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Summary

The onboarding recovery menu advertises back (change provider) and exit, then the credential
re-entry prompt it opens stages those words as the API key. back, exit, quit, and ? were each
saved into the provider's credential environment variable and registered with the OpenShell gateway,
and an empty answer looped on is required with no offered escape. The re-entry prompt now classifies
answers with getCredentialPromptIntent, the same classifier the canonical credential-navigation
helpers use: back returns to provider selection, exit and quit quit onboarding, and ?, help,
or an empty line re-prompt with an escape hint.

Related Issue

Fixes #9557

Changes

  • src/lib/onboard/validation-recovery-prompt.ts: the private replaceNamedCredential reads its
    answer through getCredentialPromptIntent instead of normalizeCredentialValue, which only trims
    whitespace and classified nothing. exit calls deps.exitOnboardFromPrompt(); back returns the
    shared BACK_TO_SELECTION sentinel from src/lib/navigation.ts; help and empty re-prompt with a
    hint naming the escapes. Both call sites map the sentinel to the existing "selection" outcome, so
    promptValidationRecovery's return type is unchanged. normalizeCredentialValue had no other use
    in the file and was removed from the import.
  • src/lib/onboard/credential-navigation.test.ts: extend describe("credential prompt navigation helpers") with a case driving the real promptValidationRecovery through menu retry → empty →
    back, asserting the outcome is selection, that the credential env var is never staged, that
    every scripted answer was consumed (so the empty answer looped and was escapable), and that exit
    was not called.

No new abstraction, configuration, fallback, or compatibility path. getCredentialPromptIntent is
already exported from ../credentials/store, which this file already imported, so this adds no
dependency edge there. The one new edge is to src/lib/navigation.ts, which has no
ci/source-architecture-budget.json override and therefore the default fan-in cap of 20; it goes
from 6 to 7.

Scope note: the outer recovery menu in the same file already handled back and exit correctly and
is unchanged. Only the inner re-entry prompt was affected.

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)
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  • Normal pre-commit, commit-msg, and pre-push hooks passed, or npm run validate:pr passed after refreshing origin/main when hooks were skipped or unavailable
  • Targeted behavior tests pass for the current change set, or tests are marked not applicable above — command/result: npx vitest run --project cli src/lib/onboard/credential-navigation.test.ts → 5 passed; npx vitest run --project integration test/onboard-selection.test.ts → 67 passed
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Behavior before and after

Driving the shipped helper with the menu answered retry and the re-entry prompt answered with each
navigation word.

Before:

typed "back" -> outcome="credential" OPENAI_API_KEY="back"
typed "exit" -> outcome="credential" OPENAI_API_KEY="exit"
typed "quit" -> outcome="credential" OPENAI_API_KEY="quit"
typed "?"    -> outcome="credential" OPENAI_API_KEY="?"

After:

typed "back" -> outcome="selection"  OPENAI_API_KEY=undefined
typed "exit" -> onboarding exit       OPENAI_API_KEY=undefined
typed "quit" -> onboarding exit       OPENAI_API_KEY=undefined
typed "?"    -> re-prompts, escapable OPENAI_API_KEY=undefined

The added test fails on the parent commit with
AssertionError: expected 'credential' to be 'selection' and passes with this change.

Prior art

The same class was fixed for the first-entry credential prompt in #3697 and again for the NVIDIA API
key prompt in #9404 / #9427. #9427 changed src/lib/onboard.ts,
src/lib/onboard/nvidia-featured-model-selection.ts,
src/lib/onboard/nvidia-featured-model-selection.test.ts, and
src/lib/onboard/setup-nim-selection.ts; it did not reach
src/lib/onboard/validation-recovery-prompt.ts. This applies the same intent-classifier approach to
that remaining prompt.

Related but distinct: #6005 requests a general back-navigation key at every wizard step and is
labeled needs: design. This change is narrower — a prompt that already advertises back and exit
in its own menu text now honors them — and does not depend on that design decision.


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

Summary by CodeRabbit

  • Bug Fixes
    • Improved credential recovery during onboarding.
    • Selecting “Back” after entering an empty API key now correctly returns to provider selection without saving invalid input or exiting onboarding.
    • Updated prompts to clearly distinguish retry, back, and exit actions.

The onboarding validation-recovery re-entry prompt read the answer through
normalizeCredentialValue, which only trims whitespace. It performed no intent
classification, so back, exit, quit, and ? were staged as the literal API key
for every provider whose credential env is not NVIDIA_INFERENCE_API_KEY or
NVIDIA_API_KEY, because validateNvidiaApiKeyValue only enforces the nvapi-
prefix for those two. The recovery menu advertises "back (change provider)"
one line earlier, so back is an expected answer at that prompt.

An empty answer also looped on "is required" with no advertised escape.

