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Summary

Refs #9606. Stacked on #9323.

Related delivery: #9140. Related epic: #7744.

The dashboard remote-bind target recovered a missing forward successfully, then waited for ordinary interactive nemoclaw connect to exit before evaluating the already-emitted recovery proof. The shell remained attached by design until the generic command timeout killed its process group, changing the historic no-exit result into exit 143 and preventing the target from reaching its independent bind and audit assertions.

This change observes the real connect child asynchronously. Once the existing forward-recovery proof appears, it signals and reaps only the attached connect leader and requires its captured descriptors to close without forced cleanup. A correctly backgrounded forward remains live for the existing exact owner, all-interface bind, reachability, and security-audit verification. Ordinary interactive and noninteractive connect behavior is unchanged.

Changes

  • add a bounded dashboard-connect handoff runner with detached process-group ownership, output limits, abort handling, redacted artifacts, graceful connect teardown, and forced-cleanup failure
  • update the dashboard remote-bind target to react to forward proof immediately instead of waiting for the interactive shell timeout
  • cover normal completion, missing-forward recovery proof, detached forward survival, inherited-stdio refusal, bounded failure cleanup, and the existing ANSI proof parser
  • register the new asynchronous child boundary with the semantic E2E progress-capability guard

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:
  • Docs updated for user-facing behavior changes
  • Docs not applicable — justification: E2E process ownership changes only; supported CLI behavior and guidance are unchanged.
  • 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: pending exact-head review
  • Non-success, skipped, or missing CI check accepted by maintainer — check name, approval link, and follow-up issue:

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  • Documentation impact reviewed
  • Result: no-docs-needed
  • Evidence: no documentation or user-facing behavior changed; the patch is confined to the dashboard E2E target, focused support coverage, and its required semantic child-process declaration.
  • Reviewer: Codex Desktop

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  • 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
  • Targeted behavior tests pass for the current change set — 12 dashboard handoff/environment tests and 61 connect/terminal lifecycle tests
  • Applicable broad gate passed — not applicable; the full matrix was intentionally not run for this target-scoped change
  • 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 exact-head checks: npm run typecheck:cli; semantic E2E phase coverage (131 tests across 86 files); growth guardrails (32 tests). The unchanged test/recover-port-forward.test.ts completed 3/4 cases locally; its first cold CLI subprocess exceeded the existing 15-second macOS fixture ceiling while the other delayed-owner, failed-recovery, and healthy-forward cases passed. No timeout or retry was changed.


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

Summary by CodeRabbit

  • New Features

    • Added reliable dashboard connection handoff detection and forward-status validation.
    • Added graceful handling for connection timeouts, cancellation, process cleanup, and diagnostic artifacts.
  • Bug Fixes

    • Improved dashboard remote-bind verification by confirming forwarding is active and the dashboard remains reachable after handoff.
  • Tests

    • Expanded end-to-end coverage for successful handoffs, failures, cleanup behavior, timeout validation, and forwarding status scenarios.

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  • test/e2e/live/dashboard-remote-bind.test.ts
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Adds an observed dashboard connect handoff helper with bounded output capture, forward-start detection, process-group cleanup, timeout and cancellation handling, artifact persistence, and result reporting. Updates remote-bind E2E coverage with forward status and TCP reachability checks.

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Dashboard Connect Handoff

Layer / File(s) Summary
Observed connect process and cleanup
test/e2e/live/dashboard-connect-handoff.ts
Adds the handoff contract and detached process execution. The helper captures output, detects forward startup, handles timeout and cancellation, cleans up processes, writes artifacts, and reports terminal results.
Dashboard forward detection and reachability
test/e2e/live/dashboard-remote-bind-env.ts, test/e2e/live/dashboard-remote-bind.test.ts
Adds exact running status detection. The remote-bind test uses the handoff result, verifies the forward status, and probes dashboard TCP reachability.
Handoff lifecycle test coverage
test/e2e/support/dashboard-connect-handoff.test.ts, test/e2e/support/dashboard-remote-bind-env.test.ts, tools/e2e/check-semantic-phases.mts
Adds coverage for completion, validation, recovery, cleanup, retained descriptors, timeout reaping, status parsing, and observed-child progress policy registration.

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

Merge Risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to 86a32

This PR changes dashboard E2E process handoff and cleanup behavior. Current failure paths can expose connect output in CI logs and leave a detached test process running, creating bounded diagnostic and runner-resource risks; merge should wait for these safeguards or explicit owner acceptance.

Sequence Diagram(s)

sequenceDiagram
  participant DashboardRemoteBindE2E
  participant runDashboardConnectUntilForwardHandoff
  participant nemoclawConnect
  participant DashboardForward
  DashboardRemoteBindE2E->>runDashboardConnectUntilForwardHandoff: start sandbox connect
  runDashboardConnectUntilForwardHandoff->>nemoclawConnect: spawn detached process group
  nemoclawConnect-->>runDashboardConnectUntilForwardHandoff: emit forward-start proof
  runDashboardConnectUntilForwardHandoff->>DashboardForward: retain detached forward
  DashboardForward-->>DashboardRemoteBindE2E: accept dashboard TCP connection
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Actionable comments posted: 2

🧹 Nitpick comments (2)
test/e2e/support/dashboard-remote-bind-env.test.ts (1)

64-70: 📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🔵 Trivial | 💤 Low value

Interpolate the case into the it.each title.

