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PR #10277 correctly made Discord required during sandbox creation and bound its credential endpoints to {sandboxName}-discord-bridge. The regression was that Discord activation had two authorities: sandbox-create planning and final policy suggestion. Ambient Discord credentials could influence create planning, while the Open policy tier later suggested Discord even when the completed onboarding selection was empty. The result was a Discord policy referencing a provider that the same sandbox-create plan had not attached.

This change makes the explicit messaging selection authoritative for both sides. An unselected ambient Discord credential cannot activate Discord, and the Open-tier Discord preset is included only when Discord is in the active channel preset set.

Changes

  • Filter credential-backed active channels, provider requests, and reusable providers through the onboarding request's selected channel set.
  • Gate the Open-tier Discord suggestion on that same explicit channel selection for OpenClaw as well as Hermes.
  • Record exact provider names referenced by the materialized create-time policy and reject the plan before sandbox creation if any referenced provider is absent from its create-provider set.
  • Keep Discord requiredAtCreate: true, keep its credential bindings unchanged, and keep OpenShell's fail-closed validation unchanged.

Startup ordering and invariant

The fix preserves #10277's intended ordering: when Discord is selected and configured, its preset is materialized into the create-time policy and {sandbox}-discord-bridge is attached by sandbox create --provider before OpenClaw boots.

The enforced invariant is: every credential provider referenced by a materialized create-time policy must be present in the provider set of that same sandbox-create plan. Policy selection cannot add Discord merely because an ambient repository secret or reusable credential exists.

Six-job blast radius

Run 32909322579 deterministically failed these six unrelated OpenClaw jobs with the dangling Discord binding:

  • Inference: rejects unsafe routes and proves runtime identities.
  • Networking: OpenClaw reaches a public reference through open egress.
  • Tunnel: starts, probes, and stops a public dashboard tunnel.
  • Messaging: treats Telegram shell metacharacters as data.
  • Messaging: shares OpenClaw Slack pairing approval.
  • CLI: routes sessions and agents to OpenClaw.

The intended Discord pairing job was green. Full E2E validation will occur on PR #10113 after this fix lands.

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: Credentials remain gateway-side, exact provider references are validated before mutation, and OpenShell remains fail closed.
  • 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; no DGX Station host path changed.
  • Station profile/scenario: Not applicable.
  • Result: Not applicable.
  • Supporting evidence: Not applicable.

Verification

  • 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 on exact head 38f2882c7c6e177f35ca0880e6b3ef5276fa1c85.
  • Targeted merged-tree validation passed:
    • Sandbox create-plan and initial-policy suites — 202 passed.
    • Onboarding messaging and policy-suggestion integration suites — 71 passed.
    • Slack E2E fixture support suite — 29 passed.
    • Codebase growth guardrails — 32 passed.
    • npm run typecheck and npm run typecheck:cli — passed.
    • Oxfmt, Oxlint, repository checks, secret scan, semantic E2E phases, source-shape budget, and growth guardrails — passed in commit hooks.
  • Exact-head PR CI is green: all checks passed or were legitimately skipped; zero failed or pending checks.
  • All exact-head base images built and validated: run 32937576185.
    • OpenClaw, Hermes, Deep Agents Code, and Pi passed on amd64 and arm64; all four multi-arch manifests passed.
  • Exact-head all-agent managed-image publication and runtime proof passed: run 32937478389.
    • OpenClaw, Hermes, and Deep Agents Code exact startup contracts passed; all-agent activation and both OpenClaw MCP discovery passes were green.
  • All six regressed OpenClaw E2Es passed on exact candidate 38f2882c7c6e177f35ca0880e6b3ef5276fa1c85: run 32940288124.
    • Common egress, inference routing, sessions/agents CLI, Telegram injection, tunnel lifecycle, and Slack pairing all passed.
    • The trusted controller resolved the exact PR managed-image catalog, checked out and packaged the exact candidate, and ran no unrelated catalogue target.
  • Applicable broad gate passed — exact-head CI / Pull Request, CodeQL, security scanning, advisor specialists, and managed-image qualification are green.
  • 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

  • New Features

    • Messaging setup supports optional channel selections while preserving eligible providers when no channels are specified.
    • Staged sandbox plans can supply active messaging channels during setup.
    • Discord suggestions now work consistently across supported agents and respect selected channels.
  • Bug Fixes

    • Invalid or incomplete credential bindings are rejected before sandbox creation.
    • Unselected messaging credentials no longer create unintended providers.
    • Messaging provider retention and Slack pairing behavior are now more reliable.

