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Outcome

The public installer refuses an implicit last-known-good selection that would downgrade an
installed stable NemoClaw CLI. An explicit older tag remains available for deliberate rollback.

Reason

The #10948 recovery installed v0.0.109 over v0.0.118 before rebuilding the sandbox. That removed
the Discord rebuild fix already present in v0.0.118 and made the resumed sandbox appear orphaned.
The update command already rejects accidental downgrades; the public bootstrap lacked that guard.

Related issues

Fixes #10948
Fixes #11160

Changes

  • Resolve the implicit last-known-good checkout once and bind the payload source fetch to that commit.
  • Compare the selected release with the installed CLI for OpenClaw, Hermes, and Deep Agents Code,
    including the payload's accepted agent aliases.
  • Refuse an implicit downgrade or unverifiable implicit target without changing installed state.
  • Preserve explicit older-tag installation as the intentional rollback path.
  • Bound version lookups and finish process-group and temporary-file cleanup when cancellation
    arrives before the child PID is recorded or during timeout termination.
  • Cover the public bootstrap through the real payload clone boundary with process-level tests.
  • Reject the bootstrap fetch input as a credential field in the canonical policy, standalone
    helper, and browser form. Pin the helper and form together to their immutable content commit.

The fetch pin must remain separate from the displayed release identity. The bootstrap mapping stays
direct because older published payloads cannot depend on a newly extracted shared file.
test/installer-integration/install-downgrade-guard.test.ts protects these behaviors.

Verification

  • npx --no-install vitest run --project installer-integration test/installer-integration/install-downgrade-guard.test.ts: 72 passed after the base refresh. Covers aliases, normalization, clean-host installation, bounded output, cancellation cleanup, and the bootstrap-to-payload fetch handoff.
  • Expanded npx --no-install vitest run --project cli --project integration selection: 539 passed, 1 inherited failure across 13 files. Selected the process-control policy, four credential-helper suites, starter-prompt generation, installer alias parity, MCP image/cache contracts, OpenClaw integrity pins, installer hash checks, and supervisor manifest trust tests.
  • The inherited failure is test/mcp/mcp-tool-discovery-image-contract.test.ts:242: main's runtime bundle hashes to 17ac7309b4f830947e0fcf88999c2e7b7e95cd67f880c3f6fccfac0aca2aeb6b, but its test still expects c267456af3ef655f344eea46caa0f23f93b33c88df8b5c290d7fad174346f04c. Both files are byte-identical to canonical c1f906e5aa4150116a70382e6350d7b9ad89823c; chore(node): remove redundant experimental type-stripping flags #11317 changed the bundle. Neither file is changed by this PR. This is not a passing gate or a waiver.
  • npx --no-install vitest run --project integration test/credentials/local-credential-helper-pin.test.ts test/generation/starter-prompt-docs.test.ts: 40 passed after the final repin.
  • npm run docs: passed after the final repin with 0 errors, 5 existing warnings, and 69 guarded routes.
  • Independent Git-blob and SHA-256 checks confirm both download pins target 15bd0dd25b185eafae02a067532fe18718b2be23 and match the local helper/form bytes. The unchanged pin checker validates credential-policy parity and embedded form integrity.
  • NODE_OPTIONS=--max-old-space-size=5120 npm run validate:pr: passed on 6b75bf3439cbd12621d9db9b38a96b37d3ba365e against freshly verified canonical bb5f1b009a6a12742ef0fadb8ec84315a4e36fec. Validator inputs match that base. The first attempt exhausted Node's default 4 GB heap in TypeScript; the retry used the 5 GB remediation documented in canonical scripts/dev-setup.sh, without changing code or check requirements.
  • npm run review:local: the earlier attempt was unavailable because its OpenShell gateway refused connections and cleanup reported a temporary-file permission error; no findings were produced. A read-only gateway check after this refresh still returned connection refused. No gateway was started or review bypass claimed.
  • The diff contains no secrets, API keys, or credentials.

Review notes

Current main already contains the Discord rebuild-plan hydration fix. This PR prevents the
installer downgrade that removed it during the reported recovery, without expanding rebuild or
messaging scope.

All nine complete Advisor writeups for b1812ad52979d69f5c69a84044b0d405015edf51 were reviewed.
The credential-field, clean-host, alias-parity, and output-limit findings were addressed in the
previous repair batch. Human-reported alias bypasses and cancellation leaks reproduced before
their repairs. Blocking human reviews have not been dismissed.

