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fix(hermes): use receipt-owned control during portable onboarding - #11784

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Outcome

Fresh Portable Hermes onboarding can complete privileged gateway verification on its receipt-owned Podman container. Recovery and subsequent health probes use the same authority-qualified controller, and failed recovery of a stopped gateway keeps onboarding incomplete.

Reason

Hermes portable sandboxes retain the OpenShell Docker-driver registry value, so generic provider discovery looked for a Docker container during finalization and returned PRIVILEGED_CONTROL_UNAVAILABLE. Finalization also lacked the onboarding scope's filtered source environment. This follows the earlier refusal-propagation fix without relaxing the secret boundary.

Related issues

Refs #11573. Follow-up to #11760; based on main including #11735 and #11759.

Changes

  • Reuse the existing Hermes lifecycle owner to qualify the receipt, registry generation, runtime executables/socket, live policy, and exact container before and after fixed privileged control. Await policy checks while holding the lifecycle lock; preserve main's asynchronous policy reads.
  • Pass the active onboarding scope's environment into finalization. Unexpected selectors still refuse control, and explicit remote targets cannot use local portable authority.
  • Bind asynchronous control within process recovery and its settle probes. Receipt failures never authorize Docker discovery or legacy supervisor relaunch. Existing synchronous Docker control APIs retain their behavior.
  • Share the existing privileged environment sanitizer unchanged, preserve secret-validator refusals, and reject incomplete stopped-gateway recovery at finalization.

The controller tests cover policy refusal before/after execution and lock retention. Process-recovery tests cover receipt-owned recovery/probing, missing authority, failed execution, and prevention of cross-provider fallback; finalization tests cover scoped environment handoff and refusal propagation.

Verification

  • npx vitest run --project cli --project integration src/lib/onboard/experimental/hermes-portable-gateway-control.test.ts src/lib/onboard/experimental/hermes-portable-lifecycle.test.ts src/lib/actions/sandbox/hermes-secret-boundary-recovery.test.ts src/lib/actions/sandbox/process-recovery-managed-startup.test.ts src/lib/onboard/machine/finalization-deps.test.ts src/lib/onboard/machine/final-flow-composition.test.ts test/process-recovery — 276 tests passed across 12 files at e1e12fc97d788f30f26cbc282bebd088a80dff48, including the asynchronous callback repair.
  • npx vitest run --project cli --project integration src/lib/sandbox/privileged-exec.test.ts src/lib/onboard/portable-environment-scope.test.ts src/lib/onboard/experimental/hermes-portable-operating-authority.test.ts test/runtime/sandbox/vm-driver-privileged-exec-routing.test.ts — 84 tests passed across four files at 3cb27aa604f7f249f9e7750d910100840b60e21d; those authority owners are unchanged by the callback follow-up.
  • A typed Promise-returning recovery callback failed CLI typechecking before the follow-up repair and passes after it. Recovery and settle probes use that callback; legacy relaunch probes remain synchronous and pinned to the same container.
  • Two new behavioral regressions fail against main's production owners; all 77 affected tests pass with the repair restored.
  • npm run typecheck:cli, npm run build:cli, growth guardrails and all normal commit hooks passed.
  • Local fresh onboarding at 3cb27aa604f7f249f9e7750d910100840b60e21d: exit 0 in 906.94 s (15m 7s), Hermes ready, no privileged-control refusal. The first prompt appeared in 98.10 s and a real READY response in 105.64 s; chat exited 0. A synthetic secret then correctly refused finalization; restoring the original environment and recovering made finalization pass. The test sandbox/model/gateway were removed by exact identity, and the original fixture was restored with the same identities and states; the default launcher is unchanged.
  • Normal pre-push publication validation and plugin, JS-config, and CLI TypeScript checks passed. GitHub verifies both signed commits.
  • Diff reviewed; no secrets, API keys, credentials, dependency changes, validator changes, or budget increases.

Review notes

Self-review of NVIDIA/NemoClaw through commit e1e12fc97d788f30f26cbc282bebd088a80dff48 covered the changed onboarding runtime/lifecycle/finalization paths, src/lib/onboard.ts, and src/lib/sandbox/privileged-exec.ts. It traced the receipt/registry/policy checks, strict environment derivation, lifecycle lock, pinned container, and refusal paths; no unresolved authority or correctness issue was found. The follow-up addresses CodeRabbit comment 4011278459 about asynchronous callback types while preserving both pinned relaunch probe consumers. Independent sensitive-path approval remains pending. Live validation is a local guest CLI test with existing native OpenShell binaries, GPU and image caches; it does not qualify a packer image, desktop boot, import, or GFN streaming session.

CodeRabbit marked the callback finding addressed at e1e12fc. All nine Advisor reports completed for that commit: eight are clear; the documentation report flags Portable Hermes gateway restart guidance. That command was already rejected on base a05d1f2 by the existing restart fence and assertHermesPortableCommandUnavailable. The fence, validator, and three cited docs are byte-identical to base. This is inherited documentation ambiguity, recorded for documentation follow-up; this PR preserves the existing command restriction. The new controller's restart refusal adds no user-facing restriction.

The first prompt took 98.10 s. The five earlier performance commits (67fcceec3 through 6c3837017) remain on the separate performance branch; these runs do not establish a matched latency comparison.