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src/lib/onboard...cy-selection.ts 99% 99% 0%
src/lib/sandbox...rce-identity.ts 82% 82% 0%
src/lib/onboard...erialization.ts 84% 86% +2%
src/lib/onboard...reate-intent.ts 69% 71% +2%

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Walkthrough

Sandbox creation now validates credential-bound provider names, resolves messaging channels from staged plans, filters providers by channel state, and rejects plans that lack policy-required providers. E2E workflows now separate trusted workflow revisions from candidate checkouts and validate a pinned managed-image catalog.

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Sandbox creation

Layer / File(s) Summary
Policy credential provider extraction
src/lib/onboard/initial-policy.ts
InitialSandboxPolicy records validated, deduplicated providers referenced by credential bindings.
Selected messaging channel filtering
src/lib/onboard/sandbox-create-intent-resolution.ts, src/lib/onboard/sandbox-create-intent.ts
Intent resolution uses staged messaging plans. Provider filtering distinguishes omitted selections from explicit selections and applies active and disabled channel state.
Create-plan provider validation
src/lib/onboard/sandbox-create-plan-materialization.ts
Plan materialization validates required providers before policy disclosure, applies policy-scoped channels, and orders provider cleanup and attachment.
Channel and policy suggestion validation
src/lib/onboard/sandbox-create-plan.test.ts, test/onboarding/onboard-messaging.test.ts, src/lib/onboard/policy-selection.ts, test/onboarding/onboard-policy-suggestions.test.ts
Tests cover Discord selection, provider attachment, missing providers, cleanup ordering, reusable-provider retention, credential loss, absent messaging plans, and Discord preset filtering.

E2E workflow validation

Layer / File(s) Summary
Pairing policy host routing
test/e2e/live/openclaw-pairing-helpers.ts, test/e2e/live/openclaw-slack-pairing.test.ts, test/e2e/support/openclaw-discord-pairing-helpers.test.ts
Pairing tests use separate hosts for Slack WebSocket and REST traffic. applyFakePolicy accepts an optional policy host.
Trusted workflow SHA validation
.github/workflows/e2e.yaml, tools/e2e/operations-workflow-boundary.mts, test/e2e/support/e2e-operations-workflow-boundary.test.ts
Manual PR authorization and checkout validation use the trusted controller workflow SHA separately from the candidate checkout SHA.
Managed-image catalog reuse validation
.github/workflows/e2e.yaml, tools/e2e/workflow-boundary.mts
The workflow assembles and validates a pinned managed-image catalog for the specified candidate revision.

Estimated code review effort: 4 (Complex) | ~45 minutes

Merge Risk: 🔵 Low · up to 55958

The PR correctly makes explicit Discord selection authoritative and prevents policies from referencing unattached providers, with targeted validation passing. It is mergeable with owner awareness or follow-up for two bounded test-maintenance issues: one title format violation and one routing test that does not exercise the WebSocket and REST boundaries directly.

Sequence Diagram(s)

sequenceDiagram
  participant PolicyPreparation
  participant SandboxCreateIntent
  participant SandboxCreatePlanMaterialization
  participant ProviderSet
  PolicyPreparation->>SandboxCreateIntent: provide credential providers and effective policy
  SandboxCreateIntent->>SandboxCreatePlanMaterialization: pass filtered intent and active channels
  SandboxCreatePlanMaterialization->>ProviderSet: validate required credential providers
  ProviderSet-->>SandboxCreatePlanMaterialization: return attached provider set
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Test the pairing script at a behavioral boundary.

This test only matches source text. It does not verify that net.createConnection uses host.docker.internal or that http.request uses host.openshell.internal. A future edit can leave these literals in the function declarations while routing traffic through another host, and this test will still pass. Exercise the existing Vitest E2E path with distinct fake endpoints, or extract a small host-routing boundary and assert its observable endpoints.

