refactor(openclaw): return config ownership to OpenClaw

[prekshivyas]

Outcome

OpenClaw now owns its native configuration lifecycle after onboarding. NemoClaw no longer hashes, seals, repairs, selectively reconstructs, quarantines, or vetoes ordinary openclaw.json changes; rebuild and restore preserve the complete credential-sanitized native configuration.

Reason

OpenShell already owns the selected filesystem, credential, process, and network-policy boundaries. The retired NemoClaw configuration controller duplicated that ownership and could reject or overwrite valid OpenClaw changes.

Related issues

Closes #11764

Refs #11768

Changes

• Delete the OpenClaw config guard, integrity hashes, seals, baselines, repair and quarantine paths, selective merge helpers, and their implementation-specific tests.
• Restore the complete credential-sanitized OpenClaw state instead of reconstructing an allowlisted subset. Nested credentials remain excluded; non-secret native settings, including gateway settings, remain intact.
• Route the remaining required OpenClaw mutations through openclaw config set or unset inside the sandbox. Serialized values travel on stdin rather than the host process argument list.
• Keep host nemoclaw config set scoped to Hermes and direct OpenClaw users to the native CLI.
• Update inference, MCP, tunnel, messaging, startup, rebuild, snapshot, doctor, E2E, and documentation contracts for native ownership.
• Regenerate the reviewed managed-startup runtime bundle.

Verification

Current candidate 20d24596569b6787a7b5f1e7a10856244f95b619 is conflict-free and mergeable against exact base 7e1310c08c5137d5f5d4854a9de59b9a25af1fa1. It fixes the duplicate Kao and rsliter P1 by printing a conditional second start after a marker-consuming start leaves OpenClaw stopped, covers both unverified-abort sibling paths, updates both owning documentation pages, and resolves the sole upstream conflict while preserving native configuration ownership and current main behavior. Focused snapshot and exec validation passed 36 tests with one skipped; all 157 exec CLI tests, all 18 repository checks, CLI type checking, documentation validation, normal commit hooks, and pre-push publication validation passed. All three new commits are GitHub Verified. Replacement CI, Images, and automated review are pending. The prior CI, Images, and E2E evidence below is historical and does not qualify this head. No new E2E was dispatched and no merge was performed.

Conflict preservation and native-model proof — e81a14aa6b

Published candidate: e81a14aa6bf75ba9a515c90807e5c12bec292835, including repair c132cce5f6ed526aaa236e64dfcb872f034644ff. One guarded push succeeded; fresh API and SSH agree after initial API lag. All 80 PR commits are Verified. The smaller restart fixture removes the need for policy PR #12338 or a #12120 growth exception. #12338 is closed without merging; no policy integration is required.

• Restore PR code and tests lost by external bot merge c7dd361e: bounded restore diagnostics, native MCP registration and failure tests, recorded-runtime channel tests, live MCP failure evidence, and lifecycle text. Preserve main's single-command transport, no-fallback failures, stopped-state-first WeChat cleanup, readiness diagnostics and parity entries. Retired config/hash paths stay deleted.
• Strengthen the native-model restart proof: send a credential-free JSON patch through native OpenClaw stdin to select a UUID-scoped provider using the already-tested model through inference.local. After stop/start, require persisted selection and a gateway-only turn reporting that provider/model and PONG before restoring the original selection and removing temporary entries. Native validation, launch checks and credential scanning remain. Contributor E2E guidance is updated; no new public surface is added.
• Delete the custom configuration-cloning program and its now-unneeded validation and error-handling branches: one generated block and six generated conditions are removed, not moved elsewhere. Deterministic patch construction and unique-name checks belong to e2e-support; native CLI diagnostics retain fixture redaction. The regenerated census has 234 unique generated blocks and 829 conditions, with seven transitive blocks for full-e2e. Unique counts remain 1,790 expect calls and 3,371 assertion points. Growth checks pass with an empty exception policy against both PR base 7d02fef6 and main f3282ba1. The previously approved larger budget transition is not used; the refactor(openclaw): return config ownership to OpenClaw #12120 exception is removed.
• Refresh Pi receipts from original AMD64/ARM64 artifacts 10876299906/10876722335 in Images 36162139959, attempt 2. Both c7dd producer jobs passed publication, credential removal, digest validation, declared-entrypoint execution and contract upload. Receipt bytes and all Pi image inputs match the producer. The parent Images run failed CLI activation builds; Pi publication is not passing whole-image qualification.
• Before the reduction, 215 unique focused tests, 22 Pi receipt integration tests, CLI/plugin builds, CLI typecheck, lint, parity, census and architecture checks passed in isolation. Normal c132 commit hooks passed after stale receipts and formatting were corrected. The reduction passed 153 unique focused tests across isolated runs and trusted lint. Client-suite setup first failed on a read-only cache, then four cases lacked a compiled shared module; isolated setup corrections resolved both. Census, empty-policy growth, parity, normal commit hooks, pre-push publication validation and CLI TypeScript passed without a bypass. Plugin/JavaScript pre-push lanes skipped unchanged paths.
• Parent c7dd CI 36162140057 and Images failed on missing diagnostic exports; related CodeQuality/CodeQL findings are accepted in this restoration. Docker evidence was absent after failed setup; Podman also reported an unbound guard-log variable, so cleanup success is not established. Advisor did not execute after failed CI; paused CodeRabbit is not approval.
• Independent writer review covers c132's 18-file tree and the committed reduction with no blockers. Credential review reconciled all 289 changed paths against base 7d02fef6, then the seven-file reduction, to final tree 5f71521763fde2d6bed1e60cecc712b505793336; no additional PR-owned credential defect was found. Current CI/images/automated feedback and dispatch checks remain required. The single authorized full-default PR E2E is unused. Historical failures and cleanup uncertainty below remain unresolved; no merge approval is claimed. The old heartbeat remains paused.

Diagnostic log repair — 054109841cc9af1e6c8630bae626d0c220283675

• Fixed a PR-owned diagnostic leak: reading a log tail before host redaction could retain a credential fragment. Oversized logs now return metadata without content. Logs changed during reading are also omitted. Small stable regular logs retain whole-content redaction.
• Reproduced a 24-character synthetic credential fragment on parent e8c6796. This fixture is absent on base 8283244; no real credentials were used. The new regression fails with the old reader and passes with the repair.
• All 13 focused tests passed: vitest run --maxWorkers=1 --project e2e-support test/e2e/support/openclaw-container-diagnostics.test.ts test/e2e/support/openclaw-onboard-diagnostics.test.ts. Coverage includes links, bounded reads, complete-value redaction and a log that grows during reading.
• Oxfmt, Oxlint, CLI/plugin builds and CLI typecheck passed in the pinned isolated container. Validators came from canonical main 3a4eb285aee17d2c57ce991dc6fed93bad315d53. The unprivileged container had no network, host home, Git directory, credentials or Docker socket. A disposable internal Git snapshot supplied build metadata. Normal pre-commit and commit-msg checks passed with SKIP unset.
• The three-file repair changes the fixture, its support test and test/e2e/docs/README.md. It adds no dependency and changes no live assertion, budget, workflow selector or retry. The source diff contains no real credentials. Independent writer /root/docs_finish_12120 reviewed the repair and evidence with no blockers.
• Parent e8c6796 CI 36113648857 and Images 36113648882 passed. All five image publication contracts and both Docker/rootless Podman activation artifacts were verified. Each activation artifact reports 18 turns and nine successful cleanup rows. This evidence is historical and does not qualify the new commit.
• All nine parent Advisor specialists in 36115061651 succeeded. Eight reported no findings. Documentation finding F-documentation-standard-work-975a9196cba78a2c8db1 is a false positive: pinned OpenClaw 2026.9.1 copies native configuration into .bak before replacement, while NemoClaw sanitizes a separate captured snapshot. Primary and independent review confirmed the warning at docs/inference/set-up-sub-agent.mdx:305 is accurate. The warning remains; the Advisor blocker gate remains failed, not waived or rerun.
• Replacement CI, images and automated reviews remain required. The full-PR credential review is incomplete, so the one authorized full-default PR E2E has not been dispatched. No main integration or PR merge was performed. Historical OpenClaw resume failure remains unresolved.

