feat(sandbox): persistent per-user container with Docker Exec (#7732 Step 1) - #7751
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…7732 Step 0) All 9 spike items evidenced on Docker/OrbStack: internal-net + dual-homed iron-proxy topology, DNS forwarding, default-deny + audit, placeholder credential swap with require:true, per-runtime TLS trust matrix, exec stream/kill/zombie mechanics, dead direct/IPv6 egress. Working proxy.yaml fixtures committed for Step 1 tests; CA material regenerated per run and not committed.
…Step 1) Replace create-container-per-command with one reusable container per (tenant,user), shared across that user's threads: - stable RebornSandboxUserKey identity and tenant/user-only labels; workspace remains per user and scopes without a thread are valid - ensure/adopt/start/recycle with a per-user lifecycle gate so concurrent thread calls converge on one container and shell commands serialize safely - Docker Exec through ironclaw-exec; per-command process groups, bounded TERM/KILL timeout, exact exit codes, capped output - tini PID 1 in the worker image prevents zombie accumulation - active guard plus idle sweeper stops only after the current user command completes; next use restarts the same compatible container - posture or image drift recycles lazily; shutdown leaves containers adoptable - CI planner classifies docker/sandbox/** into the Docker verification lane Railway, caller APIs, and network posture remain unchanged. Egress mediation is #7732 Step 2.
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WalkthroughThe sandbox worker now uses persistent per-user Docker containers. The transport adds lifecycle coordination, supervised Docker Exec commands, idle cleanup, expanded Docker tests, egress research records, and CI path classification. ChangesSandbox runtime
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The persistent Docker Exec lifecycle introduces three correctness issues: mutable image tags are not detected as drift, exit code 124 is misclassified as a timeout, and cancellation can release serialization while the container command continues running.
Findings: 🔴 High 1 · 🟠 Medium 2
🔴 High · Resolve image identity before adopting a persistent container
Inline on crates/lanes/ironclaw_sandbox/src/sandbox_process/user_container.rs:340. See the inline comment for details.
🟠 Medium · Preserve an ordinary command exit status of 124
Inline on crates/lanes/ironclaw_sandbox/src/sandbox_process/user_container.rs:433. See the inline comment for details.
🟠 Medium · Keep the per-user gate effective when execution is cancelled
Inline on crates/lanes/ironclaw_sandbox/src/sandbox_process.rs:475. See the inline comment for details.
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- ✅ Static production-path inspection — Traced shell dispatch through container compatibility checks, lifecycle locking, Docker Exec output handling, timeout mapping, and normalized command results.
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🔴 High · Resolve image identity before adopting a persistent container
Compatibility compares only the configured image string and its copied label. If `ironclaw-worker:latest` is rebuilt under the same tag—the deployment workflow described by this PR—both values remain `ironclaw-worker:latest`, so an existing container is reused with the old image indefinitely. Updates to `ironclaw-exec`, the idle helper, or the security contents therefore do not take effect after restart. Resolve and compare the actual image ID/digest, or stamp the build identity into the expected labels.
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Addressed in 0b46edb115: launch policy now resolves the configured image reference through Docker and stores the immutable image ID; adoption compares that ID to the container top-level image identity. Added a live same-tag-retarget regression that proves the old container is recycled. Verification: 226 unit tests; 9/9 live Docker tests; full-turn and architecture suites green.
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🟠 Medium · Preserve an ordinary command exit status of 124
The helper returns 124 for its own deadline, but a user command can also legitimately execute `exit 124`. This unconditional mapping turns that ordinary non-zero result into `RuntimeProcessError::Timeout`, discarding its captured output and violating the command-result contract and the PR's claim that exit codes remain exact. The timeout protocol needs a signal distinguishable from the command's exit status.
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Addressed in 0b46edb115: helper outcome is now a nonce-bound final trailer independent of the child exit code, so exit 124 returns ordinary CommandExecutionOutput with preserved output while only a real deadline maps to Timeout. Live regression covers both cases.
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🟠 Medium · Keep the per-user gate effective when execution is cancelled
The lifecycle mutex is held only by the `run_command` future. If an upstream timeout, turn cancellation, or task abort drops that future while Docker Exec is running, the mutex and activity guard are dropped immediately, but dropping Bollard's attached stream does not terminate the in-container process or mark the container for recycling. A subsequent request for the same user can then acquire the gate and execute concurrently with the orphaned command, defeating the serialization and recycle safety this change relies on. Execution needs cancellation-safe cleanup that terminates/recycles the container before making the gate available again.
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Addressed in 0b46edb115: the complete activity-guard + per-user lifecycle gate + bounded Docker Exec now runs in an owned Tokio task. Dropping the caller detaches that task instead of releasing serialization while the exec continues. A live abort regression proves the next same-user command cannot overlap.
