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Summary

Managed Docker Hermes sandboxes previously reached runtime validation without a durable /sandbox/.hermes mount. Onboarding now provisions and reuses one NemoClaw-owned named volume, passes it through the supported Docker driver config, and removes it only when ownership is exact.

Related Issue

Fixes #9358

Changes

  • Add a managed Hermes state-volume lifecycle for the Docker runtime-provider path. The provider requires a durable writable /sandbox/.hermes mount; OpenShell consumes a pre-existing named volume but does not own its creation or deletion, so the lifecycle creates, verifies, reuses, and failure-cleans the exact labeled volume. hermes-state-volume.test.ts protects creation, incomplete-create cleanup, rebuild reuse, ownership refusal, and deletion.
  • Materialize the owned volume as a writable Docker volume mount and reject overlapping user host mounts. A direct host bind is insufficient because rebuild and restore must retain NemoClaw-owned state. sandbox-create-plan.test.ts protects the emitted driver config and conflict refusal.
  • Remove the volume after confirmed sandbox deletion and before retiring the registry record, preserving retry authority when cleanup fails. destroy-flow.test.ts protects deletion ordering and failure retention.

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:
  • Sensitive paths changed (security, policy, credentials, preflight, onboarding, inference, runner, sandbox, or messaging)
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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 — command/result or justification: 106 assertions passed across the managed volume, caller orchestration, driver-plan, destroy-flow, shared mount-overlap, Podman replacement, and buildless managed-image E2E suites.
  • Applicable broad gate passed — npm test for broad runtime/test-harness changes; npm run check for repo-wide validation/coverage changes — command/result: npm test initially stopped on the base build: recorded messaging reconciliation omits required dependencies #9359 compile regression; with the exact now-merged fix(onboard): pass messaging dependencies during reuse #9366 repair applied only for qualification, compilation passed and the suite then hit unrelated local-state and timeout failures. PR CI is required.
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  • npm run docs builds without warnings (doc changes only)
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  • New doc pages include SPDX header and frontmatter (new pages only)

Signed-off-by: Aaron Erickson aerickson@nvidia.com

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  • New Features

    • Added managed state-volume support for eligible Docker-based sandboxes, including creation, validation, mounting, reuse, and cleanup.
    • Added safeguards preventing host mounts from overlapping the managed state directory.
    • Improved onboarding failure diagnostics with container state and redacted log details.
  • Bug Fixes

    • Sandbox deletion now removes its managed state volume while preserving registry state if cleanup fails.
    • Foreign or unowned volumes remain untouched.
    • Improved validation of mount paths and durable managed-state filesystem boundaries.

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📝 Walkthrough

Walkthrough

Managed Hermes onboarding now provisions and mounts an owned Docker state volume at /sandbox/.hermes. The lifecycle validates ownership, supports cleanup and commit handling, integrates with recreation and destruction, and adds Docker failure diagnostics and filesystem-boundary validation.

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Managed Hermes state-volume and diagnostics lifecycle

Layer / File(s) Summary
Shared mount overlap validation
src/lib/onboard/host-mount/*, src/lib/onboard/managed-bootstrap/podman-bootstrap-replacement.ts, src/lib/onboard/sandbox-create-*
Shared path validation detects normalized exact, parent, child, and root overlaps. Docker and Podman mount validation use the helper.
Managed volume lifecycle
src/lib/onboard/managed-workload/*, src/lib/adapters/docker/volume.ts
Managed Docker Hermes workloads create or reuse labeled writable volumes, register cleanup for uncommitted creation, commit successful creation, and remove only exactly owned volumes.
Onboarding and destruction integration
src/lib/onboard.ts, src/lib/actions/sandbox/*, src/lib/onboard/sandbox-provider-cleanup.ts, test/helpers/*
Onboarding passes the managed state mount into Docker configuration and commits the lifecycle. Destruction removes the volume after deletion, preserves registry state on cleanup failure, and leaves foreign volumes untouched.
Docker failure diagnostics
src/lib/onboard/managed-bootstrap/*, src/lib/onboard/docker-gpu-*, test/e2e/live/*
Bootstrap captures bounded, redacted container state and logs for reconnect failures. Shared state formatting replaces local formatters, and log artifacts receive distinct names.
Agent-aware state transactions
src/lib/onboard/managed-startup/*
State transactions validate managed agent roots and filesystem devices. Hermes may use its managed state boundary, while unsupported nested mounts remain rejected.
End-to-end lifecycle validation
test/helpers/managed-image-buildless-e2e.ts, test/mcp-tool-discovery-image-contract.test.ts
The managed-image harness covers fresh and recreation flows, volume inspection and mounting, cleanup ordering, and the updated runtime artifact contract.

