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Summary

The cloud inference credential scan treated npm lifecycle variable names in installed dependencies as credential leaks. It now matches the high-confidence provider formats owned by the security scanner and reports only matching file paths, so dependency metadata passes while credential canaries still fail safely.

Related Issue

Fixes #9363

Changes

  • Extract the live sandbox scan command into a focused helper so the exact production command is regression-tested.
  • Derive the in-process and POSIX sandbox patterns from one high-confidence provider/threshold table in the owning security module, including the underscore-bearing fine-grained GitHub PAT format.
  • Preserve the existing directory exclusions and grep error propagation while scanning text and NUL-containing files.
  • Cover the observed npm_config_user_agent and $npm_package_version dependency records, token-shaped dependency paths, payload and identifier boundaries, and redacted canaries for each credential family.
  • Consolidate the source-of-truth design from fix(e2e): detect credential values in sandbox scans #9382 here with co-author credit to Deepak Jain.

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:
  • 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: Maintainer nine-category security review completed on the exact commit; no findings. The scan remains read-only, propagates errors, and emits paths rather than matched credential values.
  • Non-success, skipped, or missing CI check accepted by maintainer — check name, approval link, and follow-up issue:

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  • 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.

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  • 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 — exact shell/support suites (27/27 passed), secret-scanner suite (56/56 passed), and growth guardrails (22/22 passed)
  • Applicable broad gate passed — npm test for broad runtime/test-harness changes; npm run check for repo-wide validation/coverage changes — CI pending; the local macOS run was inconclusive because unrelated environment-sensitive suites timed out or consumed ambient host state.
  • 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)
  • Doc pages follow the style guide (doc changes only)
  • New doc pages include SPDX header and frontmatter (new pages only)

Signed-off-by: Aaron Erickson aerickson@nvidia.com

Summary by CodeRabbit

  • Security
    • Improved credential-boundary scanning for cloud inference sandbox data.
    • Detects high-confidence NVIDIA, GitHub—including fine-grained—and npm credentials while redacting secret values.
    • Excludes policy, dependency, and benign metadata paths from findings.
    • Safely handles missing directories, embedded or short tokens, NUL-containing files, and expected no-match results.
    • Scan results identify only affected file paths, protecting credential contents.

Signed-off-by: Aaron Erickson <aerickson@nvidia.com>
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Adds shared provider token specifications and a sandbox credential-scan command builder. The cloud inference test uses the builder. New tests cover dependency metadata, token boundaries, minimum lengths, output redaction, and NUL-containing files.

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Credential boundary scanning

Layer / File(s) Summary
Define shared provider token specifications
nemoclaw/src/security/secret-scanner.ts, nemoclaw/src/security/secret-scanner.test.ts
Defines NVIDIA, GitHub, and npm token specifications. Generates JavaScript patterns and a POSIX ERE with standalone token boundaries. Tests fine-grained GitHub tokens with underscores.
Build the sandbox credential scan command
test/e2e/live/cloud-inference-credential-boundary.ts
Builds a quoted recursive scan command with default directories, exclusions, missing-directory handling, no-match tolerance, and error propagation.
Integrate and validate sandbox scanning
test/e2e/live/cloud-inference.test.ts, test/e2e/support/cloud-inference-credential-boundary.test.ts
Uses the shared command in the cloud inference test. Adds fixture coverage for benign metadata, provider tokens, minimum lengths, embedded tokens, redaction, and NUL-containing files.

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

Merge Risk: ⚪ Minimal · up to a9478

The PR narrows credential scanning to supported provider formats while preserving safe path-only reporting; no actionable merge-blocking risk remains after normal checks and review.

Possibly related PRs

  • NVIDIA/NemoClaw#9382: Both changes modify shared provider token specifications and cloud-inference sandbox scanning. This PR extracts and tests the scan command.

Suggested labels: area: e2e, area: security, bug-fix, security

Suggested reviewers: prekshivyas

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Linked Issues check ✅ Passed The changes address [#9363] by detecting credential values, ignoring dependency paths, preserving redaction, and propagating scan failures.
Out of Scope Changes check ✅ Passed The helper, shared token specifications, scanner updates, and regression tests directly support the linked issue objectives.
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The overall coverage in commit a94787c in the fix/issue-9363-crede... branch remains at 96%, unchanged from commit c4c987d in the main branch.