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In `@crates/lanes/ironclaw_sandbox/src/sandbox_process.rs`:
- Around line 276-289: Update RebornScopedSandboxCommandTransport::new and
UserContainerSweeper::spawn usage so constructing the public transport does not
unexpectedly panic without an active Tokio runtime, preferably by deferring
sweeper creation until the async connection path; otherwise add rustdoc
explicitly documenting the required Tokio runtime.
In `@crates/lanes/ironclaw_sandbox/src/sandbox_process/registry.rs`:
- Around line 182-199: Update the sweeper to list containers using
user_container_label_filter and reconcile labeled containers that have no
registry entry, converting summaries through
UserContainerCandidate::from_summary so evicted users’ containers are still
inspected and stopped. Add lifecycle tests that fill begin to MAX_TRACKED_USERS
and cover both eligible eviction and the at-capacity error when no entry can be
evicted.
- Around line 33-36: Remove the #[allow(dead_code)] attribute from the
label_created_at function while leaving the function implementation and its
compatibility callers unchanged.
In `@crates/lanes/ironclaw_sandbox/src/sandbox_process/user_container.rs`:
- Around line 388-428: Bound all Docker operations performed while holding a
user lifecycle gate, including inspect_user_container and stop_container in the
sweeper and the calls in ensure_user_container, using the existing shared
HOST_TIMEOUT_GRACE pattern from recycle_untrusted_user_container. Set the
timeout above CONTAINER_STOP_TIMEOUT_SECS where applicable, and ensure timeout
errors follow the existing error-handling paths so the gate is always released.
In `@crates/lanes/ironclaw_sandbox/tests/user_sandbox_docker_live.rs`:
- Around line 908-921: Update the queued_marker check around the Docker
Command::new("docker") invocation to distinguish a successful exec whose test
reports an existing marker from failure to start or perform the exec. Validate
the command execution result and include stderr or equivalent Docker error
details before asserting the marker is absent, while preserving the
queued.same-user serialization assertions.
In `@docker/sandbox/ironclaw-exec`:
- Around line 64-87: Update the USR1 timeout handling around terminate_group so
timeout_fired is set only when the command process group is still alive, reusing
terminate_group’s kill -0 liveness check to distinguish a late signal from an
active timeout. Remove the unreachable second timeout_fired check after the
unconditional terminate_group call, while preserving command_status for
processes that completed before the watchdog signal.
In
`@docs/internal/research/2026-08-19-sandbox-egress-spike/results-policy-credentials.md`:
- Around line 23-47: Pin every research container image to immutable digests
while preserving the recorded evidence: in
docs/internal/research/2026-08-19-sandbox-egress-spike/results-policy-credentials.md
lines 23-47, replace the mendhak/http-https-echo and curlimages/curl latest tags
with their recorded exact digests; in README.md lines 76-85 and
results-exec-mechanics.md lines 3-9, pin alpine to 3.20; in results-tls-trust.md
lines 9-25, use the recorded runtime digest and pin alpine/openssl to its
recorded digest; and in results-topology-dns.md lines 22-26, pin both
alpine/openssl and alpine:3.20, without changing unrelated evidence.
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Intent: Implement persistent per-user sandbox containers with Docker Exec, serialized lifecycle/commands, process-group timeout handling, and Docker test-lane classification while preserving existing APIs and network posture.
Stats: 16 findings (from 19 raw, 18 after filter, 16 after dedup) across 6 files. Reviewers run: correctness, security, performance, design, coverage. Reviewers failed: none. Body-only: 0. Inline comments: 15.
bugs
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Medium Trait-object shutdown skips sweeper teardown (
crates/lanes/ironclaw_sandbox/src/sandbox_process.rs:439-440, confidence 100) — anchor: crates/lanes/ironclaw_sandbox/src/sandbox_process.rs:440
The local transport defines an inherent shutdown method, but its SandboxCommandTransport implementation only overrides run_command and therefore inherits the trait's no-op shutdown. Composition stores it as Arc, so runtime shutdown leaves the sweeper task alive; a later runtime can then have the old sweeper stop or inspect the same user's container without sharing its lifecycle gate. -
Medium Legitimate exit code 124 is reported as a timeout (
crates/lanes/ironclaw_sandbox/src/sandbox_process/user_container.rs:431-434, confidence 100) — anchor: crates/lanes/ironclaw_sandbox/src/sandbox_process/user_container.rs:432
ironclaw-exec uses exit code 124 for watchdog timeouts but otherwise forwards the command's exit status unchanged. Mapping every inspected exec with status 124 to RuntimeProcessError::Timeout means a valid command such asexit 124is not returned as an ordinary nonzero CommandExecutionOutput, violating exact exit-code propagation.
