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Portable OpenClaw registrations created before #9413 stored agent: null. After #9951, sandbox destroy refused those registrations even when their schema-4 receipt, lifecycle generation, Docker driver, and Podman identity matched. This change admits only the historical null encoding and rejects missing or non-OpenClaw registry identity.

The destroy command also now releases its lifecycle lock before applying a requested nonzero process exit. This keeps fail-closed refusal behavior while allowing a corrected retry to acquire the lock.

Changes

  • Treat agent: null as the historical OpenClaw registry encoding at the Portable destroy authority boundary. The existing guard remains the behavior owner, so this direct comparison change needs no migration or fallback layer.
  • Keep a missing registry record, an omitted agent, Hermes, driver drift, generation drift, receipt drift, socket drift, label drift, container drift, and presence drift rejected before OpenShell deletion.
  • Defer destroy-command process exits until after the lifecycle lock has unwound.
  • Add source tests for the accepted historical encoding, rejected registry identities, changed receipts, changed container presence, lock release before exit, and a successful retry after refusal.

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 security review passed all nine categories. The change preserves receipt, generation, driver, current-user Podman socket, label, container, absence, and foreign-Docker checks. Negative tests prove that omitted or non-OpenClaw registry identity and authority drift stop destroy without direct Podman removal. The lifecycle test proves the lock releases before exit and a later retry succeeds.
  • Non-success, skipped, or missing CI check accepted by maintainer — check name, approval link, and follow-up issue:

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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 — npx vitest run --project cli src/lib/onboard/experimental/portable-demo-lifecycle-authority.test.ts src/lib/actions/sandbox/destroy-flow.test.ts: 2 files and 87 tests passed. npx vitest run --project integration test/growth-guardrails.test.ts: 1 file and 32 tests passed. npm run typecheck:cli and npm run checks:repository 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 to this focused authority guard and its source tests.
  • 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 doc pages only)

Signed-off-by: Prekshi Vyas prekshiv@nvidia.com

Summary by CodeRabbit

  • Bug Fixes
    • Strengthened Portable demo deletion safeguards by validating lifecycle state, container presence, and supported identity values before removal.
    • Prevents deletion when revalidation detects unexpected changes or malformed context.
    • Preserves compatibility with legacy contexts without agent identity.
    • Improves cleanup handling for failed or partially completed sandbox operations.
    • Ensures lifecycle locks are released after failed deletion attempts, allowing safe retries.
  • Diagnostics
    • Added lifecycle timing and outcome tracking for recovery and startup operations.

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Portable destroy validation now covers legacy and invalid authority contexts, identity drift, lock release, and successful retry. Destroy exit handling now preserves exit codes while allowing lifecycle-lock cleanup. Portable recovery now records timing, action states, failure stages, terminal results, and command outcomes.

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Portable lifecycle

Layer / File(s) Summary
Destroy authority validation
src/lib/onboard/experimental/portable-demo-lifecycle-authority.test.ts
Tests accept legacy agent: null contexts and reject missing, incomplete, non-OpenClaw, changed-receipt, absent-container, and changed-identity contexts without issuing removal commands.
Destroy flow cleanup and lock-safe exits
src/lib/actions/sandbox/destroy.ts, src/lib/actions/sandbox/destroy-flow.test.ts, test/helpers/destroy-flow-test-harness.ts
Destroy converts internal exit requests at the public boundary. Tests and the harness verify lock release before exit, skipped cleanup after identity drift, and successful cleanup on retry.
Recovery timing instrumentation
src/lib/onboard/experimental/portable-demo-lifecycle.ts
Recovery records timing, action states, failure stages, terminal results, and classified command outcomes for container, Ollama, gateway, and startup operations.

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

Merge Risk: ⚪ Minimal · up to 00d56

This change restores destruction of legacy Portable registrations while preserving refusal of mismatched identities and releases the lifecycle lock before exit, allowing corrected retries. No actionable merge-blocking risk remains after normal checks and review.

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  • established — Portable identity at src/lib/actions/sandbox/destroy-flow.test.ts:449: Keep the established term.
  • established — lifecycle lock at src/lib/actions/sandbox/destroy-flow.test.ts:449: Keep the established term.

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@senthilr-nv senthilr-nv added integration: openclaw OpenClaw integration behavior area: sandbox OpenShell sandbox lifecycle, runtime, config, or recovery area: security Security controls, permissions, secrets, or hardening bug-fix PR fixes a bug or regression platform: container Affects Docker, containerd, Podman, or images security v0.0.114 labels Aug 23, 2026
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The overall line coverage in commit 00d5671 in the fix/portable-destroy... branch remains at 96%, unchanged from commit cac7571 in the main branch.

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The overall line coverage in commit 00d5671 in the fix/portable-destroy... branch remains at 83%, unchanged from commit cac7571 in the main branch.

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File main cac7571 fix/portable-destroy... 00d5671 +/-
src/lib/onboard...-transaction.ts 93% 90% -3%
src/lib/actions...dbox/destroy.ts 80% 77% -3%
src/lib/onboard...uild-context.ts 86% 86% 0%
src/lib/onboard...mo-lifecycle.ts 81% 81% 0%
src/lib/sandbox...rce-identity.ts 81% 81% 0%

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Reviewed latest PR commit 9efeab9. The legacy Portable destroy path preserves the exact sandbox identity under the intended compatibility conditions, with focused positive and negative coverage. I found no blocking issue. GitHub does not permit a formal approval on a PR authored by the reviewing account.

Signed-off-by: Senthil Ravichandran <senthilr@nvidia.com>
Signed-off-by: Senthil Ravichandran <senthilr@nvidia.com>
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src/lib/actions/sandbox/destroy-flow.test.ts (1)

465-465: 📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🔵 Trivial | ⚡ Quick win

Remove the internal revalidation call-count assertion.

Line 465 checks private call sequencing. The exit result, absent delete, and successful retry already prove the required behavior. Remove this assertion so safe changes to intermediate revalidation do not fail the test.

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-    expect(harness.portableDestroyRevalidateSpy.mock.calls.length).toBeGreaterThanOrEqual(6);

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In `@src/lib/actions/sandbox/destroy-flow.test.ts` at line 465, Remove the
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In `@src/lib/actions/sandbox/destroy-flow.test.ts`:
- Line 465: Remove the portableDestroyRevalidateSpy call-count assertion from
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Approved. Portable destroy refusals now release the lifecycle lock before process exit, preserve receipt-owned identity and cleanup evidence, and allow a corrected retry to reacquire the lock. Focused validation, security review, automated review, and all required product gates are complete.

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