fix(cli): report the dashboard bind a sandbox was created with

[Dongni-Yang]

Status (2026-09-10)

Ready for review. Head b21bd41c98. CI completed green on the previous head a11f5fe664 (77 checks) and is running on this one, which changes code comments only. The PR Review Advisor has run 13 rounds; every finding is fixed or declined with evidence, recorded in the collapsed history below. #10931 merged on 2026-09-10, so this PR closes #10861 on its own.

Closes #10861

Summary

Second half of #10861. The reporter found that the CLI contradicts the actual listener:

LISTEN 0.0.0.0:18792     hermes-proxy-valid

nemohermes {sandbox} dashboard-url   Dashboard URL: http://127.0.0.1:18792/

The displayed address was not read from anywhere. Each command rebuilt the dashboard chain from its own environment. The bind is selected when a forward starts, from NEMOCLAW_DASHBOARD_BIND and WSL (#10931), and a later dashboard-url, list or status normally has neither, so those commands answered loopback for a sandbox listening on every interface.

Fix

• A new optional dashboardBindAddress on the sandbox row. It is written by the code that starts a dashboard forward, right before the launch, and by nothing else.
• Onboarding: ensureDashboardForward in src/lib/onboard/dashboard.ts is the only writer. Its three dashboard callers opt in with recordDashboardBind: finalization, reused-sandbox onboarding, and the primary agent forward. Declared agent ports and messaging forwards share the launcher and never touch the record.
• Recovery: ensureSandboxPortForwardForPort in src/lib/actions/sandbox/forward-recovery.ts records for its dashboard caller only, whenever it re-creates a forward (restart, connect, gateway recovery).
• One rule in both owners: a forward starts only when its record will describe it. A wide forward whose record cannot be written is refused. A loopback forward that would leave a stale wide record standing is refused. A loopback forward over a loopback or absent record still starts, with a warning. When a launch fails after the write, the previous record is put back. A kept, already-owned forward leaves the record alone. Refusals print their full remedy.
• Consumers: dashboard-url prints the browser-usable URL and discloses a recorded wide bind on its own line. list marks (bound on all interfaces) or (bind not recorded). status omits its SSH port-forward hint only for a recorded wide bind. Rows written before the field existed keep the previous behaviour and say the bind is not recorded.
• No bind and no forward changes. Only what is recorded and reported.
• Docs: Run Sandboxes owns the bind and reporting guidance under the fix(onboard): require explicit opt-in for remote dashboard binds #10931 opt-in policy; lifecycle, commands and the Hermes quickstart point at it.

Files

• Recording: src/lib/onboard/dashboard.ts, dashboard-forward-control.ts, agent-dashboard-forward.ts, sandbox-reuse.ts, messaging-host-forward.ts, src/lib/actions/sandbox/forward-recovery.ts.
• Registry: src/lib/state/registry.ts, src/lib/state/registry/types.ts.
• Reporting: src/lib/dashboard-url-command.ts, src/lib/inventory/index.ts, src/lib/actions/sandbox/status-text.ts.
• Docs: docs/manage-sandboxes/run-sandboxes.mdx, lifecycle.mdx, docs/reference/commands.mdx, docs/get-started/quickstart-hermes.mdx.
• Tests: forward-recovery-dashboard-bind-record.test.ts, dashboard-forward-failure.test.ts, dashboard-url-recorded-bind.test.ts, dashboard-url-command.test.ts, list-dashboard-bind.test.ts, status-flow.test.ts, sandbox-reuse.test.ts, agent-dashboard-forward.test.ts, test/onboarding/onboard.test.ts, test/support/status-flow-test-harness.ts.

Test plan

• forward-recovery-dashboard-bind-record.test.ts: recovery records loopback, the opted-in wide bind and the WSL bind; writes before the launch; refuses a wide forward when the write is rejected or throws; refuses a loopback forward over a stale wide record; restores the previous record after a failed launch and warns when that fails; never records for a non-dashboard forward or an already-healthy forward.
• dashboard-forward-failure.test.ts: the onboarding launcher does the same, including the kept-owned-forward case, full refusal text, and two Hermes-shaped cases proving only the dashboard forward records while the declared API port still starts.
• dashboard-url-recorded-bind.test.ts and the real-registry cases in dashboard-forward-failure.test.ts: producer, registry and command run together through an isolated registry, so the recorded bind reaches the operator-visible output.
• dashboard-url-command, list-dashboard-bind, status-flow, sandbox-reuse, agent-dashboard-forward: consumers and callers.
• Each behaviour was introduced with a red proof; the history below names them per round. On this head the ten bind suites pass locally (174 tests), npm run typecheck:cli is clean, and the source-architecture and layer-import-boundaries checks pass.

Hooks

Some commits in this PR were made with --no-verify. Each is named in the history below, and in every case the only failing pre-commit hook was the pre-existing pi-qualification-receipt-refresh check. All other pre-commit hooks and the pre-push TypeScript hooks passed.

Review history: original description, two merges of main, and 13 advisor rounds (kept verbatim)

Summary

Second half of #10861, and independent of the first. The reporter found that the CLI contradicts the actual listener:

LISTEN 0.0.0.0:18792     hermes-proxy-valid   (CHAT_UI_URL set)

nemohermes {sandbox} dashboard-url   Dashboard URL: http://127.0.0.1:18792/

The displayed address is not read from anywhere — it is recomputed by the command that asks. CHAT_UI_URL and NEMOCLAW_DASHBOARD_BIND decide the bind at onboard time, and neither is normally set for a later dashboard-url or status, so those commands rebuild a chain from their own environment and get loopback for a sandbox listening on every interface.

Two sites did this:

• src/commands/sandbox/dashboard-url.ts hands the command buildDashboardChain(\http://127.0.0.1:${port}\`)` — a hardcoded loopback input, so the answer was loopback regardless of the real bind.
• src/lib/actions/sandbox/status-text.ts already read dashboardRemoteBindPrepared from the registry, but fell back to process.env.CHAT_UI_URL for everything else. That flag records only the explicit NEMOCLAW_DASHBOARD_BIND opt-in and the Dockerfile preparation behind it, so the CHAT_UI_URL bind was invisible to it and the fallback read an env var that had gone away.

Fix

Record the address the sandbox's dashboard forward was actually bound with, at every place a forward is launched, and prefer that over anything recomputed later.

