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Summary

This change adds a production-shaped regression for Hermes Portable installer admission and fixes the Hermes-only registration adapter exposed by that regression. Real installer checkouts now reach one active schema-5 receipt through the shared transaction fixture and production registration owner.

Related Issue

Part of #9211

Changes

  • Exercise both installer clone paths under caller umasks 0022, 0077, and 0002.
  • Verify accepted private checkout modes, Portable selector custody, route reservation ownership, policy custody, and the pending to configuring to active receipt chain.
  • Require the Hermes Portable build-context allowlist to contain every Dockerfile input.
  • Reuse the shared Hermes Portable transaction fixture instead of maintaining a second orchestration fixture.
  • Run the production registration owner, then return its exact durable registry readback to the lifecycle transaction. Missing durable state fails before active receipt publication.
  • Keep the fixture in the user-private system temporary directory so interrupted runs do not create repository-root residue.

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: exact-head registration and fail-closed evidence is recorded in test(installer): gate Hermes portable admission #9571 (comment)
  • Non-success, skipped, or missing CI check accepted by maintainer — check name, approval link, and follow-up issue:

The independent documentation review covered commit bc65722dfdb2c31ce9acdcadcea2817a981705be. It found no issues and confirmed that no user-facing documentation change is required.

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  • Tested commit:
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  • Result:
  • Supporting evidence:

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: installer admission and clone matrix passed 7/7; Hermes transaction, adapter, registration, finalization, and endpoint-provenance tests passed 86/86; final shared-fixture tests passed 46/46; npm run test:changed passed growth 32/32 and affected 48/48.
  • Applicable broad gate passed — npm test for broad runtime/test-harness changes; npm run check for repo-wide validation/coverage changes — command/result: not applicable to this Hermes-only adapter and focused fixture repair; CLI typecheck, lint, repository checks, project-membership checks, and normal hooks passed.
  • 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)

Additional validation passed with Node.js 24.19.0: npm run typecheck:cli, npm run lint, npm run test:projects:check, and repository checks.


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

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  • Tests
    • Added comprehensive coverage for activating a portable Hermes installer, including sandbox registration, route validation, lifecycle persistence, and cleanup.
    • Expanded installer testing across multiple umask configurations and installer variants.
    • Added appropriate timeouts for checkout and version-stamping scenarios.
    • Added coverage confirming sandbox registration completes before registry reads and rejects missing durable entries.
    • Consolidated shared onboarding test fixtures and routed installer coverage to the dedicated test suite.

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  • src/lib/onboard/experimental/hermes-portable-onboarding.test.ts
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  • test/helpers/hermes-portable-onboarding-fixture.ts
  • test/install-hermes-portable-active.test.ts

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The PR centralizes Hermes portable onboarding fixtures, extracts sandbox registration completion, adds orchestration coverage, and expands installer tests for caller umasks and portable admission.

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Hermes portable onboarding

Layer / File(s) Summary
Shared onboarding transaction fixtures
test/helpers/hermes-portable-onboarding-fixture.ts
Shared factories now provide authority fixtures, onboarding inputs, registry entries, transaction mocks, failure injection, and cleanup tracking.
Sandbox registration completion
src/lib/onboard/sandbox-create/orchestration.ts, src/lib/onboard/sandbox-create/orchestration.test.ts
Registration completion now rereads the durable registry, returns the registered entry, and rejects missing authority. Tests cover callback ordering and error behavior.
Onboarding test migration
src/lib/onboard/experimental/hermes-portable-onboarding.test.ts
The onboarding tests now use shared fixture and inspection helpers while retaining policy and lifecycle assertions.
Installer integration coverage
test/install-hermes-portable-active.test.ts, test/install-clone-ref.test.ts, vitest.config.ts, scripts/checks/vitest-project-overlap.mts
The installer tests use shared Hermes portable fixtures, restore the environment during cleanup, and validate checkout behavior under three caller umasks. Vitest routes the portable admission test to the installer project.

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

Possibly related PRs

  • NVIDIA/NemoClaw#9424: Refactors and extends the Hermes portable onboarding and sandbox-registration flow covered by this PR.

Suggested labels: area: onboarding, area: sandbox

Suggested reviewers: prekshivyas, cv, apurvvkumaria

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LOC Reduction / Codebase Simplicity Review

Why this blocks

The accepted installer-to-active slice needs one production-shaped regression, but the new 488-line test reaches that outcome by copying the existing Hermes Portable transaction harness and reimplementing part of the production commit path.

test/install-hermes-portable-active.test.ts repeats executable and Podman authority builders, directory-chain setup, container inspection behavior, route selection, and active-receipt transaction setup already owned by src/lib/onboard/experimental/hermes-portable-onboarding.test.ts. Its registerSandbox dependency then reproduces reservation checks and calls registry.updateSandbox directly instead of exercising the production registration owner. The installer clone supplies a checkout, but the remaining journey is a second hand-built orchestration path.

This adds 488 lines while leaving changes to the transaction contract, authority shape, or registry commit behavior with two large fixtures to update. It also weakens the intended production-shaped gate because a divergence in the real registration wiring can leave this test green.

