fix(portable): reconcile timed-out stop state

[senthilr-nv]

Summary

Portable stop now reconciles an ambiguous local Podman timeout against the exact receipt-owned container before reporting failure. A successful stop still requires the recorded full container ID to reach Running=false; all authority and identity failures remain errors.

QA reproduced the escape on a fresh L40S Brev instance built from eaa274dc562c0e37aac92c9fb15d2f1449f16615: onboarding completed 8/8, the sandbox reached Ready, and real chat passed. nemoclaw my-assistant stop then returned ETIMEDOUT after the OpenShell supervisor received SIGTERM but could not signal its entrypoint with EPERM; about 45 seconds later the relay ended and the container exited 137. Starting again recovered the same receipt-owned container to Ready, with healthy qwen3.6:35b inference and real chat.

Related Issue

Related to #9200.

Changes

• Keep the existing 30-second Podman stop mutation timeout and issue one stop for the receipt's full container ID.
• Only when the local command reports ETIMEDOUT, poll the same socket-authority-guarded Podman endpoint and revalidate the recorded container identity until it is stopped or the separate bounded reconciliation ends.
• Fail closed when the container remains running, disappears, is replaced, or cannot be inspected. Do not retry or force the mutation, change Podman stop timing, discover by name, fall back to Docker, update receipts, or clean forwards early.
• Add focused regression coverage for delayed settlement and every denied reconciliation result.

The root cause is in NemoClaw's OpenShell integration: it treated a local Podman client timeout as a final stop result even though the authorized rootless Podman service could continue the already accepted operation. No new OpenShell capability is required.

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)

Quality Gates

• Tests added or updated for changed behavior
• Existing tests cover changed behavior — justification:
• 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: independent nine-category review of exact commit e4013f265 passed; receipt ownership, socket authority, full container identity, fail-closed errors, one-mutation behavior, and unchanged receipt bytes were verified.
• Non-success, skipped, or missing CI check accepted by maintainer — check name, approval link, and follow-up issue:

An independent documentation and writing review of exact commit e4013f265 passed. No documentation change is needed because the supported command, output, workflow, defaults, receipt format, and mutation timeout remain unchanged.

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• Tested on DGX Station
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• 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
• Targeted behavior tests pass for the current change set, or tests are marked not applicable above — vitest run --project cli for both Portable lifecycle files: 51/51 passed; current-main affected CLI, plugin, and E2E-support suite: 295/295 files, 4,059 passed and 2 skipped; npm run typecheck:cli and npm run checks:repository passed.
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• 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)

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Signed-off-by: Senthil Ravichandran senthilr@nvidia.com

Summary by CodeRabbit

• Bug Fixes
  • Improved portable demo shutdown handling when container stopping initially times out.
  • Confirms the exact container has stopped before reporting success.
  • Rejects unsafe or invalid stop attempts when container identity changes or the container is missing.
  • Preserves existing error handling for non-timeout failures.
• Tests
  • Added coverage for successful reconciliation, timeout failures, identity changes, missing containers, and inspection errors.

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• established — reconciliation at src/lib/onboard/experimental/portable-demo-lifecycle-stop.test.ts:244: Keep reconciliation for this read-only status-convergence operation.
• established — receipt-owned container at src/lib/onboard/experimental/portable-demo-lifecycle.ts:1339: Keep receipt-owned container to identify the exact recorded resource.
• justified — bounded reconciliation at src/lib/onboard/experimental/portable-demo-lifecycle-stop.test.ts:270: Keep bounded reconciliation where the finite polling interval is material.

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📝 Walkthrough

Walkthrough

The portable demo lifecycle now reconciles Podman stop commands that return ETIMEDOUT. It polls the receipt-owned container for up to 30 seconds, validates identity and authority, and preserves receipt state. Tests cover success, timeout, drift, absence, and inspection errors.

Changes

Portable demo stop reconciliation

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Timeout detection and reconciliation contract src/lib/onboard/experimental/portable-demo-lifecycle.ts	Adds the 30-second reconciliation timeout and the isCommandTimeout helper for ETIMEDOUT results.
Timed-out stop reconciliation src/lib/onboard/experimental/portable-demo-lifecycle.ts	Re-inspects the receipt-owned container after a timed-out stop. The flow validates container identity and authority before returning stopped or propagating failure.
Reconciliation behavior coverage src/lib/onboard/experimental/portable-demo-lifecycle-stop.test.ts	Adds fixtures and tests for successful reconciliation, bounded timeout failure, identity drift, missing containers, inspection errors, command constraints, and receipt preservation.

Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~20 minutes

Merge Risk: ⚪ Minimal · up to dbc7d

This localized change reconciles timed-out portable stop operations against the recorded container without altering stop timing or receipt behavior; no actionable merge-blocking risk remains after normal checks and review.

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Sequence Diagram(s)

sequenceDiagram
  participant Lifecycle
  participant Podman
  participant Receipt
  Lifecycle->>Podman: Stop receipt-owned container
  Podman-->>Lifecycle: ETIMEDOUT
  loop Up to 30 seconds
    Lifecycle->>Podman: Inspect container
    Podman-->>Lifecycle: Identity and running state
  end
  Lifecycle->>Receipt: Preserve receipt
  Lifecycle-->>Lifecycle: Return stopped or propagate failure

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In `@src/lib/onboard/experimental/portable-demo-lifecycle-stop.test.ts`:
- Around line 65-105: Refactor createPodman and the related test setup so
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fixture helpers or separate scenarios, keeping each it body linear. Preserve the
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[prekshivyas]

The timeout path performs exactly one stop mutation, then reconciles only the receipt's full container ID through the already-authorized rootless Podman socket. Every inspection revalidates container and sandbox identity; missing, replaced, still-running, and inspection-failure states fail closed, and receipts and forwards remain untouched. The updated exact-head tests cover delayed settlement and all denial branches.

Cross-issue sweep: no additional candidate issues found.

Security review: secrets/credentials — PASS; input validation/sanitization — PASS; authentication/authorization — PASS; dependencies — PASS; error handling/logging — PASS; cryptography/data protection — PASS; configuration/security headers — PASS; security testing — PASS; system security — PASS.