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Outcome

Repeated Hermes onboarding and resume retain verified dashboard and API forwards on their registered ports. Missing forwards start on those ports; unsafe ownership or startup failure stops onboarding.

Reason

The existing reuse checks permit only OpenClaw, so Hermes fails on its own occupied dashboard port. Its additional API forward also lacks reuse and can fail with only a warning.

Related issues

Fixes #11425.

Changes

  • Extend reuse to Hermes and its allocated API port while preserving forward ownership checks and OpenClaw behavior.
  • Restore registered ports, reject sibling reservations, and avoid starting the Hermes dashboard twice.
  • Terminate a newly started forward when readiness verification rejects its ownership or sandbox identity.
  • Keep Hermes config synchronization from invoking OpenClaw initialization when a retained .openclaw directory exists.
  • Extend existing forwarding regressions and double-onboard/resume scenarios for Hermes, with the standard Hermes swap preparation.
  • Repair the rebuild E2E probe: invoke the checkout's compiled ACP adapter and finish failed stdin writes instead of hanging after an unavailable executable.

Verification

Current commit: bce1c8ba607922fd5177dbab7ec07939128c7083.

  • CI and coverage passed. Managed-image validation passed on attempt 2. The retried activation passed all 12 phases, including Hermes onboarding, inference, and restart, plus 9 cleanup checks. Attempt 1 failed an OpenClaw post-restart exec relay; the externally initiated retry passed without source changes. Both attempts are retained.
  • Local regressions passed: 43 config-sync/onboarding tests, 22 ACP fixture/process tests, and 111 workflow-planner tests. The cleanup, config preservation, missing adapter, and omitted runner preparation defects have failing-before/passing-after evidence.
  • Normal signed commit hooks, lint, type-checking, and isolated npm run validate:pr passed for the final commit. Validation used canonical base f75f722bb4a1ec9642c8df36c8924e24500d78f0, canonical validator executables, and a container without network, host mounts, or credentials. Candidate catalogue data differs from main, so this uses the recorded isolated maintainer validation route; it is not independent review.

Live Hermes E2E run 34577235152, attempt 2 tested 8be51b2bfa84403a8d152d3a22ea2a7f2c2d8746. The final commit adds only the runner-preparation setting for the two new lifecycle entries and its planner regressions. Product code and these five live test implementations are unchanged.

Hermes scenario Result
Rebuild, retained state, inference, backup hygiene, and cron recovery Passed; all 9 phases and 8 cleanup checks passed, including ACP initialization
Discord configuration and credential isolation Passed; 8 phases and 11 cleanup checks
Inference switching Passed; 8 phases and 5 cleanup checks
Channel stop/start Passed; 7 phases and 11 cleanup checks
Baseline installation, health, and ACP lifecycle Failed two inherited ACP exit assertions; cleanup passed

All five artifact digests and revision bindings were verified. The baseline's six ACP outcome sets match the captured base run: disconnect returns 0 instead of 1, and gateway restart returns 124 instead of 255. Workflow SHAs differ, so the formal comparison remains unresolved. ACP product behavior and assertions are unchanged, and these failures are not waived.

The new double-onboard-hermes and onboard-resume-hermes selectors are absent from the trusted main planner and have not run through GitHub Actions. The contributor owns the remaining manual reuse/resume validation, including before/after sandbox, port, and listener identities. That manual evidence remains outstanding; the maintainer has marked the PR ready.

No secrets, API keys, or credentials were added.

Review notes

Advisor run 34582226773 completed all nine specialists on bce1c8b. All artifact digests, report identities, and full summaries were verified, along with complete paginated comments, reviews, and threads. The completed CodeRabbit review was also collected.

  • No blocking runtime code defect was found. Forward cleanup, Hermes config preservation, ACP fixture startup, and runner preparation findings are addressed.
  • Architecture, delivery, and verification identified one future test-selection gap: the two new Hermes catalogue entries omit explicit ownership of forward-service.ts and config-sync.ts. This affects which tests future changes select; it does not alter the current runtime behavior. Under the maintainer's instruction to approve absent a code blocker, this remains a follow-up. A local two-path mapping repair is prepared as ff8dc4fa53335708e675ce61bfe275a094d33044, with 113 planner tests and isolated publication validation passing; it is not part of this PR head.
  • CodeRabbit's per-case rejection-message assertion suggestion and docstring-coverage warning are advisory test/documentation improvements. Its current review reports low merge risk.
  • The live Hermes reuse/resume recommendation remains an outstanding evidence item owned by the contributor. The required rebuild recommendation has passing evidence on 8be51b2.
  • The earlier human approval covers 022c8c6979. The current authenticated account is the PR author and cannot submit a GitHub approval review. No independent approval or CI waiver is claimed here.