All three cases report under the same name. If one case fails, the reporter does not identify which line was evaluated. Add a %s placeholder.

♻️ Proposed change
-  ])("recognizes only the exact running forward status", (forwardLine, expected) => {
+  ])("recognizes only the exact running forward status: %s", (forwardLine, expected) => {
     expect(dashboardForwardIsRunning(forwardLine)).toBe(expected);
   });
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In `@test/e2e/support/dashboard-remote-bind-env.test.ts` around lines 64 - 70,
Update the it.each test title for dashboardForwardIsRunning to include a %s
placeholder, interpolating each forwardLine value so failures identify the
evaluated status line.
test/e2e/support/dashboard-connect-handoff.test.ts (1)

57-77: 📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🔵 Trivial | ⚡ Quick win

Make the "before spawning" claim observable.

The test title states that validation rejects the call before it spawns connect. The assertions prove only that the promise rejects with the expected message. They pass equally if the helper spawns first and validates after. Give the command an observable side effect and assert the side effect never occurs.

♻️ Proposed change to assert no spawn occurred
 test("rejects invalid handoff budgets before spawning connect", async ({ artifacts, progress }) => {
+  const directory = fs.mkdtempSync(path.join(os.tmpdir(), "nemoclaw-handoff-budget-"));
+  const marker = path.join(directory, "spawned");
   const base = {
     artifacts,
-    command: [process.execPath, "-e", "process.exit(0)"] as const,
+    command: [
+      process.execPath,
+      "-e",
+      'require("node:fs").writeFileSync(process.argv[1], "1");',
+      marker,
+    ] as const,
     dashboardPort: DASHBOARD_PORT,
     env: process.env,
     progress,
     sandboxName: SANDBOX_NAME,
   };
 
-  await expect(runDashboardConnectUntilForwardHandoff({ ...base, timeoutMs: 0 })).rejects.toThrow(
-    /timeout must be a positive finite value/,
-  );
-  await expect(
-    runDashboardConnectUntilForwardHandoff({
-      ...base,
-      stopGraceMs: Number.POSITIVE_INFINITY,
-      timeoutMs: 2_000,
-    }),
-  ).rejects.toThrow(/stop grace must be a positive finite value/);
+  try {
+    await expect(runDashboardConnectUntilForwardHandoff({ ...base, timeoutMs: 0 })).rejects.toThrow(
+      /timeout must be a positive finite value/,
+    );
+    await expect(
+      runDashboardConnectUntilForwardHandoff({
+        ...base,
+        stopGraceMs: Number.POSITIVE_INFINITY,
+        timeoutMs: 2_000,
+      }),
+    ).rejects.toThrow(/stop grace must be a positive finite value/);
+    expect(fs.existsSync(marker)).toBe(false);
+  } finally {
+    fs.rmSync(directory, { force: true, recursive: true });
+  }
 });
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In `@test/e2e/support/dashboard-connect-handoff.test.ts` around lines 57 - 77,
Update the test "rejects invalid handoff budgets before spawning connect" to
give the command an observable side effect, such as writing a marker through the
provided artifacts or another existing test mechanism, and assert that the
marker is absent after each invalid-budget rejection. Keep the existing
validation-message assertions and ensure the side effect would occur only if
runDashboardConnectUntilForwardHandoff spawned the command.

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Inline comments:
In `@test/e2e/live/dashboard-remote-bind.test.ts`:
- Around line 187-199: Update the assertion for connect.proof in the dashboard
handoff test to remove inline connect.stdout and connect.stderr from the failure
message, and instead reference the existing dashboard-connect-handoff.stdout.txt
and dashboard-connect-handoff.stderr.txt artifacts produced by
runDashboardConnectUntilForwardHandoff. Keep child output bounded and redacted
in artifacts only.

In `@test/e2e/support/dashboard-connect-handoff.test.ts`:
- Around line 113-121: Update the finally cleanup in the handoff test to fail
explicitly when no valid positive cleanup PID can be obtained from forwardPid or
pidFile, instead of resolving silently; retain stopFixtureProcess for valid PIDs
and ensure cleanup remains bounded and failure-propagating.

---

Nitpick comments:
In `@test/e2e/support/dashboard-connect-handoff.test.ts`:
- Around line 57-77: Update the test "rejects invalid handoff budgets before
spawning connect" to give the command an observable side effect, such as writing
a marker through the provided artifacts or another existing test mechanism, and
assert that the marker is absent after each invalid-budget rejection. Keep the
existing validation-message assertions and ensure the side effect would occur
only if runDashboardConnectUntilForwardHandoff spawned the command.

In `@test/e2e/support/dashboard-remote-bind-env.test.ts`:
- Around line 64-70: Update the it.each test title for dashboardForwardIsRunning
to include a %s placeholder, interpolating each forwardLine value so failures
identify the evaluated status line.
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  • established — port forward at test/e2e/support/dashboard-connect-handoff.test.ts:106: Keep the controlled term `port forward`. The changed text is literal command output.
  • justified — forward handoff at test/e2e/live/dashboard-connect-handoff.ts:192: Keep `forward handoff` for this distinct lifecycle transition.
  • justified — captured descriptors at test/e2e/live/dashboard-connect-handoff.ts:197: Keep `captured descriptors` to identify the descriptors that the handoff helper observes.
  • established — forced cleanup at test/e2e/live/dashboard-connect-handoff.ts:197: Keep the established term `forced cleanup`.

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