fix(onboard): use native Hermes readiness in finalization

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Outcome

Portable Hermes onboarding finalization now checks the receipt-owned native gateway lifecycle instead of generic provider recovery. nemoclaw <sandbox> doctor uses the same receipt-qualified readiness result, so finalization and doctor agree on both healthy and mismatched authority states.

Reason

Generic finalization could interpret persisted openshellDriver: docker state as a Docker-managed controller after native Portable Hermes ownership was restored. That obsolete path could emit PRIVILEGED_CONTROL_UNAVAILABLE, fail onboarding, and leave doctor reporting the same sandbox as healthy.

Related issues

Fixes #11892

Changes

• Preserve typed registry-authority failures from native Hermes readiness. An incorrect or missing OpenShell registry version now produces preservation guidance in both onboarding and doctor, instead of suggesting recovery. Reuse the existing error class and add focused regression coverage.

• Route Portable Hermes finalization through the portable lifecycle owner under the existing lifecycle lock and explicit lifecycle environment.

• Keep Portable OpenClaw, managed Hermes, and custom-agent finalization on their existing recovery paths.

• Return redacted failure classifications for registry authority, native readiness, and lifecycle-lock failures.

• Make doctor fail closed with preservation guidance when a Portable Hermes receipt cannot be reconciled with registry authority.

• Consume prerequisite ci(e2e): add Portable Hermes GPU selector #12486, merged on main as 33ecf2857f447f6752149af68627b8dea5898a2c, and remove this branch's duplicate selector, fixture, planner, and catalogue definitions.

• Adapt the existing portable-profile-rootless-linux scenario for the trusted jobs=portable-hermes-finalization lane. Its five live predicates prove: mismatched authority pauses finalization; doctor exits failed; restored authority advances finalization; post-verify completes; and doctor exits healthy.

• Build the exact candidate CLI in the push-triggered rootless workflow before invoking doctor, so a missing compiled CLI cannot satisfy the negative assertion or fail the healthy assertion. The workflow-boundary test fixes this ordering.

• Keep deterministic diagnostics and failure classifications in CLI tests. The live scenario no longer asserts incidental Podman interface, ID, subnet-shape, image-name, GPU, or architecture formatting; lower-layer tests and the trusted runner contract own those facts.

• Record the fixture helper in mock/live parity and keep all live assertions visible in the canonical live test.

• Select fixture-helper-only changes in both pull-request and main-push rootless workflows. The workflow contract test protects both triggers.

• Exclude Portable Hermes receipt and registry authority failures from generic resume guidance and link operators to the fail-closed troubleshooting procedure.

• Select changes to the three owning finalization sources in the pull-request rootless workflow and protect that ownership with a workflow-contract assertion.

• Preserve generic recovery for Portable custom agents; a regression test makes the existing Hermes-only runtime-context selection observable.

• Select changes to both Portable Hermes doctor implementation owners in the pull-request rootless workflow and protect them with workflow-contract assertions.

• Read Portable Hermes registry authority only after acquiring the lifecycle lock, so qualification and readiness use one lock-protected lifecycle entry.

• Scope Hermes rebuild guidance to non-Portable sandboxes and make Portable replacement commands select the Portable profile explicitly.

Verification

Review repair 63d12e174c2842c877c122ef59b5c6836d63acd3:

• Six focused CLI test files: 253 tests passed after updating the shared error-class mock. The final doctor helper adjustment passed all 35 doctor-flow tests.
• CLI and plugin builds and CLI/plugin TypeScript checks passed during isolated contributor setup.
• npm run test:changed: all 7 growth guardrails passed; 4,605 affected tests passed and 42 were skipped. Eleven tests failed in platform-parity-cloud-experimental, mutable-config-perms, and launch-readiness-pairing-probe. All eleven failures reproduced on unchanged parent 39c9bfab4933723f4be77aba63705557c1b4d5a7 in the same macOS environment; they are outside this repair.
• Commit hooks passed, including formatting, lint, repository checks, secret scanning, source-shape limits, growth guardrails, and commit lint.
• Guarded SSH push completed; publication validation and CLI TypeScript hooks passed. Remote branch and PR head both match the repair commit, which GitHub reports as Verified.
• Manual live E2E was not rerun for this deterministic error-classification repair.

