fix(e2e): await idle before launch exit

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

Author: senthilr-nv

test/e2e/live/launch-agent-turn.ts

@@ -89,13 +89,15 @@ response_start="$(wc -c <"$capture")"
 printf '%s\r' "$NEMOCLAW_LAUNCH_PROMPT" >&3
 
 reply_seen=0
-has_exact_reply() {
+normalized_response() {
   tail -c "+$((response_start + 1))" "$capture" \
     | sed -E $'s/\x1B][^\x07\x1B]*(\x07|\x1B\\\\)//g' \
     | sed -E $'s/\x1B\\[[0-?]*[ -\\/]*[@-~]//g' \
     | tr '\r' '\n' \
-    | LC_ALL=C tr -d '\000-\010\013\014\016-\037\177' \
-    | awk -v expected="$NEMOCLAW_LAUNCH_EXPECTED_REPLY" '
+    | LC_ALL=C tr -d '\000-\010\013\014\016-\037\177'
+}
+has_exact_reply() {
+  normalized_response | awk -v expected="$NEMOCLAW_LAUNCH_EXPECTED_REPLY" '
         {
           line = $0
           sub(/^[[:space:]]+/, "", line)
@@ -105,6 +107,20 @@ has_exact_reply() {
         END { exit found ? 0 : 1 }
       '
 }
+has_post_reply_ready() {
+  normalized_response | awk \
+    -v expected="$NEMOCLAW_LAUNCH_EXPECTED_REPLY" \
+    -v ready="$NEMOCLAW_LAUNCH_READY_TEXT" '
+      {
+        line = $0
+        sub(/^[[:space:]]+/, "", line)
+        sub(/[[:space:]]+$/, "", line)
+        if (line == expected) reply = 1
+        if (reply && index(line, ready) != 0) found = 1
+      }
+      END { exit found ? 0 : 1 }
+    '
+}
 for _ in {1..180}; do
   if has_exact_reply; then
     reply_seen=1
@@ -116,6 +132,24 @@ for _ in {1..180}; do
   sleep 1
 done
 
+if [[ "$reply_seen" = 1 && -n "$NEMOCLAW_LAUNCH_READY_TEXT" ]]; then
+  post_reply_ready_seen=0
+  for _ in {1..60}; do
+    if has_post_reply_ready; then
+      post_reply_ready_seen=1
+      break
+    fi
+    if ! kill -0 "$session_pid" 2>/dev/null; then
+      break
+    fi
+    sleep 1
+  done
+  if [[ "$post_reply_ready_seen" != 1 ]]; then
+    echo "launch did not return to the expected TUI state after the reply" >&2
+    exit 1
+  fi
+fi
+
 if [[ -n "$NEMOCLAW_LAUNCH_EXIT_COMMAND" ]]; then
   printf '%s\r' "$NEMOCLAW_LAUNCH_EXIT_COMMAND" >&3
 else

test/e2e/support/launch-agent-turn.test.ts

@@ -112,7 +112,7 @@ it.runIf(process.platform === "linux")(
 );
 
 it.runIf(process.platform !== "win32")(
-  "waits for OpenClaw gateway readiness before sending the launch prompt (#7230)",
+  "waits for OpenClaw idle before the prompt and again before the exit command (#9023)",
   () => {
     const fixtureRoot = mkdtempSync(join(tmpdir(), "nemoclaw-launch-turn-ready-"));
     const scriptStub = join(fixtureRoot, "script");
@@ -136,6 +136,11 @@ fi
 printf 'gateway connected | idle\n' | tee -a "$capture"
 IFS= read -r -d $'\r' _
 printf 'PONG\n' | tee -a "$capture"
+if IFS= read -r -t 1 -d $'\r' _; then
+  echo "exit arrived before post-reply readiness" >&2
+  exit 1
+fi
+printf 'gateway connected | idle\n' | tee -a "$capture"
 IFS= read -r -d $'\r' exit_command
 [[ "$exit_command" == "/exit" ]]
 exit 0