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NemoClaw can onboard one registered external host component during fresh supported Linux onboarding with a NemoClaw-managed OpenShell gateway. It validates a secret-free declaration before gateway effects, proves that the named sandbox is fresh, renders only approved interceptor settings, verifies immutable identity and sandbox-scoped effective policy before handoff, and requires a bounded activation result before reporting success. Onboarding without a registered component keeps the same flow; gateways created before the identity marker reuse without a restart.

Reason

NemoClaw previously had no owned boundary for a host component that must receive verified sandbox identity and policy after creation. External edits to generated OpenShell files would violate NemoClaw lifecycle authority, while an unbounded or weakly verified handoff could report success for the wrong sandbox or policy.

Related issues

Fixes #11340

Refs #11375

Refs #11391

Refs #11392

Changes

  • Add the accepted schema-versioned declaration reader for fresh onboarding. The initial onboarding phase validates it before preflight or gateway effects, and protected-file identity capture and revalidation prevent path replacement. Declaration tests cover the valid declaration and every rejected class.
  • Require an explicit sandbox name and prove that neither a registry entry nor a live sandbox already exists before the managed gateway changes. Existing lifecycle inspection supplies the proof; focused tests cover registered and live sandbox rejection before mutation.
  • Extend the existing Docker-driver gateway writer with the fixed OpenShell interceptor projection and a secret-free runtime identity hash. Gateway reuse detects changed or removed component identity through an explicit none marker. The process-environment boundary treats only a missing legacy marker as none. The protected runtime template remains byte-for-byte unchanged, preserving installer trust.
  • Extend finalization with immutable registry identity, sandbox-scoped policy inspection, one fixed 30-second HTTP/1.1 activation over the declared Unix socket, and post-response revalidation. The client writes without an early FIN, validates Content-Length, and requires EOF within the existing bound to reject extra responses across socket chunks. The request specifies Connection: close.
  • Persist bounded identity-bound evidence for failed or ambiguous activation through the existing onboarding session state. Fresh-session replacement and resume refuse to mutate or discard that evidence.
  • Reject providerless APF onboarding when a component is registered because v1 does not define that combined lifecycle. A public onboard regression proves rejection before preflight, gateway, or sandbox effects.
  • Reuse the existing onboarding state machine, session state, gateway writer, identity checks, policy inspection, and finalization flow.

Verification

Current candidate: fcc1ec4910568e7c16a58e6a585e6935181f6580 merges canonical main 8d6643be25fb9ae80f6e2357b45b69ef4f3e0416 without conflicts. Five focused CLI files passed 113 tests, and npm run typecheck:cli plus git diff --check origin/main...HEAD passed. The current formatter passes all 33 PR files. Four affected CLI files passed 62 tests. A focused public boundary replay passed both selected cases; the full file passed the component case and 16 other tests but one unrelated ordinary-onboarding case exceeded its 15-second limit. Normal commit and push hooks passed. CI / Pull Request passed, including all 12 CLI shards. Managed-image validation passed, including all-agent runtime activation and both OpenClaw MCP discovery passes. CodeRabbit is green, and all review threads are resolved.

PR managed-image validation and the trusted main image publication passed. E2E run 34470475249 completed with five passing runtime jobs: Deep Agents Code, cloud onboarding, managed-image startup on AMD64 and ARM64, and protected GPU/local-inference qualification. The GPU artifact verifies all three agents across Ollama, vLLM, and NIM, rollback, and cleanup with no cleanup failures. Base-image selection passed and the immutable dispatch receipt matches this candidate, base, trusted workflow ef99be1e30cb78345ca5cc488a175a7bcb003f6b, and approved selectors.

The onboard-repair, onboard-resume, and openshell-gateway-upgrade jobs failed before runtime tests during reviewed SDK installation with npm Cannot read properties of null (reading 'edgesOut'). The same error occurred on the base. Docker credential cleanup passed. The failure reproduces with unchanged package files; removing --package-lock=false fixes it without changing either manifest. A separate prerequisite patch has six passing SDK tests and 16 passing workflow-boundary tests; details and remaining publication decision. E2E remains red until those three targets execute successfully.

CI shard 4 timed out in the unchanged repository-wide test-registration scan after 15 seconds. The exact-base CI test, a focused local run, and the targeted rerun passed; the aggregate CI gate then passed. Advisor runs 34503840980 and 34518237561 produced no finding. In each run, all nine specialists stopped for provider budget exhaustion with zero response bytes and no specialist artifact. The earlier CI, Advisor, and E2E results below belong to the stated previous commits.

