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Summary

The Model Router proxy is a detached host process, and destroy never stopped it, so the orphaned proxy kept port 4000 and the next Model Router onboard failed with Port 4000 already has a healthy router endpoint; refusing to start a second router with no user-facing recovery. Destroy now stops the router when it removes the last registered routed sandbox using that host port, so the port is free for the next onboard. A destroy keeps the router running while another registered routed sandbox uses the same port.

Related Issue

Fixes #9098

Changes

  • src/lib/actions/sandbox/destroy-preflight.ts: add stopModelRouterForDestroyedSandbox() beside the existing inference teardown. It acts only when the destroyed sandbox was routed and no registered routed sandbox uses the same router port. It stops the recorded routerPid through the existing ownership-checked SIGTERM primitive (stopModelRouterProcess), recovers an orphan whose PID a fresh session no longer records through the existing /proc scan (findModelRouterPidForPort), and then clears routerPid and routerCredentialHash only when the captured session identity and the current router fields still match. A stop failure warns, keeps routerPid so uninstall and reconcileModelRouter can still find the process, and does not fail the destroy, because the sandbox delete already succeeded. The router port comes from the sandbox registry endpointUrl with the blueprint default 4000 as fallback, the same default the uninstall teardown uses.
  • src/lib/actions/sandbox/destroy.ts: call the teardown after registry removal, gated on the confirmed delete (deleteSucceededOrAlreadyGone && removed), so a forced local cleanup with an unreachable gateway does not stop the router ([macOS][Sandbox] nemoclaw destroy aborts when the OpenShell gateway is down — no auto-recover, no --force bypass #6046 precedent). Session access and the styled warn are injected from destroy.ts, which keeps the source-architecture fan-in and file-count budgets unchanged.
  • Review follow-up: the routed-peer scan and router stop run under withGatewayRouteMutationLock, the same lock routed onboarding holds while it registers its route reservation, so concurrent onboarding cannot register a routed sandbox after the scan and then lose its shared router; a lock failure warns and does not fail the destroy. The session clear also fires when only routerCredentialHash is set. Destroy-flow coverage proves registry removal precedes the gateway route lock and compiled teardown call, while failed deletion and incomplete registry removal bypass teardown.
  • test/package-contract/destroy-model-router-flow.test.ts: compiled-artifact contract for stopModelRouterForDestroyedSandbox(). It imports the built teardown helper directly, spawns a real detached HTTP stub whose command line matches the Model Router proxy shape, records its PID in the captured session, and proves process exit, port release, and identity-bound clearing of routerPid and routerCredentialHash.
  • src/lib/actions/sandbox/destroy-model-router.test.ts: unit coverage for every branch — last routed sandbox, non-routed sandbox, missing registry entry, remaining routed peer, orphan recovery by port scan, stale recorded PID, no-op session handling, and warn-and-continue on stop failure.
  • test/helpers/destroy-flow-test-harness.ts: add routed-provider and session-PID inputs, a controllable registry-removal result, and a spy for the compiled router teardown boundary.
  • docs/inference/set-up-model-router.mdx: document the destroy behavior and its failure result beside the existing uninstall teardown paragraph.
  • docs/reference/commands.mdx: document the Model Router teardown in the destroy command reference beside the existing Ollama teardown sentence.

Type of Change

  • Code change (feature, bug fix, or refactor)
  • Code change with doc updates
  • Doc only (prose changes, no code sample modifications)
  • Doc only (includes code sample changes)

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  • Tests added or updated for changed behavior
  • Existing tests cover changed behavior — justification:
  • Tests not applicable — justification:
  • Docs updated for user-facing behavior changes
  • Docs not applicable — justification:
  • Sensitive paths changed (security, policy, credentials, preflight, onboarding, inference, runner, sandbox, or messaging)
  • Sensitive-path review completed or maintainer-approved waiver recorded — reviewer/approval link/justification: The teardown signals only a process whose verified command line is the model-router proxy for the resolved port, prefers the session-recorded PID, never sends a PID-based SIGKILL, acts only after the confirmed sandbox delete and registry removal, and a stop failure warns without failing the destroy or discarding the recorded PID.
  • Non-success, skipped, or missing CI check accepted by maintainer — check name, approval link, and follow-up issue:

