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Fixes #9433

Summary

~/.nemoclaw/snapshots/ has two writers. blueprint/snapshot.ts writes 20260818T064937Z.
commands/migration-state.ts (createSnapshotBundle with persist: true) wrote
2026-08-18T06-43-16-599Z and a manifest with no timestamp field.

blueprint/snapshot-management.ts accepts only ^\d{8}T\d{6}Z$ (:11) and additionally requires
raw.timestamp === snapshotName (:90). Migration snapshots satisfied neither, so all three
retention commands were blind to them:

  • snapshots prune --keep 0 reported nothing to prune and left the snapshot on disk. A sanitized
    copy of ~/.openclaw plus every configured external root survived every prune at every retention
    level.
  • snapshots delete --path ~/.nemoclaw/snapshots/<dir> failed with
    Snapshot path must be inside the snapshots directory for a path that is a direct child of that
    directory — the message states the opposite of the filesystem layout.

docs/reference/host-files-and-state.mdx documents these commands as managing exactly these
snapshots. Its directory table describes the sanitized, external-root-collecting copy that only
createSnapshotBundle produces, and its "Migration Snapshot Retention" section describes
sanitizeMigrationDirectory — called only from commands/migration-state.ts — immediately before
listing snapshots list / prune / delete "for migration snapshots".

The change

createSnapshotBundle now emits the canonical directory grammar and records that identity in its
manifest as an optional timestamp. Four production lines, one of them a comment. No documentation
change: the docs already describe the intended behavior.

Why the writer and not the reader

The reader's strictness is a safety property, not an oversight. snapshotNameFromPath is the gate
on deleteSnapshot and on isSnapshotPathInsideSnapshotsDir, and snapshots delete is
irreversible by design (the docs say so). snapshot-management.test.ts names its cases "lists
strict snapshot identities" and "skips malformed directories, manifests, and non-directory entries"
— fail-closed is the intent. Widening that pattern to accept a second grammar would relax an
irreversible-deletion gate to accommodate a writer that can simply emit the canonical name.

Why not a compatibility read for snapshots already on disk

Snapshots written by an earlier version keep their old directory names and remain invisible to the
retention commands. That is deliberate.

  • It is not a regression. Those snapshots are invisible today; this change does not move them.
  • Making them visible is not a one-line widening. listSnapshots would still skip them because
    their manifests have no timestamp at all, so it would also require relaxing the
    manifest-identity check — the check that binds a manifest to the directory it describes. That is
    two loosened invariants in the reader, to serve a case with no current consumer.
  • It would newly expose pre-existing host state to an irreversible command. After an upgrade,
    prune --keep 3 would start deleting rollback points that no previous version could delete. An
    upgrade silently widening what an irreversible command destroys is worse than leaving the old
    directories alone.
  • Those directories are plain directories under a documented path, and
    docs/reference/host-files-and-state.mdx already tells operators they may remove them once the
    corresponding rollback point is no longer needed.
  • CLAUDE.md: "Do not add configuration, fallback, migration, compatibility, or extension layers
    without a current requirement."

If maintainers would rather have a one-time compatibility read, say so and I will add it as a
separate change with its own test.

Compatibility

  • SnapshotManifest.timestamp is optional. isSnapshotManifest is a conjunction of field
    checks with no whole-key check, so manifests written before this change still validate and
    loadSnapshotManifest still reads them. Existing rollback and restore paths are unaffected, and
    migration-state-test-fixtures.ts::makeSnapshotManifest needs no change.
  • The persist: false staging path uses the same variable, so its directory name changes shape too.
    Nothing parses that name; the only consumers of bundle.snapshotDir join further path segments
    onto it.
  • test/e2e-test.sh is unaffected. Step 6 asserts listSnapshots().length === 1 after calling
    createSnapshot(), and the only createSnapshotBundle call in that script (step 8) runs later
    and uses persist: false, so no persisted migration snapshot exists while that assertion runs.

Known duplication

The compact grammar is now expressed in two places: blueprint/snapshot.ts's private
compactTimestamp and this call site. Sharing it would mean either a new module or importing
blueprint/snapshot.ts — which pulls in execa and evaluates homedir() at module scope — into
commands/ for a date format. The contract that actually needs one owner is the pattern the reader
accepts, and snapshot-management.ts:11 already owns that. Happy to extract a shared helper if you
prefer it.