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In `@test/e2e/live/cloud-inference-credential-boundary.ts`:
- Line 19: Update the grep invocation in the credential scan to remove the -I
option so binary files are scanned, and add a fixture containing a NUL byte that
includes the credential pattern and asserts its path is reported.
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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

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  • GPT-5.6 Terra (primary): Completed · high confidence · 0 blockers · 0 warnings · 0 suggestions
  • Nemotron 3 Ultra (second opinion): Completed · high confidence · 2 blockers · 0 warnings · 0 suggestions
  • Model comparison: normalized findings differ; normalized terminology decisions differ; normalized E2E selections match; Nemotron reported 2 more blockers, the same number of warnings, the same number of suggestions.

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  • established — credential canary at test/e2e/support/cloud-inference-credential-boundary.test.ts:84: Keep `credential canary` for synthetic credential-shaped test values.
  • justified — high-confidence provider token at nemoclaw/src/security/secret-scanner.ts:57: Keep `high-confidence provider token` for the constrained provider-specific token formats.
  • established — fine-grained GitHub personal access token at nemoclaw/src/security/secret-scanner.test.ts:58: Keep `fine-grained GitHub personal access token`; retain `underscore-bearing` where the payload distinction is under test.

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LOC Reduction / Codebase Simplicity Review

Why this blocks

  • test/e2e/live/cloud-inference-credential-boundary.ts:6-7 adds another credential-shape authority, with 10-character NVIDIA and GitHub payloads and a 36-character npm payload.
  • The repository already owns broad token shapes in nemoclaw/src/shared/credential-filter-boundary.cts:8-28 and high-confidence scan thresholds in nemoclaw/src/security/secret-scanner.ts:24-53.
  • Competing PR #9382 now derives its sandbox ERE from one HIGH_CONFIDENCE_PREFIXED_TOKEN_SPECS table in that scanner. Merging this local constant would restore the drift that implementation removes.
  • Both PRs fix #9363 and replace the same scan, so they are competing implementations rather than independently mergeable changes.

Refactor direction

  • Keep this PR’s compact buildSandboxCredentialScanCommand() and real shell/fixture coverage.
  • Consume the provider/threshold-derived ERE from the owning security module introduced by #9382 instead of declaring SANDBOX_CREDENTIAL_VALUE_PATTERN.
  • Consolidate the two implementations into one PR and close the other.

Expected result

One provider and threshold table, one generated shell ERE, and one exact command test. This preserves the production-command LOC reduction without adding a third security-pattern authority.

Co-authored-by: Deepak Jain <deepujain@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Aaron Erickson <aerickson@nvidia.com>
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@jyaunches Addressed the consolidation blocker at exact head 2ea03031a8fb46b3dc3d5ef47266c3be1d2565b4. The in-process scanner and POSIX sandbox scan now derive from one HIGH_CONFIDENCE_PREFIXED_TOKEN_SPECS table in the owning security module; the PR-local pattern authority is removed. #9382 is closed after consolidation, with Deepak credited as co-author. The POSIX ERE also includes identifier boundaries, and the exact shell tests cover minimum payloads for every prefix, prefixed/suffixed identifiers, NUL-containing files, and path-only redaction. Please re-review this exact head.

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Resolved by commit 434134e; the security module now owns one provider/threshold table and exports the derived sandbox ERE.

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LOC Reduction / Codebase Simplicity Review

Re-reviewed latest PR commit 434134ea3f1b7f9a26eba541a88447f6f0c4d974. The revision resolves my prior change request.

nemoclaw/src/security/secret-scanner.ts:24-44 now owns one provider and payload-threshold table. Lines 46-61 derive both the in-process patterns and exported POSIX ERE from that table. test/e2e/live/cloud-inference-credential-boundary.ts:5,17 consumes that ERE instead of declaring another credential-shape constant. Competing PR #9382 is closed unmerged.

I found no new blocking LOC or codebase-simplicity issue. This comment closes only the prior simplicity review; it is not an approval of other review dimensions.

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Reviewed exact commit 434134ea3f1b7f9a26eba541a88447f6f0c4d974; the two focused suites pass 72 tests, but they omit the fine-grained GitHub PAT shape described inline.