Root startup and credential-retention follow-up — e8c6796bfda893a082b869e258920b848553fccb

• Remove a retired helper from root-mode authentication setup. The actual dispatch failed before entering the sandbox child; three test stubs hid the missing dependency. Removing those stubs exposed five failures. After the one-line production repair, all 127 tests in the three affected integration files passed. Authentication, managed credential clearing, failure propagation and temporary-script cleanup assertions remain unchanged.
• This is PR-specific: the same isolated extraction fixture passes on base 828324444336b8bd2fda30c9fc537f0612088ece and fails on parent d3b11155f93f1b4ad9fefebd8eab7c6788d331b9. The workspace-seeding sibling uses an existing helper and needs no change. Non-root startup does not use the repaired wrapper.
• Correct the sub-agent guide: native write or Docker transport failure can leave completion uncertain, and native backups or rejected payloads can retain credentials. Preserve the supported stdin command and all eight code blocks. No destructive cleanup is added. Documentation build passed with zero errors and two existing Fern warnings.
• Advisor 36110894987 ran all nine specialists successfully. Eight were clear. The documentation finding that config patch --stdin is unsupported is a false positive: OpenClaw 2026.9.1 registers that command. Its official archive checksum matches the Dockerfile pin. The two distinct safety claims above were found while verifying the command. The failed blocker gate is retained in the record; no Advisor rerun occurred.
• Parent d3 passed CI 36109551183, all 12 CLI shards, and Images 36109551043. Five published image contracts identify d3. Docker and rootless Podman activation each recorded 18 agent turns, zero builds and nine successful cleanup actions with no failures. These results do not qualify the new commit.
• Tests ran in a pinned, unprivileged, network-disabled container without host credentials, home or Docker socket. No assertion, E2E limit, dependency, validator or policy changed. The file-size ratchet decreases by one line to match the removed test stub, as required by the first commit-hook result. Main 3a4eb285aee17d2c57ce991dc6fed93bad315d53 was fetched for comparison; no integration was required. Normal pre-commit, commit-msg and pre-push checks passed without a bypass. Publication validation and CLI TypeScript passed; plugin and JavaScript checks skipped unchanged paths. Independent committed writer review found no blockers. One guarded push succeeded; fresh API and SSH reads confirm the expected commit after initial API lag. No push retry occurred.
• Replacement qualification and the full credential-execution review remain required before the single authorized full PR E2E. It remains unused. Historical OpenClaw resume failure remains unresolved. The old heartbeat stays paused. No workflow approval, retry, base replay or PR merge occurred.

Advisor follow-up — d3b11155f93f1b4ad9fefebd8eab7c6788d331b9

• Address both valid findings from Advisor 36106765141: inline the single-use selection reader and retain the preferred API in the documented recreation command. All nine specialists executed successfully; seven were clear. The prior native-model reuse finding was confirmed resolved.
• The reader still uses recorded onboarding intent, validates the provider/model, leaves unreadable state unknown and removes its temporary download directory. No recreation decision, native configuration, credential handling, image input, assertion, budget or validator changes.
• The owning inference page now explicitly selects Responses for recreation and gives the Chat Completions alternative. OpenClaw/Hermes scope and the replacement warning remain; Deep Agents Code is unchanged. Documentation build passed with zero errors and the two existing Fern warnings.
• Parent 29594f6d74a565c3891f60b14b161bbb0b465634 passed CI 36105487565, including all 12 CLI shards, and Images 36105487521. All five image contracts, actual publication, three direct startup checks, staging QA and Docker/rootless Podman activation were verified. Both activation reports recorded 18 agent turns, no builds, and no cleanup failures. These results do not qualify this new follow-up.
• Current CodeRabbit warnings were checked against the source: snapshot-commands tests native gateway configuration through fresh replacement, restore and clone; the old gateway-guard recovery test is removed. Pi receipt changes are the separately approved qualification repairs recorded below. The docstring percentage is advisory, not a demonstrated defect.
• Isolated CLI/plugin builds, full CLI typecheck and 131 selected tests passed (88 focused CLI, 43 onboarding integration). The initial validation setup needed compiled outputs and disposable source revision metadata; no source or assertion was changed to address those prerequisites. Normal pre-commit, commit-msg and pre-push checks passed without bypass: publication validation and CLI TypeScript passed, while plugin and JavaScript checks skipped unchanged paths. The first commit hook pass formatted one argument list without changing its syntax structure or values. Independent committed review found no blockers. Current main 3a4eb285aee17d2c57ce991dc6fed93bad315d53 was fetched for comparison; no main integration was required.
• Replacement CI, images and automated reviews must qualify this follow-up. The single full PR E2E remains undispatched; historical OpenClaw resume failure remains unresolved. The old heartbeat stays paused. No workflow approval, retry, base replay or PR merge occurred.

Onboarding reuse and image-boundary repair — 29594f6d74a565c3891f60b14b161bbb0b465634

• Rerunning onboarding with the same recorded provider/model now preserves native OpenClaw edits. Explicit requested selection changes retain the existing confirmation/recreation flow. Missing or unreadable records remain unknown and do not turn native edits into a recreation trigger. Other agent, GPU, messaging, identity, backup and policy checks are unchanged.
• Retain logical provider/model in the onboarding metadata record so later explicit changes can be detected. Do not copy native settings or credentials into that record. Plugin views still read native OpenClaw routing. The OpenClaw runtime-controls page documents this distinction; Hermes and Deep Agents Code behavior is unchanged.
• Restore surviving built-image checks for packaged runner/snapshot imports, shell environment loading, writable plugin state, protected blueprint paths and command-failure propagation. These checks use synthetic values and existing disposable-container cleanup. The retired configuration guard/hash checks remain retired.
• Both behavior regressions failed before repair. Isolated Linux Node.js 24.18.1 validation passed CLI/plugin builds, CLI typecheck and 162 selected tests (88 CLI, 43 onboarding integration, 31 plugin). All 18 repository checks, seven growth checks, shell mutation probes and semantic phase collection (101 tests across 79 files) passed. The live census remains 1,356 direct expectations across 78 files. No live assertion, timeout, budget, validator or policy was weakened.
• Independent validation used canonical main 5871fcbcd7a6ae6043e947a32d469068b07a999e, immutable validator dependencies and a credential-free, network-disabled container. All 83 installed packages in the validator dependency closure matched byte-for-byte. The existing JSON5 dependency remains; no main integration was needed.
• npm run docs passed with zero errors and the existing Fern redirect-authentication and theme-contrast warnings. The macOS SQLite temporary-directory group failure reproduces with the unchanged exact-base implementation and is not repaired here. A phase-collection invocation through tsx failed in the host ESM loader; the native-Node command passed without changing source.
• Normal pre-commit, commit-msg and pre-push checks passed without a bypass. The first commit-message check rejected an overlong line; its correction changed no source. Pre-push publication validation and CLI TypeScript passed; plugin and JavaScript-config checks skipped unchanged paths. Independent committed review passed with no blockers. All 72 PR commits are GitHub Verified. Replacement CI/images/Advisor remain pending. No secrets were added.
• Parent c6a7a71a8da262a3a95106ee628058ce78c196e5 passed CI 36099345556, Images 36099345314, and all nine specialists in Advisor 36100443565. Parent image contracts, digest publication and Docker/rootless Podman activation were verified. Those results do not qualify this new repair.
• The earlier native-model reuse P1 is addressed by this repair, subject to replacement evaluation. Complete credential-execution review and one full PR E2E remain pending. Historical OpenClaw resume failure remains unresolved. The old heartbeat remains paused; no E2E dispatch, workflow approval, retry or PR merge occurred.

Captured-state CI repair — c6a7a71a8da262a3a95106ee628058ce78c196e5

• Repair the two PR-specific failure groups in CI 36063202481, preserving external merge c1e735463a9ff61464cb4559d831a90064483a16. No additional main merge was needed.
• Captured stopped OpenClaw state now uses the CLI installation's JSON5 parser. Live sandbox inspection retains the image's parser. The child cannot resolve code from captured node_modules; existing bounded reads, file checks, empty environment, identity checks and redacted errors remain intact.
• Regenerate stale aggregate E2E census values. The 48-count difference comes from the already-retired runtime override suite (46) and two configuration-hash checks. No live assertions, per-file budgets, validators or security policies change in this repair. Native-state persistence and main's stopped-state recovery evidence remain.
• All 96 unique selected tests passed across completed runs, including the original failing rebuild scenario and seven captured-reader cases. All 18 repository checks, all seven growth checks, CLI build, full CLI typecheck, formatting and lint passed. Normal pre-commit, commit-msg and pre-push publication validation and CLI typecheck passed with SKIP unset; pre-push plugin and JavaScript checks skipped unchanged paths. Initial new tests reproduced the defect; four later matcher-class mistakes were corrected without changing product behavior. The first commit attempt stopped on branching in the new test and an outdated local main reference; splitting the cases and fetching the current reference resolved those checks without a merge or bypass. No full-suite pass is claimed.
• The exact base 828324444336b8bd2fda30c9fc537f0612088ece passed all 12 CLI shards and static checks in CI 36062588717. Its separate messaging image failure is not repaired here.
• Independent writer /root/docs_finish_12120 reviewed the repair, assertion dispositions and validation; existing stopped-state recovery documentation remains accurate. No secrets were added.
• At that publication, the native-model onboarding reuse finding still needed a behavior decision. Fresh CI and current review evidence, image contract verification, and the complete credential-execution diff review remain required before full PR E2E. Historical OpenClaw resume failure remains unresolved. No E2E dispatch, workflow approval or retry has occurred under this repair. The old heartbeat is paused; the user's active finish-line goal replaces it.

