fix(onboard): require a healthy endpoint before accepting the model router

[udsy19]

Summary

The Model Router startup poll accepted any 2xx /health, while the final snapshot taken after the
poll required the response body to name at least one healthy endpoint. When the routed credential is
rejected, every upstream fails fast, /health answers 200 with an empty healthy_endpoints list
inside the 3-second liveness budget, and onboarding reported the router started before every sandbox
request failed against it. The poll now reads the body too, so both acceptance paths apply the same
rule.

Related Issue

Fixes #9437

Changes

• src/lib/onboard/model-router.ts: the startup poll takes the body-checked snapshot instead of the
  status-only probe, and accepts only when /health names at least one healthy endpoint. Both
  helpers were already in scope, so no import was added.
• src/lib/onboard/model-router.ts: corrected the comment that states this contract. It previously
  described a guard the poll did not apply.
• src/lib/onboard/model-router-process.ts: corrected the getRouterHealthSnapshot doc comment,
  which said callers pass a longer timeout. The poll is now a caller that passes the 3-second one.
• test/onboard-model-router.test.ts: extended the existing case "still fails when the final
  snapshot is 2xx with zero healthy endpoints ([Ubuntu 24.04][Inference] Model Router never becomes healthy: onboarding with NEMOCLAW_PROVIDER=routed aborts after a 600-second wait, and the router's own error is discarded #8962)" to also own the poll path, and rewired the
  cases whose stubs drove the poll through isRouterHealthy so they drive it through
  getRouterHealthSnapshot. No new test case was added. Net -7 lines across the change.

isRouterHealthy is unchanged and still owns the pre-spawn "port already occupied" guard,
reconcileModelRouter, and destroy preflight, where a status-only answer is the right question.

Timing

The poll keeps its 3-second per-request budget, its 300 retries, and its 570-second window, and
issues the same single GET /health it issued before — the snapshot reads the response body rather
than discarding it. A router that answers within the budget and names a healthy endpoint is still
accepted on the first probe. A router still bringing endpoints up is now accepted at the moment
/health names one, rather than at the moment it first answers 2xx. A router whose /health
outruns the 3-second budget still recovers through the 30-second final snapshot, unchanged.

The behavior that does change: a router that never names a healthy endpoint now costs the full
600-second budget before onboarding fails, instead of reporting success in about two seconds. The
failure carries the redacted endpoint error and the router log tail added in #8972.

Type of Change

• Code change (feature, bug fix, or refactor)

Quality Gates

• Tests added or updated for changed behavior
• Sensitive paths changed (security, policy, credentials, preflight, onboarding, inference, runner, sandbox, or messaging)

Verification

• PR description includes a Signed-off-by: line and every commit appears as Verified in GitHub
• Normal pre-commit, commit-msg, and pre-push hooks passed, or npm run validate:pr passed after refreshing origin/main when hooks were skipped or unavailable — npm run validate:pr: all stages passed
• Targeted behavior tests pass for the current change set — npx vitest run --project integration test/onboard-model-router.test.ts: 35 passed. Reverting only the production change and keeping the tests: 5 failed / 30 passed, with the owning case failing as AssertionError: Missing expected rejection. Also npx vitest run --project cli src/lib/onboard/model-router-process.test.ts: 20 passed; npx vitest run --project package-contract test/package-contract/destroy-model-router-flow.test.ts: 1 passed; npm run typecheck:cli: clean.
• Quality Gates section completed with required justifications or waivers
• No secrets, API keys, or credentials committed

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Signed-off-by: Udaya Tejas udayatejas2004@gmail.com

Summary by CodeRabbit

• Bug Fixes
  • Improved startup health checks to verify both reported health status and at least one healthy endpoint.
  • Final health checks now allow sufficient time to retrieve complete response details.
  • Updated retry and recovery handling for more accurate readiness detection.
  • Improved router reuse by restarting routers without a healthy endpoint.
  • Added bounded health checks during reconciliation to prevent stalled startup and ensure reliable router selection.
  • Improved recovery when a router becomes unavailable or reports incomplete health information.