concurrency
- High Cancelled execs outlive the user lifecycle gate (
crates/lanes/ironclaw_sandbox/src/sandbox_process/user_container.rs:250-261, confidence 90) — anchor: crates/lanes/ironclaw_sandbox/src/sandbox_process/user_container.rs:250
Cleanup runs only for the function's own timeout or error branches. If the future is dropped during Docker streaming, supervisor cancellation, or shutdown, the attached Exec is dropped without killing or recycling the container; the helper continues until its internal deadline. The activity and gate guards then drop, allowing the next same-user command to overlap the abandoned process.
conventions
- Medium The sandbox lane now owns a second lifecycle supervisor (
crates/lanes/ironclaw_sandbox/src/sandbox_process/user_container.rs:35-68, confidence 94) — anchor: crates/lanes/AGENTS.md:30-37,56-57
UserContainerSweeper is a background lifecycle supervisor that inspects and stops containers, while the lanes contract says lanes must never run a parallel lifecycle or supervisor; lifecycle authority belongs to ironclaw_processes. Move this policy to the kernel-owned lifecycle service or make it an explicitly composition-owned service behind a narrow injected port. The PR body and adjacent sandbox docs provide no exception rationale.
local-patterns
- Medium Public synchronous construction now requires a Tokio runtime (
crates/lanes/ironclaw_sandbox/src/sandbox_process.rs:276-282, confidence 91) — anchor: crates/lanes/ironclaw_sandbox/src/sandbox_process/railway.rs:169-176
RebornScopedSandboxCommandTransport::new previously only stored its fields, but now calls tokio::spawn through UserContainerSweeper::spawn. Because new remains public and synchronous, callers outside an entered Tokio runtime now panic during construction. Keep new side-effect-free with lazy sweeper startup, or introduce an explicitly async/fallible construction path while preserving a pure constructor for existing callers.
mechanical
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Medium Changed Docker integration test grew past the 1,000-line ceiling (
crates/lanes/ironclaw_sandbox/tests/user_sandbox_docker_live.rs:1-1084, confidence 90) — anchor: crates/lanes/ironclaw_sandbox/tests/user_sandbox_docker_live.rs:1
This changed test file is 1,084 lines at the reviewed head; the repository change-discipline rule caps touched source files near 1,000 lines. The growth is mostly lifecycle helpers and scenarios added in this PR. -
Medium Docker inspection and cleanup helpers are duplicated across test tiers (
tests/integration/reborn_sandbox_shell_turn.rs:20-200, confidence 90) — anchor: tests/integration/reborn_sandbox_shell_turn.rs:20
The duplication detector found the same Docker label filtering, container inspection, command execution, and cleanup helpers in the crate Docker suite and the production-wired integration test. This creates two implementations that can drift as the lifecycle contract evolves.
performance
- Medium Idle sweep can block shutdown for hours (
crates/lanes/ironclaw_sandbox/src/sandbox_process/user_container.rs:388-417, confidence 88) — anchor: crates/lanes/ironclaw_sandbox/src/sandbox_process/user_container.rs:388
The sweeper snapshots up to 4096 candidates and inspects/stops them serially while the shutdown select is not polled. With the 10-second Docker stop timeout, a full slow sweep can take over 11 hours, and shutdown awaits that task without an interruptible per-container timeout.
regression-escape
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Medium No live test proves different users execute concurrently (
crates/lanes/ironclaw_sandbox/tests/user_sandbox_docker_live.rs:510-523, confidence 94) — anchor: crates/lanes/ironclaw_sandbox/tests/user_sandbox_docker_live.rs:510
The concurrent test uses two threads for the same user, so it only proves the per-user gate is shared. The isolation test runs other users sequentially, and the registry unit test checks only distinct gate objects. A regression that introduces a global execution lock across users would pass all current tests. Add user_sandbox_docker_live::different_users_execute_in_parallel with one user held behind a release marker while a distinct user's command must complete before release, and assert distinct container identities. -
Medium Caller-level cross-thread reuse is not covered (
tests/integration/reborn_sandbox_shell_turn.rs:205-223, confidence 92) — anchor: tests/integration/reborn_sandbox_shell_turn.rs:205
The PR body and coverage map claim full Reborn-turn proof across the user's threads, but sandbox_shell_turn_executes_in_a_real_container sends both shell calls through one harness and one conversation. Cross-thread reuse is only tested by directly constructing ResourceScopes in the crate-level Docker test. A regression in production builtin.shell scope construction could therefore pass. Add a Docker-gated caller-level scenario with two production harness threads under the same actor, where the second reads state created by the first and confirms the same container identity.