Tests

Extended the existing createSnapshotBundle case in
nemoclaw/src/commands/migration-state.test.ts — the file's only persist: true scenario. No new
file, no new import, no parallel case. The assertions cover the persisted directory grammar and the
manifest identity that binds to it; both are required for list and prune to see the snapshot.

The added assertions fail against the unpatched writer:

AssertionError: expected '/home/user/.nemoclaw/snapshots/2026-0…' to match /^\/home\/user\/\.nemoclaw\/snaps…
- Expected: /^\/home\/user\/\.nemoclaw\/snapshots\/\d{8}T\d{6}Z$/
+ Received: "/home/user/.nemoclaw/snapshots/2026-08-18T06-56-14-250Z"

ci/test-file-size-budget.json pins this file to exactly 1300 lines, so the case's null guard was
collapsed to one line and its two manifest assertions merged into one toMatchObject to pay for the
new ones. The file is still exactly 1300 lines and the budget file is untouched.

Verification

  • npx vitest run --project plugin — 32 files, 895 tests, all passed
  • npm --prefix nemoclaw run typecheck — clean
  • npm --prefix nemoclaw run lint — clean
  • npm run validate:pr — exit 0 (pre-commit hooks, commitlint, pre-push TypeScript)
  • NEMOCLAW_GROWTH_BASE_REF=upstream/main npx prek --from-ref upstream/main --to-ref HEAD — exit 0,
    including Codebase growth guardrails and Source-shape test budget

Net +4 lines, all in production; 0 net test lines.

Scope

No new supported surface. Existing documented behavior begins working as documented.

Signed-off-by: Udaya Tejas udayatejas2004@gmail.com

Summary by CodeRabbit

  • Bug Fixes

    • Snapshot metadata now records timestamps consistently with snapshot directory names.
    • Snapshot creation safely handles multiple snapshots created within the same second without overwriting data.
    • Snapshot directories avoid collisions and planted symlinks during creation.
    • Snapshot cleanup removes only directories created by the active operation.
    • Manifest validation supports optional timestamp metadata while preserving compatibility with existing snapshots.
    • Cutover and rollback archive names now use a consistent UTC timestamp format.
  • Tests

    • Expanded coverage for timestamp naming, collision handling, symlink safety, cleanup, and snapshot preservation.

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Snapshot manifests now support optional timestamps. Snapshot directories use the compact UTC format required by retention parsing. Snapshot creation reserves unique directories, retries collisions, and records the reserved timestamp. Tests verify uniqueness, retention discovery, pruning, and manifest consistency.

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Snapshot timestamp handling

Layer / File(s) Summary
Directory naming and reservation
nemoclaw/src/blueprint/snapshot-directory.ts, nemoclaw/src/blueprint/snapshot-directory.test.ts
Shared utilities define compact UTC names and atomically reserve timestamped directories. Tests cover naming, same-second collisions, empty reservations, cleanup, and symlink conflicts.
Snapshot creation and manifest identity
nemoclaw/src/commands/migration-state.ts, nemoclaw/src/blueprint/snapshot.ts, nemoclaw/src/blueprint/snapshot-management.ts
Migration snapshot creation uses the shared reservation helper, records the reserved directory basename in the manifest, validates optional timestamps, and shares the naming matcher with retention management.
Creation and retention validation
nemoclaw/src/commands/migration-state.test.ts, nemoclaw/src/commands/migration-state-security.test.ts
Tests verify retention-compatible names, manifest consistency, unique frozen-time directories, snapshot discovery, pruning, and timer-safe cleanup.

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The PR makes newly created migration snapshots visible to retention commands and is mergeable with owner awareness; the remaining bounded risk is that regular-file collision behavior lacks a dedicated regression test.