Signed-off-by: Prekshi Vyas 34834085+prekshivyas@users.noreply.github.com

Summary by CodeRabbit

  • New Features

    • Added reliable recovery for managed sandbox gateways, including portable runtime environments.
    • Added support for probing, recovering, and restarting eligible Hermes gateways through controlled supervisor actions.
    • Added validation for authorized containers, requests, runtime credentials, and lifecycle state.
    • Improved onboarding finalization by preserving the appropriate portable runtime context and environment settings.
  • Bug Fixes

    • Recovery now waits for asynchronous gateway operations while preserving readiness checks and retry behavior.
    • Prevented unsupported runtimes from falling back to alternate control methods.
    • Improved handling of unavailable, rejected, or failed recovery operations.
    • Improved environment sanitization during privileged gateway operations.

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The change adds Hermes portable gateway supervisor control, connects it to asynchronous managed recovery, and passes scoped portable runtime environments through Hermes onboarding finalization. Tests cover validation, lifecycle locking, environment sanitization, recovery outcomes, and failure handling.

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Hermes portable recovery

Layer / File(s) Summary
Asynchronous recovery contract
src/lib/actions/sandbox/hermes-secret-boundary-recovery.ts, src/lib/actions/sandbox/hermes-secret-boundary-recovery.test.ts
Supervisor requests and Hermes secret-boundary enforcement now support asynchronous results. Existing recovery assertions are awaited.
Portable supervisor action
src/lib/onboard/experimental/hermes-portable-lifecycle.ts, src/lib/sandbox/privileged-exec.ts, src/lib/onboard/runtime-provider/*, src/lib/onboard/experimental/hermes-portable-gateway-control.test.ts
Hermes validates receipt, nonce, lifecycle authority, gateway state, and container identity before privileged control. It sanitizes the helper environment and rechecks authority afterward.
Managed recovery integration
src/lib/actions/sandbox/process-recovery.ts, src/lib/actions/sandbox/process-recovery-managed-startup.test.ts
Managed recovery uses asynchronous portable supervisor requests for eligible host-local operations. Portable results do not trigger Docker or supervisor relaunch fallback.
Onboarding finalization wiring
src/lib/onboard.ts, src/lib/onboard/machine/final-flow-composition.ts, src/lib/onboard/machine/finalization-deps.ts, related tests
Hermes receives portable runtime context during finalization. Scoped environment data reaches recovery, and finalization reports failure when a stopped gateway cannot be recovered.

Priority: ➖ Normal

Estimated code review effort: 4 (Complex) | ~60 minutes

Change: Bug fix

Sequence Diagram(s)

sequenceDiagram
  participant Onboard as Hermes onboarding
  participant Finalization as finalizationHandlerDeps
  participant Recovery as checkAndRecoverSandboxProcesses
  participant Supervisor as executePortableGatewaySupervisorAction
  participant Lifecycle as executeHermesPortableGatewaySupervisorAction
  Onboard->>Finalization: provide portable runtime context
  Finalization->>Recovery: pass portable supervisor environment
  Recovery->>Supervisor: request probe or recovery
  Supervisor->>Lifecycle: forward gateway action
  Lifecycle-->>Supervisor: return validated control result
  Supervisor-->>Recovery: return asynchronous supervisor result
  Recovery-->>Finalization: report recovery status
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src/lib/actions...ess-recovery.ts 80% 80% 0%
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Reviewed commit e1e12fc97d788f30f26cbc282bebd088a80dff48 against base a05d1f238f84e59e6d4fbdc30e547ec7281772c4 and issue #11573.

The receipt-owned controller stays under the lifecycle lock and validates the receipt, registry, policy, executable, socket, and container before and after privileged execution. It uses the shared sanitized root environment, rejects unsupported actions and remote targets, prevents cross-provider fallback, and leaves onboarding incomplete when recovery fails.

Security review: PASS for secrets and credentials, input validation, authentication and authorization, dependencies, error handling and logging, cryptography and data protection, configuration, security testing, and system security. The nonce is generated with randomBytes(32), privileged execution strips interpreter and loader hooks, and authority failures do not expose their diagnostics or authorize a fallback.

All current required checks pass. CodeRabbit covers the latest PR commit and its earlier asynchronous callback finding is resolved. I re-evaluated the Advisor documentation finding: the Portable Hermes restart fence and all cited documentation are unchanged from the base, so that inherited documentation gap is not attributable to this PR. The changed-file tests passed; two aggregate local timeout cases passed when rerun in isolation.

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Reviewed commit e1e12fc97d788f30f26cbc282bebd088a80dff48 against base a05d1f238f84e59e6d4fbdc30e547ec7281772c4. No new actionable correctness or security findings.

The Portable Hermes controller retains receipt, registry, runtime, policy, and container qualification around privileged execution. Recovery and settle probes await the same bound controller. Authority failures refuse cross-provider fallback, and unsuccessful stopped-gateway recovery keeps onboarding incomplete.

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  • Four required GitHub checks succeeded; changes was skipped on the later metadata-edit run. Full CI passed for the reviewed commit and base. All nine Advisor reports were reviewed.
  • CodeRabbit's asynchronous callback finding is resolved. The Advisor's Portable Hermes restart-documentation finding predates this PR: the existing restart fence and all three cited documentation files are unchanged from base.

Live Portable Hermes E2E was not repeated during this review.

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