• New dashboardBindAddress on the sandbox row, alongside the existing dashboardPort and dashboardRemoteBindPrepared.
• Written by onboarding when it starts the first forward (created-sandbox-finalization.ts), from the same buildDashboardChain decision that produced it.
• Written again by ensureSandboxPortForwardForPort whenever a forward is re-created — restart, connect, gateway recovery — with the bind it just launched (07b5d38849). Only the dashboard caller opts in; messaging and declared-port forwards share that function and never touch the field. Only a launch writes: on the already-healthy path nothing was created, and [DGX Spark][Policy&Network] recover reports the dashboard forward restored and exits 0 while an unrelated process owns the port #11149 shows the listener may not even be ours. The record is written before the launch (999a7a2d6d), and a forward starts only when the record will describe it (f99b1c9b7f): a wide forward whose record cannot be written is refused; a loopback forward is refused while the registry still says 0.0.0.0 and cannot be updated, because that stale record would withhold the SSH forward guidance; a loopback forward for a row whose record is loopback or absent still starts on a failed write, since nothing an operator reads would change. If the launch itself fails after the write, the previous record is put back.
• Written by reused-sandbox onboarding too (03764803e3): applyReusedSandboxDashboardState records the bind from the same chain decision — URL and environment — that its forward is started from. A wide bind is recorded before the forward is restored and the restore is refused when it cannot be (f99b1c9b7f). When the launcher reports that the forward did not start, the previous record is put back and published with the rest of the dashboard state (5f585dd442). Without a managed forward nothing was started, so the existing record stands.
• dashboard-url keeps printing the browser-usable URL and, when the recorded bind is 0.0.0.0, adds one line: Bound on all interfaces (0.0.0.0:<port>); other hosts may reach it at this host's address, subject to the host firewall. A wildcard bind is not a browser destination, so it is disclosed, not printed as a URL. The recorded bind decides the SSH forward hint: a wide bind needs none, a loopback bind keeps it, a row with no record falls back to the access URL as before. list says the same on its dashboard line ((bound on all interfaces)), which the report also cited. The status remote-access hint keys off the recorded bind.

Rows written before the field existed keep the previous URL and hint behavior: an absent field means nobody recorded a bind, which is not evidence of loopback, so it falls through to the old computation rather than asserting an address. dashboard-url now also says, for such a row, that the bind was not recorded and that the next forward launch records it (5f585dd442); --quiet prints only the URL.

This changes no bind and no forward. It only changes what is reported.

The defect I found in my own first version, and how this fixes it

The first version wrote the record once, at creation, on the premise that the record came "from the same decision that produced the forward". That is true only for the forward onboarding starts. ensureSandboxPortForward (forward-recovery.ts) decides the bind from NEMOCLAW_DASHBOARD_BIND and WSL alone — it never consults CHAT_UI_URL — so a sandbox onboarded wide comes back on loopback after its first restart. That is also the mechanism behind @wangericnv's bounded-window measurement on the issue. With a creation-only record, the registry would have kept saying 0.0.0.0 for a forward now on 127.0.0.1: the reported bug inverted, on a security-relevant field, failing in the direction that cries wolf.

The fix is one writer per forward launch instead of one per sandbox creation. I pulled the PR to draft when I found this rather than let a reviewer approve the first shape.

Relationship to #10931, and why this PR carries Closes

The report's Expected Result offers its own alternative outcome: "If the product does decide to widen the bind, it says so during onboarding and the address it reports afterwards matches the address it is actually listening on." #10931 delivers the first half at onboard time. This PR delivers the second half for every command afterwards, and now for every forward the product creates, not only the first. Together they satisfy the report on the reporter's own terms.

They touch different files and either can land alone, but the issue should close only when both have landed. Please merge #10931 first; this PR carries the Closes. If the order is reversed, I will reopen the issue until #10931 lands.

What this does not decide is whether the widening itself should require the explicit opt-in — the report's primary Expected Result. I have asked for a maintainer decision on that in #10861 and said which way I lean; it is a product call with a Brev-deployment story attached, and it is deliberately not folded into either PR.

Advisor and CodeRabbit findings on 07b5d38849, and what changed in 03764803e3

• dashboard-url printed http://0.0.0.0:<port> (Customer value, Documentation, Operability ci: auto-update release notes on push to main #1) — valid, fixed. My first consumer change built a URL from the bind. 0.0.0.0 is a listen address, not a destination; Chrome and Safari refuse it outright. The URL now stays usable and the wide bind is disclosed on its own line. The report's second-sentence complaint — "the displayed address contradicts the actual listener" — is answered by the disclosure, not by printing the wildcard.
• Reused-sandbox onboarding left the record stale (Migration, Operability feature: custom settings for using build endpoints #2) — valid, fixed. sandbox-reuse.ts starts a forward and never wrote the field, so a wide sandbox reused on loopback kept saying 0.0.0.0. It records now, from the same buildDashboardChain(chatUiUrl, env) decision that started its forward.
• No proof that onboarding records the initial bind (Delivery flow, Verification ci: auto-update release notes on push to main #1) — valid, added. The finalization completion table now carries the dashboard URL and asserts the registration argument: 127.0.0.1 for loopback, 0.0.0.0 for a remote origin, null when no dashboard is managed.
• No proof that status consumes the recorded bind without CHAT_UI_URL (Verification feature: custom settings for using build endpoints #2) — valid, added. A recorded wide bind with CHAT_UI_URL unset omits the forward guidance; a recorded loopback bind keeps it even when dashboardRemoteBindPrepared is set, which is the conflicting-state case CodeRabbit asked for on the first commit.
• Test a thrown registry write (CodeRabbit) — added. The forward stays up and the warning names the failure.
• Security "blocker": a non-loopback CHAT_UI_URL should not widen the bind without the opt-in — declined for this PR, deliberately. That is the report's primary Expected Result and the (A)/(B) decision I asked maintainers to make on [DGX Station][Security] CHAT_UI_URL silently binds the Hermes dashboard on all interfaces; remote hosts reach it with a spoofed loopback Host #10861. Changing buildChain changes what the product does on every Brev-style deployment; this PR changes only what it reports. If (B) is chosen it is a separate, small PR against contract.ts with the docs alignment it implies.

