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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.
- 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.
- 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.
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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WalkthroughThe sandbox lane now uses reusable per-user Docker containers with serialized execution, immutable image and security-posture identity, supervised command execution, idle cleanup, CI routing updates, and documented egress research. ChangesSandbox lifecycle and execution
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783-795: 📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🔵 Trivial | ⚡ Quick winDerive the sandbox crate directory once, instead of stripping a suffix off the prefix.
sandbox_crate_prefixes[0].removesuffix("/src/sandbox_process")re-derives the crate directory from a string that_sandbox_docker_prefixes()builds. If that helper later adds a second prefix or changes thesrc/sandbox_processsuffix,removesuffixbecomes a no-op, the exact-path set no longer contains the crateCargo.tomlandsrc/lib.rs, and a manifest-only sandbox change stops selecting the Docker lane. This planner treats that silent under-selection as the failure class to prevent, so keep the directory as the source of truth.♻️ Return the resolved directory alongside the prefixes
-def _sandbox_docker_prefixes() -> tuple[str, ...]: - """Sandbox source prefixes whose changes require the Docker lane.""" +def _sandbox_crate_directory() -> str: + """`<ironclaw_sandbox crate dir>`, resolved once per process.""" try: directory = crate_directory("ironclaw_sandbox", ROOT) except CrateTreeError as error: raise RuntimeError( "reborn_pr_test_plan: cannot resolve the ironclaw_sandbox crate, so " f"the source path prefixes used to route the Docker lane are unknown: {error}" ) from error - return (f"{directory}/src/sandbox_process",) + return directory + + +def _sandbox_docker_prefixes() -> tuple[str, ...]: + """Sandbox source prefixes whose changes require the Docker lane.""" + return (f"{_sandbox_crate_directory()}/src/sandbox_process",)sandbox_crate_prefixes = _sandbox_docker_prefixes() sandbox_docker_prefixes = SANDBOX_DOCKER_PREFIXES + sandbox_crate_prefixes sandbox_docker_exact_paths = set(SANDBOX_DOCKER_EXACT_PATHS) if sandbox_crate_prefixes: - sandbox_crate_directory = sandbox_crate_prefixes[0].removesuffix( - "/src/sandbox_process" - ) + sandbox_crate_directory = _sandbox_crate_directory() sandbox_docker_exact_paths.update( { f"{sandbox_crate_directory}/Cargo.toml", f"{sandbox_crate_directory}/src/lib.rs", } )Note: the existing tests mock
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In `@crates/lanes/ironclaw_sandbox/src/sandbox_process/user_container.rs`:
- Around line 504-538: Add crate-tier unit tests for append_tail,
parse_exec_outcome_trailer, and strip_exec_outcome_trailer covering a trailer
retained within the 512-byte tail, an earlier matching nonce in command output,
a missing trailer error, and truncation at a valid multi-byte UTF-8 boundary.
Keep the tests focused on these helpers’ local invariants and outcome parsing
behavior.
- Around line 164-183: Bound the timeout in the transport path before
constructing or dispatching the exec command, ensuring the value passed through
helper_timeout_secs is within the helper contract’s inclusive 1–86,400-second
range. Apply this validation to the original request/config-derived timeout and
preserve existing subsecond rounding while preventing invalid values from
reaching ironclaw-exec.
- Around line 461-468: Update sweep_idle_user_containers to use the per-user
gate’s try_lock() instead of awaiting lock acquisition; skip contended
candidates and continue sweeping, while retaining the guard across the existing
Docker I/O and retrying skipped candidates on the next tick.
In `@crates/lanes/ironclaw_sandbox/tests/user_sandbox_docker_live.rs`:
- Around line 626-635: Remove the unused detached.token read from the descendant
inspection command, or complete the intended marker check by writing and
validating the token as done in the sibling timeout test. Ensure the post-exit
assertion in the transport.run_command call explicitly reflects the checks it
performs.
In `@docker/sandbox/ironclaw-exec`:
- Around line 112-123: Update cleanup_processes to avoid signaling root_pid
after it has already exited or been reaped: first check whether the root process
still exists, and only signal descendants when the root is gone; preserve the
descendant scan and final cleanup behavior without calling signal_processes on a
potentially recycled root PID.
- Around line 144-160: Update the outcome construction after process.wait in the
command execution flow to encode negative signal statuses as 128 plus the signal
number, while preserving normal exit statuses unchanged; avoid applying the
current bitmask to negative values so signal-terminated commands report
conventional codes such as 137 for SIGKILL.
In
`@docs/internal/research/2026-08-19-sandbox-egress-spike/proxy.credentials.yaml`:
- Around line 8-9: Ensure the empty upstream_deny_cidrs override is restricted
to test-only use: prevent production composition from loading this fixture,
preferably by using a test-only filename or adding a guard that rejects an empty
deny list outside the research fixture. Preserve the capture.test and other.test
override behavior.