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

Merge Risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to e4f39

The change adds durable managed Hermes state across onboarding, rebuild, and deletion flows. Targeted tests pass, but required sensitive-path review and broad validation are not yet recorded, so the PR should not merge until those checks are completed or explicitly accepted.

Sequence Diagram(s)

sequenceDiagram
  participant Onboard
  participant StateVolumeLifecycle
  participant CreatePlan
  participant Docker
  Onboard->>StateVolumeLifecycle: prepare managed Hermes state volume
  StateVolumeLifecycle->>Docker: inspect or create labeled volume
  StateVolumeLifecycle-->>Onboard: return managedStateMount
  Onboard->>CreatePlan: materialize plan with managedStateMount
  CreatePlan-->>Onboard: return Docker driver configuration
  Onboard->>StateVolumeLifecycle: commit()
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sequenceDiagram
  participant destroySandbox
  participant StateVolumeCleanup
  participant Docker
  participant SandboxRegistry
  destroySandbox->>SandboxRegistry: confirm deletion or absence
  destroySandbox->>StateVolumeCleanup: remove managed state volume
  StateVolumeCleanup->>Docker: inspect and remove owned volume
  Docker-->>StateVolumeCleanup: cleanup result
  StateVolumeCleanup-->>destroySandbox: return cleanup status
  destroySandbox->>SandboxRegistry: remove entry after successful cleanup
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Out of Scope Changes check ⚠️ Warning The PR also changes reconnect-failure diagnostics and the reviewed runtime bundle hash, which are not required by the linked issue [#9358]. Move unrelated diagnostics and bundle-contract changes to separate PRs, or document their direct dependency on durable Hermes state onboarding.
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Title check ✅ Passed The title clearly summarizes the primary change: persisting managed Hermes state during onboarding.
Linked Issues check ✅ Passed The changes satisfy the coding objectives for durable, writable, owned Hermes state volumes, lifecycle cleanup, reuse, and mount validation [#9358].
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The overall coverage in commit e4f3958 in the fix/managed-hermes-s... branch remains at 96%, unchanged from commit dba453f in the main branch.

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The overall coverage in commit e4f3958 in the fix/managed-hermes-s... branch remains at 83%, unchanged from commit 7d516f2 in the main branch.

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File main 7d516f2 fix/managed-hermes-s... e4f3958 +/-
src/lib/cua/run...ime-manifest.ts 90% 91% +1%
src/lib/onboard...-transaction.ts 68% 70% +2%
src/lib/actions...dbox/destroy.ts 73% 76% +3%
src/lib/onboard...rchestration.ts 55% 58% +3%
src/lib/onboard...er-gpu-patch.ts 80% 84% +4%
src/lib/onboard...-diagnostics.ts 94% 99% +5%
src/lib/onboard...state-volume.ts 0% 83% +83%
src/lib/onboard...ure-evidence.ts 0% 95% +95%
src/lib/onboard...state-volume.ts 0% 95% +95%
src/lib/onboard...path-overlap.ts 0% 100% +100%

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2 semantic terminology decisions

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  • justified — managed Hermes state volume at src/lib/onboard/managed-workload/hermes-state-volume.ts:203: Keep `managed Hermes state volume` for the exact owned volume lifecycle.
  • established — failure evidence at src/lib/onboard/managed-bootstrap/docker-container-failure-evidence.ts:92: Keep `failure evidence`; the changed collector uses the established repository meaning.

