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Summary

Portable OpenClaw onboarding recorded the default agent as null, while the strict pairing-settlement boundary correctly requires durable agent: "openclaw" identity. This change publishes explicit OpenClaw identity only after current receipt and lifecycle-generation validation, and narrowly repairs the legacy null state during locked onboarding finalization without weakening generic launch qualification.

Related Issue

Related to #9200.

Changes

  • Record explicit openclaw for fresh Portable OpenClaw registration after the schema-4 receipt and lifecycle generation match.
  • Preserve ordinary OpenClaw as agent: null and Portable Hermes as agent: "hermes".
  • Repair only the reproduced Portable OpenClaw agent: null state while the sandbox lifecycle lock is held and before pairing writes.
  • Fail closed for missing, legacy, incompatible, or generation-mismatched receipts; generic connect remains read-only with respect to registry identity.
  • Add focused fresh-registration, resume/finalization, Hermes non-regression, and fail-closed 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 code/security review found no actionable findings; the repair remains lifecycle-lock-bound and fail-closed before registry or pairing writes.
  • Non-success, skipped, or missing CI check accepted by maintainer — check name, approval link, and follow-up issue:

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  • Targeted behavior tests pass for the current change set, or tests are marked not applicable above — 4 files, 111 tests passed on exact head
  • Applicable broad gate passed — base-aware npm run test:changed: 133 files, 1,786 tests; repository checks, CLI build/typecheck, source-shape, targeted Oxlint, Oxfmt, and diff checks passed
  • 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)
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  • New doc pages include SPDX header and frontmatter (new pages only)

Independent documentation review result: no-docs-needed; this change adds no CLI, configuration, default-policy, schema, or documented recovery behavior.


Signed-off-by: Senthil Ravichandran senthilr@nvidia.com

Summary by CodeRabbit

  • New Features

    • Improved Portable OpenClaw onboarding and resume handling when no agent identity is set.
    • Added lifecycle receipt validation against the current sandbox generation.
    • Portable sandbox registration now records and restores the correct OpenClaw runtime identity.
  • Bug Fixes

    • Prevented sandbox recreation from overwriting agent identity.
    • Added safeguards against stale, missing, or invalid lifecycle receipts.
    • Preserved agent-neutral behavior for standard OpenClaw registration.
    • Improved handling when sandbox updates or readback operations fail.

Signed-off-by: Senthil Ravichandran <senthilr@nvidia.com>
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Portable lifecycle registration validates current receipts and records OpenClaw identity. Pairing settlement repairs eligible legacy rows. Onboarding finalization treats null agents as OpenClaw and prevents sandbox recreation from overwriting agent identity.

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Portable OpenClaw identity

Layer / File(s) Summary
Portable registration identity
src/lib/onboard/sandbox-registration.ts, src/lib/onboard/experimental/portable-runtime-receipt-readiness.ts, src/lib/onboard.ts, src/lib/onboard/sandbox-registration.test.ts
Portable registration accepts lifecycle options, validates receipt generation, requires OpenClaw for Portable lifecycles, and persists the OpenClaw identity. Tests cover valid, invalid, legacy, mismatched, and non-OpenClaw registrations.
Pairing settlement repair
src/lib/actions/sandbox/launch-readiness.ts, src/lib/actions/sandbox/launch-readiness/portable-openclaw-pairing-settlement.test.ts
Settlement repairs null-agent legacy rows only when policy and lifecycle generation checks pass. It reloads the sandbox and fails closed when persistence or readback is invalid.
Finalization identity propagation
src/lib/onboard/machine/handlers/finalization.ts, src/lib/onboard/machine/finalization-deps.ts, src/lib/onboard/machine/handlers/finalization.test.ts, src/lib/onboard/machine/handlers/sandbox.ts, src/lib/onboard/machine/handlers/sandbox.test.ts
Finalization classifies a null agent as OpenClaw. Sandbox registry updates omit computed agent identity. Tests cover resume settlement, fresh creation, and observability resume behavior.

Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~25 minutes

Merge Risk: ⚪ Minimal · up to 08d03

The change narrowly preserves Portable OpenClaw registry identity with lifecycle validation and fail-closed behavior; no actionable merge-blocking risk remains after normal checks and review.

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sequenceDiagram
  participant OnboardingFinalization
  participant settlePortableOpenClawPairing
  participant Registry
  OnboardingFinalization->>settlePortableOpenClawPairing: settle with portableRequired true
  settlePortableOpenClawPairing->>Registry: read sandbox identity and lifecycle state
  settlePortableOpenClawPairing->>Registry: update null agent to openclaw
  Registry-->>settlePortableOpenClawPairing: return refreshed sandbox
  settlePortableOpenClawPairing-->>OnboardingFinalization: return settlement result
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The overall coverage in commit 08d039d in the codex/fix-portable-o... branch remains at 96%, unchanged from commit b715fc7 in the main branch.


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LOC Reduction / Codebase Simplicity Review

Why this blocks

This patch distributes one receipt-qualified registry identity across several owners. src/lib/onboard/experimental/portable-openclaw-registry-identity.ts:10-33 is a 33-line single-use qualifier consumed only by sandbox-registration.ts:332-344, where registration publishes agent: "openclaw". src/lib/onboard/machine/handlers/sandbox.ts:1917-1937 then recomputes agent fields and adds a read-back/preservation branch at lines 1921-1926 so that second write does not erase the first.

The locked legacy repair at src/lib/actions/sandbox/launch-readiness.ts:962-977 separately rechecks current receipt, policy finality, and generation before the existing settlement path checks the same receipt/policy/target authority again at lines 978-1001. onboardingExpectedAgent: "openclaw" is also threaded through finalization and settlement types even though the caller’s strict-openclaw disposition and the OpenClaw-specific function already establish that fact.

Refactor direction

Keep registerCreatedSandbox as the owner of fresh created-row identity. Make the post-create metadata update omit agent rather than recomputing it and conditionally preserving the registered value.

Move the receipt/generation match predicate into the existing portable-runtime-receipt-readiness.ts owner and reuse it from registration and the locked legacy repair; remove the single-use portable-openclaw-registry-identity.ts layer. Use the existing portableRequired onboarding mode for the bounded repair, or otherwise pass one direct repair capability—do not carry a second constant-valued onboardingExpectedAgent option through three layers.

Expected result

One fresh-registration identity owner, one receipt/generation predicate, and one bounded compatibility repair. The same fail-closed behavior remains while the compensating read-back branch, one-use module, redundant option state, and corresponding duplicate tests disappear.

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  • Model comparison: normalized findings differ; normalized terminology decisions differ; normalized E2E selections differ; Nemotron reported the same number of blockers, 6 more warnings, the same number of suggestions.
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  • established — Portable lifecycle receipt at src/lib/onboard/sandbox-registration.test.ts:628: Keep the established term.
  • justified — default OpenClaw selection at src/lib/onboard/machine/handlers/finalization.ts:140: Keep the modifier because it distinguishes the canonical null sentinel from invalid agent values.
  • define — legacy OpenClaw row at src/lib/actions/sandbox/launch-readiness/portable-openclaw-pairing-settlement.test.ts:213: Define the row as the prior Portable agent-null registry state where explanatory text uses the term.

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Exact-head Brev evidence for e2e7cdc63f2841f0384d92c3d6a8b208e55f1bfb:

  • Host: nc-9200-main-personal-l40s-aug17, AWS g6e.2xlarge, NVIDIA L40S.
  • Preserved reproduction state: installed main c4c987d9e058d37f47db0dd561562944e8cea4ae, registry agent: null, finalized Personal policy, current schema-4 Portable receipt, and matching lifecycle generation.
  • Exact-head resume repaired registry identity to agent: "openclaw" while preserving receipt SHA, full container identity/projection, lifecycle generation, and policies.
  • The strict pairing gate initially failed closed. Its source-owned observer subsequently reported settled; one state-qualified resume completed status 0 with session complete.
  • Exact-head probe/TUI/chat: probe status 0 in 1,957 ms; TUI ready in 5,618 ms; exact reply in 12,908 ms after prompt; post-reply idle and clean exit status 0.
  • Receipt, container projection, lifecycle generation, registry identity, and Personal policies remained unchanged.
  • This is exact-head repair/resume acceptance on the preserved failure host, not a fresh exact-head install claim.