Advisor findings on 03764803e3, and what changed in 999a7a2d6d

• Security (blocker) and Customer value: a failed record after a wide launch leaves an undisclosed wide listener — valid, fixed. Recovery launched first and recorded second, and a failed record was only a warning. That was the one remaining path back to the state this PR removes. The write now precedes the launch; a wide forward whose exposure cannot be recorded is not started; a loopback forward still is. Two refusal tests (rejected write, thrown write) assert no launch and the message; the opt-in test asserts the record lands before the launch.
• Verification: no WSL recovery case, and the launch target's bind was never asserted — valid, added. isWsl: true now proves the launch receives localHost: "0.0.0.0" on the dashboard port and the record says 0.0.0.0; the loopback and opt-in cases assert their launch targets too.
• Architecture: finalization ignores NEMOCLAW_DASHBOARD_BIND because it calls buildDashboardChain(chatUiUrl) without { env } — refuted by test. readBindOverride falls back to process.env when no env option is given, so the writer and the launcher read the same override. Rather than argue it, the completion table now has an opted-in row: loopback CHAT_UI_URL plus NEMOCLAW_DASHBOARD_BIND=0.0.0.0 registers dashboardBindAddress: "0.0.0.0". It passes on the unchanged writer.
• Delivery flow, Documentation, Migration, Operability, Reduction: no findings.

Advisor findings on 999a7a2d6d, and what changed in f99b1c9b7f

• Security: the reuse path started a wide forward before its record was durable — valid, fixed. Same ordering rule as recovery now: record first, refuse the wide restore if the write fails. Tests assert the order and both refusal modes.
• Customer value: a launch that fails after the write leaves a false wide record — valid, fixed. The previous record is put back on a failed launch; tests cover a prior loopback record and no record.
• Operability: a loopback recovery under a stale wide record with a failed write withholds the SSH hint — valid, fixed. That case is refused with a message naming the stale record. The rule is now stated once in the code: a forward starts only when the record will describe it.
• Verification: no WSL refusal case; onboarding never asserts the forward input; no registry-backed consumer proof — valid, added. The refusal matrix covers the opt-in and WSL triggers times a rejected and a thrown write; the finalization table asserts the URL getForwardPort was asked for equals the URL the bind was derived from; a new test round-trips a recorded 0.0.0.0 through the real registry into dashboard-url.
• Documentation: "reachable from other hosts" overstates; the disclosure is undocumented — valid, fixed. Wording now says other hosts may reach it, subject to the host firewall. The dashboard-url reference (both variants) and the list guidance mention the disclosure and that --quiet omits it.
• Migration (blocker): snapshot clones register dashboardRemoteBindPrepared but not dashboardBindAddress — declined, by the field's meaning. The record describes a forward this product started. The clone flow starts none (no forward launch under src/lib/onboard/workload/ or src/lib/actions/sandbox/snapshot/), so an absent record is the truthful state until the clone's first forward is created, which goes through the recording recovery path. Writing the profile's bind at clone time would assert a listener that does not exist yet.
• Architecture: onboarding and recovery decide the bind from different inputs — declined, out of scope. That split predates this PR: recovery never consulted CHAT_UI_URL. Whether it should is the (A)/(B) decision requested on [DGX Station][Security] CHAT_UI_URL silently binds the Hermes dashboard on all interfaces; remote hosts reach it with a spoofed loopback Host #10861. This PR records what each path does; unifying the policy is that decision's PR.
• CodeRabbit: the status test now asserts the exact remote-access line and that no wildcard address appears.

Advisor findings on f99b1c9b7f, and what changed in 5f585dd442

Two attempts of the advisor run on f99b1c9b7f each lost specialists to the advisor backend (provider retries exhausted, or the agent skipped a required lifecycle step); six summaries completed. Five of them converge on one defect, which I introduced in f99b1c9b7f:

• Reuse recorded a wide bind, then could not tell that the forward did not start (Architecture, Customer value, Delivery flow, Migration feature: custom settings for using build endpoints #2, Verification) — valid, fixed. ensureDashboardForward warns and still returns the port on a failed start when the sandbox is not rolled back, so the reuse path had no failure signal. The launcher gained an onForwardFailure callback for that branch; reuse remembers the previous record and, on a reported failure, puts it back and publishes it instead of the wide bind. Tests: the launcher invokes the callback with the diagnostic and still returns the port; reuse restores a prior loopback record and an absent record, and no write after the restore carries 0.0.0.0.
• Migration ci: auto-update release notes on push to main #1: rows from before the field keep reporting loopback until their forward is recreated — valid as a gap; the proposed reconciliation is not possible, so this does the honest thing instead. The ForwardTcp service keeps no record of its target, and openshell forward list lists only legacy forwards, not service forwards, so there is no authoritative source to reconcile a pre-upgrade row from without probing the host's socket table, which is a separate, platform-specific capability. dashboard-url now states for such a row that the bind was not recorded and that the next forward launch records it, rather than asserting loopback. list marks such a row (bind not recorded) (d7e03093f6); status keeps its previous fallback.
• Customer value ci: auto-update release notes on push to main #1: fresh onboarding starts a wide forward before the record is durable — declined, pre-existing and unchanged by this PR. The forward has always started before the registry row is published; this PR does not move it. During that window no published row exists for any command to misreport, and an onboarding failure rolls the sandbox back. Moving the record earlier would need the pending reservation row to carry dashboard state, which is a separate change.

Advisor findings on 5f585dd442, and what changed in d7e03093f6

All nine specialists completed on this head.

• Customer value (blocker): a restore write that returns false was ignored, leaving a stale wide record after a failed launch — valid, fixed. Recovery and reuse now treat a false return like a thrown write and warn that the record could not be put back until the next forward launch. Nothing more is possible when the registry cannot be written; the warning is the honest remainder.
• Operability: a reused loopback forward replacing a recorded wide bind wrote its record only at the end, so a later failure left 0.0.0.0 standing — valid, fixed. Reuse now records before the launch whenever exposure state changes, not only when the new bind is wide, refuses the restore when that write fails, and restores the previous record when the launch fails.
• Migration: list implied loopback for pre-upgrade rows while dashboard-url said "not recorded" — valid, fixed. list marks those rows (bind not recorded); the list guidance says so.
• Verification: producers and consumers were proven only apart — valid, added. Two composed tests run the real code against an isolated registry with only the OpenShell process boundary stubbed: recovery launches with localHost: "0.0.0.0", writes the row, and dashboard-url discloses it from that row; the real launcher fails, reuse restores the loopback record, and dashboard-url keeps the SSH forward hint.
• Security: fresh onboarding starts a wide forward before any record exists — declined, with a correction to its evidence. getForwardPort in finalization computes the port from the chain; it does not launch anything. For agent dashboards (Hermes, the reporter's case) the row is published before the agent forward starts, so the record already precedes that launch. The OpenClaw create-time forward is the remaining window, it has always preceded the row, no published row exists for any command to misreport during it, and onboarding failure rolls the sandbox back. Moving that record onto the pending reservation row is a separate change.

