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Outcome

CPU DCode onboarding preserves the sandbox created by OpenShell, and native NVIDIA inference uses the supervisor-issued credential placeholder throughout configuration, model construction, and health checks. Rebuild preflight reuses the recorded native provider identity and rejects replacement or expired credentials before deleting the sandbox.

Reason

On Brev, forcing Docker recreation left an OpenShell 0.0.116 sandbox in terminal Error before chat could run. Subsequent live testing exposed native-provider policy, constructor authentication, response-format, and rebuild lookup errors. The managed DCode entrypoint already enforces the required process limits without recreating the CPU sandbox.

Related issues

Refs #11847, #6545.

Changes

  • Preserve native CPU startup while retaining exact ulimits for the separately selected GPU compatibility recreation path. Composed creation tests reject accidental container discovery or replacement.
  • Enable native NVIDIA provider policy when unset, preserve an explicit administrator disable, and validate the same-name supervisor credential placeholder in generated configuration, the hardened model constructor, and both native probes. Shell-level regressions accept canonical and supported generation-scoped NVIDIA placeholders while rejecting foreign names, malformed scopes, suffixes, and newlines before use.
  • Carry the native provider receipt through rebuild and keyless onboarding; reject malformed persisted authority, then validate provider UUID, profile, credential metadata, and expiry again before deletion. Composed rebuild tests protect the existing sandbox before any backup, deletion, or recreation. Select the native registration only for a recorded native route; legacy managed nvidia-prod keeps its original registration.
  • Omit the Ultra response-template workaround for the native NVIDIA endpoint and allow 256 tokens for its readiness probes. Keep existing managed-route behavior. Executable constructor, config, and probe tests cover both routes.
  • Update native-provider test fixtures to implement the policy operation so existing transaction and failure-path assertions reach their intended behavior.

Verification

  • Repair 061c21eb0: 273 focused and related tests passed, plus 7 growth checks and 3 compiled-package checks. Normal publication validation and CLI typecheck passed without bypassing hooks or raising budgets. Earlier documentation validation passed with zero errors and two warnings. No secrets are included in the diff or retained evidence.
  • Current-candidate CI passed, including all 12 CLI shards. Docker and rootless Podman activation passed; those activation jobs use synthetic inference.
  • All nine Advisor specialists passed with zero findings. CodeRabbit confirmed all three repaired findings; the inline threads are resolved. Rebecca has not approved the repaired commit.
  • Real Brev validation on 061c21eb00bef25a5bef6201ca4ba7e20d293719, OpenShell 0.0.116, October 8: hosted inference preflight returned HTTP 200, fresh onboarding passed, headless inference returned exact JSON PONG, all four process-limit paths passed, and QuickJS tool execution/REPL restoration passed while memfd_create remained blocked.
  • Canonical two-session interactive acceptance failed: 10 predicates passed, 3 failed. Session 1 completed its model response and exited cleanly; session 2 returned APIError: An internal error occurred. Process cleanup and secret checks passed. This does not establish reliable interactive chat.
  • Trusted default denial of tool auto-approval passed. Rebuild then received HTTP 503 from its inference probe and stopped before deletion. Actual tool opt-in, recreation, and baseline restoration were not reached.
  • Public OpenShell stop/start preserved sandbox UUID, durable marker, exact entrypoint limits, and blocked-memfd QuickJS execution. Its final inference invocation returned HTTP 503, so restart inference acceptance failed.
  • Public destroy removed the owned test sandbox and container. Temporary bundle and raw TUI captures are absent; the existing Brev VM and unrelated sandboxes remain. Shared gateway provider credentials were retained; the user must revoke the approved test key after the run.

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Candidate: NVIDIA/NemoClaw 061c21eb00bef25a5bef6201ca4ba7e20d293719. CI and automated review are green, but reliable real interactive inference, tools/rebuild, and restart inference acceptance remain incomplete. The latest live evidence above is from this exact candidate. It is a manual development checkout on an existing Brev instance, not qualification of a newly baked Launchable image. The original blocked-memfd runtime checks pass; the remaining inference/API failures are not a complete live acceptance pass. Their underlying service/proxy cause has not been established. No unchanged live retry was performed.