An independent subagent reviewed 7da64b9ceb3e53d9dd27c8d4bbc7d0963eef77bb, including the
credential policy, standalone helper/form, integrity hashes, and installer tests, and found no
actionable defect. This remains prior-commit evidence, not approval of the refreshed candidate.

Self-review in NVIDIA/NemoClaw covered candidate 6b75bf3439cbd12621d9db9b38a96b37d3ba365e
and its mechanical merge resolution. Sensitive paths remain install.sh, scripts/install.sh,
scripts/local-credential-helper.mts, and src/lib/security/process-control-env{,.test}.ts.
The refresh preserves the accepted installer fix and credential restrictions while incorporating
main's Node command cleanup. The helper/form content was committed first, then both URLs were
repinned in a separate signed commit. Only the completed candidate is published.

The previous candidate's inherited plugin-cache failure is addressed upstream by merged #11314
(ec3d23db24220ef01da8690265e3fd6d42968db3), which this candidate includes. Maintainers closed
#11313 as a duplicate; it is not a remaining dependency. The earlier runtime validation failure
was an OpenShell download connection reset before activation, not an activation result.

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6b75bf3439cbd12621d9db9b38a96b37d3ba365e. The PR stays draft. No human reviewer has been
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  • New Features

    • Installer release discovery now uses safer output limits and improved timeout, cancellation, and process cleanup handling.
    • Bootstrap operations can explicitly select and forward a commit or release reference.
    • Installer behavior better supports annotated tags, multiple tags, prereleases, and agent-specific command-line tools.
  • Bug Fixes

    • Prevents unintended downgrades while allowing deliberate installation of older explicit releases.
    • Improves cleanup of temporary files and descendant processes after interrupted operations.
  • Documentation

    • Clarified release-selection, downgrade-protection, and troubleshooting guidance.
  • Security

    • Expanded environment-variable filtering and refreshed credential-form integrity checks.

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The installer adds bounded version lookups, prevents implicit downgrades, forwards the selected payload commit, and expands integration and process-control coverage.

Changes

Installer downgrade protection

Layer / File(s) Summary
Bounded version resolution
install.sh, scripts/install.sh
CLI lookups use a 64 KiB cap. Maintained release-tag lookups use a 1 MiB cap. Bootstrap fetch references take precedence. Signal cleanup waits until the lookup process group has a PID.
Downgrade guard execution
install.sh
The installer validates the maintained release, captures the selected payload commit, and passes it as NEMOCLAW_BOOTSTRAP_FETCH_REF.
Process-control propagation
src/lib/security/*, scripts/local-credential-helper.mts, docs/resources/local-credential-form.html, test/credentials/*, test/generation/*
The bootstrap fetch reference is blocked from controlled child environments and covered by security and credential-helper tests.
Integration validation
test/installer-integration/install-downgrade-guard.test.ts
Tests cover downgrade protection, explicit references, prereleases, lookup limits, timeouts, signals, process cleanup, temporary artifacts, Git operations, and payload reference forwarding.
Installer behavior documentation
docs/manage-sandboxes/update-sandboxes.mdx, docs/reference/troubleshooting.mdx
The documentation describes lkg protection, reference precedence, and the installed-CLI condition for unverifiable-release protection.
Credential resource updates
docs/resources/local-credential-form.html, docs/resources/starter-prompt.md, scripts/local-credential-helper.mts
Credential resource hashes and reviewed URLs use updated values. The inline form CSP hash is synchronized with the current script.

Priority: ⬆️ High

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

Severity of issue fixed: High

Merge Risk: 🔵 Low · up to 6b75b

The installer adds downgrade protection and preserves explicit rollback behavior, but minor test gaps could allow flaky validation or miss incorrect explicit-reference forwarding. These are bounded follow-up risks rather than evidence of a production failure.