In `@docs/internal/research/2026-08-19-sandbox-egress-spike/README.md`:
- Around line 61-64: Update the TLS trust guidance near the worker image
requirements to avoid setting a proxy-only CA as global SSL_CERT_FILE; use a
merged CA bundle or scope SSL_CERT_FILE only to the tested runtime, while
keeping NODE_EXTRA_CA_CERTS separate. Ensure the worker image verifies the
referenced certificate paths, and replace “30–60 ms median” with “30 ms median,
38 ms mean, and 30–60 ms observed range.”
- Around line 59-60: Update the “Exec latency” statement to report the recorded
range as 30–60 ms, the median as 30 ms, and the mean as 38 ms, replacing the
incorrect median value while preserving the existing context.
Apply the same fix in
`@docs/internal/research/2026-08-19-sandbox-egress-spike/results-policy-credentials.md`
around lines 271 - 283: The same evidence-bounding correction applies to the
no-secret-in-logs conclusion.
In `@scripts/ci/test_reborn_pr_test_plan.py`:
- Around line 654-658: Update the test block using subTest and assertRaisesRegex
to combine the nested context managers into a single with statement, preserving
the existing subtest path, expected ValueError, and regex.
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In `@scripts/ci/reborn_pr_test_plan.py`:
- Around line 783-795: Update the sandbox prefix resolution around
_sandbox_docker_prefixes so the resolved sandbox crate directory is returned or
otherwise reused directly as the source of truth, rather than deriving it with
removesuffix on sandbox_crate_prefixes[0]. Preserve the empty-tuple guard for
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Found two actionable issues in command-status handling and Docker test-lane selection.
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🟠 Medium · Preserve signal termination status
Inline on docker/sandbox/ironclaw-exec:158. See the inline comment for details.
🟡 Low · Route Docker test-support changes to the Docker lane
Inline on scripts/ci/reborn_pr_test_plan.py:784. See the inline comment for details.
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- ✅ Reborn PR test-plan suite — 81 planner contract tests passed.
- ❌ Signal exit propagation — A SIGTERM-terminated command produced `exit:241` from the new exec helper.
- ❌ Docker-lane path selection — Each newly added Docker test-support path leaves `run_sandbox_docker` false when evaluated alone.
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🟠 Medium · Preserve signal termination status
`Popen.wait()` returns a negative signal number on POSIX (for example, `-15` for SIGTERM), so masking it with `& 0xFF` emits `exit:241`. The Rust side parses that as a normal command exit code, causing signal-terminated commands to report an unrelated status. Handle negative return codes explicitly (for example with a conventional signal-derived status) and add a regression test.
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Addressed in b6648d0145: signal termination now maps to the conventional 128 + signal status, with a real-Docker SIGTERM regression asserting exit 143. This is the same root fix as discussion 3819534997.
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🟡 Low · Route Docker test-support changes to the Docker lane
The selected prefixes still cover only `docker/sandbox/` and the sandbox source directory. A PR changing only either newly added Docker test-support path (`tests/user_sandbox_docker_live/extra.rs` or `tests/support/user_sandbox_live.rs`) leaves `run_sandbox_docker` false. The regular crate bucket does not build the worker image or enable the fail-closed Docker requirement, so the live test is skipped rather than exercised. Include these test-support paths in the Docker-lane selector and add regression cases.
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Addressed in b6648d0145: Docker-lane routing now follows both the nested live-test subtree and shared user-sandbox support file, derived from the cached sandbox crate directory. Moved-crate regressions cover both paths. Verification: all 87 planner tests passed.
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In `@crates/lanes/ironclaw_sandbox/README.md`:
- Around line 61-65: Update the README explanation near
SandboxCommandTransport::shutdown to remove the claim that the in-process
sweeper cleans up resources after a host restart. State that restart recovery
occurs through adoption and reconciliation on the next command, while the
sweeper stops containers that become idle during the current process lifetime.
In `@crates/lanes/ironclaw_sandbox/src/sandbox_process.rs`:
- Around line 465-514: Bound acquisition of the per-user lifecycle gate in
run_command_owned by adding a GATE_ACQUIRE_TIMEOUT duration constant alongside
the other lane limits and wrapping gate.lock().await with tokio::time::timeout.
Return a sanitized busy RuntimeProcessError when acquisition exceeds the limit,
while preserving normal execution after the lock is obtained.
- Around line 280-296: The public SandboxProcess::new constructor permits
production instances with sweeper set to None, violating the runtime dependency
invariant while connect installs one. Make sweeper required for production
construction or move the no-sweeper construction behind a test-only support
seam, and update callers so every runtime SandboxProcess has a sweeper.
In `@crates/lanes/ironclaw_sandbox/src/sandbox_process/user_container.rs`:
- Around line 43-91: Implement Drop for UserContainerSweeper to signal shutdown
and abort any remaining JoinHandle taken from task, ensuring the background
sweeper stops when its owner is dropped. Preserve shutdown’s existing behavior
for explicitly awaited shutdown calls and safely handle a missing handle or
poisoned mutex.