Documentation Writer Review

  • Documentation writer subagent reviewed the completed changes
  • Result: docs-updated
  • Evidence: docs/inference/set-up-model-router.mdx and docs/reference/commands.mdx document teardown for the last routed sandbox using a host port and the warning path
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  • Targeted behavior tests pass for the current change set, or tests are marked not applicable above — command/result: npx vitest run --project cli src/lib/actions/sandbox/destroy-model-router.test.ts src/lib/actions/sandbox/destroy-model-router-flow.test.ts src/lib/actions/sandbox/destroy-flow.test.ts src/lib/actions/sandbox/destroy.test.ts → 59 tests passed at c172add; the final behavior change at 0684333898 passed 13 focused source tests; npm run test:changed → 21 files, 253 tests passed; npm run typecheck:cli → clean; npm run docs → 0 errors; npx vitest run --project package-contract test/package-contract/destroy-model-router-flow.test.ts → 1 test passed at 028b968; npx vitest run --project cli src/lib/actions/sandbox/destroy-flow.test.ts → 43 tests passed at 881b1ff
  • Applicable broad gate passed — npm test for broad runtime/test-harness changes; npm run check for repo-wide validation/coverage changes — command/result:
  • Quality Gates section completed with required justifications or waivers
  • No secrets, API keys, or credentials committed
  • npm run docs builds without warnings (doc changes only)
  • Doc pages follow the style guide (doc changes only)
  • New doc pages include SPDX header and frontmatter (new pages only)

Signed-off-by: Dongni Yang dongniy@nvidia.com

Summary by CodeRabbit

  • Bug Fixes

    • Destroying the final Model Router sandbox now best-effort stops the associated router process and frees its port.
    • Shared routers remain running while other routed sandboxes still depend on them.
    • Router shutdown failures no longer block sandbox deletion; warnings provide recovery guidance.
    • Stale router session details are cleaned up while preserving unrelated session state.
    • Routed proxy cleanup now occurs safely after successful sandbox removal.
  • Documentation

    • Updated sandbox destruction and command reference documentation to describe Model Router cleanup behavior.

…estroyed

The Model Router proxy is a detached host process whose PID is recorded
only in the onboarding session (routerPid). Uninstall stops it (#5169)
and an agent change stops it, but destroy never did, so the orphaned
proxy kept port 4000 and the next routed onboard failed with "Port 4000
already has a healthy router endpoint; refusing to start a second
router" with no user-facing recovery.

Destroy now stops the router after the registry entry of a routed
sandbox is removed and no registered routed sandbox remains, using the
existing ownership-checked SIGTERM primitive. The recorded PID is
preferred; a /proc scan recovers an orphan whose PID a fresh session no
longer records. A stop failure warns and keeps routerPid so uninstall
and reconcile can still find the process, because the sandbox delete
already succeeded and a stuck session-global proxy must not fail the
destroy.

The teardown lives in destroy-preflight.ts beside the other inference
teardown and receives session access from destroy.ts, keeping the
source-architecture fan-in and file-count budgets unchanged.

Fixes #9098

Signed-off-by: Dongni Yang <dongniy@nvidia.com>
…erms

The documentation writer review found two gaps: the Model Router page
claimed an unconditional stop without its failure result, and the
destroy command reference omitted the new teardown beside the existing
Ollama one. Also align the new CLI strings with the controlled words:
"Model Router" in prose and "onboarding" as the noun.

Refs #9098

Signed-off-by: Dongni Yang <dongniy@nvidia.com>
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Sandbox destruction now stops the final shared Model Router process, releases its port, clears router session state, and tolerates stop failures. Tests cover shared routers, orphan recovery, stale state, and process termination. Documentation describes the lifecycle behavior.

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Model Router teardown

Layer / File(s) Summary
Router teardown implementation
src/lib/actions/sandbox/destroy-preflight.ts, src/lib/actions/sandbox/destroy.ts
Destruction resolves the router port, checks routed peers, locates the owning process, stops it, and clears matching session state under the gateway route mutation lock. Stop failures produce warnings without aborting destruction.
Teardown behavior validation
src/lib/actions/sandbox/destroy-model-router.test.ts
Unit tests cover port fallback, shared-router retention, orphan recovery, stale session cleanup, unrelated session preservation, and warning-only failures.
Integration coverage and documentation
test/helpers/destroy-flow-test-harness.ts, test/package-contract/destroy-model-router-flow.test.ts, src/lib/actions/sandbox/destroy-flow.test.ts, docs/inference/set-up-model-router.mdx, docs/reference/commands.mdx
The test harness supports router state and lock inspection. Integration coverage verifies process and port termination. Documentation describes final-sandbox cleanup behavior.

