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Outcome

The reviewed npm audit producer and both Docker receipt consumers now use one canonical npm identity. A receipt mismatch stops image assembly before the verifier publishes its policy result or raw audit report.

Reason

Main run 33883013315 and PR run 33883290530 rejected valid receipts with receipt identity does not match expected graph and npm. The trusted producer used npm 10.9.4, while image verification derived a different identity from the image runtime. That split allowed the audit and image paths to disagree.

Changes

  • Store the reviewed npm version and integrity in ci/reviewed-npm-audit.json.
  • Make the audit action, audit producer, optimized build context, and both Docker consumers read that canonical identity.
  • Pass both reusable-action paths through the step environment instead of interpolating them into shell source.
  • Reject audit production when the executing npm version differs from the reviewed version.
  • Copy the raw audit report only after receipt and current-policy verification succeed.
  • Copy both reviewed audit inputs explicitly so the old-base build-context allowlist remains valid.
  • Add an executable receipt-producer-to-Docker-consumer contract test for the accepted identity.
  • Add a negative version-mismatch case that proves neither consumer output is written.
  • Keep all reviewed-audit test fixtures on the canonical npm identity contract.

Verification

  • Focused integration suites — 85 passed, 2 skipped.
  • Old-base E2E-support contract — 15 passed.
  • Codebase growth guardrails — 45 passed.
  • npm run checks:repository — passed.
  • npm run source-shape:check — passed.
  • npm run build:cli — passed.
  • npm run typecheck:cli — passed.
  • Pre-commit, commit-message, and pre-push hooks — passed, including Hadolint.
  • Independent documentation writer review of 83c0a2c22 — passed with no findings; no documentation change required.
  • GitHub verification for 83c0a2c22 — Verified.
  • Diff inspection and gitleaks hook — no secrets, API keys, or credentials found.

Completion gate

  • Passed for 83c0a2c22: the OpenClaw image job rebuilt the changed base, consumed the same-run receipt, passed direct startup, published the exact PR digest, re-pulled and validated it, and uploaded the immutable contract.
  • After merge, successful production base-image publication remains required before the repair is treated as complete.

Review notes

  • Sensitive-path context: this repairs the receipt-identity failure in main run 33883013315 and PR run 33883290530. Receipt hash, graph, lockfile, exception-policy, raw-report, registry, threshold, and lifetime checks remain enforced.

Signed-off-by: San Dang sdang@nvidia.com
Signed-off-by: Prekshi Vyas prekshiv@nvidia.com

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The reviewed npm audit configuration now contains npm version and integrity metadata. CI, audit execution, Docker receipt validation, and tests use this configuration instead of fixed npm version arguments.

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Reviewed npm audit metadata

Layer / File(s) Summary
Audit configuration and validation
ci/reviewed-npm-audit.json, scripts/audit-reviewed-npm-graph.mts, scripts/lib/npm-audit-receipt.mts
The audit configuration defines npm version and integrity metadata. Parsers validate both fields. Audit and receipt verification compare npm versions against the configuration.
CI npm installation
.github/actions/ci-reviewed-npm-audit/action.yaml
CI validates the configured metadata, includes the npm version in the cache digest, and uses validated outputs for npm verification and installation.
Docker receipt integration
Dockerfile, Dockerfile.base, src/lib/sandbox/build-context.ts
Docker builds stage all npm audit configuration files. Mcporter receipt validation reads reviewed-npm-audit.json and can write the raw report through --raw-copy.
Receipt and workflow tests
test/automation/releases/npm-audit-receipt.test.ts, test/automation/releases/reviewed-npm-audit-workflow.test.ts, test/runtime/sandbox/sandbox-build-context.test.ts
Tests use centralized npm metadata and cover matching and mismatched npm versions, receipt output behavior, workflow target-root handling, and build-context fixtures.
Supply-chain policy tests
test/security/mcporter-supply-chain.test.ts, ci/source-shape-test-budget.json
Security tests require the reviewed audit configuration and reject fixed npm-version arguments, npm version commands, and shell substitutions.

Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~25 minutes

Merge Risk: ⚪ Minimal · up to 4f21f

This change strengthens reviewed npm audit identity checks and test coverage for mismatched npm versions. No concrete current-head merge risk is identified.

