fix(sandbox): keep retained destroy fail closed - #10867
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Interrupting onboarding after sandbox creation (e.g. Ctrl-C at the Policy tier or preset selector) leaves a retained sandbox. destroy then refused to remove it whenever OpenShell still reported it present, unconditionally, regardless of whether the live sandbox was actually the exact retained one. Its remediation told the user to "ask an OpenShell administrator" for an "identity-bound removal procedure" that does not exist in the OpenShell CLI -- the only delete verb is `openshell sandbox delete <name>`, exactly what an ordinary user can (and, per the report, successfully did) run themselves. destroy-preflight.ts already read the live sandbox's exact OpenShell id from `sandbox list -o json` but discarded it once presence was classified present/absent. Since a retained recovery record already carries a durable identity fingerprint of the exact sandbox it is protecting (the same mechanism used for Hermes Portable lifecycle verification), destroy can compare the two: fingerprint the live sandbox's id and check it against the recovery record's fingerprint before deciding to refuse. When they match, destroy has proven the live sandbox is the retained one, not a replacement that reused the name, and proceeds through the same delete path used for any other present sandbox -- the same outcome the manual `openshell sandbox delete` workaround produces. When they don't match (or the live id can't be read), destroy still refuses and removes nothing, but its message now names the exact `openshell sandbox delete <name>` command as something the user can run themselves after manually confirming identity, instead of pointing at a nonexistent administrator role. Reproduced on our Ubuntu 24.04 x86_64 test host: interrupting an interactive onboard's Policy tier selection with Ctrl-C after sandbox creation left a retained sandbox; `destroy --yes` refused unconditionally and exited nonzero. After the fix, the same repro's `destroy --yes` deletes the sandbox automatically and exits 0, matching the manual workaround's outcome without requiring it. The exit-code-0-on-refusal and `nemoclaw list` vs `openshell sandbox list` visibility-gap symptoms also reported in this issue no longer reproduce on current main; only the misdirected remediation guidance was still present, and this fix addresses that. Fixes #10863 Signed-off-by: Yanyun Liao <yanyunl@nvidia.com>
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Included review availability: Your plan provides up to 12 included reviews per hour; 2 remain after this review. 📝 WalkthroughWalkthroughRetained-sandbox destruction now captures the live OpenShell identity, compares it with the retained recovery fingerprint, and rechecks it before deletion. Tests cover matching identities and same-name replacements. Documentation describes manual deletion and recovery-record reconciliation. ChangesRetained sandbox destruction
Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~20 minutes Merge Risk: ⚪ Minimal · up to Retained sandbox cleanup now proceeds only when the live sandbox matches its recovery record, while unverifiable or replaced sandboxes remain protected from deletion. No current merge-blocking risk is identified. Sequence Diagram(s)sequenceDiagram
participant O as Operator
participant D as Destroy
participant S as OpenShell
O->>D: start retained sandbox destroy
D->>S: observe sandbox identity
S-->>D: return identity fingerprint
D->>S: recheck identity at delete boundary
S-->>D: return current fingerprint
D->>S: delete by name on exact match
D-->>O: report result
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In `@docs/reference/commands.mdx`:
- Line 368: Update the recovery behavior description near destroy so manual
openshell sandbox delete is described as equivalent only for deleting the
sandbox, not for clearing the NemoClaw recovery record; preserve the instruction
that users must run destroy --yes afterward to reconcile the retained record.
In `@src/lib/actions/sandbox/destroy.ts`:
- Around line 817-820: Revalidate the retained OpenShell sandbox identity
immediately before deletion: pass the expected fingerprint through
executeSandboxDestroy, re-observe the sandbox by name, and compare its
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368-368: 🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick winSeparate manual deletion from recovery-record cleanup.
openshell sandbox delete <sandbox-name>deletes the sandbox, but it does not clear the NemoClaw recovery record. Calling the outcomes “the same” conflicts with Line 369, which requiresdestroy --yesafter manual deletion to reconcile the record. Describe the equivalence as applying only to sandbox deletion.As per coding guidelines,
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-- and proceeds to delete it and clear the matching recovery record, the same outcome as running `openshell sandbox delete <sandbox-name>` yourself. +- and proceeds to delete it and clear the matching recovery record. This matches the sandbox-deletion result of running `openshell sandbox delete <sandbox-name>` yourself, but the manual command does not clear the recovery record.🤖 Prompt for AI Agents
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In `@docs/reference/commands.mdx`:
- Line 368: Update the destroy documentation paragraph to state that matching
identities allow destroy to delete the exact retained sandbox, equivalent only
to running openshell sandbox delete <sandbox-name> for sandbox deletion;
do not claim that manual deletion also clears the NemoClaw recovery record, and
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…ocs fix Re-prove the retained sandbox's OpenShell identity fingerprint immediately before the delete command fires, not just during preflight, so a same-name replacement sandbox created in between cannot be deleted under the retained recovery record's authority. Also fixes a self-contradictory docs sentence that implied manual `openshell sandbox delete` clears the recovery record. Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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…efactor Main moved inspectOpenShellSandboxIdentityFingerprint's transport from runtime.captureResolvedOpenshell to sandbox-identity-cli's captureSanitizedResolvedOpenshell, and it binds that capture function by value at module load time rather than through a live namespace lookup. The harness now spies on the new capture function and force-refreshes the modules that bind it before each test, so the #10863 delete-boundary re-check exercises the mock instead of the real OpenShell binary. Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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In `@test/helpers/destroy-flow-test-harness.ts`:
- Around line 241-242: Update the module-cache cleanup in the destroy-flow test
harness to also delete the cached ./destroy-preflight.js module alongside the
sandbox identity CLI and destroy execution modules, ensuring destroySandbox
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…e cache Keeps the harness's forced module refresh consistent across every module in the destroy identity-check chain, so a future preflight change that binds a capture function by value (as sandbox-identity-cli.js does today) can't silently pick up a stale reference from an earlier test's harness instance. Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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Requesting changes because the automatic retained-sandbox deletion is not identity-bound at the authoritative mutation boundary.
