fix(onboard): admit Docker-less native Podman

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Summary

Allows explicitly selected, registered native runtime providers to own host readiness without being blocked by Docker-only availability, reachability, runtime, or storage requirements. This restores the documented Docker-less native Podman installer path while keeping default Docker, platform, GPU, gateway, and unrelated blockers fail-closed.

Related Issue

Fixes #10891

Changes

• Add an explicit, registry-validated provider-owned host-readiness boundary and use it in both CLI onboarding and installer preflight.
• Keep default Docker and Docker-backed managed vLLM fail-closed; Docker-less native Podman still runs its own doctor, GPU, bridge, and DNS checks.
• Prove the public installer path with Docker removed on the Podman E2E lane, post-install Docker absence, retained evidence, and fail-safe restoration ordering.
• Align prerequisites, quickstarts, platform support, inference, security, and troubleshooting guidance with the implemented boundary.

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)

Verification

• npx prek run --all-files passes
• npm test passes without unrelated infrastructure failures
• Tests added or updated for new or changed behavior
• No secrets, API keys, or credentials committed
• Docs updated for user-facing behavior changes
• Documentation validation passes with zero errors
• Doc pages follow the style guide
• New doc pages include SPDX header and frontmatter (new pages only)

Exact-head evidence for 68893d8bfc36e2e30c2b9a18449d43e5ec26c3cd:

• PR Review Advisor: all nine specialists succeeded; every artifact was inspected and reports no remaining finding.
• CodeRabbit reviewed the exact head, confirmed both requested fixes, accepted Podman ownsHostReadiness: true, and has zero unresolved threads.
• Rootless Podman CPU Qualification: success with Docker disabled.
• Managed Images: all ten jobs succeeded, including exact all-agent activation and both OpenClaw MCP discovery passes.
• Focused E2E: cloud-onboard / podman / public-nvidia succeeded. The retained receipt records dockerClientAvailable: false at /usr/bin/docker; the post-install command -v docker probe exited 1; installer, sandbox, inference/security checks, restoration, and cleanup passed.
• Code scanning, installer hashes, DCO, docs, CLI/installer parity, governance, local focused suites, mock/live parity, growth guardrails, CLI typecheck, repository checks, Fern validation, lint, and commit/push hooks passed.

Known unrelated CI state:

• The full Linux package-contract runner passed 1,238 tests but npm 10.9.8 crashed in managed-image-registry-transport.test.ts with upstream npm/cli issue #9787. The exact test passes standalone and the same npm crash is present on unrelated PRs; three exact-head attempts reproduced the npm defect.
• Self-hosted image qualification has two pre-existing migration failures that reproduce on the prior head and are owned by separate PR test(e2e): finish sandbox image suite migration #10941. This PR does not change those image/test surfaces.

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Walkthrough

The installer now supports explicitly selected native rootless Podman runtimes. Provider-owned host readiness bypasses Docker-specific admission checks. Managed vLLM remains Docker-backed. E2E workflows hide and restore Docker during Podman tests, and documentation describes the runtime requirements.