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Check name Status Explanation Resolution
Linked Issues check ⚠️ Warning The changes address the implicit downgrade requirement in [#11160] and the context states that [#11313] was resolved upstream by #11314. However, [#10948] requires interrupted Discord-configured rebui… Add or link the rebuild-validation fix required by [#10948], and add evidence that both installer recovery and manual rebuild --yes resume the interrupted Discord-configured sandbox successfully. Otherwise, remove [#10948] from the linked…
Docstring Coverage ⚠️ Warning Docstring coverage is 11.11% which is insufficient. The required threshold is 80.00%. Docstring coverage is scoped to functions touched by this diff. Analyzed 18 functions across 8 files. (4 skipped: … Write docstrings for the functions missing them to satisfy the coverage threshold.
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Description Check ✅ Passed Check skipped - CodeRabbit’s high-level summary is enabled.
Title check ✅ Passed The title clearly identifies the primary change: preventing implicit CLI downgrades during installation.
Out of Scope Changes check ✅ Passed The bounded lookups, cancellation cleanup, credential-field protections, integrity-pin updates, documentation, and process-control changes are all identified in the pull request objectives and support…
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The changes address the implicit downgrade requirement in [#11160] and the context states that [#11313] was resolved upstream by #11314. However, [#10948] requires interrupted Discord-configured rebuilds to resume successfully. The provided changes prevent downgrade-related recovery regressions but do not show a fix for the reported credential-shaped messaging.plan.buildSteps[0].value.pin validation failure.

Resolution

Add or link the rebuild-validation fix required by [#10948], and add evidence that both installer recovery and manual rebuild --yes resume the interrupted Discord-configured sandbox successfully. Otherwise, remove [#10948] from the linked issues.

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231-231: 🩺 Stability & Availability | 🔵 Trivial | ⚡ Quick win

Give this test an explicit timeout and a wider elapsed-time bound.

The installer-integration project uses Vitest’s 5,000 ms default, and CI does not override it. The installer waits about 1 second, then may spend another second in termination grace handling. spawnSync and real sleeps add scheduling overhead. Since elapsedMs < 5_000 matches the test timeout, CI scheduling can cause a timing failure. Set the test timeout to 15_000 ms and widen the upper bound to 10_000 ms.

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- Line 139: Update run_bounded_bootstrap_lookup so the background "$@" command
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- Around line 90-91: Update run_bounded_bootstrap_lookup to normalize child wait
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In `@test/installer-integration/install-downgrade-guard.test.ts`:
- Line 231: Update the test named “waits for the configured lookup deadline when
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I rechecked the current exact head. The mutable-lkg A→B race and the prior explicit-lkg documentation boundary are resolved, and the focused installer-integration suite passes 16/16. The remaining material issues are inline. Before marking this ready for merge, please also change Relates to #11160 to Fixes #11160; this is the accepted implementation vehicle for that release blocker.

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Request changes before this draft is ready.

Three code- or documentation-local blockers are attached inline. One cross-file acceptance-evidence gap also remains: the current positive test stops at a fake payload that echoes environment values, so it does not exercise the changed scripts/install.sh resolver-to-managed-clone path, and its maintained-ref cases set NEMOCLAW_INSTALL_TAG rather than the higher-priority NEMOCLAW_INSTALL_REF. Add one focused real-payload boundary case with distinct bootstrap-fetch, install-ref, and install-tag values that proves the managed clone receives the immutable bootstrap commit, plus NEMOCLAW_INSTALL_REF=lkg and refs/tags/lkg precedence cases. This is the regression boundary for #11160.

The prior blockers are resolved on this head: stdin is isolated, process-group descendants are terminated after leader exit, the immutable fetch pin is separated from semantic release identity, the rollback command clears the higher-priority ref, and the PR now closes #11160. Reviewed commit 1ba51e8. Focused verification: installer-integration 18/18, shell syntax and diff checks pass; all nine exact-head Advisor artifacts and CodeRabbit completed.

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- Line 157: Update run_bounded_bootstrap_lookup and cleanup_bootstrap_lookup so
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Addressed the remaining valid findings from the complete review of 13ed50e2d24a8032bf96d60716828742f7a8d4b4 in repair commit cd2b04f5216697b93ee8a790f4e7c095590dd639:

  • CodeRabbit's launch-time cancellation finding (3969581890) reproduced for both SIGINT and SIGTERM: the lookup survived when cancellation arrived before its PID was recorded. Cancellation is now deferred until the new process group has an owned PID, then the existing cleanup runs. The regression tests check exit status, child termination, and temporary-file removal.
  • Advisor's verification finding is addressed by replacing the isolated consumer test with a public-bootstrap test that enters the actual installer payload, resolves the inherited fetch pin, and observes the actual managed checkout fetch. It does not preset the pin being tested.

