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Summary

Probe-only now publishes credential-free OpenClaw pairing qualification with a successful fixed readiness lease. An accepted warm launch makes a bounded current pairing observation and skips the duplicate complete approval pass only when the sandbox, gateway, lifecycle, lease epoch, OpenClaw version, client identity, device, roles, scopes, and pending state still match; every other outcome retains the complete path.

Related Issue

Fixes #9023

Changes

  • Publish pairing qualification only after probe-only completes the existing OpenClaw approval pass. Bind the allowlisted projection to the fixed readiness lease, owning gateway, sandbox and lifecycle identity, OpenClaw version, canonical cli client identity, exact device, required roles and scopes, and paired token relationship without serializing credentials or arbitrary OpenClaw configuration.
  • Add a three-second, 4 KiB current observer through the owning-gateway openshell sandbox exec boundary. Unsafe files, malformed or ambiguous state, changed identity, late relevant pending requests, observation failure, and concurrent stale publication all select the existing complete approval path.
  • Skip runConnectAutoPairApprovalPass only for an exact qualified OpenClaw session. Hermes, Deep Agents, unknown agents, and every fallback retain existing session setup and lock ordering.
  • Add deterministic coverage for device, client, scope, version, gateway, lifecycle, lease, pending-request, corrupt-state, credential-exclusion, observation-failure, concurrency, structural skip, and exact fallback behavior.
  • Document the fixed lease epoch, pairing evidence, current observation, fallback, and credential-free receipt contract.
  • Preserve named pairing-qualification and complete-pairing-fallback stages without an elapsed-time test threshold. Baseline launch samples were 10.506s, 10.100s, and 10.354s (10.32s mean); the normalized trace attributed about 0.35s to lease semantic validation and about 4.57s to the repeated complete pairing path.

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  • Doc only (includes code sample changes)

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  • Sensitive-path review completed or maintainer-approved waiver recorded — reviewer/approval link/justification: Maintainer security review PASS through commit ca36f4afff: perf(cli): reuse qualified OpenClaw pairing state #9034 (comment)
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Signed-off-by: Senthil Ravichandran senthilr@nvidia.com

Summary by CodeRabbit

  • New Features

    • OpenClaw launches now validate pairing readiness against trusted configuration, device, gateway, permissions, and sandbox state.
    • Repeated launches can skip unnecessary pairing approval when readiness remains unchanged.
    • Complete pairing approval runs automatically when pairing changes, pending requests exist, or readiness cannot be confirmed.
    • Added credential-free readiness evidence and stronger pairing-state validation.
    • Other supported agents retain their existing session setup.
  • Documentation

    • Updated launch, sandbox recovery, and gateway authentication guidance for pairing-readiness behavior.

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

OpenClaw pairing qualification is now part of launch-readiness leases. Launch performs bounded state observation and skips complete pairing approval only for exact, current evidence. Other cases use the existing approval fallback.

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OpenClaw launch readiness

Layer / File(s) Summary
Pairing qualification contract
src/lib/state/launch-readiness-lease.ts, src/lib/state/launch-readiness-lease.test.ts, src/lib/actions/sandbox/launch-readiness.test.ts
Lease and fence records use schema version 2. Identities include validated OpenClaw pairing session qualification data.
OpenClaw pairing observer
src/lib/actions/sandbox/launch-readiness/openclaw-pairing-qualification.ts, src/lib/actions/sandbox/launch-readiness/openclaw-pairing-qualification.test.ts
A bounded sandbox observer validates pairing state and returns credential-free hashes for approved pairing data.
Readiness identity comparison
src/lib/actions/sandbox/launch-readiness.ts, src/lib/actions/sandbox/launch-readiness.test.ts
OpenClaw qualification is captured during live identity inspection. Exact, session, configuration, and unsafe outcomes are distinguished.
Qualified launch session setup
src/lib/actions/sandbox/connect.ts, src/lib/actions/sandbox/connect-qualified-session-setup.test.ts, src/lib/actions/sandbox/launch.ts, src/lib/actions/sandbox/launch.test.ts, src/lib/actions/sandbox/auto-pair-approval.ts, src/lib/actions/sandbox/auto-pair-approval-connect.test.ts, test/helpers/launch-readiness-fixture.ts, test/cli/connect-recovery.test.ts, test/sandbox-connect-inference/helpers.ts, docs/manage-sandboxes/recover-rebuild-sandboxes.mdx, docs/reference/commands.mdx, docs/security/gateway-authentication-controls.mdx
Accepted launches use readiness-qualified setup. OpenClaw skips complete approval only when qualification matches. Other agents and fallback cases retain complete approval. Documentation and test fixtures describe the updated behavior.