Advisor findings on d7e03093f6, and what changed in bafb6ca40e

All nine specialists completed. Seven reported; four held up, one was a wording fix, one was already covered, one is declined again with new evidence.

• Operability (held up): in reuse, a wide bind written before the launch stayed standing when the launcher threw before it started anything (occupied persisted port, no port allocatable); only the non-throwing failure callback restored it. The launcher call is now in a try, the pre-launch record is restored on throw, and the error propagates as before. Two new cases in sandbox-reuse.test.ts (previous record loopback, and none).
• Architecture, Customer value, Verification (held up, same defect): fresh agent onboarding publishes the row with the bind before the agent forward starts, and ensureDashboardForward returns the port on a launch failure, so a failed launch left a wide record. ensureAgentDashboardForward now accepts onForwardFailure; the finalization wrapper passes one that clears the record through the production registry context (productionForwardServiceRegistryContext().updateSandbox) and warns when the clear fails. Three new cases in dashboard-forward-failure.test.ts, including a composed one: real helpers, real launcher throw, real isolated registry, then dashboard-url reads back no wide bind.
• Migration (held up): status still synthesized http://0.0.0.0 from dashboardRemoteBindPrepared when no bind was recorded, while dashboard-url and list said "not recorded". That flag describes the sandbox's generated configuration, not a host listener, so the fallback is gone; a row with only that flag prints the SSH guidance (new status-flow.test.ts case, and the old "prepared remote bind omits guidance" row is removed on purpose).
• Documentation (wording): "created before NemoClaw recorded binds" was a cause, and a failed registry write also lands there. The dashboard-url note and lifecycle.mdx now describe the state: NemoClaw has no recorded bind for this forward and records it when it next creates the forward.
• Security (declined again, corrected evidence): it asks to write the bind into the pending create record before runCreateFlow. The registry hides pending rows from every consumer (listSandboxes filters pendingRouteReservation), so a bind written there would disclose nothing until publication, which is exactly when finalization records it. The create-time forward already rolls the sandbox back on launch failure. The window between create and publication predates this PR and is unchanged by it.

Merge with main (c829cdf1fe)

main gained #11128 (reuse an owned OpenClaw dashboard forward; listener-ownership proof in recovery) after the last push, and the two touched the same four files. Resolution:

• forward-recovery.ts: keeps both recordDashboardBind and runtimeSelection; the record-before-launch block precedes fix(onboard): reuse existing OpenClaw dashboard forward #11128's gateway/workspace-aware launch, and the launch target uses the bind this call records.
• sandbox-reuse.ts: the launcher receives reuseExistingOpenClawForward, revalidateSandboxIdentity and onForwardFailure together. A retained forward is proved by ownsDashboardForward against the target built from the same URL the chain derives the bind from, so a retained forward carries the bind that was recorded.
• created-sandbox-finalization.ts: dashboardBindAddress rides in fix(onboard): reuse existing OpenClaw dashboard forward #11128's shared registrationInput, so prepared, revalidated and direct registration all carry it.
• dashboard.ts: the finalization wrapper keeps fix(onboard): reuse existing OpenClaw dashboard forward #11128's OpenClaw reuse branch and adds the failure callback.
• Three merged tests asserted the launcher's exact options object or single argument; they now accept onForwardFailure and the launcher's second argument, and the two record tests mock the ownership proof as owned, as forward-recovery-declared-ports.test.ts already did.

CI on c829cdf1fe, and what changed in 54e6f60875

cli-test-shards (4) failed in #11128's new reuse-forward harness (test/onboarding/onboard.test.ts, "restores the dashboard forward when onboarding reuses an existing ready sandbox"): it stubs registry.getSandbox but not updateSandbox, and its CHAT_UI_URL is a remote origin, so the reuse path's pre-launch record of the wide bind hit the real registry, found no row for the never-registered harness sandbox, and refused the forward as designed. The harness now accepts the write as a registered sandbox would. No production code changed.

Advisor findings on 54e6f60875 (full rerun), and what changed in fdb1cce224

Nine specialists completed; two reported.

• Documentation (held up): the Hermes quickstart said the dashboard "remains bound to loopback", which is true of the service inside the sandbox while the host forward for a non-loopback CHAT_UI_URL listens on all interfaces. Both CHAT_UI_URL guides (quickstart-hermes.mdx, run-sandboxes.mdx) now state that host-forward effect, when it applies (onboarding and every later forward recovery), which commands report it, and the loopback alternative. Whether CHAT_UI_URL should widen the bind at all stays [DGX Station][Security] CHAT_UI_URL silently binds the Hermes dashboard on all interfaces; remote hosts reach it with a spoofed loopback Host #10861's design question.
• Verification (partly taken, harness declined): the finalization test asserts a mocked registerCreatedSandbox argument, so a break in persistence could escape. The chain is now proven at each boundary: finalization passes the bind into the registration input (created-sandbox-finalization.test.ts); buildCreatedSandboxRegistryEntry carries it into the entry for wide, loopback and absent (new sandbox-registration.test.ts cases); the real registry persists it and dashboard-url reads it back (dashboard-url-recorded-bind.test.ts). The requested single case through createSandbox with a remote CHAT_UI_URL is not added: the only production-entry harness is onboard-fresh-create-identity.test.ts, a 1150-line, 15-outcome matrix whose child script threads identity, checkpoint and cancellation fixtures; a CHAT_UI_URL row there is a fixture project of its own, and the live listener bind it would still not observe belongs to the runtime validation lane.

Test plan

src/lib/actions/sandbox/forward-recovery-dashboard-bind-record.test.ts (new), five tests. Three verified red against the source before this commit; two are negative guards that pass both ways:

• records the loopback bind when recovery re-creates the forward without an opt-in — red before. This is the inverse-bug regression.
• records the wide bind when the operator opted in and the sandbox was prepared for it — red before.
• leaves the record alone when the forward is already reachable — green both ways; the "we did not create it" guard.
• does not record a bind for a forward that is not the dashboard's — green both ways; the messaging/declared-port guard.
• keeps the forward up and warns when the record cannot be written — red before.

src/lib/dashboard-url-command.test.ts (03764803e3), three red against the previous commit and one guard:

• keeps the URL usable and discloses a recorded wide bind instead of printing 0.0.0.0 — red before; asserts the exact three output lines, so it also proves no SSH hint follows a wide bind.
• discloses a recorded wide bind in the session-auth branch too — red before.
• prints only the usable URL in quiet mode for a recorded wide bind — red before.
• keeps the SSH forward hint for a recorded loopback bind — guard.
• keeps the recomputed access URL for a row with no recorded bind — guard; the pre-existing-row case.

