway when more than one claims the sandbox — the dispatch boundary, asserting both gateways and both rerun commands appear.

Verification: 9 passed in gateway-registry.test.ts, 80 in the dispatch suites, npm run typecheck:cli, npm run checks:repository (architecture budget included), and oxfmt --check all clean.

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

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