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hunglp6d added a commit to HOYALIM/NemoClaw that referenced this pull request Aug 27, 2026
Resolve the conflict against NVIDIA#10314 and NVIDIA#10281 by keeping main's suggestion gate
and its shared inactive-preset helper. The original wrapper-based prune is
dropped here and replaced by an agent-set change in the next commit.

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… 0.0.106 (#10273)

## Summary

A sandbox reads its provider environment once, at boot, and the agent
process inherits that read for the life of the container. Any channel
credential that only becomes injectable after boot therefore never
reaches the running agent, and no restart recovers it — only recreating
the sandbox does. This change makes every messaging credential
injectable before the agent starts, and stops the agent config from
shadowing the injected value once it arrives.

## Related Issue

Part of #10079. It does not close that issue: WeChat and Teams on Hermes
are untouched here and are described below.

## Changes

- **Bind the credential in the policy preset and apply that preset at
boot.** The provider profiles are endpointless, so the binding is the
only thing that makes the token injectable, and `requiredAtCreate` is
what puts the preset in the boot policy rather than a post-boot apply.
Without both, OpenShell withholds the credential entirely (`withholding
static provider credential handle from endpointless profile`). Bindings
this PR adds:
  - Telegram — both agents.
  - Teams — OpenClaw.
  - Slack — OpenClaw; the Hermes side landed on `main` as #10271.

  Discord already carried the binding on both agents before this branch.
- **Pass the sandbox name through both policy preflights.** Channel
presets bind `{sandboxName}-<channel>-bridge`, so composing one without
a sandbox name throws. Two paths dropped the name after resolving it:
- `preflightPolicyRequirements` resolves it for the sandbox inspection.
- `prepareSandboxCreatePolicy` has it on the create intent, and is the
path the external-authority onboarding flow takes.

#10314 fixed the sibling site inside `materializeSandboxCreatePlan`;
these two were still uncovered. Four tests composed presets directly and
mirrored the old shape, which let the composition error escape the test
body and kill a whole vitest shard.
- **Stop persisting the canonical placeholder in agent config.**
OpenShell 0.0.106 refuses the canonical form once a credential is
identity-bound, so the shape that used to work is now the one shape the
credential endpoint rejects. Removed:
- OpenClaw config — `botToken` for Telegram, `botToken` and `appToken`
for Slack, `appPassword` for Teams.
- Hermes `~/.hermes/.env` — the Telegram, Slack, and Discord token
lines.
- The Slack manifest's legacy `slackRuntimeEnvAliases` normalization,
which existed only to rewrite those placeholders.

Each agent now reads the key from its process environment, which
OpenShell fills with the revision-scoped placeholder at boot.
- **Prune stale credential keys from the Hermes env file.** Hermes loads
`~/.hermes/.env` with `override=True`, so a leftover canonical
placeholder from an earlier onboarding shadows the injected process
value and the channel stays unauthenticated. Four gaps kept that line
alive:
- Cleanup lived only in `applyAgentConfigAtOpenShell`, whose sole
production caller returns early for any non-OpenClaw plan. The Hermes
runtime applier merged env lines and never removed any.
- `readEnvLineKey` read `export KEY` as the key, so an export-prefixed
assignment matched nothing.
- Deletion keys came from the persisted plan, so a binding naming an
unrelated key could remove an operator-owned line.
- A plan encoded before the credential moved to a policy binding still
carries the token in `agentRender`, and rebuild refreshes only host
forwards and runtime setup, so the render reintroduced the line the
cleanup had just removed.

The rules now live in one module both appliers use: read the key from
either assignment form, take deletion authority from the channel
manifest rather than persisted state, treat a rendered key as wanted
only while the manifests still assign a credential to it, and visit an
owned target even when the plan renders nothing into it. WeChat and
Teams render their Hermes credential under a different key than the
provider env key, so the assignment metadata, not the provider key,
decides what survives. Each rule was checked by removing it and
confirming the new tests fail.
- **Wait for the first gateway mint before creating the sandbox.**
`provider refresh configure` returns while the credential is still the
create-time sentinel and the refresh worker mints on its own sweep, so
the sandbox was booting inside that window and pinning a revision whose
value is the sentinel. The poll itself accepted any status table it
could parse and counted attempts only, so two failure modes also passed
through:
- A nonzero `provider refresh status` can still print a stale
`refreshed` row, which was read as success.
- Attempts do not bound the wait; one probe with no timeout can hang and
the loop never reaches its cap.