Estimated code review effort: 4 (Complex) | ~45 minutes

Merge Risk: ⚪ Minimal · up to 881b1

The change stops the Model Router after the last routed sandbox is destroyed while preserving shared-router behavior; no actionable merge-blocking risk remains after normal checks and review.

Sequence Diagram(s)

sequenceDiagram
  participant DestroyCommand
  participant GatewayRouteMutationLock
  participant DestroyPreflight
  participant SessionState
  participant ModelRouterProcess
  DestroyCommand->>GatewayRouteMutationLock: Run router teardown
  GatewayRouteMutationLock->>DestroyPreflight: Call stopModelRouterForDestroyedSandbox
  DestroyPreflight->>SessionState: Load router PID and credentials
  DestroyPreflight->>ModelRouterProcess: Locate and stop final router
  ModelRouterProcess-->>DestroyPreflight: Return stop result
  DestroyPreflight->>SessionState: Clear matching router state
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Inline comments:
In `@src/lib/actions/sandbox/destroy-model-router-flow.test.ts`:
- Around line 12-15: Update createDestroyHarness and its destroySandbox loading
path so this ordinary test imports and executes the current CLI source instead
of using requireDist. Preserve compiled-output coverage only by moving the test
under the package-contract test area if that is the intended assertion.

In `@src/lib/actions/sandbox/destroy-preflight.ts`:
- Around line 110-138: Update the teardown logic in the destroy preflight flow
to load both router session fields once and call deps.updateSession when either
routerPid or routerCredentialHash is set, clearing both fields in that update.
Add a unit test covering routerPid being null with a non-null
routerCredentialHash.

In `@src/lib/actions/sandbox/destroy.ts`:
- Around line 668-674: Update destroySandbox so the routed-sandbox peer check
and stopModelRouterForDestroyedSandbox teardown execute while holding the same
gateway route lock used by routed onboarding, preventing onboarding from
registering after the scan but before router shutdown. Add a concurrency
regression test covering onboarding racing with destroySandbox and verifying the
shared model router remains running.
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  • Model comparison: normalized findings match; normalized terminology decisions differ; normalized E2E selections differ; severity counts match.
4 terminology differences from the second opinion

Advisory only. These are normalized differences from the primary terminology receipt.

  • routerCredentialHash at src/lib/actions/sandbox/destroy-preflight.ts:114: selected only by the second-opinion lane as established.
  • routed sandbox at src/lib/actions/sandbox/destroy-preflight.ts:78: selected only by the second-opinion lane as established.
  • routed peer at src/lib/actions/sandbox/destroy-preflight.ts:85: selected only by the second-opinion lane as justified.
  • Model Router teardown at src/lib/actions/sandbox/destroy.ts:684: selected only by the second-opinion lane as established.
2 additional E2E selections from the second opinion

Advisory only. The primary lane did not select these E2E jobs or targets.

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  • model-router-provider-routed-inference: The completed second-opinion lane identified E2E coverage that the primary lane omitted.

Second-opinion terminology and E2E selections are advisory. Live E2E does not run automatically for pull requests.

3 semantic terminology decisions

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  • define — registered Model Router sandbox at docs/inference/set-up-model-router.mdx:35: Define `registered` at first use as an entry in the sandbox registry.
  • established — host port at docs/inference/set-up-model-router.mdx:35: Keep `host port` for the Model Router listening port.
  • established — best-effort at docs/reference/commands.mdx:2263: Keep `best-effort`; the following text states the stop-failure result.

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Two review findings on the Model Router destroy teardown. The
routed-peer scan and router stop now run under the gateway route lock,
the same lock routed onboarding holds while it registers its route, so
a concurrent onboard cannot register a routed sandbox after the scan
and then lose its shared router; a lock failure warns and does not fail
the destroy. The session clear now also fires when only
routerCredentialHash is set, so a session without a recorded PID does
not keep stale router identity.

Refs #9098

Signed-off-by: Dongni Yang <dongniy@nvidia.com>
The catch also receives failures from inside the teardown, not only
lock-acquisition failures, so the warning now states that the teardown
did not complete and includes the underlying detail. Also use the
controlled noun "onboarding" in the serialization comment.

