test(cli): separate Gemini image acquisition

[rsliter]

Summary

The Gemini compatibility integration test charged a cold pull of the pinned sandbox-base image against the runtime command's 60-second timeout. This change gives exact-image acquisition its own bounded setup step, fails immediately when inspection itself is unavailable, and sanitizes pull diagnostics while preserving the runtime assertions and their existing timeout.

Related Issue

Fixes #9944

Changes

• Inspect the exact pinned sandbox-base image before the runtime probe.
• Pull that same immutable digest at most once when it is absent, with a five-minute setup bound.
• Stop before pulling when image inspection times out, is terminated, or has no normal exit status.
• Strip terminal controls and apply the repository's full and partial secret redaction before bounding failure diagnostics to 4 KiB.
• Preserve the existing 60-second OpenClaw plugin and Gemini inference assertions without adding a retry.
• Add deterministic warm-cache, cold-cache, pull-failure, redaction, control-byte, and inspect-failure coverage.

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: Independent review confirmed the immutable image identity, fixed Docker arguments, control stripping before repository redaction, bounded output, one pull, failure before runtime, unchanged credential custody, and absence of retry or product behavior changes. All nine security categories pass.
• 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:
• Station profile/scenario:
• 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: six deterministic helper tests and two affected Docker runtime tests passed together on exact commit f05419ca9 (8 tests total); CLI typecheck, repository checks, and git diff --check passed.
• Applicable broad gate passed, justification: Not applicable to a three-file test and test-helper timing correction with the affected deterministic and Docker runtime boundaries passing.
• 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)

Documentation Writer Review

• Documentation writer subagent reviewed the completed changes
• Result: no-docs-needed
• Evidence: Independently reviewed the complete three-file effective diff at exact signed merge f05419ca9959968712b79077edcd6db6af5fa65b against current main e38db201413b457614904187377ed9fd002d281d. The merge preserves reviewed c3b3867b2 byte-for-byte with stable patch ID d7043d5e248d82b631f4f849a950b5084f408321; the 98-path main delta has zero overlap. The test-only helper keeps the exact digest-pinned image, separates a bounded 15-second inspect from one bounded five-minute pull, stops before the runtime probe on setup failure, and retains at most 4 KiB of control-stripped, fully redacted diagnostic output. The existing network-none, read-only, nonroot, capability-dropped runtime and 60-second assertions are unchanged. All nine security categories pass. Author evidence covers 8 focused tests, CLI typecheck, repository checks, normal hooks, and diff check. No public command, configuration, workflow, supported behavior, or documentation contract changed.
• Agent: Codex Desktop

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Signed-off-by: Rebecca Sliter 571084+rsliter@users.noreply.github.com

Summary by CodeRabbit

• Bug Fixes

  • Improved setup of the pinned OpenClaw Gemini runtime image by reusing locally cached images and pulling missing images automatically.
  • Added clearer, bounded diagnostics for setup failures, including timeouts, process termination, missing exit status, and sanitized error output.
  • Prevented unnecessary runtime checks when image inspection fails.

• Tests

  • Added coverage for cached images, image pulls, failure handling, diagnostic limits, timeouts, and Docker process behavior.

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📝 Walkthrough

Walkthrough

The changes add a Docker image setup helper and integrate it into the Gemini compatibility test. The helper inspects and pulls the pinned image with bounded timeouts and diagnostics. Tests cover cached, pulled, and failure paths.

Changes

Gemini runtime image setup

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Image setup helper test/helpers/openclaw-gemini-runtime-image.ts	Adds injectable Docker execution, separate inspection and pull timeouts, bounded UTF-8 diagnostics, and failure classification.
Image setup flow test/helpers/openclaw-gemini-runtime-image.ts, test/openclaw-gemini-runtime-image.test.ts	Returns "cached" for an available image, pulls only after a normal missing-image result, and tests timeout, signal, null-status, redaction, and diagnostic limits.
Test setup integration test/openclaw-gemini-inference-compat-runtime.test.ts	Prepares the pinned image before runtime assertions and extends the setup timeout to include image inspection and pulling.