resource-exhaustion
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High Each exec eagerly allocates a 1 MiB output buffer (
crates/lanes/ironclaw_sandbox/src/sandbox_process/user_container.rs:194, confidence 96) — anchor: crates/lanes/ironclaw_sandbox/src/sandbox_process/user_container.rs:194
Bollard uses output_capacity as the initial framed-read buffer, and this expression forces at least 1 MiB per active Docker Exec even though the default captured-output limit is 64 KiB. Up to 4096 different users can execute in parallel, so concurrent shell calls can allocate roughly 4 GiB for framing buffers before captured output and other overhead. -
High Orphaned containers escape idle cleanup after restart/eviction (
crates/lanes/ironclaw_sandbox/src/sandbox_process/registry.rs:193, confidence 94) — anchor: crates/lanes/ironclaw_sandbox/src/sandbox_process/registry.rs:193
The registry is process-local and the sweeper only examines registry entries. Restarting creates an empty registry, while capacity eviction removes an inactive entry without stopping its Docker container. Those persistent containers are never revisited by the sweeper and can accumulate across restarts or user churn.
security
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High Detached descendants survive exec-group cleanup (
docker/sandbox/ironclaw-exec:39-46, confidence 98) — anchor: docker/sandbox/ironclaw-exec:39
An attacker-controlled command can start a new session with setsid, escape the command process group, and then exit. The helper only signals the original process group, while the persistent container remains alive; helper exit 124 is treated as a timeout without recycling the container. The detached process can retain workspace access and direct-network access after the command ends. -
Medium Adoption misses image-content changes behind mutable tags (
crates/lanes/ironclaw_sandbox/src/sandbox_process/user_container.rs:333-341, confidence 97) — anchor: crates/lanes/ironclaw_sandbox/src/sandbox_process/user_container.rs:333
Container adoption compares only the configured image reference string. Rebuilding or replacing the default ironclaw-worker:latest tag leaves Config.Image unchanged, so existing containers continue running the old image and helper binaries; idle stop only stops and restarts that same container. Security fixes in a rebuilt worker image therefore do not reach persistent containers.
tests
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Medium Timeout coverage never tests a detached child after normal exit (
crates/lanes/ironclaw_sandbox/tests/user_sandbox_docker_live.rs:788-798, confidence 96) — anchor: crates/lanes/ironclaw_sandbox/tests/user_sandbox_docker_live.rs:789
The only background-child scenario waits for the child, so it exercises the timeout path but not the normal-completion cleanup in ironclaw-exec. A regression that leaves a detached child holding the Docker Exec stream could therefore pass, despite the PR's stated verification claim. Add user_sandbox_docker_live::foreground_exit_does_not_leave_background_descendant_holding_exec_stream with a background sleep that is not waited on, a bounded run, and a descendant-liveness assertion. -
Medium Activity registry capacity branches are untested (
crates/lanes/ironclaw_sandbox/src/sandbox_process/registry.rs:177-198, confidence 91) — anchor: crates/lanes/ironclaw_sandbox/src/sandbox_process/registry.rs:182
SandboxActivityRegistry::begin now adds a MAX_TRACKED_USERS boundary with oldest-inactive eviction and a fail-closed capacity error. The adjacent tests cover normal gate and sweep behavior but never fill the boundary or verify that active or recycle-required entries are not evicted. Add registry::tests::activity_registry_capacity_evicts_oldest_inactive_and_rejects_when_all_slots_are_busy covering both branches.
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- One unsupported planner-ownership finding was discarded after checking the exact diff; the patch only adds the
docker/sandbox/prefix and renames a local variable.
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High — Detached descendants survive exec-group cleanup.
An attacker-controlled command can start a new session with setsid, escape the command process group, and then exit. The helper only signals the original process group, while the persistent container remains alive; helper exit 124 is treated as a timeout without recycling the container. The detached process can retain workspace access and direct-network access after the command ends.
Fix: Run each exec in an exec-specific cgroup and kill the entire cgroup on every exit, or recycle the container whenever descendant cleanup is not proven complete.
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Addressed in 12c3faa019: ironclaw-exec is now a Python subreaper. It tracks and terminates descendants across newly-created sessions/process groups on both normal exit and timeout, then reaps them before emitting the final outcome. Live regression launches a detached setsid descendant and proves it is gone while the user container remains reusable.
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High — Each exec eagerly allocates a 1 MiB output buffer.
Bollard uses output_capacity as the initial framed-read buffer, and this expression forces at least 1 MiB per active Docker Exec even though the default captured-output limit is 64 KiB. Up to 4096 different users can execute in parallel, so concurrent shell calls can allocate roughly 4 GiB for framing buffers before captured output and other overhead.
Fix: Use a small framing capacity bounded by the actual output limit and add an explicit global in-flight execution or buffer budget.
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Addressed in 12c3faa019: Bollard framing capacity is now clamped to 8–64 KiB instead of eagerly allocating at least 1 MiB. Same-user commands serialize; cross-user concurrency remains bounded by existing runner/resource-governor limits and the sandbox process quota.
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High — Orphaned containers escape idle cleanup after restart/eviction.
The registry is process-local and the sweeper only examines registry entries. Restarting creates an empty registry, while capacity eviction removes an inactive entry without stopping its Docker container. Those persistent containers are never revisited by the sweeper and can accumulate across restarts or user churn.
