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Outcome

CLI shards and the Advisor runtime now install pinned Pi search tools from one Ubuntu-only APT transaction. CLI metadata refresh has up to three 120-second attempts, repeated only after an outer timeout; CLI install has a 180-second limit. Advisor retains a single five-minute limit per command. Failures report the operation, attempt, exit status, and at most 8 KiB from the last 60 diagnostic lines. The CLI package and executable version checks remain in place.

Reason

Five CLI shards in the October 7 runs for #12763 and #12764 timed out in the quiet pinned-tool step before tests. Those logs do not show whether update or install stalled. Main scopes update to ubuntu.sources but leaves install able to use ambient package lists. The closed, unmerged #11319 helper addressed source and list isolation for the September repository failure; it did not bound or identify a stalled APT command.

Related issues

Fixes #11320.

Changes

  • Place the installer at .github/actions/ci-install-pinned-ubuntu-packages.sh as a shared CI helper. The CLI shard and Advisor runtime call it; the trusted CLI shard sparse checkout includes it.
  • Use only /etc/apt/sources.list.d/ubuntu.sources and a fresh package-list directory for both update and install. Reject a missing source and unpinned package specifications before APT.
  • Preserve fix(test): preserve coverage across native and Vitest loaders #12713's CLI transport retries and 120-second update and 180-second install limits. Retry the idempotent metadata update only after an outer timeout, up to three attempts; fail closed on other statuses. Restore the runner temporary directory mode on exit.
  • Run sudo timeout so it directly supervises apt-get, including forced termination. Execute both workflow callers with fake APT commands to cover source isolation, update and install failures, both timeout paths, and fail-closed input checks.
  • Cover both workflow callers on the successful path, restore the runner temporary-directory mode in the fixture, and label exit status 137 as a possible force-killed timeout.

Verification

  • npx vitest run test/automation/pull-requests/pr-workflow-contract.test.ts test/automation/pull-requests/growth-guardrails.test.ts --coverage.enabled false passed: 74 tests on the latest repair, including recovered, exhausted, and non-timeout CLI update paths and forced-kill supervision.
  • npm run checks:repository passed: 18 checks. Commit and pre-push hooks passed on the latest repair, including ShellCheck, source-shape, growth, secret scan, commitlint, publication validation, and CLI TypeScript checking.
  • The repository project-membership check passed: 2706 candidates across 7 projects.
  • bash -n .github/actions/ci-cli-coverage-shard/install-pinned-ubuntu-packages.sh and Oxfmt checks passed.
  • A local sparse checkout using the CLI shard action and shared-helper paths included the executable helper.
  • GitHub-hosted CLI shard execution remains required to prove affected shards complete their tests. PR CI uses the base branch's trusted action until this fix merges.
  • The diff contains no secrets, API keys, or credentials.

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This changes sensitive .github/** paths. The local candidate received self-review and the focused checks above; no independent pre-publication review exists. The September #11319 PR is closed and unmerged. This PR is the separate October repair and does not change #12763 or #12764.


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

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  • Chores

    • Standardized pinned system package installation across automated checks, with bounded timeouts and retries for transient update failures.
    • Updated pull request checks to include the shared package installer when validating the revised CI action.
  • Tests

    • Expanded automated coverage for package installation failures, timeouts, and input validation, helping detect build environment issues earlier.

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Walkthrough

A shared Ubuntu APT installer validates pinned package specifications, isolates package lists, and runs updates and installs with bounded timeouts and diagnostics. The CLI shard and advisor runtime use the installer. Contract tests cover its behavior.

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Pinned Ubuntu package installation

Layer / File(s) Summary
Installer validation and APT operations
.github/actions/ci-install-pinned-ubuntu-packages.sh
The helper validates pinned package specifications and runner prerequisites. It uses an isolated package-list directory, bounded APT operations, and retries timed-out updates when enabled.
CI integration and contract coverage
.github/actions/ci-cli-coverage-shard/action.yaml, .github/workflows/pr-review-advisor.yaml, .github/workflows/pr.yaml, test/automation/pull-requests/pr-workflow-contract.test.ts
The CLI shard and advisor runtime use the helper. The CLI shard checkout includes the helper script. Contract tests cover validation, retries, timeouts, diagnostics, and failures.