All 37 installer integration tests and 39 existing alias-parity tests pass, as does npm run validate:pr. Independent review found no actionable defect in the repair. Main's required validation configuration was integrated before final validation. npm run review:local was attempted but its OpenShell gateway refused connections and cleanup encountered a temporary-file permission error, so it produced no findings.

Disposition of the other feedback from all nine complete Advisor writeups and CodeRabbit:

  • The architecture suggestion to extract a shared alias helper addresses possible future drift, not a current mismatch. The bootstrap and payload mappings agree and alias-parity tests pass. The guard runs after fetching the selected checkout but before executing its payload; older published payloads do not contain a new shared helper. Supporting those refs would require additional delivery or fallback machinery. The reduction specialist also supported keeping the direct mapping. No refactor is needed for this bug fix.
  • The eight ShellCheck informational comments about unreachable cleanup statements are false positives for a trap-invoked function. Process tests exercise cleanup at launch, during lookup, and during timeout termination. Local ShellCheck passes. No behavior change is needed for those comments.
  • CodeRabbit's docstring-coverage warning is advisory and is not a repository merge requirement. The linked-issue warning repeats the recorded scope distinction: main already fixes Discord rebuild hydration; this PR prevents an implicit downgrade from removing that fix during recovery.

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Completed the repair batch from all nine Advisor writeups for b1812ad52979d69f5c69a84044b0d405015edf51:

  • The migration finding reproduced in the canonical policy, credential-helper parser and CLI, and browser form. NEMOCLAW_BOOTSTRAP_FETCH_REF now joins the existing process-control denylist and its two required standalone copies. The public bootstrap already overwrites this value with its selected commit; this repair closes the credential-field route into a directly invoked versioned payload.
  • The helper and form remain an integrity-pinned pair. Their embedded digest, script CSP hash, and starter-prompt URLs and digests were updated together. The content commit is 7da64b9ceb3e53d9dd27c8d4bbc7d0963eef77bb; only the completed pin follow-up is being published as the next candidate. Its intentionally stale intermediate pins required deferring repository-checks for the local content commit. Normal hooks and full trusted validation passed for the completed candidate.
  • The verification finding is covered by a clean-host case that creates no CLI executable and observes successful payload execution with the bootstrap commit and lkg references.
  • The architecture finding's alias-drift risk is covered by every canonical alias plus case, space, and underscore normalization cases through both the real payload canonicalizer and public bootstrap. I retained the direct bootstrap mapping: extracting a shared file would require extra compatibility machinery for older published payloads. No current alias mismatch remains.
  • CodeRabbit's advisory output-limit test gap is also addressed. The oversized CLI fixture now emits a valid, otherwise installable version, so malformed output or an unrelated downgrade refusal cannot make the bound test pass.

Validation: 72 installer integration tests, 188 canonical policy tests, and 204 credential-helper, form, pin-checker, and existing alias-parity tests passed. The unchanged checker confirms three-way policy parity. The form's script/style CSP hashes and helper's form digest match. Independent review found no actionable defect. npm run docs and npm run validate:pr passed on the completed candidate. The first sandboxed installer run could not execute ps; an isolated probe confirmed EPERM, and the unchanged suite passed outside the sandbox.

npm run review:local was attempted but its OpenShell gateway refused connections, followed by a temporary-file cleanup permission error. It produced no findings. Full CI, runtime validation, and Advisor had all succeeded on the preceding commit; fresh evaluation is pending for 32db17a08c4791c9dca4fe5b44d5c8a07c7e37fc. The PR remains draft, and blocking human reviews have not been dismissed.

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@rsliter I will review the current changes in #11209. I will check the policy denylist, integrity pins, clean-host behavior, alias normalization, and bounded-output coverage.

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The required CI run failed in shard 6 at test/agents/openclaw/openclaw-integrity-pin-suite.ts:678.

This failure is inherited from canonical base f72e8ff3592746131a633ae522454bde5b1aadbc. Both that base and PR commit 32db17a08c4791c9dca4fe5b44d5c8a07c7e37fc have the same mismatch:

  • Plugin lockfile SHA-256: 55a512d782f8a4ad0eac39078b0e652400bf8580767b3a9ac5282a05bae47042.
  • Cache manifest's recorded lockfile SHA-256: 66bef669196bb1c61385871e369542d3c321c277adb0f0e2e9f0ad972106b163.