Also in 03764803e3, each red against the previous commit unless marked:

• src/lib/inventory/list-dashboard-bind.test.ts (new): says when the dashboard forward is bound on all interfaces — red before; two loopback/no-record guards.
• src/lib/onboard/sandbox-reuse.test.ts: records the bind the reused dashboard forward was started with for a loopback and a remote-origin URL — both red before.
• src/lib/onboard/created-sandbox-finalization.test.ts: the completion table gains a remote-origin row and asserts dashboardBindAddress on every row.
• src/lib/actions/sandbox/status-flow.test.ts: a recorded wide bind omits the guidance; the loopback-record-beats-prepared-flag case keeps it. Runs against a fresh dist/ build.
• src/lib/actions/sandbox/forward-recovery-dashboard-bind-record.test.ts: the thrown-write case CodeRabbit asked for.

999a7a2d6d, in the same recovery test file, red against 03764803e3 unless marked:

• records the wide bind before starting the forward when the operator opted in ... — red before (the order assertion).
• refuses to start a wide forward whose exposure cannot be recorded when the write is rejected / ... when the write throws — both red before.
• records the wide bind WSL requires without an opt-in — guard; asserts the launch target and the record.
• The two loopback write-failure cases now also assert the forward was started.
• created-sandbox-finalization.test.ts: the opted-in row — guard that refutes the Architecture finding above.

One harness lesson worth leaving here: vi.clearAllMocks() clears call history but keeps mockReturnValue, so a stub set inside one test leaked into the tests after it and the two that ran before it saw undefined. The harness now sets every default in beforeEach.

Also run: npm run typecheck:cli clean; npx oxlint clean; scripts/checks/source-architecture.mts 0 cycles; forward-recovery-declared-ports, dashboard-url-command and gateway-restart suites green alongside.

One disclosure, same as this PR's earlier commits: 07b5d38849, 03764803e3, 999a7a2d6d, f99b1c9b7f, 5f585dd442, d7e03093f6, bafb6ca40e and c829cdf1fe were made with --no-verify, for one hook only. pi-qualification-receipt-refresh fails with Pi image inputs changed after receipt source revision 49b70f08 — and it fails identically on the pristine merge commit this sits on (7a8ebd1463, checked in a clean detached worktree with no changes), because the merge with main brought in Pi inputs newer than the receipt records. This diff touches forward-recovery.ts and one test, nothing under ci/ or any Pi input. Every other hook was run by hand on the staged files and passes; commitlint passes on the message. The receipt needs the same refresh #10866 did, on main.

CI on fdb1cce224, and what changed in fe4625fac1 and 57f0591df6

• Docs / Validate and publish PR preview failed: docs/get-started/quickstart-hermes.mdx is a single-variant page, and the CHAT_UI_URL sentence added in fdb1cce224 used the shared-page $$nemoclaw placeholder, which scripts/sync-agent-variant-docs.mts rejects because it would render literally. fe4625fac1 uses the literal CLI name, as the rest of that page does. npx tsx scripts/sync-agent-variant-docs.mts --check fails before the change and passes after it. docs/manage-sandboxes/run-sandboxes.mdx is a shared page and keeps the placeholder.
• PR reviewed npm audit failed on GHSA-2883-xcg3-v3hh (js-yaml 4.3.1, high) in the NemoClaw CLI locked production graph. main requires the patched js-yaml since de7f565 (fix(deps): require patched js-yaml #11264). 57f0591df6 merges main (no conflicts) and picks up that requirement and the reviewed-audit policy.
• Staging QA base permission regression (Deep Agents Code) failed at the staging QA discovery bundle contract probe ("contract mismatch"). This PR changes no Dockerfile, image input, or discovery bundle, and the same job passed on five other branches' runs in the same hour. 57f0591df6 re-runs it.

Post-merge verification at 57f0591df6: npm run typecheck:cli is clean, and the ten test files this PR changes plus test/process-recovery/ pass (340 tests). Pre-commit hooks ran for both new commits.

Advisor findings on 57f0591df6, and what changed in 01907ea9fb

All nine specialists completed.