Pi receipt follow-up 9c2d770

• Refresh both Pi qualification receipts from successful Images run 36044833932, built from 6683a1ecc448cfcc9ef0562dbc32040f7c8ddf02 in one workflow cohort.
• Both architecture jobs executed image publication, digest validation, entrypoint validation and contract upload. Checked-in receipts match the original artifacts byte-for-byte. All Pi Dockerfile COPY inputs match the tested source; only the two receipts and their two authority hashes change.
• All 18 repository checks passed without an exception, including the previously failing Pi receipt check. All 85 selected tests passed across isolated runs; CLI/plugin builds passed. Initial attempts lacked compiled plugin/catalog files and disposable Git revision metadata; correcting those test-environment prerequisites required no source or assertion edits. Normal pre-commit and commit-msg hooks passed. Normal pre-push publication validation and CLI TypeScript checks passed; plugin and JavaScript checks skipped unchanged paths. All 69 PR commits are GitHub Verified.
• The one-time bootstrap exception is consumed. No validator, assertion, budget, image input or policy was changed by this follow-up. The diff contains no credentials.
• On the bootstrap commit, all 12 CLI shards, package/typechecks, plugin tests and image activation checks passed. Static CI failed only for the receipts repaired here. A later gate-false CI run did not execute replacement tests. Advisor skipped after that failure; CodeRabbit remains paused at an older commit. These are not current review approvals.
• Replacement CI and automated review remain required before the authorized full manual PR E2E. The historical OpenClaw resume health failure remains unresolved.
• Monitoring resumed at the user's request; the single full PR E2E remains conditional and unconsumed.

Conflict integration and Pi bootstrap — 6683a1ecc4

Merged main 0ceb8bde14f3f58d85d372551e49f652c5ee4a41 once into d2f37a05b3810aa568888dabb9943e0a8249c25c to resolve the Git conflicts. Both parents' history is retained. The later installer-only main commit 60200f44ec merges cleanly in a read-only check; it was not integrated again.

The lifecycle conflict retains main's locked transfer of abandoned published reservations and this PR's normalized native-selection display. The combined runtime bundle preserves native ownership and main's WeChat 2.4.9 pin. Its expected digest is updated without removing the integrity assertion. Main's plugin-provenance checks, installer behavior, run-directory diagnostics, tests and three documentation changes are retained. Existing assertion limits, timeouts and security policies are not weakened.

Validation of the merged tree passed: 331 focused tests (158 CLI, 171 integration, two plugin), CLI/plugin builds, CLI and plugin production/test typechecks, and the live assertion census (1,356 expectations across 78 files). Tests ran in isolated Linux Node.js 24.18.1 without network, host credentials or Docker socket. npm run docs passed with zero Fern errors and two warnings, including generated variants and 69 guarded routes. These results do not establish a full-suite or live E2E pass.

Pi image qualification is pending. Main changes Pi image inputs, so the existing a9 receipts fail source-parity validation. Under the user-approved bootstrap exception, this publication temporarily retains those records without claiming that they qualify the merged images. For this commit and push only, the aggregate repository-checks hook is skipped; all 17 non-Pi checks from its unchanged registry run separately against the reviewed tree. The only deferred result is pi-qualification-receipt-refresh. Other commit and publication hooks remain enabled. No validator, hook configuration, CI result or branch protection is changed.

The follow-up must obtain both Pi artifacts from one successful run at this source revision, verify executed published-digest and entrypoint checks and unchanged Pi image inputs, then refresh the receipts and accepted hashes. Complete validation without the exception is required for that follow-up. This bootstrap is not merge approval or acceptance of stale qualification evidence.

Independent writer /root/docs_ci_repair_12120 reviewed conflict preservation, the bootstrap procedure, committed tree, validation and this complete PR text. The historical OpenClaw resume health failure remains unresolved. Monitoring stays paused; no full E2E run, manual workflow dispatch, retry or reviewer request was made. Historical evidence below applies only to its named revisions.

Consolidated CI repair — d2f37a05b3

This revision preserves external history through a9a0fd974bad6dfcbcd49f33f438327186e26eb3 and repairs the five accepted CI groups. No additional main integration or E2E run was performed. Monitoring remains paused at the user's request.

• Cover configured native-provider registration and absent-primary behavior in the compiled package test.
• Lower stale source-architecture counts, mock the snapshot maintenance boundary with lifecycle assertions, and allocate gateway fixture ports through the operating system.
• Reconcile startup tests resurrected by external merges with the accepted native-ownership contract. Remove obsolete tests for deleted baseline/recovery/hash helpers, retain all 11 authentication and step-down tests in a focused file, and repair the missing closing brace. The retained startup composition verifies native settings, unchanged retired hash state, no baseline creation, and gateway-token setup/export. It simulates root dispatch; it does not test real root capabilities. The startup file limit decreases from 4,256 to 3,377 lines.
• Refresh both Pi qualification receipts and their accepted digests from Images run 35957272054, after separate user approval. Both artifacts identify a9 and one cohort. Both Pi jobs executed digest publication, published-digest validation and entrypoint checks successfully. The repair changes no Pi image inputs or qualification rules. Separate all-agent publication jobs skipped; this is not proof of completed all-agent publication.
• No runtime logic, live E2E assertions, timeouts, security policies or cleanup behavior changed. No secrets were added.

Validation passed across completed runs: 792 unique selected tests, one existing CLI skip, CLI/plugin builds and typechecks, source-shape and growth checks, Vitest project membership, full-PR mock parity, and the unchanged live assertion census (1,356 expectations across 78 files). Normal pre-commit and commit-msg hooks passed. The Pi receipt validator passed with byte-identical downloaded artifacts and unchanged image inputs.

Tests ran in isolated Linux Node.js 24.18.1 with read-only dependencies, no network, host credentials or Docker socket, except the final 94-test startup rerun and seven growth checks on the host. Initial isolated attempts stopped on missing snapshot Git metadata, a read-only incremental cache, or missing generated build files. Those setup failures were corrected without changing product behavior. An initial source-string regression was removed after independent review; the final behavioral regression and source-shape check passed. Host doctor still reports its heap, Docker-memory and active-CLI limitations. No full repository test-suite pass is claimed.

Independent writer /root/docs_ci_repair_12120 reviewed the committed ten-file repair, external-history preservation, validation and this complete PR text. This increment needs no public documentation change; the PR's earlier documentation changes remain. Historical entries below describe their named commits, not qualification of this revision.

Before this repair, all 13 issue comments, six reviews and four resolved threads were collected. CodeRabbit remains paused at 19ae303; Advisor 35958300401 skipped all seven jobs after failed CI and produced no artifacts. Neither provides current approval. Fresh CI, image checks and scheduled reviews must qualify d2f37a0. The historical OpenClaw resume replacement-gateway health failure remains unresolved, and the PR still needs its separately deferred main-conflict resolution. No merge approval or CI waiver is claimed.

Main integration — 0e6b70e806

Merged main 11541cde94 once to resolve the merge conflict. The only manual resolution regenerates ci/e2e-assertion-budget.json from the merged tests: 1,356 expectations across 78 files. Existing per-file budgets are preserved; main contributes the deferred-onboarding test. No assertions, timeouts or policies were weakened.

Isolated Linux Node.js 24.18.1 validation passed both builds, 522 selected tests, CLI/plugin typechecks, seven growth checks, the assertion census and full-PR semantic mock parity. The docs build, generated variants and route checks passed with zero errors and two Fern warnings. Normal pre-commit and commit-msg hooks passed with the tested tree unchanged.

