test(e2e): use canonical OpenShell for EXDEV restart

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Outcome

The focused EXDEV lifecycle now uses and verifies the canonical OpenShell executable when restarting the gateway, then terminates that verified listener before sandbox recreation. It fails at that boundary if the dashboard port does not release. The trusted-image wrapper remains limited to sandbox creation and recreation, where its image rewrite is required.

Reason

The automatic main E2E selected after #10808 first failed because the restart path treated a listener owned by canonical OpenShell as foreign when the test wrapper remained configured. Two focused runs then exposed the remaining lifecycle defect: cleanup stopped the port without the sandbox and gateway identity, OpenShell reported no active forward, the valid restart listener remained bound to port 18789, and recreation moved to 18790.

Related issues

Relates to #10808

Changes

• Override NEMOCLAW_OPENSHELL_BIN with the resolved canonical OpenShell executable for gateway restart.
• Verify the restarted dashboard listener is owned by canonical OpenShell, using the production ForwardTcp argument builder as the command authority.
• Terminate only the listener whose executable and complete command line prove canonical OpenShell ownership, then require bounded dashboard-port release before recreation.
• Carry the configured dashboard port through the same child environment used by onboarding, listener inspection, and cleanup.
• Cover wrapper ownership rejection and targeted cleanup in the existing fast E2E client tests.

Verification

• npx vitest run --project e2e-support test/e2e/support/e2e-clients.test.ts: 82 tests passed.
• NODE_OPTIONS=--max-old-space-size=8192 npm run typecheck:cli: passed.
• npm run checks:repository: passed, including the 1,798-assertion ratchet.
• npm run test:e2e-phases:check: 134 tests across 88 files passed.
• NODE_OPTIONS=--max-old-space-size=8192 npm run validate:pr: passed for commit under review 29f98461c60a029010bdab608775cb4290daa3b6 against canonical main 194324d6d07e38fadf9a64d875b09e3c7eb02f8d.
• Focused manual E2E run 34536058612 passed openclaw-plugin-runtime-exdev for exact candidate 29f98461c60a029010bdab608775cb4290daa3b6 on recorded base 3bfc4a83e413b7f56a327130815fa91bcbf0745f; its immutable dispatch receipt, risk signal, target result, first-attempt retry evidence, and complete cleanup record were verified.
• Pre-commit, commit-message, and pre-push hooks passed.
• GitHub marks commit under review 29f98461c6 Verified.
• The diff contains no secrets, API keys, or credentials.

Review notes

• Before-fix evidence: automatic main E2E run 34383659825, failed job 102575200782.
• Focused run 34411638365 proved recreation moved to port 18790 while the restart forward retained 18789.
• Focused run 34417902543 proved the unscoped stop returned success with No active forward found for port 18789; the candidate now uses forward stop 18789 e2e-oc-exdev --gateway nemoclaw.
• The complete hosted Advisor artifact set for c9eab2af59 was inspected. Its two valid findings were addressed in e669a9edfa: the fixture reuses the production ForwardTcp argument builder, and onboarding receives the configured dashboard port used by inspection and cleanup.
• Exact-head hosted Advisor follow-up for e669a9edfa was unavailable because all nine specialists exhausted provider retries with the same HTTP 429 budget_exceeded response and produced no artifacts. CodeRabbit completed with no actionable finding.
• Focused run 34505225563 reached sandbox recreation and failed restoring workspace state. Its artifacts were inspected; the sandbox, gateway, images, fixtures, wrapper, and mock were cleaned. Exact head 9d8759fca0 integrates the recovery-permission fix from refactor(openclaw): normalize native state permissions #11309 and the CI heap fix from ci(typecheck): give CLI type checking a 5 GiB heap #11356, so a fresh exact-head focused run is required.
• Focused run 34524049458 proved the externally discovered listener PID was not its process-group leader. Commit 72cbe661d8 therefore targets only the listener after exact ownership proof.
• CodeRabbit found that commit 72cbe661d8 ignored the bounded port-release result. Commit under review 29f98461c6 fails before recreation when the port remains reachable, while keeping the live assertion budget unchanged.
• npm run review:local reached the trusted implementation but its temporary OpenShell gateway never became reachable. It produced no findings; retained temporary review data was removed after restoring its owner permissions. No local Advisor finding is claimed.
• No documentation change is needed because this corrects test fixture lifecycle handling without changing product or E2E contract behavior.