Changes

Native Podman onboarding

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Runtime readiness ownership contract src/lib/onboard/runtime-provider/*, src/lib/onboard/docker-driver-gateway-env.ts, src/lib/onboard/*readiness-owner*.test.ts	Runtime gateway surfaces declare whether they own host readiness. Podman reports ownership. Docker, Kubernetes, and MXC report false. Validation and tests cover the contract.
Installer and admission flow scripts/install.sh, src/lib/readiness/*, src/lib/onboard/fatal-runtime-preflight.ts, src/lib/onboard/preflight.ts, test/package-contract/installer-host-preflight.test.ts	Installer preflight passes provider-owned readiness into admission and advisory planning. Provider-owned runtimes bypass Docker findings and capabilities while unrelated blockers remain failures.
Managed vLLM Docker gate src/lib/onboard/provider-host-state.ts, src/lib/onboard/vllm-menu.ts, src/lib/inference/serving/profile-list.ts, src/lib/onboard/*test.ts, src/lib/inference/serving/profile-list.test.ts	Managed vLLM detection and selection require Docker. Existing local vLLM attachment remains separate. Tests cover Docker-less hosts and native Podman onboarding.
E2E Docker isolation validation .github/workflows/e2e.yaml, tools/e2e/workflow-boundary.mts, test/e2e/live/cloud-onboard.test.ts, test/e2e/support/e2e-host-dependency-workflow-boundary.test.ts	Podman E2E runs hide Docker, record recovery state, verify Docker absence, and restore Docker in an unconditional cleanup step. Boundary tests validate paths, commands, exports, and ordering.
Runtime and vLLM documentation docs/get-started/*, docs/inference/*, docs/reference/*, docs/security/best-practices.mdx, ci/platform-matrix.json	Documentation identifies Docker as the default runtime, documents native rootless Podman selection and limitations, and states that managed vLLM requires Docker on PATH.

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

Merge Risk: ⚪ Minimal · up to 68893

This change restores Docker-less native Podman onboarding while retaining Docker requirements for Docker-backed paths and managed vLLM. No concrete unresolved merge-readiness risk is identified.

Sequence Diagram(s)

sequenceDiagram
  participant Installer
  participant RuntimeGateway
  participant Admission
  participant Onboarding
  Installer->>RuntimeGateway: Resolve readiness ownership
  RuntimeGateway-->>Installer: Return Podman ownership
  Installer->>Admission: Evaluate readiness
  Admission-->>Installer: Return admission result
  Installer->>Onboarding: Start onboarding
  Onboarding-->>Installer: Complete without Docker

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Check name	Status	Explanation	Resolution
Out of Scope Changes check	⚠️ Warning	Most changes support native Podman readiness, installer behavior, tests, E2E validation, or related documentation. The unrelated reformatting of the mcp-bridge-dev dependency expression in `tools/e2…	Revert the behavior-neutral mcp-bridge-dev dependency-expression reformatting, or document a separate objective that requires it.
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Linked Issues check	✅ Passed	The changes satisfy issue #10891 by allowing explicitly selected native rootless Podman to own host-readiness checks without Docker, while preserving Docker requirements for Docker-backed paths and ma…
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Title check	✅ Passed	The title clearly and concisely describes the main change: allowing Docker-less native Podman onboarding.

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The changes satisfy issue #10891 by allowing explicitly selected native rootless Podman to own host-readiness checks without Docker, while preserving Docker requirements for Docker-backed paths and managed vLLM.

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_{Updated September 03, 2026 13:12 UTC}

[ericksoa]

Addressed the Test Design Advisor finding at exact head 6238e9eb4: removed the parsed-workflow/source-shape test; the existing runtime-provider prerequisite now performs the real command -v docker absence probe only for the opted-in native-Podman cloud-onboard lane, while the workflow restore step verifies command resolution returns the exact restored path. Focused runtime-provider and growth tests pass 40/40, changed-file hooks pass, and mock/live parity passes.

[ericksoa]

Addressed the exact-head 6238e9e advisor blockers in 785fc30b9: configuredRuntimeProviderOwnsHostReadiness() now lives beside prepareConfiguredGatewayHostRuntime() and is consumed by both installer and CLI preflight; the E2E prerequisite now uses HostCliClient.isCommandAvailable() instead of duplicating the shell probe. Focused shared-owner/admission/CLI/installer/E2E tests pass 70/70, installer integration admission cases pass 5/5, growth passes 33/33, typecheck/repository checks/hooks pass.

[ericksoa]

Addressed the remaining Design/Architecture advisor blocker at exact head 82d2bd0e0919e40cb16a4351eab4a6f7232b658d.