Sensitive paths include src/lib/onboard/ and tools/e2e/target-catalogue.mts.


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

Summary by CodeRabbit

  • New Features

    • Hermes onboarding now supports preserving and reusing dashboard and API-port forwarding across sandbox reuse and resume workflows.
    • Dashboard forwarding reuse now includes ownership validation and recovery when forwarding conflicts or failures occur.
    • Hermes configuration synchronization preserves existing OpenClaw setup and file permissions while adding Hermes metadata.
    • Added end-to-end coverage for Hermes onboarding, re-onboarding, resume, rebuild, and ACP adapter scenarios.
  • Documentation

    • Clarified API-port scanning, dashboard-port retention, conflict handling, and forward recovery for Hermes and OpenClaw.

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Walkthrough

Hermes onboarding now reuses verified dashboard and API forwards, preserves registered ports, validates listener ownership, and restores state on failure. Configuration sync, ACP adapter handling, onboarding resume, E2E scenarios, and workflow coverage were updated.

Changes

Hermes forward reuse and recovery

Layer / File(s) Summary
Forward startup verification
src/lib/adapters/openshell/forward-service.ts, src/lib/adapters/openshell/forward-service.test.ts, test/helpers/onboard-script-mocks.cjs
Forward startup invokes verifyReady after listener readiness. Verification failures trigger cleanup and prevent child-process unref.
Dashboard and API forward reuse
src/lib/onboard/dashboard.ts, src/lib/onboard/dashboard-runtime.ts, src/lib/onboard/agent-dashboard-forward.ts, src/lib/onboard/dashboard-forward-control.ts, src/lib/onboard/sandbox-reuse.ts, src/lib/onboard/*test.ts, docs/manage-sandboxes/run-sandboxes.mdx
Hermes and OpenClaw reuse registered dashboard and API forwards when ownership and sandbox identity checks pass. Reuse options use reuseExistingForward, and failed reuse restores CHAT_UI_URL.
Hermes configuration and ACP adapter
src/lib/onboard/config-sync.ts, src/lib/onboard/config-sync.test.ts, test/e2e/fixtures/hermes-acp-live.ts, test/e2e/support/hermes-acp-live.test.ts, test/e2e/live/rebuild-hermes.test.ts
Hermes configuration sync skips OpenClaw baseline initialization. ACP tests cover installed and checkout entrypoints, missing adapters, stream writes, and stdin failures.
Hermes E2E scenarios and workflow coverage
test/e2e/live/*, test/e2e/support/*, test/e2e/README.md, tools/e2e/target-catalogue.mts
New Hermes double-onboard and resume targets validate port and listener preservation, and workflow tests include their catalogue and host-preparation mappings.

Priority: ➖ Normal

Estimated code review effort: 4 (Complex) | ~60 minutes

Change: Bug fix · Severity of issue fixed: Medium

Suggested reviewers: ericksoa, hunglp6d

Sequence Diagram(s)

sequenceDiagram
  participant Onboarding
  participant DashboardForward
  participant ForwardService
  participant OwnershipCheck
  participant Sandbox
  Onboarding->>DashboardForward: request Hermes dashboard and API forwards
  DashboardForward->>ForwardService: launch or reuse forwards
  ForwardService->>OwnershipCheck: verify ready listener ownership
  OwnershipCheck->>Sandbox: validate sandbox identity
  Sandbox-->>Onboarding: retain ports and complete onboarding
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Merge Risk: 🔵 Low · up to bce1c

Hermes forward rejection behavior is covered, but the test can accept the wrong failure reason for a scenario. Tightening the per-case assertions reduces the chance that an ownership-protection regression is missed.

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Linked Issues check ✅ Passed The PR implements the coding requirements in #11425. Hermes reuse is enabled for dashboard and separately allocated API forwards. Registered ports remain fixed. Ownership verification covers the OpenS…
Out of Scope Changes check ✅ Passed The changes stay within #11425. The documentation updates describe Hermes port retention and ownership behavior. The ACP fixture, rebuild probe, workflow-plan updates, and catalogue-count updates supp…
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Title check ✅ Passed The title clearly and concisely describes the primary change: reusing Hermes dashboard and API forwards during onboarding.
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The overall line coverage in commit bce1c8b in the fix/11425-agent-onbo... branch remains at 96%, unchanged from commit 211a78c in the main branch.