Merged #12837 is already integrated from canonical 5f765a1318a2338114a1f6865de3113d9083b405; no further dependency PR is required for that installer fix.

Self-review covers the sensitive agents/langchain-deepagents-code/**, src/lib/onboard/**, src/lib/inference/**, and provider-adapter changes, including credential ownership, native provider identity, policy composition, and startup limits. No independent approval is claimed. Rebecca’s review of b86d3dc confirmed three CodeRabbit findings; this candidate addresses all three with regression tests. All nine Advisor specialists for b86d3dc completed successfully: three findings duplicate the credential-placeholder repair. Rebecca did not confirm the separate hard-limit finding because the exact-candidate live evidence passes all four limits. The repaired sensitive paths await independent re-review.

The separately selected GPU compatibility recreation lifecycle remains outside this CPU Brev fix.


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

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  • New Features

    • Native NVIDIA inference uses the current supervisor-managed credential and rejects missing or invalid credentials before use.
    • Native NVIDIA provider setup confirms gateway policy support before configuring the provider.
    • Sandbox rebuilds can reuse a recorded native NVIDIA provider when its identity and credentials remain valid.
  • Bug Fixes

    • NVIDIA Ultra health checks now use a model-appropriate response budget.
    • CPU Deep Agents startup limits are applied at launch without replacing the container; GPU compatibility limits remain supported.

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The changes update native NVIDIA credential handling, provider policy checks, inference probes, and rebuild validation. They also change DCode startup handling so CPU onboarding keeps native startup, while GPU compatibility retains Docker ulimit overrides.

Changes

Native NVIDIA inference and provider lifecycle

Layer / File(s) Summary
Native NVIDIA route configuration
agents/langchain-deepagents-code/*, test/agents/deepagents/*, test/e2e/.../07-deepagents-code-headless-inference.sh
DCode uses NVIDIA_INFERENCE_API_KEY for the exact native NVIDIA endpoint. That route validates OpenShell placeholders and omits Ultra template parameters. Tests and dependency notes reflect the route configuration.
Native auth and probe budgets
src/lib/inference/native-nvidia/contract.ts, src/lib/actions/sandbox/inference-*.ts, src/lib/inference/{health,max-tokens-field,openai-probe-models}.ts, related tests
Native NVIDIA probe commands build authorization from the supervisor-resolved credential. Probe payloads resolve reply-token budgets using provider and model, including 256 tokens for the specified Ultra model on NVIDIA providers.
Provider policy composition
src/lib/adapters/openshell/*, src/lib/inference/native-nvidia/*, related adapter and onboarding tests
The provider adapter checks providers_v2_enabled, enables and confirms it when unset, and returns errors for incompatible or unconfirmed settings. Native provider setup performs this check before creating or updating a provider.
Native provider rebuild validation
src/lib/actions/sandbox/rebuild-*, src/lib/onboard/build-credential-reuse.ts, related tests
Rebuild configuration carries a normalized native provider attachment. Preflight checks provider registration and identity before credential reuse or deletion. Credential reuse maps the logical NVIDIA provider to the native gateway provider.

DCode startup and resource limits

Layer / File(s) Summary
CPU startup and GPU compatibility limits
src/lib/onboard/docker-startup-command-*, src/lib/onboard/sandbox-create-*, src/lib/onboard/sandbox-gpu-create-flow.ts, docs/security/process-controls.mdx
Docker-driver onboarding no longer persists DCode’s startup command. CPU onboarding keeps native startup. DCode’s required ulimits remain for GPU compatibility container recreation, and the documentation distinguishes CPU launch-time limits from GPU container limits.

Priority: ➖ Normal

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

Change: Bug fix

Possibly related PRs

  • NVIDIA/NemoClaw#12562: Defines the native NVIDIA provider and credential contracts used by these changes.

Suggested labels: integration: dcode, provider: nvidia, area: providers, area: security, platform: container

Suggested reviewers: cv, cjagwani

Merge Risk: ⚪ Minimal · up to 061c2

The change restores native CPU startup and NVIDIA inference handling on Brev. No concrete merge-blocking defect was identified in the supplied changes. Interactive inference and rebuild acceptance remain incomplete, so the owner should confirm them separately.