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Walkthrough

Startup polling now reads the router health snapshot and requires healthy status plus at least one healthy endpoint. Reconciliation applies the same readiness rule to existing routers. Tests update mocks, timeout handling, retries, recovery, and reconciliation scenarios.

Changes

Router readiness validation

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Body-aware startup health gate src/lib/onboard/model-router.ts, src/lib/onboard/model-router-process.ts	Startup polling and the final health check use a shared snapshot readiness predicate. The predicate requires healthy status, a response body, and at least one healthy endpoint.
Recorded-router reconciliation src/lib/onboard/model-router.ts, src/lib/onboard/model-router-reconcile.test.ts	Reconciliation uses one bounded health snapshot to detect port occupancy and reuses a recorded router only when its snapshot contains a healthy endpoint. Otherwise, it stops the router for restart.
Startup and reconciliation test coverage test/onboard-model-router.test.ts, src/lib/onboard/model-router-reconcile.test.ts	Tests cover snapshot fixtures, retries, timeout behavior, recovery, credential propagation, pool and gateway state, startup deadlines, and recorded-router reuse or restart.

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Merge Risk: 🔵 Low · up to 1b335

The change correctly requires a healthy endpoint before onboarding succeeds, but the recovery test does not verify the required 3-second polling timeout, so a timeout-budget regression could still reach production. The PR is mergeable with explicit owner awareness or a follow-up test improvement.

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test/onboard-model-router.test.ts (1)

752-754: 📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🔵 Trivial | ⚡ Quick win

Update the stale timeout comment.

startModelRouter calls isRouterHealthy without a timeout only for the pre-spawn guard. Startup polling calls getRouterHealthSnapshot. Explain that this mock returns true for timeout-bearing calls to catch regressions to the old boolean polling path.

Suggested comment update

-          // The pre-spawn port guard calls isRouterHealthy without a timeout;
-          // only the startup poll passes one. Answer 2xx for the poll alone.
+          // The pre-spawn port guard calls isRouterHealthy without a timeout.
+          // Return true for timeout-bearing calls so a regression to the old
+          // boolean startup poll cannot accept zero healthy endpoints.

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In `@test/onboard-model-router.test.ts` around lines 752 - 754, Update the comment
above the isRouterHealthy mock to state that the pre-spawn guard calls it
without a timeout, while startup polling uses getRouterHealthSnapshot; clarify
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In `@test/onboard-model-router.test.ts`:
- Around line 665-670: Update the getRouterHealthSnapshot mock in the onboarding
test to record each received timeout, then assert that startup polling passes
3,000 milliseconds and the final snapshot passes 30,000 milliseconds. Keep the
existing health-response behavior while adding these behavioral timeout
assertions.

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Nitpick comments:
In `@test/onboard-model-router.test.ts`:
- Around line 752-754: Update the comment above the isRouterHealthy mock to
state that the pre-spawn guard calls it without a timeout, while startup polling
uses getRouterHealthSnapshot; clarify that the mock returns true only for
timeout-bearing calls to detect regressions to the old boolean polling path.
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Why this blocks

This fixes the drift between the two router-startup acceptance paths, but leaves the repaired readiness rule independently composed in both places.

The poll at src/lib/onboard/model-router.ts:471-472 checks pollSnapshot.healthy && hasHealthyEndpoint(pollSnapshot.body). The final path at lines 485-489 separately checks the same status-plus-body qualification. The issue exists because these two paths previously owned different definitions of readiness; keeping two call-site compositions preserves that design risk.

Refactor direction

Evolve or rename the existing local hasHealthyEndpoint predicate at lines 507-515 so it accepts a RouterHealthSnapshot and owns the complete rule: successful health response plus at least one healthy endpoint. Have both the poll and final snapshot call that one predicate.

This needs no new file or abstraction layer and can remain neutral or negative LOC; the poll can classify the snapshot directly after reading it.

Expected result

One readiness authority shared by both acceptance paths, while preserving the current retry, timeout, and diagnostic behavior.