Current-main documentation commit 26922313bb does not change the validation surface; a read-only merge check found no conflict. No second main integration or live E2E run was performed. Fresh CI, image activation and automated review must qualify this new commit. The earlier OpenClaw resume failure remains unresolved; passing Hermes evidence belongs to the previous diagnostic commit.

Native routing and recovery reporting repair — 3f52494

The latest repair addresses Kao's routing-ownership finding. Registration and status/onboard/config views read native OpenClaw configuration, not an onboarding route snapshot. OpenClaw's NemoClaw metadata now retains only profile and onboarding time. Missing native primary does not restore a stale model or credential default. Providers other than inference remain OpenClaw-owned. Credential values are not displayed. Other agents retain the snapshots used by their resume checks.

Both rebuild failure paths now name the retained source sandbox, distinguish a verified stop from unverified stop or maintenance reconciliation, and give preservation and inspection guidance. This changes reporting, not lifecycle or cleanup behavior. The two owning OpenClaw documentation pages were updated.

The latest resume diagnostic run on ec0bcf8d80 passed Hermes but again failed OpenClaw replacement-gateway health after restore and release. The container exited with code 1 without exposing an application error; the pre-stop probe reported unavailable execution. Main has recorded passes, including the PR's exact base, so this remains a suspected PR regression with an unresolved cause. This repair does not claim to fix that E2E failure. Hermes' earlier restoration failure did not reproduce. No further live run has been dispatched or authorized.

Validation: isolated Linux Node.js 24.18.1 CLI/plugin builds, all 1,113 plugin tests, 196 targeted CLI tests, typechecks and the repository's separate lint lanes passed. With user approval, validators from canonical main 11541cde94ceb5fb96670628ed6ae18e3be76257 checked the full PR diff in isolation: all seven growth checks, live assertion census and semantic mock parity passed. The live census remains 1,344 direct expectations across 77 files. Documentation build and OpenClaw-only variant checks passed; Fern reports the existing contrast warning and unavailable authenticated redirect comparison. Normal pre-commit and commit-msg hooks passed with no source changes. Independent committed review of all 17 changed files and this PR note found no blocking findings. No dependency, live assertion, timeout, budget, policy or cleanup behavior change. No secrets were added. No main integration or further E2E was performed. Fresh CI, managed-image activation and automated review must qualify the published repair; it is not merge-ready.

Normal pre-push publication validation and CLI/plugin TypeScript checks passed. All 60 published PR commits are GitHub Verified.

MCP reload repair 559b209

• Pass the recorded gateway, workspace and TLS directory through OpenClaw MCP reload helpers and add, migration, restart and restoration callers, including partial-failure recovery. This removes reliance on mutable ambient selection. Other agents retain their existing reload behavior.
• Preserve external merge e6ac946 and its main parent 117ca54. This increment changes eight source/test files only; no E2E tests, timeouts, budgets or dependencies change.
• Isolated CLI/plugin builds, all 140 selected tests across completed runs, CLI typecheck, focused lint and unchanged assertion census passed. One process-based test exceeded its existing five-second limit during concurrent commit checks; its file passed all 36 tests alone, with that test completing in 1.6 seconds. No timeout was changed. Normal pre-commit, commit-msg and pre-push checks passed.
• Independent final documentation writer review found no issues; no-docs-needed for this increment. Fresh CI, managed-image activation and Advisor results are pending. The parent Docker activation failed during image transfer before startup; it was not retried. This MCP repair does not establish the causes of the two unresolved onboarding failures.

Failure diagnostics a4aef09

• Add bounded, redacted failure capture before cleanup for messaging onboarding and OpenClaw channel stop/start. Capture sandbox status, startup logs, file metadata and loopback health, but not native configuration contents. Failed diagnostics preserve the original failure.
• Capture MCP distinct-call request metadata and server status without supplying the missing host secret or retrying the call. Existing assertions, timeouts, cleanup, production code and assertion budgets are unchanged.
• Isolated CLI/plugin builds, 71 focused tests, focused lint and the unchanged assertion census passed. Normal commit and pre-push checks passed. Independent final documentation review found no issues; this test-only increment needs no new public documentation.
• E2E retry attempt 2 still failed both onboarding tests. MCP passed the original distinct discovery assertion, then failed trusted-private route inspection. These results do not establish the onboarding causes or prove the MCP defect fixed. The next step is focused live reproduction after CI and images pass, not another full suite or main merge.

Channel fixture repair e5d563b

• Repaired both integration fixtures behind failed shards 6 and 12 in CI 35781460854. Fixtures now supply recorded runtime selection; the bridge simulation accepts the leading gateway option and verifies gateway, workspace, TLS path and environment replacement. Production targeting and missing-target refusal are unchanged.
• All 61 channel integration tests and 28 gateway/removal CLI tests passed in isolated Node 24.18.1. Focused lint and normal pre-commit, commit-msg and pre-push hooks passed. No test timeout or production source changed. Independent final documentation review found no issues; no additional documentation is needed for this test-only increment.
• The separate green CI 35781514555 skipped tests; it does not supersede the failed executed test run. New CI and image qualification must pass before the authorized full E2E. The two unresolved live onboarding failures still need new diagnostic evidence.

Main integration 46bf636

• Merged main c1a54f78d7f756a13397d7fba250c21af860315f, including fix(e2e): align OpenClaw 2026.9.1 fixtures #12232 latency/Slack/Discord fixture repairs and preceding fix(e2e): install reviewed SDK for MCP bridge #12222 reviewed SDK installation for MCP E2E. Published history and all prior production repairs are preserved. No production source changed in this integration.
• The only conflict was assertion-census metadata. Regenerated it for the combined tree: 77 test files, 1345 direct expectations, 2101 direct assertion points and 3339 unique points. All changed limits decrease; no removed PR test was restored. The other twelve integration files match the merged main commit exactly.
• Isolated CLI/plugin builds, CLI typecheck, both complete lint passes, the census check and 162 selected tests passed. Normal pre-commit, commit-msg and pre-push hooks passed. Independent documentation review found no issues. The inherited E2E README update describes the merged fixtures; no additional documentation change was needed. The initial dispatch-test load needed a writable temporary compilation cache; no product change was needed.
• fix(e2e): align OpenClaw 2026.9.1 fixtures #12232 addresses three historical baseline signatures, not the two unresolved initial-onboarding failures. fix(e2e): install reviewed SDK for MCP bridge #12222 repairs MCP test setup; live confirmation on this combined candidate remains required. No new full E2E or job retry has been dispatched for this merge. Current-commit CI, image qualification and scheduled review results are separate pending gates.

Gateway sibling repair and onboarding diagnostics c1fda3d

• Fix Kao's recorded-runtime omissions in tunnel-origin registration (including services start), OpenClaw web-search reuse, and direct channel config removal. Native reads, mutations and restart reuse the recorded gateway/workspace/TLS selection. Missing recorded targets do not fall back to ambient selection. Conflicting-ambient and missing-target tests protect the shared resolver and its three consumers.
• Preserve bounded, redacted onboarding recovery/readiness failure details instead of discarding them when returning a boolean. This changes diagnostics only, not readiness acceptance, retry timing or cleanup.
• Full E2E 35772180677 tested parent 595ac6ccfe and completed with 64 successful jobs, 13 skipped jobs, 14 failed execution jobs and one failed aggregate. Twelve failure signatures also occur in historical main baseline 35666828863. Messaging onboarding and OpenClaw channel stop/start remain unresolved: they passed that baseline, but current artifacts lack the sandbox failure logs needed to establish cause. Cleanup succeeded and removed those resources. The new gateway repair is not claimed to fix either failure. Hermes rebuild/public reference, DCode and both legacy upgrades pass.
• Isolated CLI/plugin builds, final CLI typecheck and both complete Oxlint passes passed. Across focused and adjacent batches, 258 unique tests passed. An unchanged adjacent command test hit a five-second cold-load timeout; its separate single-worker run with a 30-second execution allowance passed, with the first case taking four seconds. A new restart test's cold module load was moved outside its timed body, and its mock was corrected to the typed failure result; all 35 affected tests passed afterward. No source timeout or live assertion changed.
• Validation used Node 24.18.1 Linux ARM64, trusted read-only validator dependencies, no network, host credentials or Docker socket, and canonical comparison refreshed from aee49c20420aeb359470cd14a8d699239887c02e to c1a54f78d7f756a13397d7fba250c21af860315f. The new main increment changes E2E fixtures, census metadata and their tests, not the compiler/lint/test-runner execution paths used here. The prior user-authorized isolated procedure covers the existing JSON5 manifest difference. No main integration occurred; merged fix(e2e): align OpenClaw 2026.9.1 fixtures #12232 addresses three historical baseline signatures but is not included in this candidate.
• Normal pre-commit, commit-msg and pre-push passed. All PR commits are GitHub Verified. Independent documentation review found no issues; this increment needs no documentation changes. No secrets were added.
• Parent CI and managed images passed. Advisor 35770684852 completed all nine specialists; its single-value-writer cleanup finding assumes one consumer, but tunnel and web-search are two production consumers. It is not an established P1 behavior defect. New-commit CI and scheduled reviews remain pending. No new E2E or job retry was dispatched for this increment.