- Around line 495-514: Update the ExistingContainerDecision::Recreate branch in
the user container sweeper to reclaim the incompatible container while the gate
is held: stop it if necessary and remove it before forgetting the registry
entry. Keep the StartStopped behavior unchanged, and ensure cleanup failures are
handled without preventing the sweeper from processing subsequent containers.
- Around line 418-466: The reconciliation flow in
reconcile_labeled_user_containers must not adopt or sweep containers based
solely on tenant/user labels, since register_discovered_container resets
activity and can permit another process to stop an active container. Add an
exclusive durable owner lease that is validated during discovery and sweeping,
or enforce single-process Docker ownership at the caller boundary with a
regression test; preserve the existing identity-label validation and
registry-capacity handling.
In `@crates/lanes/ironclaw_sandbox/tests/support/user_sandbox_live.rs`:
- Around line 113-268: Keep the canonical Docker inspection helpers and
container-contract constants in
crates/lanes/ironclaw_sandbox/tests/support/user_sandbox_live.rs#L113-L268,
exporting the label keys, container prefix, and digest length owned by the
sandbox crate instead of redeclaring them. In
tests/integration/reborn_sandbox_shell_turn.rs#L12-L190, remove the duplicated
DockerCleanup, ContainerSnapshot, containers_matching_labels, inspect_container,
and docker_command implementations and consume the canonical types, helpers, and
constants through an appropriate test-support seam if needed.
In `@crates/lanes/ironclaw_sandbox/tests/user_sandbox_docker_live.rs`:
- Around line 11-31: In
crates/lanes/ironclaw_sandbox/tests/user_sandbox_docker_live.rs:11-31, add a
shared tokio::sync::Mutex and have every test acquire its guard after
docker_worker_image passes, serializing access to the shared Docker daemon. In
crates/lanes/ironclaw_sandbox/README.md:49-54, document that the live suite must
run serially and include the exact cargo test command using --test-threads=1.
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The persistent per-user container and Docker Exec path holds up. Two non-blocking issues worth a look.
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crates/lanes/ironclaw_sandbox/src/sandbox_process/user_container.rs:197— The exec is dispatched withworking_dir. Fix: Ensure the requested workdir exists before dispatching the exec (a shortmkdir -pexec, or haveironclaw-exec` take the workdir and…crates/lanes/ironclaw_sandbox/src/sandbox_process/user_container.rs:275—strip_exec_outcome_traileronly removes the outcome marker when the complete\n__IRONCLAW_EXEC_OUTCOME_<nonce>=prefix survives incaptured.stdout. Fix: Reserve room for the marker (cappush_stdoutatstream_limit - MAX_TRAILER_LEN), or strip on a partial-suffix match.
Checks: cargo +1.96 test -p ironclaw_sandbox --lib — 230 passed, 0 failed; cargo +1.96 test -p ironclaw_sandbox --lib (second environment) — 228 passed, 2 failed only because local socket binding is prohibited there (both failures at TcpListener::bind…; cargo +1.96 clippy -p ironclaw_sandbox --all-targets --all-features -- -D warnings — clean
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In `@crates/lanes/ironclaw_sandbox/README.md`:
- Around line 56-61: Update the README paragraph describing the Docker workspace
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Preserve the existing statements about lock-based authority, stale lock files,
and preventing cross-process cleanup authorization.
In `@crates/lanes/ironclaw_sandbox/tests/support/user_sandbox_live.rs`:
- Around line 327-343: Update wait_for_container_absent to use
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The persistent per-(tenant,user) container with Docker Exec holds up. Two non-blocking behavior changes worth a look.
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crates/lanes/ironclaw_sandbox/src/sandbox_process/user_container.rs:226— The requestworkdiris now passed asCreateExecOptions::working_diron a pre-existing container instead ofConfig::working_diron a freshly created one. Fix: (1) Restore create-on-demand for workspace-relative workdirs —.crates/lanes/ironclaw_sandbox/src/sandbox_process/user_container.rs:447—reconcile_labeled_user_containersenumerates containers daemon-wide filtered only on theironclaw.tenant/ironclaw.userlabel keys, with no discriminator for which IronClaw instance or workspace root created them. Fix: Add an instance-scoped label at creation —.
Checks: cargo +1.96 test -p ironclaw_sandbox --lib — 233 passed in one environment; cargo +1.96 test -p ironclaw_sandbox sandbox_process::registry::tests --lib — 17 passed.; cargo +1.96 test -p ironclaw_sandbox sandbox_process::user_container::tests::outcome_ --lib — 2 passed.
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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
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Summary
(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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Linked Issue
Related #7732 — Phase 1. Supersedes closed #7741, whose branch was renamed after the team selected per-user rather than per-thread lifecycle.
Validation
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)