Fix: Reconcile labeled containers during startup/sweeps and stop orphaned entries before evicting their registry state.
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Addressed across 0b46edb115 and 12c3faa019: capacity eviction can remove only container-free entries; container-backed entries fail admission instead of being orphaned. On transport startup, the sweeper now reconciles labeled Docker containers into the registry before idle processing. Live restart coverage proves an unrequested adopted container is discovered, idled, and restarted.
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High — Cancelled execs outlive the user lifecycle gate.
Cleanup runs only for the function's own timeout or error branches. If the future is dropped during Docker streaming, supervisor cancellation, or shutdown, the attached Exec is dropped without killing or recycling the container; the helper continues until its internal deadline. The activity and gate guards then drop, allowing the next same-user command to overlap the abandoned process.
Fix: Add cancellation-safe Exec cleanup that marks the container for recycle and kills/removes it before another same-user command can proceed.
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Addressed in 0b46edb115: complete execution ownership runs in a detached bounded Tokio task that retains the activity guard and per-user lifecycle gate after the caller is dropped. Live abort coverage proves the next same-user command cannot overlap and the old marked process is gone.
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Medium — Trait-object shutdown skips sweeper teardown.
The local transport defines an inherent shutdown method, but its SandboxCommandTransport implementation only overrides run_command and therefore inherits the trait's no-op shutdown. Composition stores it as Arc, so runtime shutdown leaves the sweeper task alive; a later runtime can then have the old sweeper stop or inspect the same user's container without sharing its lifecycle gate.
Fix: Override SandboxCommandTransport::shutdown and delegate to the transport's sweeper shutdown before returning Ok().
Also flagged by: design/Medium
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Addressed in 12c3faa019: SandboxCommandTransport::shutdown now delegates to the transport sweeper shutdown, so composition cleanup through the trait object cannot leave the old supervisor task alive.
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Medium — Caller-level cross-thread reuse is not covered.
The PR body and coverage map claim full Reborn-turn proof across the user's threads, but sandbox_shell_turn_executes_in_a_real_container sends both shell calls through one harness and one conversation. Cross-thread reuse is only tested by directly constructing ResourceScopes in the crate-level Docker test. A regression in production builtin.shell scope construction could therefore pass. Add a Docker-gated caller-level scenario with two production harness threads under the same actor, where the second reads state created by the first and confirms the same container identity.
Fix: Extend the production-wired Docker integration coverage to use two distinct threads for the same user.
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Reviewed; no code change in this PR: the current full-turn harness owns one canonical binding/thread and has no supported second-thread submission on the same production runtime. Cross-thread lifecycle identity is exercised through the real SandboxCommandTransport/Docker backend with distinct production ResourceScope values; the full-turn tier continues to prove the actual builtin.shell caller path. Adding a multi-thread product-harness seam would be broader test-infrastructure work, tracked by #7732 rather than hidden in this runtime PR.
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Medium — Public synchronous construction now requires a Tokio runtime.
RebornScopedSandboxCommandTransport::new previously only stored its fields, but now calls tokio::spawn through UserContainerSweeper::spawn. Because new remains public and synchronous, callers outside an entered Tokio runtime now panic during construction. Keep new side-effect-free with lazy sweeper startup, or introduce an explicitly async/fallible construction path while preserving a pure constructor for existing callers.
Fix: Do not spawn background work from the synchronous constructor; start the sweeper lazily on first async use or make task creation explicit and fallible.
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Addressed in 12c3faa019: synchronous new is side-effect-free again (sweeper: None) and has a direct no-runtime unit test. Async production connect explicitly enables the sweeper.
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Medium — Activity registry capacity branches are untested.
SandboxActivityRegistry::begin now adds a MAX_TRACKED_USERS boundary with oldest-inactive eviction and a fail-closed capacity error. The adjacent tests cover normal gate and sweep behavior but never fill the boundary or verify that active or recycle-required entries are not evicted. Add registry::tests::activity_registry_capacity_evicts_oldest_inactive_and_rejects_when_all_slots_are_busy covering both branches.
Fix: Fill the registry to its configured limit, verify inactive eviction, and verify the capacity error when every slot is protected.
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Addressed in 0b46edb115: capacity tests prove container-free eviction and fail-closed behavior when all slots are container-backed; eviction now requires expected_labels.is_none() in addition to inactive/unborrowed/non-recycle state.
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Medium — Changed Docker integration test grew past the 1,000-line ceiling.
This changed test file is 1,084 lines at the reviewed head; the repository change-discipline rule caps touched source files near 1,000 lines. The growth is mostly lifecycle helpers and scenarios added in this PR.
Fix: Move shared Docker inspection/cleanup helpers into the existing test-support area and split distinct lifecycle scenarios into focused test modules while preserving the same lane coverage.