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

Mergeability Score: 🟡 Moderate · up to 7d8a4

The PR changes launch recovery to reuse pairing state and retain a complete approval fallback, but current tests can accept a qualification result from unrelated shell calls and may not prove that fallback executes; merge should wait for the test stub and negative-case assertions to be narrowed so the changed recovery behavior is verified.

Sequence Diagram(s)

sequenceDiagram
  participant Operator
  participant Launch
  participant LaunchReadiness
  participant OpenShell
  participant OpenClaw
  Operator->>Launch: start accepted launch
  Launch->>LaunchReadiness: validate lease and identity
  LaunchReadiness->>OpenShell: observe bounded pairing state
  OpenShell->>OpenClaw: inspect paired devices and pending requests
  OpenClaw-->>OpenShell: return current pairing projection
  OpenShell-->>LaunchReadiness: return qualification result
  alt qualification is exact and no request is pending
    LaunchReadiness-->>Launch: use readiness-qualified setup
  else qualification is changed, invalid, or pending
    LaunchReadiness-->>Launch: use complete approval fallback
  end
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Suggested reviewers: apurvvkumaria, cv, prekshivyas

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The overall coverage in commit ca36f4a in the codex/optimize-openc... branch remains at 96%, unchanged from commit 0810a95 in the main branch.


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🧹 Nitpick comments (4)
src/lib/actions/sandbox/launch-readiness.test.ts (1)

405-416: 🎯 Functional Correctness | 🔵 Trivial | ⚡ Quick win

Assert the fallback category for the gateway and lifecycle cases.

The other new tests pin category to "session". This loop omits category, so it passes for any fallback category, including "session" and "unsafe". The test then cannot prove that a gateway or lifecycle change classifies as an identity or configuration mismatch rather than a pairing mismatch. That distinction is the behavior compareIdentity introduces in src/lib/actions/sandbox/launch-readiness.ts lines 741-757.

Assert the expected category per case.

As per path instructions: "Flag copied production algorithms, broad mocks that bypass the behavior under test, and conditionals that make a test pass without exercising its claim."

♻️ Proposed change to pin the expected category per case
-    for (const changed of [
-      { ...original, gatewayName: "nemoclaw-8081", gatewayPort: 8081 },
-      { ...original, lifecycleGeneration: "generation-2" },
-      { ...original, lifecycleLiveIdentityFingerprint: "5".repeat(64) },
-    ]) {
-      sandbox = changed;
+    for (const { changed, category } of [
+      { changed: { ...original, gatewayName: "nemoclaw-8081", gatewayPort: 8081 }, category: "identity" },
+      { changed: { ...original, lifecycleGeneration: "generation-2" }, category: "config" },
+      { changed: { ...original, lifecycleLiveIdentityFingerprint: "5".repeat(64) }, category: "identity" },
+    ]) {
+      sandbox = changed;
       await expect(inspectLaunchReadiness(SANDBOX, currentDeps)).resolves.toMatchObject({
         kind: "fallback",
+        category,
         fence: { epochId: EPOCH },
         recoveryBlocked: false,
       });
     }

Confirm each expected category against the branch that produces it before you commit the values.

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In `@src/lib/actions/sandbox/launch-readiness.test.ts` around lines 405 - 416,
Update the loop in the launch-readiness test to assert the expected fallback
category for each mutation instead of accepting any category. Preserve the
existing assertions, and assign each gateway or lifecycle change its category
according to the classification branches in compareIdentity.

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src/lib/state/launch-readiness-lease.ts (2)

33-44: 📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🔵 Trivial | ⚡ Quick win

Consider a single source of truth for the required roles and scopes.

The role and scope literals now exist in three places: the LaunchReadinessOpenClawSessionQualification tuple types here, the isSessionQualification validator at lines 242-247, and OPENCLAW_PAIRING_REQUIRED_ROLES / OPENCLAW_PAIRING_REQUIRED_SCOPES in src/lib/actions/sandbox/launch-readiness/openclaw-pairing-qualification.ts lines 18-23. The isExactStringArray helper is also duplicated verbatim in that file at lines 57-63.