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sequenceDiagram
  participant SnapshotCreator
  participant SnapshotDirectory
  participant Manifest
  participant RetentionReader
  SnapshotCreator->>SnapshotDirectory: reserve compact UTC timestamp directory
  SnapshotDirectory-->>SnapshotCreator: return unique owned directory
  SnapshotCreator->>Manifest: record reserved timestamp
  SnapshotCreator-->>SnapshotDirectory: write snapshot contents
  RetentionReader->>SnapshotDirectory: list timestamped directories
  RetentionReader->>Manifest: validate directory timestamp
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Requesting changes: the new canonical second-resolution leaf is not unique. Two snapshot attempts in the same second reuse the directory because the leaf mkdir is recursive, so copy results can mix; worse, failure cleanup removes that shared parent and can delete another successful snapshot. Please reserve a unique leaf atomically (for example, a non-recursive leaf mkdir plus collision suffix/retry) and add same-second/concurrent regression coverage.

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Thank you — both halves of this reproduce, and the widening is mine: the pre-change writer used
millisecond resolution, and conforming to the retention grammar dropped it to seconds. Fixed in
2136365.

createSnapshotBundle now reserves its directory through reserveSnapshotDir, which creates the
snapshots/staging root recursively and then takes the leaf with a non-recursive mkdirSync.
That single syscall is the reservation: EEXIST means another snapshot already owns that second.
parentDir also starts empty and is assigned only after the reservation succeeds, so the failure
path in the catch can no longer remove a directory this operation did not create.

One deviation from your suggestion, and I want to flag it rather than quietly diverge. A collision
suffix would produce 20260818T064316Z-1, which
snapshot-management.ts:11's SNAPSHOT_DIR_NAME_RE = /^\d{8}T\d{6}Z$/ rejects. Since
snapshotNameFromPath gates listSnapshots, deleteSnapshot, and
isSnapshotPathInsideSnapshotsDir, a suffixed snapshot would be exactly as invisible to
snapshots list / prune / delete as the old 2026-08-18T06-43-16-599Z name — the bug this PR
exists to fix. So the retry advances to the next second instead, which reserves a unique leaf
and stays inside the grammar. That also matches the PR Review Advisor's wording, "retry with a new
retention-valid name".

Regression coverage is in migration-state-security.test.ts rather than migration-state.test.ts,
because that file drives the real filesystem and is the only place EEXIST is observable —
migration-state.test.ts mocks mkdirSync to a store write that cannot throw. The case freezes
the clock, creates two persisted bundles at the same instant, and asserts they get different
directories, that both names match the retention grammar, that each manifest names its own
directory, and that a marker file written into the first snapshot survives the second operation.
Reverting just mkdirSync(candidate) to mkdirSync(candidate, { recursive: true }) fails it:

AssertionError: expected '/var/folders/…' not to be '/var/folders/…' // Object.is equality
 ❯ nemoclaw/src/commands/migration-state-security.test.ts:121:36

End to end with a frozen clock, listSnapshots now returns both:
A=20260818T064316Z, B=20260818T064317Z, listed=20260818T064317Z,20260818T064316Z.

One scope note: blueprint/snapshot.ts:114-120, the canonical snapshot writer, has the same
compactTimestamp() + mkdirSync(recursive: true) shape and no reservation. This PR does not
touch it, so the class is not closed repo-wide. Happy to follow up there separately if you want it,
or to extract a shared reservation helper if you would rather have one owner for this.

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Fixed in 2136365. The leaf is now reserved with a non-recursive mkdirSync before any copying,
EEXIST advances the candidate to the next second, and cleanup can only remove a directory this
operation created (parentDir stays empty until the reservation succeeds). The collision retry
stays inside /^\d{8}T\d{6}Z$/ rather than taking a suffix, because
snapshot-management.ts:11 would reject a suffixed name and the snapshot would go back to being
invisible to snapshots list / prune / delete. Coverage is the new
migration-state-security.test.ts case, which mocks the clock to one instant and creates two
persisted bundles; it drives the real filesystem, which is the only place EEXIST is observable.

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LOC Reduction / Codebase Simplicity Review

What the latest commit resolved

Commit 2136365a9a862a25b3a55c97ae4fe06127cf9356 makes createSnapshotBundle reserve a snapshot directory before it copies data. This resolves the same-second collision in that writer.