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Addressed in 12c3faa019: the touched live test is now 927 lines; shared Docker lifecycle helpers moved to tests/support/user_sandbox_live.rs, and the final scenarios moved to a focused child module.
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Medium — Docker inspection and cleanup helpers are duplicated across test tiers.
The duplication detector found the same Docker label filtering, container inspection, command execution, and cleanup helpers in the crate Docker suite and the production-wired integration test. This creates two implementations that can drift as the lifecycle contract evolves.
Fix: Extract the common Docker test helpers into the existing sandbox test-support seam and keep each test tier focused on its distinct assertions.
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Partially addressed in 12c3faa019: the crate-level Docker suite now has one shared helper module for label filtering, inspection, command execution, cleanup, and waits. The root integration package cannot import that helper because it intentionally has no ironclaw_sandbox dependency; forcing a cross-tier helper dependency would violate the architecture boundary. The small root-tier copy remains focused on caller-level identity/cleanup.
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No-code dispositions: Railway/status/walkthrough comments are informational; the alleged Before/after risks being implemented: same-tag image rebuild now recycles container; only actual helper deadline maps to Timeout while user exit 124 remains a normal result; dropped caller futures no longer release same-user serialization while an exec continues; container-backed registry entries cannot be silently evicted/orphaned. |
- resolve mutable image refs to immutable Docker IDs before adoption - distinguish real helper deadlines from every ordinary command exit code with an invocation-specific final outcome trailer - keep per-user serialization alive after caller cancellation by detaching the bounded execution task - prevent registry capacity eviction from orphaning live containers - fix late watchdog signal handling and queued-marker diagnostics - pin every contemporaneously recorded spike image identity while preserving truthful historical command blocks and documenting Alpine evidence gaps Adds live regressions for same-tag retarget, ordinary exit 124, and aborted caller serialization; all sandbox, full-turn, architecture, docs, and planner gates pass.
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- make sync transport construction side-effect-free and route trait-object shutdown to the idle supervisor - reconcile labeled persistent containers after host restart so idle cleanup does not lose process-local registry visibility - replace the shell watchdog with a Python subreaper that terminates detached descendants across process groups before returning an authenticated outcome - cap Bollard framing buffers at 64 KiB - prove cross-user parallelism, detached-child cleanup, restart reconciliation, and same-user cancellation behavior in live Docker tests - split the oversized live test helper surface into focused test support - document the transport-local cleanup authority boundary All sandbox, full-turn, architecture, docs, and planner gates pass.
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Resolve mutable image references in the real run path, then pass the immutable identity into pure launch-config construction. Unit tests inject a synthetic image ID and no longer require ironclaw-worker:latest to exist in the crate bucket, while production still fails closed before adoption when Docker cannot resolve the configured image.
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…#7732 Step 1) (nearai#7764) * docs(internal): sandbox egress spike results + iron-proxy fixtures (nearai#7732 Step 0) All 9 spike items evidenced on Docker/OrbStack: internal-net + dual-homed iron-proxy topology, DNS forwarding, default-deny + audit, placeholder credential swap with require:true, per-runtime TLS trust matrix, exec stream/kill/zombie mechanics, dead direct/IPv6 egress. Working proxy.yaml fixtures committed for Step 1 tests; CA material regenerated per run and not committed. * feat(sandbox): persistent per-user container with Docker Exec (nearai#7732 Step 1) Replace create-container-per-command with one reusable container per (tenant,user), shared across that user's threads: - stable RebornSandboxUserKey identity and tenant/user-only labels; workspace remains per user and scopes without a thread are valid - ensure/adopt/start/recycle with a per-user lifecycle gate so concurrent thread calls converge on one container and shell commands serialize safely - Docker Exec through ironclaw-exec; per-command process groups, bounded TERM/KILL timeout, exact exit codes, capped output - tini PID 1 in the worker image prevents zombie accumulation - active guard plus idle sweeper stops only after the current user command completes; next use restarts the same compatible container - posture or image drift recycles lazily; shutdown leaves containers adoptable - CI planner classifies docker/sandbox/** into the Docker verification lane Railway, caller APIs, and network posture remain unchanged. Egress mediation is nearai#7732 Step 2. * fix(sandbox): harden persistent user-container lifecycle (nearai#7751 review) - resolve mutable image refs to immutable Docker IDs before adoption - distinguish real helper deadlines from every ordinary command exit code with an invocation-specific final outcome trailer - keep per-user serialization alive after caller cancellation by detaching the bounded execution task - prevent registry capacity eviction from orphaning live containers - fix late watchdog signal handling and queued-marker diagnostics - pin every contemporaneously recorded spike image identity while preserving truthful historical command blocks and documenting Alpine evidence gaps Adds live regressions for same-tag retarget, ordinary exit 124, and aborted caller serialization; all sandbox, full-turn, architecture, docs, and planner gates pass. * fix(sandbox): close lifecycle and process-isolation review gaps (nearai#7751) - make sync transport construction side-effect-free and route trait-object shutdown to the idle supervisor - reconcile labeled persistent containers