fix(hermes): keep mutable config out of relaunch policy - #11110
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📝 WalkthroughWalkthroughHermes now adopts valid mutable configuration snapshots, keeps MCP changes pending until gateway health succeeds, and removes MCP reconciliation refusal as a lifecycle gate. Gateway recovery uses terminal repair classification, while repeated supervisor failures require sandbox stop/start before rebuild. ChangesHermes lifecycle control
Estimated code review effort: 4 (Complex) | ~60 minutes Merge Risk: 🔵 Low · up to Hermes lifecycle operations now allow valid mutable MCP configuration, but two reference pages still describe obsolete generic MCP refusal handling. This can send users to ineffective recovery steps; update the documentation before merge. Sequence Diagram(s)sequenceDiagram
participant Supervisor
participant Hermes
participant RuntimeGuard
participant Gateway
Supervisor->>Hermes: Prepare runtime
Hermes->>RuntimeGuard: Adopt stable config snapshot
RuntimeGuard-->>Hermes: Snapshot accepted or refused
Hermes->>Gateway: Start or restart gateway
Gateway-->>Supervisor: Health result
Supervisor->>Hermes: Continue recovery or apply retry/quarantine policy
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In `@docs/manage-sandboxes/recover-rebuild-sandboxes.mdx`:
- Line 143: Update the crash-budget description near “Five exits within 60
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1369-1369: 🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick winAlign both reference pages with the new MCP ownership boundary. Generic gateway lifecycle and recovery paths no longer report or repair MCP reconciliation failures; managed MCP mismatch handling belongs to the explicit
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docs/reference/commands.mdx#L1369-L1369: removeMCP reconciliation refusalfrom generic gateway-restart failure layers.docs/reference/troubleshooting.mdx#L4358-L4363: remove or rewrite the recovery block so it directs users to the explicit MCP command instead of rerunning genericrecover.🤖 Prompt for AI Agents
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In `@docs/reference/commands.mdx`:
- Line 1369: Align both reference pages with the new MCP ownership boundary: in
docs/reference/commands.mdx lines 1369-1369, remove “MCP reconciliation refusal”
from the generic gateway-restart failure layers; in
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Reviewed commit 8f21104 against base afb2342. Linked issue #11108 records Accept with the reason, placement, accountable maintainer, and validation plan. The implementation keeps path, secret-boundary, process-identity, health, race, and MCP pending/applied checks while moving registry reconciliation to the host MCP commands. I reviewed the complete diff, all nine PR Review Advisor reports, and the current CodeRabbit feedback. Exact-head CI, docs, CodeQL, ShellCheck, rootless/self-hosted qualification, and amd64/arm64 managed-image qualification pass. DCO is present and all commits are verified.
Non-blocking: CodeRabbit correctly notes that docs/reference/commands.mdx still names MCP reconciliation refusal as a generic gateway-restart failure, and docs/reference/troubleshooting.mdx still pairs mcp restart with generic recover. A narrow docs follow-up should update those two references so operators are routed to the explicit MCP command that owns reconciliation. This does not affect runtime behavior or approval.
<!-- markdownlint-disable MD041 --> ## Outcome Restores the two paths failing in main CI: registry-only fresh onboarding reconstructs retained sandbox identity before gateway preflight, and Hermes legacy-layout startup accepts the trusted pre-migration directory posture. ## Reason Main CI run 34114747276 repeated both failures across attempts. The onboarding coverage added by #11124 kept its verified create checkpoint only in memory, while the Hermes hardening from #11110 rejected the safe legacy 0750 directory mode before startup could repair it. ## Changes - Capture the verified pending-create entry when the generated fixture persists it and pass that entry only to the registry-only recovery child. - Include the gateway port in the shared verified-create reservation fixture so the durable pending entry matches the production registry authority. - Accept sandbox-owned 0750 as a trusted transitional Hermes root posture; the existing startup path remains responsible for repairing it to the canonical mode. - Reject the adjacent 0755 posture and retain the exact ownership, group, and mode boundary. - Refresh the Dockerfile integrity pin for the changed security validator. ## Verification - Contributor validation: npm run validate:pr passed for e080d1f. - Focused tests: the Hermes 0750 acceptance and 0755 rejection tests passed; the validator digest-binding probe passed; the Hermes startup mode-repair test passed; the onboarding recovery unit suite passed 40/40; npm run build:cli passed. - Repository checks: test-title, growth-guardrail, formatting, lint, type-check, hadolint, and secret-scan checks passed. - The Linux-only Docker-backed onboarding regression case is delegated to PR CI because this macOS checkout skips that lane by design. - Secrets review: the diff contains no secrets, API keys, or credentials. --- Signed-off-by: San Dang <sdang@nvidia.com> --------- Signed-off-by: San Dang <sdang@nvidia.com>
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Hermes can keep running after Hermes or the sandbox user changes valid Hermes-owned configuration.
Generic lifecycle, health, probe, restart, recovery, and connect paths do not inspect, adopt, reconcile, or veto those changes.
NemoClaw retains responsibility for secret boundaries, path and snapshot safety, exact-process health, and crash-loop supervision.
Explicit
nemoclaw mcpmanagement commands still compare the requested host-managed MCP operation with current Hermes state because those commands own that operation.Reason
NemoClaw coupled process supervision to ownership of Hermes configuration.
That made ordinary runtime writes capable of blocking relaunch or automatic recovery even though Hermes owns its mutable config tree.
Lifecycle supervision should answer whether the managed process can run safely and healthily, not whether Hermes preserved a host-side opinion about its own config.
Related issues
Fixes #11108.
Relates to #10494.
Relates to #8649.
Changes
adopttransition that snapshots valid current Hermes MCP state for transaction bookkeeping without making host intent a relaunch policy.Verification
8f211042bf23e6e24a0f4d7db39ff915b0f3702e(GitHub verified signature).npm run validate:pr— passed locally on the latest commit, including trusted pre-commit checks, commit lint, and the CLI pre-push typecheck.npm run docs— completed locally on the latest commit with 0 errors and five existing Fern warnings.ff83cef59f; later commits retain that code and add docs/tests.6e54a38b12; later commits retain that implementation and add focused remediation.npm run typecheck:cliandnpm run test:projects:checkpassed locally; project membership was exact across 2,596 candidate files and seven projects.git diff --checkpassed locally.npm run checkresult is claimed; the run passed all non-coverage manual gates and was stopped after an Advisor finding made its candidate stale during exhaustive coverage. The exact-head CI shards and aggregate completed successfully afterward.Review notes
Issue #11108 records the maintainer's accepted ownership boundary.
Earlier Advisor runs identified and drove fixes for stale quarantine guidance, direct-root adoption evidence, bounded preparation retries, generic lifecycle MCP ownership leakage, read-only probe mutation, wrapper-to-guard coverage, runtime-control guidance, failure-layer documentation, and the missing secret-refusal-to-adoption handoff test.
CodeRabbit identified incomplete crash-budget wording;
3fa9754706now states that failed replacement candidates consume the budget while host-authorized exits do not.Commit
8f211042bfresolves the final Advisor findings by separatingunsafe config pathfromconfig hash mismatchin the docs and exercising the real secret-boundary helper through both startup preparation functions. The final exact-head Advisor run found no documentation, delivery, security, architecture, migration, operability, verification, simplification, or customer-behavior issue requiring change.Negative coverage preserves secret-boundary refusal, unsafe-path and raced-snapshot refusal, post-health transaction commit, exact-process restart checks, and crash-loop quarantine.
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