It now requires exit status 0 before trusting a row, gives each probe a
command timeout, and stops at an overall deadline. Current requirement
and consumer: Google Chat, the only channel with a gateway-minted
credential. Failing closed stays correct: creating the sandbox before
the first mint pins the create-time sentinel for the life of the
container. The `configureMessagingBridgeRefreshes` tests cover the
success and the never-minted path, and the optional `sleep` dependency
is a test injection point, not a configuration surface.
- **Make the Google Chat outbound preload forward the injected
placeholder verbatim.** Rewriting it to the canonical form produced
`credential_unavailable` on every send.
- **Keep preserved Hermes env lines anchored to an enabled channel.**
They were dropped whenever no enabled channel happened to render a
`~/.hermes/.env` entry — which is now the common case, since the token
lines are gone.
- **Add two drift guards over the real policy files.** A preset that
declares `credential_binding` must be `requiredAtCreate`, and a host and
port declared twice must carry distinct path selectors. Each guard was
checked by reintroducing the defect and confirming it fails.
- **Align the Discord render assertion added by #10277.** That PR fixed
the OpenClaw half; the Hermes Discord policy already bound every
endpoint to `{sandboxName}-discord-bridge`, so rendering the canonical
placeholder into `~/.hermes/.env` wrote the one shape the credential
endpoint refuses.
- **Refresh the reviewed managed-startup bundle.**
`managed-startup-image-runtime.bundle` embeds the channel manifests, so
the manifest changes above made `bundle:reviewed:check` fail in
`static-checks`. Regenerated from the merged tree; the delta is 8
blocks, all of them the credential renders removed above plus the two
`requiredAtCreate` flags.

Three overlapping fixes landed on `main` while this PR was open and are
merged in here: #10271 (the Hermes Slack `path` selector), #10277 (the
OpenClaw half of Discord), and #10314 (binding the Discord create-path
providers). This branch keeps only an explanatory comment on
`slack/policy/hermes.yaml`; the behavior there is main's. #10314 fixed
the `materializeSandboxCreatePlan` call site; the two preflight call
sites it left uncovered are fixed here.

## Channel coverage after this change

| Channel | OpenClaw | Hermes | Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Slack | fixed | fixed | live, bot replied — Hermes policy selector
landed separately as #10271 |
| Discord | fixed | fixed | live, bot replied — OpenClaw half landed
separately as #10277 |
| Google Chat | fixed | fixed | live, bot replied |
| Telegram | fixed | fixed | live, bot replied on both |
| Teams | fixed | not covered | withholding log observed, no live run |
| WeChat | not covered | not covered | not measured |
| WhatsApp | unaffected | unaffected | injects no provider credential
(QR pairing) |

Every `fixed` row except Teams was confirmed by an actual bot reply on a
freshly wiped host, not by test output alone. For Telegram, both agents
were run against OpenShell 0.0.106: each sandbox booted with the
revision-scoped placeholder in its agent process, the policy matched the
redacted `/bot[CREDENTIAL]/` path, and the bot answered — with no denial
and no credential error across five hours of OpenClaw polling and twenty
minutes of Hermes polling.

Out of scope here:

- **WeChat** — injects a provider credential with no endpoints on the
profile and no `credential_binding`. Telegram's shape, so the same
withholding is expected, but it was not measured, so it is not claimed.
- **Teams on Hermes** — Hermes reads `TEAMS_CLIENT_SECRET`, the provider
injects `MSTEAMS_APP_PASSWORD`. A name mismatch, not the ordering
defect.

## Known gaps, deliberately out of scope

- **Ready-sandbox reuse does not migrate messaging config.** Both reuse
branches in `sandbox-create/orchestration.ts` revalidate policy, seed
presets, upsert providers, restore the dashboard, and return. A sandbox
that booted without the injected provider environment cannot be repaired
by pruning `~/.hermes/.env` — it needs a recreate decision in the
existing drift guard beside `credentialRotation.changed`, which is a new
drift signal rather than a cleanup change. Nearest coverage: the create
and rebuild paths this PR fixes.
- **`remove-channel` on a legacy plan leaves that channel's placeholder
line behind.** `removePlanChannel()` drops the credential binding and
the render together, so cleanup has no ownership evidence for the key.
The residue is a placeholder rather than a credential, is inert once the
provider is removed, and is pruned if the channel is added again.

