fix(onboard): verify the agent API host forward before reporting ready by yanyunl1991 · Pull Request #9299 · NVIDIA/NemoClaw

yanyunl1991 · 2026-08-17T09:23:29Z

Summary

Hermes onboarding reported a healthy, ready deployment while the OpenAI-compatible API on its host forward was unreachable. Deployment verification now probes that forward from the host and fails verification when it is down, so onboarding surfaces an actionable diagnostic instead of a false success.

Closes #9290.

Reproduction

Hermes onboards two host forwards (forward_ports: [18789, 8642]): the dashboard and the OpenAI-compatible API. Verification only ever probed the dashboard port on the host — the API port was probed inside the sandbox, where it is healthy regardless of whether the host forward came up.

Steps executed on the test host (the reporter's steps 4-7):

nemoclaw onboard --name repro-9290 --agent hermes --non-interactive --yes --no-gpu
openshell forward stop 8642 repro-9290      # leave the sandbox healthy, drop the API forward
ss -lntp | grep -w 8642                     # no listener remains
curl -fsS --max-time 3 http://127.0.0.1:8642/health   # exit 7 (connection refused)

Environment

Test machine: our Ubuntu 24.04 x86_64 test host (no GPU)
Linux 6.14.0-37-generic, Node v22.22.2, Docker 28.2.2, OpenShell CLI 0.0.101
NemoClaw main at 588bb6db9b1132266840e4604fa16c2a4912cbfc (v0.0.109-96-g588bb6db9)
Sandbox: Hermes Agent v0.19.0, provider NVIDIA Endpoints (nvidia-prod)

With the API forward down, verifyDeployment was driven against the live sandbox with the same dependency wiring onboarding uses.

Observed on main (before fix)

$ openshell forward list
SANDBOX    BIND      PORT     PID        STATUS
repro-9290 127.0.0.1 18789    1823093    running

host probes performed:
  host 127.0.0.1:18789/api/status -> HTTP 200

diagnostics:
  gateway: ok — HTTP 200
  dashboard: ok — host probe HTTP 200
  inference: ok — inference.local responded HTTP 200

healthy = true
  ✓ Deployment verified — gateway, dashboard, and inference route are healthy.

Port 8642 is never probed on the host, so the API link cannot fail.

Observed on fix/... (after fix)

host probes performed:
  host 127.0.0.1:18789/api/status -> HTTP 200
  host 127.0.0.1:8642/health -> HTTP 0

diagnostics:
  gateway: ok — HTTP 200
  dashboard: ok — host probe HTTP 200
  api: fail — port forward not working (connection refused)
  inference: ok — inference.local responded HTTP 200

healthy = false
  ⚠ Deployment verification found issues:
  ✗ api: port forward not working (connection refused)
    The OpenAI-compatible API on port 8642 is not reachable from the host.
    Run: openshell forward start --background 8642 repro-9290

End-to-end, with the API forward blocked so it could not start, a full onboard now ends:

  ! Could not start optional agent port forward 8642: Port 8642 is not available ...
  ⚠ Deployment verification found issues:
  ✗ api: port forward not working (connection refused)
  ──────────────────────────────────────────────────
  Hermes is not ready

nemoclaw onboard exits 1 instead of 0. With the forward restored, the same onboard reports Deployment verified / Hermes is ready and exits 0, so the happy path is unchanged.

Analysis

verifyDeployment (src/lib/verify-deployment.ts) checks four links, and the host-facing one is bound to the dashboard port only:

probeGatewayInSandboxOnce runs curl inside the sandbox against chain.gatewayPort (8642 for Hermes). It passes whenever the in-sandbox relay is up, which says nothing about the host forward.
probeDashboardFromHostOnce is the only host probe, and it uses chain.port (18789).

So healthy = gateway.reachable && dashboard.reachable && inference.status === "ok" could not observe the API forward at all. finalization.ts feeds that value into printDashboard(...), reportDeploymentReadiness(...) and completeOnboardMachine(...), which is why onboarding printed "Hermes is ready" and completed while 127.0.0.1:8642 refused connections — after printAdditionalForwardPorts had just advertised that exact endpoint as the way to use the sandbox.

The forward-start failure itself is reported (! Port 8642 forward did not start: ...), but it is only a warning: ensureAgentDashboardForward treats every declared port other than the primary as optional, and ensureDashboardForward warns rather than throws when rollbackSandboxOnFailure is off. Nothing downstream reconciled that warning with the readiness verdict.

Note that PR #8956 (for #8884) improved the diagnostics of that warning and stopped the forward watcher from acting on forwards it does not own; it did not make onboarding's readiness verdict depend on the API forward, which is why the same "reports Ready while 8642 is unreachable" contract is observable again.