Refs #9098

Signed-off-by: Dongni Yang <dongniy@nvidia.com>
@wscurran wscurran added area: inference Inference routing, serving, model selection, or outputs area: sandbox OpenShell sandbox lifecycle, runtime, config, or recovery bug-fix PR fixes a bug or regression labels Aug 14, 2026

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At head 60e16b5f0ec9c05914552f5890b01f0b91eed6ec, the teardown can erase session identity for a different routed sandbox.

stopModelRouterForDestroyedSandbox loads the process-global onboarding session but never verifies that the session belongs to the destroyed sandbox/router. If the recorded PID does not own the destroyed sandbox port, it correctly falls back to finding the target process by port—but afterward it still clears that unrelated session’s routerPid and routerCredentialHash. This is reachable when the latest onboarding session belongs to routed sandbox B and the operator destroys routed sandbox A. The target process may be stopped correctly while B’s recovery identity is silently lost.

Please bind session clearing to proven ownership of the target router (for example the session sandbox/endpoint and/or recorded PID owning the target port), and add a regression where the loaded session belongs to a different sandbox/port. Do not clear that session even when a target-port orphan is found and stopped. Also scope the remaining-peer check by the router instance/port unless the product contract guarantees every routed sandbox shares one fixed host process; the current code derives ports per sandbox but treats any routed peer as protecting every port.

The new co-located flow test also loads dist through createDestroyHarness. The current repository instruction is explicit that ordinary tests import CLI source and compiled-artifact assertions belong in test/package-contract/; reusing an older harness does not make the new source-behavior test exempt. Please give this test a source seam or move a genuine artifact contract to the package lane.

Security review:

  1. Input validation — PASS: routed provider and endpoint-port parsing are bounded, with an explicit default.
  2. Authentication and authorization — PASS: no privilege change.
  3. Secrets and sensitive data — WARNING: only a credential hash is stored, but unrelated router credential identity can be erased.
  4. Injection — PASS: manual kill guidance uses a verified numeric PID.
  5. Cryptography — PASS: no new cryptography; existing credential hashes are not exposed.
  6. Dependencies and supply chain — PASS: no dependency changes.
  7. Error handling and information exposure — PASS: stop/lock failure remains a warning after confirmed sandbox deletion.
  8. System security and sandbox boundaries — FAIL: cleanup is not bound to the destroyed sandbox’s router/session identity and can mutate another routed sandbox’s recovery state.
  9. Testing — FAIL: no different-session/different-port regression exists, and the new ordinary flow test executes compiled output instead of current source.

Files reviewed:

  • src/lib/actions/sandbox/destroy-preflight.ts
  • src/lib/actions/sandbox/destroy.ts
  • src/lib/actions/sandbox/destroy-model-router.test.ts
  • src/lib/actions/sandbox/destroy-model-router-flow.test.ts
  • test/helpers/destroy-flow-test-harness.ts
  • docs/inference/set-up-model-router.mdx
  • docs/reference/commands.mdx
  • Context: model-router process ownership, session, and route-lock implementations

Signed-off-by: Carlos Villela <cvillela@nvidia.com>
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cv dismissed prekshivyas’s stale review August 14, 2026 19:31

The requested session-ownership, router-port scoping, regression coverage, and source-test lane corrections were addressed in a later commit.

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Verified Model Router cleanup ownership, failure-path coverage, documentation, resolved review feedback, contributor compliance, and passing merge-relevant CI.

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

Model Router lifecycle operations could race across gateways or with
another onboarding run. Two processes could contend for one host port,
or destroy could stop a replacement router and overwrite its session.
Routed setup, resume, and teardown now serialize lifecycle work across
the current user's NemoClaw gateways. Destroy also verifies the captured
session before changing process or session state.

## Related Issue

Follow-up to #9112 and #9098.

## Changes

- During routed onboarding, hold the onboarding session lock, then take
the gateway route lock and current-user Model Router port lock through
setup and registry publication.
- During destroy, take the gateway route lock, then the current-user
port lock, then try the onboarding session lock without waiting before
rechecking the captured identity.
- Recheck the captured session identity before teardown and use an
atomic session comparison-and-swap for cleanup, preserving a
concurrently created same-name replacement.
- Preserve valid router recovery metadata when a same-name replacement
uses another port, and limit manual recovery instructions to the router
that destroy could not identify or stop.
- Bound registry peer discovery and represent either an unavailable
process inventory or a completed scan with no matching process.
- Signal only an ownership-verified Model Router process. Locking
serializes NemoClaw lifecycle work; teardown also rechecks command-line
ownership and refuses PID-based `SIGKILL`.
- Cover cross-gateway onboarding, resume, destroy, same-name
replacement, lock contention, inconclusive process state, and compiled
teardown behavior.
- Document both lock orders, captured-session checks, and skip-and-warn
recovery behavior.