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In `@src/lib/onboard.ts`:
- Around line 1902-1910: Move managed Hermes state-volume preparation and
validation, including hermesStateVolumeLifecycle setup, to after workload
resolution but before beginDelete() in the recreation flow. Retain the prepared
lifecycle through sandbox launch and commit it only after successful
registration, ensuring Docker availability and existing-volume ownership labels
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LOC Reduction / Codebase Simplicity Review

Why this blocks

The latest delta adds supervisorReconnectFailureDetail at src/lib/onboard/managed-bootstrap/docker.ts:253-286 as another Docker failure-evidence collector and calls it with before at src/lib/onboard/managed-bootstrap/docker.ts:3672-3690. That object was inspected before waitForOpenShellSupervisorReconnect; if the replacement exits, is OOM-killed, or reports an error during the wait, the new evidence still describes the earlier running state. The new regression at src/lib/onboard/managed-bootstrap/docker.test.ts:498-532 codifies this by reporting status=unknown running=true after reconnect failure instead of changing and recapturing the failed state.

This is also a third container-state formatter. The same six Docker state fields are already rendered at src/lib/onboard/docker-gpu-patch.ts:470-482 and src/lib/onboard/docker-gpu-patch-diagnostics.ts:113-126; the existing snapshot path re-inspects .State by container ID immediately before rollback at src/lib/onboard/docker-gpu-patch.ts:405-458, and the bounded pre-rollback pipeline already owns log collection and redaction at src/lib/onboard/docker-gpu-pre-rollback-diagnostics.ts:142-212. Adding another formatter/redactor path increases LOC while producing weaker evidence.

Refactor direction

Extract the generic Docker state formatting and bounded redacted log-tail capture from the existing pre-rollback diagnostics into one shared helper, and use it from both GPU and managed-bootstrap reconnect failures. Invoke it after the reconnect wait fails so it inspects replacement.replacementRuntimeId at the failure boundary. Update the regression so the replacement changes to an exited/OOM/error state during the wait and assert that post-wait state is reported.

Expected result

Reconnect failure evidence has one capture/redaction owner and reflects the state that caused the failure. The new 35-line ad hoc collector disappears, the existing duplicate state formatters can be consolidated, and rollback behavior remains unchanged.

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Addressed the reconnect-diagnostics review in 0519a32. The managed failure path now captures the replacement state after the reconnect wait fails, and both managed-bootstrap and GPU pre-rollback diagnostics share one bounded/redacted state-and-log evidence helper. The regression transitions the replacement to exited/OOM/error state during the wait and asserts that post-wait evidence. Validation: TypeScript CLI, repository architecture checks, 344 Docker/GPU tests, and all 22 growth guardrails pass.

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Resolved by commit 0519a32; reconnect failure now captures current state through a shared Docker failure-evidence helper and duplicate state formatters were consolidated.

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LOC Reduction / Codebase Simplicity Review

Resolved at 0519a32794aa5336f580779bdafedce86416d788.

src/lib/onboard/managed-bootstrap/docker-container-failure-evidence.ts now owns Docker state formatting, bounded log capture, and redaction for both managed-bootstrap reconnect failures and the existing GPU rollback path. The two prior GPU state-format copies and the managed-bootstrap ad hoc collector are removed.

The reconnect failure path now passes only replacement.replacementRuntimeId after the wait fails, so the shared helper re-inspects the container at the failure boundary. The regression changes the replacement to exited, non-running, exit 137, OOM-killed state during the wait and asserts that current state rather than the earlier running snapshot.

This implements the requested consolidation and freshness boundary. I found no new blocking LOC or codebase-simplicity issue in this follow-up. This comment closes only the prior simplicity review; it is not an approval of other review dimensions.

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The exact-head managed activation failure is addressed at f259225a417e5cde9bf5f059168066d0fb535fb3.

Root cause: the TypeScript transaction guard and its unit regression were updated, but the managed images execute the committed reviewed runtime artifact, which still contained the pre-Hermes-aware validator call chain. I regenerated that deterministic bundle from the current source and updated its exact SHA-256 contract. The shipped bundle now passes profile.agent through snapshotFile to the root-only Hermes mount validation.

Local qualification on this exact head:

  • 41 focused shared-state and image-contract tests passed
  • 274 broader managed Docker/Podman, rollback, destroy, build-context, and E2E-support tests passed (2 skipped)
  • 22 growth guardrails passed
  • CLI typecheck and repository architecture checks passed
  • reviewed-runtime unit test, typecheck, and byte-for-byte regeneration check passed

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Addressed both exact-head advisor warnings in 0465f89b24.