Priority: ➖ Normal

Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~25 minutes

Change: Bug fix · Severity of issue fixed: Medium

Possibly related PRs

  • NVIDIA/NemoClaw#11319: Introduces the shared installer and routes the CLI and Advisor package installs through it; this change extends its APT handling and tests.

Suggested reviewers: cjagwani

Merge Risk: ⚪ Minimal · up to f2ca3

The CLI shard checkout is compatible with both the current base action and the updated action. Hosted verification of the updated action remains to be done after it lands on main, but no actionable blocker is established here.

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Check name Status Explanation Resolution
Linked Issues check ⚠️ Warning [#11320] The shared helper uses ubuntu.sources and isolated package lists for update and install. It validates pinned specifications, bounds APT operations, reports bounded diagnostics, preserves pa… Run the five affected CLI shards through a trusted CI path that uses the changed installer. Record that each shard reaches and completes its tests, and address any runtime failures.
Docstring Coverage ⚠️ Warning Docstring coverage is 0.00% which is insufficient. The required threshold is 80.00%. Docstring coverage is scoped to functions touched by this diff. Analyzed 6 functions across 3 files. (1 skipped: 1 … Write docstrings for the functions missing them to satisfy the coverage threshold.
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Description Check ✅ Passed Check skipped - CodeRabbit’s high-level summary is enabled.
Title check ✅ Passed The title clearly describes the primary change: bounding pinned Pi tool installation in CI. It is concise and directly related to the changeset.
Out of Scope Changes check ✅ Passed The shared installer, the CLI and Advisor caller changes, the trusted-action checkout update, and the workflow contract tests directly support [#11320]. The reviewed summary identifies no unrelated pr…
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[#11320] The shared helper uses ubuntu.sources and isolated package lists for update and install. It validates pinned specifications, bounds APT operations, reports bounded diagnostics, preserves package and executable version checks, and has focused fail-closed and timeout coverage. The current evidence does not demonstrate that the five affected CLI shards reached and completed tests with the changed trusted action. The reported exact-head run used the base-pinned action. The description also says changed-action hosted verification remains required.

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test/automation/pull-requests/pr-workflow-contract.test.ts (2)

104-112: 📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🔵 Trivial | ⚡ Quick win

Assert the restored RUNNER_TEMP mode, not only the chmod command.

The fake sudo records chmod but never changes the fixture directory. The test can therefore pass when permission restoration is missing or incorrect. Make the fake apply fixture-local chmod calls and assert the directory’s final mode.

Suggested test fix
-import { existsSync, mkdirSync, mkdtempSync, readFileSync, rmSync, writeFileSync } from "node:fs";
+import {
+  existsSync,
+  mkdirSync,
+  mkdtempSync,
+  readFileSync,
+  rmSync,
+  statSync,
+  writeFileSync,
+} from "node:fs";
...
 printf '%s\\n' "$*" >> "$APT_CALLS"
+if [[ "$1" == chmod && "$#" -eq 3 && ( "$3" == "$RUNNER_TEMP" || "$3" == "$RUNNER_TEMP"/* ) ]]; then
+  chmod "$2" "$3" || exit $?
+fi
 if [[ "$1" == test && "$FAKE_APT_MODE" == missing-source ]]; then exit 1; fi
...
       status: result.status,
       stderr: String(result.stderr),
+      runnerTempMode: statSync(runnerTemp).mode & 0o777,
       calls: readFileSync(aptCalls, "utf8").trim().split("\n"),
...
-      expect(result.calls.some((call) => /^chmod 700 .*\/runner-temp$/u.test(call))).toBe(true);
+      expect(result.runnerTempMode).toBe(0o700);
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Exercise a stalled APT child in the timeout tests.