Earlier verification:

• npx vitest run --project cli src/lib/onboard/machine/finalization-deps.test.ts src/lib/onboard/machine/handlers/finalization.test.ts src/lib/onboard/machine/final-flow-composition.test.ts src/lib/actions/sandbox/doctor-flow.test.ts src/lib/onboard/experimental/portable-agent-lifecycle.test.ts src/lib/state/registry-normalization.test.ts — 6 files and 227 tests passed.
• npx vitest run --project e2e-support test/e2e/support/portable-profile-rootless-runtime-workflow.test.ts — 4 tests passed, including exact CLI build ordering before live execution.
• npm run build:cli && npm run test:changed && npm run checks:repository — the CLI build, 8 affected tests, 7 growth-guardrail tests, and all 18 repository checks passed after the E2E repair.
• npx vitest run --project integration test/automation/pull-requests/growth-guardrails.test.ts — 7 tests passed; the live test is below its 1,500-line budget.
• npm run e2e:assertions:check — passed with 1,275 direct expect calls across 77 files and no assertion growth.
• npm run test:e2e-phases:check — 101 tests across 78 files passed.
• npm run test:projects:check — exact membership passed for 2,701 candidate files across 7 projects.
• npx tsx scripts/checks/e2e-mock-parity.mts --base origin/main --head HEAD — passed.
• npm run checks:repository — all 18 repository checks passed.
• npm run docs — agent variants, route checks, and Fern validation passed after both Portable Hermes recovery-guidance corrections.
• node --max-old-space-size=8192 node_modules/typescript/bin/tsc -p tsconfig.cli.json --incremental — passed after the default 4 GiB local heap exhausted without a type diagnostic.
• Commit and publication hooks — formatting, lint, secrets, semantic phases, growth guardrails, publication validation, plugin/JS/CLI TypeScript, and commit lint passed before the guarded push.
• npm run validate:pr — passed for exact head ade0e999b891cd39c7a9b195edb8b27a4a9742bb, including publication validation and CLI type-checking.
• npx vitest run --project cli src/lib/onboard/machine/finalization-deps.test.ts — all 59 tests passed after the lifecycle-lock repair.
• npm run test:changed — 7 growth-guardrail tests and all 286 affected tests passed.
• NODE_OPTIONS=--max-old-space-size=8192 npm run typecheck:cli — passed. The default 4 GiB heap exhausted without a type diagnostic before the bounded 8 GiB run.
• npm run checks:repository — all 18 repository checks passed for the repair.
• GitHub reports every PR commit, including exact head ade0e999b891cd39c7a9b195edb8b27a4a9742bb, as Verified.
• The diff contains no secrets, API keys, or credentials.

Review notes

Review repair 63d12e174c2842c877c122ef59b5c6836d63acd3 addresses the P2 review finding. Self-review checked finalization, post-verify, doctor, and shared lifecycle rejection. No independent human review exists for the repair commit; its CI and automated reviews are pending. Earlier evidence below applies to its stated commits.

This PR changes sensitive paths under src/lib/onboard/** and src/lib/actions/sandbox/** in NVIDIA/NemoClaw.