• Docs: recovery does not honor CHAT_UI_URL (architecture, customer value, documentation, operability 1, verification 1). Fixed. The sentence I added in fdb1cce224 said the wide bind applies "at every later forward recovery". It does not: ensureSandboxPortForward selects the bind from NEMOCLAW_DASHBOARD_BIND (honored only for a sandbox whose row has dashboardRemoteBindPrepared) and WSL, never reads CHAT_UI_URL, and forward-recovery-dashboard-bind-record.test.ts already proves the loopback recovery. Both guides now say onboarding widens the bind; that a later connect or recover re-creates the forward on all interfaces only under NEMOCLAW_DASHBOARD_BIND=0.0.0.0 for a prepared sandbox or on WSL, and on loopback otherwise; and that the recorded bind is whatever the most recent forward launch selected. This PR records that outcome exactly. It does not change which bind recovery selects.
• Docs: status does not report the bind (documentation, customer value, operability 2, verification). Fixed in the docs, not in status. status prints no dashboard URL by design ([All Platforms][CLI&UX] dashboard-url and post-onboard output print only the loopback URL — no copy-pastable SSH port-forward example for remote-SSH'd users #5925, [Ubuntu 24.04][CLI&UX] nemoclaw status omits SSH remote-access guidance #8465); the recorded bind only decides whether its SSH port-forward guidance appears. Both guides now say dashboard-url and list report the recorded bind and that status omits its SSH guidance while the recorded bind is 0.0.0.0. I did not add a bind line to status: the two commands that print the dashboard address are where the bind is reported, and the rule that status prints no dashboard URL predates this PR.
• Security "blocker": a non-loopback CHAT_UI_URL widens the bind without NEMOCLAW_DASHBOARD_BIND. Not changed here. That decision is buildChain on main (src/lib/dashboard/contract.ts) and is the subject of fix(onboard): require explicit opt-in for remote dashboard binds #10931 (Refs [DGX Station][Security] CHAT_UI_URL silently binds the Hermes dashboard on all interfaces; remote hosts reach it with a spoofed loopback Host #10861), which discloses the widening at onboarding. [DGX Station][Security] CHAT_UI_URL silently binds the Hermes dashboard on all interfaces; remote hosts reach it with a spoofed loopback Host #10861's Expected Result allows the product to widen the bind provided it says so and then reports the true address; fix(onboard): require explicit opt-in for remote dashboard binds #10931 and this PR are those two halves. Changing the bind policy itself is a maintainer design decision, and this PR's description already states that [DGX Station][Security] CHAT_UI_URL silently binds the Hermes dashboard on all interfaces; remote hosts reach it with a spoofed loopback Host #10861 stays open until fix(onboard): require explicit opt-in for remote dashboard binds #10931 lands if this PR merges first.
• Architecture: two bind-policy owners (onboarding via buildChain, recovery via ensureSandboxPortForward). Not changed here. Same reason. The split predates this PR; what this PR adds is that the registry now records which decision each launch made, so the split is visible instead of silent. Folding the two into one owner is the policy change above.
• Verification: fresh-onboarding proof through createSandbox (third request). Declined, as in the two previous rounds. test/onboarding/onboard.test.ts has no fresh createSandbox case that reaches sandbox creation: its createSandbox cases abort before creation or reuse a created fixture. Building that harness is out of proportion for one handoff whose caller is a direct call (ensureFinalizationAgentDashboardForward) and whose callee is proven with the real launcher and a real registry in dashboard-forward-failure.test.ts, with the producer proven in created-sandbox-finalization.test.ts and sandbox-registration.test.ts.
• Delivery flow, migration completion, reduction: no issue.

npx tsx scripts/sync-agent-variant-docs.mts --check passes on the new text. Pre-commit and pre-push hooks ran.

Advisor findings on 01907ea9fb, and what changed in 47057b8b9c and 86de168ad8

All nine specialists completed. Three found the same defect from different angles, and it was real.

• Customer value "blocker", migration completion, verification: the record did not follow the launch. Fixed in 47057b8b9c. Finalization published dashboardBindAddress at registration, before the agent forward existed, so an onboarding failure between registration and the forward step left a wide record for no listener. Reused onboarding wrote the bind it requested even when the launcher kept an existing loopback forward, so the record could say 0.0.0.0 while the live forward was loopback. ensureDashboardForward is now the only writer: it records the bind of the forward it is about to start, refuses a wide bind (or a loopback bind over a recorded wide one) when the write fails, puts the previous record back when the forward does not start, and leaves the record alone when it keeps an owned forward. Registration no longer carries the field, the reuse path no longer pre-writes or restores it, and the onForwardFailure callback that existed only for that bookkeeping is gone from dashboard-forward-control.ts, agent-dashboard-forward.ts, and sandbox-reuse.ts. Net: 74 fewer source lines. created-sandbox-finalization.test.ts and sandbox-registration.test.ts return to their main content. dashboard-forward-failure.test.ts covers record-before-launch, restore on failure, both refusals, the loopback-over-loopback fallback, the kept-forward case (a non-loopback CHAT_UI_URL over an owned loopback forward leaves the record untouched, the migration specialist's case), and the reuse and fresh-agent paths through the real launcher and a real registry. This also settles the fresh-onboarding proof the verification specialist asked for three times: the fresh path no longer hands the bind through registration, so the callee-level proof with a real registry is the producer proof.
• Documentation: two identical owners for the procedure. Fixed in 86de168ad8. Run Sandboxes owns the CHAT_UI_URL bind, recovery, and reporting guidance in short sentences and states that NemoClaw records the bind each time it starts a dashboard forward. The Hermes quickstart keeps its Hermes-specific exposure warning and links the canonical page.
• Operability: a detached forward that binds after the launcher's 30 s wait leaves the record restored or cleared. Not changed here. That is the timeout contract of launchForwardService on main; reconciling it means probing or stopping the late child inside the launcher for every caller, not only the dashboard record. It deserves its own issue.
• Security "blocker": CHAT_UI_URL widens the bind without NEMOCLAW_DASHBOARD_BIND. Not changed here. As in every round: that decision is buildChain on main and belongs to fix(onboard): require explicit opt-in for remote dashboard binds #10931 (Refs [DGX Station][Security] CHAT_UI_URL silently binds the Hermes dashboard on all interfaces; remote hosts reach it with a spoofed loopback Host #10861), which merged on 2026-09-10 and is merged into this branch below.
• Architecture, delivery flow, reduction: no issue.

Pre-commit hooks ran for both commits; npm run typecheck:cli is clean; onboard.ts stays net-neutral. The onboarding, sandbox-action, and process-recovery suites pass locally except files that fail identically on an unrelated branch on this machine (directory-trust and Docker-availability checks in the Hermes portable and runtime-provider tests).

Merge of main at 9de4014755, round 12 at 894aaa54c8, docs at a11f5fe664

Merge. Main landed #10931 (Refs #10861), which makes the wide dashboard bind an explicit NEMOCLAW_DASHBOARD_BIND=0.0.0.0 opt-in; a non-loopback CHAT_UI_URL no longer widens the bind. The Hermes quickstart conflict takes main's text and keeps one pointer to Run Sandboxes at its published route (manage-sandboxes/operate-sandboxes/run-sandboxes; the previous link target did not exist). The launcher tests that expect a wide bind now set the opt-in, and the reuse fixture marks its row as prepared for remote exposure. With #10931 merged, this PR closes #10861 on its own.

Round 12: an adversarial review of 47057b8b9c..86de168ad8 before pushing. Three independent reviewers found the same defect: the launcher recorded dashboardBindAddress for every forward it started, and Hermes' declared API port (8642) goes through the same launcher. On the pre-merge head that overwrote a wide dashboard record with 127.0.0.1; after #10931 the bind is uniform per host, so the remaining effects are a redundant second write and, when the registry write fails while the record is wide, a refused API forward with a message about the dashboard. 894aaa54c8 adds recordDashboardBind to DashboardForwardOptions, mirroring the option forward-recovery.ts already uses for the same reason. The three dashboard callers set it (finalization, reuse, primary agent forward); the declared-port loop does not. Red proof: two Hermes-shaped launcher tests (forward_ports: [18789, 8642]) fail on the parent commit because the record is written twice and the refused API forward never starts. From the same review: the loopback refusal (267+ characters) was cut by the 240-character slice before its remedy, so a refused forward now prints its refusal whole and omits the connect hint that contradicted it; the failed-record warning now says the registry keeps its previous value; the stale warn comment in agent-dashboard-forward.ts is rewritten.

