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Summary

Move contributor pull request limits from workflow shell code into a validated policy and local JavaScript action. The policy supports account-specific numeric limits, 0, unlimited, and a required default.

Changes

  • Add .github/pr-limits.yaml as the policy owner.
  • Add a trusted-base Node 24 action that validates policy, resolves limits, counts paginated open PRs, and enforces numeric limits.
  • Serialize enforcement by repository and author.
  • Replace workflow shell code with a pinned trusted-base checkout and local action call.
  • Update contributor and agent guidance to use the policy.
  • Add focused policy, enforcement, pagination, and growth-guardrail tests.

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 review passed for commit 1a6cfc1d81b85a421491d042367b0ec4208a4089; the workflow executes only the trusted base commit, disables persisted checkout credentials, and serializes each author's enforcement.
  • 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
  • Station profile/scenario: Not applicable
  • Result: Not applicable
  • Supporting evidence: Not applicable

Verification

  • PR description includes a Signed-off-by: line and every commit appears as Verified in GitHub
  • 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: 48 focused tests passed; npm run checks:repository, npm run typecheck, 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:
  • 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: Carlos Villela cvillela@nvidia.com

Summary by CodeRabbit

  • New Features

    • Updated pull request limits: designated contributors may have up to 10 open pull requests, while others may have up to 5.
    • Automated checks identify excess opened or reopened pull requests, add an explanatory comment, and close them before reporting failure.
    • Enforcement runs are queued per contributor to prevent conflicts.
  • Documentation

    • Updated contribution guidance to explain current limits and automated handling.
    • Removed instructions for account-specific limit overrides.

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Walkthrough

The PR-limit workflow now reads validated per-account limits from .github/pr-limits.json, counts qualifying pull requests through the GitHub API, and closes excess pull requests. Maintainer and contributor guidance references the new configuration and enforcement behavior.

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PR limit enforcement

Layer / File(s) Summary
Configurable workflow enforcement
.github/workflows/pr-limit.yaml, .github/pr-limits.json
The workflow validates base-commit configuration, applies case-insensitive account or wildcard limits, counts qualifying pull requests, and comments on and closes excess pull requests.
Policy guidance alignment
.agents/skills/.../SKILL.md, AGENTS.md, CONTRIBUTING.md
Guidance references .github/pr-limits.json, removes obsolete override documentation, and documents automated closure for excess opened or reopened pull requests.

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

Sequence Diagram(s)

sequenceDiagram
  participant Workflow as pr-limit workflow
  participant Script as actions/github-script
  participant Config as base-commit configuration
  participant GitHub as GitHub API
  Workflow->>Script: Pass pull request event data
  Script->>Config: Load and validate .github/pr-limits.json
  Config-->>Script: Return account or wildcard limit
  Script->>GitHub: List paginated qualifying pull requests
  GitHub-->>Script: Return pull request results
  Script->>GitHub: Comment on and close excess pull request
  Script-->>Workflow: Fail when the author exceeds the limit
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Title check ✅ Passed The title clearly summarizes the main change: moving pull request limit enforcement into a policy-driven CI action.
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@senthilr-nv senthilr-nv added chore Build, CI, dependency, or tooling maintenance area: ci CI workflows, checks, release automation, or GitHub Actions area: project-management Taxonomy, triage, workflow, roadmap, or project process security needs: rebase PR needs rebase or conflict resolution v0.0.111 labels Aug 19, 2026
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PR Review Advisor — Blocking findings reported

Advisor assessment: Blockers require maintainer review
Next action: Review the blockers below.
Findings: 2 blockers · 0 warnings · 0 suggestions

Model lanes

  • GPT-5.6 Terra (primary): Completed · high confidence · 2 blockers · 0 warnings · 0 suggestions
  • Nemotron 3 Ultra (second opinion): Failed after a partial review · low confidence · 0 blockers · 0 warnings · 0 suggestions

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

2 semantic terminology decisions

Terminology decisions are advisory. They affect the assessment only when a separate finding identifies concrete semantic impact.

  • define — default limit at CONTRIBUTING.md:514: Define `default limit` as the policy value for accounts without a named entry when the term first appears in contributor guidance.
  • established — automated bulk PRs at CONTRIBUTING.md:565: Retain `automated bulk PRs`; the changed warning expands its account scope without changing the term's meaning.

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Advisory only. A maintainer can dispatch the default E2E suite for the commit under review.