Why changes are requested

The fix adds a second snapshot-directory allocation authority instead of removing the duplicate design that caused #9433.

  • commands/migration-state.ts:757-777 now owns reserveSnapshotDir and its timestamp formatter.
  • blueprint/snapshot.ts:43-48 still owns compactTimestamp for the same directory grammar.
  • blueprint/snapshot.ts:114-120 still creates the same second-resolution snapshot leaf with recursive mkdirSync. Two calls in one second can reuse that directory.
  • blueprint/snapshot-management.ts:11 separately owns the accepted name grammar.

The latest commit adds 22 net production lines to one writer. It leaves the same collision class in the other writer and preserves three copies of one contract.

Refactor direction

Extract one dependency-light snapshot-directory module. It should own the canonical name grammar, timestamp formatting, and atomic leaf reservation.

Use that module from both createSnapshotBundle and createSnapshot. Return the reserved path and timestamp so each manifest records the reserved identity. Preserve the blueprint writer's symlink rejection before reservation.

Test same-second reservation at the shared boundary. Keep only the consumer assertions that verify each manifest uses the returned identity.

Expected result

The codebase has one snapshot-directory contract instead of a private formatter, a local reservation helper, and a separate reader pattern. Both writers become collision-safe, and the shared implementation should reduce production LOC compared with parallel implementations.

udsy19 added 2 commits August 18, 2026 13:30
createSnapshotBundle with persist wrote ~/.nemoclaw/snapshots/<ISO timestamp
with separators replaced by "-">, but the retention reader accepts only the
compact ^\d{8}T\d{6}Z$ directory grammar and requires the manifest to name the
same identity. The migration snapshots that host-files-and-state documents as
managed by snapshots list, prune, and delete were invisible to all three:
prune kept them at every retention level, and delete rejected a direct child
of the snapshots directory as outside that directory.

Write the canonical grammar and record it in the manifest as an optional
timestamp. Manifests written without the field stay readable.

Signed-off-by: Udaya Tejas <udayatejas2004@gmail.com>
The directory grammar the retention reader accepts is second-resolution, so
two snapshots in the same second computed the same leaf. mkdirSync with
recursive: true is silent on an existing directory, so the second operation
would copy into the first snapshot, and its failure path would remove a
directory it did not create.

Reserve the leaf with a non-recursive mkdir and advance to the next second on
EEXIST. A collision suffix would leave the ^\d{8}T\d{6}Z$ pattern that this
change set out to satisfy, so the retry stays inside the grammar.

Signed-off-by: Udaya Tejas <udayatejas2004@gmail.com>
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udsy19 force-pushed the fix/snapshot-dir-name-pattern branch from 2136365 to 73a8e97 Compare August 18, 2026 20:30
NVIDIA#9433 exists because the snapshot directory contract lived in three places:
`blueprint/snapshot.ts` formatted the name and created the leaf with a
recursive mkdir, `commands/migration-state.ts` formatted it again, and
`blueprint/snapshot-management.ts` owned the grammar the retention commands
accept. Fixing only one writer left the same collision in the other.

Add `blueprint/snapshot-directory.ts` owning the grammar, the compact UTC
timestamp and atomic leaf reservation, and use it from `createSnapshot` and
`createSnapshotBundle`. Both now reserve before copying, and each manifest
records the reserved identity. The blueprint writer keeps its symlink
rejection ahead of reservation; a planted entry at a candidate name now fails
the non-recursive mkdir and reservation advances past it instead of writing
through it.

Same-second reservation is tested once at the shared boundary. The consumers
keep only the assertion that each manifest names the directory it received.

Signed-off-by: Udaya Tejas <udayatejas2004@gmail.com>
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You are right that the previous commit added a second allocation authority rather than removing the
duplicate, and the collision in the other writer is real. I reproduced it before changing anything:
calling createSnapshot() twice with the clock held at 2026-08-18T06:43:16.500Z against a real
filesystem returned the same directory both times.

nemoclaw/src/blueprint/snapshot-directory.ts now owns all three pieces of the one contract — the
grammar the retention reader accepts, the compact UTC timestamp, and atomic leaf reservation.