Assertion-budget repair 595ac6c

• Correct one metadata file after the external main merges restored main's E2E assertion budget while retaining this PR's pruned tests. No production code, test assertion, workflow, or validator changed. All changed limits decrease.
• CI 35764668656 failed static checks and shard 9 for this same stale budget. The other 11 CLI shards passed. Managed images and both activation jobs, portable checks, and Code Quality passed for parent 39754531fc. Advisor skipped because CI failed.
• Regenerated using the canonical census tool: 77 test files, 1,349 direct expect calls, 2,108 direct assertion points, and 3,355 unique assertion points. The assertion check and all 13 census tests passed.
• Validation ran in isolated Node 24.18.1 Linux ARM64 with trusted read-only dependencies, no network, and no host credentials or Docker socket. The census tool and execution paths match canonical main c3b7666ac47caa2389286a3b260bf811ebd47007. The existing user-authorized isolated procedure covers the JSON5 manifest difference.
• Normal pre-commit, commit-msg, and pre-push passed. All PR commits are GitHub Verified. Independent final review found no issues; this metadata-only increment needs no documentation change. No secrets were added.
• CI and managed-image checks passed. Full default mock E2E 35772180677 completed; see the latest comparison and remaining two unresolved outcomes above.

CI repair 3a552bb

• Repair both failures from CI 35756809689 in one forward commit. Extract OpenClaw requested selection handling without changing behavior or the complexity budget. Update the preflight assertion and cover explicit recorded gateway propagation.
• Isolated validation passed: CLI/plugin builds, trusted CLI typecheck, both complete Oxlint passes (4,857 ordinary files and 257 type-aware files), and 61 selected tests. These include 31 selection-drift, 16 gateway-containment, 9 recreation, and 5 preflight cases. A test-cache ownership error was corrected in the container; no product change was needed.
• Normal pre-commit, commit-msg, and pre-push hooks passed. All published commits are GitHub Verified. No secrets were added.
• Validation used Node 24.18.1 Linux ARM64 with read-only dependencies and no network, host credentials, or Docker socket. The existing user-authorized isolated validation procedure covers the JSON5 manifest difference. Canonical main was refreshed to 9f9b15e38bb32720b74333e3ec468483038605aa; its new router-health change does not alter the compiler, test-runner, or lint execution paths used here. No further main integration occurred.
• Independent final review found no issues; this increment needs no documentation change. New CI and managed-image checks are pending. One new full default mock E2E is authorized after those checks pass; it has not yet been dispatched.

Gateway-selection repair ba42dab

• Fix the P1 confirmed by Kao and Advisor: inference configuration reads, native writes, restart, and pairing use the recorded gateway. MCP configuration reads, registration, and removal retain the full runtime selection.
• Preserve main merge 07e11c7b66, including Rebecca's merged fix(ci): rebuild incompatible DCode PR bases #12177. Its DCode resolver and tests are unchanged by this repair; the older exact-base workaround is superseded by upstream input compatibility checks.
• Add bounded, redacted output for a failed DCode connection probe without changing the live assertion or retry policy.
• Isolated validation: CLI/plugin builds and trusted CLI typecheck passed. All 396 selected CLI tests and 53 redaction tests passed. The two shell integration files passed 12/12 after supplying jq and running as a non-root user. This is 461 unique passing tests across runs, not one aggregate run.
• Normal pre-commit, commit-msg, and pre-push hooks passed. All PR commits are GitHub Verified. No secrets were added.
• Validation used Node 24.18.1 Linux ARM64, read-only dependency mounts, trusted compiler/test-runner entry points, and no host credentials or Docker socket. Canonical comparison: 2d0b130925663e98da3479afa2b5d40930b3356a. The existing user-authorized isolated procedure covers the JSON5 manifest difference. Initial setup failures involved missing build artifacts, a read-only compilation cache, missing jq, and a root-only fixture mismatch; no product edits were needed for these.
• Image checks passed for ba42dab. CI reported the two failures repaired above. No full E2E was dispatched for ba42dab. The last full run, 35694263141, had 13 failures matching the recorded main baseline and five unresolved failures. This commit does not claim to resolve all five.

Consolidated repair fd8eea4

• Fix the two Advisor findings from run 35680920357: WeChat hook config writes now use native OpenClaw patching; clone restores hold the gateway down through state restoration and native startup.
• Fix the confirmed v0.0.123 upgrade regression from E2E run 35682526610: remove only the empty legacy exec-approvals placeholder before OpenClaw migration. Preserve nonempty files and reject unsafe links or directories.
• Fix the independently reviewed sub-agent credential recipe: install as the sandbox user with a random mode-0600 temporary file and fail-safe cleanup.
• Isolated Linux validation passed: CLI/plugin builds; trusted CLI type-check; 184 focused tests with 1 existing skip; changed-file lint; documentation build with 0 errors and 2 warnings. After a test-only refactor, the affected 44 tests passed again with 1 skip. All 7 growth checks passed.
• Credential-recipe Linux checks passed for a new private file, replacement of a symlink destination without changing its target, and rejection of a directory destination with temporary-file cleanup.
• Validation caveats: one root-user Slack warning test fails identically on trusted main and passes as a normal user. A snapshot import timeout under parallel load passed on an unchanged isolated rerun. Neither required a product change.
• Trusted validation base: efea304. Candidate tree: 47b5ea6539aed2a7a9776205956fe4beb01e533c. User-authorized isolated validation used Node 24.18.1 Linux ARM64 image sha256:19cd848a0e073d34bd8cd5545a1b6b4d28489b3e3b607366621ced442bd5f6b4, no host credentials or Docker socket, and byte-verified validator packages. The CLI compiler ran from the trusted dependency tree.
• Normal commit and pre-push hooks passed, including the secret scan. All PR commits are GitHub Verified.
• CI and image checks passed for fd8eea4. Full E2E 35694263141 completed: the legacy upgrade test passed; 13 failures matched main baseline 35666828863, and five remained unresolved. See the latest repair section above.

Earlier validation

• npm run build:cli — passed.

• npx vitest run --project package-contract test/package-contract/openshell-policy-boundary.test.ts test/package-contract/openshell-sdk-loading.test.ts — passed (16 tests).

• NODE_OPTIONS=--max-old-space-size=8192 npm run typecheck:cli — passed.

• npm --prefix nemoclaw run typecheck — passed.

• Focused CLI, integration, OpenClaw runtime, inference, MCP, tunnel, onboarding, and E2E-support suites — passed.

• Focused CI cleanup suites — passed: providerless configuration (33), doctor and workflow inventory (76), sandbox marker contracts (79), runtime environment (7), snapshot restore (1), and growth guardrails (7).

• npm --prefix tools/mcp-tool-discovery-runtime run bundle:reviewed:check — passed.

• npm run e2e:assertions:check — passed with 1,401 direct assertions across 78 files.

• npm run source-shape:check — passed.

• Codebase growth guardrails — passed.

• npm run docs — passed with 0 errors and 2 pre-existing warnings.

• Clean-checkout local documentation link validation — passed for all 219 source documents.

• git diff --check origin/main...HEAD — passed.

• npm run checks:repository — passed, including the Pi qualification receipt refresh gate.

• Pi candidate qualification — Linux AMD64 and ARM64 passed in workflow run 35521490318; the checked-in receipts are byte-identical to its artifacts.

• npx tsx scripts/checks/e2e-mock-parity.mts --base origin/main --head HEAD — passed; each changed live E2E maps to a changed fast test.

• GitHub commit verification — all PR commits are Verified, including final head b766711.