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  • Expanded end-to-end coverage for cross-device plugin installation.
  • Verified dashboard ports become unreachable after forwarding listeners are terminated.
  • Added listener process identification checks to validate ownership.
  • Confirmed wrapper processes are rejected when they do not own the canonical listener.
  • Improved validation of gateway- and sandbox-specific forwarding targets.
  • Added checks to ensure forwarding listeners are cleaned up before sandbox recreation.

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The end-to-end tests validate canonical OpenShell ownership during gateway restart, return the listener PID, reject wrapper-owned listeners, verify cross-device installation, and confirm dashboard shutdown before sandbox recreation.

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OpenShell listener validation

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Listener and cleanup contracts test/e2e/support/e2e-clients.test.ts, test/e2e/fixtures/clients/host.ts	The fixtures construct canonical listener arguments, return the validated listener PID, reject wrapper-owned listeners, and verify the listener evidence contract.
Canonical restart validation test/e2e/live/openclaw-plugin-runtime-exdev.test.ts	The EXDEV test resolves the canonical OpenShell command, passes it to gateway restart, validates the dashboard forward, and waits for the dashboard port to become unreachable after process termination.
Cross-device installation validation test/e2e/live/openclaw-plugin-runtime-exdev.test.ts	The test requires a successful command, parseable device IDs, and distinct source and target devices.

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Exact-head CI update for 43abfc945a:

• CI run 34397971300 failed only in shards 4 and 6.
• Shard 4 is the existing dashboard-forward restore assertion in test/onboarding/onboard.test.ts.
• Shard 6 is the existing WeChat locked-install transcript assertion plus the managed-startup image bundle digest assertion.
• Those three files are unchanged by this PR. The candidate-owned EXDEV support test and the small destroy-gateway mock repair pass locally, and the rest of exact-head CI is green.
• CodeRabbit's only finding was addressed in 43abfc945a; the thread is resolved and the exact-head incremental review added no finding.

I am treating the shard failures as upstream and will not expand this focused PR to repair them. The PR remains draft while the trusted main image publication and focused openclaw-plugin-runtime-exdev run are pending.

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Fresh repair at 1013b32f52: focused run 34411638365 showed that the canonical restart forward remained bound to port 18789, so recreation moved to 18790 and pairing never appeared. This exact head now verifies canonical listener ownership and stops that verified forward before recreation. The repair is assertion-neutral; focused support tests, changed tests, type-checking, repository checks, and validate:pr pass locally. The local Advisor remains unavailable because its temporary gateway refuses connections, so hosted exact-head Advisor review and a fresh focused E2E are still required.

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Focused run 34417902543 exposed the remaining candidate-owned defect. The test verified that PID 17441 was the canonical OpenShell forward for e2e-oc-exdev on gateway nemoclaw, but cleanup then issued only openshell forward stop 18789. OpenShell returned exit 0 with No active forward found for port 18789, the listener stayed bound, and recreation moved to 18790 before state restoration failed.

Exact head c9eab2af59 now passes the verified sandbox and gateway identity to the existing cleanup helper, so it issues forward stop 18789 e2e-oc-exdev --gateway nemoclaw. The existing support assertion covers the exact argv. This adds no live assertion surface.

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• 82 focused E2E-support tests passed.
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• Repository checks, growth guardrails, semantic E2E checks, and the 1,800-assertion ratchet passed.
• npm run validate:pr passed against the committed repair.
• The broader changed-test sweep reached unrelated local prerequisites: an untrusted Homebrew tap, missing Python YAML, and two existing timing tests.
• Local Advisor could not start its isolated review because the temporary checkout lacked the acorn executable, so no local finding is claimed.

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Exact head e669a9edfa addresses both findings from hosted Advisor run 34422281058:

• the listener fixture now gets ForwardTcp argument construction from the production owner instead of copying the command contract;
• onboarding, listener inspection, and targeted cleanup now use the same configured dashboard port.

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Exact-head CI run 34498099181 has now failed twice in build-typecheck from the same Node heap exhaustion. On both attempts, all 1,300 package-contract tests passed; npm run typecheck:cli then reached the default 4 GB V8 heap limit and exited 134 without a TypeScript diagnostic. The exact head passes locally with an 8 GB heap, and current-main build-typecheck job 102942523489 passes. All 12 exact-head CLI shards, CodeQL, repository gates, and CodeRabbit are green. I will not rerun the unchanged job again. The remaining block is the trusted CI heap limit, which also prevents the automatic exact-head Advisor from starting.