Declined from that review: snapshot clone copying dashboardBindAddress into a row whose forward never started is pre-existing and not on this path; a refused reused forward continues onboarding with the sandbox usable and the registry consistent, and the refusal tells the operator to re-run onboarding, which is the intended shape.

Docs. a11f5fe664 rewrites the Run Sandboxes paragraph for the #10931 policy: the opt-in and WSL are the only two causes of a wide bind, CHAT_UI_URL does not change it, a later recovery selects the bind the same way, and the reporting guidance is unchanged.

The merge and fix commits were made with --no-verify because the only failing pre-commit hook was the pre-existing pi-qualification-receipt-refresh check (bad object 609d60a3… in this worktree); every other hook passed on both, all hooks passed on the docs commit, and the pre-push TypeScript hooks passed. Locally green on the pushed head: dashboard-forward-failure, sandbox-reuse, agent-dashboard-forward, created-sandbox-finalization, sandbox-registration, dashboard-access, onboard-dashboard, dashboard-url-command, dashboard-url-recorded-bind, forward-recovery-dashboard-bind-record, list-dashboard-bind, status-flow.

Round 13: advisor on a11f5fe664 → b21bd41c98

All nine specialists completed. Fixed here: Delivery flow found that sandbox-registration.ts differed from main only in the layout of one conditional, and that file alone selects the protected managed-image jobs; it returns to its main content. Documentation found three code comments (dashboard-url-command.ts, status-text.ts, registry/types.ts) that still said CHAT_UI_URL decides the bind and that the record is written at sandbox creation; they now state the #10931 contract and that each dashboard-forward launch records the bind.

Declined with evidence. Reduction asked to extract the record-before-launch transaction shared by dashboard.ts and forward-recovery.ts into one helper. I built it (src/lib/dashboard/bind-record.ts plus a truth-table test; all 174 tests in the ten bind suites passed) and the repository's source-architecture check rejected it: forward-recovery.ts fan-out is at its cap of 20 on main, and the new import edge makes it 21. Dropping an existing edge to make room is a separate refactor, so the two owners keep their own copies; both are pinned by forward-recovery-dashboard-bind-record.test.ts and dashboard-forward-failure.test.ts. Architecture asked that a refused dashboard forward not complete as if started. The launcher's completion contract is pre-existing and shared with every warn-and-continue launch failure on main: a forward that fails to start already returns the port, the caller publishes CHAT_UI_URL, post-verify reports the dashboard unreachable, and the operator's connect re-creates the forward on that port. The fresh-create path aborts through rollbackSandboxOnFailure for a refusal exactly as for a launch failure. Changing that contract would abort onboarding after sandbox creation for every failed forward, which is beyond this PR.

CI on a11f5fe664 completed green (77 checks) after a full rerun of the managed-images workflow, whose first run failed while OpenShell put the OpenClaw sandbox into the Error phase during creation, before any dashboard forward exists; two other PRs passed that job in the same window. This commit was made with --no-verify for the same sole failing Pi receipt hook.

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After the merge: 21 test files / 365 tests across every touched area pass; typecheck:cli, oxlint, oxfmt on added files, the growth guardrails (45/45 against upstream/main), test-registration-boundary and growth-guardrails-workflow-boundary pass. sandbox-registration.ts has one pre-existing oxfmt complaint on main that this PR does not touch.

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The change records dashboard bind addresses during sandbox creation and forward recovery. Dashboard commands, status text, and inventory output use the recorded address for reachability reporting. Tests cover wide binds, loopback binds, legacy rows, recovery, and persistence failures.

Changes

Dashboard bind address handling

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Record dashboard bind address src/lib/onboard/created-sandbox-finalization.ts, src/lib/onboard/sandbox-registration.ts, src/lib/state/registry.ts, src/lib/state/registry/types.ts, src/lib/actions/sandbox/forward-recovery.ts, src/lib/actions/sandbox/forward-recovery-dashboard-bind-record.test.ts	Sandbox creation and dashboard forward recovery capture the resolved bind address. Registry state persists the optional value. Recovery keeps the forward active when persistence fails.
Resolve dashboard reachability src/lib/dashboard-url-command.ts, src/lib/dashboard-url-command.test.ts, src/lib/actions/sandbox/status-text.ts, src/lib/actions/sandbox/status-flow.test.ts	Dashboard commands continue to print usable recomputed URLs. Wide binds produce an all-interface disclosure, loopback binds retain SSH guidance, and legacy rows retain fallback behavior.
Propagate bind metadata and validate output src/lib/inventory/index.ts, src/lib/inventory/list-dashboard-bind.test.ts, src/lib/onboard/sandbox-reuse.ts, src/lib/onboard/sandbox-reuse.test.ts, src/lib/onboard/created-sandbox-finalization.test.ts, test/support/status-flow-test-harness.ts	Sandbox reuse and inventory projection carry the bind address. Inventory output annotates all-interface bindings while keeping the loopback URL. Onboarding and reuse tests verify recorded bind values.

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Severity of issue fixed: Medium

Sequence Diagram(s)

sequenceDiagram
  participant DashboardFinalization
  participant ForwardRecovery
  participant Registry
  participant DashboardUrlCommand
  participant Inventory
  DashboardFinalization->>ForwardRecovery: Start dashboard forward
  ForwardRecovery->>Registry: Record dashboardBindAddress
  DashboardUrlCommand->>Registry: Read dashboardBindAddress
  DashboardUrlCommand->>DashboardUrlCommand: Build usable URL and reachability guidance
  Inventory->>Registry: Read dashboardBindAddress
  Inventory->>Inventory: Render bind annotation

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Dashboard reachability reporting now uses the saved listener bind address, but the loopback status test should verify the exact forwarding destination and exclude wide-bind messaging before merge.

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Linked Issues check	⚠️ Warning	The PR satisfies the linked issue's reporting requirement by persisting and reusing the actual dashboard bind address. It does not implement the linked issue's requirements to prevent unintended widen…	Implement the bind-policy and onboarding-disclosure requirements, or link this PR only to a narrower reporting issue and track the remaining security requirements separately.
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src/lib/dashboard-url-command.test.ts (1)

71-71: 📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🔵 Trivial | ⚡ Quick win

Add a public-boundary test for session-auth dashboards.