Fix

src/lib/verify-deployment.ts gains a host probe for the agent's API port:

hasSeparateAgentApiPort(chain) — buildChain falls back to the dashboard port when an agent declares no gateway port, so gatewayPort !== port is exactly the signal that onboarding forwarded a second host port. OpenClaw keeps one host probe and no new diagnostic.
verifyAgentApiFromHost reuses the dashboard probe's shape and retry budget (including the collapsed budget when the runtime diagnosis already shows the image has no managed gateway), adds an api diagnostic whose hint names the exact openshell forward start command, and records agentApiReachable on the verification result.
healthy now includes (agentApi?.reachable ?? true), so the link is authoritative when present and inert when absent.

The probed port is resolved per sandbox rather than from the manifest. Hermes allocates each sandbox an API port from the 8642-8652 range, so a second sandbox holding 8643 would otherwise be reported unreachable on 8642. resolveVerifyAgentApiPort (src/lib/onboard/hermes-api-port.ts) reuses the existing resolveSandboxHermesApiPort registry lookup, falls back to the manifest default when the sandbox is not registered yet, and returns a non-Hermes agent's declared port untouched. buildVerifyChain therefore takes the sandbox name, which finalization.ts already has.

It is re-exported through agent-dashboard-forward → dashboard helpers, which onboard.ts already consumes, so no module gains a new dependency edge and the source-architecture fan-out budget is unchanged.

Tests lock the whole contract: the API host probe happens at all; a refused forward fails verification while gateway and dashboard stay green; an unexpected 502 fails; an authenticated 401 still counts as reachable; and — the regression lock — an agent with no separate API port still performs exactly one host probe with no api diagnostic. Four cases cover the port resolver, including the reallocated-port and unregistered-sandbox paths.

Changes

src/lib/verify-deployment.ts: probe the agent API port on the host, add the api diagnostic and agentApiReachable, include it in healthy.
src/lib/onboard/hermes-api-port.ts: add resolveVerifyAgentApiPort for the per-sandbox API port.
src/lib/onboard/agent-dashboard-forward.ts, src/lib/onboard/dashboard.ts: expose it through the dashboard helpers onboarding already uses.
src/lib/onboard.ts: build the verify chain with the sandbox's own API port.
src/lib/onboard/machine/handlers/finalization.ts: pass the sandbox name to buildVerifyChain.
src/lib/verify-deployment-agent.test.ts, src/lib/onboard/hermes-api-port.test.ts: new coverage.
src/lib/onboard/machine/handlers/finalization.test.ts, src/lib/onboard/machine/final-flow-phases.runtime.test.ts, test/helpers/onboard-final-flow-phases.ts: updated for the new signature and field.
docs/reference/troubleshooting.mdx: document the new failure mode and recovery.

Platform scope

Reproduced and verified on our Ubuntu 24.04 x86_64 test host. The reporter saw this on Ubuntu 24.04 with a GPU; the changed path is the host-side verification probe and is independent of GPU presence and architecture, but cross-arch confirmation on the reporter's GPU host is welcome before merge.

The underlying reason a forward can fail to open on the reporter's host (ssh process started but local forward listener was not reachable) is an OpenShell-side condition that did not reproduce here; this PR does not claim to change it. What it fixes is NemoClaw's contract: onboarding no longer reports a ready deployment when the advertised API endpoint is unreachable.

Type of Change

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New Features
- Deployment verification now checks separate agent API connections and reports reachability.
- Verification targets the sandbox-specific API port when available.
- Unreachable API connections contribute to deployment health failures with diagnostic details.
- Agents without a separate API port continue using the standard verification flow.
Documentation
- Added troubleshooting guidance for onboarding failures caused by unreachable API ports, including health checks and port-forwarding remediation steps.

Deployment verification probed the agent gateway only from inside the sandbox and probed just the dashboard port on the host. For Hermes, whose manifest forwards a second host port for the OpenAI-compatible API, a failed API forward therefore left every checked link green: onboarding printed "Deployment verified" and "Hermes is ready", and advertised an API URL that refused every connection. Probe the agent API port from the host too, whenever the agent declares one distinct from the dashboard port, and fold it into the deployment health result so a dead forward pauses onboarding with an actionable diagnostic instead of a false success. Agents without a separate API port keep their single dashboard probe unchanged. Resolve that port per sandbox rather than from the manifest default, so a second Hermes sandbox holding a reallocated port from the 8642-8652 range is not reported as unreachable. Fixes #9290 Signed-off-by: Yanyun Liao <yanyunl@nvidia.com>

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The change adds sandbox-specific agent API port resolution to onboarding. Deployment verification probes the separate host API forward, reports reachability and diagnostics, updates overall health, and documents troubleshooting steps. It also passes dependencies during sandbox messaging reconciliation.