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Review comments at @src/lib/actions/sandbox/rebuild-resume-config.ts:
- Around line 245-249: Update prepareRebuildResumeConfig to reject a defined
sb.nativeNvidiaProviderAttachment when normalizeNativeNvidiaProviderAttachment
returns no valid attachment. Call the existing bail mechanism and stop
preparation before returning the config, so malformed data cannot proceed to
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Review comments at @src/lib/inference/native-nvidia/contract.ts:
- Line 41: Update the placeholder validation in the native probe commands in
`contract.ts` so they accept only canonical or generation-scoped placeholders
for `NVIDIA_INFERENCE_API_KEY`, rejecting placeholders for other environment
variable names before sending a request. Add a negative case for a mismatched
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- Around line 46-48: Update the providerName selection in the recovered-sandbox
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Requesting changes on b86d3dc.

I independently confirmed the three unresolved exact-head CodeRabbit findings. They need repair before approval:

  1. Constrain native probe placeholders to the NVIDIA credential identity and add wrong-name and malformed denial coverage.
  2. Reject malformed persisted native-provider authority before any rebuild mutation.
  3. Select the native provider name only when persisted route authority identifies a native route, preserving legacy managed nvidia-prod recovery.

Together these defects weaken credential and provider identity, and can make supported rebuild paths unsafe or unusable. Please resolve the existing inline threads; I will re-review the repaired commit.

I did not confirm the separate Advisor hard-limit finding because the exact-candidate live evidence shows all four limits passing.

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Re-reviewed commit 061c21eb00bef25a5bef6201ca4ba7e20d293719.

The three earlier blocking findings are resolved: native probes now accept only the intended NVIDIA credential placeholder; keyless recovery distinguishes native and legacy provider registrations from persisted authority; and rebuild rejects malformed native-provider authority before any mutation, then revalidates provider identity at the delete edge.

The trusted gate reports all 75 current checks green, all nine commits verified, no unresolved CodeRabbit finding, and regression coverage for the risky paths. I found no remaining blocking correctness or security defect.

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## Outcome

Restore native NVIDIA onboarding and rebuild verification through the
common sandbox policy and inference probe. The repair applies across
agents. Deep Agents also keeps authentication compatibility for restored
configurations.

## Reason

The reporter confirmed that the sandbox proxy denies `/usr/bin/curl` to
`integrate.api.nvidia.com:443`: CONNECT returns 403 and curl exits with
56. The endpoint rule exists, but its binary scope excludes the shared
probe. OpenShell 0.0.116 does not enable provider-derived policy
composition by default. Native requests also need the supervisor-issued
credential placeholder.

### Related issues

Fixes #12822. Refs #11162. Credential changes reuse #12793
(`c23d20327374497d08ab5e332c191d88927c0369`, Prekshi Vyas); that PR's
separate startup changes remain there.

## Changes

- Derive the native inference grant from the attached provider profile
during creation and rebuild. Keep it sandbox-scoped, preserve operator
rules, and reject conflicting entries. Common policy tests cover all
five agent policy inputs.
- Use the attached `NVIDIA_INFERENCE_API_KEY` placeholder in the common
probe and native live requests. Deep Agents additionally needs a
process-local compatibility alias because regenerated image
configuration cannot update restored home files; wrapper and module
tests cover it.
- Retain sanitized failure codes from completed Deep Agents probes.

Explicit rebuilds to a non-native provider remove the generated NVIDIA
grant. Rebuilds without a replacement provider preserve it. Regression
tests also verify that unrelated host rules and the source policy remain
unchanged.

## Verification

Validated commit `4ace4fce36cd4ba63ab4b1f3d7a1285c5a3252e1`:

- Required pre-push publication validation and CLI TypeScript checks
passed.
- Protecting policy suites: 63 passed; the provider-transition
regression failed before the repair.
- Source architecture gate passed after replacing the barrel import with
its defining module.
- Focused CLI batch: 240 passed. All 25 sandbox-registration cases
passed in the resumed full-access session.
- Deep Agents wrapper and direct-module suites: 254 passed, two platform
skips.
- Inference-switch support: 43 Hermes cases and 19 OpenClaw cases
passed.
- GitHub verifies all published commits. The diff contains no secrets,
API keys, or credentials.