A future scope addition must be applied in every location, and a partial edit produces receipts that the observer emits but the validator rejects.

The state layer must not import from the actions layer, so declare the tuples and the helper in a state-owned or pure domain module and import them into the observer. This keeps the dependency direction described in src/lib/README.md.

Also applies to: 242-247

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In `@src/lib/state/launch-readiness-lease.ts` around lines 33 - 44, The required
roles, scopes, and exact-string-array validation are duplicated across
LaunchReadinessOpenClawSessionQualification, isSessionQualification, and the
observer constants. Move the tuple values and isExactStringArray helper into a
state-owned or pure domain module, then reuse those symbols from both the state
validator and openclaw-pairing-qualification observer without introducing a
state-to-actions dependency.

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13-13: 🗄️ Data Integrity & Integration | 🔵 Trivial | ⚡ Quick win

Document the independent launch-readiness schema namespaces. LAUNCH_READINESS_SCHEMA_VERSION = 2 applies to LaunchReadinessLease and LaunchReadinessFence. schemaVersion: 1 remains intentional for the nested LaunchReadinessOpenClawSessionQualification and separate runtime LaunchReadinessAuthority file. Add a short comment that defines these scopes.

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In `@src/lib/state/launch-readiness-lease.ts` at line 13, Add a concise comment
next to LAUNCH_READINESS_SCHEMA_VERSION clarifying that version 2 covers
LaunchReadinessLease and LaunchReadinessFence, while schemaVersion 1 remains
intentional for nested LaunchReadinessOpenClawSessionQualification and the
separate LaunchReadinessAuthority runtime schema.
src/lib/actions/sandbox/launch-readiness/openclaw-pairing-qualification.ts (1)

454-486: 📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🔵 Trivial | ⚖️ Poor tradeoff

Consider moving the OpenShell process call behind an adapter.

This action module both orchestrates qualification and owns the spawnSync host-process boundary. src/lib/README.md states that "filesystem, process, OpenShell, and network access should be isolated behind injectable boundaries for deterministic tests" and that adapters own the host boundary.

The execDeps parameter already keeps tests deterministic, so this is not a correctness problem. Extracting the spawnSync invocation into an OpenShell adapter would align ownership with the documented layering and let other observers reuse the bounded-exec behavior.

As per path instructions: "adapters own host/process/network boundaries".

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In `@src/lib/actions/sandbox/launch-readiness/openclaw-pairing-qualification.ts`
around lines 454 - 486, Extract the OpenShell process invocation from
observeOpenClawPairingQualification into an injectable adapter responsible for
the host boundary, and have the observer call that adapter instead of directly
using spawnSync. Preserve the existing binary resolution, sandbox arguments,
bounded input/output, timeout, environment, and dependency-injection behavior so
qualification semantics remain unchanged.

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Inline comments:
In `@src/lib/actions/sandbox/launch-readiness.ts`:
- Around line 702-707: Resolve the unused expectedVersion binding in the
launch-readiness validation: confirm whether agent.expected_version must exactly
match entry.agentVersion; if so, compare them and throw
OpenClawPairingQualificationError on mismatch, otherwise inline the normalized
expected_version presence check and remove the binding, preserving support for
version ranges.

In
`@src/lib/actions/sandbox/launch-readiness/openclaw-pairing-qualification.test.ts`:
- Around line 52-62: Update openclaw-pairing qualification tests to detect
`python3` availability once, define `PYTHON3_AVAILABLE`, and guard
execution-dependent tests with `describe.skipIf(!PYTHON3_AVAILABLE)`. Keep
parser and script-construction tests in an unguarded `describe`, and preserve
`localScriptSpawn` behavior.

---

Nitpick comments:
In `@src/lib/actions/sandbox/launch-readiness.test.ts`:
- Around line 405-416: Update the loop in the launch-readiness test to assert
the expected fallback category for each mutation instead of accepting any
category. Preserve the existing assertions, and assign each gateway or lifecycle
change its category according to the classification branches in compareIdentity.

In `@src/lib/actions/sandbox/launch-readiness/openclaw-pairing-qualification.ts`:
- Around line 454-486: Extract the OpenShell process invocation from
observeOpenClawPairingQualification into an injectable adapter responsible for
the host boundary, and have the observer call that adapter instead of directly
using spawnSync. Preserve the existing binary resolution, sandbox arguments,
bounded input/output, timeout, environment, and dependency-injection behavior so
qualification semantics remain unchanged.