Route the answer through getCredentialPromptIntent, the same classifier the
canonical credential-navigation helpers use: exit quits onboarding, back
returns the shared BACK_TO_SELECTION sentinel that both call sites map to
provider selection, and help or empty re-prompts with an escape hint.

Signed-off-by: Udaya Tejas <udayatejas2004@gmail.com>
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The credential recovery prompt now recognizes navigation intents during credential re-entry. Back returns to provider selection, exit terminates onboarding, and missing input displays updated guidance. Regression tests cover retry, empty input, and back navigation.

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Credential recovery navigation

Layer / File(s) Summary
Recovery prompt intent handling
src/lib/onboard/validation-recovery-prompt.ts
The replacement flow classifies input as credential, back, or exit. Back returns a selection result, exit terminates onboarding, and retry paths propagate the selection result.
Recovery flow regression coverage
src/lib/onboard/credential-navigation.test.ts
The test verifies retry, empty input, and back navigation. It checks that no API key is staged, onboarding returns to provider selection, and the exit handler is not invoked.

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The credential re-entry prompt now honors back, exit, quit, help, and empty input without staging navigation words as credentials. No actionable merge-blocking risk remains beyond normal checks and review.

Sequence Diagram(s)

sequenceDiagram
  participant OnboardingRecovery
  participant CredentialPrompt
  participant ProviderSelection
  OnboardingRecovery->>CredentialPrompt: Request replacement credential
  CredentialPrompt-->>OnboardingRecovery: Back intent
  OnboardingRecovery->>ProviderSelection: Return selection result
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Linked Issues check ✅ Passed The changes classify back, exit, quit, help, and empty input, prevent navigation values from being saved, and add regression coverage for issue #9557.
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- Around line 85-86: Update the test around the empty-input sequence to assert
that the re-prompt output includes both “back” and “exit” guidance, rather than
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Comment thread src/lib/onboard/credential-navigation.test.ts Outdated
The empty-input sequence proved only that another prompt followed. A bare
required-field notice satisfied it, which is the shape this change replaced, so the
assertion now requires the re-prompt to name back and exit.

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Assert the empty-input escape guidance — this is right. The sequence proved only that another
prompt followed; nothing looked at what the re-prompt said, so the message this change replaced would
have satisfied it.

Confirmed by putting the plain is required. form back into the prompt and re-running: the case still
passed. With the tightened assertion in place that same revert fails, and the reported call is the old
message.

The empty-input flow and the console mocks are unchanged — the console.error spy is simply captured
now. The assertion requires the re-prompt to name both back and exit rather than pinning the whole
sentence, so a generic required-field notice fails while a later rewording that keeps both escapes
still passes.

The change is +6 / -1 in credential-navigation.test.ts; the pull request is +63 / -9 across two files
against the merge base. Checks run locally: credential-navigation.test.ts is 5 passed;
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The previous assertion used one regex, which required back to appear before exit.
The contract is that the re-prompt names both ways out of the loop, not the order
it names them in, so a reworded message that still advertises both would have
failed. Assert each word independently against the reported message.

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Do not require an ordering that the contract does not define — correct, and it was a real lock-in
rather than a theoretical one.

The single regex /is required\..*\bback\b.*\bexit\b/ only matches when back precedes exit. The
behaviour being protected is that the re-prompt offers both ways out of the loop; the order it names
them in is wording, not contract. Reordering the message to is required. Type exit to quit, or back to change provider. — behaviourally identical — made the old assertion fail:

AssertionError: expected "error" to be called with arguments: [ StringMatching{…} ]
-   StringMatching /is required\..*\bback\b.*\bexit\b/,
+   "  OpenAI API key is required. Type exit to quit, or back to change provider."

The assertion now reads the reported message once and checks each token independently, so ordering is
free while the required-message anchor is kept:

const [[requiredMessage]] = consoleError.mock.calls;
expect(requiredMessage).toContain("is required.");
expect(requiredMessage).toContain("back");
expect(requiredMessage).toContain("exit");

Three controls, all executed against the branch:

  • unchanged message — passes;
  • escapes reordered (exit before back) — passes, where the previous form failed, which is the
    lock-in this removes;
  • message reverted to a bare is required. — still fails
    (expected ' OpenAI API key is required.' to contain 'back'), so the original regression the case
    exists for is still caught.

The change is +5 / -4 in credential-navigation.test.ts; no production line and no other test moved.
credential-navigation.test.ts is 5 passed, npm run typecheck:cli is clean, npx oxlint on the
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Closing this — #9607 is already open against the same report and predates this by several hours.

The original attempt here was closed by the PR limit before that one existed, and when I re-opened I verified the behaviour was still present on main but did not re-check for a competing pull request first. That is on me. #9607 also handles the help input case, which this change did not.

I would rather not leave a duplicate in the review queue, so this is withdrawn. Report #9557 stays open for #9607.

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