Security review:

  1. Secrets and credentials — FAIL: an underscore-bearing fine-grained GitHub PAT can evade both generated scanners.
  2. Input validation — FAIL: github_pat_ is grouped under the classic GitHub token payload class and length.
  3. Authentication and authorization — PASS: no authorization control changes.
  4. Dependencies and supply chain — PASS: no dependency changes.
  5. Error handling and logging — PASS: grep and filter failures propagate, and output is path-only.
  6. Cryptography — PASS: no cryptographic changes.
  7. Policy and network isolation — PASS: scan roots and exclusions are unchanged.
  8. Testing and regression safety — FAIL: provider canaries do not include an underscore-bearing fine-grained PAT at its canonical minimum.
  9. System security — FAIL: the missed credential can remain in sandbox state without failing the cloud-inference boundary.

Comment thread nemoclaw/src/security/secret-scanner.ts
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In `@test/e2e/support/cloud-inference-credential-boundary.test.ts`:
- Around line 28-31: Update writeFixture to resolve the target beneath root,
reject absolute relativePath values and any resolved target outside the
temporary root before creating directories or writing, and add a behavioral test
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Commit 513050d adds a separate github_pat_ token specification with [A-Za-z0-9_]{30,} and coverage. Latest PR commit a94787c retains this correction.

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Reviewed commit a94787c. The credential scan matches supported provider token forms, reports file paths without token values, scans binary state, and contains fixture paths. Required checks pass.

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@prekshivyas The fine-grained PAT fix remains in exact head a94787c570579dd8d58877fe5084237b2dfe5cad; nemoclaw/src/security/secret-scanner.ts is unchanged since 513050d2, and the later commit only contains CodeRabbit-requested fixture-path containment. Both generated scanners now use the separate [A-Za-z0-9_]{30,} github_pat_ spec, with the 29/30 boundary and underscore-bearing canaries described in the thread. Please re-review and resolve the remaining PAT thread when satisfied.

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<!-- markdownlint-disable MD041 -->
## Summary

The cloud inference credential scan treated npm lifecycle variable names
in installed dependencies as credential leaks. It now matches the
high-confidence provider formats owned by the security scanner and
reports only matching file paths, so dependency metadata passes while
credential canaries still fail safely.

## Related Issue

Fixes #9363

## Changes

- Extract the live sandbox scan command into a focused helper so the
exact production command is regression-tested.
- Derive the in-process and POSIX sandbox patterns from one
high-confidence provider/threshold table in the owning security module,
including the underscore-bearing fine-grained GitHub PAT format.
- Preserve the existing directory exclusions and grep error propagation
while scanning text and NUL-containing files.
- Cover the observed `npm_config_user_agent` and `$npm_package_version`
dependency records, token-shaped dependency paths, payload and
identifier boundaries, and redacted canaries for each credential family.
- Consolidate the source-of-truth design from #9382 here with co-author
credit to Deepak Jain.

## 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:
- [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: Maintainer
nine-category security review completed on the exact commit; no
findings. The scan remains read-only, propagates errors, and emits paths
rather than matched credential values.
- [ ] Non-success, skipped, or missing CI check accepted by maintainer —
check name, approval link, and follow-up issue:

## 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

- [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 — exact shell/support suites (27/27
passed), secret-scanner suite (56/56 passed), and growth guardrails
(22/22 passed)
- [ ] Applicable broad gate passed — `npm test` for broad
runtime/test-harness changes; `npm run check` for repo-wide
validation/coverage changes — CI pending; the local macOS run was
inconclusive because unrelated environment-sensitive suites timed out or
consumed ambient host state.
- [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: Aaron Erickson <aerickson@nvidia.com>


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## Summary by CodeRabbit

- **Security**
- Improved credential-boundary scanning for cloud inference sandbox
data.
- Detects high-confidence NVIDIA, GitHub—including fine-grained—and npm
credentials while redacting secret values.
- Excludes policy, dependency, and benign metadata paths from findings.
- Safely handles missing directories, embedded or short tokens,
NUL-containing files, and expected no-match results.
- Scan results identify only affected file paths, protecting credential
contents.

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Signed-off-by: Aaron Erickson <aerickson@nvidia.com>
Co-authored-by: Deepak Jain <deepujain@gmail.com>
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