  • blueprint/snapshot-management.ts imports the grammar instead of declaring it.
  • blueprint/snapshot.ts drops compactTimestamp, keeps its symlink rejection ahead of the
    reservation, and takes both the directory and the manifest timestamp from the reserved path. Its
    two archive filenames use the shared timestamp helper.
  • commands/migration-state.ts drops its local copy and imports the shared one.

After the change the same run gives 20260818T064316Z and 20260818T064317Z, and both directories
are present.

One property the extraction adds for free: a non-directory entry planted at a candidate name,
including a symlink, fails the non-recursive mkdirSync with EEXIST, so reservation advances past it
instead of writing through it. The recursive mkdirSync in the blueprint writer would have followed
it. There is a case for that in the new test.

On coverage, I followed your split. Same-second reservation is tested once, at the shared boundary,
in snapshot-directory.test.ts. The migration-state case shrank from 28 lines to 19 and now
asserts only that two same-second bundles get different directories and that each manifest names the
directory it received; the grammar assertion, the marker file and the directory count moved to the
boundary test. migration-state.test.ts is untouched — it is pinned at exactly 1300 lines.

Production is +48/-41 for this commit, so the shared module costs 7 net lines while removing the
duplicated contract and making the second writer collision-safe. The whole PR is +56/-23 in
production across three files and two writers, against +22 on one writer before.

Checked both directions rather than only the happy path. Reverting only blueprint/snapshot.ts
makes the real-filesystem same-second check fail with the two paths identical. Reverting only
commands/migration-state.ts to the pre-reservation version makes the trimmed consumer case fail.

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jyaunches dismissed their stale review August 18, 2026 23:41

Resolved at f20286e. Both snapshot writers and the retention reader now share one snapshot-directory contract.

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LOC Reduction / Codebase Simplicity Review

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Commit f20286e6ff08074668e5684fdc1b12d2991ef985 resolves the simplicity blocker. snapshot-directory.ts now owns the accepted name grammar, compact UTC formatting, and atomic directory reservation. Both snapshot writers use that contract, the retention reader imports the same grammar, and the blueprint writer retains its symlink check before reservation. Same-second reservation is covered once at the shared boundary while each consumer verifies the identity it receives.

This comment is limited to the LOC reduction and codebase-simplicity finding. It is not an approval.

Signed-off-by: Prekshi Vyas <prekshiv@nvidia.com>
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Addressed the final portability thread at exact head a5cab83b2360956bf1643544e7b1ad76ac013219.

The snapshot-directory test now uses /private/tmp only on macOS (where the default temp path resolves through the rejected /var symlink) and Node's native tmpdir() on other platforms. Production snapshot behavior is unchanged.

Validation:

  • full plugin project: 33 files, 905/905 tests passed
  • both plugin TypeScript projects
  • npm run checks:repository
  • full npm run validate:pr
  • commit is GitHub Verified and DCO-signed

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🧹 Nitpick comments (1)
nemoclaw/src/blueprint/snapshot-directory.test.ts (1)

55-65: 🩺 Stability & Availability | 🔵 Trivial | ⚡ Quick win

Add a regular-file collision case.

This test covers a conflicting symlink, but it does not cover a regular file at the candidate snapshot path. Add a case that creates the file and verifies that reservation skips it and returns a different directory whose name matches SNAPSHOT_DIR_NAME_RE. The snapshot reservation contract requires safe handling of both non-directory entries and symlinks.

As per path instructions, “Review tests for behavioral confidence rather than implementation lock-in.” The PR objective also requires safe handling of pre-existing non-directory entries and symlinks.

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In `@nemoclaw/src/blueprint/snapshot-directory.test.ts` around lines 55 - 65, Add
a test alongside the existing symlink collision case that creates a regular file
at the initial candidate snapshot path, calls reserveSnapshotDir, and verifies
the returned path is different and its basename matches SNAPSHOT_DIR_NAME_RE.
Keep the test focused on reservation behavior without asserting implementation
details.

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In `@nemoclaw/src/blueprint/snapshot-directory.test.ts`:
- Around line 55-65: Add a test alongside the existing symlink collision case
that creates a regular file at the initial candidate snapshot path, calls
reserveSnapshotDir, and verifies the returned path is different and its basename
matches SNAPSHOT_DIR_NAME_RE. Keep the test focused on reservation behavior
without asserting implementation details.

