test(cli): guard inference set config read exit code

test/inference-set-config-read-exit.test.ts

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+// SPDX-FileCopyrightText: Copyright (c) 2026 NVIDIA CORPORATION & AFFILIATES. All rights reserved.
+// SPDX-License-Identifier: Apache-2.0
+
+import { spawnSync } from "node:child_process";
+import fs from "node:fs";
+import os from "node:os";
+import path from "node:path";
+
+import { afterEach, beforeEach, describe, expect, it } from "vitest";
+import { testTimeoutOptions } from "./helpers/timeouts";
+
+const CLI = path.join(import.meta.dirname, "..", "bin", "nemoclaw.js");
+const SANDBOX = "issue-9104-alpha";
+
+describe("inference set sandbox configuration read failures", () => {
+  let home: string;
+  let openshell: string;
+  let openshellLog: string;
+
+  beforeEach(() => {
+    home = fs.mkdtempSync(path.join(os.tmpdir(), "nemoclaw-9104-"));
+    openshell = path.join(home, "openshell");
+    openshellLog = path.join(home, "openshell.log");
+    fs.writeFileSync(
+      openshell,
+      [
+        "#!/usr/bin/env bash",
+        `printf '%s\\n' "$*" >> ${JSON.stringify(openshellLog)}`,
+        "printf '%s\\n' 'exec session setup failed: container not ready' >&2",
+        "exit 1",
+      ].join("\n"),
+      { mode: 0o755 },
+    );
+
+    const registryDir = path.join(home, ".nemoclaw");
+    fs.mkdirSync(registryDir, { recursive: true });
+    fs.writeFileSync(
+      path.join(registryDir, "sandboxes.json"),
+      JSON.stringify({
+        sandboxes: {
+          [SANDBOX]: {
+            agent: "openclaw",
+            gpuEnabled: false,
+            model: "nvidia/llama-3.3-nemotron-super-49b-v1",
+            name: SANDBOX,
+            policies: [],
+            provider: "nvidia-prod",
+          },
+        },
+        defaultSandbox: SANDBOX,
+      }),
+      { mode: 0o600 },
+    );
+  });
+
+  afterEach(() => {
+    fs.rmSync(home, { force: true, recursive: true });
+  });
+
+  it.each([
+    [
+      "global",
+      [
+        "inference",
+        "set",
+        "--provider",
+        "nvidia-prod",
+        "--model",
+        "nvidia/nemotron-3-nano-omni-30b-a3b-reasoning",
+        "--sandbox",
+        SANDBOX,
+        "--no-verify",
+      ],
+    ],
+    [
+      "sandbox-first",
+      [
+        SANDBOX,
+        "inference",
+        "set",
+        "--provider",
+        "nvidia-prod",
+        "--model",
+        "nvidia/nemotron-3-nano-omni-30b-a3b-reasoning",
+        "--no-verify",
+      ],
+    ],
+  ])(
+    "%s inference set exits with status 1 when OpenShell cannot read the sandbox configuration (#9104)",
+    testTimeoutOptions(30_000),
+    (_grammar, argv) => {
+      const result = spawnSync(process.execPath, [CLI, ...argv], {
+        encoding: "utf8",
+        env: {
+          ...process.env,
+          HOME: home,
+          NEMOCLAW_OPENSHELL_BIN: openshell,
+          NEMOCLAW_STATUS_PROBE_TIMEOUT_MS: "2000",
+          NEMOCLAW_TEST_NO_SLEEP: "1",
+        },
+        killSignal: "SIGKILL",
+        timeout: 30_000,
+      });
+      const output = `${result.stdout ?? ""}\n${result.stderr ?? ""}`;
+
+      expect(result.error).toBeUndefined();
+      expect(result.signal).toBeNull();
+      expect(output).toContain("Cannot read openclaw config (/sandbox/.openclaw/openclaw.json)");
+      const openshellCalls = fs.readFileSync(openshellLog, "utf8").trim().split("\n");
+      expect(openshellCalls).toHaveLength(1);
+      expect(openshellCalls[0]).toContain("sandbox exec");
+      expect(openshellCalls[0]).toContain("cat /sandbox/.openclaw/openclaw.json");
+      expect(openshellCalls).not.toContainEqual(expect.stringMatching(/\binference set\b/u));
+      expect(result.status).toBe(1);
+    },
+  );
+});