The values matched before #10518. That merge changed the plugin package identity and removed optional-package libc metadata without regenerating the cache seed. The existing archive selector now expects 89 Linux x64 glibc archives, while the manifest contains 85. The missing entries are the musl variants of Oxfmt, Rolldown, Oxlint, and Lightning CSS. Updating only the manifest hash would not repair the complete archive-set contract.

Canonical main f1afb87f89084ada549d352e3a7f5d7e16efe586 still has this mismatch. Neither affected file is changed by this PR. This is deterministic inherited evidence, not a transient failure, so I have not rerun unchanged CI or modified the candidate.

The installer integration job passed. CodeRabbit's manual review completed for this commit without actionable comments. Advisor run 34378111943 was skipped because required CI failed; it is not successful Advisor evidence. The runtime workflow is still running. The PR remains draft pending an upstream cache repair and complete evaluation.

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The upstream cache repair is now draft PR #11313 at 4b87e1502f05ddc868e9f60c690308879ce72086. It preserves the package lockfiles and all 85 existing archives, adds the four missing archives, and extends the existing regression test to verify the complete selected archive set. All 44 focused tests and npm run validate:pr passed.

The runtime workflow also finished. Its activation job failed while installing OpenShell: the release download ended with curl: (35) Recv failure: Connection reset by peer. Activation tests did not start, so no activation evidence artifact was produced. This is an external download failure, not a demonstrated installer regression.

This PR remains unchanged at 32db17a08c4791c9dca4fe5b44d5c8a07c7e37fc. I have not rerun its unchanged CI. After the cache repair merges, I will integrate that dependency and collect fresh CI and automated review evidence before requesting re-review.

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The inherited cache failure is fixed on canonical main by #11314, commit ec3d23db24220ef01da8690265e3fd6d42968db3. The maintainer closed #11313 as a duplicate; it was not merged.

I integrated that dependency locally in signed merge commit a9b56b7534e0b7649145b62e8b4374a919eb99d7, based on main 00c8506799d61dee3408e363729766efecc79953. The installer fix, credential controls, tests, and PR documentation are unchanged from published commit 32db17a08c4791c9dca4fe5b44d5c8a07c7e37fc.

Fresh validation passed:

  • Installer downgrade integration: 72 tests.
  • Credential controls, helper/form integrity, agent aliases, and cache contracts: 436 tests across 11 files.
  • CLI and plugin builds.
  • Merge commit hooks, including the growth guardrail and commit message check.

No new commit has been pushed. Before publication validation, canonical main advanced to cad49353438e5ec6fd853eb51a1f6aded84090ff through #11317. That changes package.json, .pre-commit-config.yaml, and other validator inputs. The publication skill rejects the older validation surface, while the follow-up contract limits base integration to once per evaluation cycle. Publication is paused pending a maintainer exception for one additional base integration, followed by fresh validation. No check or review requirement has been waived.

The earlier local OpenShell review limitation still applies; this integration does not claim a successful local review. Fresh CI, Advisor, and human re-review remain required after publication. Existing changes-requested reviews remain in place.

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Approved for this PR: perform one additional base integration only. Fetch canonical main immediately before the merge, merge it once, preserve the existing fix, rerun fresh validation, and publish the resulting commit. Keep the PR draft until publication and validation are complete; stop and ask if resolving conflicts would change behavior or contributor intent. This is not a gate waiver and does not authorize further base chasing.

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Updated candidate: 6b75bf3439cbd12621d9db9b38a96b37d3ba365e.

The required plugin-cache repair is now included from merged #11314. Maintainers closed #11313 as a duplicate, so it is no longer a dependency. The approved base refresh preserves this PR's installer behavior and credential restrictions, incorporates main's Node cleanup, and repins the helper/form together to their verified content commit 15bd0dd25b185eafae02a067532fe18718b2be23.

Validation: 72 installer regressions passed; the expanded CLI/integration selection had 539 passes and one inherited failure; 40 pin/generator tests passed after the final repin. Docs passed with 0 errors and 5 existing warnings. Full validate:pr passed against canonical bb5f1b009a6a12742ef0fadb8ec84315a4e36fec, using the repository-documented 5 GB Node heap setting after the default heap was exhausted. Normal commit and push hooks remain enabled. Local Advisor remains unavailable as previously recorded; no local review pass is claimed.