• Secret scan — passed; the diff contains no secrets, API keys, or credentials.

• Review-gap repair commit 51512b7d57ae42d18cb9c1d4f6f4566a716462a9, CodeQL fix-forward commit 2e4091e389c59477082aad094f665a420809c304, final Advisor repair commit 92a1a56022d808f9f262b07d1e2059e046edd395, and reuse reconciliation repair commit e59cf5ee790d431f79d718ee04af987a5a6fb348 are GitHub Verified; normal commit and pre-push hooks passed.

• Final Advisor repairs use one atomic native OpenClaw config batch, return a nonzero result with same-command retry guidance when completion is unconfirmed, rotate restored redaction-marker gateway tokens, and remove onboarding config validation as a residual host veto.

• Final focused validation passed (66 tests), plus CLI type checking, Oxlint, ShellCheck, all 18 repository checks, growth guardrails, and documentation build with 0 errors. npm run test:changed reached 1,601 passes and 2 skips; four unrelated snapshot auto-create tests stopped before their mocks at the local OpenShell Homebrew trust preflight.

• CodeQL URL-membership findings were resolved with exact array-element equality; fresh JavaScript/TypeScript CodeQL and the aggregate CodeQL check passed on final head 2e4091e389c59477082aad094f665a420809c304. Semantic phase coverage, repository checks, and the 1,401-assertion ratchet remained green.

• npx vitest run --project integration test/agents/openclaw/runtime/nemoclaw-start.test.ts — passed (104 tests).

• Focused E2E-support validation — passed (13 tests); semantic E2E phase coverage, the 1,401-assertion ratchet, exact Vitest project membership, and all 18 repository checks passed.

• Published-head E2E run 35529797029: state backup/restore, rebuild, and inference switch passed; full-e2e exposed a test defect where timeout setup was conditional but its assertion was unconditional.

• Exact-base replay run 35530458283: the same three targets passed; full-e2e failed later on a transient npm registry lookup, so the formal comparison remains unresolved rather than a candidate regression.

• Fixed-head E2E run 35532900168 stopped before candidate execution because the exact-head managed-image publication was still building; no E2E test ran in that attempt.

• Final exact-head E2E run 35541175312: full OpenClaw, snapshot restore, OpenClaw rebuild, and inference switching all passed on e59cf5ee790d431f79d718ee04af987a5a6fb348.

• Consolidated Advisor and independent-audit repair commit 9a875be83c7caa952a864d2eab635336e6e42ffd is GitHub Verified. npm run validate:pr passed; all 27 changed test files passed (647 tests), the final focused follow-up passed (70 tests), both TypeScript checks passed, all 18 repository checks passed, and npm run docs passed with 0 errors.

• The independent P0/P1 audit found no remaining blockers across input validation, authorization, secret exposure, injection, cryptography, dependencies, state integrity, race handling, and error handling. It additionally closed JSON5 ownership gaps in restored-session reconciliation, web-search verification, and dashboard token retrieval.

• Final E2E diagnosis compared candidate run 35550078289 with exact-base run 35551184293. Four OpenClaw product-path failures passed on the base and shared one cause: the pruned runtime normalizer exposed image defaults of 2770/0660. Final commit 81e0fdd5e20ecf237d39910cc43042353e59ecef provisions native 0700/0600 modes for sandbox-user images while retaining shared modes for root-mode images.

• Two GPU candidate/base mismatches failed before exercising the changed OpenClaw path because the runner lacked an Ollama service or binary and gateway registration; no PR fix was appropriate. All other candidate failures reproduced on the exact base.

• Final validation passed: 86 focused tests, 7 growth-guardrail tests, all 18 repository checks, CLI type checking, Oxfmt, hadolint, secret scan, and documentation validation with 0 errors. The stale JSON5 parse-error assertion that failed CLI shard 10 was corrected in the same commit. Normal commit and pre-push hooks passed, and the final commit is GitHub Verified.

• Final publication reconciliation: 658c37cf75642694f37ec86159860588cbae06be regenerated the shared runtime bundle, and fix-forward 431299a582a6369b2f3f685b8e995a6f0ad19dce restored the unconsumed shared state declaration and bundle byte-for-byte to avoid unrelated Pi requalification. The final tree keeps only the Dockerfile permission behavior, its focused test, documentation, and the JSON5 assertion repair. All 18 repository checks, reviewed-bundle verification, and normal pre-push validation passed; both commits are GitHub Verified.

• Final dashboard-bind contract repair 38df426a702735c07d940f3cd4deda12d062466d allowlists the exact reviewed permission-only Dockerfile instruction. The focused lifecycle suite passed (28 tests), all 18 repository checks passed, normal pre-push validation passed, and the commit is GitHub Verified.

• Native-selection and JSON5 snapshot repair commit 3f71b83 is GitHub Verified. OpenClaw drift detection now reads only the native model scalar inside the sandbox, validates bounded control-free identities, and compares and displays the API-specific native target. Snapshot sanitization serializes native JSON5 as standard JSON so comments cannot retain credentials. Focused selection, lifecycle, credential-filter, and snapshot tests passed; one unrelated 5-second timeout under parallel load passed on isolated rerun (31/31). CLI type checking, all 18 repository checks, formatting, diff checks, the documentation build, normal commit hooks, and pre-push publication validation passed.

• CI fixture fix-forward commit 0ab6c22 is GitHub Verified. It updates the two interactive onboarding fixtures to return the native OpenClaw model scalar instead of relying on the retired selection-file download. The targeted scenarios passed, the full recreation file passed 9/9, focused CLI tests passed 77/77, CLI type checking and all 18 repository checks passed, and normal commit and pre-push hooks passed.

• Final native-ownership repair commit 82de84914c770212eb4350de814276594933ebf1 is GitHub Verified. It removes the remaining post-launch model, API, and CORS writers and their obsolete live E2E lane; validates bounded OpenClaw JSON5 structure before recursive credential filtering; and documents fresh sandbox recreation for supported API changes. Focused CLI security/config/tunnel tests passed 82/82, integration startup/risk tests passed 307/307, and affected E2E-support tests passed 137/137. CLI type checking, all 18 repository checks, source-shape checks, growth guardrails, documentation validation, normal commit hooks, and pre-push publication validation passed.

• Package-contract fix-forward commit 0dd7fab6f5e4c416fddae3571194ef6540d39f6b is GitHub Verified. It copies the new compiled config-structure dependency into both isolated package fixtures. The two formerly failing package-contract files pass 3/3; normal commit hooks and pre-push publication validation passed.

• JSON5 restore-contract fix-forward commit 179fc8a1e31545d9970d0e6e694b29e8b3956c39 is GitHub Verified. The resolved agent manifest is now the source of truth for OpenClaw JSON5 parsing, and snapshot E2E verifies the native gateway origin and openclaw config validate after both source and clone restores. Focused config tests passed 125/125, CLI type checking passed, all 18 repository checks passed, growth guardrails passed 7/7, and the E2E assertion ratchet remained unchanged at 1,371 assertions across 77 files. Normal commit and pre-push hooks passed.

• Exact-head Gate CI run 35568483238 passed all build, typecheck, static, package, plugin, installer, and 12 CLI shard jobs. Final Advisor run 35569442369 passed all nine specialists and its no-blocker gate. No further E2E dispatch was recommended.

• Shard-5 and Kao review repair commit efa2833c9cbbb2bd7fb69b0979b042016494b7bd is GitHub Verified. The stale rebuild lifecycle mocks now match the unregistered recovery API. Native OpenClaw values use a mode-0600 temporary --batch-file, and inference switching updates only the selected agent model path instead of resending the full roster. Focused validation passed 73/73 tests; CLI type checking, all 18 repository checks, normal commit hooks, and pre-push validation passed.

• Current-main integration commit ad0e18d698d515b9ba7454be24b8b4dfad4a4c26 is GitHub Verified. It cleanly merges cf9f9157e58238ec3a0503186beb44f75655e976 without changing the repair blobs. Focused validation passed 73/73 tests; CLI type checking, all 18 repository checks, diff checks, and normal pre-push validation passed.

• Managed-image race fix-forward b76671100121c2438d74cb0a946f4a6e084a1d13 is GitHub Verified. It rejects a Deep Agents registry base whose source revision differs from the PR base and builds the exact candidate base locally. This prevents an older main publication run from overwriting latest with incompatible contents. The resolver and full managed-image workflow contract suites passed 38/38; CLI type checking, ShellCheck, all 18 repository checks, normal commit hooks, and pre-push validation passed.