[Review and validation
details](#12826 (comment))
record the repair disposition and local checks. Hosted CI, automated
review, and the selected trusted E2E run remain pending for this commit.

## Review notes

Local review status: **alternative review completed**. Full-diff
self-review covered correctness, security boundaries, regression
coverage, and test selection against canonical `main`
`929d9f5287178d9bc2d744425c7bfb40d028ea37`.

The local Advisor failed before specialist analysis because its Lima
disk could not fit the pinned sandbox image. Task-owned sandbox,
gateway, and controller cleanup was verified. Older independent Advisor
reports supplement the self-review but do not clear this commit. No
Advisor clearance, maintainer approval, or CI waiver is claimed. Deep
Agents runtime changes require a rebuilt image.

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Signed-off-by: San Dang <sdang@nvidia.com>
Signed-off-by: Julie Yaunches <jyaunches@nvidia.com>


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## Summary by CodeRabbit

* **New Features**
* Native NVIDIA inference now uses the selected provider’s sandbox
network policy and supervisor-provided credentials across supported
agent integrations.
* Rebuilds preserve existing sandbox rules and stop when a conflicting
NVIDIA rule is found.

* **Bug Fixes**
* Improved inference diagnostics distinguish failed requests from
unavailable probes while keeping untrusted startup output out of
results.
* Invalid or mismatched NVIDIA credentials are rejected before the agent
starts.
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Signed-off-by: San Dang <sdang@nvidia.com>
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## Outcome

Repeated onboarding reuses a healthy retained OpenShell gateway
registration when its normalized scheme, host, and port match the
declared external gateway. Conflicting, malformed, unhealthy, or changed
authority fails closed while preserving retained state. Failed rebuilds
now direct users back through `nemoclaw <sandbox> rebuild --yes`,
preserving explicit options and resuming the retained backup and rebuild
transaction even without MCP servers.

OpenClaw maintenance gates also tolerate a valid atomic marker
replacement when a concurrent metadata read observes the unlinked old
inode. They recheck the current path before allowing gateway startup.

## Reason

Repeated onboarding previously tried to add an existing named
registration, which OpenShell rejects. The attachment path must reload
lifecycle authority after asynchronous operations before another
mutation.

An inherited marker-read race failed CLI shard 12. Linux can return a
zero-link metadata snapshot during atomic replacement. Discarding that
snapshot avoids rejecting a valid release without relaxing marker
validation.

### Related issues

Fixes #12622

## Changes

- Correct the zero-MCP recovery command: generic `onboard --resume`
rejects the DCode approval flag and computes a different recreate
target. Use the existing rebuild recovery owner for both MCP and
zero-MCP cases; retain transaction identity checks.

- Reuse only a healthy registration with the declared endpoint; register
only when absent.
- Recheck lifecycle authority before mutation and limit cleanup to
registrations created by the current attempt.
- Verify the reused registration is active and healthy. Preserve
existing registrations when verification fails.
- Extend the preinstalled Launchable journey through
retained-registration teardown, fresh onboarding, inference, and final
cleanup.
- Recheck zero-link marker snapshots in both doctor and backup-quiesce
polling loops within their existing retry budget. Deterministic tests
cover trusted replacements, unsafe permissions, hardlinks, symlinks, and
retry exhaustion.
- Merge current main to use its dependency manifests and publication
validation, preserving existing PR ancestry.

## Verification

- Recovery repair `a5c74e6c36233edd9652b832bac813aea7210e9b`: **232
focused tests passed**, including gateway reuse, interrupted rebuild,
saved policy/state restoration, and transaction mismatch rejection. All
three new printed-command regressions fail against the original
implementation. CLI/plugin builds and normal commit hooks passed,
including growth checks.
- The zero-MCP recovery tests now execute the printed command for
ordinary recovery and both DCode approval modes. Previous tests only
matched the incorrect guidance and covered approval flags with MCP
present.
- Live evidence from inference candidate `4d258c611` exposed the
recovery defect; it does not qualify this repaired head. Combined live
Brev validation remains pending.