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Agent API verification

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Sandbox-specific API port resolution `src/lib/onboard/hermes-api-port.ts`, `src/lib/onboard/agent-dashboard-forward.ts`, `src/lib/onboard/dashboard.ts`, `src/lib/onboard.ts`, `src/lib/onboard/hermes-api-port.test.ts`, `test/onboard-dashboard.test.ts`	`resolveVerifyAgentApiPort` resolves registered Hermes ports, preserves other declared ports, and returns `undefined` when no valid port exists. Onboarding exposes and uses the agent-specific verification-chain builder.
Agent API verification flow `src/lib/verify-deployment.ts`, `src/lib/onboard/machine/handlers/finalization.ts`, `src/lib/verify-deployment-agent.test.ts`, `src/lib/onboard/machine/handlers/finalization.test.ts`, `src/lib/onboard/machine/final-flow-phases.runtime.test.ts`, `test/helpers/onboard-final-flow-phases.ts`, `docs/reference/troubleshooting.mdx`	Deployment verification probes the optional API forward with retries, records `agentApiReachable`, emits failure diagnostics, and marks verification unhealthy when the forward is unreachable. Tests and troubleshooting documentation cover the new behavior.

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Messaging dependency propagation `src/lib/onboard/machine/handlers/sandbox-messaging.ts`, `src/lib/onboard/machine/handlers/sandbox-messaging.test.ts`	Recorded-channel reconciliation passes its dependencies to host-channel filtering. Reused-sandbox tests provide the required callbacks.

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Possibly related issues

build: recorded messaging reconciliation omits required dependencies #9359 — The PR includes the same dependency pass-through fix in sandbox-messaging.ts.

Possibly related PRs

NVIDIA/NemoClaw#9219 — Both PRs modify Hermes dashboard forwarding and port reuse behavior.
NVIDIA/NemoClaw#9325 — Both PRs pass dependencies into filterUnconfiguredHostChannelsFromSelection.
NVIDIA/NemoClaw#9366 — Both PRs update the messaging dependency pass-through and test fixtures.

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  participant HostApiForward
  Finalization->>VerifyChain: buildVerifyChain(chatUiUrl, sandboxName)
  VerifyChain->>PortResolver: resolveVerifyAgentApiPort(sandboxName, agent, options)
  PortResolver-->>VerifyChain: API port or undefined
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Move the deployment-verification chain construction out of onboard.ts and into the onboard dashboard helpers, where the rest of the host-forward and dashboard-port logic already lives. onboard.ts now delegates instead of assembling the chain inline, which keeps its line count unchanged and satisfies the codebase growth guardrail. No behavior change: the chain is built from the same inputs and still resolves the agent API port per sandbox. Signed-off-by: Yanyun Liao <yanyunl@nvidia.com>

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handlePostVerifyState passes sandboxName to buildVerifyChain, and src/lib/onboard.ts maps it to buildAgentVerifyChain. Add boundary tests for fresh, resumed, successful repair, unhealthy retry, and verification-throw paths. Assert the persisted sandbox name and selected agent. Assert that prerequisite-repair failure does not reach verification. buildChain remains a shared dashboard primitive, not a superseded verification path.
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API port forward at docs/reference/troubleshooting.mdx:4898: selected only by the second-opinion lane as justified.
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justified — host-side API port forward at docs/reference/troubleshooting.mdx:4898: Keep "host-side API port forward" where the procedure must distinguish the host listener from the in-sandbox API listener.
justified — separate API port at src/lib/verify-deployment.ts:596: Keep "separate API port" where the code distinguishes a distinct API host forward from the dashboard forward.
replace — agent API at src/lib/onboard/machine/handlers/finalization.test.ts:136: Use "OpenAI-compatible API" in the changed comments when the Hermes API interface is intended.

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buildAgentVerifyChain passed the injected WSL state to buildChain but let the host-address lookup detect WSL on its own, so an injected implementation could produce a chain that claims WSL while dropping the fallback URL that pairs with it. Resolve it once and pass the same value to both. Also stop the troubleshooting recovery steps from hardcoding port 8642. Each Hermes sandbox owns a port allocated from 8642 through 8652, so the commands now use the port named in the failed api diagnostic. Both follow review feedback on #9290. Signed-off-by: Yanyun Liao <yanyunl@nvidia.com>

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Security review: PASS

Reviewed revision 21983ac5d828270a5dfa2866709d2d1aa4ac4105.