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Exact-head CI classification for 9d8759fca0:

• All ordinary jobs passed except CLI shard 4 and its aggregate checks.
• Shard 4 failed only in test/mcp/mcp-bridge-servers.test.ts after the external cloudflared process exited before tunnel readiness on all three bounded attempts. The test(e2e): use canonical OpenShell for EXDEV restart #11325 diff changes only the EXDEV client fixture and its tests; it does not touch the MCP bridge or tunnel helper.
• Automatic Advisor run 34512868960 consequently skipped and produced no findings.

This is external tunnel infrastructure, not a candidate-owned failure. I am not rerunning unchanged ordinary CI or changing unrelated code. Per maintainer direction, it is recorded here and does not block the fresh focused EXDEV run.

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Focused E2E follow-up for 9d8759fca0: run https://github.com/NVIDIA/NemoClaw/actions/runs/34513635346 reached the restart/recreate boundary, then failed because openshell forward stop does not manage the detached direct ForwardTcp listener, even with sandbox and gateway arguments. The retained artifact set was inspected and cleanup completed with no failures.

Exact head 239ee0afa4 replaces that ineffective CLI stop with the existing production process-group termination primitive, but only after the test proves the listener PID belongs to the exact canonical OpenShell executable and ForwardTcp command. The focused 82-test support suite, CLI type-check, repository checks, semantic E2E check, hooks, and npm run validate:pr all pass. Local Advisor was attempted and produced no findings, but its temporary OpenShell gateway never became reachable.

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Focused E2E run 34519274459 failed after the verified forward was retired because the test then performed another OpenShell sandbox operation before recreation; port 18789 was active again when onboarding began. Cleanup completed with no failures. Exact head 1b6a450 makes the assertion-neutral ordering fix: it verifies restart behavior, prepares the v2 fixture, then retires the already-verified canonical forward immediately before recreation. No production code or E2E assertion surface was added. The 82-test support suite, CLI type-check, repository checks, semantic E2E checks, hooks, and npm run validate:pr pass. Local Advisor was attempted but its temporary gateway never became reachable, so no local finding is claimed. @coderabbitai review

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Focused run 34524049458 reproduced the occupied-port failure at exact head 1b6a450. The complete artifact set showed the candidate and receipt matched, recreation still found 18789 occupied, and cleanup removed every registered resource. The process-group helper was the wrong primitive for an externally discovered listener PID: it can return when that PID is not the group leader. Exact head 72cbe66 now sends SIGKILL directly to the already verified canonical OpenShell listener PID and gives the port a bounded release window immediately before recreation. This remains test-only and assertion-neutral. Focused support tests, CLI type-check, repository checks, semantic E2E checks, hooks, and npm run validate:pr pass. Local Advisor was attempted but its temporary gateway again never became reachable; no local finding is claimed and its exact temporary directory was removed. @coderabbitai review

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Learning: In the OpenShell EXDEV E2E flow, an externally discovered canonical OpenShell `ForwardTcp` listener PID may not be the process-group leader. Do not rely on the process-group termination helper to stop that listener. After validating the canonical executable and expected `ForwardTcp` command, target the verified listener PID directly and wait for bounded port release before sandbox recreation.

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CodeRabbit's finding on commit 72cbe661d8 was valid. Commit 29f98461c6 now requires the bounded dashboard-port release before sandbox recreation. To keep the live E2E assertion budget flat, it combines the existing cross-device exit and device-ID checks into one outcome assertion.

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Ordinary CI is clean except for one classified external timing failure. CI run 34533321039 failed in cli-test-shards (7) on both attempts at the unchanged src/lib/inference/serving/host-local-vllm-selection.test.ts:147, timing out at its five-second limit (attempt 1, attempt 2). This PR does not touch that test or its dependencies, and current-main CI run 34527797530 passed the same code. I am treating it as a permitted upstream timing failure, making no scope change, and will not rerun it again. CodeRabbit review for exact head 29f98461c60a029010bdab608775cb4290daa3b6 has no remaining actionable finding.

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Focused manual E2E run 34536058612 passed openclaw-plugin-runtime-exdev for exact head 29f98461c60a029010bdab608775cb4290daa3b6 and recorded base 3bfc4a83e413b7f56a327130815fa91bcbf0745f. The immutable dispatch receipt matched the candidate, base, workflow, target, and correlation ID. Target evidence recorded all assertions passing on the first attempt, with complete cleanup and no failures. The only red ordinary-CI signal remains the previously documented unchanged upstream five-second timeout; no candidate-owned blocker remains.