## 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)
- [ ] Sensitive-path review completed or maintainer-approved waiver
recorded — reviewer/approval link/justification: outstanding; this
change touches messaging credentials, network policy presets, and the
onboarding provider path, so it needs a maintainer sensitive-path review
before merge.
- [ ] Non-success, skipped, or missing CI check accepted by maintainer —
check name, approval link, and follow-up issue: four checks are red on
this branch and none of them is reachable from it. `CLI` fails its
coverage gate on `src/lib/policy/commands.ts` at 88.88% against the 100%
threshold that #9511 declares for `src/lib/policy/{commands,merge}.ts`,
and `Required Checks` fails only because `CLI` does. `PR / Agent
runtimes / Test activation` and both `PR / OpenClaw / MCP Discovery`
runs fail on the same assertion, `Sandbox policy authority validation
failed after creation`, in `managed-image-activation-e2e.test.ts` and
`mcp-bridge.test.ts`. All four were red on #10332's own PR run before it
merged, with a byte-identical coverage error, and #10332 both rewrote
`src/lib/policy/commands.ts` and added its `commands.test.ts`. Bucketing
open PRs by base confirms the boundary: `ac3ebe9aa` (#10384, the direct
parent of #10332) passes those checks, while `1293457d3` (#10332 itself,
#10392), `1effafb3f` (#10391), and `6062006e6` (this PR, #10397) all
fail. This branch changes nothing under `src/lib/policy/`, and the
failing image runs configure no messaging channel, so no preset from
this PR is composed on that path.

## DGX Station Hardware Evidence

Not applicable — `scripts/prepare-dgx-station-host.sh` is unchanged.

- [ ] Tested on DGX Station
- Tested commit:
- Station profile/scenario:
- Result:
- Supporting evidence:

## 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 — command/result or justification: `npx
vitest run --project cli src/lib/messaging
src/lib/onboard/sandbox-create-plan.test.ts
src/lib/onboard/messaging-bridge-provider.test.ts
src/lib/onboard/policy-authority/preflight.test.ts
src/lib/actions/sandbox/policy-channel-remove-flow.test.ts` — 69 files,
785 pass; `npx vitest run --project integration test/runtime/messaging
test/runtime/policy test/generation
test/channels/channels-add-bridge-lifecycle.test.ts
test/onboard-external-policy-authority-composition.test.ts` — 77 files,
1359 pass, and 6 failures in `whatsapp-qr-compact.test.ts` that come
from `qrcode` not being installed on this host; `npm run typecheck:cli`,
`npm --prefix nemoclaw run typecheck`, `npm run checks:repository`, and
`npm --prefix tools/mcp-tool-discovery-runtime run
bundle:reviewed:check` all pass. CI confirms the branch itself: all 12
`CLI / Shard` jobs, `Static Checks`, `Build and type-check`, `Installer
Integration`, and `Plugin` pass on the merged head.
- [ ] 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; this
changes messaging manifests, policy presets, and one onboarding step,
not the runtime, the test harness, or repo-wide validation.
- [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: Hung Le <hple@nvidia.com>

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## Summary by CodeRabbit

* **Security & Reliability**
* Messaging credentials are injected at runtime instead of written to
configuration files.
* Stale credential entries are removed while unrelated environment
settings are preserved.
* Google Chat authentication supports revision-scoped credentials and
dynamic refresh.

* **Messaging Channels**
* Updated Telegram, Teams, Slack, Discord, and Google Chat credential
handling.
  * Slack access distinguishes Socket Mode from Web API traffic.
  * Added credential-bound network policies for Telegram and Teams.

* **Onboarding**
* Credential setup now waits for successful token issuance and reports
clear failures.
  * Channel policies support sandbox-specific credential providers.
<!-- end of auto-generated comment: release notes by coderabbit.ai -->

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