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Pushed 658d2f0 to close the remaining writer/reader contract gap from the review advisor.

The new regression creates a real persisted migration snapshot via createSnapshotBundle, verifies listSnapshots discovers the resulting manifest/directory, then prunes it through pruneSnapshots with the retention deletion seam and confirms the reader is empty afterward.

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The push used an exact a5cab83 remote-head guard and was non-force.

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Approved on exact head 658d2f0a53bfd053c3d760a6d1cf62a1b279a050. The shared snapshot-directory contract closes the writer/reader retention gap, the real writer-to-list/prune regression now covers the handoff, all commits are verified, all current checks and both advisor lanes are clean, and no live E2E selector is required.

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prekshivyas merged commit 3184db9 into NVIDIA:main Aug 19, 2026
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## Summary

This pull request (PR) fixes typed live E2E artifact lookup after
semantic test titles were introduced. Registry targets now bind the
artifact fixture to their stable target ID. LangChain Deep Agents Code
reads base image publication evidence from the directory that the
trusted workflow writes and uploads.

## Confirmed E2E Root

`typed E2E titles / ArtifactSink root identity / DCode publication
evidence written by stable target ID but read from semantic-title slug`

- Source workflow: [run
32204372503](https://github.com/NVIDIA/NemoClaw/actions/runs/32204372503),
attempt 1, at `ee6762b9941777d64dad832994b03ca2a572d4c9`.
- Failed target: [job
95930234625](https://github.com/NVIDIA/NemoClaw/actions/runs/32204372503/job/95930234625),
LangChain Deep Agents Code on GitHub Actions.
- Failure: phase 1 stopped in 19 ms at
`loadDcodeBaseImagePublicationEvidence:103` with `Deep Agents Code
GitHub Actions run is missing published base evidence`. No onboarding or
runtime phase ran.
- The workflow validated the exact candidate checkout, CLI artifact,
base image publication index, linux/amd64 child digest, and
stripped-base negative import gate. Sanitization, evidence upload,
Docker authentication cleanup, and workspace cleanup passed.

PR #9514, merged as `1acc902896e6324f773df9dbcc32a761118c6f05`, changed
typed live test titles from a stable target ID to `<target-id>:
<semantic test title>`. The workflow continued to write
`dcode-base-image.json` below `${TARGET_ID}`. The E2E artifact fixture
derived its directory from the complete semantic test title.

## Changes

- Add typed `e2eArtifactRootId` test metadata. The stateful E2E artifact
fixture uses it before the existing `task.name` fallback.
- Bind both supported and skipped registry target registrations to the
already validated `target.id`.
- Reuse one Deep Agents Code base image publication evidence fixture
across the parser tests and artifact-root regression test.
- Keep one nested Vitest regression test. It writes evidence below the
stable target ID, asserts that ID as the artifact-root basename, and
confirms no directory is derived from the semantic test title.
- Leave `createArtifactSink`, the workflow fixture, workflow publication
and upload paths, credentials, redaction, and cleanup unchanged.

## Base SHA Reconciliation

Latest PR commit `69e46712823e50d0d009e8300f91ee519098649d` is a normal
GitHub-Verified merge with ordered parents
[`a5cbade3e7d375c14a515d9ff6950e4a7af0e647`,
`7afe39541e81f70d9e1aa39c49415084d8276524`]. PR base SHA
`7afe39541e81f70d9e1aa39c49415084d8276524` adds #9551, #9434, #9564, and
#9566 after previous base SHA
`cc45d243dcc256aba7b8d6a761c75d771148ead5`. None changes the six files
in this PR, `ArtifactSink`, or trusted E2E workflow files. #9566 changes
only `test/package-contract/cli/credentials-cli-command.test.ts` and
corrects the inherited provider-reservation assertion that caused
pre-reconciliation `build-typecheck` to fail. The base-composition tests
below continue to exercise the #9424 shared onboarding paths. The net PR
diff contains six files: the stateful E2E fixture, registry target test,
two E2E-support tests, and two E2E-support fixtures.