[udsy19]

Agreed, and fixed in d1c2f652c.

hasHealthyEndpoint(body: string | null) is now isRouterSnapshotReady(snapshot: RouterHealthSnapshot) and owns the whole rule — the response was 2xx and it names at least one healthy endpoint. The startup poll and the final snapshot each call it and compose nothing of their own:

const healthy = isRouterSnapshotReady(pollSnapshot);
…
if (isRouterSnapshotReady(finalSnapshot) && deps.isProcessAlive(pid)) {

No new file, no new import, no new abstraction layer, and the production line count is unchanged (6 lines in, 6 lines out); the PR is still net −6 overall. Retry count, both timeout budgets, the terminate-on-failure path, and the redacted last health error plus log tail are all untouched — test/onboard-model-router.test.ts is 35 passed, and reverting only the production change still fails 5 cases including the owning one.

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On the CodeRabbit nitpick (stale comment on the isRouterHealthy stub): Good catch — applied verbatim in d1c2f652c. The old comment said "only the startup poll passes one", which stopped being true the moment the poll moved to getRouterHealthSnapshot; the poll no longer calls isRouterHealthy at all. The comment now says what the stub is actually for: it answers true to timeout-bearing calls so a regression back to the boolean poll would accept zero healthy endpoints and fail this case.

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On the CodeRabbit inline suggestion to assert the 3s poll timeout: Skipping this one, with evidence.

The regression you name is already caught. I injected it — model-router.ts:468, Math.min(ROUTER_HEALTH_REQUEST_TIMEOUT_MS, …) → Math.min(10_000, …) — and the existing deadline case fails:

FAIL  test/onboard-model-router.test.ts > stops when the 10-minute Model Router startup deadline expires
AssertionError: … /completed health checks: 114/
Input: '… within 600 seconds (completed health checks: 48)'

That case drives a fake clock in which every poll attempt costs ROUTER_HEALTH_INTERVAL_MS + healthTimeoutMs, so the attempt count inside the fixed 570-second poll window pins the per-request budget behaviorally: 114 attempts at 3 s, 48 at 10 s. That is the behavioral form of the assertion, and it already lives in the case that owns the deadline contract.

Adding a literal 3_000 assertion here would work against that. It locks in the constant rather than the behavior, which is the other side of the path instruction quoted in the comment; it would be inaccurate as a general claim, because model-router.ts:466-469 clamps the poll timeout to Math.min(ROUTER_HEALTH_REQUEST_TIMEOUT_MS, Math.ceil(remainingMs)) and the attempts nearest the deadline pass less than 3 000; and it would duplicate coverage into a second case, which is the concern raised in the other review on this PR.

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- Around line 471-472: Update reconcileModelRouter() to determine
existing-router readiness with deps.getRouterHealthSnapshot() and
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Resolved by d1c2f65: the startup poll and final snapshot now use one RouterHealthSnapshot readiness predicate. A separate request covers the existing-router reuse path.

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What this update resolved

Commit under review d1c2f652c53c9cb42eb9eeac5dbd0f301316dfc3 resolves the previous request. The startup poll and final snapshot now call isRouterSnapshotReady, which owns the complete readiness rule. The production follow-up is line-neutral at 6 additions and 6 deletions, and the full PR remains net negative.

Why changes are still requested

reconcileModelRouter() still gives existing-router reuse a second definition of readiness. At src/lib/onboard/model-router.ts:640-649, status-only isRouterHealthy(routerPort) can lead to the already healthy return when the recorded PID and credential hash match. A 2xx /health response with zero healthy_endpoints therefore bypasses isRouterSnapshotReady.

This preserves the same definition drift that the new predicate removes from startup. The status-only helper remains useful for occupied-port and process-stop checks, but it must not be the authority for a path that declares the Model Router usable.

Refactor direction

Read one RouterHealthSnapshot in reconcileModelRouter(). Use snapshot.healthy for the occupied-port and process-recovery branch. Use isRouterSnapshotReady(snapshot) for the existing-router reuse return.

Keep the current status-only checks where only endpoint presence matters. Extend the reconciliation coverage with a 2xx snapshot that has zero healthy endpoints.