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sequenceDiagram
  participant ReviewedConfig
  participant CIAction
  participant AuditGraph
  participant DockerReceipt
  participant TestSuite

  ReviewedConfig->>CIAction: npmVersion and npmIntegrity
  CIAction->>CIAction: validate metadata and compute cache digest
  CIAction->>AuditGraph: install configured npm
  AuditGraph->>AuditGraph: verify installed npm version
  ReviewedConfig->>DockerReceipt: reviewed-npm-audit.json
  DockerReceipt->>DockerReceipt: validate receipt and copy raw report
  TestSuite->>DockerReceipt: matching or mismatched npm configuration
  DockerReceipt-->>TestSuite: outputs or validation failure
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Languages: TypeScript

TypeScript / code-coverage/plugin

The overall line coverage in commit 83c0a2c in the fix/reviewed-npm-rec... branch remains at 96%, unchanged from commit d99d1dc in the main branch.

TypeScript / code-coverage/cli

The overall line coverage in commit 83c0a2c in the fix/reviewed-npm-rec... branch remains at 83%, unchanged from commit d99d1dc in the main branch.

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File main d99d1dc fix/reviewed-npm-rec... 83c0a2c +/-
src/lib/inferen...ocal-runtime.ts 97% 87% -10%
src/lib/onboard...-diagnostics.ts 99% 96% -3%
src/lib/onboard...-transaction.ts 69% 70% +1%
src/lib/onboard...ed-lifecycle.ts 75% 77% +2%
src/lib/actions...dbox/destroy.ts 88% 90% +2%
src/lib/onboard.../application.ts 69% 71% +2%
src/lib/onboard...ce-lifecycle.ts 83% 85% +2%
src/lib/actions...oy-execution.ts 91% 94% +3%
src/lib/onboard...on-authority.ts 81% 88% +7%
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Review of commit .\n\nThe npm identity repair is correct, but three items require one focused update before merge:\n\n1. Replace in both Dockerfiles with explicit copies of and . The wildcard violates the old-base build-context allowlist and caused CLI shard 9 to fail: https://github.com/NVIDIA/NemoClaw/actions/runs/33894038338/job/101092864367\n\n2. Add and to every reviewed-audit configuration fixture. The production parser now requires both fields, and the unchanged fixtures caused CLI shard 7 to fail: https://github.com/NVIDIA/NemoClaw/actions/runs/33894038338/job/101092864314\n\n3. Pass through the composite step environment before . Commit fixed interpolation, but remains interpolated into Bash source. Current callers use fixed runner paths, but the reusable action must not permit a future caller to add shell syntax.\n\nKeep the positive and version-mismatch receipt tests. The final acceptance evidence must include successful receipt-consuming image construction and publication.

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Correction to my previous review: Markdown identifiers were omitted by the command that submitted it.\n\nReview of commit 804728b.\n\nThe npm identity repair is correct, but three items require one focused update before merge:\n\n1. Replace COPY ci/npm-audit.json /scripts/ in both Dockerfiles with explicit copies of ci/npm-audit-exceptions.json and ci/reviewed-npm-audit.json. The wildcard violates the old-base build-context allowlist and caused CLI shard 9 to fail: https://github.com/NVIDIA/NemoClaw/actions/runs/33894038338/job/101092864367\n\n2. Add npmVersion and npmIntegrity to every reviewed-audit configuration fixture. The production parser now requires both fields, and the unchanged fixtures caused CLI shard 7 to fail: https://github.com/NVIDIA/NemoClaw/actions/runs/33894038338/job/101092864314\n\n3. Pass cache-directory through the composite step environment before mkdir. Commit 804728b fixed target-root interpolation, but cache-directory remains interpolated into Bash source. Current callers use fixed runner paths, but the reusable action must not permit a future caller to add shell syntax.\n\nKeep the positive and version-mismatch receipt tests. Final acceptance evidence must include successful receipt-consuming image construction and publication.

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Maintainer follow-up: PR #11075 contains the latest PR Review Advisor repairs:

  • reject target graph symbolic links before the trusted cache-key step reads package bytes;
  • verify that optimized staging copies the exact reviewed audit configuration;
  • remove the one-use --raw-copy verifier option while preserving fail-fast Docker copying.

These findings do not affect the normal base-image build path currently validating this PR. I am deferring them to keep the current publication evidence unchanged. I will rebase and merge #11075 immediately after #11069 merges.

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Resolve the Dockerfile audit identity overlaps in favor of the canonical #11069 configuration.

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Preserve the remote branch update while retaining the budget-neutral canonical #11069 command form.