  • npx vitest run --project cli src/lib/onboard/docker-driver-gateway-config-toml.test.ts src/lib/onboard/docker-driver-gateway-env.test.ts src/lib/onboard/docker-driver-gateway-runtime.test.ts src/lib/onboard/external-component/activation.test.ts src/lib/onboard/external-component/index.test.ts src/lib/onboard/external-component/onboarding.test.ts src/lib/onboard/external-component/proof.test.ts src/lib/onboard/machine/handlers/finalization.test.ts src/lib/onboard/machine/handlers/gateway.test.ts src/lib/onboard/machine/handlers/sandbox-external-component.test.ts src/lib/onboard/machine/initial-flow-composition.test.ts src/lib/onboard/machine/initial-flow-phases.test.ts src/lib/onboard/session-bootstrap.test.ts src/lib/state/onboard-session-external-component.test.ts — 14 files and 245 tests passed after the review repairs.
  • npx vitest run --project integration test/onboarding/onboard-fsm-live-slices.test.ts — 1 file and 18 tests passed after adding the public APF regression.
  • npm run typecheck:cli — passed after the review repairs.
  • npm run validate:pr — passed at f9d4afb2c26c450f3f83033aad2e3219a0d3b039 against canonical main 5150eb77b06d50526c293bd7f22ea67f85b64215, including repository checks, secret scanning, growth checks, commit-message validation, and CLI type checking.
  • Normal pre-commit, commit-message, and pre-push hooks passed. Every PR commit is signed, includes the DCO declaration, and appears as Verified on GitHub.
  • The trusted E2E planner recommends cloud-onboard, managed-image-multiarch-startup, managed-image-protected-runtime, onboard-repair, onboard-resume, openshell-gateway-upgrade, and target ubuntu-repo-cloud-langchain-deepagents-code. The approved E2E run 34462758081 failed before runtime tests: the base-image publication gate timed out for base 5150eb77b06d50526c293bd7f22ea67f85b64215, whose publisher run was cancelled at cohort promotion. All runtime jobs were skipped. That historical run provided no runtime verdict; run 34470475249 supersedes its image-selection result. The dispatched command uses the workflow default Docker runtime.
  • Repair commit 45d62309bb1dbbb1bf371944099566b295a52feb: eight focused CLI test files passed (165 tests). The final activation/fixture adjustment was rechecked with npx vitest run --project cli src/lib/onboard/external-component/activation.test.ts src/lib/onboard/external-component/index.test.ts (43 tests passed).
  • npx vitest run --project integration test/install/installer-sandbox-build-trust.test.ts test/install/installer-supervisor-manifest-trust.test.ts test/install/installer-homebrew-formula-reuse-trust.test.ts — 35 tests passed after the repair.
  • npm run build:cli, npm --prefix nemoclaw run build, and npm run typecheck:cli — passed after the repair.
  • npm run validate:pr — passed at 45d62309bb1dbbb1bf371944099566b295a52feb against API-verified and freshly fetched canonical main f6cfef3416a025141d75c1bf9ee1ac56061bc377. Validator inputs matched canonical main; resolved validator binaries matched the trusted checkout. The signed commit and guarded fast-forward push passed normal hooks; every published commit is Verified on GitHub.
  • CI / Pull Request — passed on 45d62309bb1dbbb1bf371944099566b295a52feb, including all twelve CLI shards and coverage. Installer hash, title, and DCO checks passed. Automatic managed-image validation also passed, including runtime activation and both MCP discovery passes.
  • The reviewed diff contains no secrets, API keys, or credentials.

Review notes

Sensitive paths are src/lib/onboard.ts and src/lib/onboard/**.

Human review by sandl99 identified four required corrections: delayed activation responses, providerless APF bypass, fresh-session replacement of incomplete evidence, and declaration validation after preflight effects. Commit a9e70bf121b98d72fd4d27b548a101a3fe46c6b9 addresses all four with focused regressions.

CodeRabbit identified the same lifecycle boundaries plus exact response framing, safe lifecycle-generation evidence, removed gateway identity drift, and symbolic-link socket-parent classification. Commit a9e70bf121b98d72fd4d27b548a101a3fe46c6b9 addresses the remaining findings. Commit 45d62309bb1dbbb1bf371944099566b295a52feb additionally preserves resume evidence, restores the protected runtime template, checks fixture ancestors explicitly, exercises a valid proof-generation change, and rejects a second activation response arriving in a later chunk. All nine CodeRabbit threads were resolved and the review was green on 45d62309bb1dbbb1bf371944099566b295a52feb. The outside-diff transport-wrapper suggestion is addressed in the disposition comment: the activation service already accepts an injected transport.

Human review requested earlier fresh-sandbox proof and legacy no-component compatibility. Commit 91420c9dfe4a40abb233fac5c8271c19cb55675f moves the proof before every preflight effect and treats only an absent legacy component marker as none; the two threads await reviewer confirmation.

PR Review Advisor evaluated candidate 47a2c7058e6df49687768b6a17fa4f3131962a80 in run 34451670616. Its Verification Evidence report requested a positive final-dependency handoff test, which commit a9e70bf121b98d72fd4d27b548a101a3fe46c6b9 adds. Three specialists failed without publishing artifacts. The maintainer deferred only those missing artifacts in the disposition comment; #11392 tracks the workflow defect. The Advisor run for f9d4afb2c26c450f3f83033aad2e3219a0d3b039 was skipped after failed CI. Earlier candidate 45d62309bb1dbbb1bf371944099566b295a52feb completed Advisor run 34461579324 successfully. All nine specialist reports were collected and read; none identified an actionable blocker. Verification retains the recommended live E2E evidence as an outstanding gate.

Documentation is tracked in #11375. Identity-verified operator recovery is outside the accepted first slice and tracked in #11391.


Signed-off-by: Apurv Kumaria akumaria@nvidia.com
Signed-off-by: San Dang sdang@nvidia.com

Summary by CodeRabbit

  • New Features

    • Added secure Linux external-component declaration, validation, and onboarding.
    • Added Unix-socket activation with bounded responses, timeouts, and integrity checks.
    • External components can be associated with gateway configuration and validated before sandbox setup.
    • Activation status and limited evidence are preserved in onboarding sessions and debug summaries.
  • Bug Fixes

    • Onboarding now pauses safely when activation is incomplete or ambiguous.
    • Prevented unsupported resume, recreation, reuse, and externally supervised gateway scenarios.
    • Added safeguards against unsafe files, sockets, altered declarations, and configuration drift.

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Adds external-component declaration validation, secure gateway interceptor configuration, Unix-socket activation, proof revalidation, onboarding-flow integration, and persisted incomplete activation evidence.