after host restart so idle cleanup does not lose process-local registry visibility - replace the shell watchdog with a Python subreaper that terminates detached descendants across process groups before returning an authenticated outcome - cap Bollard framing buffers at 64 KiB - prove cross-user parallelism, detached-child cleanup, restart reconciliation, and same-user cancellation behavior in live Docker tests - split the oversized live test helper surface into focused test support - document the transport-local cleanup authority boundary All sandbox, full-turn, architecture, docs, and planner gates pass. * fix(sandbox): keep launch-config unit tests daemon-independent (nearai#7751) Resolve mutable image references in the real run path, then pass the immutable identity into pure launch-config construction. Unit tests inject a synthetic image ID and no longer require ironclaw-worker:latest to exist in the crate bucket, while production still fails closed before adoption when Docker cannot resolve the configured image. * docs(sandbox): clarify idle cleanup authority (nearai#7751 review) * fix(sandbox): launch resolved immutable worker image (nearai#7751 review) * test(sandbox): document daemon-free launch config fixtures * fix(sandbox): preserve request preflight before image resolution * test(sandbox): assert immutable image identity after recycle * chore(ci): track transitive h2 advisory until libsql upgrade * fix: address sandbox review findings * fix(sandbox): address lifecycle review feedback * test(sandbox): harden Docker removal polling
…#7732 Step 1) (nearai#7764) * docs(internal): sandbox egress spike results + iron-proxy fixtures (nearai#7732 Step 0) All 9 spike items evidenced on Docker/OrbStack: internal-net + dual-homed iron-proxy topology, DNS forwarding, default-deny + audit, placeholder credential swap with require:true, per-runtime TLS trust matrix, exec stream/kill/zombie mechanics, dead direct/IPv6 egress. Working proxy.yaml fixtures committed for Step 1 tests; CA material regenerated per run and not committed. * feat(sandbox): persistent per-user container with Docker Exec (nearai#7732 Step 1) Replace create-container-per-command with one reusable container per (tenant,user), shared across that user's threads: - stable RebornSandboxUserKey identity and tenant/user-only labels; workspace remains per user and scopes without a thread are valid - ensure/adopt/start/recycle with a per-user lifecycle gate so concurrent thread calls converge on one container and shell commands serialize safely - Docker Exec through ironclaw-exec; per-command process groups, bounded TERM/KILL timeout, exact exit codes, capped output - tini PID 1 in the worker image prevents zombie accumulation - active guard plus idle sweeper stops only after the current user command completes; next use restarts the same compatible container - posture or image drift recycles lazily; shutdown leaves containers adoptable - CI planner classifies docker/sandbox/** into the Docker verification lane Railway, caller APIs, and network posture remain unchanged. Egress mediation is nearai#7732 Step 2. * fix(sandbox): harden persistent user-container lifecycle (nearai#7751 review) - resolve mutable image refs to immutable Docker IDs before adoption - distinguish real helper deadlines from every ordinary command exit code with an invocation-specific final outcome trailer - keep per-user serialization alive after caller cancellation by detaching the bounded execution task - prevent registry capacity eviction from orphaning live containers - fix late watchdog signal handling and queued-marker diagnostics - pin every contemporaneously recorded spike image identity while preserving truthful historical command blocks and documenting Alpine evidence gaps Adds live regressions for same-tag retarget, ordinary exit 124, and aborted caller serialization; all sandbox, full-turn, architecture, docs, and planner gates pass. * fix(sandbox): close lifecycle and process-isolation review gaps (nearai#7751) - make sync transport construction side-effect-free and route trait-object shutdown to the idle supervisor - reconcile labeled persistent containers after host restart so idle cleanup does not lose process-local registry visibility - replace the shell watchdog with a Python subreaper that terminates detached descendants across process groups before returning an authenticated outcome - cap Bollard framing buffers at 64 KiB - prove cross-user parallelism, detached-child cleanup, restart reconciliation, and same-user cancellation behavior in live Docker tests - split the oversized live test helper surface into focused test support - document the transport-local cleanup authority boundary All sandbox, full-turn, architecture, docs, and planner gates pass. * fix(sandbox): keep launch-config unit tests daemon-independent (nearai#7751) Resolve mutable image references in the real run path, then pass the immutable identity into pure launch-config construction. Unit tests inject a synthetic image ID and no longer require ironclaw-worker:latest to exist in the crate bucket, while production still fails closed before adoption when Docker cannot resolve the configured image. * docs(sandbox): clarify idle cleanup authority (nearai#7751 review) * fix(sandbox): launch resolved immutable worker image (nearai#7751 review) * test(sandbox): document daemon-free launch config fixtures * fix(sandbox): preserve request preflight before image resolution * test(sandbox): assert immutable image identity after recycle * chore(ci): track transitive h2 advisory until libsql upgrade * fix: address sandbox review findings * fix(sandbox): address lifecycle review feedback * test(sandbox): harden Docker removal polling
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(tenant,user), shared across that user's threads and executed through Docker Exec (~40 ms).RebornSandboxUserKeyfor stable identity and tenant/user-only labels./workspaceremains per user; scopes without a thread are valid.ironclaw-execandtini: command process groups are fully terminated on deadline, exit codes/output remain exact and bounded, and the long-lived container reaps children.docker/sandbox/**worker helpers select the existing Docker verification lane.Scope fence: Railway, caller APIs, and network posture are unchanged. The per-user iron-proxy/default-deny work is #7732 Step 2.