In `@src/lib/state/launch-readiness-lease.ts`:
- Around line 33-44: The required roles, scopes, and exact-string-array
validation are duplicated across LaunchReadinessOpenClawSessionQualification,
isSessionQualification, and the observer constants. Move the tuple values and
isExactStringArray helper into a state-owned or pure domain module, then reuse
those symbols from both the state validator and openclaw-pairing-qualification
observer without introducing a state-to-actions dependency.
- Line 13: Add a concise comment next to LAUNCH_READINESS_SCHEMA_VERSION
clarifying that version 2 covers LaunchReadinessLease and LaunchReadinessFence,
while schemaVersion 1 remains intentional for nested
LaunchReadinessOpenClawSessionQualification and the separate
LaunchReadinessAuthority runtime schema.
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Comment thread src/lib/actions/sandbox/launch-readiness.ts
cv added 2 commits August 13, 2026 13:56
Signed-off-by: Carlos Villela <cvillela@nvidia.com>
Signed-off-by: Carlos Villela <cvillela@nvidia.com>
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Security review: PASS for commit 643693fb8d.

  • Secrets and credentials: the stored receipt contains only allowlisted fields and SHA-256 digests. Token equality is checked inside the sandbox, and output parsing rejects extra fields.
  • Input validation: state paths, JSON shapes, file types, links, sizes, ownership groups, permissions, versions, roles, scopes, and pending requests fail closed. Reads are descriptor-pinned and revalidated.
  • Authentication and authorization: the optimization applies only to the canonical OpenClaw CLI device with the existing operator role and scopes. A relevant pending request selects the complete approval path.
  • Dependencies: no dependency changed.
  • Errors and logging: observation failures return a generic error and select the complete path; stderr is not exposed.
  • Cryptography and data protection: SHA-256 binds identity, policy, and pairing projections without storing credential values.
  • Configuration: the receipt remains bound to the sandbox, owning gateway, lifecycle, fixed lease, policy, agent definition, and recorded OpenClaw version.
  • Security testing: coverage includes credential exclusion, malformed and unsafe files, permission failures, changed identity and scopes, pending requests, concurrency, and fallback behavior.
  • System security: the observer uses the named gateway, fixed argv, bounded output, a three-second timeout, no-follow file access, and encoded state-path transport.

The cross-issue sweep found no competing open issue or pull request. Issue #9023 defines the accepted security and performance contract.

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Reviewed the current head. The qualification is bound to the current OpenClaw pairing projection and falls back to the complete approval path on an unreadable, changed, or pending state. No blocking issues found; required CI remains the merge gate.

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

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🧹 Nitpick comments (2)
src/lib/actions/sandbox/launch-readiness/openclaw-pairing-qualification.test.ts (1)

285-288: 📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🔵 Trivial | ⚡ Quick win

Add a positive control so each rejection case proves its own claim.

The observer script collapses every failure into exit status 1. All eight cases assert the same error text. A case therefore passes even when the labeled mutation had no effect, for example when the fixture path is wrong or an unrelated setup step already made the state unqualified.

Assert that observe() succeeds before mutate() runs. The transition from accept to reject then attributes the rejection to the mutation.

♻️ Proposed test change
-  ])("rejects %s and requires the complete pairing path (`#9023`)", (_label, mutate) => {
-    mutate();
-    expect(() => observe()).toThrow("OpenClaw pairing qualification is unavailable");
-  });
+  ])("rejects %s and requires the complete pairing path (`#9023`)", (_label, mutate) => {
+    expect(() => observe()).not.toThrow();
+    mutate();
+    expect(() => observe()).toThrow("OpenClaw pairing qualification is unavailable");
+  });

Reviewed against the path instruction that tests must avoid "conditionals that make a test pass without exercising its claim".

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In
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around lines 285 - 288, The rejection cases should first verify the unmutated
fixture is accepted, then apply each mutate callback and assert observe() throws
the qualification error. Update the test around the rejects %s and requires the
complete pairing path case so the positive control runs before mutate(), proving
each mutation causes the rejection.

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src/lib/actions/sandbox/launch-readiness.ts (1)

736-758: 🗄️ Data Integrity & Integration | 🔵 Trivial | ⚡ Quick win

Add persisted-session mismatch coverage.