Changes

External component lifecycle

Layer / File(s) Summary
Declaration validation and filesystem proofs
src/lib/onboard/external-component/*
Adds strict declaration parsing, Linux and socket checks, ownership and permission validation, replacement detection, and typed contract errors.
Gateway interceptor configuration
src/lib/onboard/docker-driver-gateway-config.ts, src/lib/onboard/docker-driver-gateway-env.ts, src/lib/onboard/docker-driver-gateway-runtime.test.ts, src/lib/onboard/docker-driver-gateway-config-toml.test.ts
Persists canonical interceptor settings, derives gateway identities, recovers existing configuration, detects removal drift, and forwards output warnings.
Activation proof and Unix-socket handoff
src/lib/onboard/external-component/proof.ts, src/lib/onboard/external-component/activation.ts, src/lib/onboard/external-component/*test.ts
Captures immutable sandbox and policy evidence, validates bounded HTTP responses, sends activation requests over Unix sockets, and revalidates evidence before and after activation.
Onboarding flow integration
src/lib/onboard.ts, src/lib/onboard/external-component/onboarding.ts, src/lib/onboard/machine/*
Carries validated components through preflight and gateway phases, restricts onboarding to fresh sandboxes, activates components before readiness, and pauses on failed or ambiguous activation.
Incomplete activation session evidence
src/lib/state/onboard-session.ts, src/lib/state/onboard-session-external-component.test.ts, src/lib/onboard/session-bootstrap.ts
Adds strict, secret-free persistence and validation for incomplete activation evidence and rejects affected fresh or resumed sessions before mutation.

Estimated code review effort: 5 (Critical) | ~90 minutes

Sequence Diagram(s)

sequenceDiagram
  participant Onboarding
  participant Gateway
  participant Proof
  participant ExternalComponent
  participant Session
  Onboarding->>Gateway: configure validated component
  Gateway-->>Onboarding: configured gateway identity
  Onboarding->>Proof: create activation proof
  Proof-->>Onboarding: immutable identity and policy evidence
  Onboarding->>ExternalComponent: send activation request
  ExternalComponent-->>Onboarding: activation response
  Onboarding->>Proof: revalidate evidence
  Onboarding->>Session: persist or clear incomplete activation evidence
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Fast-follow documentation gap: #11375 will publish the experimental v1 operator contract after this implementation merges.

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Fast-follow recovery gap: #11391 will define and implement an identity-verified operator path for incomplete activation. Automatic recovery remains outside the approved v1 scope.

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Maintainer disposition for candidate 70c851bdb6cece2cb782a973ba0fb2ade587e1c6: defer the repeated missing Verification Evidence artifact from PR Review Advisor run 34439476165. Attempt 2 completed eight of nine specialists; job 102753691886 failed before producing its artifact. #11392 tracks the automation defect. This deferral does not waive candidate-owned findings or required CI.

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Maintainer disposition: defer the missing Operability and recovery artifact for PR commit 05e5a0a. Attempt 2 of Advisor run 34443678998 failed because the specialist omitted its required evidence read and produced no artifact. Issue #11392 tracks this Advisor infrastructure failure. This deferral applies only to the missing artifact. It does not waive findings from completed specialists. We will repair those findings and rerun CI and Advisor for the next PR commit.

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src/lib/onboard/external-component/activation.ts (1)

161-167: 🩺 Stability & Availability | 🔵 Trivial | ⚡ Quick win

Consider parsing the response as soon as the declared body is complete.

parseExternalComponentHttpResponse runs only in the end handler. The request sends Connection: close, so a conforming component closes the connection. A component that returns a complete, valid response and then holds the connection open makes this call wait the full EXTERNAL_COMPONENT_ACTIVATION_TIMEOUT_MS and return { kind: "ambiguous", reason: "timeout" }. Onboarding then pauses a component that actually activated.

The outcome fails closed, so this is not a safety defect. transfer-encoding is rejected and content-length is mandatory, so the buffered bytes are sufficient to detect completion in the data handler. Attempting the parse there, and keeping the end handler as the fallback, removes the 30 s stall.

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In `@src/lib/onboard/external-component/activation.ts` around lines 161 - 167,
Update the socket response handling around parseExternalComponentHttpResponse to
detect completion from the declared content-length while processing data chunks
and parse immediately once the full body is buffered. Preserve the end-handler
parse as a fallback for responses that only complete when the connection closes,
and keep the existing invalid-response error conversion and finish behavior.
src/lib/onboard/external-component/proof.test.ts (1)

129-137: 🎯 Functional Correctness | 🔵 Trivial | ⚡ Quick win

Cover both successful revalidation branches.

The current test changes row.current_policy_version to 4 while policyIdentity.activeVersion remains 3. The second capture therefore fails before isDeepStrictEqual runs, so removing the comparison can still leave the existing tests passing. Add unchanged and internally valid changed snapshots.

♻️ Proposed additional cases
+  it("accepts an unchanged snapshot during revalidation (`#11340`)", () => {
+    const { deps } = fixture();
+    const proof = createExternalComponentActivationProof("assistant", "nemoclaw", deps);
+
+    expect(() => proof.revalidate("after_activation")).not.toThrow();
+  });
+
+  it("rejects a valid but different snapshot during revalidation (`#11340`)", () => {
+    const { deps, entry } = fixture();
+    const proof = createExternalComponentActivationProof("assistant", "nemoclaw", deps);
+    entry.lifecycleGeneration = "generation-2";
+
+    expect(() => proof.revalidate("after_activation")).toThrow(ExternalComponentProofError);
+  });
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In `@src/lib/onboard/external-component/proof.test.ts` around lines 129 - 137,
Update the tests around createExternalComponentActivationProof and revalidate to
cover both successful revalidation branches: an unchanged snapshot and an
internally valid changed snapshot whose current_policy_version matches
policyIdentity.activeVersion. Ensure these cases reach the deep-equality
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Inline comments:
In `@src/lib/onboard/docker-driver-gateway-env.ts`:
- Around line 105-112: Update buildDockerDriverGatewayEnv’s call to
prepareDockerDriverGatewayConfigEnv to pass the selected gatewayHostRuntime
explicitly, ensuring namespace validation and generated host_gateway_ip and
supervisor_bin fields use the injected runtime consistently.