Expected result

One readiness authority for every path that declares the Model Router usable, with no new file or abstraction layer.

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[udsy19]

Both of you landed on the same gap, and it reproduces. Fixed in 8677b806b.

Before changing anything I drove reconcileModelRouter() against a snapshot of
{ healthy: true, body: '{"healthy_endpoints":[]}' } with a recorded PID that owns the port and a
matching credential hash. It resolved without stopping the router, so the reuse path accepted a
router with no healthy endpoint. isRouterHealthy calls res.resume() and discards the body, so it
could never have seen the endpoint list.

The fix is the shape you described. One snapshot, two roles:

const snapshot = await getRouterHealthSnapshot(routerPort, ROUTER_FINAL_HEALTH_SNAPSHOT_TIMEOUT_MS);
if (snapshot.healthy) {
  const recordedProcessOwnsRouter = doesModelRouterProcessOwnPort(recordedPid, routerPort);
  if (
    routerCredentialHash &&
    recordedCredentialHash === routerCredentialHash &&
    recordedProcessOwnsRouter &&
    isRouterSnapshotReady(snapshot)
  ) {

snapshot.healthy stays the occupied-port and process-recovery check. isRouterSnapshotReady is now
the only thing that declares the router usable, on both paths. isRouterHealthy keeps the pre-spawn
port guard at model-router.ts:397 and the StartModelRouterDeps default at :320.

One deliberate detail worth flagging, because taking the obvious route here would have been worse
than the bug. The snapshot uses ROUTER_FINAL_HEALTH_SNAPSHOT_TIMEOUT_MS, not the 3-second default.
model-router-process.ts:42-50 records that /health live-probes every upstream endpoint and can
answer well after the liveness budget, which is why the startup path already reserves 30 seconds for
its body read. On a 3-second budget a healthy-but-slow router returns a null body,
isRouterSnapshotReady is false, and reconcile would stop and restart a working router on every
re-run of onboarding.

I also dropped "with updated credentials" from the restart notice. Credentials are now only one of
the two reasons that branch runs, and nothing asserts the string.

On coverage: reconcileModelRouter had none. Every other reference in the repo mocks the whole
function out, and test/exit-code-user-error-surfaces.test.ts:38 says why. It could not live in
src/lib/onboard/model-router.test.ts, whose six existing cases import ./model-router-process
directly, nor in test/onboard-model-router.test.ts, whose 35 cases inject those same functions as
deps — a hoisted module mock would replace the production defaults underneath both. So it is a new
co-located file with two cases: reuse when the snapshot names a healthy endpoint, and restart when it
answers 2xx with none.

Size, since the last round ended net negative: the PR is now net +93. The production change is +11;
the remaining +89 is the reconciliation test. Happy to trim the test if you would rather it only
carry the zero-endpoint case.

Gates on the new commit: 28/28 across the three co-located router files, 35/35 in
test/onboard-model-router.test.ts, growth guardrails 32/32, and oxlint, oxfmt --check,
typecheck:cli and validate:pr clean. Reverting only model-router.ts makes the new
zero-endpoint case fail while the healthy-endpoint case still passes.

On the separate 3-second polling assertion: I still think that one should stay as it is, for the
reason in my earlier comment. Injecting the regression it names makes the existing deadline case
fail on its own (114 attempts against 48), and model-router.ts:466-469 clamps the poll timeout to
Math.min(ROUTER_HEALTH_REQUEST_TIMEOUT_MS, Math.ceil(remainingMs)), so the attempts nearest the
deadline pass less than 3 000 and a literal assertion would be inaccurate as a general claim.

Resolved at 8677b80. Existing-router reuse now uses the shared RouterHealthSnapshot readiness authority.

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Resolution

Commit 8677b806b2c6f6c3f9f9c836a4f1abe24ddd9d5e resolves the remaining simplicity blocker. reconcileModelRouter() now reads one RouterHealthSnapshot, uses snapshot.healthy only for occupied-port and process-recovery handling, and gates the existing-router reuse return through isRouterSnapshotReady(snapshot). Startup polling, final startup validation, and existing-router reuse therefore share one readiness authority. The reconciliation coverage exercises both valid reuse and the former zero-healthy-endpoint bypass.