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Related #7732 — Phase 1. Supersedes closed #7741, whose branch was renamed after the team selected per-user rather than per-thread lifecycle.
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cargo fmt --all -- --check-D warnings:ironclaw_sandbox,ironclaw_host_runtime,ironclaw_composition.cargo test -p ironclaw_sandbox --lib— 227 passed.IRONCLAW_REQUIRE_DOCKER_TESTS=1 cargo test -p ironclaw_sandbox --test user_sandbox_docker_live -- --nocapture— 12 passed, 1 ignored live-egress canary (same-tag retarget, ordinary exit 124, caller-abort serialization, detached-session cleanup, cross-user parallelism, and restart reconciliation).IRONCLAW_REQUIRE_DOCKER_TESTS=1 cargo test -p ironclaw_integration_tests --test reborn_integration_sandbox_shell_turn -- --nocapture— 15 passed.cargo test -p ironclaw_architecture_tests— all green.python3.11 scripts/ci/test_reborn_pr_test_plan.py— 92 passed; real PR diff plan selectsrun_sandbox_docker=trueand both new helpers are classified.tini/setsidpresent; exit 3 propagates; a 2-second deadline returns 124 in ~3 seconds; backgrounded child does not hold the exec stream.review-pr/pr-shepherd --fix— independent pivot review found two same-user recycle races; both were fixed by explicit per-user serialization. PR review then found mutable-tag adoption, exit-124, cancellation, and registry-capacity bugs; fixed in0b46edb115with regressions, then the complete gate set reran green.Test Strategy
User behavior:
A sandbox-profile user gets one persistent computer across all their threads. Two shell calls from different threads for the same user reuse the exact container identity, hostname, ephemeral container state, and
/workspace; another user/tenant gets a different container and workspace. Commands for one user execute sequentially; different users remain parallel. Timeout leaves no descendants, ordinary non-zero exits remain ordinary results, idle stop does not interrupt an active/queued same-user command, and the next command restarts the same compatible container.Risk areas:
builtin.shellcontract and loop path.Tests added or updated:
docs/internal/research/2026-08-19-sandbox-egress-spike/; no model fixture changed.What the tests prove:
Lifecycle cardinality is users, not threads; per-user destructive operations cannot race active same-user execs; different users remain isolated and parallel; adoption/recycle/idle semantics survive the pivot; and the real caller path still completes a native-loop turn.
Commands run:
Security Impact
Yes — changes sandbox process placement and lifetime.
Preserved: non-root uid, read-only rootfs, dropped capabilities, no-new-privileges, PID/memory/CPU/tmpfs/log bounds, no Docker socket, no inherited caller credentials, validated mounts/env/workdir, no unsandboxed fallback.
New trade-off: same-user threads intentionally share one process environment. A resident process or poisoned toolchain can influence later commands for that user until idle stop/recycle/reset. Cross-user isolation remains structural. All same-user commands serialize for V1, preventing posture/timeout recycle from terminating peer commands and preventing concurrent mutation of the shared environment. Real credentials still do not enter this slice; Step 2/3 add proxy-only egress and invocation placeholders.
Reborn Trust-Boundary Checklist
RebornSandboxUserKey.RuntimeProcessError::Timeout.Database Impact
None. Existing per-user workspace directories remain compatible.
Blast Radius
Local-Docker
ironclaw_sandbox, worker image/scripts, Docker-gated integration tests, internal docs, and CI path classification. Railway and non-sandbox profiles are unchanged. Deployments must rebuildironclaw-worker:latestbecause the exec path requires/usr/local/bin/ironclaw-exec.Rollback Plan
Revert the implementation commit and rebuild the worker image, or select a non-sandbox profile. No schema or workspace migration. Existing user containers can be force-removed by tenant/user label while retaining
/workspace.Review Follow-Through
Reviewer focus requested on: same-user command serialization as the V1 concurrency policy; in-container process-group deadline enforcement; ACTIVE→STOPPED-only idle behavior; and the accepted same-user cross-thread compromise window. Step 2 (per-user iron-proxy + default-deny egress) and Step 3 (GitHub placeholder credential) remain follow-ups.
Review track: C (security/runtime/CI)