Authentication and authorization: PASS — no identity, permission, or trust-boundary change; an HTTP 401 proves process reachability without treating the request as authenticated.
Injection and command execution: PASS — the host probe remains restricted to 127.0.0.1; the port is an integer from the trusted agent definition or validated per-sandbox registry state, and the health endpoint is normalized to a path.
Secrets and privacy: PASS — no credentials, tokens, request bodies, or personal data are added to probes or diagnostics.
Data integrity and lifecycle: PASS — readiness now fails closed when the advertised API port forward is unreachable, preventing a false-success handoff.
Input and path validation: PASS — Hermes uses its validated allocated port; other agents retain their declared port; agents without a separate API port keep the existing single-probe path.
Dependencies and supply chain: PASS — no dependency or external artifact changes.
Concurrency and availability: PASS — the new registry lookup is read-only and host probes use the existing bounded retry budget.
Observability and failure handling: PASS — diagnostics name the failed host-side resource and recovery port without exposing secrets. The documentation requires process ownership and service-manager checks before stopping a listener.
Platform and deployment: PASS — WSL state is resolved once for both chain construction and host-address selection; loopback remains the only probe destination.

Focused coverage now exercises the complete dashboard-helper boundary with a Hermes sandbox allocated port 8643, while verifier tests cover refused connections, unexpected responses, authenticated reachability, and agents without a separate API port. CLI type checking and repository guardrails pass.

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Deployment readiness now verifies the advertised agent API from the host when it has a distinct forwarded port, uses the per-sandbox Hermes allocation, treats 200/401 as reachable, and leaves single-port agents unchanged. The new failure is authoritative in the overall health result and provides the exact forward recovery command; focused tests cover refused, unexpected, authenticated, reallocated, and no-separate-port cases.

Cross-issue sweep: no additional candidate issues found.

Security review: secrets/credentials — PASS; input validation/sanitization — PASS; authentication/authorization — PASS; dependencies — PASS; error handling/logging — PASS; cryptography/data protection — PASS; configuration/security headers — PASS; security testing — PASS; system security — PASS.