Signed-off-by: Senthil Ravichandran <senthilr@nvidia.com>
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Addressed in verified head 208d474.

  • registerCreatedSandbox remains the sole fresh-registration owner of agent identity; the later post-create metadata update now omits agent, so the compensating readback/preservation branch is removed.
  • portableLifecycleReceiptMatchesGeneration now lives in the existing portable-runtime-receipt-readiness owner and is reused by registration and bounded legacy repair; the single-use portable-openclaw-registry-identity module was deleted.
  • onboardingExpectedAgent plumbing was removed; the bounded repair uses the existing portableRequired mode.
  • Redundant tests were consolidated while preserving fail-closed receipt/generation, unchanged-readback, and no-pairing-side-effect coverage.

Validation at this head: 4 focused files / 113 tests passed; CLI build and typecheck, repository checks, source-shape, formatting/lint, DCO, normal hooks, and pre-push checks passed. Replacement CI is running.

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Tested-revision Brev continuation evidence

Host: nc-9200-main-personal-l40s-aug17, AWS g6e.2xlarge / NVIDIA L40S.
Candidate: current commit 08d039d, transferred as a verified complete Git bundle, built in an isolated checkout, and invoked directly. The clean global install remained at c4c987d. Existing registry identity had been created by earlier PR commit e2e7cdc, so this is continuation evidence for the current commit, not a fresh onboarding claim for that revision.

Results:

  • Probe: 1.094s; TUI ready: 6.180s; clean exit status 0.
  • Real chat: probe 1.092s; TUI ready 5.130s; exact reply 7.869s after prompt; new post-reply idle observed; /exit; status 0.
  • Personal open internet: an HTTPS request from the real sandbox to example.com returned HTTP 200.
  • Stock/web query: OpenClaw rendered NVDA_WEB_PASS: $225.01 (as of August 18, 2026) — source: google.com/finance at 23.486s and emitted connected | idle at 23.468s. The timing report later reached its 360s deadline only because the test configured expected-reply as the prefix NVDA_WEB_PASS while the helper requires the full exact reply line. This was a harness-configuration mismatch, not a product retry or network-policy failure.

Authority preservation:

  • Registry SHA remained 28aed2c618d8ed4942f77db5173d177114057dd92a2b53ceb06d8c4669cc2b34.
  • Session SHA remained 6bb3be839611fda3274e02f472a5b6963de0620385d80ad728ad5e6af5a1d691.
  • Lifecycle receipt SHA remained 2f7f253b58346f8d22fc172d9ca58612f1294ab38862d70611115eb84b2020f2.
  • Qualified rootless Podman socket remained mode 0600, uid/gid 1000, dev 53, inode 28.
  • The exact portable registry and receipt-owned OpenShell sandbox containers remained unchanged and running.

Report hashes: TUI 91bbc5b437e65d8cd7e6954ae12ff88a82e528013ec678b852abef7e5e19a6f6; exact chat 3559fa4be4b472b66c7d65b70e0bdfa0031bee7b54d6729b0cbd5358c85a88c7; stock query 9e1ecee6dc2c264f452a03d1a7b0c18089499f374f2d4be6e072155cee338af9.

No Podman status 125 occurred in these probe/TUI/chat/web paths. The separately reproduced stop/start settlement status-125 defect remains out of scope for #9413.

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senthilr-nv dismissed jyaunches’s stale review August 18, 2026 07:15

Addressed by the follow-up consolidation and agent-field regression fix on current commit 08d039d. Focused validation and the completed Brev portable OpenClaw test passed; the remaining CLI shard failure is independently classified as an unrelated PTY harness failure on unchanged code.

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Approved. Fresh portable registration records OpenClaw only with matching lifecycle evidence, legacy-null repair is lifecycle-locked, and generic connect remains read-only. Focused current-head suites: 113 passed. The existing PTY CI failure is unrelated to this diff and has been rerun.

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