• Prior head 43ca13fba67bd59aa45f5caaf68551fcea559663 completed required CI and all nine Advisor specialists without a code finding. That evidence is historical after the prerequisite integration.
• The assertion audit traced setup, receipt publication, authenticated gateway health, mismatched authority denial, restored finalization, doctor agreement, lifecycle stop/recovery, artifact publication, and cleanup. Source-visible gates are clean; exact-head hardware observations remain pending.
• Push-triggered rootless run 36907448452 exposed a candidate-owned test-lane defect: dependency installation skipped lifecycle scripts, the workflow did not build dist/, and both doctor calls exited before exercising readiness. Commit 9b60b1fc4b4da00fe12177301b2acb7fb8cc0404 builds the CLI first.
• Trusted manual runs 36907955560, 36911615812, and 36918097392 failed before candidate execution. The first raced image publication. The later runs exhausted the base-publication resolver GitHub API time budget before the selected workload started. These runs are infrastructure evidence, not candidate evidence.
• CodeRabbit's prior subnet-array nitpick is non-actionable: the assertion audit intentionally removed incidental Podman subnet-shape predicates from this live scenario; lower-layer tests own that shape and the live assertion ratchet remains unchanged.
• Advisor run 36916145241 on the prior commit reported three P1 findings. The delivery finding was valid and is fixed by selecting the helper under both workflow triggers. The documentation finding was valid and is fixed by the Hermes-specific stop guidance. The reduction finding was invalid: inlining the helper violated the enforced 1,500-line test budget, and moving it under test/e2e/live/ violated the no-growth live-file inventory. The existing fixture location preserves both repository contracts.
• Exact-head Advisor run 36925408239 completed all nine specialists. Seven were clean. Its delivery P1 was valid and commit f01ec8b23f777e666f6a4b6a695b42dc3583031d adds the three owning finalization sources to the pull-request rootless selector with a contract assertion. Its migration P1 was invalid: src/lib/onboard.ts passes portableRuntimeContext only when agent?.name === "hermes"; Portable custom agents receive null and retain generic recovery. The new custom-agent regression test proves generic recovery and excludes Hermes readiness. No specialist requested additional E2E beyond portable-hermes-finalization.
• Exact-head CI run 36922696550, Images run 36922696593, and rootless E2E run 36922696571 passed for parent head 059b3caec008204c2b5ee19fa6f5e9342323a4ee; they are historical after the Advisor repair. Trusted manual run 36926891523 also targets that parent head and cannot satisfy the current commit.
• Advisor run 36930565099 completed all nine specialists for parent head f01ec8b23f777e666f6a4b6a695b42dc3583031d. Eight were clear. Its delivery P1 was valid: doctor implementation changes did not select the rootless evidence workflow. Commit 7d063a2eb380ad53dde4799f1e0a721246d9f401 selects both doctor source owners and adds contract assertions. No specialist requested additional E2E. CI run 36928963816, Images run 36928963777, and rootless E2E run 36928963809 passed for that parent head and are now historical. Trusted manual run 36932048299 also targets the parent head and cannot satisfy the current commit.
• CI run 36933121476, Images run 36933121325, and rootless E2E run 36933121175 passed for parent head 7d063a2eb380ad53dde4799f1e0a721246d9f401. Advisor run 36934830143 completed all nine specialists. Eight were clear. Its documentation P1 was valid: the troubleshooting procedure prescribed Portable Hermes rebuild, which the command policy rejects. Commit ff1a522f3ac68754964b446612316b12ef590173 replaces it with supported fresh onboarding and sandbox recreation. Trusted manual run 36936174606 failed in the base-publication resolver before the selected workload started, then became historical after the repair commit. It is infrastructure evidence, not candidate evidence.
• Exact-head Advisor run 36938917512 completed all nine specialists for parent head ff1a522f3ac68754964b446612316b12ef590173. Seven were clear. Its architecture P1 was valid: registry authority was read before the lifecycle lock. Commit 395f8b5dd7261b1cf46aff40270d298a8334d0d4 moves the read under the lock and adds a regression that changes the registry entry at lock entry. Its delivery P1 was invalid: the workflow checks out the exact candidate SHA, CLI_ENTRYPOINT resolves bin/nemoclaw.js relative to that checkout, and Build exact CLI produces the same checkout dist/ before the live step. The four workflow-contract tests passed without adding a redundant CLI path authority.
• Trusted manual run 36940001036 targeted parent head ff1a522f3ac68754964b446612316b12ef590173 and failed in the base-publication resolver when its GitHub API request exceeded the checked-in 300-second time budget. The Portable Hermes workload never started. This is pre-candidate infrastructure evidence and cannot satisfy the current commit.
• Exact-head Advisor run 36943394171 completed all nine specialists for parent head 395f8b5dd7261b1cf46aff40270d298a8334d0d4. Seven were clear and no specialist requested additional E2E. Both P1 documentation findings were valid. Commit ade0e999b891cd39c7a9b195edb8b27a4a9742bb scopes rebuild guidance to non-Portable Hermes sandboxes and adds --experimental-profile portable to the supported replacement command.
• Trusted manual run 36944329646 targeted parent head 395f8b5dd7261b1cf46aff40270d298a8334d0d4 and failed before candidate execution. The base-publication resolver exceeded its checked-in 300-second GitHub API time budget while waiting for a trusted publication that covers 476d58da5ff824eaa18097aeba481abb8597a785; the Portable Hermes workload never started. This is infrastructure evidence and cannot satisfy the current commit.
• No independent human pre-publication review exists for head ade0e999b891cd39c7a9b195edb8b27a4a9742bb.
• Before this draft is ready, the exact head still requires required CI, CodeRabbit, every PR Review Advisor specialist, the trusted portable-hermes-finalization live run, and human sensitive-path approval.