## Type of Change

- [ ] Code change (feature, bug fix, or refactor)
- [x] Code change with doc updates
- [ ] Doc only (prose changes, no code sample modifications)
- [ ] Doc only (includes code sample changes)

## Quality Gates

- [x] Tests added or updated for changed behavior
- [ ] Existing tests cover changed behavior — justification:
- [ ] Tests not applicable — justification:
- [x] Docs updated for user-facing behavior changes
- [ ] Docs not applicable — justification:
- [x] Sensitive paths changed (security, policy, credentials, preflight,
onboarding, inference, runner, sandbox, or messaging)
- [x] Sensitive-path review completed or maintainer-approved waiver
recorded — reviewer/approval link/justification: Independent Codex
Desktop review passed all nine categories for commit
`ea4def461192227a28d2655fdb8c8aaf452f2c0c`:
#9185 (review).
All 21 PR-specific files remain byte-identical at `6e4d9a4e4c85`.
Subsequent additive merges introduced only reviewed PR #8908 and #9100
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`04b5fe8fa43a5551bb8d0355406149e60b063370`. The corrected description
still matches the implementation. The latest merge adds only PR #9100 Pi
runtime and candidate-image files. Those files do not change the Model
Router lifecycle surface. The earlier PR #8908 trust merge also remains
outside this surface. The reviewed docs build passed with 0 errors and 2
existing warnings.
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contributor and every commit appears as `Verified` in GitHub
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`npm run validate:pr` passed after refreshing `origin/main` when hooks
were skipped or unavailable
- [x] Targeted behavior tests pass for the current change set, or tests
are marked not applicable above — command/result: focused CLI tests
passed 168/168; the compiled package contract passed 1/1 with isolated
`HOME` and loopback access; CLI type-checking, repository checks, the
docs build with 0 errors and 2 existing warnings, Oxfmt, and `git diff
--check` passed.
- [ ] Applicable broad gate passed — `npm test` for broad
runtime/test-harness changes; `npm run check` for repo-wide
validation/coverage changes — command/result: Required GitHub CI is the
broad gate.
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waivers
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- [ ] `npm run docs` builds without warnings (doc changes only)
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(doc changes only)
- [ ] New doc pages include SPDX header and frontmatter (new pages only)

---

Signed-off-by: Prekshi Vyas <prekshiv@nvidia.com>
Signed-off-by: Rebecca Sliter <571084+rsliter@users.noreply.github.com>
Signed-off-by: Carlos Villela <cvillela@nvidia.com>

---------

Signed-off-by: Prekshi Vyas <prekshiv@nvidia.com>
Signed-off-by: Rebecca Sliter <571084+rsliter@users.noreply.github.com>
Signed-off-by: Carlos Villela <cvillela@nvidia.com>
Co-authored-by: Rebecca Sliter <571084+rsliter@users.noreply.github.com>
Co-authored-by: Carlos Villela <cvillela@nvidia.com>
ericksoa pushed a commit that referenced this pull request Aug 18, 2026
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## Summary

Add the canonical dated changelog entry required before planning the
v0.0.110 release. The entry summarizes user-facing changes merged since
v0.0.109 and links each change to its published documentation route and
source PR.

## Changes

- Add `docs/changelog/2026-08-17.mdx` with the exact `## v0.0.110`
release heading.
- Cover managed local inference, endpoint validation, onboarding and
recovery, explicit experimental Portable OpenClaw, messaging and policy
cleanup, backup and security hardening, and release qualification.
- Preserve the documentation skip list and the current supported-agent
matrix; test-only refactors, dormant activation work, and Pi-only
changes are intentionally excluded.