Review notes

The committed candidate review is recorded above. The following paragraphs describe earlier named revisions, not qualification of this candidate.

The latest three-file follow-up prevents diagnostic log truncation from retaining credential fragments. Independent writer /root/docs_finish_12120 reviewed the committed repair, validation evidence and complete PR description and found no blockers. The preceding six-file repair restored root authentication setup and corrected credential-retention guidance. The broader full-PR credential review remains incomplete. This is not approval to merge.

For 6683a1ecc4, the only publication exception is the recorded Pi receipt bootstrap. The authenticated account had MAINTAIN permission; Codex recorded the explicit user approval and verified comment readback. The bootstrap remains unqualified and cannot support merge approval. Independent review found no additional conflict-preservation defect. The following paragraphs retain earlier revisions' review context.

Independent writer /root/docs_gateway_siblings reviewed the merge integration and documentation overlaps. All files except the census resolution match Git's automatic merge; prior PR repairs and main's behavior are preserved. This is an integration review, not a fresh audit of every upstream feature. No CI waiver, E2E success or merge approval is claimed.

For 3f52494bd513e88b7ddf287f765e8c27c62586ab, self-review covered native provider/model/credential ownership, missing-primary behavior, URL and credential redaction, sibling consumers, and retained-source recovery reporting. Independent documentation writer /root/docs_gateway_siblings reviewed the committed 17-file increment and PR note with no blocking findings. The two owning OpenClaw pages were updated and built. The user approved isolated validation with canonical-main validators and guarded publication without main integration or another E2E. OpenClaw resume remains unresolved; no CI waiver or merge approval is claimed.

For c1fda3d84d, self-review covered the complete native-configuration repair, selected credential environment, failure propagation, and redacted diagnostics. Independent documentation writer /root/docs_gateway_siblings reviewed the final increment with no findings. No new dependency, cryptography, workflow or live retry was introduced. The two onboarding E2E root causes remain unresolved; this is not merge approval.

For 3a552bba30, self-review and independent review covered the complete two-file repair and surrounding selection handling. No findings; full E2E and automated review remain pending. This is not merge approval.

For ba42dab204, self-review covered recorded-gateway selection, conflicting ambient selectors, MCP add/remove, read-before-mutation, and restart/pairing. Independent documentation reviewer /root/review_gateway_forward reviewed the final commit and found no blocking findings. Sensitive native configuration and E2E diagnostics still require the new CI and automated-review results; this is not merge approval.

The final receipt commit records both Pi candidates produced from implementation head 13ab1b0515b3442c3a190767e8cecc440be2195d in one workflow cohort. The final push passed the normal publication validation without a bypass.

This supersedes the selective heartbeat merge proposed by #10748; native ownership preserves the complete credential-sanitized configuration instead of extending the former allowlist.

• Documentation writer subagent reviewed the completed changes
• Result: docs-updated
• Evidence: Reviewed the complete PR documentation and the final two-file CI correction. Verified that the retired runtime-overrides workflow job no longer references its deleted live test, the surviving managed-image job owns the required YAML anchors, and the exact reusable-workflow inventory matches. This CI-only correction needs no additional user documentation. Focused validation passed 121/121 tests, all 18 repository checks passed, YAML parsing and diff checks passed, and normal commit and pre-push hooks passed.
• Agent: Codex Desktop /root/docs_review_pr12120_final

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Summary by CodeRabbit

• New Features
  • OpenClaw configuration supports native JSON5 syntax, and status views show the active provider and model.
  • OpenClaw configuration is restored across rebuilds and snapshots from credential-sanitized backups.
  • Native OpenClaw commands manage agent settings; inference and messaging updates change selected settings while preserving unrelated configuration.
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  • Restore and startup workflows provide clearer recovery guidance and bounded, redacted diagnostics when problems occur.
  • OpenClaw restores replace the configuration with the complete sanitized backup.
  • Configuration permissions vary by runtime mode.

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Check name	Status	Explanation	Resolution
Linked Issues check	⚠️ Warning	The PR implements the main #11764 changes. It removes OpenClaw hashes, seals, anchors, permission repair, quarantine, guards, selective merge logic, and session rewriting. It adds native configuration…	Update test/e2e/live/state-backup-restore.test.ts to verify complete credential-sanitized native configuration persistence. Refocus or retire test/e2e/live/gateway-guard-recovery.test.ts and update its legacy support fixture so they do …
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The PR implements the main #11764 changes. It removes OpenClaw hashes, seals, anchors, permission repair, quarantine, guards, selective merge logic, and session rewriting. It adds native configuration updates and credential-sanitized complete-file restore. It updates full-e2e.test.ts, rebuild-openclaw.test.ts, snapshot coverage, and related unit tests. However, the whole-PR diff is empty for test/e2e/live/state-backup-restore.test.ts, test/e2e/live/gateway-guard-recovery.test.ts, and test/e2e/support/gateway-guard-legacy-keepalive-fixture.test.ts. The supplied summary does not establish that these required E2E targets already verify complete native persistence or omit retired guard, anchor, quarantine, and reconstruction behavior.

Resolution

Update test/e2e/live/state-backup-restore.test.ts to verify complete credential-sanitized native configuration persistence. Refocus or retire test/e2e/live/gateway-guard-recovery.test.ts and update its legacy support fixture so they do not assert retired NemoClaw authorization behavior.

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Record the provenance of the two new allowlist digests.

Every other recent entry in CANONICAL_POST_GENERATOR_INSTRUCTION_SHA256 names its instruction and states why it preserves the generated dashboard binding. These two digests carry no such note. Without it, a later reviewer cannot re-verify or retire the entries, which weakens this bind-contract guard.

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🟡 Minor · Complete the promised list of transient results. · commands.mdx:1409

docs/reference/commands.mdx:1409
📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

Complete the promised list of transient results.

Line 1409 ends with a colon and announces "these exact transient results", but no list follows. Line 1411 starts a new topic about gateway health. A reader cannot learn which results trigger a repeated recovery action.

Add the enumerated transient results after this sentence, or rewrite the sentence so it does not promise a list.

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In `@docs/reference/commands.mdx` at line 1409, The recover documentation sentence
promises a list of exact transient results but none follows. Update the section
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src/lib/onboard/config-sync.ts (1)

51-53: 📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🔵 Trivial | 💤 Low value

Update the stale header comment.

The comment still states that this function normalizes OpenClaw config-dir permissions. This change removed the permission-normalization command. The function now writes the selection, initializes managed session state, or validates the native configuration.

♻️ Suggested comment update

-// Write `~/.nemoclaw/config.json` and normalize OpenClaw config-dir perms
-// inside the sandbox. Also replaces the historical zero-byte config.json placeholder
-// that crashes the OpenClaw nemoclaw plugin's loadOnboardConfig. Fixes `#3999`.
+// Write `~/.nemoclaw/config.json` inside the sandbox. For a managed profile,
+// initialize OpenClaw's session state; otherwise validate the native
+// OpenClaw configuration. Also replaces the historical zero-byte config.json
+// placeholder that crashes the OpenClaw nemoclaw plugin's loadOnboardConfig.
+// Fixes `#3999`.

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- Line 1409: The recover documentation sentence promises a list of exact
transient results but none follows. Update the section around the “recover”
statement to either add the complete enumerated transient-result list before the
gateway-health topic begins, or remove the promise of a list while preserving
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In `@src/lib/onboard/config-sync.ts`:
- Around line 51-53: Update the stale header comment for the configuration-sync
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permissions and describe its current behavior: writing the sandbox config,
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Re-reviewed 20d24596569b6787a7b5f1e7a10856244f95b619. The earlier snapshot-recovery finding is addressed: both unverified-abort paths explain the conditional second start and readiness check. Local focused snapshot/exec validation passed: 49 tests, 1 skipped.

One documentation correction remains before approval: docs/reference/troubleshooting.mdx:1945-1948 still says exec performs post-command OpenClaw permission cleanup and can emit OpenClaw permission cleanup failed (command exit <code>; cleanup exit 1). This PR removes that cleanup path, so this describes an error the current implementation no longer produces. Please remove those obsolete cleanup-specific sentences while preserving the native-output/exit-status and manual pairing guidance. This confirms the latest Advisor documentation finding; no additional runtime defect was found in the re-review.