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<!-- markdownlint-disable MD041 -->
## Outcome

Protect the reviewed npm audit cache identity from target-controlled
symbolic links, complete both Docker build contexts, and prove the audit
receipt handoff at the production verifier boundary.

## Reason

This follow-up closes the remaining review gaps from PR #11069 without
changing the reviewed npm policy or supported user behavior.

### Related issues

Follow-up to #11069.

## Changes

- Use one shared, symlink-safe repository input resolver for audit
production and cache identity.
- Stage that resolver in every trusted sparse checkout that executes the
audit producer.
- Verify that both legacy and optimized sandbox build contexts stage the
reviewed npm audit policy files with mode `0644`.
- Exercise a receipt emitted by the real audit producer through the
production verifier, including a rejected npm-version mismatch.
- Reject the removed `--raw-copy` option before publishing either
verifier output.
- Keep raw-report copying in the Docker consumer after receipt
verification succeeds.

## Verification

- Focused audit, receipt, sparse-checkout, workflow, build-context, and
supply-chain tests: passed.
- Trusted sparse-checkout producer imports: 13 passed, covering all 12
workflow checkouts plus the producer-to-verifier handoff.
- Final merge validation: 155 tests passed; 54 platform-only tests
skipped.
- Codebase growth guardrails: 45 passed.
- Source-shape ratchet: passed at zero cases.
- Repository checks and CLI type-check: passed.
- Normal [PR
CI](https://github.com/NVIDIA/NemoClaw/actions/runs/33919266779):
passed, including all 12 CLI shards.
- [Managed-image
CI](https://github.com/NVIDIA/NemoClaw/actions/runs/33919266796):
passed, including direct Hermes startup, both OpenClaw MCP discovery
passes, and exact all-agent managed runtime activation.
- [PR Review
Advisor](https://github.com/NVIDIA/NemoClaw/actions/runs/33919264820):
passed; all nine specialists reported no issue requiring a change.
- CodeRabbit and CodeQL: passed.
- Commit `df0f8413d` is verified and includes the DCO declaration.
- Independent documentation review of commit `df0f8413d`: passed; no
documentation change needed.
- Secret review: the diff contains no credentials, API keys, or secret
values.

## Review notes

The branch merges current `main` commit `37cedc990`; conflict resolution
was mechanical and did not change the effective PR patch. The dynamic
Bash test command flagged by CodeQL was removed. The executable handoff
test uses the real audit producer and production receipt verifier, and
each trusted sparse checkout now proves that the producer and all direct
imports load together.

---
Signed-off-by: Prekshi Vyas <prekshiv@nvidia.com>


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## Summary by CodeRabbit

- **Security**
- Strengthened npm audit input validation to prevent repository path
escapes and symbolic-link bypasses.
- Improved audit receipt verification and provenance checks, including
npm version consistency validation.
- Ensured verified audit reports are copied only after successful
verification.

- **Bug Fixes**
- Standardized staging and permissions for reviewed npm audit policy
files across sandbox build modes.
  - Removed support for the obsolete raw report copy option.

- **Tests**
- Added coverage for secure path handling, audit handoff validation,
cache behavior, and sandbox policy staging.

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Signed-off-by: San Dang <sdang@nvidia.com>
Signed-off-by: Prekshi Vyas <prekshiv@nvidia.com>
Co-authored-by: San Dang <sdang@nvidia.com>
cv pushed a commit that referenced this pull request Sep 10, 2026
## Outcome

Supply verified mcporter audit evidence to the offline protected image
build. This prerequisite lets trusted-main E2E exercise #11156 without
executing its candidate workflow as trusted code.

## Reason

The protected rebuild uses `--network none` and `--no-cache`, but its
controller does not supply audit evidence. OpenClaw therefore attempts a
live npm audit without network access.

The [failed protected
job](https://github.com/NVIDIA/NemoClaw/actions/runs/34375097855/job/102555650142)
returned exit 1, `EAI_AGAIN`, 206 bytes, and `metadata:missing` on both
attempts. Both responses had SHA-256
`2ca8dc3553861955190f44adaa5ed386851b1c217d7e5084d6bc150ddb8623b4`.
Runtime qualification did not run. This is separate from the
receipt-identity failure fixed by #11069.

### Related issues

Refs #11088. Prerequisite for #11156, which owns the complete fix and
protected-runtime acceptance.