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- Around line 65-68: Update the status handling in the APT operation
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Advisor verification finding on run 37710755477, reviewed against PR head 8a08e628dfec9e081e07a56055db5701a21670b5 and base 1828f2ab1d4685c876261e2ec812d91bcfbe2df0: false positive; no candidate change needed.

The PR shard job checks out .trusted-ci-actions at github.event.pull_request.base.sha. At that base commit, .github/actions/ci-cli-coverage-shard/action.yaml still runs its inline bounded apt-get commands and contains no reference to ci-install-pinned-ubuntu-packages.sh. The PR's changed action is not the action executed by this PR's shard jobs. The new action and its sibling helper are committed together, and the PR workflow's sparse checkout includes both paths for runs whose base contains this fix. The exact-head PR CI run 37709237643 confirms all 12 shards reached and completed tests with the base-pinned action.

The only way to exercise the changed trusted action in hosted CI is after it lands on main, when it and the helper are present in the same base revision. I will verify the affected shard jobs on that main run before giving recovery instructions for #12763 and #12764. CodeRabbit's review of 8a08e62 completed with no actionable comments. The Advisor gate remains red because it recorded this incorrect revision assumption; no unchanged rerun is justified by the repository retry policy.

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## Outcome

Restore the pinned Pi search-tool install on Ubuntu CLI shards by
resolving the runner's `mirror+file` archive URI to the official Ubuntu
archive in the isolated APT source file. The package pins, release
suites, components, signing key, and security source remain in place.

## Reason

The first fix in #12778 merged, but [main CI run
37782374203](https://github.com/NVIDIA/NemoClaw/actions/runs/37782374203)
stopped all 12 CLI shards before tests. APT refreshed package metadata,
then package installation failed with exit 100 while downloading a
`mirror+file` auxiliary mirror file from the isolated lists directory.
This is an implementation defect in the #11320 infrastructure repair.

### Related issues

Fixes #11320. Follow-up to #12778.

## Changes

- Resolve only the expected Ubuntu archive mirrorlist URI in a temporary
Deb822 `.sources` file. The pinned CLI shard and Advisor installers need
an APT source that can fetch packages while using isolated lists;
changing the machine's source would affect unrelated jobs. Replace every
occurrence of the expected URI, including the security stanza, and fail
closed on a different mirrorlist URI.
- Keep the temporary source readable by APT's `_apt` user and remove it
after the command. Preserve the existing bounded update/install
supervision.
- Extend the workflow contract fixture to reproduce the `mirror+file`
install failure and assert that the rewritten source preserves suites,
components, signing key, and security updates.

## Verification

- `npx vitest run --project integration
test/automation/pull-requests/pr-workflow-contract.test.ts` — 69 tests
passed.
- `bash -n .github/actions/ci-install-pinned-ubuntu-packages.sh`, `git
diff --check`, and Oxfmt check — passed.
- Commit hooks — shfmt, Oxlint, ShellCheck, repository checks, gitleaks,
and commitlint passed.
- Pre-push hooks — publication validation and CLI, plugin, and JS-config
TypeScript checks passed.
- Diff contains no secrets, API keys, or credentials.

## Review notes

Sensitive path: `.github/actions/ci-install-pinned-ubuntu-packages.sh`.
I inspected the exact `d38857f753c7d779a117f78b0f097dac71d56efa` diff in
`NVIDIA/NemoClaw` against canonical `main`; it confines the Ubuntu
mirrorlist rewrite to a temporary source and adds a regression fixture.
The first live [manual Advisor run
37788544594](https://github.com/NVIDIA/NemoClaw/actions/runs/37788544594)
exposed a candidate defect: the runner uses the expected mirrorlist URI
in multiple stanzas. This exact head repairs that case. [Manual Advisor
run
37790303426](https://github.com/NVIDIA/NemoClaw/actions/runs/37790303426)
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shard jobs execute the base-pinned action; [exact-head PR CI run
37790162279](https://github.com/NVIDIA/NemoClaw/actions/runs/37790162279)
therefore still fails all 12 shards before tests and its required
`checks` job is red. Post-merge `main` CI must verify that the revised
helper reaches and completes CLI tests, especially shards 1, 5, 8, and
12.

