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Summary

Sandbox rebuild now rejects an attached provider that supplies a credential key reserved by managed MCP before changing MCP state. Forced host-side recovery repeats the collision check before sandbox deletion. The credential guide documents recovery that preserves the provider and stored credential.

Related Issue

Fixes #9388

Changes

  • Run the attached-provider credential collision check during ordinary live-sandbox rebuild preparation.
  • Repeat the collision check before forced host-side recovery deletes the sandbox.
  • Add regression tests for ordinary rebuild, forced recovery, and a collision introduced after preflight.
  • Verify collision failures do not detach providers or change policy, agent adapter, or registry state.
  • Document sandbox-scoped provider detach recovery and the destructive scope of credentials reset.
  • Record the completed documentation writer review: docs-updated, with no actionable findings.

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: The implementation review covered credential custody, attachment ownership, fail-closed metadata errors, rollback boundaries, and secret handling. Regression tests verify collision failures do not mutate managed MCP state.
  • Non-success, skipped, or missing CI check accepted by maintainer — check name, approval link, and follow-up issue:

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  • 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 — command/result:
    • npx vitest run --project integration test/mcp-destroy-lifecycle.test.ts test/mcp-add-crash-consistency.test.ts test/mcp-restart-policy-order.test.ts — 62 tests passed.
    • npx vitest run --project cli src/lib/actions/sandbox/mcp-bridge-provider.test.ts — 18 tests passed.
    • npm run test:changed — 572 tests and 22 growth checks passed.
  • Applicable broad gate passed — npm test for broad runtime/test-harness changes; npm run check for repo-wide validation/coverage changes — command/result:
  • 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)
  • Documentation validation: npm run docs:sync-agent-variants and npm run docs passed. Fern reported 0 errors and 2 warnings.

Signed-off-by: Apurv Kumaria akumaria@nvidia.com

Summary by CodeRabbit

  • Bug Fixes

    • Prevented sandbox rebuilds, restarts, and provider additions when attached providers have credential-key conflicts.
    • Prevented partial changes to providers, policies, adapters, or sandboxes while preserving conflicting provider attachments.
    • Added consistent collision checks across standard, host-side, and recovery flows.
    • Updated recovery guidance to detach the conflicting provider before retrying; credential resets warn that stored credentials and provider access are removed globally.
  • Documentation

    • Documented credential-collision handling and recovery steps.

Signed-off-by: Apurv Kumaria <akumaria@nvidia.com>
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Walkthrough

Rebuild, forced recovery, restart, and add flows now detect attached providers that share managed MCP credential keys. Conflicting operations stop before provider or MCP state mutation. Tests and documentation cover validation, revalidation, preserved state, and recovery.

Changes

Managed MCP credential collision handling

Layer / File(s) Summary
Collision inspection API
src/lib/actions/sandbox/mcp-bridge-provider-inspection.ts, src/lib/actions/sandbox/mcp-bridge-provider.ts
The collision assertion now accepts multiple MCP entries, skips empty input, preserves matching provider identity, and rejects conflicting credential keys through the renamed export.
Collision validation across MCP flows
src/lib/actions/sandbox/mcp-bridge-rebuild.ts, src/lib/actions/sandbox/mcp-bridge-rebuild-exec-unavailable.ts, src/lib/actions/sandbox/mcp-bridge-restart.ts, src/lib/actions/sandbox/mcp-bridge-add-restart.ts
MCP operations invoke collision validation before provider detachment, sandbox deletion, policy changes, or provider updates.
Regression coverage and recovery guidance
test/mcp-destroy-lifecycle.test.ts, test/mcp-restart-policy-order.test.ts, src/lib/actions/sandbox/mcp-bridge-input-targets.test.ts, docs/security/credential-storage.mdx
Tests cover cross-entry collisions, preflight, revalidation, provider verification, invocation counts, and preserved state. Documentation describes sandbox-scoped detachment and credential reset effects.

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

Merge Risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to d2d2a

The PR adds credential-collision protection before sandbox rebuilds, but the current implementation may miss collisions on later credential keys and may leave provider or registry state changed after a rejected operation. This can cause inconsistent credential handling and requires fixes or explicit owner acceptance before merge.