The PR correctly compares the retained record’s immutable OpenShell identity with the live sandbox during preflight and rechecks it in executeSandboxDestroy. However, the effect still ends with openshell sandbox delete <name>. Another OpenShell client can delete identity A and create identity B under the same mutable name after NemoClaw’s final identity read but before OpenShell processes the delete. The command can then delete B even though B is not authorized by the retained recovery record.
A NemoClaw lifecycle lock and a read immediately before deletion narrow this TOCTOU window but cannot close it: they do not serialize other OpenShell clients or atomically bind the delete to the observed ID. The exact-head PR Review Advisor independently identifies this as a trust blocker.
Required direction:
- Keep automatic deletion of a live retained sandbox fail-closed until OpenShell exposes an atomic conditional delete, such as deletion by canonical sandbox reference with an expected immutable ID or resource version.
- Scope this PR to accurate recovery behavior and gateway-qualified operator guidance if that upstream primitive is unavailable. Do not claim that a mutable-name manual deletion is identity-safe.
- Track the required OpenShell compare-and-delete capability. OpenShell #3050 is related because it unifies sandbox references, but the requirement must explicitly include conditional mutation against immutable identity/version.
- Fix the remaining exact-head advisor findings:
- the replacement-race test currently fails at the first identity check and does not exercise replacement after the final read;
- manual inspection/deletion commands must include the retained gateway;
- documentation must not call manual deletion safe without authoritative identity evidence;
- identity-read failure output and documentation must agree;
- stale onboarding recovery messages must be updated consistently.
The intended user recovery is valid, but NemoClaw cannot safely convert an observation into mutable-name deletion authority without support from the OpenShell mutation boundary.
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…andbox A maintainer review found that even the delete-boundary identity re-check cannot close the race: OpenShell has no atomic delete-by-identity primitive, so another OpenShell client can still replace the retained sandbox under the same mutable name between NemoClaw's last identity read and OpenShell processing the delete. Automatic deletion of a live retained sandbox is now always fail-closed, regardless of identity match, with guidance pointing to the owner-scoped 'openshell sandbox delete -g <gateway> <name>' command for the operator to run themselves after independently confirming identity. Removes the now-unnecessary identity-proof machinery (destroy-preflight.ts's presentSandboxIdentityFingerprint, destroy-execution.ts's expectedRetainedSandboxIdentity re-check, and the test harness mocking it required) since it no longer gates any auto-delete decision. Also brings the onboarding-cancel-time recovery guidance (cancel-rollback.ts) in line: it no longer points to a nonexistent "OpenShell administrator identity-bound removal procedure" and instead tells the operator to rerun destroy (which now prints the exact manual command) or inspect 'openshell sandbox list -o json' themselves when no identity fingerprint was ever recorded. Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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@jyaunches Thanks for the review — reworked per your feedback in commit c997d3f.
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Follow-up: filed NVIDIA/OpenShell#3210 to track the atomic delete-by-identity capability gap discussed above, rather than relying on #3050 (whose stated scope doesn't currently call out atomic/conditional delete semantics). |
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Re-reviewed the latest PR commit 6beb7fe. The original mutable-name deletion concern is resolved: live and unknown retained sandboxes fail closed before mutation, identity-free records cannot authorize residual-container deletion, and confirmed absence is required for reconciliation. All nine PR Review Advisor specialists completed with no required changes, and all current checks pass.
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Summary
Interrupting onboarding after sandbox creation can leave a retained sandbox. This PR keeps every live or indeterminate retained sandbox fail-closed because OpenShell cannot bind deletion to immutable identity. It lets
destroyreconcile one retained record, including a record without a fingerprint, only after the owning gateway confirms absence and all residual resources have sufficient identity authority.Related to #10863. Live retained-sandbox removal remains blocked on NVIDIA/OpenShell#3210.
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present,absent, andunknownstates through destroy preflight.Type of Change
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npm run test:changedpasses; one unrelated command-adapter timeout passed on isolated retry.npm run typecheck:clipasses.npm run docspasses.Security and Recovery Contract
OpenShell exposes deletion by mutable sandbox name and does not expose atomic conditional deletion by immutable sandbox identity or resource version. Therefore, identity inspection is diagnostic only. A present or unknown retained sandbox remains blocked. Confirmed absence permits only identity-qualified residual cleanup and exact recovery-record retirement.
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Signed-off-by: Yanyun Liao yanyunl@nvidia.com