fix(uninstall): preserve receipted vLLM runtime

[rsliter]

Summary

Prevent uninstall from treating a receipted managed vLLM container as an unowned orphan when the API key is absent. Keep the container when ownership or absence cannot be proven, and document the ownership boundary.

Related Issue

Follow-up to #9032 and #8981.

Changes

• Require both the host-local runtime receipt and API key to be absent before label-only orphan cleanup.
• Route a remaining receipt through the existing exact ownership-aware cleanup path.
• Fail closed when Docker cannot verify orphan ownership or exact absence.
• Cover receipt-only, managed removal, exact absence, and ambiguous inspection outcomes.
• Document the two-absence requirement for label-only cleanup.

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:
• Docs updated for user-facing behavior changes
• Docs 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: Codex Desktop reviewed input handling, command construction, secrets, authorization and ownership, network behavior, sandbox boundaries, dependencies, CI exposure, and resource cleanup. PASS: the change reads only the fixed receipt path, exposes no receipt or credential content, adds no command or network input, strengthens ownership selection, and fails closed when exact cleanup cannot complete.
• Non-success, skipped, or missing CI check accepted by maintainer — check name, approval link, and follow-up issue:

Documentation Writer Review

• Documentation writer subagent reviewed the completed changes
• Result: docs-updated
• Evidence: Reviewed the complete four-file effective diff at 2d78b5de8004bc627541ee425cf66b16cd2754e4 against 105c1dfb2710e3fbdcbd9411ae0c3c07c3d1e4bf, including changed documentation path docs/reference/commands.mdx. The complete commit tree and all four reviewed file blobs are byte-identical to previously reviewed commit c610f594fa1a285080dcf272f0c6cf265908cad3. The append-only history preserves 446a5f5b199add091929e6e5d655e4fdc15fa4b4 and adds the fail-closed repair. The focused uninstall test passed 23/23, the test-title check and CLI typecheck passed, all three agent variants matched the source page, and the docs build passed with 0 errors and 2 existing Fern warnings.
• Agent: Codex Desktop

DGX Station Hardware Evidence

• Tested on DGX Station
• Tested commit: Not applicable; scripts/prepare-dgx-station-host.sh is unchanged.
• Station profile/scenario: Not applicable.
• Result: Not applicable.
• Supporting evidence: Not applicable.

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
• Targeted behavior tests pass for the current change set, or tests are marked not applicable above — npx vitest run --project cli src/lib/actions/uninstall/run-plan-local-model-profile.test.ts passed 23/23. Repository checks, test-title check, CLI typecheck, and npm run validate:pr also passed.
• 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. This is a focused ownership-routing correction; npm run validate:pr passed the repository checks and affected CLI typecheck.
• 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) — the docs build passed with 0 errors and 2 existing Fern warnings.
• Doc pages follow the style guide (doc changes only)
• New doc pages include SPDX header and frontmatter (new pages only) — no new documentation pages.

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Signed-off-by: Rebecca Sliter 571084+rsliter@users.noreply.github.com

Summary by CodeRabbit

• Bug Fixes

  • Improved uninstall handling for host-local vLLM runtimes when runtime records or API credentials are incomplete.
  • Prevented cleanup from being skipped when runtime information is present without an API key.
  • Added safeguards to remove reserved containers only when Docker confirms they are managed by NemoClaw.
  • Uninstall now reports failures clearly when local runtime cleanup cannot be verified.

• Documentation

  • Updated uninstall guidance for host-local vLLM cleanup scenarios.

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• src/lib/actions/uninstall/run-plan-local-model-profile.test.ts
• src/lib/actions/uninstall/run-plan.ts

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📝 Walkthrough

Walkthrough

Host-local vLLM uninstall now detects runtime receipts independently from API keys. Orphan-container removal fails closed unless Docker confirms valid ownership or container absence. Tests and documentation cover the updated behavior.