Add a test that stores identity.session: null while current OpenClaw capture returns a qualification record, then assert a session fallback with a fenced epoch. Existing coverage handles qualification changes, observer failure, pending state, and non-OpenClaw agents. launchSandbox and connectSandbox use inspectLaunchReadiness, and no superseded boolean matcher remains.

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In `@src/lib/actions/sandbox/launch-readiness.ts` around lines 736 - 758, Add test
coverage for compareIdentity or the inspectLaunchReadiness flow where the
persisted identity has session set to null but the current OpenClaw capture
returns a qualification record; assert that the result uses the session fallback
and includes a fenced epoch. Preserve the existing coverage for qualification
changes, observer failure, pending state, and non-OpenClaw agents.

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Nitpick comments:
In `@src/lib/actions/sandbox/launch-readiness.ts`:
- Around line 736-758: Add test coverage for compareIdentity or the
inspectLaunchReadiness flow where the persisted identity has session set to null
but the current OpenClaw capture returns a qualification record; assert that the
result uses the session fallback and includes a fenced epoch. Preserve the
existing coverage for qualification changes, observer failure, pending state,
and non-OpenClaw agents.

In
`@src/lib/actions/sandbox/launch-readiness/openclaw-pairing-qualification.test.ts`:
- Around line 285-288: The rejection cases should first verify the unmutated
fixture is accepted, then apply each mutate callback and assert observe() throws
the qualification error. Update the test around the rejects %s and requires the
complete pairing path case so the positive control runs before mutate(), proving
each mutation causes the rejection.

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Reviewed the pairing-state qualification, fail-closed fallback paths, supported shared permissions, current-main integration, regression coverage, documentation, resolved feedback, and current CI. The implementation is ready to merge.

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  • define — pairing qualification at docs/manage-sandboxes/recover-rebuild-sandboxes.mdx:159: Define the term at first use as credential-free lease evidence for the observed OpenClaw pairing state.
  • justified — complete pairing approval pass at docs/reference/commands.mdx:1040: Retain the modifier to distinguish the approval operation from the read-only pairing observation.
  • define — lease-qualified at docs/security/gateway-authentication-controls.mdx:106: Define the modifier at first use as a launch with matching readiness-lease pairing qualification.

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Reviewed the pairing qualification implementation and the updated integration fixtures at commit 7d8a46a5e7. The fixtures now model the recorded OpenClaw version and credential-free pairing projection used by probe-only publication. Focused regression tests pass, feedback is resolved, and required CI remains the merge gate.

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Reviewed the pairing qualification, fail-closed fallback paths, shared-permission support, recovery and auto-pair fixture coverage, documentation, resolved feedback, and current CI. The implementation is ready to merge.

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

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Security review refresh: PASS for commit 6af56cbca8.

The new scope-view fix keeps the observer fail closed while matching the state produced by the complete approval transition. Paired and approved request views must contain only operator.pairing and operator.write; credential-bearing paired-token and client-auth views must contain operator.pairing, operator.read, and operator.write. The observer still requires the canonical client and mode, operator role, active matching token relationship, no relevant pending request, descriptor-pinned safe state files, bounded output and timeout, and credential-free digests. Tests run the canonical approval transition, prove its settled state qualifies, and reject drift in each scope view. No dependency, command-construction, logging, authorization, or secret-handling risk was added.

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Security review refresh: PASS through commit 830e662cd7.

The production scope-view change remains fail closed and credential free. The follow-up narrows only the integration stub: it returns qualification evidence when stdin contains the pairing observer marker and no longer intercepts unrelated sandbox shell scripts, including the complete approval pass. This strengthens regression coverage without changing production authorization, credential, process, or file-handling behavior.

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Reviewed the pairing qualification implementation, canonical OpenClaw scope views, and scoped recovery fixture at commit 830e662cd7. The complete approval transition now has direct coverage, unrelated shell calls are not intercepted by the pairing stub, feedback is resolved, and required CI remains the merge gate.

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Security review refresh: PASS through commit 8fed52bf7f.

The merge from current main changes only platform-matrix, portable-install, and unrelated documentation content. It does not overlap the pairing observer, launch-readiness identity, approval path, security fixtures, or pairing documentation. The reviewed pairing qualification remains fail closed, credential free, bounded, gateway bound, descriptor pinned, and covered for the canonical approval transition and scope-view drift.

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Reviewed the full 18-file pairing diff and the current-main integration at commit 8fed52bf7f. The upstream platform changes remain separate from the pairing implementation and documentation, feedback is resolved, and required CI remains the merge gate.

