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Summary

After a rebuild or manual relock, an OpenClaw sandbox whose already-locked .config-hash had been re-permissioned by an in-sandbox reconciler (perms only, bytes intact) failed the relock and split: host shields reported UNLOCKED while the in-container state dirs stayed root-locked, breaking skill install and agent turns with no clean recovery. The already-locked lock transition now re-seals that perms-only drift in place instead of failing closed, and the host prints Re-sealed a perms-only config-lock drift so the self-heal is visible; content or structural drift still fails closed.

Related Issue

Parts of #7985 — fixes the rebuild config-lock drift/split (status UNLOCKED but state dirs stay locked). The credentials-traversal EACCES symptom in #7985 is handled separately by #7603 (#7545) and is not closed here.
Refs #4663 (relock settle-window family), #7629 (unlock-side idempotency precedent).

Changes

  • scripts/openclaw-config-guard.py: _transition("lock") now repairs only the recognized sidecar-permission drift after _snapshot_pair proves the stored digest still matches the configuration bytes. Recovery additionally requires openclaw.json to remain root:root 0444 with no blocking inode flags and .config-hash to be exactly sandbox:sandbox 0660 with no blocking flags. Writable configuration, content drift, structural drift, unknown metadata, and flagged files still fail closed. The guard also emits a resealedDrift result flag.
    • Recovery-path requirement and consumer: the closing relock (relockAndReconfirm via the rebuild's activateLockdownFromSnapshot and shields up drift-repair) re-confirms an already-locked config whose .config-hash was re-permissioned by the upstream in-sandbox OpenClaw gateway/doctor perm-normalizer. NemoClaw does not own that writer, so a direct source fix is out of scope here; the host-authenticated relock re-seal is the correct defense layer. Removal condition documented inline: delete the path once the lock is durably immutable on every platform (chattr +i, unavailable on overlayfs today) or the upstream reconciler stops re-permissioning a locked config. Protected by test/openclaw-config-guard-lock-reseal.test.ts and the live E2E phase below.
  • src/lib/shields/openclaw-config-lock.ts: parse and validate the new resealedDrift boolean from the guard result.
  • src/lib/shields/index.ts: transitionOpenClawTopConfig prints the host-visible re-seal line when the guard reports resealedDrift, so a rebuild or relock no longer repairs drift invisibly.
  • Tests: the guard-posture harness uses realistic file snapshots and the real classifier for the recoverable sidecar posture, writable-configuration rejection, content and structural rejection, unrelated errors, and clean verification. Parser coverage validates the result flag, and the live E2E phase drives real sidecar permission drift through shields up.

Type of Change

  • Code change (feature, bug fix, or refactor)
  • Code change with doc updates
  • Doc only (prose changes, no code sample modifications)
  • Doc only (includes code sample changes)

Quality Gates

  • Tests added or updated for changed behavior
  • Existing tests cover changed behavior — justification:
  • Tests not applicable — justification:
  • Docs updated for user-facing behavior changes
  • Docs not applicable — justification: bug fix restores the intended shields up/relock success on perms-only drift; no documented CLI/API/config contract changes. The added line is diagnostic output.
  • Sensitive paths changed (security, policy, credentials, preflight, onboarding, inference, runner, sandbox, or messaging)
  • Sensitive-path review completed or maintainer-approved waiver recorded — reviewer/approval link/justification: Nine-category security review PASS with no findings for the completed change set on the current branch revision; focused and broader shield validation passed. Prior review record: fix(shields): re-seal a perms-only config-lock drift on relock #8086 (review)
  • Non-success, skipped, or missing CI check accepted by maintainer — check name, approval link, and follow-up issue:

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  • Documentation writer subagent reviewed the completed changes
  • Result: no-docs-needed
  • Evidence: Reviewed runtime controls, command reference, troubleshooting, recovery, and security guidance. This change restores the documented Shields relock behavior for a narrowly validated permission-only hash-sidecar drift and adds an informational repair message. It introduces no new operator action or public configuration, and unsafe or content-changing drift still fails closed. No documentation change is needed.
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  • PR description includes a Signed-off-by: line and every commit appears as Verified in GitHub — all 15 commits are verified in GitHub
  • Normal pre-commit, commit-msg, and pre-push hooks passed, or npm run validate:pr passed after refreshing origin/main when hooks were skipped or unavailable — commit and push hooks passed
  • Targeted behavior tests pass for the current change set, or tests are marked not applicable above — focused recovery and parser tests passed 23 tests; broader shield validation passed 75 tests
  • Applicable broad gate passed — npm run checks, CLI and plugin type-checks, test-title validation, and Vitest project-membership validation passed locally
  • Quality Gates section completed with required justifications or waivers
  • No secrets, API keys, or credentials committed
  • npm run docs builds without warnings (doc changes only)
  • Doc pages follow the style guide (doc changes only)
  • New doc pages include SPDX header and frontmatter (new pages only)

Signed-off-by: Hung Le hple@nvidia.com

Summary by CodeRabbit

  • Bug Fixes

    • shields up now recovers from permissions-only drift in locked configuration files by re-sealing them.
    • Configuration contents remain unchanged during recovery.
    • Structural or content changes continue to fail safely.
    • Recovery results indicate when drift was successfully re-sealed.
    • An informational message is displayed when re-sealing occurs.
  • Tests

    • Added coverage for recovery, unchanged configuration contents, error handling, and fail-closed behavior.

When a rebuild or manual relock re-confirms an already-locked
/sandbox/.openclaw, an in-sandbox reconciler can re-permission
.config-hash back to 660 sandbox:sandbox without changing its bytes.
The guard's already-locked branch treated that perms-only drift as a
hard config-not-locked reject, so the relock could never re-apply: host
shields state was left UNLOCKED while the in-container state dirs stayed
root-locked — a split where skill install fails, agent turns hit EACCES
on credentials, and `shields down` refuses, with no clean recovery.

Let the already-locked lock transition fall through to the re-seal path
when the only drift is perms on a canonical file. Content or structural
drift still fails closed: the hash check runs first and the config dir
stays root-owned, so bytes cannot be swapped. The guard also emits a
resealedDrift flag and the host prints "Re-sealed a perms-only
config-lock drift", so a rebuild or relock no longer repairs drift
invisibly.

Covered by a guard-posture unit test, a result-parse test for the flag,
and a live e2e phase that drives a real perms-only .config-hash drift.

Signed-off-by: Hung Le <hple@nvidia.com>
Record the provenance of the perms-only config-lock reseal added in the
previous commit: name the writer (the upstream OpenClaw in-sandbox
gateway/doctor perm-normalizer, which NemoClaw does not own, so the host
relock re-seal is the correct layer) and the observable condition for
removing the path (durable lock immutability on every platform, or the
reconciler no longer re-permissioning a locked config). Addresses the PR
review advisor's request to record the authority and removal condition for
this security-sensitive recovery path.

Also apply Writing Guide cleanups to the changed comments and test title:
drop a judgment word and an em dash, capitalize "Python", and name the
verified posture ("unmodified" rather than "clean"). Comments and a test
title only; no behavior change.

Signed-off-by: Hung Le <hple@nvidia.com>
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Walkthrough

The configuration guard now re-seals recognized permission-only drift on locked files. It reports resealedDrift, propagates the marker through Shields, emits a self-healing message, and adds unit and live E2E coverage.

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Configuration lock re-sealing

Layer / File(s) Summary
Guard lock transition
scripts/openclaw-config-guard.py
The lock transition recognizes permission-only .config-hash drift, re-seals it, preserves failures for other verification errors, and reports resealedDrift in successful JSON output.
Result propagation and self-healing message
src/lib/shields/openclaw-config-lock.ts, src/lib/shields/index.ts
Guard result types and validation support the optional boolean marker. Shields emits an informational message when re-sealing occurs.
Re-sealing regression coverage
src/lib/shields/openclaw-config-lock.test.ts, test/openclaw-config-guard-lock-reseal.test.ts, test/e2e/live/shields-config.test.ts
Tests cover result parsing, permission-drift recovery, unrelated errors, content drift, clean locked pairs, and restored live locked state.

Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~20 minutes

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sequenceDiagram
  participant Operator
  participant Shields
  participant ConfigGuard
  participant ConfigHash
  Operator->>Shields: run shields up
  Shields->>ConfigGuard: transition lock
  ConfigGuard->>ConfigHash: verify permissions
  ConfigHash-->>ConfigGuard: report permission-only drift
  ConfigGuard->>ConfigHash: re-seal permissions
  ConfigGuard-->>Shields: return resealedDrift=true
  Shields-->>Operator: emit self-healing message
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4 terminology differences from the second opinion

Advisory only. These are normalized differences from the primary terminology receipt.

  • perms-only at scripts/openclaw-config-guard.py:3295: selected only by the second-opinion lane as justified.
  • reseal at scripts/openclaw-config-guard.py:2944: selected only by the second-opinion lane as justified.
  • resealedDrift at scripts/openclaw-config-guard.py:4331: selected only by the second-opinion lane as established.
  • config-lock drift at src/lib/shields/index.ts:1121: selected only by the second-opinion lane as established.

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2 semantic terminology decisions

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  • define — perms-only drift at scripts/openclaw-config-guard.py:3295: Keep the modifier with its exact classifier constraints when the repair path is described.
  • established — re-seal at scripts/openclaw-config-guard.py:3481: Retain the established term for the permitted drift-repair transition.

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In `@test/openclaw-config-guard-lock-reseal.test.ts`:
- Around line 74-89: Update the “perms-drift-reseals” scenario to model
permissions-only drift on .config-hash while keeping content and structure
unchanged, rather than injecting a generic config-not-locked error through
_verify_locked_files. Preserve the real classification path and stub only
low-level filesystem operations needed by lock() and _transition(). Track
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Security review: PASS for revision 269e434.

  • Secrets and credentials: PASS - no secret material or credential-handling surface is added.
  • Input validation: PASS - recovery requires a matching config/hash pair plus the recognized metadata posture; malformed, unknown, flagged, writable-config, content, and structural states are rejected.
  • Authentication and authorization: PASS - the host-authenticated guard remains the authority, and recovery is limited to a root-owned, read-only config with the expected sandbox-owned sidecar permissions.
  • Dependencies and supply chain: PASS - no dependency or installer-source change.
  • Logging and data exposure: PASS - the diagnostic reports only that a permissions repair occurred and exposes no configuration content.
  • Cryptography and integrity: PASS - the stored digest must match the locked configuration bytes before any repair.
  • Configuration and defaults: PASS - unexpected states fail closed; no permissive default or policy change is introduced.
  • Test coverage: PASS - 68 Linux guard/parser tests pass, including realistic metadata snapshots, writable-config rejection, content/structural drift rejection, and confirmation that fail-closed handling is not invoked for the one recoverable posture.
  • System security: PASS - the configuration must remain root-owned and read-only; only the known sidecar permission drift is repaired.

No security blocker remains in the implementation. Repository-wide dependency advisories, if reported by CI, remain an external merge gate and are not waived by this review.

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## Summary

Prepares the canonical v0.0.102 release documentation from the current
release-labeled scope.
The change adds a dated changelog for all 38 user-facing shipping PRs
and corrects the OpenClaw agent command reference for the behavior
delivered by #8191.