Changes

Host-local vLLM uninstall

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Host-local runtime ownership detection src/lib/inference/local-model-profile/cleanup.ts, src/lib/actions/uninstall/run-plan.ts	The host-local runtime receipt constant is exported and checked independently from the managed API key.
Fail-closed orphan cleanup validation src/lib/actions/uninstall/run-plan.ts, src/lib/actions/uninstall/run-plan-local-model-profile.test.ts	Docker unavailability, invalid inspection output, invalid container IDs, and missing managed labels now block cleanup. Tests cover absence checks, cleanup ordering, exit codes, and errors.
Uninstall behavior documentation docs/reference/commands.mdx	The documentation describes the managed-label and container-ID requirements for reserved container removal.

Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~20 minutes

Mergeability Score: ⚪ Minimal · up to 2d78b

This localized uninstall change preserves managed vLLM containers when ownership cannot be confirmed; no actionable merge-blocking risk remains after normal checks and review.

Possibly related PRs

• NVIDIA/NemoClaw#8976: Both changes harden Docker ownership checks in the uninstall flow.
• NVIDIA/NemoClaw#9031: Both changes modify host-local vLLM orphan-container cleanup and its regression tests.
• NVIDIA/NemoClaw#9032: Both changes modify host-local vLLM uninstall ownership and orphan-container cleanup.

Suggested labels: bug-fix

Suggested reviewers: ericksoa, prekshivyas

🚥 Pre-merge checks | ✅ 5

✅ Passed checks (5 passed)

Check name	Status	Explanation
Description Check	✅ Passed	Check skipped - CodeRabbit’s high-level summary is enabled.
Title check	✅ Passed	The title clearly describes the primary uninstall change: preserving a receipted vLLM runtime.
Docstring Coverage	✅ Passed	No functions found in the changed files to evaluate docstring coverage. Skipping docstring coverage check.
Linked Issues check	✅ Passed	Check skipped because no linked issues were found for this pull request.
Out of Scope Changes check	✅ Passed	Check skipped because no linked issues were found for this pull request.

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Inline comments:
In `@src/lib/actions/uninstall/run-plan.ts`:
- Around line 1596-1609: Update removeOrphanedManagedHostLocalVllm to fail
closed: return true only when inspection proves nemoclaw-vllm is absent or
safely removable, and return false for unavailable Docker, inspect failures or
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The overall coverage in commit 2d78b5d in the codex/fix-vllm-orpha... branch remains at 96%, unchanged from commit a774d0a in the main branch.

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PR Review Advisor — No blocking findings reported

Advisor assessment: No blocking advisor findings reported
Next action: No advisor follow-up needed.
Findings: 0 blockers · 0 warnings · 0 suggestions

Model lanes

• GPT-5.6 Terra (primary): Completed · high confidence · 0 blockers · 0 warnings · 0 suggestions
• Nemotron 3 Ultra (second opinion): Completed · high confidence · 0 blockers · 0 warnings · 1 suggestion
• Model comparison: normalized findings differ; normalized terminology decisions differ; normalized E2E selections differ; Nemotron reported the same number of blockers, the same number of warnings, 1 more suggestion.

3 terminology differences from the second opinion

Advisory only. These are normalized differences from the primary terminology receipt.

• runtime receipt at docs/reference/commands.mdx:4085: selected only by the second-opinion lane as established.
• Could not verify NemoClaw ownership at src/lib/actions/uninstall/run-plan.ts:1665: selected only by the second-opinion lane as justified.
• receipted at src/lib/actions/uninstall/run-plan-local-model-profile.test.ts:312: selected only by the second-opinion lane as justified.

1 additional E2E selection from the second opinion

Advisory only. The primary lane did not select these E2E jobs or targets.

• vllm-docker-storage: The completed second-opinion lane identified E2E coverage that the primary lane omitted.

Second-opinion terminology and E2E selections are advisory. Live E2E does not run automatically for pull requests.

2 semantic terminology decisions

Terminology decisions are advisory. They affect the assessment only when a separate finding identifies concrete semantic impact.

• justified — host-local runtime receipt at docs/reference/commands.mdx:4085: Keep this term. The modifier identifies the receipt type that selects exact cleanup.
• established — NemoClaw managed label at docs/reference/commands.mdx:4085: Keep the existing label description because the sentence names the Docker ownership check.

E2E guidance

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Recommended E2E: inference-routing

Manual-only E2E: network-policy
The manual PR workflow does not run these selectors for the commit under review. Run them from reviewed code on main.

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