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Signed-off-by: Rebecca Sliter 571084+rsliter@users.noreply.github.com
Signed-off-by: Prekshi Vyas prekshiv@nvidia.com

Summary by CodeRabbit

• Bug Fixes

  • Sandbox health checks now report Portable Hermes lifecycle-authority mismatches and unavailable gateway readiness as failures, with recovery guidance.
  • Onboarding pauses when Portable Hermes readiness cannot be verified and provides guidance tailored to the failure.

• Documentation

  • Updated Portable Hermes guidance to preserve both lifecycle records, inspect the sandbox with nemohermes doctor, and avoid resuming when authority mismatches occur.
  • Clarified that Portable Hermes does not support rebuild; fresh onboarding with sandbox recreation is the supported alternative.

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📝 Walkthrough

Portable Hermes finalization and doctor now qualify lifecycle authority and gateway readiness. Finalization pauses with failure-specific guidance when readiness is incomplete. Doctor reports authority and readiness failures. Registry reads can use a supplied environment. Tests, rootless E2E coverage, workflow filters, and recovery documentation were updated.

Changes: Portable Hermes Readiness

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Authority errors and registry access src/lib/onboard/experimental/hermes-portable-lifecycle.ts, src/lib/onboard/experimental/portable-agent-lifecycle.ts, src/lib/onboard/experimental/hermes-portable-lifecycle-currentness.test.ts, src/lib/onboard/experimental/portable-agent-lifecycle.test.ts, src/lib/state/registry/persistence.ts, src/lib/state/registry-normalization.test.ts, src/lib/actions/sandbox/gateway-state.ts, src/lib/actions/sandbox/download.ts, src/lib/actions/sandbox/download.test.ts, src/lib/actions/sandbox/transfer-lifecycle.test.ts	Lifecycle authority failures now use typed errors. Registry persistence can read from a supplied environment. The gateway-state module exports the portable command-availability assertion.
Receipt-qualified finalization readiness src/lib/onboard/machine/finalization-deps.ts, src/lib/onboard/machine/finalization-deps.test.ts, src/lib/onboard/machine/handlers/finalization.ts, src/lib/onboard/machine/handlers/finalization.test.ts, src/lib/onboard/machine/final-flow-composition.ts, src/lib/onboard/machine/final-flow-composition.test.ts, docs/reference/commands.mdx, docs/reference/troubleshooting.mdx	Portable Hermes finalization checks registry and lifecycle authority under the sandbox lock. It pauses and provides failure-specific guidance when readiness is incomplete. OpenClaw and custom-agent paths retain generic recovery. Documentation describes authority mismatches and fresh onboarding as the Portable Hermes replacement for rebuild.
Doctor authority and readiness reporting src/lib/actions/sandbox/doctor-system-checks.ts, src/lib/actions/sandbox/doctor.ts, src/lib/actions/sandbox/doctor-flow.test.ts	Doctor reports active Hermes gateway readiness and returns failed reports when receipt and registry authority cannot be qualified. Tests cover readiness failures and skipped probes.
Rootless finalization validation and workflow test/e2e/fixtures/portable-profile-rootless-finalization-helpers.ts, test/e2e/live/portable-profile-rootless-linux.test.ts, test/e2e/mock-parity.json, test/e2e/support/portable-profile-rootless-runtime-workflow.test.ts, .github/workflows/portable-profile-e2e.yaml, test/e2e/README.md, ci/e2e-assertion-budget.json, ci/e2e-assertion-growth-exceptions.json, docs/manage-sandboxes/install-plugins-hermes.mdx	The rootless Linux test checks that mismatched authority pauses finalization and fails doctor, then checks that restored authority allows finalization and passes doctor. Workflow filters, CLI build ordering, parity entries, E2E documentation, and Hermes plugin guidance were updated.