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## Summary Add the canonical dated changelog entry required before planning the v0.0.110 release. The entry summarizes user-facing changes merged since v0.0.109 and links each change to its published documentation route and source PR. ## Changes - Add `docs/changelog/2026-08-17.mdx` with the exact `## v0.0.110` release heading. - Cover managed local inference, endpoint validation, onboarding and recovery, explicit experimental Portable OpenClaw, messaging and policy cleanup, backup and security hardening, and release qualification. - Preserve the documentation skip list and the current supported-agent matrix; test-only refactors, dormant activation work, and Pi-only changes are intentionally excluded. ### Source-to-doc mapping - #8711 -> `docs/changelog/2026-08-17.mdx`: Add the Muse Glimmer llama.cpp profile. - #9099 -> `docs/changelog/2026-08-17.mdx`: Update the Muse Glimmer vLLM runtime. - #9319 -> `docs/changelog/2026-08-17.mdx`: Select the provider required by an explicit serving profile. - #9311 -> `docs/changelog/2026-08-17.mdx`: Report probe-image pull failures separately. - #9345 -> `docs/changelog/2026-08-17.mdx`: Reuse mirrored Windows Ollama. - #9284 -> `docs/changelog/2026-08-17.mdx`: Complete the required Ollama upgrade. - #9320 -> `docs/changelog/2026-08-17.mdx`: Reject unsafe custom endpoint URLs before mutation. - #9119 -> `docs/changelog/2026-08-17.mdx`: Reject unsupported custom endpoint URL components. - #9236 -> `docs/changelog/2026-08-17.mdx`: Require native Anthropic tool-use evidence. - #9347 -> `docs/changelog/2026-08-17.mdx`: Distinguish Gemini runtime 404 diagnostics. - #9307 -> `docs/changelog/2026-08-17.mdx`: Preserve the recorded API family when only the model drifts. - #9233 -> `docs/changelog/2026-08-17.mdx`: Fail incomplete Hermes route synchronization. - #9185 -> `docs/changelog/2026-08-17.mdx`: Serialize Model Router lifecycle work across gateways. - #9112 -> `docs/changelog/2026-08-17.mdx`: Stop Model Router after the last routed sandbox is destroyed. - #9229 -> `docs/changelog/2026-08-17.mdx`: Verify fresh sandbox execution readiness. - #9299 -> `docs/changelog/2026-08-17.mdx`: Verify a separate agent API host forward before reporting ready. - #9318 -> `docs/changelog/2026-08-17.mdx`: Honor explicit sandbox recreation. - #9325 -> `docs/changelog/2026-08-17.mdx`: Measure readiness reuse windows from collection completion. - #9352 -> `docs/changelog/2026-08-17.mdx`: Guide users away from the deprecated global start command. - #9370 -> `docs/changelog/2026-08-17.mdx`: Persist managed OpenClaw agent identity. - #9366 -> `docs/changelog/2026-08-17.mdx`: Pass messaging dependencies during reused onboarding. - #9321 -> `docs/changelog/2026-08-17.mdx`: Detect proxied connect sessions. - #9285 -> `docs/changelog/2026-08-17.mdx`: Run probe-only recovery when absent authority cannot be created. - #9282 -> `docs/changelog/2026-08-17.mdx`: Complete probe-only recovery without platform evidence. - #8920 -> `docs/changelog/2026-08-17.mdx`: Preserve legacy gateway identity. - #9198 -> `docs/changelog/2026-08-17.mdx`: Report sandbox config-read failures. - #9201 -> `docs/changelog/2026-08-17.mdx`: Remove only the exact Docker orphan on destroy. - #9176 -> `docs/changelog/2026-08-17.mdx`: Use rootless Podman for Portable lifecycle operations. - #9197 -> `docs/changelog/2026-08-17.mdx`: Preflight Portable CPU delegation. - #9289 -> `docs/changelog/2026-08-17.mdx`: Narrow Portable policy defaults. - #9270 -> `docs/changelog/2026-08-17.mdx`: Preserve Portable model intent. - #9339 -> `docs/changelog/2026-08-17.mdx`: Reconcile timed-out Portable stop state. - #9209 -> `docs/changelog/2026-08-17.mdx`: Clean receipt-owned Portable Podman resources. - #9186 -> `docs/changelog/2026-08-17.mdx`: Separate Podman activation readiness. - #9376 -> `docs/changelog/2026-08-17.mdx`: Settle Portable OpenClaw pairing before readiness. - #9296 -> `docs/changelog/2026-08-17.mdx`: Retire messaging channel presets the host no longer configures. - #9327 -> `docs/changelog/2026-08-17.mdx`: Drop retired channels from reused messaging selections. - #9306 -> `docs/changelog/2026-08-17.mdx`: Remove gateway-enforced presets without a local record. - #9248 -> `docs/changelog/2026-08-17.mdx`: Activate Google Chat pairing approval. - #9374 -> `docs/changelog/2026-08-17.mdx`: Accept schema-owned messaging plan fields. - #9317 -> `docs/changelog/2026-08-17.mdx`: Accept safe hard-linked package files during backup. - #9288 -> `docs/changelog/2026-08-17.mdx`: Remove managed CLI shims with destroyed user data. - #9239 -> `docs/changelog/2026-08-17.mdx`: Read voice credentials from fixed descriptors. - #9269 -> `docs/changelog/2026-08-17.mdx`: Accept bounded native OpenClaw device modes. - #9371 -> `docs/changelog/2026-08-17.mdx`: Isolate OpenClaw startup-guard output. - #9351 -> `docs/changelog/2026-08-17.mdx`: Restore staging Launchable validation. - #9350 -> `docs/changelog/2026-08-17.mdx`: Retry transient collaborator-permission reads. - #9353 -> `docs/changelog/2026-08-17.mdx`: Retry transient exact-artifact downloads. - #9226 -> `docs/changelog/2026-08-17.mdx`: Add bounded Brev readiness diagnostics. - #9237 -> `docs/changelog/2026-08-17.mdx`: Report same-commit E2E reliability. - #9232 -> `docs/changelog/2026-08-17.mdx`: Execute native-runtime qualification. - #9275 -> `docs/changelog/2026-08-17.mdx`: Define E2E selection and retry guidance. - #9234 -> `docs/changelog/2026-08-17.mdx`: Move documentation review after merge. - #9365 -> `docs/changelog/2026-08-17.mdx`: Mount documentation reviewer inputs before startup. ## Type of Change - [ ] Code change (feature, bug fix, or refactor) - [ ] Code change with doc updates - [x] Doc only (prose changes, no code sample modifications) - [ ] Doc only (includes code sample changes) ## Quality Gates - [ ] Tests added or updated for changed behavior - [x] Existing tests cover changed behavior — justification: `test/changelog-docs.test.ts` validates the dated release-entry contract. - [ ] 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: - 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[Ubuntu 24.04][Onboard] v0.0.109 reports Hermes Ready while API port 8642 remains unreachable #9290

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fix(onboard): allocate Hermes API ports past route-only reservations #9324

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