In `@src/lib/onboard/docker-driver-gateway-runtime.test.ts`:
- Around line 566-584: Update getDockerDriverGatewayReuseDrift to detect when
NEMOCLAW_EXTERNAL_COMPONENT_GATEWAY_IDENTITY_ENV is present in the running
gateway environment but absent from the desired environment, reporting an
explicit <unset> drift instead of skipping the key. Add a regression test
alongside the existing external identity test in
getDockerDriverGatewayRuntimeDriftFromSnapshot covering removal of the
configured identity.

In `@src/lib/onboard/external-component/index.test.ts`:
- Line 68: Make the temporary fixture setup in the test harness explicitly
guarantee a safe ancestor chain for the root used by the socket-directory load
tests. Prefer a harness-provided safe path; otherwise add a fixture-level
precondition that detects and clearly reports the first unsafe ancestor before
running the tests, preserving the existing socket fixture behavior.

In `@src/lib/onboard/external-component/index.ts`:
- Line 311: Update the parent-validation flow around captureSafeParents and
identity(stat, "directory") so symlink or non-directory parents are classified
as socket_parent_unsafe rather than declaration_ambiguous. Preserve the existing
lstat and owner/mode failure handling and ensure socket paths with unsafe
parents report the socket-parent reason class.

In `@src/lib/onboard/machine/handlers/finalization.ts`:
- Line 223: Validate proof.lifecycleGeneration against the persisted evidence
format used by validSafeEvidence before returning or creating the activation
proof in the finalization flow. Reject or handle values that are empty, exceed
256 characters, or contain characters outside [A-Za-z0-9._:`@/-`], while
preserving valid registry values and preventing invalid evidence from reaching
setExternalComponentActivationEvidence.

In `@src/lib/onboard/machine/handlers/gateway.ts`:
- Line 154: Update handleGatewayState to validate that the external-component
decision is create before calling deps.configureExternalComponentGateway; avoid
writing OPENSHELL_GATEWAY_CONFIG for reuse, repair, or other non-create
decisions, while preserving the existing configuration flow for create.

---

Nitpick comments:
In `@src/lib/onboard/external-component/activation.ts`:
- Around line 161-167: Update the socket response handling around
parseExternalComponentHttpResponse to detect completion from the declared
content-length while processing data chunks and parse immediately once the full
body is buffered. Preserve the end-handler parse as a fallback for responses
that only complete when the connection closes, and keep the existing
invalid-response error conversion and finish behavior.

In `@src/lib/onboard/external-component/proof.test.ts`:
- Around line 129-137: Update the tests around
createExternalComponentActivationProof and revalidate to cover both successful
revalidation branches: an unchanged snapshot and an internally valid changed
snapshot whose current_policy_version matches policyIdentity.activeVersion.
Ensure these cases reach the deep-equality comparison, while preserving the
existing rejection test for identity or policy changes.

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Review of commit 05e5a0aecb08caa188321b9ee048bb3b871132da: I recommend addressing these four findings before merge.

  1. [P1] Keep the HTTP request socket open until activation responds.

    activation.ts:148–151 calls socket.end(request), sending a FIN immediately after the request. A local Node HTTP server with a 25 ms asynchronous activation handler completed its work, but the client returned response_invalid because the connection closed before the response. This records ambiguous activation even though the component performed the operation. The existing socket test responds synchronously and misses this case. Changing only socket.end to socket.write made the delayed-response probe pass. Keep the connection open while retaining the deadline and response bounds, and add an asynchronous HTTP-server regression test.

  2. [P1] Prevent APF onboarding from bypassing external activation.

    core-flow-phases.ts:333–337 allows apfInterceptorRequested and externalComponentRegistered together. The existing APF path returns completeOnboardMachine from the sandbox handler, and runOnboard returns with exit code zero before finalization. Component activation therefore never runs. A probe using the existing providerless APF fixture with externalComponentRegistered: true confirmed that sandbox creation returns type: "complete". Reject this combination before effects if it is outside v1, or require activation before its completion path reports success.

  3. [P2] Check persisted activation evidence before replacing a fresh session.

    The guard in onboarding.ts:14–22 checks only the session passed to the gateway phase. Earlier, prepareFreshSession clears/replaces the persisted session. A probe seeded valid incomplete activation evidence, invoked fresh bootstrap, and observed externalComponentActivation: null. The activation ID and immutable identity evidence needed to reconcile the preserved sandbox and external resources are lost before the guard runs. Check the saved session before replacement and preserve its evidence until supported recovery disposes of it. This does not require implementing the deferred recovery feature in Add identity-verified recovery for incomplete external-component activation #11391.

  4. [P2] Validate the declaration before preflight gateway effects.

    The declaration is first read in initial-flow-phases.ts:197–205, during the gateway phase. The preceding preflight calls prepareGatewayAuthority and runPreflightGatewaySequence. Managed Docker gateway reuse inspection can call getDockerDriverGatewayEnv, which writes gateway configuration; other preflight paths install or reconcile gateway state. An initial-flow probe confirmed that the preflight callback runs before an invalid declaration is rejected. The probe mocks the effect at the phase boundary; the concrete gateway effects were traced in source. Move validation before these effects and extend the ordering test across preflight.