Sequence Diagram(s)

sequenceDiagram
  participant RebuildFlow
  participant CollisionAssertion
  participant ProviderAttachments
  participant MCPMutations
  RebuildFlow->>CollisionAssertion: Validate MCP entries
  CollisionAssertion->>ProviderAttachments: Inspect attached credential keys
  ProviderAttachments-->>CollisionAssertion: Return collision result
  CollisionAssertion-->>RebuildFlow: Allow or reject operation
  RebuildFlow->>MCPMutations: Mutate MCP state after validation passes
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Title check ✅ Passed The title clearly summarizes the primary change: rejecting MCP credential collisions before sandbox rebuild.
Linked Issues check ✅ Passed The changes implement collision checks before rebuild mutations and deletion, preserve the provider for sandbox-scoped recovery, and document credential-reset impact [#9388].
Out of Scope Changes check ✅ Passed All code, tests, and documentation changes directly support collision detection, safe rebuild recovery, and the linked issue objectives.
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The overall coverage in commit 0b26693 in the codex/fix-mcp-creden... branch remains at 96%, unchanged from commit b09eece in the main branch.


Updated August 18, 2026 04:37 UTC

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LOC Reduction / Codebase Simplicity Review

Why this blocks

src/lib/actions/sandbox/mcp-bridge-rebuild.ts:132-135 calls assertNoAttachedProviderCredentialCollision once for every managed MCP entry. src/lib/actions/sandbox/mcp-bridge-rebuild-exec-unavailable.ts:139-168 does the same inside each read-only validation checkpoint.

The existing helper is not an entry-local check. src/lib/actions/sandbox/mcp-bridge-provider-inspection.ts:124-165 lists every provider attached to the sandbox and loads every provider record. Lines 167-181 repeat that complete inventory for one entry. An N-entry rebuild therefore repeats the same sandbox provider list and every attached-provider provider get N times at each checkpoint. The recovery path repeats the checkpoint before deletion at lines 216-236, which multiplies the duplicate work again. The exact-call test ledger already reaches eight provider commands at test/mcp-destroy-lifecycle.test.ts:1006.

Refactor direction

Make the existing collision owner plural: accept readonly McpBridgeEntry[], inspect attachments once, and compare that snapshot with every entry. Existing single-entry add and restart paths can pass [entry]; they still need their mutation-edge checks. In both rebuild paths, pass the complete entries collection once per checkpoint instead of calling the full-sandbox inspection inside the entry loop. Keep the second exec-unavailable checkpoint because it protects the deletion edge.

Expected result

Each checkpoint performs one attachment inventory instead of one inventory per managed entry. The change keeps one collision policy owner, preserves fail-before-mutation and deletion-edge revalidation, and removes repeated subprocess calls and their exact-call test bookkeeping.

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  • GPT-5.6 Terra (primary): Completed · medium confidence · 0 blockers · 0 warnings · 0 suggestions
  • Nemotron 3 Ultra (second opinion): Completed · high confidence · 0 blockers · 0 warnings · 0 suggestions
  • Model comparison: normalized findings match; normalized terminology decisions differ; normalized E2E selections differ; severity counts match.
2 terminology differences from the second opinion

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

  • credential-key collision at test/mcp-destroy-lifecycle.test.ts:619: selected only by the second-opinion lane as established.
  • assertNoAttachedProviderCredentialCollision at src/lib/actions/sandbox/mcp-bridge-provider-inspection.ts:167: selected only by the second-opinion lane as justified.
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  • mcp-bridge-dev: The completed second-opinion lane identified E2E coverage that the primary lane omitted.
  • rebuild-hermes: The completed second-opinion lane identified E2E coverage that the primary lane omitted.
  • rebuild-hermes-stale-base: The completed second-opinion lane identified E2E coverage that the primary lane omitted.

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3 semantic terminology decisions

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  • established — credential key at docs/security/credential-storage.mdx:124: Keep `credential key` for provider metadata that identifies a credential.
  • established — host-side recovery at docs/security/credential-storage.mdx:124: Keep `host-side recovery` for the forced recovery path.
  • justified — ordinary live-sandbox rebuild at docs/security/credential-storage.mdx:124: Keep the modifier when contrasting the normal rebuild path with forced host-side recovery.