- Updated-dependency focused run: **133 passed** across the
doctor-marker, gateway-host-runtime, and gateway-reuse-cli test files.
- Before the repair, both deterministic trusted-marker replacement cases
failed with the same security diagnostic as CI.
- Linux atomic-replacement experiment: 390 of 100,000 path reads
observed zero-link metadata.
- CLI and plugin builds and type checks passed with an 8 GiB Node heap.
The default-heap CLI check exhausted memory before the successful retry.
- Shell syntax, ShellCheck, shell formatting, Oxlint, Oxfmt, and
whitespace checks passed for the repair.
- Signed merge `5eee3f401a83` and repair `fbaf7bd602b3`: all normal
commit hooks passed. GitHub verifies both commits.
- Normal pre-push publication validation, JavaScript type check, and CLI
type check passed.
- Previous candidate: `fbaf7bd602b35ed56dad3c92e72dc45c5eb436be`; its
test and review evidence below is historical after the recovery repair.
- Full candidate diff reviewed; no secrets, API keys, or credentials
introduced.

## Review notes

The recovery repair has local source review and regression evidence;
fresh CI and scheduled reviews for
`a5c74e6c36233edd9652b832bac813aea7210e9b` remain pending. Its
transaction guards are unchanged. No fresh human approval or live pass
is claimed.

Sensitive paths include `src/lib/onboard/**` and
`scripts/nemoclaw-start.sh`. The marker repair was reviewed for path
validation, release authorization, failure cleanup, and bounded retries.
Zero-link snapshots never authorize release; the next iteration
validates the current path. Hosted Advisor reviewed prior head
`fbaf7bd602b35ed56dad3c92e72dc45c5eb436be`: all nine specialists
completed with clear findings ledgers, including the marker repair.
Summaries, ledgers, and E2E recommendations were inspected.

All nine retained Advisor ledgers for prior commit
`5cc7339a87cc2b636f5547ea86c1843e1cfe2c74` were clear. Prior CodeRabbit
endpoint-identity and final-cleanup-health findings are addressed.
Prior-head CI run
[37839433148](https://github.com/NVIDIA/NemoClaw/actions/runs/37839433148),
managed-image run
[37839433157](https://github.com/NVIDIA/NemoClaw/actions/runs/37839433157),
and Advisor run
[37841792629](https://github.com/NVIDIA/NemoClaw/actions/runs/37841792629)
passed. This includes all 12 CLI shards and both Docker and rootless
Podman runtime activation. CodeRabbit reports a successful status, but
its automatic reviews remain paused and its latest review covers the
prior head; no fresh CodeRabbit review is claimed.

The old shard 3 job was cancelled during OS search-tool installation
before tests began. Its missing coverage artifact and the aggregate
failures do not establish another candidate regression. All 12 shards
and aggregate CI passed on prior candidate
`fbaf7bd602b35ed56dad3c92e72dc45c5eb436be`.

The original-head Brev run passed deployment and exact-head checks but
failed NVIDIA inference. The maintainer has now requested recommended
E2E for this repaired commit. Staging Brev Launchable and the remaining
deterministic selectors were dispatched; both initial attempts stopped
at the pending managed-image prerequisite before live execution. No live
passing result is claimed for this repair.

The local setup doctor passed build, type, signing, and authentication
checks but reported the Mac Docker daemon unavailable. The non-live
tests and publication validation do not require that daemon.

---
Signed-off-by: Rebecca Sliter <571084+rsliter@users.noreply.github.com>
Signed-off-by: Julie Yaunches <jyaunches@nvidia.com>


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


<!-- This is an auto-generated comment: release notes by coderabbit.ai
-->

## Summary by CodeRabbit

* **New Features**
* Onboarding can reuse a healthy existing gateway registration when its
endpoint matches, including after a sandbox is removed.
* **Bug Fixes**
* Conflicting, unhealthy, or unverified existing registrations are
preserved for inspection rather than replaced or removed.
* Recovery guidance now consistently recommends rebuilding the sandbox
after a replacement-creation failure, including when no MCP entries need
restoring.
* **Documentation**
* Gateway lifecycle guidance now explains reuse, endpoint matching, and
registration retention during onboarding failures.