Validation:

  • npm run build:cli passed.
  • All 14 focused PR test files passed: 210 tests.
  • Four temporary regression probes failed at the expected assertions described above.
  • The delayed-response probe passed with the one-line transport change; that production edit was then reverted.
  • Tests ran on macOS with Node v25.9.0. No live Linux gateway or cloud sandbox validation was performed. The regression probes are local review evidence and are not committed to this PR.

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3287-3287: 🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟠 Major | 🏗️ Heavy lift

Run external-component activation before the providerless APF early return.

APF validation rejects provider and messaging plans, but it does not reject externalComponentRegistered. A fresh providerless APF run can therefore create a sandbox with an external component. activateExternalComponent runs only during finalization, which the completed providerless APF path skips. Reject this combination before effects, or activate the external component before the return. Add a public onboard regression test for the combined case.

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223-223: 🗄️ Data Integrity & Integration | 🟠 Major | ⚡ Quick win

Align lifecycle-generation validation before activation proof capture. createCreatedSandboxLifecycle permits internal spaces and lengths up to 512, while parseExternalComponentActivation accepts only [A-Za-z0-9._:@/-]{1,256}. createExternalComponentActivationProof copies such a generation into failed or ambiguous activation evidence, and updateSession then drops the invalid record. The paused session can lose its identity-bound recovery evidence. Use one shared validator for lifecycle generation capture and session persistence.

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In `@src/lib/onboard/machine/handlers/finalization.ts` at line 223, Use a shared
lifecycle-generation validator across createCreatedSandboxLifecycle,
parseExternalComponentActivation, createExternalComponentActivationProof, and
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In `@src/lib/onboard.ts`:
- Line 2930: Update createInitialOnboardFlowPhases to call
prepareExternalComponent before preflight, store the validated component in the
flow context, and have the gateway phase reuse it instead of preparing again.
Add coverage for fresh, resume, repair, and failure paths verifying rejected
declarations produce no gateway effects.

In `@src/lib/onboard/external-component/activation.test.ts`:
- Around line 83-84: Update sendExternalComponentActivation and the activation
test fixture to frame requests and responses using Content-Length: write the
request without half-closing the socket, resolve when the declared response body
has been received rather than waiting for socket end, and have the fixture parse
the declared request length before generating its response.

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In `@src/lib/onboard.ts`:
- Line 3287: Update the providerless APF flow in onboard so external-component
activation occurs before its early return, or reject the
externalComponentRegistered combination before any effects. Ensure completed
providerless APF runs cannot leave an external component inactive, and add a
public onboard regression test covering the combined case.

In `@src/lib/onboard/machine/handlers/finalization.ts`:
- Line 223: Use a shared lifecycle-generation validator across
createCreatedSandboxLifecycle, parseExternalComponentActivation,
createExternalComponentActivationProof, and updateSession so captured and
persisted values follow the same allowed characters and maximum length. Apply
the validator before activation proof capture and preserve valid
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Maintainer disposition for candidate 47a2c70: defer the three missing PR Review Advisor artifacts from run 34451670616. Specialist / Operability and recovery job 102788811870, Specialist / Customer value and behavior job 102788811876, and Specialist / Security and built-in quality job 102788811903 failed without publishing their required review artifacts. #11392 tracks the automation defect. This deferral is limited to the missing artifacts and does not waive required CI or review findings. The next candidate repairs all collected findings and will receive a new review cycle.

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@sandl99 Thanks for the detailed review. All four change requests are addressed in commit a9e70bf, included in candidate f9d4afb: delayed Content-Length-framed activation responses keep the socket open; providerless APF with a registered component is rejected before effects with a public onboard regression; incomplete activation evidence is checked before fresh-session replacement; and declaration validation now precedes preflight effects. The focused suites passed 245 CLI tests and 18 live-dispatcher boundary tests, and npm run validate:pr passed against canonical main 5150eb7. All PR commits are Verified. Fresh CI and automated review are running.

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129-137: 🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

Keep the second capture internally consistent while testing snapshot drift.

The test changes row.current_policy_version but leaves inspection.policyIdentity.activeVersion unchanged. The consistency guard rejects this mismatch before isDeepStrictEqual runs. Mutate a valid captured field instead, such as value.entry.lifecycleGeneration = "generation-2", so revalidation reaches the snapshot comparison and fails if that comparison is removed.

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In `@src/lib/onboard/external-component/proof.test.ts` around lines 129 - 137,
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142-142: 📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🟠 Major | 🏗️ Heavy lift

Isolate the Unix-socket transport behind an injectable helper.

net.createConnection at Line 142 creates the HTTP boundary in the onboarding service. Move this operation behind an injected transport helper. This preserves the required onboarding layering and enables deterministic boundary tests.

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CodeRabbit follow-up for 45d62309bb1dbbb1bf371944099566b295a52feb: all nine inline threads are resolved with fix references or a current-code disposition.

The new outside-diff finding asks for an injectable Unix-socket transport. That boundary already exists: activateExternalComponent accepts an ActivationTransport argument, defaulting to the separate sendExternalComponentActivation helper. The activation tests inject success and failure transports, while real Unix-socket tests cover framing, delayed responses, and cleanup. Adding another wrapper around net.createConnection would duplicate this boundary without addressing a demonstrated defect. Disposition: no change required.

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Approved E2E follow-up for 45d62309bb1dbbb1bf371944099566b295a52feb: run 34462758081 was dispatched, but P0 E2E remains blocked.

