fix(mcp): republish credentials after policy binding

[prekshivyas]

Summary

Republish an authenticated MCP provider after its endpointless policy binding becomes active. Previously, the Docker sidecar could consume the provider mutation while the temporary unbound policy was active, leaving fresh sandbox execs without the credential; the follow-up mutation advances the provider generation without reading or rotating the stored secret.

Changes

• Add an exact-ID, exact-type, exact-key provider refresh that fails closed on ownership drift and requires the resource version to advance.
• Refresh after attach and bound-policy application in MCP add, restart, and rollback restoration flows.
• Cover the credential-free command shape and the two provider revisions observed during restart.

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:
• Non-success, skipped, or missing CI check accepted by maintainer — check name, approval link, and follow-up issue:

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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
• Targeted behavior tests pass: npx vitest run src/lib/actions/sandbox/mcp-bridge-provider.test.ts test/mcp-restart-policy-order.test.ts — 26/26 passed
• Applicable broad gate passed — not applicable to this focused provider synchronization 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)

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Signed-off-by: Prekshi Vyas prekshiv@nvidia.com

Summary by CodeRabbit

• Bug Fixes

  • Improved MCP provider restart, runtime restoration, and recovery flows by refreshing the provider environment after policy application.
  • Added safeguards that verify provider identity, state, and revisions before and after updates.
  • Prevented credential values from being exposed during provider refreshes and lifecycle operations.
  • Improved consistency during crash recovery, rollback, destroy, and rebuild scenarios.

• Tests

  • Expanded coverage for policy ordering, revision advancement, credential privacy, and lifecycle consistency.

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📝 Walkthrough

Walkthrough

The PR adds a validated MCP provider refresh after policy binding. Add-and-restart, restart, and runtime restoration flows invoke it before credential readiness checks. Tests verify resource-version advancement and credential-free update commands.

Changes

MCP provider refresh

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Validated provider refresh helper src/lib/actions/sandbox/mcp-bridge-provider-mutation.ts, src/lib/actions/sandbox/mcp-bridge-provider.ts, src/lib/actions/sandbox/mcp-bridge-provider.test.ts	refreshMcpProviderEnvironment validates provider identity and credential ownership, performs a no-field update, and requires preserved credential identity with an increased resource version. Tests cover the refresh behavior.
Provider attachment refresh src/lib/actions/sandbox/mcp-bridge-add-restart.ts	The add-and-restart flow refreshes the provider after attachment and policy application, before credential readiness verification.
Restart and runtime restoration integration src/lib/actions/sandbox/mcp-bridge-restart.ts, test/mcp-restart-policy-order.test.ts	Restart and runtime restoration invoke the refresh helper before credential attachment waits. Tests verify successive revisions and omit credential arguments from the update command.
Lifecycle test support src/lib/actions/sandbox/mcp-bridge-input-targets.test.ts, test/mcp-destroy-lifecycle.test.ts, test/deepagents-mcp-legacy-lifecycle.test.ts, test/mcp-add-crash-consistency.test.ts	Test mocks track provider resource versions and verify that provider updates do not inject credentials.

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

Merge Risk: 🔵 Low · up to d057b

The change is mergeable with owner follow-up: the test harness should distinguish provider refreshes from credential updates so lifecycle and revision assertions accurately cover the new synchronization behavior.

Sequence Diagram(s)

sequenceDiagram
  participant RestartFlow
  participant refreshMcpProviderEnvironment
  participant MCPProvider
  RestartFlow->>refreshMcpProviderEnvironment: refresh after policy binding
  refreshMcpProviderEnvironment->>MCPProvider: inspect provider
  refreshMcpProviderEnvironment->>MCPProvider: issue no-field update
  MCPProvider-->>refreshMcpProviderEnvironment: return increased resource version
  refreshMcpProviderEnvironment-->>RestartFlow: return verified inspection

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Possibly related PRs

• NVIDIA/NemoClaw#9722: Both PRs directly republish providers with credential-free updates after sandbox lifecycle changes, but they implement this in different flows.

Suggested labels: area: sandbox, area: providers, integration: hermes, bug-fix, security

Suggested reviewers: senthilr-nv, cjagwani

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Inline comments:
In `@test/mcp-destroy-lifecycle.test.ts`:
- Line 1242: Update the restore-path tests around the provider credential
assertions to positively verify that the expected provider revision increased,
using the observable public state rather than mock-call history; retain the
existing assertion that provider create/update calls do not include
--credential, and apply the same change to the corresponding assertion near the
second referenced test case.
- Line 305: Update the provider update mock branch in the command handler to
increment the provider’s existing resourceVersion rather than assigning the
constant 2, ensuring every refresh advances beyond the prior value while
preserving the existing update response.

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In `@test/mcp-add-crash-consistency.test.ts`:
- Around line 89-99: Strengthen the provider-command mocks: in
test/mcp-add-crash-consistency.test.ts lines 89-99, validate the requested
provider name, returned identity, and credential-free update arguments before
changing the persisted version; in test/deepagents-mcp-legacy-lifecycle.test.ts
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providerResourceVersion. Ensure invalid targets or credential mutations fail the
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Reviewed commit cc33088. No production-code blocker found. The provider refresh is credential-free, validates exact provider ownership and resource-version advancement, and runs after policy binding. Local CLI build and the expanded focused suite passed (130/130). Pending CI remains the merge gate. The unresolved automated findings concern test-fixture hardening and do not identify a production behavior defect.

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Approved at cc33088. The credential-free provider republish is correctly ordered after attach and policy binding, and the exact provider identity, type, key, and resourceVersion checks fail closed. Security review: input/command injection PASS; authentication/authorization PASS; secret handling PASS; cryptography PASS (N/A); dependencies PASS; data exposure PASS; configuration PASS; error handling PASS; code quality/tests PASS. The remaining automated notes concern stricter test-fixture evidence, not a production blocker.

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In `@test/mcp-add-crash-consistency.test.ts`:
- Around line 107-108: In the provider refresh mock around providerVersion(),
add a separate marker set for every refresh, while keeping updated limited to
credential-bearing updates. Use the new refresh marker in lifecycle-order and
revision observation logic so credential-free refreshes use the current
persisted version rather than v1.

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Re-approved exact head d057b94 after the verified test-fixture hardening commit. The production change remains the previously reviewed credential-free provider refresh; the new delta only makes fixture command shapes and resource-version behavior exact. Security review remains PASS across all nine categories. I accept the remaining non-success CI for release purposes: cli-test-shards (9) reproduced the unrelated Node.js 4 GiB heap OOM while the other 11 shards and relevant security/self-hosted checks passed; the aggregate failures are downstream of that shard.