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Security review refresh: PASS through commit 0d3a5322d0.

The new E2E harness change strips only OSC sequences terminated by BEL or ST before existing CSI and control-character normalization. It does not alter product execution or trust boundaries. Coverage accepts both valid terminators and still rejects extra prose and unterminated OSC, preserving strict reply matching.

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Reviewed the full pairing change and E2E response normalization at commit 0d3a5322d0. The harness accepts terminated OSC-wrapped replies while preserving strict rejection of extra or unterminated content. Feedback is resolved, and required CI remains the merge gate.

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Security review refresh: PASS through commit ca36f4afff.

The new E2E harness logic adds a bounded, liveness-aware wait for the configured ready text after the accepted reply and before sending the exit command. It changes only live-test sequencing, retains strict normalized reply matching, and does not alter product authorization, credentials, process boundaries, or file handling.

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Reviewed the full pairing change and live E2E sequencing at commit ca36f4afff. The harness now waits for post-reply readiness before exit, with bounded and liveness-aware behavior. Focused validation passes, feedback is resolved, and required CI remains the merge gate.

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## Summary

The release E2E run showed two agent-turn failures: OpenClaw rendered
the expected unique reply inside terminal control sequences, and the
shared mock inference endpoint returned fixed `PONG` to Hermes. Current
`main` already contains the OpenClaw OSC normalization and regression
from #9034; this change repairs the remaining mock behavior by deriving
each unique reply from the exact launch prompt.

## Related Issue

Fixes #9046

## Changes

- Add an opt-in launch-prompt parser to the fake Chat Completions
endpoint. The shared fake server serves unrelated fixtures, so changing
its default response would alter other tests; the adapter enables the
parser only for mock inference.
- Accept only the generated four-fragment prompt and preserve the
configured `PONG` response for partial or altered prompts.
- Add a regression test that failed with fixed `PONG` before the change
and now verifies both the unique reply and fallback behavior.
- Close the detection gap where the adapter test exercised only a fixed
`PONG` prompt and did not cover the generated launch-turn contract.

## Type of Change

- [x] 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

- [x] Tests added or updated for changed behavior
- [ ] Existing tests cover changed behavior — justification:
- [ ] Tests not applicable — justification:
- [ ] Docs updated for user-facing behavior changes
- [x] Docs not applicable — justification: This changes an internal E2E
mock endpoint and its support test. It does not change a public command,
API, configuration, default, workflow, or supported product behavior.
- [x] Sensitive paths changed (security, policy, credentials, preflight,
onboarding, inference, runner, sandbox, or messaging)
- [x] Sensitive-path review completed or maintainer-approved waiver
recorded — reviewer/approval link/justification: The mock Chat
Completions input boundary accepts one exact uppercase prompt shape. A
negative regression preserves the fixed response for altered input.
Authentication, credential redaction, request metadata, production
inference routes, dependencies, and network policy are unchanged.
- [ ] Non-success, skipped, or missing CI check accepted by maintainer —
check name, approval link, and follow-up issue:

## Documentation Writer Review

- [x] Documentation writer subagent reviewed the completed changes
- Result: `no-docs-needed`
- Evidence: The reviewed four-file diff changes only E2E fixture and
support behavior. It adds no public API, CLI, configuration, default,
workflow, or supported product behavior.
- Agent: Codex Desktop
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## DGX Station Hardware Evidence

- [ ] Tested on DGX Station
- Tested commit:
- Station profile/scenario:
- Result:
- Supporting evidence:

## Verification

- [x] PR description includes a `Signed-off-by:` line and every commit
appears as `Verified` in GitHub
- [x] 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
- [x] Targeted behavior tests pass for the current change set, or tests
are marked not applicable above — `npx vitest run --project e2e-support
test/e2e/support/inference-adapter.test.ts
test/e2e/support/hosted-inference.test.ts
test/e2e/support/device-auth-health-helpers.test.ts
test/e2e/support/launch-agent-turn.test.ts`: 4 files passed, 32 tests
passed, 1 platform skip.
- [ ] Applicable broad gate passed — `npm test` for broad
runtime/test-harness changes; `npm run check` for repo-wide
validation/coverage changes — command/result: Not applicable to this
isolated mock behavior. An additional `npx vitest run --project
e2e-support` passed 197 files and failed in seven unrelated macOS
host-sensitive files that require GNU `find`, trusted Homebrew state,
systemd or Ollama, or longer subprocess timeouts.
- [x] Quality Gates section completed with required justifications or
waivers
- [x] No secrets, API keys, or credentials committed
- [ ] `npm run docs` builds without warnings (doc changes only)
- [ ] Doc pages follow the [style
guide](https://github.com/NVIDIA/NemoClaw/blob/main/docs/CONTRIBUTING.md)
(doc changes only)
- [ ] New doc pages include SPDX header and frontmatter (new pages only)