The gateway contract now declares ownsHostReadiness explicitly. Native Podman alone sets it to true; Docker, portable compatibility, MXC, and Kubernetes remain on standard Docker readiness. The shared ownership check still prepares the selected gateway host runtime first, preserving fail-closed host validation, but no longer infers authority from sandboxHostAddress topology.

Added a regression where Docker preparation returns a non-null sandbox host address and still cannot waive Docker readiness.

Local verification:

• focused provider/admission/installer/E2E-fixture tests: 121/121
• installer storage-admission integration: 5/5
• growth guardrails: 47/47
• CLI typecheck, oxlint, repository checks, commit hooks, and push hooks: green

[ericksoa]

Advisor disposition for exact head 6d92ea889563467f88ec5ce7e5956c8433abf836:

• Design/Architecture — fixed. configuredRuntimeProviderOwnsHostReadiness() now resolves and validates the supported gateway and reads only its declarative capability. It no longer invokes prepareHostRuntime(), so readiness admission cannot reach native Podman loopback mutation. Runtime preparation remains in the later effectful provider preflight and gateway startup paths. Added regressions proving the ownership query never prepares runtime topology and an unrelated GPU blocker rejects before native Podman host preparation.
• Dependency/Use TOML parser — not a fix(onboard): admit Docker-less native Podman #10900 change. The cited parser is byte-for-byte present in the PR base 8c974afaa6e92b6480a4bc8b11eb918616851b44; blame attributes it to d091ff0d78 from 2026-06-30. fix(onboard): admit Docker-less native Podman #10900 neither adds nor modifies that parser, so changing it here would be unrelated scope expansion.

Focused verification after the fix:

• ownership/fatal-preflight/installer contract: 48/48
• broader focused provider/admission suite: 122/122 before the one-line fixture enum correction
• CLI typecheck, formatting, lint, repository checks, commit hooks, and push hook: green

[ericksoa]

Addressed the Code/Reduction advisor blocker at exact head 41d67ecc9645f43ff3560a0d4289f362224c90a8.

The workflow already verifies Docker CLI absence after moving the allowlisted binary and before starting the live test. The shared runtime fixture repeated that same pre-install check, so I removed the fixture flag/branch and its three tests. Docker absence is now owned only by the trusted workflow.

I added the invariant to the existing E2E workflow validator: it now requires the native-Podman predicate, allowlisted source paths, exact move-aside, fail-closed command -v docker check, absence artifact, saved restore path, unconditional Podman restoration, exact move-back verification, and hide/test/restore ordering.

Verification:

• workflow host-boundary suite: 10/10 with the repository-supported slow-environment timeout override
• runtime-provider fixture: 4/4
• CLI typecheck, formatting, oxlint including complexity, repository checks, YAML validation, E2E phase semantics, source-shape/growth gates, commit hooks, and push hook: green
• cleanup is net negative: 100 additions / 113 deletions

[ericksoa]

Focused E2E run 33706560478 exposed a deterministic controller defect before fanout: the exact-head managed-image artifact downloaded and passed its digest/size checks, but materializeContractArchive() rejected it as not containing exactly one contract.json.

Root cause: GitHub emitted the valid single-file ZIP with standard general-purpose bit 3 and a signed data descriptor. readValidatedArtifactZipEntries() intentionally rejected all bit-3 archives, so the controller could not consume the immutable artifact produced by our own green managed-image workflow.

Fixed at exact head 5f912729c7ac13b2e06d276754304e42558e0027:

• accept signed and signatureless data descriptors;
• still reject encryption;
• require descriptor CRC, compressed size, and uncompressed size to exactly match the central directory;
• require descriptor-owned local CRC/sizes to remain zero;
• retain inflation bounds and final CRC/size verification.

Verification:

• artifact ZIP / exact artifact / PR managed-image publication tests: 83/83
• same-commit reliability + native qualification collector: 43/43
• the exact downloaded failing artifact now materializes as one contract.json (617 bytes)
• CLI typecheck, lint, repository checks, commit hooks, and push hook: green

[ericksoa]

Integrated current main at exact head ce0b8f0c6148a4bb1a21fb43b8abd1b6e49ac649 because #10900 became genuinely conflicting in the artifact ZIP reader/tests after #10902 landed.