### Source-to-doc mapping

- #8711 -> `docs/changelog/2026-08-17.mdx`: Add the Muse Glimmer
llama.cpp profile.
- #9099 -> `docs/changelog/2026-08-17.mdx`: Update the Muse Glimmer vLLM
runtime.
- #9319 -> `docs/changelog/2026-08-17.mdx`: Select the provider required
by an explicit serving profile.
- #9311 -> `docs/changelog/2026-08-17.mdx`: Report probe-image pull
failures separately.
- #9345 -> `docs/changelog/2026-08-17.mdx`: Reuse mirrored Windows
Ollama.
- #9284 -> `docs/changelog/2026-08-17.mdx`: Complete the required Ollama
upgrade.
- #9320 -> `docs/changelog/2026-08-17.mdx`: Reject unsafe custom
endpoint URLs before mutation.
- #9119 -> `docs/changelog/2026-08-17.mdx`: Reject unsupported custom
endpoint URL components.
- #9236 -> `docs/changelog/2026-08-17.mdx`: Require native Anthropic
tool-use evidence.
- #9347 -> `docs/changelog/2026-08-17.mdx`: Distinguish Gemini runtime
404 diagnostics.
- #9307 -> `docs/changelog/2026-08-17.mdx`: Preserve the recorded API
family when only the model drifts.
- #9233 -> `docs/changelog/2026-08-17.mdx`: Fail incomplete Hermes route
synchronization.
- #9185 -> `docs/changelog/2026-08-17.mdx`: Serialize Model Router
lifecycle work across gateways.
- #9112 -> `docs/changelog/2026-08-17.mdx`: Stop Model Router after the
last routed sandbox is destroyed.
- #9229 -> `docs/changelog/2026-08-17.mdx`: Verify fresh sandbox
execution readiness.
- #9299 -> `docs/changelog/2026-08-17.mdx`: Verify a separate agent API
host forward before reporting ready.
- #9318 -> `docs/changelog/2026-08-17.mdx`: Honor explicit sandbox
recreation.
- #9325 -> `docs/changelog/2026-08-17.mdx`: Measure readiness reuse
windows from collection completion.
- #9352 -> `docs/changelog/2026-08-17.mdx`: Guide users away from the
deprecated global start command.
- #9370 -> `docs/changelog/2026-08-17.mdx`: Persist managed OpenClaw
agent identity.
- #9366 -> `docs/changelog/2026-08-17.mdx`: Pass messaging dependencies
during reused onboarding.
- #9321 -> `docs/changelog/2026-08-17.mdx`: Detect proxied connect
sessions.
- #9285 -> `docs/changelog/2026-08-17.mdx`: Run probe-only recovery when
absent authority cannot be created.
- #9282 -> `docs/changelog/2026-08-17.mdx`: Complete probe-only recovery
without platform evidence.
- #8920 -> `docs/changelog/2026-08-17.mdx`: Preserve legacy gateway
identity.
- #9198 -> `docs/changelog/2026-08-17.mdx`: Report sandbox config-read
failures.
- #9201 -> `docs/changelog/2026-08-17.mdx`: Remove only the exact Docker
orphan on destroy.
- #9176 -> `docs/changelog/2026-08-17.mdx`: Use rootless Podman for
Portable lifecycle operations.
- #9197 -> `docs/changelog/2026-08-17.mdx`: Preflight Portable CPU
delegation.
- #9289 -> `docs/changelog/2026-08-17.mdx`: Narrow Portable policy
defaults.
- #9270 -> `docs/changelog/2026-08-17.mdx`: Preserve Portable model
intent.
- #9339 -> `docs/changelog/2026-08-17.mdx`: Reconcile timed-out Portable
stop state.
- #9209 -> `docs/changelog/2026-08-17.mdx`: Clean receipt-owned Portable
Podman resources.
- #9186 -> `docs/changelog/2026-08-17.mdx`: Separate Podman activation
readiness.
- #9376 -> `docs/changelog/2026-08-17.mdx`: Settle Portable OpenClaw
pairing before readiness.
- #9296 -> `docs/changelog/2026-08-17.mdx`: Retire messaging channel
presets the host no longer configures.
- #9327 -> `docs/changelog/2026-08-17.mdx`: Drop retired channels from
reused messaging selections.
- #9306 -> `docs/changelog/2026-08-17.mdx`: Remove gateway-enforced
presets without a local record.
- #9248 -> `docs/changelog/2026-08-17.mdx`: Activate Google Chat pairing
approval.
- #9374 -> `docs/changelog/2026-08-17.mdx`: Accept schema-owned
messaging plan fields.
- #9317 -> `docs/changelog/2026-08-17.mdx`: Accept safe hard-linked
package files during backup.
- #9288 -> `docs/changelog/2026-08-17.mdx`: Remove managed CLI shims
with destroyed user data.
- #9239 -> `docs/changelog/2026-08-17.mdx`: Read voice credentials from
fixed descriptors.
- #9269 -> `docs/changelog/2026-08-17.mdx`: Accept bounded native
OpenClaw device modes.
- #9371 -> `docs/changelog/2026-08-17.mdx`: Isolate OpenClaw
startup-guard output.
- #9351 -> `docs/changelog/2026-08-17.mdx`: Restore staging Launchable
validation.
- #9350 -> `docs/changelog/2026-08-17.mdx`: Retry transient
collaborator-permission reads.
- #9353 -> `docs/changelog/2026-08-17.mdx`: Retry transient
exact-artifact downloads.
- #9226 -> `docs/changelog/2026-08-17.mdx`: Add bounded Brev readiness
diagnostics.
- #9237 -> `docs/changelog/2026-08-17.mdx`: Report same-commit E2E
reliability.
- #9232 -> `docs/changelog/2026-08-17.mdx`: Execute native-runtime
qualification.
- #9275 -> `docs/changelog/2026-08-17.mdx`: Define E2E selection and
retry guidance.
- #9234 -> `docs/changelog/2026-08-17.mdx`: Move documentation review
after merge.
- #9365 -> `docs/changelog/2026-08-17.mdx`: Mount documentation reviewer
inputs before startup.