Priority: ➖ Normal

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

Change: Bug fix · Severity of issue fixed: Medium

Sequence Diagram(s)

sequenceDiagram
  participant Onboarding
  participant ReadinessCheck
  participant RegistryPersistence
  participant LifecycleLock
  participant LifecycleAuthority
  Onboarding->>ReadinessCheck: Check Portable Hermes readiness
  ReadinessCheck->>RegistryPersistence: Load registry for supplied environment
  ReadinessCheck->>LifecycleLock: Acquire sandbox lifecycle lock
  LifecycleLock->>LifecycleAuthority: Qualify registry and receipt
  LifecycleAuthority-->>ReadinessCheck: Return authority result
  ReadinessCheck-->>Onboarding: Return ready or classified failure
  Onboarding-->>Onboarding: Continue or pause finalization

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Check name	Status	Explanation	Resolution
Linked Issues check		The implementation and focused tests address [#11892]. Portable Hermes finalization uses receipt-qualified native readiness under the lifecycle lock. doctor uses the same authority and readiness res…	Run the trusted portable-hermes-finalization lane for the reviewed exact head on the required x86-64 NVIDIA rootless Podman environment. Record authority mismatch, failed doctor, restored finalization, authenticated readiness, and healt…
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Title check		The title clearly and concisely describes the main change: using native Hermes readiness during onboarding finalization.
Out of Scope Changes check		The changes stay within [#11892]. Source changes implement Portable Hermes authority and readiness alignment. Tests and workflow contract changes support the implementation. Documentation updates prov…

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The changes stay within [#11892]. Source changes implement Portable Hermes authority and readiness alignment. Tests and workflow contract changes support the implementation. Documentation updates provide the required failure and replacement guidance. The changes preserve other agent recovery paths and do not restore the removed managed controller or claim broader Portable support.

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Explanation

The implementation and focused tests address [#11892]. Portable Hermes finalization uses receipt-qualified native readiness under the lifecycle lock. doctor uses the same authority and readiness result. Existing recovery paths remain for managed Hermes, Portable OpenClaw, and custom agents. However, [#11892] requires exact-head live E2E evidence after prerequisite #12486 for authority disagreement, authenticated Hermes health, and finalization/doctor agreement. The current description states that manual live E2E was not rerun, and the cited live runs target earlier heads or fail before candidate execution.

Resolution

Run the trusted portable-hermes-finalization lane for the reviewed exact head on the required x86-64 NVIDIA rootless Podman environment. Record authority mismatch, failed doctor, restored finalization, authenticated readiness, and healthy doctor results. If the reported maintainer waiver remains active, record the waiver as the explicit disposition for this unavailable observation.

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test/e2e/live/portable-profile-rootless-linux.test.ts (1)

1058-1060: 🎯 Functional Correctness | 🔵 Trivial | ⚡ Quick win

Restore the runtime subnets shape assertion.

The cast does not validate the value at runtime. An array-like non-array value with length === 1 and a 0 entry can pass the remaining assertions.

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     assert.equal(Object.hasOwn(disposableNetwork, "network_dns_servers"), false);
+    assert.ok(Array.isArray(disposableNetwork.subnets));
     const disposableSubnets = disposableNetwork.subnets as Record<string, unknown>[];

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The required portable-hermes-finalization lane has been unable to provide candidate evidence because of inherited trusted-runner failures. The current managed-registry OS-thread failure is isolated and tracked in #13482; canonical-main run https://github.com/NVIDIA/NemoClaw/actions/runs/39256621467 failed before Hermes behavior with bounded evidence and complete cleanup.