Clarification: publisher run 34459969670 succeeded for d8c87ad5cf4d08fc30d71ab8dbd4b1b99008a6bf at 09:54:01 UTC, before E2E timed out at 09:54:49 UTC. It includes the publication artifacts. The failure was not an absence of a newer successful publication: the selector was bound to the older PR base 5150eb77b06d50526c293bd7f22ea67f85b64215 and excluded that newer commit. Running the trusted first-parent selector locally confirmed that the old base only admits its own publication, while current main 82b9b4f9bc6f322a7e5ae0ebe686e3ccf31e7a3f admits the successful d8c87ad5cf publication. Using it for this PR requires updating the PR base and validating the resulting candidate before a fresh E2E dispatch; changing only the dispatch base would violate the PR identity checks.

The base-image-publication job found the PR’s exact managed-image catalog, then timed out after the fixed five-minute search for a successful base-image push publication covering base 5150eb77b06d50526c293bd7f22ea67f85b64215. The publisher run for that base was cancelled.

No candidate runtime test started. Matrix generation, the dispatch-receipt upload, and all selected runtime jobs were skipped. Only SDK packaging and the trusted publication reader ran; no GPU or sandbox resources were created, and the Docker-auth/inference-credential steps were not reached. Hosted-runner post-job cleanup completed.

Result: unresolved publication prerequisite, with no candidate regression verdict. The full repository failure classifier requires Linux and could not run on this macOS host; diagnosis uses authenticated job metadata and a bounded, redacted log excerpt. A successful publication satisfying the current base gate is needed before another E2E attempt.

Dispatch identity: source NVIDIA/NemoClaw (NVIDIA Organization), candidate 45d62309bb1dbbb1bf371944099566b295a52feb, base 5150eb77b06d50526c293bd7f22ea67f85b64215, trusted workflow 82b9b4f9bc6f322a7e5ae0ebe686e3ccf31e7a3f, correlation 1577d100-20a8-4c66-b046-7d881e415793. The PR head and base still match. Jobs: cloud-onboard, managed-image-multiarch-startup, managed-image-protected-runtime, onboard-repair, onboard-resume, openshell-gateway-upgrade; target: ubuntu-repo-cloud-langchain-deepagents-code; inference mode: mock; gateway runtime: workflow default docker. The earlier local preview overstated Podman coverage; the dispatched command contained no Podman runtime input.

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Merged current main 2cb39b7f8100ac68aeafb4a911db8ec1b8a1814b into this PR as verified commit cfcc60b17a36cd2ae62144359c0e3a1ab5bbcd1e, without conflicts. The PR now records the new base.

npm run validate:pr passed. All 14 focused CLI files passed (248 tests). The local FSM integration failures hit the Homebrew trust probe; the same failure reproduced on unchanged main. No candidate code change was made to accommodate the host.

The PR image build and trusted main image publication are running. After the new candidate gates and image evidence settle, the authorized E2E run will retain cloud-onboard, managed-image-multiarch-startup, managed-image-protected-runtime, onboard-repair, onboard-resume, openshell-gateway-upgrade, and ubuntu-repo-cloud-langchain-deepagents-code, with mock inference and Docker. The previous E2E failure remains historical evidence for the old base; it is not a runtime result for this candidate.

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Status for cfcc60b17a36cd2ae62144359c0e3a1ab5bbcd1e: the trusted main image publication passed for base 2cb39b7f8100ac68aeafb4a911db8ec1b8a1814b. The PR image workflow is still running; E2E dispatch will follow its successful publication and validation.

CI shard 4 failed because test/repository/test-registration-boundary.test.ts:281 exceeded its 15-second timeout while checking for test registration outside test and suite files. The aggregate cli-tests and checks failures derive from this shard failure.

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No CI rerun has been requested. Advisor skipped the new evaluation because CI failed. The previous nine specialist reports apply to 45d62309bb1dbbb1bf371944099566b295a52feb; the PR diff relative to its base is byte-for-byte unchanged by the merge. CodeRabbit explicitly carried its review forward to cfcc60b17a, and all nine threads remain resolved. CI and a new Advisor evaluation remain outstanding even if E2E succeeds.

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E2E run 34470475249 was dispatched for cfcc60b17a36cd2ae62144359c0e3a1ab5bbcd1e. Base-image selection passed, and the immutable nemoclaw-e2e-dispatch-v2 receipt matches the intended revision and selectors. Matrix generation is in progress; this is not a completed runtime result.

The trusted base publication and candidate image validation both passed, including all-agent activation and both MCP discovery executions. The old publication-selection failure is resolved for this run.

Dispatch identity: source NVIDIA/NemoClaw (NVIDIA Organization); candidate cfcc60b17a36cd2ae62144359c0e3a1ab5bbcd1e; base 2cb39b7f8100ac68aeafb4a911db8ec1b8a1814b; trusted workflow ef99be1e30cb78345ca5cc488a175a7bcb003f6b; correlation e40669bf-5b4e-4e5f-9f42-57be68aca081; attempt 1; receipt artifact 10149336752.

Jobs: cloud-onboard, managed-image-multiarch-startup, managed-image-protected-runtime, onboard-repair, onboard-resume, openshell-gateway-upgrade. Target: ubuntu-repo-cloud-langchain-deepagents-code. Inference: mock. Gateway runtime: docker. Launchable, Jetson dispatch, and DGX Spark runner queuing remain disabled.

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The new E2E run accepted candidate cfcc60b17a36cd2ae62144359c0e3a1ab5bbcd1e, passed base-image publication selection, and generated its matrix. The previous image-selection blocker is resolved.