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The overall line coverage in commit bce1c8b in the fix/11425-agent-onbo... branch remains at 83%, unchanged from commit e0273c2 in the main branch.

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File main e0273c2 fix/11425-agent-onbo... bce1c8b +/-
src/lib/onboard...oard-runtime.ts 100% 88% -12%
src/lib/onboard/dashboard.ts 74% 73% -1%
src/lib/onboard...uild-context.ts 75% 75% 0%
src/lib/onboard/config-sync.ts 94% 94% 0%
src/lib/onboard...andbox-reuse.ts 97% 97% 0%
src/lib/onboard...shboard-port.ts 91% 91% 0%
src/lib/sandbox...rce-identity.ts 82% 82% 0%
src/lib/adapter...ward-service.ts 80% 84% +4%
src/lib/onboard...oard-forward.ts 81% 92% +11%

Updated September 11, 2026 09:03 UTC

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@wscurran wscurran added area: onboarding Onboarding FSM, provider setup, sandbox launch, or first-run flow bug-fix PR fixes a bug or regression integration: hermes Hermes integration behavior labels Sep 10, 2026
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Reviewed 022c8c69792be6568de7607cfe3fab6de2105fa8 against main at f75f722bb4a1ec9642c8df36c8924e24500d78f0, with merge base 189043e740fdab61c8c3fdf6fe9407f438e4d955. The PR SHA remained unchanged on final recheck.

I found no confirmed code or security regression. Hold merge pending the Hermes reuse/resume evidence below; the PR remains draft.

Findings

  1. Verification | Medium — before merge

    Description: tools/e2e/target-catalogue.mts:699 adds double-onboard-hermes and onboard-resume-hermes, but the trusted planner executes from main, which lacks those entries. The current manual run selects four other Hermes scenarios. It cannot establish the requested preservation of both forward identities across reuse/resume. This is an existing CI selection limitation, not a fork permission failure.

    Recommendation: The author and maintainer should provide both scenarios’ live results for the reviewed commit, using a local repository install in a disposable environment. Include before/after sandbox identity, registered ports, and listener identities. A CI maintainer can arrange trusted selector availability; rerunning the existing selection will not fill this gap.

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GitHub identifies the author as MEMBER and the source as NVIDIA/NemoClaw, not a fork. This diff changes no workflows, dependencies, installers, or secret access.

All five required contexts have successful results on the reviewed SHA; full CI and managed-image validation passed. CodeRabbit skipped the draft: its green status is not a code review.

The earlier ownership, selection, documentation, and resume-step findings are addressed. I did not substantiate Advisor’s claimed retry deadlock; cleanup must not signal an unverified listener.

The additional Hermes E2E failures in client-disconnect and gateway-restart match the untouched base run. ACP maintainers should track those separately from this forwarding change.

Verification

Read the complete diff, callers, ownership implementation/tests, prior comments, nine current Advisor reports, and PR/base E2E receipts. Ran only read operations; no tests, builds, or typechecks. Live reuse/resume remains unverified.

Clean up the newly spawned forward when readiness ownership or sandbox
identity verification fails, preserving existing forwards.

Skip OpenClaw native initialization when syncing Hermes selection into
retained sandboxes that still contain an unrelated .openclaw directory.

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test/onboarding/onboard-finalization-dashboard-forward.test.ts (1)

213-213: 📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🔵 Trivial | ⚡ Quick win

Assert the rejection reason per case instead of one shared alternation.

The regex accepts any of four messages for all four states. A case can pass on the wrong rejection reason. For example, the sibling case would still pass if the registry-collision check stopped firing and the port were rejected later as "occupied". Carry the expected message in the parameter table so each state proves its own control.

♻️ Proposed per-case expectation
   it.each([
-    { state: "foreign", launches: 0 },
-    { state: "sibling", launches: 0 },
-    { state: "launch-failure", launches: 1 },
-    { state: "ownership-changed", launches: 1 },
-  ])("rejects a Hermes API forward with $state state (`#11425`)", async ({ state, launches }) => {
+    { state: "foreign", launches: 0, reason: /cannot be reallocated or adopted/u },
+    { state: "sibling", launches: 0, reason: /not available/u },
+    { state: "launch-failure", launches: 1, reason: /startup failed/u },
+    { state: "ownership-changed", launches: 1, reason: /verify forward ownership/u },
+  ])(
+    "rejects a Hermes API forward with $state state (`#11425`)",
+    async ({ state, launches, reason }) => {

Then assert .rejects.toThrow(reason).