The final trusted gate also reports a conflict against current main 4c44f7cc8103453b48ae49eac3c7e630ffe299e4 (CONFLICTING / DIRTY), although all 62 current checks pass. Please resolve the actual conflict along with the documentation correction, then refresh validation for the resulting commit.

[prekshivyas]

Resolved the new conflicts against main commit 4c44f7cc8103453b48ae49eac3c7e630ffe299e4 and pushed signed merge commit 010a4c5663ebc2cbec6b7595a692af67efc5d3a5.

Conflict resolution preserves the PR behavior for native OpenClaw config ownership, matching-session updates, and maintenance-abort recovery. It also adopts upstream Hermes dashboard-state removal, fail-closed legacy migration, and config-integrity behavior. Two merge artifacts caught by independent review were corrected before push: duplicate workflow YAML anchors and a retired OpenClaw permission-repair call.

Evidence on the published tree:

• GitHub commit verification: verified: true (reason: valid)
• PR head equals local/remote head: 010a4c5663ebc2cbec6b7595a692af67efc5d3a5
• GitHub mergeability: MERGEABLE
• Focused conflict-sensitive tests: 205 passed, 1 skipped
• CLI type-check: passed (NODE_OPTIONS=--max-old-space-size=8192 after the default 4 GB local heap limit was exhausted)
• Repository checks: 18/18 passed
• Documentation validation: 0 errors, 2 warnings
• Normal commit and pre-push hooks: passed
• Documentation writer review: no findings; receipt is bound to commit 010a4c5663ebc2cbec6b7595a692af67efc5d3a5, tree 9a253300b266e6519b522e889b7dc3ed64fd81ee

Fresh CI is running on the new head. No new E2E was dispatched; per policy, a full E2E can only be dispatched after the new Image jobs pass.

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Deepak’s remaining documentation finding is fixed in Verified commit cd10517b473c36d8d041b898edb741a787aeb885.

• Removed the obsolete claim that exec performs post-command OpenClaw permission cleanup or emits a cleanup-specific failure.
• Preserved the native-output/native-exit-status and manual approval guidance.
• Updated the documentation contract test to assert the obsolete cleanup message is absent.
• Focused Vitest: 3/3 passed.
• npm run docs: passed with 0 errors and 2 existing warnings.
• Commit and pre-push hooks passed.
• Independent documentation review: PASS with no actionable findings; the PR receipt is bound to this exact commit/tree.

Fresh CI and Images are running on the corrected head. I will not dispatch the one full E2E run until Images passes on this exact commit.

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Images passed on exact head cd10517b473c36d8d041b898edb741a787aeb885, so I dispatched the one fresh default PR E2E run:

• Workflow: https://github.com/NVIDIA/NemoClaw/actions/runs/36460776396
• Correlation: 1a860b09-7913-4e3c-9d4f-4b224b96b09b
• PR head: cd10517b473c36d8d041b898edb741a787aeb885
• PR base: 4c44f7cc8103453b48ae49eac3c7e630ffe299e4
• Trusted workflow: 47e455b240afc116fdfcec8f65105f8617018af2
• Selection: empty jobs/targets (full default PR suite), mock inference, Launchable/Jetson/DGX opt-ins disabled.

The earlier red rootless-linux check was an external HTTP 429 while downloading the Hermes archive. Its same-run retry passed that download/build stage, confirming it was an infrastructure flake. I am monitoring the new E2E and will classify any failures against the PR, baseline, and infrastructure.

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The red required CI job is fixed in GitHub-Verified commit f771a9bbe97054b70bd95f2e4f539593d5b26770.

Root cause: merge commit 010a4c5663 resurrected the retired runtime-overrides job in .github/workflows/sandbox-images.yaml, while this PR correctly deleted test/e2e/live/runtime-overrides.test.ts when it removed NemoClaw-owned OpenClaw runtime overrides. cli-test-shards (8) therefore failed test/repository/workflow-vitest-paths.test.ts on an orphaned literal test path; the cli-tests and checks failures were derived aggregates.

Repair:

• Removed the orphaned workflow job.
• Moved its image download/load YAML anchors to the surviving managed-image security job, preserving downstream aliases.
• Updated the exact reusable-workflow job inventory assertion.

Evidence:

• Focused workflow/inventory validation: 121/121 passed.
• Repository checks: 18/18 passed.
• YAML parse and git diff --check: passed.
• Normal commit and pre-push hooks: passed.
• Independent documentation-writer review: PASS; no user-visible documentation update required.
• Commit verification: verified: true (reason: valid).

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[prekshivyas]

Replacement qualification for exact head f771a9bbe97054b70bd95f2e4f539593d5b26770:

• CI 36468691098: passed. All 12 CLI shards passed, including repaired shard 8; required cli-tests and checks aggregates are green.
• Images 36468690959, attempt 2: passed. Attempt 1 had one Docker managed-activation failure at admin-request selection (ADMIN_REQUEST_SELECTION_FAILED). The user-approved failed-job-only retry stayed on the same run and passed the full real all-agent activation. Rootless Podman activation and every other Image job passed attempt 1. Classification: infrastructure/runtime flake, unrelated to the two-file workflow inventory repair.
• The repair commit is GitHub Verified. Focused validation remains 121/121; repository checks 18/18; independent writer review passed.

No new full E2E was dispatched. Current trusted main is 5f6eb323210a516ebb45da8aea4eebee3da23654; its protected-runtime qualification still executes sha256sum --check .config-hash for OpenClaw. The preceding full E2E and its same-run retry deterministically failed because this accepted ownership PR removes that NemoClaw hash, while the candidate already contains the corrected probe. Since protected E2E intentionally executes trusted-main qualification code, repeating a full dispatch now would knowingly reproduce the same PR-relevant failure. A small backward-compatible trusted-main prerequisite must land first; then this PR can integrate that main commit, pass fresh Images, and run one new full-default E2E.

[prekshivyas]

Red CI retry evidence for head f771a9b:

• E2E / Portable Profile on Rootless Linux attempt 1 failed only while downloading the reviewed Hermes source archive. The endpoint returned HTTP 429 on all three built-in attempts.
• I retried the failed job on the same workflow run, as requested. Attempt 2 completed successfully: https://github.com/NVIDIA/NemoClaw/actions/runs/36468690769/attempts/2
• Successful rootless-linux job: https://github.com/NVIDIA/NemoClaw/actions/runs/36468690769/job/109101918464
• The PR head stayed unchanged, and the current PR check set has no failed, cancelled, or pending checks. Required CI and Images are green.

Classification: transient external rate-limit failure, unrelated to this PR. No code change was needed.

[rsliter]

Re-reviewed f771a9bbe97054b70bd95f2e4f539593d5b26770. The prior restore-recovery blocker is resolved: both unverified OpenClaw maintenance-abort paths now explain the marker-consuming first start, the conditional second start, readiness verification, and the correct retry. The added lifecycle regressions cover restore failure and maintenance-entry abort. The obsolete exec cleanup guidance is removed, conflicts are resolved, all current checks pass, and the latest commit is verified. I found no remaining blocking defect.

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[prekshivyas]

Post-merge ordinary E2E evidence for merge commit e6cff33196e32548c6437bea667bfd31f94adde7:

• E2E run 36492952267, attempt 3 is bound to the exact merge SHA and completed with failure. Attempt 3 is the one requested same-run failed-job retry; no second E2E workflow was dispatched.
• Latest-attempt results: 3 success, 1 failure, 29 skipped. The only failed job was base-image-publication, classified as infrastructure/unrelated: it exhausted the 3000-second wait for a successful trusted Images publication covering the exact SHA.
• The exact-SHA Images run 36492776007 was cancelled by later main concurrency after the OpenClaw, Hermes, and Deep Agents Code base-image publishers had passed. Its same-run retry reached managed-image validation, but five reusable-workflow jobs rejected the stale ghrun-36492776007-1 cohort against attempt 2. Example OpenClaw failures: amd64, arm64. This is retry-attempt identity infrastructure, not a refactor(openclaw): return config ownership to OpenClaw #12120 behavior failure.
• All E2E execution jobs were therefore skipped behind the trusted image gate. The protected managed-image startup and GPU/local inference jobs did not fail on the retired .config-hash assertion; they did not execute, so this run is not positive runtime proof.

Classification: no PR-relevant E2E failure was observed. The exact-SHA run cannot produce protected managed-image runtime evidence without a successful exact-SHA Images publication. A new ordinary E2E on a current main commit with successful Images publication would be required for positive proof, but none was dispatched under the no-second-dispatch constraint.