  • PRA-1: added the repository-standard SOURCE_OF_TRUTH_REVIEW record at the shared Docker failure-evidence owner, documenting the invalid state, pre-rollback boundary, best-effort 2-second/120-line/1,200-character redacted capture bounds, regressions, and removal condition.
  • PRA-2: extended the caller-level managed-image buildless E2E fixture with an existing exactly labeled Hermes volume and explicit sandbox recreation. It proves volume ownership is inspected before deletion, the recreated sandbox create receives the same writable /sandbox/.hermes mount, and neither docker volume create nor docker volume rm occurs.

Exact local validation: 40 feedback-focused tests, 22 growth guardrails, CLI typecheck, repository checks, deterministic reviewed-bundle reproduction, and all commit/push hooks pass.

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In `@src/lib/onboard/managed-startup-shared-state-transaction.test.ts`:
- Around line 209-219: Add a regression test alongside the existing mounted-root
coverage for a Hermes managed output located in a descendant directory below the
exact .hermes root on a different device. Verify both transaction preparation
and rollback reject this nested device boundary, while preserving acceptance
only for the exact .hermes root; reuse the existing managed-startup transaction
helpers and filesystem mount simulation utilities.

In `@test/e2e/live/managed-image-activation-e2e-helpers.ts`:
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Final review closure at e4f39585e02c8ed5f1e771d37f9e5fb68b6fe866:

  • CodeRabbit exact-head check: success; unresolved review threads: 0.
  • Added the requested Hermes descendant-device regression and disabled raw Docker log artifact persistence in d3c70b1e8d.
  • Added the two preserved SOURCE_OF_TRUTH_REVIEW authority receipts in e4f39585e0.
  • Exact-head standard CI aggregate: success after the isolated PTY termios probe passed on retry.
  • Exact-head managed-image workflow and real all-agent activation: success.
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  • Nemotron second-opinion lane repeatedly emitted malformed final JSON; the trusted publisher skipped that lane and reported no advisor follow-up needed.
  • main advanced after qualification, but the intervening main delta has no changed-path overlap with this PR and GitHub reports the head mergeable.

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Managed Docker Hermes sandboxes previously reached runtime validation
without a durable `/sandbox/.hermes` mount. Onboarding now provisions
and reuses one NemoClaw-owned named volume, passes it through the
supported Docker driver config, and removes it only when ownership is
exact.

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Fixes #9358

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- Add a managed Hermes state-volume lifecycle for the Docker
runtime-provider path. The provider requires a durable writable
`/sandbox/.hermes` mount; OpenShell consumes a pre-existing named volume
but does not own its creation or deletion, so the lifecycle creates,
verifies, reuses, and failure-cleans the exact labeled volume.
`hermes-state-volume.test.ts` protects creation, incomplete-create
cleanup, rebuild reuse, ownership refusal, and deletion.
- Materialize the owned volume as a writable Docker `volume` mount and
reject overlapping user host mounts. A direct host bind is insufficient
because rebuild and restore must retain NemoClaw-owned state.
`sandbox-create-plan.test.ts` protects the emitted driver config and
conflict refusal.
- Remove the volume after confirmed sandbox deletion and before retiring
the registry record, preserving retry authority when cleanup fails.
`destroy-flow.test.ts` protects deletion ordering and failure retention.

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are marked not applicable above — command/result or justification: 106
assertions passed across the managed volume, caller orchestration,
driver-plan, destroy-flow, shared mount-overlap, Podman replacement, and
buildless managed-image E2E suites.
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runtime/test-harness changes; `npm run check` for repo-wide
validation/coverage changes — command/result: `npm test` initially
stopped on the base #9359 compile regression; with the exact now-merged
suite then hit unrelated local-state and timeout failures. PR CI is
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Signed-off-by: Aaron Erickson <aerickson@nvidia.com>

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* **New Features**
* Added managed state-volume support for eligible Docker-based
sandboxes, including creation, validation, mounting, reuse, and cleanup.
* Added safeguards preventing host mounts from overlapping the managed
state directory.
* Improved onboarding failure diagnostics with container state and
redacted log details.

* **Bug Fixes**
* Sandbox deletion now removes its managed state volume while preserving
registry state if cleanup fails.
  * Foreign or unowned volumes remain untouched.
* Improved validation of mount paths and durable managed-state
filesystem boundaries.
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Signed-off-by: Aaron Erickson <aerickson@nvidia.com>
@wscurran wscurran added the bug-fix PR fixes a bug or regression label Aug 24, 2026
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