New inherited failure: #11317 changed the managed startup bundle, but main's test still expects the previous digest. The canonical bundle hashes to 17ac7309b4f830947e0fcf88999c2e7b7e95cd67f880c3f6fccfac0aca2aeb6b; the assertion expects c267456af3ef655f344eea46caa0f23f93b33c88df8b5c290d7fad174346f04c. Both the bundle and test are byte-identical to that base, and neither is changed in this PR. I have not weakened the assertion, rerun it as a transient, or treated the inherited failure as a waiver.

The PR stays draft for fresh CI and complete automated review. Blocking human reviews have not been dismissed.

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@rsliter I will review the updated candidate in #11209. I will evaluate the installer changes, credential restrictions, integrity pins, and the reported inherited test failure.

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test/installer-integration/install-downgrade-guard.test.ts (1)

357-358: 🎯 Functional Correctness | 🔵 Trivial | ⚡ Quick win

Assert the forwarded ref for the explicit-selection cases.

Both tests assert only the exit status and the existence of payloadMarker. The marker records NEMOCLAW_BOOTSTRAP_FETCH_REF|NEMOCLAW_INSTALL_REF|NEMOCLAW_INSTALL_TAG, and the sibling tests at lines 275, 289, and 329 assert its content.

Without a content assertion, these two tests pass even if the installer forwards lkg instead of the explicit tag. Issue #11160 requires that an explicit tag reaches the payload, so assert the recorded value.

Proposed assertion additions
     expect(result.status).toBe(0);
     expect(fs.existsSync(payloadMarker)).toBe(true);
+    expect(fs.readFileSync(payloadMarker, "utf8")).toBe("target-commit|v0.0.109|v0.0.109");
     expect(result.status).toBe(0);
     expect(fs.existsSync(payloadMarker)).toBe(true);
+    expect(fs.readFileSync(payloadMarker, "utf8")).toBe("target-commit|latest|latest");

Confirm the expected NEMOCLAW_INSTALL_REF value that the installer derives from NEMOCLAW_INSTALL_TAG before you adopt the literals above.

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In `@test/installer-integration/install-downgrade-guard.test.ts` around lines 357
- 358, Update both explicit-selection tests around the payloadMarker assertions
to also read the marker and verify the forwarded NEMOCLAW_INSTALL_REF value
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- Line 517: Update the cancellation assertion around process.kill(pid, 0) to
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process is no longer running once reaped. Preserve the existing cancellation
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In `@test/installer-integration/install-downgrade-guard.test.ts`:
- Around line 357-358: Update both explicit-selection tests around the
payloadMarker assertions to also read the marker and verify the forwarded
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.filter((entry) => entry.isDirectory())
.map((entry) => entry.name),
).toEqual(["bin"]);
expect(() => process.kill(pid, 0)).toThrow();

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🩺 Stability & Availability | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

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Tolerate a reaped-later process state in the cancellation assertion.

The fixture records the lookup process PID, which is a descendant of the background process group. Cancellation terminates the group, but terminate_bootstrap_lookup_group waits only for command_pid; the recorded PID can therefore briefly remain as a zombie. process.kill(pid, 0) still succeeds for that state.

Proposed assertion change
-        expect(() => process.kill(pid, 0)).toThrow();
+        const processState = spawnSync("ps", ["-o", "stat=", "-p", String(pid)], {
+          encoding: "utf8",
+        });
+        expect(processState.status === 1 || processState.stdout.trim().startsWith("Z")).toBe(true);
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expect(() => process.kill(pid, 0)).toThrow();
const processState = spawnSync("ps", ["-o", "stat=", "-p", String(pid)], {
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In `@test/installer-integration/install-downgrade-guard.test.ts` at line 517,
Update the cancellation assertion around process.kill(pid, 0) to tolerate a
briefly reaped-later zombie process, while still verifying that the process is
no longer running once reaped. Preserve the existing cancellation test behavior
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@rsliter #11160 remains open and this was its sole implementation. Was closing #11209 intentional? If so, is a replacement PR planned; otherwise, should we reopen this exact branch after the current inherited main failures are repaired and the remaining exact-head test feedback is addressed? I will not reopen it or authorize another base integration without your confirmation. Please preserve the branch while we resolve the intended path.

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