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@apurvvkumaria apurvvkumaria added the v0.0.110 Release target label Aug 18, 2026
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Addressed the requested provider-inventory refactor at the current revision.

  • The collision validator now checks all managed MCP entries from one attachment inventory per rebuild checkpoint.
  • Add and restart retain their single-entry mutation-edge checks.
  • Forced recovery retains the second check immediately before deletion.
  • Empty managed MCP state returns before unrelated provider inspection.
  • Two-entry and empty-state regression coverage now protects the subprocess count and empty recovery path.

Validation passed: 88 affected tests, CLI type-checking, the 22-test growth guardrail, title checks, all normal commit and push hooks, and the complete npm run validate:pr workflow. All new commits are signed off and GitHub-verified.

Documentation Writer Review: PASS

Reviewed the complete diff against current main, including credential ownership, cleanup safety, forced-recovery checkpoints, user-visible diagnostics, tests, and documentation routing for OpenClaw, Hermes, and Deep Agents Code. The credential-storage guidance remains accurate. No documentation or writing blockers remain.

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Inline comments:
In `@src/lib/actions/sandbox/mcp-bridge-add-restart.ts`:
- Line 375: Move the initial assertNoAttachedProviderCredentialCollisions check
before the prepared manifest write and any recovery detach. In the post-creation
race path around the second check, ensure provider and policy cleanup completes
successfully before restoring the prior registry record, so collision failures
do not preserve partial mutations.

In `@src/lib/actions/sandbox/mcp-bridge-provider-inspection.ts`:
- Around line 178-183: Update the collision check in the entries loop to inspect
every credential key in entry.env, not only entry.env[0]. Detect a collision
when any key belongs to an attachment, while preserving the existing exemption
for the same providerName and providerId.

In `@src/lib/actions/sandbox/mcp-bridge-restart.ts`:
- Line 128: Run assertNoAttachedProviderCredentialCollisions once on the
complete targetEntries collection before the mutation loop in the relevant
restart flow, and apply the same preflight to the complete collection in
restoreExistingMcpBridgeRuntime before its loop. Retain per-entry checks only
where needed for just-in-time revalidation, ensuring no mutations occur before
all entries pass collision validation.
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jyaunches dismissed their stale review August 18, 2026 04:07

Simplicity blocker resolved at exact head c4b71b1; a scope-limited follow-up review records the resolution.

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LOC Reduction / Codebase Simplicity Review

Re-reviewed the exact latest PR commit c4b71b14772549a620ee4a27529eb2dfe401ab90.

The prior blocker is resolved. assertNoAttachedProviderCredentialCollisions now accepts the complete entry collection, returns before unrelated inspection for empty state, inventories attached providers once, and compares that snapshot across all entries. The ordinary rebuild passes the complete collection once, while read-only recovery performs one inventory at each of its two intentional safety checkpoints. The two-entry regression test also protects the one-inventory-per-checkpoint command shape.

I found no new blocking LOC-reduction or codebase-simplicity issue in the updated delta or complete current diff. This is a scope-limited follow-up, not an approval or a correctness, security, or CI review.

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LOC Reduction / Codebase Simplicity Review

Re-reviewed the exact latest PR commit d2d2a3b1d8c37d1ed92a08541802b70c21ee0ab3.

The prior repeated-inventory blocker remains resolved. The substantive commits after the prior resolution add one plural collision preflight before the first mutation in each restart/restore flow, while retaining the singleton checks that close the per-entry race at the mutation edge. The restore regression reuses the existing restart scenario through it.each instead of adding a second end-to-end fixture.

The branch-refresh commits do not reintroduce per-entry full-sandbox inventory inside rebuild checkpoints. I found no new blocking LOC-reduction or codebase-simplicity issue in the updated complete diff. This is a scope-limited follow-up, not an approval or a correctness, security, or CI review.

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Approved on head 0b26693 against base b09eece. This fixes the accepted managed MCP credential-collision defect without adding product surface. The collision paths fail closed before lifecycle mutation; 115 focused tests, CLI typecheck, strict docs validation, and repository validation pass. No actionable automated-review, security, or documentation findings remain. Required GitHub checks remain the authoritative merge gate.

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