Three catalogue jobs now fail in the shared Install reviewed OpenShell SDK archive without package credentials step: onboard-repair, onboard-resume, and openshell-gateway-upgrade. Each reports npm error Cannot read properties of null (reading 'edgesOut'). Their runtime test steps never ran, and Docker credential cleanup passed in all three jobs.

The existing E2E run on exact base 2cb39b7f8100ac68aeafb4a911db8ec1b8a1814b has nine jobs failing at the same SDK-install step. One retained base job log confirms the identical npm error. This PR does not change the package manifests, lockfiles, or reusable SDK-install workflow. The evidence identifies a shared setup failure already present on main; it does not provide a runtime verdict for these three PR targets.

Other selected E2E jobs are still running. No E2E retry or base replay was dispatched. The separate CI scan timeout and skipped Advisor evaluation also remain outstanding.

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SDK setup blocker reproduced and a focused prerequisite fix is prepared.

The failed resume job and the same failure on the base commit stop before target execution. With the reviewed SDK archive and this PR's unchanged package files, Node 22.23.2 / npm 10.9.8 reproduces the edgesOut crash.

Removing --package-lock=false from the SDK install command fixes the reproduction. SDK import succeeds and both manifests remain byte-identical. The flag currently discards the locked graph and makes npm resolve peer dependencies again. Both affected workflow paths need the same change: the catalogue profile and external gateway health.

Two new offline regression cases fail with the old command and pass with the correction. All six SDK tests and 16 workflow-boundary tests pass. The separate four-file prerequisite patch also updates the validator's expected command; publication is pending the maintainer's decision on that validator change.

PR commit remains cfcc60b17a36cd2ae62144359c0e3a1ab5bbcd1e. Deep Agents Code, cloud onboarding, and managed-image startup on AMD64 and ARM64 have passed. GPU qualification also passed for all three agents, including Ollama, vLLM, NIM, rollback, and cleanup. The run is complete; its only three failed jobs stopped at the shared SDK setup step. CI remains blocked by the previously recorded repository-scan timeout. No E2E rerun has been requested.

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Confirmed attribution: this E2E failure is inherited from main.

Tracked separately in #11449 with the reproduction and tested correction.

  • The PR and base have byte-identical SDK setup workflow, preparation action, package manifest, and lockfile. The failing command landed on main in fix(e2e): install reviewed OpenShell SDK for catalogue jobs #11397.
  • The exact-base automatic run has nine failed SDK-install jobs. Newer automatic main run 34477226195 now has 61 jobs failing at the same setup step; its resume log confirms the same edgesOut error.
  • Current main 54b379685fdc23cbac111350f9dceccb3f2f2799 still contains npm install --no-save --package-lock=false --ignore-scripts. Disabling the lockfile triggers fresh peer resolution and npm 10.9.8 crashes. Removing only --package-lock=false fixes the isolated reproduction while preserving both manifests. Two real-npm regression cases fail before the change and pass after it; all 22 focused SDK/workflow tests pass.
  • This PR's three failed jobs stopped before executing their runtime targets. Its five other runtime qualifications passed, including GPU/local inference, rollback, and cleanup. Trusted image selection also passed.

The main workflow fix must land before these three targets can provide E2E evidence. No feature-code change or unchanged E2E rerun is indicated by this failure.

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Two lifecycle-contract blockers remain on this commit: the explicit component sandbox name must be proven fresh before any gateway effects, and the legacy no-component path must continue reusing its gateway. The rest of the security-sensitive review is clean. The trusted E2E prerequisite failure is inherited from the base and is being treated as waiting infrastructure evidence, not contributor feedback.

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Approved on the current commit after exact-head reassessment. Prior requested changes are resolved and the accepted external-component lifecycle is fail-closed before mutable onboarding effects.

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## Outcome

Operators can now follow one owning procedure for the supported version
1 external component lifecycle during fresh Linux onboarding.
The guide covers registration, gateway rendering, activation,
incomplete-state handling, and the credential boundary without changing
onboarding when no component is registered.

## Reason

PR #11366 shipped the lifecycle accepted in #11340, but the public
documentation did not explain the complete operator contract required by
#11375.
The workflow-owned command-reference draft in #11447 provides a short
command summary; this PR adds the owning procedure without modifying
that draft.

### Related issues

Closes #11375
Refs #11340
Refs #11366
Refs #11447

## Changes

- Add a shared deployment guide with the fixed declaration schema,
filesystem checks, trust boundary, and interceptor settings.
- Document the exact HTTP activation exchange, fixed deadlines, identity
and policy checks, result classes, and preserved incomplete state.
- Publish the guide in the OpenClaw, Hermes, and Deep Agents navigation.
- Prevent the host-state reference from treating external component
activation evidence as disposable failed-session state.

## Verification

- `npm run docs` — passed after the final edit; generated all three
agent variants, validated routes, and reported zero Fern errors.
- `npm run validate:pr` — passed for commit
`2cbddc1a0ad874e15452df7a32b90812ca41c1fb` against canonical `main` at
`555ba281feb4924935bda74dc35baa42129218fe`.
- Generated-page inspection — confirmed the OpenClaw, Hermes, and Deep
Agents command variants and selected-gateway activation fields.
- Independent documentation-writer review — approved the final
three-file diff with no remaining findings.
- GitHub commit verification — commit
`2cbddc1a0ad874e15452df7a32b90812ca41c1fb` is `Verified`.
- No runtime test applies because this PR changes only documentation and
navigation; the merged source and regression tests for #11340 were the
behavior authority.
- The validation secret scan passed, and the diff contains no secrets,
API keys, or credentials.