## Type of Change

- [x] 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

- [x] Tests added or updated for changed behavior
- [ ] Existing tests cover changed behavior — justification:
- [ ] Tests 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 exact-69
correctness review, nine-category security review, and documentation
writer review passed. Exact-69 CodeRabbit and PR Review Advisor checks
passed; maintainer approval remains pending.
- [ ] Non-success, skipped, or missing CI check accepted by maintainer —
check name, approval link, and follow-up issue:

## Security and Documentation Review

- Independent nine-category security review of latest PR commit
`69e46712823e50d0d009e8300f91ee519098649d` passed. Stable target
identity flows from `target.id` through `e2eArtifactRootId` to the
existing `ArtifactSink`. The regression test writes publication evidence
only below the stable target ID. It confirms that the stateful fixture
selects that artifact root and does not create a directory from the
semantic test title.
- Exact-69 [PR Review Advisor run
32214387059](https://github.com/NVIDIA/NemoClaw/actions/runs/32214387059)
completed successfully with both model lanes and the publisher.
CodeRabbit status on `69e46712823e50d0d009e8300f91ee519098649d` is
successful and produced no new actionable comment.
- No documentation change is required. The existing E2E guides already
define stable target IDs as artifact identities,
`e2e-artifacts/live/<target-id>` as the standard layout, and the
semantic suffix as display text.
- The blocking [LOC Reduction / Codebase Simplicity
Review](#9562 (comment))
is addressed in `a5cbade3e7d375c14a515d9ff6950e4a7af0e647`: the parser
and artifact-root tests now share one publication evidence fixture, and
the duplicated second nested Vitest process was removed.

## DGX Station Hardware Evidence

- [ ] Tested on DGX Station
- Tested commit: Not applicable; this PR does not change
`scripts/prepare-dgx-station-host.sh`.
- 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 — GitHub reports all four PR commits as
Verified, and [exact-69 DCO job
95953058384](https://github.com/NVIDIA/NemoClaw/actions/runs/32214389535/job/95953058384)
passed.
- [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 — `npm run validate:pr` passed on
`69e46712823e50d0d009e8300f91ee519098649d` after reconciliation to base
`7afe39541e81f70d9e1aa39c49415084d8276524`.
- [x] Targeted behavior tests pass for the current change set, or tests
are marked not applicable above — command/result or justification:
- Before the fixture correction, the regression test was added to a
working tree based on base SHA
`164cb284fb1efebf3b038beffed4de9870543c44`. `npm exec -- vitest run
--project e2e-support test/e2e/support/e2e-artifact-root.test.ts` failed
1/1 with `Deep Agents Code GitHub Actions run is missing published base
evidence`.
- On latest PR commit `69e46712823e50d0d009e8300f91ee519098649d`, the
focused E2E-support command below passed 108/108 tests:

    ```shell
    npm exec -- vitest run --project e2e-support \
      test/e2e/support/e2e-artifact-root.test.ts \
      test/e2e/support/e2e-fixture-context.test.ts \
      test/e2e/support/dcode-base-image-runtime-evidence.test.ts \
test/e2e/support/base-image-publication-workflow-boundary.test.ts \
      test/e2e/support/e2e-live-skip-name-contract.test.ts \
      test/e2e/support/e2e-live-registry-discovery.test.ts \
      test/e2e/support/e2e-registry.test.ts \
      test/e2e/support/upload-e2e-artifacts-workflow-boundary.test.ts
    ```

- The PR-base-bound command below passed 498/498 selected tests, with 8
expected skips:

    ```shell
npm exec -- vitest run
--changed=7afe39541e81f70d9e1aa39c49415084d8276524 \
      --project cli --project plugin --project e2e-support
    ```

- On `69e46712823e50d0d009e8300f91ee519098649d`, after `npm run
build:cli`, `npm exec -- vitest run --project package-contract
test/package-contract/cli/credentials-cli-command.test.ts
--testTimeout=30000` did not pass: 15/25 tests passed and 10/25 failed
before the expected mocked CLI calls because this macOS checkout could
not revalidate gateway lifecycle authority. stderr also reported missing
development packages `@oclif/plugin-help` and `@oclif/plugin-plugins`
from the shared host `node_modules`; the changed rollback case recorded
no lifecycle calls. Exact-69 Linux [`build-typecheck` job
95953099102](https://github.com/NVIDIA/NemoClaw/actions/runs/32214389601/job/95953099102)
passed.

