fix(e2e): accept supervised dashboard recovery proof

[senthilr-nv]

Summary

The dashboard remote-bind target could restore its missing port forward but still fail when the supervised interactive connect process reached the test deadline and returned numeric SIGTERM status 143. This change accepts the existing recovery proof for an explicitly timed-out connect, while ordinary nonzero completion and a timeout without recovery proof remain failures. The live target still requires direct OpenShell forward state, all-interface binding, security-audit evidence, and registered cleanup before success.

E2E root cause: dashboard-recovery-proof-numeric-timeout-status
Source run: https://github.com/NVIDIA/NemoClaw/actions/runs/32330051811 (attempt 1)
Failed job: Shared E2E / dashboard-remote-bind (https://github.com/NVIDIA/NemoClaw/actions/runs/32330051811/job/96309077300)
Immutable artifact: 9392893216, sha256:e2e105e1b0cd5510556e0bdaace2e7600cbc838bffcbf466ccdddbe77ad837dc
Failure signature: timedOut: true, exitCode: 143, and Dashboard port forward re-established. were reported together, but the helper accepted recovery proof only when exitCode === null.

Related Issue

Fixes #9606

Changes

• Accept the existing dashboard recovery proof when the supervised connect result is explicitly timed out.
• Reject ordinary completed nonzero results even when they contain the recovery phrase.
• Reject timed-out results that do not contain the recovery proof.
• Preserve the independent live forward-list, all-interface bind, security-audit, and cleanup checks as final authority.

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

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📝 Walkthrough

Walkthrough

The dashboard remote-bind E2E helper now accepts timed-out results with recovery output. Tests cover valid exit code 143 recovery and reject completed nonzero results or timed-out results without recovery proof.

Changes

Dashboard remote-bind recovery

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Recovery proof coverage test/e2e/live/dashboard-remote-bind-env.ts, test/e2e/support/dashboard-remote-bind-env.test.ts	The helper accepts timedOut results when dashboard forwarding output is present. Tests validate exit code 143 recovery and reject completed nonzero or unproven timed-out connections.

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Merge Risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to 8a975

The recovery check can currently report success after an unrelated timed-out failure, so this PR is not merge-ready until acceptance is restricted to the expected SIGTERM status and the focused regression passes.

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Check name	Status	Explanation
Linked Issues check	✅ Passed	The changes add focused regression coverage for timed-out status 143 recovery proof and preserve rejection of invalid connection results for issue #9606.
Out of Scope Changes check	✅ Passed	The changes are limited to dashboard remote-bind E2E helper logic and focused regression tests within issue #9606 scope.
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The overall line coverage in commit 8a97515 in the codex/fix-dashboard-... branch remains at 96%, unchanged from commit d9bf24f in the main branch.

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• established — recovery proof at test/e2e/support/dashboard-remote-bind-env.test.ts:49: Retain the established term.
• define — test deadline at test/e2e/support/dashboard-remote-bind-env.test.ts:49: Retain the local test-title term; it does not create behavioral ambiguity.

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Inline comments:
In `@test/e2e/support/dashboard-remote-bind-env.test.ts`:
- Around line 49-65: Add a negative test alongside the existing timedOutRecovery
case for dashboardRemoteBindConnectStarted using exitCode 1, timedOut true, and
identical stdout/stderr, and assert that it returns false; keep the existing
exitCode 143 acceptance test unchanged.

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