## Type of Change

- [ ] Code change (feature, bug fix, or refactor)
- [ ] Code change with doc updates
- [x] Doc only (prose changes, no code sample modifications)
- [ ] Doc only (includes code sample changes)

## Quality Gates

- [ ] Tests added or updated for changed behavior
- [x] Existing tests cover changed behavior — justification:
`test/changelog-docs.test.ts` validates the dated release-entry
contract.
- [ ] Tests not applicable — justification:
- [ ] Sensitive paths changed (security, policy, credentials, preflight,
onboarding, inference, runner, sandbox, or messaging)
- [ ] Sensitive-path review completed or maintainer-approved waiver
recorded — reviewer/approval link/justification:
- [ ] Non-success, skipped, or missing CI check accepted by maintainer —
check name, approval link, and follow-up issue:

## DGX Station Hardware Evidence

- [ ] Tested on DGX Station
- Tested commit: Not applicable; documentation-only change.
- Station profile/scenario: Not applicable.
- Result: Not applicable.
- Supporting evidence: Not applicable.

## Verification

- [x] PR description includes a `Signed-off-by:` line and every commit
appears as `Verified` in GitHub
- [x] Normal `pre-commit`, `commit-msg`, and `pre-push` hooks passed, or
`npm run validate:pr` passed after refreshing `origin/main` when hooks
were skipped or unavailable
- [x] Targeted behavior tests pass for the current change set, or tests
are marked not applicable above — `npx vitest run
test/changelog-docs.test.ts` (7 passed)
- [x] Applicable broad gate passed — `npm test` for broad
runtime/test-harness changes; `npm run check` for repo-wide
validation/coverage changes — command/result: Not applicable to one
prose-only changelog page; `npm run docs` passed the repository's strict
documentation gate.
- [x] Quality Gates section completed with required justifications or
waivers
- [x] No secrets, API keys, or credentials committed
- [ ] `npm run docs` builds without warnings (doc changes only) — passed
with 0 errors and the 2 existing Fern warnings.
- [x] Doc pages follow the [style
guide](https://github.com/NVIDIA/NemoClaw/blob/main/docs/CONTRIBUTING.md)
(doc changes only)
- [ ] New doc pages include SPDX header and frontmatter (new pages only)
— the SPDX header is present; dated changelog pages intentionally do not
use frontmatter.

---
Signed-off-by: Charan Jagwani <cjagwani@nvidia.com>


<!-- This is an auto-generated comment: release notes by coderabbit.ai
-->

## Summary by CodeRabbit

* **Documentation**
  * Added release notes for v0.0.110.
* Documented experimental managed llama.cpp and Portable OpenClaw
profiles.
* Covered inference validation, onboarding and recovery improvements,
rootless lifecycle handling, messaging and policy updates, backups,
credential handling, filesystem protections, and release qualification
updates.

<!-- end of auto-generated comment: release notes by coderabbit.ai -->
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