- `npm run test:e2e-phases:check` passed with 131 semantic E2E phase
plans across 86 files.
- The grouped 15-file CLI base-composition command below did not pass:
14 files and 274 tests passed, while two tests in
`src/commands/credentials.test.ts` hit the existing 5-second timeout
under concurrent load:

    ```shell
    npm exec -- vitest run --project cli \
      src/lib/onboard/experimental/hermes-portable-contract.test.ts \
      src/lib/onboard/experimental/hermes-portable-lifecycle.test.ts \
src/lib/onboard/experimental/hermes-portable-podman-authority.test.ts \
src/lib/onboard/experimental/hermes-portable-policy-authority.test.ts \
      src/lib/onboard/experimental/hermes-portable-receipt.test.ts \
      src/lib/onboard/experimental/portable-agent-lifecycle.test.ts \
      src/lib/onboard/managed-workload/onboard-orchestration.test.ts \
      src/lib/onboard/created-sandbox-finalization.test.ts \
      src/lib/actions/uninstall/run-plan-nvm-leftovers.test.ts \
      src/lib/actions/uninstall/run-plan.test.ts \
      src/commands/credentials.test.ts \
      src/lib/actions/global.test.ts \
      src/lib/actions/sandbox/mcp-bridge-input-targets.test.ts \
      src/lib/actions/sandbox/mcp-bridge-provider.test.ts \
      src/lib/state/registry-normalization.test.ts
    ```

  - The isolated credentials command then passed 7/7:

    ```shell
npm exec -- vitest run --project cli src/commands/credentials.test.ts
    ```

  - This MCP integration command passed 93/93 tests across five files:

    ```shell
    npm exec -- vitest run --project integration \
      test/cli/credentials-command.test.ts \
      test/mcp-add-crash-consistency.test.ts \
      test/mcp-destroy-lifecycle.test.ts \
      test/mcp-policy-key-ownership.test.ts \
      test/mcp-restart-policy-order.test.ts
    ```

- Fresh pre-commit, commit-msg, and pre-push hooks passed before
reconciliation. `npm run validate:pr` passed after reconciliation.
- [ ] Applicable broad gate passed — `npm test` for broad
runtime/test-harness changes; `npm run check` for repo-wide
validation/coverage changes — command/result: on pre-reconciliation
commit `ba8560a78551a9c40a5fe00fb1ddf4db7443cb1f`, `npm exec -- vitest
run --project e2e-support` did not pass locally: 2,983 tests passed, 38
skipped, and 42 failed. The failures reported host-wide subprocess
contention or a macOS/GNU `find` mismatch. The focused and changed-test
commands passed. Pre-reconciliation [build-typecheck job
95950501960](https://github.com/NVIDIA/NemoClaw/actions/runs/32213454369/job/95950501960)
and [exact-base main job
95940499627](https://github.com/NVIDIA/NemoClaw/actions/runs/32209943161/job/95940499627)
failed the stale provider-reservation assertion. #9566 corrected that
package contract on base `7afe39541e81f70d9e1aa39c49415084d8276524`.
Exact-69 [build-typecheck job
95953099102](https://github.com/NVIDIA/NemoClaw/actions/runs/32214389601/job/95953099102)
passed and supersedes both stale failures; remaining exact-69 CI is
pending.
- [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)
- [ ] 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)

No live E2E workflow was dispatched for this PR.

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Signed-off-by: Julie Yaunches <jyaunches@nvidia.com>

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## Summary by CodeRabbit

* **Tests**
* Added end-to-end coverage for resolving publication evidence from
stable target-based artifact directories.
* Added validation that the stateful fixture selects the artifact root
for the stable target ID and does not create a directory from the
semantic test title.
* Reused one publication-evidence fixture across the existing
platform-reference, image-index, stale-candidate, and
metadata-validation tests.
* Added deterministic publication-evidence fixtures and metadata support
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