Maintainer decision: this upstream failure is not a blocker for resuming this PR. Do not repair #13482 here and do not rerun the failed workflow unchanged.

Exception boundary: only the unavailable live observation is waived while the upstream failure remains. The PR is still WIP because it currently conflicts with main; it must be synchronized, revalidated on the resulting exact head, clear required CI and automated review, resolve actionable review threads, remain mergeable, and receive eligible independent human approval before merge.

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🧹 Nitpick comments: 1

test/e2e/live/portable-profile-rootless-linux.test.ts: 1

1040-1041: 📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🔵 Trivial | ⚡ Quick win

Restore the network-inspection shape assertions.

The live boundary comment states that this path proves the emitted full-ID form. The current test no longer checks the network ID format, network-interface format, subnet-array shape, single-subnet cardinality, or subnet value type. Updating only the comment would not restore this lost coverage.

🐛 Suggested fix

     );
     assert.equal(disposableNetwork.dns_enabled, true);
+    assert.match(String(disposableNetwork.network_interface), /^podman(?:0|[1-9][0-9]{0,8})$/u);
     assert.equal(Object.hasOwn(disposableNetwork, "network_dns_servers"), false);
+    assert.match(String(disposableNetwork.id), /^[a-f0-9]{64}$/u);
     const disposableSubnets = disposableNetwork.subnets as Record<string, unknown>[];
+    assert.ok(Array.isArray(disposableSubnets));
+    assert.equal(disposableSubnets.length, 1);
     const disposableSubnet = disposableSubnets[0]!;
+    assert.equal(typeof disposableSubnet.subnet, "string");

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Review comment at @test/e2e/live/portable-profile-rootless-linux.test.ts around
lines 1040 - 1041:
Restore the network-inspection shape assertions around `disposableNetwork` and
`disposableSubnets`: validate the network ID and interface formats, confirm
`subnets` is an array with exactly one entry, and verify that entry’s `subnet`
value is a string.

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Review comments at @test/e2e/live/portable-profile-rootless-linux.test.ts:
- Around line 1040-1041: Restore the network-inspection shape assertions around
`disposableNetwork` and `disposableSubnets`: validate the network ID and
interface formats, confirm `subnets` is an array with exactly one entry, and
verify that entry’s `subnet` value is a string.

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• src/lib/onboard/machine/finalization-deps.test.ts
• src/lib/onboard/machine/finalization-deps.ts
• src/lib/state/registry/persistence.ts
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NemoClaw-E2E-Growth: approve 17dc02d59670eb356eb608df119747918ad481da4ca11044c55e41f52ba54904

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Advisor exact-head disposition for 39c9bfab4933723f4be77aba63705557c1b4d5a7: the reduction specialist’s P1 is a false positive. It recommends moving the 108-line portable-profile-rootless-finalization-helpers.ts module into its sole consumer, but portable-profile-rootless-linux.test.ts is already 1,489 lines and ci/test-file-size-budget.json enforces a 1,500-line default. Inlining would produce 1,597 lines and fail the repository source-shape budget. The split is therefore the smallest compliant ownership boundary; the finalization assertions remain in the live test. The specialist recommended no additional E2E selector.

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Reviewed commit 39c9bfab4933723f4be77aba63705557c1b4d5a7; found one P2 issue, detailed inline.

Validation: 293 existing focused tests passed, with the transfer suite rerun using a canonical macOS temporary path after its initial /var symlink failure. A separate focused reproduction confirmed the authority-failure misclassification. Live E2E was not rerun.

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Re-reviewed commit 63d12e174c2842c877c122ef59b5c6836d63acd3. No new actionable findings.

The previous P2 is fixed: an incorrect or missing registry OpenShell version now raises the shared typed authority error, and both onboarding finalization and doctor preserve that classification and show preserve-records-and-stop guidance. I also checked lifecycle locking, the explicit environment path, and the existing generic recovery paths for other agents.