<!-- end of auto-generated comment: release notes by coderabbit.ai -->
## Current qualification evidence

Commit: `a5c74e6c36233edd9652b832bac813aea7210e9b`.

- **Alternative review completed.** Full candidate diff and adjacent
authority/recovery code reviewed for correctness, security, cleanup
ownership, and regression coverage. This is primary-agent source review,
not independent review or Advisor clearance. No actionable finding
identified.
- Local Docker Advisor could not prepare its trusted checkout: the
existing Lima VM filesystem was 98% full and Git reported `No space left
on device`. No specialist completed. The task controller was removed; no
task sandbox or gateway remained.
- **336 focused tests passed** across seven files, covering retained
gateway attachment, endpoint observation, rebuild recovery and explicit
options, marker replacement, and E2E cleanup helpers. CLI/plugin builds
and canonical `npm run validate:pr`, including CLI type checking,
passed. No source change was needed.
- [Required ordinary
CI](https://github.com/NVIDIA/NemoClaw/actions/runs/37862600093) passed.
[Current-commit hosted
Advisor](https://github.com/NVIDIA/NemoClaw/actions/runs/37864283049)
passed: all nine specialist summaries, findings ledgers, and E2E
recommendations are clear, and the blocker gate passed. CodeRabbit
completed; its trivial public-dispatch coverage suggestion is already
covered by `test/cli/rebuild-recovery-routing.test.ts:174`, which
executes the name-first rebuild through the real CLI and compiled
worker. That suite passed. No unresolved review threads remain. Prior
review evidence above remains historical.
- [Staging Brev
Launchable](https://github.com/NVIDIA/NemoClaw/actions/runs/37863572187)
and [remaining deterministic
E2E](https://github.com/NVIDIA/NemoClaw/actions/runs/37863648694)
attempt 1 failed before live execution because [managed
images](https://github.com/NVIDIA/NemoClaw/actions/runs/37862600087) had
not completed. The missing matrix and aggregate JSON error are
downstream consequences. Managed-image qualification has now passed.
Both failed-job reruns were requested as attempt 2 at 00:41 UTC on
October 9, preserving candidate, trusted workflow, and selectors. This
re-evaluates the changed prerequisite. Attempt 2 is now terminal: seven
focused product jobs passed, including protected AMD64/ARM64 startup and
GPU/local inference; ten jobs failed with provider HTTP 429 responses
before their substantive scenarios. These are not passing
qualifications. Brev passed exact-source/boot checks, reused the healthy
external gateway, built its sandbox image, and created the sandbox, then
failed initial onboarding at the native NVIDIA sandbox invocation probe
(exit 56). The retained teardown/reonboard assertions were unreached.
Brev workspace deletion and test cleanup are confirmed. The source
matches the native curl-policy and credential-placeholder defects
addressed by merged main dependencies #12826 and #12793. A clean local
base integration is prepared, with 159 focused source tests, five
real-CLI recovery-routing tests, and the CLI build passing. It is not
committed or published; the full E2E assertion audit remains in progress
before publication or another live run.
- Target label: `v0.0.132`. The PR was marked ready on October 9 at
01:14 UTC; selected live E2E qualification remains incomplete.

Additional routing checks: 84/85 tests passed. The sole failure was an
experimental SQLite warning on local Node v22.22.1 in the unrelated
doctor JSON stderr assertion; the unchanged test passed with only that
warning class suppressed. Both rebuild routing files passed without
suppression. Original failure and diagnostic evidence retained.

---------

Signed-off-by: Rebecca Sliter <571084+rsliter@users.noreply.github.com>
Signed-off-by: Julie Yaunches <jyaunches@nvidia.com>
Signed-off-by: Prekshi Vyas <prekshiv@nvidia.com>
Co-authored-by: Rebecca Sliter <571084+rsliter@users.noreply.github.com>
Co-authored-by: Julie Yaunches <jyaunches@nvidia.com>
Co-authored-by: Prekshi Vyas <prekshiv@nvidia.com>
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