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## Outcome

Pinned Ubuntu tools install when `RUNNER_TEMP` has private parent
directories. APT package lists use a unique directory under `/tmp`,
which its `_apt` sandbox can traverse without changing runner-directory
permissions.

## Reason

Changing only `RUNNER_TEMP` permissions cannot grant access through a
private ancestor. A disposable Ubuntu AMD64 container reproduced the
resulting mirror-list failure with the original helper.

This change retains the Ubuntu mirrorlist resolution merged in #12837.
That merge addresses the shared CI installation failure; this PR
preserves directory access and private runner permissions alongside it.

### Related issues

Refs #12382, #12840, #12778, #12837.

## Changes

- Create the package-list directory under `/tmp` and retain its
permissions, ownership, and cleanup.
- Remove changes to `RUNNER_TEMP` permissions. Logs and the isolated
Ubuntu source remain in the runner directory.
- Make the workflow test fixture remove the temporary package-list
directory. Assert that APT uses `/tmp`, runner permissions are not
widened, and the directory is removed.

Package pins, source restrictions, timeouts, retries, and failure
propagation remain unchanged from main.

## Verification

- `vitest run --project integration
test/automation/pull-requests/pr-workflow-contract.test.ts`: all 69
tests passed after integrating #12837.
- Real Ubuntu 24.04 AMD64 installation with the combined helper passed
under a private parent directory. Installed `fd-find 9.0.0-1` and
`ripgrep 14.1.0-1`.
- Verified private directories retain mode `0700`, the system Ubuntu
source is unchanged, temporary files are removed, and the disposable
container is removed.
- Regression mutations: moving lists back under `RUNNER_TEMP`, adding
privileged permission widening, and omitting cleanup each fail the
strengthened test. The complete 69-test workflow suite passes with the
correct helper.
- Earlier reproduction: the original helper exited 100; the directory
repair passed under the same private ancestor.
- Signed commit and normal publication hooks passed, including CLI type
checking.
- Reviewed the complete two-file diff. No secrets, API keys, or
credentials.

## Review notes

Self-review of commit `29e5dc95280829f591a38f42f8f707c7e0b41d30` covered
the complete NVIDIA/NemoClaw diff against main
`5f765a1318a2338114a1f6865de3113d9083b405`, including the sensitive
`.github/actions/ci-install-pinned-ubuntu-packages.sh` path. The
combined helper preserves #12837's source restrictions and passed the
real Linux installation and cleanup checks. Advisor identified a
regression-test gap; this commit repairs it without changing the
installer. All current checks pass, including [core
CI](https://github.com/NVIDIA/NemoClaw/actions/runs/37815724516), [image
qualification](https://github.com/NVIDIA/NemoClaw/actions/runs/37815730289),
and [all nine Advisor
reviews](https://github.com/NVIDIA/NemoClaw/actions/runs/37820691834).
The first CI attempt hit an inherited five-second vLLM unit-test
timeout; one maintainer-approved failed-job rerun passed on the
unchanged commit. All nine Advisor reports are clear and recommend no
additional live E2E for this CI-helper change.

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Signed-off-by: Prekshi Vyas <prekshiv@nvidia.com>


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## Summary by CodeRabbit

* **Chores**
* Updated CI package setup to store temporary Ubuntu package data under
`/tmp` and clean it up, including when setup fails. The process no
longer changes permissions on the runner’s temporary directory.
* **Tests**
* Added checks for temporary package-data cleanup after setup failures
and verified that required paths and permissions are accessible during
installation.
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Signed-off-by: Prekshi Vyas <prekshiv@nvidia.com>
Signed-off-by: Senthil Ravichandran <senthilr@nvidia.com>
Co-authored-by: Senthil Ravichandran <senthilr@nvidia.com>
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Fix CLI shard timeouts during pinned Pi search-tool installation

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