The two conflicting files now match main exactly, adopting #10902’s stricter implementation (explicit supported-flag allowlist plus descriptor-boundary validation). The branch is 0 commits behind main; the Podman readiness/public-installer changes remain intact.

Post-merge verification:

• artifact/reliability/publication tests: 135/135
• Podman/admission/installer/workflow tests: 129/129
• exact downloaded GitHub managed-image contract parses successfully
• CLI typecheck, repository checks, and push hook: green

[ericksoa]

Addressed the Documentation drift advisor finding at exact head f227f4be0.

Updated Prerequisites plus both Quickstarts to state that Docker is the default/primary provider, while qualified Linux hosts can explicitly select native rootless Podman with NEMOCLAW_GATEWAY_RUNTIME=podman without a Docker CLI or daemon. The pages link to the existing Platform Support and Podman troubleshooting requirements and preserve the separate portable-profile Docker-compatible CLI requirement.

Verification: markdownlint clean; generated agent variants synchronized; docs routes clean; Fern validation reports 0 errors (5 existing non-blocking warnings); commit hooks green.

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Remediated the final-head Customer value and Documentation drift findings at exact head d564b006a.

Managed vLLM is now rejected before provider effects whenever Docker is absent:

• host discovery checks the Docker command before any vLLM image inspection;
• explicit NEMOCLAW_PROVIDER=install-vllm logs Managed vLLM install/start requires Docker on PATH and is removed from the available providers;
• the interactive managed-vLLM entry is omitted on qualified GPU hosts without Docker;
• an already-running local vLLM remains attachable as the documented separate path.

Generic troubleshooting now scopes image-push runtime wording, daemon recovery, and Docker-group access to the default Docker path and routes explicitly selected native-Podman users to the Podman section.

Local evidence: vLLM menu/host/provider suites 84/84; Docker-absent profile/command suites 76/76; CLI typecheck; repository architecture/import checks; generated docs sync; Fern validation with 0 errors; commit and push hooks green.

[ericksoa]

Follow-up at exact head 3d67ada41: the final-head shard-6 failure was deterministic fixture drift, not a product regression. Two existing onboarding integration scenarios stubbed the indirect command probe but did not model Docker-present, so the new Docker gate correctly removed managed vLLM. Their fixtures now return /usr/bin/docker for the real command -v "$1" -- docker probe. The exact failing test file is 7/7 green locally; growth and commit/push hooks pass.

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Remediated the final Documentation drift report at exact head f980d3973.

• Deep Agents now documents Docker as the default and the qualified Docker-less native-Podman selector, matching OpenClaw and Hermes.
• The canonical provider matrix and both local-provider tables state that managed vLLM install/start requires Docker on PATH and distinguish already-running vLLM attachment.
• Generated agent variants and platform tables were refreshed from their canonical sources.

Local docs validation: route checks green; generated-content checks green; Fern check 0 errors.

[ericksoa]

Remediated the remaining Documentation drift report at exact head dfc1bb157.

The detailed managed-vLLM setup guide, both local-server comparison tables, and security best-practices defaults/opt-ins now all state the same boundary: managed install/start requires Docker on PATH; Docker-less native-Podman users must attach an already-running vLLM server or install Docker first.

Generated agent variants were refreshed and the full docs validation/Fern check completed with 0 errors.

[ericksoa]

Addressed the two valid advisor findings in 84a1fd651: runtime-provider registration now rejects a missing/non-boolean gateway.ownsHostReadiness, with Docker/Podman contract coverage; and the E2E workflow boundary now requires the NEMOCLAW_E2E_DISABLED_DOCKER_CLI producer export used by cleanup. Local evidence: 80 focused tests passed, repository checks passed, oxlint passed, and push-time CLI typecheck passed. All exact-head CI, advisor specialists, and the focused Docker-absent Podman E2E will be rerun before ready/merge.