Refactor direction

  • Keep the expanded installer clone and umask matrix in test/install-clone-ref.test.ts.
  • Extract the reusable positive transaction fixture from hermes-portable-onboarding.test.ts, or drive the existing production onboarding boundary with narrow external-effect doubles. Reuse that owner instead of copying executable authority, Podman authority, inspection, and receipt setup.
  • Exercise the real registry registration function rather than reproducing its reservation predicates and state update in the new test.
  • Keep the installer admission case as a thin bridge: clone the two real installer paths, prove their build contexts are accepted, then reach one active schema-5 receipt through the shared transaction and registration owners. Leave negative authority and transition matrices in their existing focused suites.

Expected result

The accepted #9211 installer-to-active evidence remains, but the test uses the same transaction and registry owners as production. The new suite should lose roughly 200–300 lines of copied fixture and commit logic, and future receipt or reservation changes have one test harness to update.

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No adjacent fixes or contradictions were found above the medium confidence floor.

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  • established — installer admission at test/install-hermes-portable-active.test.ts:74: Keep `installer admission` for installer-path acceptance checks.
  • established — durable registry entry at src/lib/onboard/sandbox-create/orchestration.test.ts:35: Keep `durable registry entry` for persisted normalized registry state.
  • justified — registration adapter at src/lib/onboard/sandbox-create/orchestration.test.ts:9: Keep `registration adapter` in this test title for the helper that adapts completion to a registry reread.

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@senthilr-nv senthilr-nv added chore Build, CI, dependency, or tooling maintenance area: install Install, setup, prerequisites, or uninstall flow integration: hermes Hermes integration behavior v0.0.111 labels Aug 19, 2026
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Addressed the requested registration and fixture changes in bc65722dfdb2c31ce9acdcadcea2817a981705be.

  • The installer admission test now reuses the shared Hermes Portable transaction fixture.
  • Hermes registration calls the production registration owner and returns the exact durable registry readback. Missing durable state fails before active receipt publication.
  • The duplicated fixture and direct registry-update path were removed. The repair is net -23 lines.
  • The fixture now uses the user-private system temporary directory, so interrupted runs do not create repository-root residue.
  • The unused import reported by CodeQL was removed.

Validation on the exact head:

  • installer admission and clone matrix: 2 files, 7 tests passed
  • Hermes transaction, adapter, registration, finalization, and endpoint-provenance tests: 5 files, 86 tests passed
  • final shared-fixture test set: 46 tests passed
  • npm run test:changed: growth 32/32 and affected 48/48 passed
  • npm run typecheck:cli, npm run lint, repository checks, project-membership checks, and normal hooks passed
  • independent documentation review found no issues and confirmed that no documentation change is required

GitHub reports the replacement commit as Verified with a valid signature and DCO trailer.

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senthilr-nv dismissed jyaunches’s stale review August 19, 2026 05:50

Addressed in bc65722. The installer test now reuses the shared Hermes Portable transaction fixture, invokes the production registration owner, and returns the exact durable registry readback. The repair removes the duplicated orchestration path and is net -23 lines. Exact-head validation is recorded in issuecomment-5338069447.

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

The Hermes Portable installer regression now creates its source checkout
beneath a private user-home directory chain instead of a writable
temporary-directory ancestor. The production source-authority validator
remains unchanged and fail-closed.

## Related Issue

Related to #9211 and the post-merge CI failure from #9571.

## Changes

- Create the installer fixture beneath a real `0700` user-home
directory.
- Prove that private ancestry is accepted by the production
build-context planner.
- Prove that group- and other-writable GitHub-workspace-like ancestors
remain rejected.

## 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:
- [ ] Sensitive paths changed (security, policy, credentials, preflight,
onboarding, inference, runner, sandbox, or messaging)
- [ ] Sensitive-path review completed or maintainer-approved waiver
recorded — reviewer/approval link/justification:
- [ ] Non-success, skipped, or missing CI check accepted by maintainer —
check name, approval link, and follow-up issue:

## DGX Station Hardware Evidence

- [ ] Tested on DGX Station
- Tested commit: Not applicable; `scripts/prepare-dgx-station-host.sh`
is unchanged.
- Station profile/scenario: Not applicable.
- Result: Not applicable.
- Supporting evidence: Not applicable.

## Verification

- [x] PR description includes a `Signed-off-by:` line and every commit
appears as `Verified` in GitHub
- [x] Normal `pre-commit`, `commit-msg`, and `pre-push` hooks passed, or
`npm run validate:pr` passed after refreshing `origin/main` when hooks
were skipped or unavailable
- [x] Targeted behavior tests pass for the current change set, or tests
are marked not applicable above — `CI=true npx vitest run --project
installer-integration test/install-hermes-portable-active.test.ts`
passed 3/3
- [ ] Applicable broad gate passed — Not applicable to this one-file
installer fixture repair; `npm run test:changed`, `npm run
typecheck:cli`, `npm run lint`, and `npm run test:projects:check` passed
- [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)

The corrective PR must not merge until CI for commit
`3bf16964a340c96d2624258468a2d5aff1e96ecc` reaches a terminal state and
every required check passes.

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


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## Summary by CodeRabbit

* **Bug Fixes**
* Improved security validation for portable Hermes builds by rejecting
sources located in group- or publicly writable GitHub Actions workspace
directories.
* Enhanced temporary test directory handling to use securely isolated
locations.

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