Recommended E2E: None

Blockers

PRA-1 Blocker — Reconcile all author PRs after serialized events

  • Location: .github/workflows/pr-limit.yaml:20
  • Category: scope
  • Problem: The concurrency configuration can discard an author event before the workflow evaluates that PR. When several PR events arrive while the job runs, an earlier excessive PR can remain open because only the running event and the most recent pending event execute.
  • Impact: An account can retain an opened or reopened PR that exceeds its configured limit, which bypasses the intended PR-limit enforcement.
  • Fix: Remove the unsupported `queue` key and use an enforcement design that reconciles all open PRs for the author after serialization, rather than relying on one workflow run per event.
  • Verification: Inspect GitHub Actions concurrency documentation and simulate three same-author events with the first job held running; verify whether the middle event executes or any later run closes every over-limit PR.
  • Test coverage: Add workflow-level coverage or a deterministic action test that models three same-author opened or reopened events while the first evaluation runs, then proves every excessive PR is evaluated or is reconciled by a later run.
  • Evidence: .github/workflows/pr-limit.yaml:20-24 defines the per-author concurrency group, `queue: max`, and `cancel-in-progress: false`. GitHub Actions concurrency keeps at most one running and one pending workflow run per group; a new queued run replaces the existing pending run.

PRA-2 Blocker — Add regression coverage for PR-limit enforcement

  • Location: .github/workflows/pr-limit.yaml:32
  • Category: tests
  • Problem: No automated regression coverage exercises the new PR-limit policy and enforcement behavior. The workflow's inline JavaScript has independent branches for named and default limits, malformed policy rejection, pagination, opened-event ordering, reopened-event reconciliation, and comment-and-close writes.
  • Impact: A policy parsing or enforcement regression can close an allowed pull request, leave an excessive pull request open, or make the enforcement workflow fail without checked-in evidence that identifies the affected branch.
  • Fix: Extract the policy and enforcement logic into a testable trusted-base module, or use a deterministic GitHub Script harness, then add focused branch tests for the listed policy and enforcement outcomes.
  • Verification: Run the focused test with mocked GitHub API pagination and writes; verify each allowed branch makes no write, each over-limit branch comments and closes only the event PR, and malformed policy makes no write.
  • Test coverage: Add a deterministic test for the workflow script or extracted trusted-base function that covers named and `*` limits, limit `0`, malformed policy rejection before writes, paginated PR retrieval, opened-event ordering, reopened-event full reconciliation, and the comment-and-close path.
  • Evidence: .github/workflows/pr-limit.yaml:32-85 implements policy retrieval, validation, limit selection, pagination, filtering, and write operations. The test context reports no changed test files and no candidate existing coverage for `.github/pr-limits.json` or `.github/workflows/pr-limit.yaml`.

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In @.agents/skills/nemoclaw-maintainer-fix-e2e-failures/SKILL.md:
- Line 19: Update step 5 so both .github/pr-limits.yaml and
.github/actions/pr-limit/index.mjs are read and executed from trusted
origin/main, using a detached worktree or equivalent controlled path; do not
invoke parsePrLimits from the current working tree. Preserve the existing policy
validation, username/default resolution, unlimited handling, and claim-limit
enforcement.

In @.github/workflows/pr-limit.yaml:
- Around line 21-23: Update the concurrency configuration in pr-limit.yaml to
use queue: max so pending PR-limit evaluations are retained, up to 100. In the
pull-request counting logic around the affected action code in
.github/actions/pr-limit/index.mjs, restrict counted pull requests to numbers
less than or equal to pullNumber, and add a regression test covering an older
event encountering a newer open PR.

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- Line 75: Update the positive fixture in the test covering
addedJavaScriptViolations to use a non-entrypoint .mjs path, then add a separate
assertion confirming an index.mjs path produces no violation; verify behavior
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["default: 1.5", "Invalid PR limit"],
["default: none", "Invalid PR limit"],
["cv: 1", "must define default"],
["CV: 1\ndefault: 5", "must be lowercase"],

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we don't need to handle "user is mixed case" if we can lowercase it ourselves; remove this test scenario and make input handling sturdier

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LOC Reduction / Codebase Simplicity Review

Why this blocks

Merged #9550 already owns the five-open-PR policy in .github/workflows/pr-limit.yaml. It keeps one limit and one account list beside the enforcement code.

This follow-up replaces that focused implementation with a policy and action subsystem. The 120-line Node.js action, 158-line test, action manifest, policy file, and JavaScript guardrail exception account for 301 of this PR’s 322 additions.

No linked issue or repository issue search establishes a generic safe-integer, 0, or unlimited policy. The author’s current inline proposal identifies only two required tiers: named accounts at 10 and a default of 5. 0 has no configured consumer, and that proposal removes the current unlimited case.