As per path instructions for **/*.test.{ts,js,mts,mjs,cts,cjs}: "Flag copied production algorithms, broad mocks that bypass the behavior under test, and conditionals that make a test pass without exercising its claim."

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In `@test/onboarding/onboard-finalization-dashboard-forward.test.ts` at line 213,
Update the parameter table for the onboarding finalization rejection cases to
include each case’s expected rejection message, then use that per-case value in
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- Line 213: Update the parameter table for the onboarding finalization rejection
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  • docs/manage-sandboxes/run-sandboxes.mdx
  • src/lib/adapters/openshell/forward-service.test.ts
  • src/lib/adapters/openshell/forward-service.ts
  • src/lib/onboard/agent-dashboard-forward.test.ts
  • src/lib/onboard/agent-dashboard-forward.ts
  • src/lib/onboard/config-sync.test.ts
  • src/lib/onboard/config-sync.ts
  • src/lib/onboard/dashboard-forward-control.ts
  • src/lib/onboard/dashboard-runtime.ts
  • src/lib/onboard/dashboard.ts
  • src/lib/onboard/sandbox-reuse.test.ts
  • src/lib/onboard/sandbox-reuse.ts
  • test/e2e/README.md
  • test/e2e/fixtures/hermes-acp-live.ts
  • test/e2e/live/double-onboard.test.ts
  • test/e2e/live/onboard-resume.test.ts
  • test/e2e/live/rebuild-hermes.test.ts
  • test/e2e/support/hermes-acp-live.test.ts
  • test/e2e/support/shields-retirement-workflow-plan.test.ts
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## Outcome

The custom-plugin EXDEV test can verify dashboard forward ownership
during onboarding and recreation. Its image and tmpfs wrapper runs only
for sandbox creation; forwarding uses the canonical OpenShell
executable.

## Reason

[Main run
34587100109](https://github.com/NVIDIA/NemoClaw/actions/runs/34587100109/job/103269383042)
failed onboarding after #11427 added forward ownership verification. The
fixture selected a wrapper as its OpenShell executable, but the listener
ran the real binary. Existing wrapper tests checked arguments without
exercising that executable selection.

### Related issues

Refs #6108. Regression from #11427.

## Changes

- Select the canonical CLI in the shared fixture environment. The other
consumer already receives its driver configuration from NemoClaw.
- Load a fixture-only Node preload for onboarding and recreation. It
sends only the canonical CLI's `sandbox create` spawn through the
existing image and tmpfs wrapper. A global executable override cannot
preserve forward identity.
- Cover executable resolution, create argument rewriting, and direct
forward/list execution in the support tests. Register the shared wrapper
in the existing EXDEV mock-parity entry. Keep the EXDEV install,
restart, recreation, image checks, and cleanup assertions.

## Verification

- Focused E2E-support tests: 33 passed across the trusted prebuild,
driver configuration, and workflow-boundary suites.
- Regression evidence: all three new routing cases failed when the
previous wrapper executable selection was restored, then passed with the
fix.
- `npm run e2e:assertions:check`: passed; existing live assertion budget
unchanged.
- CLI and plugin builds passed. `NODE_OPTIONS=--max-old-space-size=8192
npm run validate:pr` passed on
`855d5fce999acab6b21260902a580a4aa8826888`, using canonical main
`41c5625e8b831ed213cd5c381385973adc58659c`. The larger heap is required
by this host’s TypeScript check.
- The mock/live parity checker reproduced the missing ownership entry
and passed after its one-line correction. The final correction changes
only that mapping; fixture source and test results are unchanged.
- [CI
34622479660](https://github.com/NVIDIA/NemoClaw/actions/runs/34622479660):
passed on `855d5fce999acab6b21260902a580a4aa8826888`, including all 12
CLI shards, coverage, static checks, builds, and type checks.
- [Focused live E2E
34622865200](https://github.com/NVIDIA/NemoClaw/actions/runs/34622865200/job/103341797795):
passed. Onboarding, production installation across distinct filesystems,
restart with the installed payload, recreation with plugin v2, and
cleanup all passed. Onboarding and recreation passed on their first
attempts. Downloaded artifact digests, dispatch identity, target
results, and aggregate `pass` receipt were verified against the
unchanged PR.
- E2E source: `NVIDIA/NemoClaw` (owner `NVIDIA`, organization);
candidate `855d5fce999acab6b21260902a580a4aa8826888`; base
`e6068115cc5e02e0d05abdb46ea4509138847617`; trusted workflow
`70cfff5f946a9bb31d1147f78ffbda914a2efaa2`. Selector:
`jobs=openclaw-plugin-runtime-exdev`, empty targets, mock inference.
Correlation: `e40a0daf-e1bb-4a56-bfe0-711faf7da239`.
- [Advisor
34623885835](https://github.com/NVIDIA/NemoClaw/actions/runs/34623885835):
blocked before review. All nine specialists failed with
`/sandbox/.profile: Permission denied` followed by `exec relay closed
before the command reported an exit status`; none produced review
artifacts. The same startup failure occurs in the independent [PR #11212
Advisor
run](https://github.com/NVIDIA/NemoClaw/actions/runs/34622883136/job/103341140685).
Keep this fixture fix unchanged; a maintainer decision is needed for the
shared runtime blocker and subsequent full Advisor rerun.
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Signed-off-by: San Dang <sdang@nvidia.com>