This comment is limited to the LOC reduction and codebase-simplicity finding. It is not an approval.

[udsy19]

Status update, and one request.

The report this addresses carries needs: info from a request to clean up its opening. That has been done, and I have replied there asking for the label to be cleared.

This is also the only open pull request on my side with no daily version label, so it is not visible in the current release queue. Could someone add v0.0.111 if it belongs in that cycle?

Nothing here needs a new commit. The branch is mergeable against main, the readiness authority is now a single predicate shared by the startup poll, the final startup snapshot, and reconciliation, and both automated reviewers are clear at the current head 8677b806b: the advisor reports merge_as_is with zero blockers, and CodeRabbit reports no actionable comments.

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Approved exact head 8677b806b2c6f6c3f9f9c836a4f1abe24ddd9d5e. Startup polling, final startup validation, and existing-router reuse now share isRouterSnapshotReady, so a fast 2xx with zero healthy endpoints cannot be accepted on any usable-router path. The status-only probe remains confined to presence/process questions. All commits are GitHub Verified, both review threads are resolved, CodeRabbit is clean, both advisor lanes completed without blocking findings, and local verification passed 58 focused tests plus repository and TypeScript checks.

[apurvvkumaria]

Maintainer security and documentation review: PASS

Security review:

• Secrets and credentials: PASS. The change adds no credential handling or new secret-bearing output.
• Input validation: PASS. Router health JSON fails closed unless it has the expected endpoint array and at least one healthy endpoint.
• Authentication and authorization: PASS. No authentication or authorization boundary changes.
• Dependencies: PASS. No dependency changes.
• Errors and logging: PASS. An empty or malformed health response cannot make startup or reconciliation accept an unhealthy router; existing bounded diagnostics remain in place.
• Cryptography: PASS. No cryptographic changes.
• Configuration: PASS. Startup and reconciliation use the same readiness rule, with no permissive fallback.
• Tests: PASS. Coverage includes startup, reconciliation, empty endpoint lists, and the reuse decision.
• System behavior: PASS. One shared readiness predicate now governs both acceptance paths.

Documentation review: PASS. This restores the existing Model Router readiness contract and does not add a command, option, integration, or supported product surface. No public documentation change is required.

All three commits on the current branch revision are GitHub-verified, and the PR includes the contributor DCO declaration. CI is still running; this review does not waive any repository gate.

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Merge-train blocker: required CLI shards could not complete after the bounded retry

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The current branch revision otherwise has current human approval, three GitHub-verified contributor commits, a contributor DCO declaration, no unresolved review threads, passing automated review, and completed security and documentation review. Managed-image, CodeQL, static, build/typecheck, installer, audit, DCO, and commit-lint checks pass.

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Security review: PASS for the current branch.

• Secrets and credentials: credential hydration, storage, hashing, and redaction boundaries are unchanged. The bounded health body is not added to logs by this change.
• Input validation and data sanitization: router readiness requires a successful health response plus a parsed array with at least one healthy endpoint; missing, malformed, and empty bodies fail closed.
• Authentication and authorization: credential matching and process ownership remain prerequisites for reusing an existing router.
• Dependencies and third-party libraries: no dependency or artifact changes.
• Error handling and logging: failed readiness does not become success, and the existing bounded diagnostic path remains in place.
• Cryptography and data protection: no cryptographic or protected-data changes.
• Configuration and security headers: no deployed policy, port, header, or privilege defaults change.
• Security testing: startup and reconciliation coverage exercise zero-endpoint rejection and valid reuse.
• System security: one readiness predicate now governs startup polling, final startup validation, and existing-router reuse; process-stop logic still requires recorded ownership or the existing verified orphan check.

No security findings. Public documentation does not need an update because this repairs the existing router readiness contract and preserves the established failure diagnostics. The +158/-65 diff is not a large LOC increase. The previous CI failure was an unrelated vLLM selection timeout; fresh checks are running after the current-main refresh.