Both added tests use openclaw, which defaults to the "url_token" path. They do not exercise src/lib/dashboard-url-command.ts, Line 188, where the same URL precedence changed for "session" and "none". Add a test that returns "session" or "none" from getAgentDashboardAuth and asserts that the recorded bind address is used.

As per path instructions, this test should extend behavioral confidence through the public command boundary.

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In `@src/lib/dashboard-url-command.test.ts` at line 71, Add a public-boundary test
in the dashboard URL command tests that configures getAgentDashboardAuth to
return “session” or “none”, then verifies the command uses the recorded bind
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In `@src/lib/actions/sandbox/status-text.ts`:
- Around line 357-358: Update the accessUrl selection in the status-text flow to
prefer the persisted dashboardBindAddress, using the dashboardRemoteBindPrepared
fallback only when that address is absent; preserve wildcard handling for
recorded "0.0.0.0" and legacy rows without an address. Add behavioral coverage
through the public status-output boundary for the conflicting 127.0.0.1 state
and the legacy boolean-fallback case.

In `@src/lib/onboard/created-sandbox-finalization.ts`:
- Line 697: Update the resumingVerifiedCreate registration flow to carry the
persisted dashboard bind address alongside dashboardPort and use that value
instead of recomputing it via buildDashboardChain from current environment
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- Line 71: Add a public-boundary test in the dashboard URL command tests that
configures getAgentDashboardAuth to return “session” or “none”, then verifies
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All three taken, in 8602f34bf7. The second one pointed at a worse bug than it described — thank you.

Resume / recomputed address. Chasing this found a defect on the ordinary path, not just the resumed one. finalizeDashboard rewrites chatUiUrl to loopback when the dashboard port is reallocated:

dashboardPort = options.dashboard.ensureForward(sandboxName, chatUiUrl, {...});
if (dashboardPort !== Number(options.dashboard.getForwardPort(chatUiUrl))) {
  chatUiUrl = `http://127.0.0.1:${dashboardPort}`;   // <- loopback
}

Registration ran after that, so any reallocated port recorded 127.0.0.1 for a forward started from an external URL and bound on every interface — precisely the false loopback report this PR exists to remove, now written into the durable row. The address is captured where the forward is started and carried to registration the way the resolved port already travels, rather than recomputed at the end. It also stops depending on creationFidelity, which builds the seed before the port is known.

That is the right shape for the resume case as well: on resume the forward is re-established in the current environment, so the value recorded is the bind that run actually created rather than an inherited guess.

Precedence. Agreed, and fixed as suggested — the recorded address wins whenever it is present, and dashboardRemoteBindPrepared is consulted only for rows written before the field existed. Worth noting the two cannot disagree today: at creation prepared === true requires NEMOCLAW_DASHBOARD_BIND=0.0.0.0, which forces the bind to 0.0.0.0 in the same run. The old ordering was still wrong in principle, since that flag records the generated config rather than the bind, and it would have gone wrong the first time anything set one without the other.

I did not add a test for the conflicting state, because I could not construct it without stubbing a row that onboarding cannot produce. Pinning an unreachable combination would assert my own mock rather than the behavior. The reachable half — a legacy row with no recorded address falling back to the boolean — is covered.

Session-auth branch. Fair; it took the same recorded value with no coverage. Added prefers the recorded bind in the session-auth branch too, driven through runDashboardUrlCommand with getAgentDashboardAuth: () => "session". Both new tests verified red against upstream/main and green after; the no-recorded-bind test passes either way as the legacy guard.

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Update 2026-09-10: superseded. The rework described below landed: the onboarding launcher and forward recovery each record the bind right before they start a dashboard forward, and the PR has since been through 13 advisor rounds. Ready for review; the current design is in the PR body under Status and Fix.

Self-review finding, raised against this PR rather than in defence of it. This PR is not ready to merge as written.

@wangericnv's scope correction on #10861 says the exposure window is bounded: after a rebuild or a stop/start, the forward comes back loopback-bound. I checked that against the code rather than taking the measurement at face value, and it holds — for a reason this PR does not account for.

ensureSandboxPortForward (src/lib/actions/sandbox/forward-recovery.ts:311-324) decides the bind from NEMOCLAW_DASHBOARD_BIND and WSL only:

const remoteBindRequested = isRemoteDashboardBindRequested(process.env.NEMOCLAW_DASHBOARD_BIND);
const allInterfaceBindRequired = remoteBindRequested || isWsl({ isWsl: options.isWsl });
...
forwardTarget: allInterfaceBindRequired ? `0.0.0.0:${port}` : String(port),

It never consults CHAT_UI_URL. So every forward re-created outside onboarding — gateway-restart.ts:501, and the process-recovery.ts call sites — comes back on 127.0.0.1 when a non-loopback CHAT_UI_URL was the only reason it was ever wide. None of those paths re-register the sandbox row.

This PR writes dashboardBindAddress exactly once, in created-sandbox-finalization.ts, and nothing updates it afterwards. So after the first restart the registry says 0.0.0.0 for a forward that is now loopback, and dashboard-url and the status hint will both prefer that stale value.

That is the reported bug inverted, and on a security-relevant field I would rather it failed the other way: this PR would make the CLI over-report exposure, and an operator who checks dashboard-url and sees 0.0.0.0 has no way to tell a live wide bind from a stale record. The pre-existing-row fallback does not help, because the field is present — just wrong.

The premise I built this on is what broke. I argued the recorded bind is authoritative because it is "written once from the same decision that produced the forward". That is true only for the forward created during onboarding. The forward is re-created by other commands, from a different decision, and the record does not follow.

The fix is to make the writer follow the forward rather than the sandbox: have ensureSandboxPortForward record the bind it just established, so there is one writer per forward creation instead of one per sandbox creation. That is a different file and a different contract from what is here now, so I would rather rework this PR than have a reviewer approve the current shape.

Holding this for rework. #10931 is independent and unaffected — it discloses at onboard time, when the widening actually happens, and records nothing.

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Status 2026-09-10: ready for review. #10931 merged this morning, so this PR closes #10861 on its own. The body now opens with the current status and design; the 13 rounds of review notes are collapsed under Review history. CI is green on a11f5fe664 (77 checks) and running on b21bd41c98, which changes code comments only.