## Changes

- Add `docs/changelog/2026-08-04.mdx` with the v0.0.102 release summary,
detailed behavior changes, support boundaries, security evidence links,
and links to durable documentation.
- Update `docs/reference/commands.mdx` to describe non-JSON OpenClaw
output capture, its combined limit, marker handling, stream suppression,
recovery guidance, and exit behavior.
- [#8167](#8167) ->
`docs/changelog/2026-08-04.mdx`: Records authenticated attachment of
operator-managed llama.cpp servers.
- [#8129](#8129) ->
`docs/changelog/2026-08-04.mdx`: Records the Experimental managed vLLM
profile for two DGX Spark systems.
- [#7983](#7983) ->
`docs/changelog/2026-08-04.mdx`: Records qualification of the May 2026
GB300WS factory image.
- [#8207](#8207) ->
`docs/changelog/2026-08-04.mdx`: Records the qualified DGX Station
driver transaction.
- [#8208](#8208) ->
`docs/changelog/2026-08-04.mdx`: Records mode-bound Express resume
state.
- [#8158](#8158) ->
`docs/changelog/2026-08-04.mdx`: Records recovery of host-global
dual-Station runtime ownership.
- [#8145](#8145) ->
`docs/changelog/2026-08-04.mdx`: Records Windows-host Ollama validation
from Docker Desktop's network context.
- [#8190](#8190) ->
`docs/changelog/2026-08-04.mdx`: Records HTTP model pulls when WSL has
no local Ollama executable.
- [#8195](#8195) ->
`docs/changelog/2026-08-04.mdx`: Records reuse of a healthy
installer-managed CLI.
- [#8053](#8053) ->
`docs/changelog/2026-08-04.mdx`: Records early rejection of incompatible
OpenShell gateway versions.
- [#8098](#8098) ->
`docs/changelog/2026-08-04.mdx`: Records the bounded
package-service-to-standalone gateway recovery transition.
- [#8216](#8216) ->
`docs/changelog/2026-08-04.mdx`: Records the final dashboard port
selected during multi-sandbox onboarding.
- [#8146](#8146) ->
`docs/changelog/2026-08-04.mdx`: Records managed startup-state
restoration for stopped sandboxes.
- [#8092](#8092) ->
`docs/changelog/2026-08-04.mdx`: Records gateway watchdog recovery for
classified not-serving states.
- [#8182](#8182) ->
`docs/changelog/2026-08-04.mdx`: Records consistent managed-recovery
wait configuration.
- [#8040](#8040) ->
`docs/changelog/2026-08-04.mdx`: Records Docker sandbox rollback
authority through late validation.
- [#8130](#8130) ->
`docs/changelog/2026-08-04.mdx`: Records bounded Shields deadline
recovery and durable containment.
- [#8086](#8086) ->
`docs/changelog/2026-08-04.mdx`: Records repair of narrowly validated
permission-only configuration drift.
- [#8122](#8122) ->
`docs/changelog/2026-08-04.mdx`: Records prompt failure and guidance for
corrupt transition locks.
- [#8124](#8124) ->
`docs/changelog/2026-08-04.mdx`: Records policy restoration flags,
previews, and target revalidation.
- [#7886](#7886) ->
`docs/changelog/2026-08-04.mdx`: Records explicit destruction after
pre-delete Shields hardening failures while preserving recovery
authority.
- [#7901](#7901) ->
`docs/changelog/2026-08-04.mdx`: Records multi-port uninstall behavior
and shared-resource preservation.
- [#7984](#7984) ->
`docs/changelog/2026-08-04.mdx`: Records one classified transient remote
MCP startup retry.
- [#7954](#7954) ->
`docs/changelog/2026-08-04.mdx`: Records bounded hosted-inference probe
replies.
- [#7574](#7574) ->
`docs/changelog/2026-08-04.mdx`: Records preservation of validated
reasoning capabilities through onboarding.
- [#8089](#8089) ->
`docs/changelog/2026-08-04.mdx`: Records proxy routing for Hermes
WhatsApp pairing and media traffic.
- [#7682](#7682) ->
`docs/changelog/2026-08-04.mdx`: Records native Hermes session deletion
and identifier validation.
- [#8150](#8150) ->
`docs/changelog/2026-08-04.mdx`: Records corporate CA trust for
LangChain Deep Agents Code image builds.
- [#8156](#8156) ->
`docs/changelog/2026-08-04.mdx`: Records reviewed managed runtime
dependency remediation.
- [#8180](#8180) ->
`docs/changelog/2026-08-04.mdx`: Records reviewed MCP discovery runtime
dependency updates.
- [#8196](#8196) ->
`docs/changelog/2026-08-04.mdx`: Records private npm dependency
remediation across managed images.
- [#8203](#8203) ->
`docs/changelog/2026-08-04.mdx`: Records reviewed Hermes and LangChain
Deep Agents Code Python dependency updates.
- [#8125](#8125) ->
`docs/changelog/2026-08-04.mdx`: Records bounded diagnostics for invalid
enumerated CLI values.
- [#8193](#8193) ->
`docs/changelog/2026-08-04.mdx`: Records bounded diagnostics for
unresolved sandbox base images.
- [#8118](#8118) ->
`docs/changelog/2026-08-04.mdx`: Records bounded diagnostics for changed
gateway authority.
- [#8191](#8191) ->
`docs/changelog/2026-08-04.mdx`, `docs/reference/commands.mdx`: Records
output capture, marker handling, recovery guidance, and exit behavior
for non-JSON OpenClaw agent commands.
- [#8187](#8187) ->
`docs/changelog/2026-08-04.mdx`: Records the aligned
interactive-installation start across supported agents.
- [#8153](#8153) ->
`docs/changelog/2026-08-04.mdx`: Records current product capabilities
and support boundaries.