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## Summary by CodeRabbit

- **Tests**
- Expanded end-to-end coverage for OpenShell lifecycle workflows,
including onboarding, recreation, gateway restart, and sandbox listing.
- Improved validation that command routing remains consistent across
supported workflows.
- Added coverage for trusted prebuilt image handling and cross-device
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- Updated test fixtures and environment checks to reflect the canonical
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## Outcome

Hermes Portable restores its receipt-scoped forwards before opening an
interactive session, and managed auxiliary requests retain their
explicit output-token limits instead of occupying the inference slot
until a large default budget is exhausted.

## Reason

GFN stop/start/recreate validation exposed two remaining failures after
the lifecycle-lock repairs merged:

- interactive launch could continue before the Hermes forwards required
by the TUI were restored;
- Hermes v0.20.6 removes `max_tokens` from auxiliary requests to custom
endpoints, which also removed NemoClaw's small session-title limit on
`inference.local` and made generation appear to hang.

PR #11427 independently delivered the other two branch fixes discovered
during the same validation: exact Hermes dashboard/API forward reuse and
skipping OpenClaw state initialization for Hermes. This PR intentionally
excludes those superseded local implementations.

## Changes

- Requalify the active Hermes Portable lifecycle authority and restore
receipt-scoped forwards before interactive session startup.
- Patch Hermes' auxiliary request construction at image build time so
explicit limits are preserved only for NemoClaw managed
`inference.local`.
- Integrity-pin the patcher and updated image-build probes.
- Prove that managed requests retain the 64-token title-generation limit
while unrelated custom endpoints keep upstream Hermes behavior.

## Related issues

Closes #11567.
Closes #11568.
Parent: #11573.

## Verification

- `npx vitest run --project cli
src/lib/actions/sandbox/connect-flow.test.ts` — 57 tests passed.
- `npx vitest run
test/agents/hermes/hermes-auxiliary-token-limit.test.ts
test/agents/hermes/hermes-image-build-probes.test.ts` — 65 tests passed.
- `npm run build:cli` — passed.
- `npm --prefix nemoclaw run build` — passed after installing the
package's isolated dependencies.
- `NODE_OPTIONS=--max-old-space-size=8192 npm run typecheck:cli` —
passed.
- `npm run test:changed` — repository growth guardrails passed; no
uncommitted changed-test selection remained after the commits were
created.
- Pre-commit and pre-push checks passed, including repository checks,
secret scanning, codebase growth guardrails, commitlint, and CLI
type-checking.
- `git diff --check origin/main...HEAD` — passed.
- Both commits are signed and reported Verified by GitHub.

## Local environment note

The build-context authority suite rejects this seat checkout because its
source directories are group-writable. That is an expected fail-closed
environmental result, not a product assertion failure. GitHub CI must
provide the isolated broad result. `hadolint` is not installed on this
seat and remains a CI requirement.

No secrets, API keys, or credentials are included.

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## Summary by CodeRabbit

* **Bug Fixes**
* Hermes auxiliary inference requests now preserve token limits for
managed inference routes and external MoA reference requests, while
omitting them for external title-generation requests.
* Interactive Hermes Portable setup now verifies lifecycle authority and
restores connection forwarding before completing.

* **Quality Improvements**
* Added build-time validation and automated coverage for token-limit
handling, patch safety, and connection forwarding.
* Verified packaged Hermes images contain the expected changes and
exclude temporary patching tools.
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Signed-off-by: Prekshi Vyas <34834085+prekshivyas@users.noreply.github.com>
Signed-off-by: Prekshi Vyas <prekshiv@nvidia.com>
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