[ericksoa]

Addressed the final-head advisor artifact findings in 5b164f63f: the workflow now exports both Docker recovery paths before moving the CLI, and its checked-in boundary test rejects moves that precede either export. The live cloud-onboard test now records a post-install command -v docker probe for every runtime lane and requires Docker to remain absent for native Podman (and present for Docker). Local evidence: workflow boundary 11/11, growth guardrails 33/33, CLI typecheck, oxlint, repository checks, YAML validation, and commit/push hooks all passed. Restarting the full exact-head audit and focused Docker-absent Podman E2E.

[ericksoa]

Closed the CI mock-parity gate in d6040f5a3 by registering the already-changed e2e-host-dependency-workflow-boundary suite as a fast parity owner for cloud-onboard. Exact-base parity check now passes; parity unit tests are 15/15 and the mapped workflow-boundary suite is 11/11. Restarting exact-head CI/advisor/E2E audit at d6040f5a3.

[ericksoa]

Addressed the remaining advisor artifact findings in 5a99be2f5: fixed both renamed quickstart anchors, and added caller-level detectInferenceProviderHostState() coverage proving Docker absence yields no cached image, no interactive managed-vLLM entry, no explicit managed-vLLM entry, and the Docker-required diagnostic. Local evidence: provider-state/vLLM 41/41, growth guardrails 33/33, Fern check 0 errors, CLI typecheck/lint, repository checks, and all commit/push hooks passed. Restarting the exact-head audit.

[ericksoa]

Ready for review at exact head 5a99be2f52: all nine advisor artifacts report no remaining finding; all PR CI, code scanning, docs, rootless Podman qualification, and managed-image jobs are green; focused Docker-absent native Podman public-installer E2E run 33754191324 passed with retained pre-install absence, post-install absence, and cleanup evidence.

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Inline comments:
In `@docs/get-started/quickstart.mdx`:
- Line 181: Clarify the no-Docker statement in the quickstart to scope it to the
gateway runtime, explicitly noting that managed local vLLM remains Docker-backed
and Docker-less users should select an existing local vLLM server instead.

In `@src/lib/onboard/command.test.ts`:
- Around line 912-914: Update the test around resolveServingProfileSelection to
derive serving-profile compatibility from the production listServingProfiles
callback instead of supplying compatible: false directly. Construct the profile
entries with Docker-unavailable readiness inputs, then assert that the
onboarding boundary rejects managed vLLM installation.

In `@src/lib/onboard/runtime-provider/podman.ts`:
- Line 281: Update the Podman runtime provider configuration so
ownsHostReadiness is false, preserving the readiness bypass exclusively for
Docker and ensuring Podman findings and required-capability checks are evaluated
normally.

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Addressed the two valid CodeRabbit findings in 68893d8bf: scoped the no-Docker quickstart statement to the native Podman gateway with the managed-vLLM Docker exception, and changed the onboarding test to derive incompatibility through production listServingProfiles using Docker-unavailable readiness evidence. The third suggestion was rejected because setting Podman ownsHostReadiness false would reintroduce #10891; the admission waiver remains limited to standard Docker findings/capabilities and Podman effectful health checks still run. Local focused tests 76/76, growth guardrails 33/33, Fern 0 errors, typecheck/lint/repository/commit hooks all passed.

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Pinned admin-merge preflight passed for 68893d8bfc36e2e30c2b9a18449d43e5ec26c3cd: PR is mergeable and ready; advisor 9/9 and CodeRabbit are green with zero unresolved threads; rootless Podman, managed images 10/10, code scanning, and focused Docker-absent public-installer E2E 33760249117 are green. Proceeding with the maintainer-authorized admin squash merge. The PR body records the unrelated npm/cli #9787 and self-hosted #10941 failures.