## Type of Change

- [ ] Code change (feature, bug fix, or refactor)
- [ ] Code change with doc updates
- [x] Doc only (prose changes, no code sample modifications)
- [ ] Doc only (includes code sample changes)

## Quality Gates

- [ ] Tests added or updated for changed behavior
- [ ] Existing tests cover changed behavior — justification:
- [x] Tests not applicable — justification: This documentation-only
release preparation does not change executable behavior. Existing
changelog and published-route tests pass.
- [x] Docs updated for user-facing behavior changes
- [ ] Docs not applicable — justification:
- [ ] Sensitive paths changed (security, policy, credentials, preflight,
onboarding, inference, runner, sandbox, or messaging)
- [ ] Sensitive-path review completed or maintainer-approved waiver
recorded — reviewer/approval link/justification:
- [ ] Non-success, skipped, or missing CI check accepted by maintainer —
check name, approval link, and follow-up issue:

## Documentation Writer Review

- [x] Documentation writer subagent reviewed the completed changes
- Result: `docs-updated`
- Evidence: Independently reviewed `docs/changelog/2026-08-04.mdx` and
`docs/reference/commands.mdx` at commit `b89913780`. All 38 user-facing
v0.0.102 PRs are represented, #8191 behavior matches the implementation,
and the writing rules, documentation style, controlled terminology,
route structure, and skip policy pass review. Targeted tests pass 36/36
and the documentation build completes with 0 errors.
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## DGX Station Hardware Evidence

- [ ] Tested on DGX Station
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- Station profile/scenario: Not applicable
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- Supporting evidence: Not applicable

## Verification

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appears as `Verified` in GitHub
- [x] Normal `pre-commit`, `commit-msg`, and `pre-push` hooks passed, or
`npm run validate:pr` passed after refreshing `origin/main` when hooks
were skipped or unavailable
- [x] Targeted behavior tests pass for the current change set, or tests
are marked not applicable above — `npx vitest run --project integration
test/changelog-docs.test.ts test/check-docs-published-routes.test.ts`
passed 36/36.
- [x] Applicable broad gate passed — not applicable to
documentation-only changes; `npm run docs` completed successfully with 0
errors.
- [x] Quality Gates section completed with required justifications or
waivers
- [x] No secrets, API keys, or credentials committed
- [ ] `npm run docs` builds without warnings (doc changes only) —
completed with 0 errors and 2 existing Fern warnings.
- [x] Doc pages follow the [style
guide](https://github.com/NVIDIA/NemoClaw/blob/main/docs/CONTRIBUTING.md)
(doc changes only)
- [x] New doc pages include SPDX header and frontmatter (new pages only)
— the native dated changelog uses the required parser-safe MDX SPDX
comment and intentionally has no frontmatter.

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Signed-off-by: Apurv Kumaria <akumaria@nvidia.com>


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## Summary by CodeRabbit

- **Documentation**
- Added release notes for v0.0.102, covering authentication, hardware
setup, WSL, installer recovery, sandbox resilience, policy management,
inference reliability, CLI improvements, and unified quickstarts.
- Updated command documentation to explain how non-JSON agent output is
collected, replayed, and reported.

- **Bug Fixes**
- Improved command-output recovery guidance when output exceeds limits
or contains unsupported fallback markers.
- Preserved accurate command exit-status reporting after output
processing.

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Signed-off-by: Apurv Kumaria <akumaria@nvidia.com>
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