Validation: all 199 tests passed across six focused CLI test files covering lifecycle authority, finalization dependencies and composition, finalization/post-verify handlers, and doctor. The real lifecycle fixture covers both an incorrect and a missing registry version and verifies that startup/Podman mutation is not invoked.

This is a follow-up self-review of the repair, not independent approval. At this check, CI still has pending jobs and no failed checks; CodeRabbit reports success, but no new Advisor review for this commit is available. The 11 broader local test failures previously documented in the PR also reproduce on the parent commit.

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Approved following the re-review of commit 63d12e1. The previous P2 is fixed, no new actionable findings were identified, and all 199 focused tests passed. I contributed the latest repair. CI still has pending checks; this approval does not assert that those checks have passed.

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Advisor exact-head disposition for 53c5d3627f26fba0f6b7dacd17241c52b842a933: findings F-documentation-standard-work-9420883bed20b035413b and F-reduction-simplification-98f107996e216a553c33 are false positives.

The host command declares ID sandbox:gateway:restart in src/commands/sandbox/gateway/restart.ts. Before that leaf command runs, the shared NemoClawCommand.init path calls assertHermesPortableCommandSupported for every sandbox:* command. The Portable Hermes allowlist in src/lib/onboard/experimental/portable-agent-lifecycle.ts does not include sandbox:gateway:restart, so a Portable Hermes receipt causes the host wrapper to reject it. The internal native hermes gateway restart operation is a separate sandbox-side command and does not make the documented host wrapper available.

The documentation is therefore accurate and the candidate remains unchanged. Independent review confirmed this shared-guard path. All nine exact-head Advisor E2E plans recommend no additional selector; the deterministic portable-hermes-finalization floor remains covered by the recorded #13482 bounded exception.

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Exact-head qualification classification for 53c5d36:

• run 39334555507, attempt 1 job 118356430480 passed exact-source validation, managed llama.cpp installation, full GPU offload, and authenticated host/sandbox inference.
• Explicit device approval and the post-approval cron add succeeded. The bound cron run with wait then terminated with exit 29 and the retained fixed diagnostics cron-run-error and tool:error,agent-run:error, with reason and signature unavailable. Registered cleanup passed.
• The failing GPU test and admin-approval boundary are unchanged by this PR. This matches the still-open, unattributed terminal-cron failure class tracked in #13342, including failures observed after the completion barrier merged in #13355.
• This is not the managed-registry thread-creation failure covered by E2E: Portable Hermes registry cannot create a second OS thread on the GPU runner #13482, so that exception does not apply.

Rebecca authorized one helpful job-scoped rerun after classification. Attempt 2 job 118365210988 passed on the unchanged exact head, including the live GPU test, artifact upload, and runner cleanup. No broader or additional rerun was dispatched. The pass supplies exact-head qualification evidence but does not establish the cause of attempt 1.

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Post-merge verification for signed squash merge c9f8aef is complete. Exact-head qualification before merge remained 68 passed and 14 skipped, with CodeRabbit clear, the Advisor findings disposition recorded, and the authorized generic NVIDIA GPU rerun passing. After merge, rootless-linux, Ubuntu 26.04, macOS live-E2E setup, and WSL shards 3/4 and 4/4 passed. Rootless portable-launch failed in unrelated OpenClaw portable onboarding when OpenShell did not confirm a policy update; cleanup passed and the changed Hermes path was not exercised. Platform compatibility failures were confined to WSL reviewed-model signal cleanup and Pi native onboarding tests plus macOS path, symlink, release-record, Python-timeout, Spark artifact, and managed-recovery contracts; macOS shard 3/4 was cancelled. Main/manual E2E completed 76 passed and 17 skipped, with eight direct failures outside Portable Hermes finalization. Main CI and security were superseded after their ordinary completed jobs passed. No unchanged workflow was rerun. The existing #13482 exception remains limited to the unavailable Portable Hermes managed-registry thread-creation lane. Docs catch-up rejected the new public Portable and --experimental-profile guidance because docs/.docs-skip still prohibits that surface; resolving that product and documentation scope requires maintainer direction.