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Signed-off-by: Apurv Kumaria <akumaria@nvidia.com>


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## Summary by CodeRabbit

* **Documentation**
* Added guidance for registering external host components during fresh
Linux sandbox onboarding.
* Documented declaration formats, validation, security requirements,
activation workflows, credential handling, and verification.
  * Added the new deployment guide to relevant documentation navigation.
* Clarified gateway state-root usage and onboarding-session evidence,
lifecycle binding, deletion guidance, and recovery limitations.

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## Outcome

Fresh onboarding with one registered external component and explicit
providerless selection reaches the existing activation lifecycle instead
of failing with `lifecycle_unsupported`. Completion requires verified
immutable sandbox identity and effective policy, successful bounded
activation, and post-response reverification. Ordinary onboarding,
ordinary component onboarding, and providerless onboarding without
registration retain their existing selection paths.

## Reason

Removing the combination guard alone would let the providerless core
flow complete before activation. The final flow also assumed a
provider/model selection and ordinary agent and policy setup. Live
qualification exposed an additional mismatch: OpenShell returns a bare
SHA-256 policy digest, while the activation proof expected its `sha256:`
representation.

### Related issues

Fixes #11486. Extends #11366 under #11340 and follows the [accepted
scope
decision](#11486 (comment)).

## Changes

- Route the explicitly selected combination through the existing state
machine and finalizer. Skip ordinary provider, agent, and policy setup
for this combination only; registration alone does not select it.
- Retain declaration validation before gateway effects, NemoClaw's
gateway ownership, and OpenShell's authority over identity, policy, and
provider resolution. NemoClaw supplies no initial policy, creates no
providers, and handles no component credentials in this flow.
- Preserve existing activation deadlines, fail-closed behavior,
post-response verification, and identity-bound incomplete-state
evidence. Normalize a valid OpenShell SHA-256 digest without changing
the activation message format or accepting malformed digests.
- Extend existing fixtures with explicit success and failure cases, and
update the owning component-registration and command documentation. Keep
#11375 documentation-only and #11453's declarative onboarding separate.
No new provider APIs, hooks, service management, retry, recovery, or
lifecycle interface.

## Verification

- Implementation validation covered component registration, activation,
proof, flow handoffs, sandbox identity, providerless plans, and gateway
configuration: 270 tests passed across 15 files. After the digest
repair, `npx vitest run --project cli src/lib/onboard/external-component
src/lib/onboard/machine/final-flow-phases.test.ts
src/lib/onboard/machine/handlers/finalization.test.ts --coverage=false`
passed all 110 affected tests. The subsequent test-only repair is
verified below.
- `npx vitest run --project cli
src/lib/onboard/machine/final-flow-phases.test.ts
src/lib/onboard/machine/flow-handoff.test.ts --coverage=false` — 34
tests passed after splitting conditional assertions into explicit cases.
- `npx vitest run --project integration
test/onboarding/onboard-fsm-live-slices.test.ts --testTimeout=60000
--coverage=false` — 18 passed. The default-timeout run timed out in two
unchanged subprocess cases; the changed case passed.
- `NODE_OPTIONS=--max-old-space-size=8192 npm run typecheck:cli`, `npm
run build:cli`, changed-file Oxlint, `npm run checks:repository`, and
`git diff --check` — passed during implementation.
- `npm run docs` — zero errors, five Fern warnings. The combined-flow
procedure is present only in the OpenClaw variant; the other generated
variants were checked.
- Real OpenShell 0.0.106 boundary test in disposable Linux: a generic
component supplied sandbox policy through the existing interceptor
contract, the sandbox reached Ready, and one real activation completed
after three identity/policy observations. No caller policy or providers
were supplied. OpenShell rejected a separate unresolved-provider
request. This test used a registry fixture bound to the real sandbox ID;
it was not full NemoClaw onboarding. All disposable containers and
sandboxes were removed.
- Full combined NemoClaw onboarding remains unvalidated: the managed
gateway started, but the sandbox image build exhausted disposable Docker
disk space before activation. No image or security check was bypassed.
- `NODE_OPTIONS=--max-old-space-size=8192 npm run validate:pr` — passed
for candidate `aa79ad4a8fe4a1e059dac81f3d4ec77bdcab14da` against
canonical base `1279b2f1b35790b767ff8252d9fa6e969d5f7d0f`; validation
sources and resolved executables were checked against the canonical
checkout and a fresh locked dependency install.
- Normal pre-commit and commit-message checks passed. The guarded push
also passed CLI, plugin, and checked-JavaScript TypeScript hooks. GitHub
reports the single published commit as Verified.
- The reviewed diff contains no secrets, API keys, or credentials.

## Review notes

Draft for independent review and completion of full combined onboarding
validation. No approval or CI waiver is claimed.

The implementation and publication self-review inspected NVIDIA/NemoClaw
candidate `aa79ad4a8fe4a1e059dac81f3d4ec77bdcab14da`, including the
sensitive paths under `src/lib/onboard/**`, against the accepted scope
and failure-state requirements. The review found no additional scope
change after the test repair. No independent pre-publication review has
been performed; these sensitive paths await independent review.

Open #11483 also changes the existing proof/activation owners and needs
integration coordination. Its code was not imported here.

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## Summary by CodeRabbit

- **New Features**
- Added providerless onboarding for registered external components
through the existing interceptor contract.
- Added validation of component identity, policy proofs, and activation
state before and after sandbox activation.
- Providerless onboarding skips provider, model, credential, and
standard policy setup.

- **Bug Fixes**
- Improved policy digest validation for prefixed and unprefixed SHA-256
values.
- Added fail-closed handling for missing, malformed, changed, or
unavailable activation proofs.

- **Documentation**
- Updated onboarding and command references with providerless component
requirements and behavior.
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