The implementation also creates avoidable maintenance paths:

  • .github/actions/pr-limit/index.mjs implements a custom YAML-like parser and a GitHub REST pagination client for one workflow.
  • test/pr-limit-action.test.ts copies the checked-in policy entries into a second POLICY value.
  • The maintainer E2E skill validates the action parser, then independently resolves the same policy with grep. Its author has asked to remove this procedure.
  • GITHUB_ACTION_ENTRY_RE exempts every future .github/actions/*/index.mjs from the repository requirement that new source files use TypeScript. All existing local actions use the composite-action pattern.

Refactor direction

Rebase on current main and keep .github/workflows/pr-limit.yaml as the executable policy owner established by #9550.

Implement only the current account tiers in that workflow. Use the existing gh api --paginate and jq workflow pattern if paginated counting remains required. If maintainers require a separate data file, use compact JSON that the workflow reads with jq; do not add a custom parser or Node.js action runtime.

Remove:

  • .github/actions/pr-limit/
  • .github/pr-limits.yaml unless the reduced workflow directly consumes a compact data file
  • test/pr-limit-action.test.ts
  • the JavaScript guardrail exception and its fixture
  • PR-limit parser instructions from the maintainer E2E skill

Keep contributor guidance focused on the default. Point internal guidance to the workflow-owned policy without implementing a second resolver.

Expected result

The workflow preserves the required default, account tiers, paginated counting, and ordered enforcement without a new action subsystem or source-policy exception. The refactor should remove roughly 280 net lines and leave one policy authority.

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The overall coverage in commit 80b3efa in the ci/reduce-contributo... branch remains at 96%, unchanged from commit cc45d24 in the main branch.

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The overall coverage in commit 80b3efa in the ci/reduce-contributo... branch remains at 83%, unchanged from commit ee6762b in the main branch.

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src/lib/agent/m...fest-readers.ts 96% 96% 0%
src/lib/agent/r...ime-manifest.ts 100% 100% 0%
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- Around line 49-51: Make the gh pr comment step non-fatal so a failure does not
terminate the workflow, while ensuring gh pr close still executes for PR_NUMBER.
Preserve the existing comment and close behavior when the comment succeeds.
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Resolved by the current head. The custom PR-limit action, parser, policy file, dedicated test harness, and JavaScript guardrail exception were removed; the workflow is again the single executable policy owner.

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LOC Reduction / Codebase Simplicity Review

Resolved

Resolved at ab369e1a31e7c0e64871f54895e7f5eec2bf4f8b.

The current head removes the custom PR-limit action runtime, YAML-like parser, action manifest, separate policy file, dedicated 158-line test module, generic JavaScript guardrail exception, and duplicate maintainer-skill resolver. Account tiers, paginated counting, ordered enforcement, commenting, and closing now remain together in .github/workflows/pr-limit.yaml.

LOC result

The two PR-authored resolving commits add 80 lines and delete 356, a net reduction of 276 lines from the blocked implementation. The current PR changes only the workflow and its owning guidance; it no longer creates a separate policy/action subsystem.

Review outcome

I found no replacement LOC-reduction or codebase-simplicity blocker in the current delta. This closes only the prior simplicity finding; it is not an approval of other review dimensions.

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- Around line 41-53: Update the policy validation and resolution in
.github/workflows/pr-limit.yaml lines 41-53 to require a default limit and
support account-specific limits whose values are non-negative safe integers or
unlimited; resolve the author’s configured account limit instead of applying one
shared elevatedLimit. Update .github/pr-limits.json lines 2-22 to use the
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LOC Reduction / Codebase Simplicity Review

Follow-up at bcc6069196fce7f60310268a82eb4368296af5b0

The latest commit adds a compact JSON policy file and has the existing GitHub Script step consume it directly from the trusted base SHA. This is the reduced separate-data-file option described in the original review; it does not restore the removed custom action runtime, YAML-like parser, dedicated test module, JavaScript exception, or duplicate resolver.

The prior resolution remains valid in substance: the current implementation has one policy authority and no replacement simplicity blocker. This follow-up supersedes only the earlier statement that the policy file itself had been removed.

This is limited to the LOC/codebase-simplicity finding and is not an approval of other review dimensions.

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

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

<!-- This is an auto-generated comment: release notes by coderabbit.ai
-->
## 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
for associating end-to-end artifacts with stable target identifiers.
<!-- end of auto-generated comment: release notes by coderabbit.ai -->

---------

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