## Changes

- Run the existing trusted audit action before the offline build. Reuse
matching cached evidence or refresh it through that action's existing
networked path.
- Verify candidate manifests, lockfile, raw report, receipt, npm
identity, and exception policy with the existing trusted verifier. Pass
the verified evidence and hashes through BuildKit secrets. The derived
policy result supports #11156's consumer.
- Transfer the existing controller/workflow assertions from #11156. No
new test scenario, audit subsystem, workflow job, Dockerfile, registry
fallback, or retry is introduced.

The seven-file diff is +234/-7. The build path changes only the workflow
handoff and its controller. The remaining changes protect that boundary.
Main's merged CI memory fix (#11356) is consumed without duplication.

## Verification

- Existing affected audit, controller, and workflow tests: 313 passed
across 12 files.
- `npm run build:cli` and `npm --prefix nemoclaw run build`: passed.
- `npm exec -- vitest run --project package-contract
test/package-contract/managed-image-registry-transport.test.ts`: one
test passed.
- Normal pre-commit and commit-message hooks: passed, including
repository checks, ShellCheck, secret scanning, and source-shape/growth
checks.
- `NODE_OPTIONS=--max-old-space-size=5120 npm run validate:pr`: passed
at `d2c864d4accfacdfe6825ded68d12e9b3fc7b462` against canonical main
`270275f2a2b31a70fa72692d2ec304b5dffe8ee3`. No tracked file changed.

<details>
<summary>Focused test command</summary>

```sh
npm exec -- vitest run --project integration \
  test/platform/images/protected-managed-image-build-script.test.ts \
  test/automation/releases/reviewed-npm-audit.test.ts \
  test/automation/releases/npm-audit-receipt.test.ts \
  test/automation/releases/reviewed-npm-audit-handoff.test.ts \
  test/automation/releases/reviewed-npm-audit-workflow.test.ts \
  test/automation/releases/reviewed-npm-audit-cache-key.test.ts \
  --project e2e-support \
  test/e2e/support/e2e-operations-workflow-boundary.test.ts \
  test/e2e/support/managed-image-protected-runtime-workflow.test.ts \
  test/e2e/support/hermes-workflow-boundary.test.ts \
  test/e2e/support/jetson-workflow-boundary.test.ts \
  test/e2e/support/staging-brev-launchable-identity-workflow-boundary.test.ts \
  test/e2e/support/shared-e2e-workflow-boundary.test.ts --reporter=default
```

</details>

Validation used pinned Node.js 22.23.2 and verified npm 10.9.4 in an
unprivileged Linux container without host mounts, credentials, or a
Docker socket. Signed candidate
`d2c864d4accfacdfe6825ded68d12e9b3fc7b462` has the same source tree as
the hook-tested isolated commit. The CI memory setting comes from merged
#11356.

No secrets, API keys, or credentials are in the diff. Incomplete,
invalid, or unaccepted high-severity audit results still fail closed.
Completeness checks, exception policy, raw-report and receipt integrity,
registry selection, and retry bounds are unchanged. No broad-suite or
protected-runtime pass is claimed.

## Review notes

Self-review covered all seven paths at
`d2c864d4accfacdfe6825ded68d12e9b3fc7b462` in NVIDIA/NemoClaw. Sensitive
paths are `.github/workflows/e2e.yaml`,
`scripts/checks/build-protected-managed-images.sh`, and the two changed
`tools/e2e/` validators. Their independent review remains pending.
Changed validators ran only in the approved credential-free environment;
this is not independent security approval.

Protected GPU/local-inference acceptance remains pending. This
prerequisite must enter trusted main through normal review and merge
gates before dispatching `jobs=managed-image-protected-runtime` for
#11156. MCP or image-startup results do not substitute for that job. No
CI waiver is claimed.

The controller's private policy result follows its existing exit/signal
cleanup. No protected registry, builder, container, image, or credential
file was created by the local tests; Docker commands in controller tests
are stubbed.

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Signed-off-by: San Dang <sdang@nvidia.com>


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## Summary by CodeRabbit

- **Security Improvements**
- Protected managed-image builds now require verified, reviewed npm
audit evidence before importing caches or building images.
- Builds reject incomplete or unverifiable audit evidence before Docker
execution.
- Audit results are bound to the candidate runtime and policy
configuration, with integrity hashes passed into the protected build.
- Workflow validation ensures audits and builds run through trusted
controls rather than candidate-provided scripts.

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Signed-off-by: San Dang <sdang@nvidia.com>
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