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

Merge Risk: ⚪ Minimal · up to f0541

The change separates bounded image setup from the existing runtime assertions without changing product behavior. No actionable merge-blocking risk remains after normal checks and review.

Sequence Diagram(s)

sequenceDiagram
  participant CompatibilityTest
  participant RuntimeImageHelper
  participant Docker
  CompatibilityTest->>RuntimeImageHelper: Ensure pinned image
  RuntimeImageHelper->>Docker: Inspect image
  alt Image cached
    Docker-->>RuntimeImageHelper: Inspection succeeds
    RuntimeImageHelper-->>CompatibilityTest: Return cached
  else Image absent
    RuntimeImageHelper->>Docker: Pull image
    Docker-->>RuntimeImageHelper: Pull result
    RuntimeImageHelper-->>CompatibilityTest: Return pulled or error
  end
  CompatibilityTest->>CompatibilityTest: Run runtime assertions after setup

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Check name	Status	Explanation	Resolution
Docstring Coverage	⚠️ Warning	Docstring coverage is 0.00% which is insufficient. The required threshold is 80.00%. Docstring coverage is scoped to functions touched by this diff. Analyzed 6 functions across 3 files.	Write docstrings for the functions missing them to satisfy the coverage threshold.

✅ Passed checks (4 passed)

Check name	Status	Explanation
Description Check	✅ Passed	Check skipped - CodeRabbit’s high-level summary is enabled.
Title check	✅ Passed	The title clearly describes separating Gemini image acquisition, which is the primary change in the pull request.
Linked Issues check	✅ Passed	The changes implement bounded image inspection and pull setup, preserve runtime timeouts, avoid retries, and add the required deterministic tests for issue #9944.
Out of Scope Changes check	✅ Passed	All changes support the linked issue by adding image setup logic, integration setup, and focused tests without changing product behavior.

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The overall line coverage in commit f05419c in the codex/fix-9944-gemin... branch remains at 96%, unchanged from commit e38db20 in the main branch.

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Inline comments:
In `@test/helpers/openclaw-gemini-runtime-image.ts`:
- Around line 65-72: Update the image-inspection flow around runDocker and the
helper’s existing cache/pull logic to throw when inspection reports an execution
error or termination signal, before attempting docker pull; only status-zero or
a normal nonzero exit may indicate an absent image. Add coverage for an
inspection timeout asserting the helper fails and no pull is invoked.

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Security And CI Review

Security result: PASS for the current revision. No security finding remains.

• Secrets and credentials: Docker pull diagnostics use the repository redaction pipeline before the 4 KiB output bound. Tests remove authorization, cookie, credentialed-URL, query-token, and terminal-control values.
• Input validation: Docker receives a fixed argument array and the existing immutable image digest. No shell parses the image value.
• Authentication and authorization: The change does not alter an authentication or authorization boundary.
• Dependencies: The change adds no dependency and retains the existing image digest.
• Error handling and logging: Inspection timeout, termination, or missing exit status stops before the pull. Pull failure stops before both runtime assertions.
• Cryptography and data protection: The change adds no cryptographic mechanism and does not weaken digest verification.
• Configuration: The runtime test retains no network, a read-only filesystem, dropped capabilities, no new privileges, and existing resource limits.
• Security testing: Six helper tests cover cached, cold, failed, timed-out, terminated, and missing-status cases. Both Docker runtime assertions pass.
• System security: The setup performs one inspection and at most one pull. It adds no retry and does not change product behavior.

Additional validation passed:

• CLI type-check
• Repository checks
• All four commits are GitHub Verified and contain DCO declarations

The full CI run was canceled after about 14 minutes while five CLI shards were still running. Every completed shard passed. Static checks, build and type checks, installer integration, audits, CodeQL, and plugin tests also passed. The aggregate jobs failed only because those shard jobs were canceled. I did not request a broad rerun.

Required CI and human approval remain merge blockers.

[prekshivyas]

Reviewed latest PR commit f05419c. Exact-image inspection and the single pull are independently bounded, abnormal inspection exits fail before pull, and pull diagnostics are control-stripped, redacted, and byte-bounded. I found no blocking defect.