---
Signed-off-by: Prekshi Vyas <prekshiv@nvidia.com>


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## Summary by CodeRabbit

* **Tests**
  * Enhanced end-to-end inference testing for launch-specific prompts.
  * Added coverage for both streaming and non-streaming responses.
* Verified exact prompt-derived responses while preserving default
responses for similar prompts without explicit instructions.

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## Summary

Separate the OpenClaw launch helper's initial readiness text from its
post-reply readiness text. The live TUI first reports `gateway connected
| idle`, then reports `connected | idle` after a reply; the helper now
waits for each exact state before its corresponding input and requires
exact normalized-line equality for the post-reply state.

PR #9034 was externally merged while its live acceptance remained
blocked. This fix-forward repairs acceptance infrastructure only. It
does not retroactively claim that #9034 passed live acceptance; the
exact probe and two-turn PTY acceptance will be rerun for the latest PR
commit.

## Related Issue

Related to #9023. Follow-up to #9034.

## Live acceptance status

On commit `c601bb61675f6561b3fdcd5131b633d9d45bd371`, the repaired
readiness sequence reached the exact reply, post-reply `connected |
idle`, `/exit`, and `gateway disconnected: closed | idle`. Final launch
status remained blocked by the separate portable/rootless-Podman cleanup
recurrence tracked in #9054, which is a recurrence of #8584/#8585 rather
than a defect in this helper.

This PR remains acceptance-infrastructure repair only. It does not claim
that the overall #9023 two-turn live acceptance passed.

## Changes

- Add a distinct optional post-reply readiness value to the native
launch helper.
- Configure OpenClaw live callers with startup `gateway connected |
idle` and post-reply `connected | idle` states.
- Add a realistic regression that rejects `/exit` until the post-reply
state is visible.
- Require the post-reply readiness marker to equal one normalized
terminal line, so a repeated `gateway connected | idle` cannot satisfy
`connected | idle`.

## Type of Change

- [x] 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

- [x] Tests added or updated for changed behavior
- [ ] Existing tests cover changed behavior — justification:
- [ ] Tests not applicable — justification:
- [ ] Docs updated for user-facing behavior changes
- [x] Docs not applicable — justification: This changes live E2E
orchestration only; it does not change a user command, configuration,
default, diagnostic, runtime contract, or supported workflow.
- [ ] 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:
- [ ] Non-success, skipped, or missing CI check accepted by maintainer —
check name, approval link, and follow-up issue:

## Documentation Writer Review

- [x] Documentation writer subagent reviewed the completed changes
- Result: `no-docs-needed`
- Evidence: The exact four-file E2E-helper diff was independently
reviewed. It affects test orchestration only, and its names, test title,
and diagnostic comply with `WRITING.md`.
- Agent: Codex Desktop
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## DGX Station Hardware Evidence

- [ ] Tested on DGX Station
- Tested commit:
- Station profile/scenario:
- Result:
- Supporting evidence:

## Verification

- [x] PR description includes a `Signed-off-by:` line and every commit
appears as `Verified` in GitHub
- [x] 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
- [x] Targeted behavior tests pass for the current change set, or tests
are marked not applicable above — `npx vitest run --project e2e-support
test/e2e/support/launch-agent-turn.test.ts`: 5 passed, 1
platform-skipped
- [ ] Applicable broad gate passed — `npm test` for broad
runtime/test-harness changes; `npm run check` for repo-wide
validation/coverage changes — command/result: Not applicable to this
narrow live-helper correction; focused support tests and all normal
hooks passed.
- [x] Quality Gates section completed with required justifications or
waivers
- [x] No secrets, API keys, or credentials committed
- [ ] `npm run docs` builds without warnings (doc changes only)
- [ ] Doc pages follow the [style
guide](https://github.com/NVIDIA/NemoClaw/blob/main/docs/CONTRIBUTING.md)
(doc changes only)
- [ ] New doc pages include SPDX header and frontmatter (new pages only)

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

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