fix(sandbox): treat a session without a terminal as non-interactive - #8895
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Channel and policy mutations prompted whenever NEMOCLAW_NON_INTERACTIVE was unset, so a headless run reached a prompt and failed at stdin EOF. They now also treat a missing terminal on stdin as non-interactive, the mutation lock releases its generation when a command exits mid-operation instead of leaving a stale owner that escalates to durable containment, and --dry-run is evaluated before the lock is taken. Signed-off-by: Tinson Lai <tinsonl@nvidia.com>
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📝 WalkthroughWalkthroughThe PR detects non-TTY sessions, updates policy and channel command handling, skips mutation locks during dry runs, adds regression coverage, and documents headless behavior. ChangesHeadless command safety
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In `@src/lib/actions/sandbox/policy-channel-baseline.test.ts`:
- Line 103: Update the teardown logic that restores process.stdin in
src/lib/actions/sandbox/policy-channel-baseline.test.ts (lines 103-103),
src/lib/actions/sandbox/policy-channel-conflict.test.ts (lines 375-375),
src/lib/actions/sandbox/policy-channel-policy.test.ts (lines 130-130),
src/lib/actions/sandbox/policy-channel-refresh.test.ts (lines 122-122), and
test/channels-add-preset.test.ts (lines 330-330): when the saved stdinIsTty
descriptor is absent, explicitly delete the injected process.stdin.isTTY
property; otherwise restore the original descriptor as currently done.
In `@src/lib/core/non-interactive.test.ts`:
- Around line 44-55: Update the test around isNonInteractiveSession to save
process.stdin’s original isTTY property descriptor before redefining it, then
restore that descriptor in finally; if no own descriptor existed, delete the
temporary property instead of restoring only its value. Keep the existing
environment cleanup and assertions unchanged.
In `@test/channels-add-bridge-lifecycle.test.ts`:
- Around line 231-235: Update the test case around “queues the rebuild instead
of prompting when the session has no terminal” to save and restore the
process.stdin.isTTY descriptor, set isTTY to undefined or false before calling
addSandboxChannel, and ensure the prompt spy and environment changes are
restored during cleanup.
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src/lib/state/mcp-lifecycle-lock-acquisition.ts:848-859,1689,1745registers an unconditional exit listener that deletes every owned lifecycle generation. Aprocess.exitafter a partial sandbox, inference, or rebuild mutation can remove the authoritative gate before cleanup or descendant termination is proven. A later process can mutate instead of entering stale-owner containment. Issue #8877 requires prompt EOF to unwind normally while preserving genuine fail-closed containment; it does not justify changing every lifecycle-lock consumer. Remove the generic exit-time release. Make policy and channel validation failures throw or return through the lock wrapper'sfinally, or perform them before acquisition. Add a regression that exits after a partial mutation and proves the generation or containment still blocks a contender. The new tests atsrc/lib/state/mcp-lifecycle-lock-acquisition.test.ts:166-202only invoke the listener and assert deletion, while existing tests at lines 404-520 establish that uncommitted containment must retain its generation. -
The changed stdin fixtures are not deterministic.
src/lib/actions/sandbox/policy-channel-baseline.test.ts:103,policy-channel-conflict.test.ts:375,policy-channel-policy.test.ts:130,policy-channel-refresh.test.ts:122, andtest/channels-add-preset.test.ts:330leave the injectedisTTYproperty behind when no original descriptor exists.src/lib/core/non-interactive.test.ts:46-54restores only the value, andtest/channels-add-bridge-lifecycle.test.ts:231-239never forces a missing terminal. Later tests can therefore take an interactive path based on runner state or test order. Save and restore the complete descriptor, delete the temporary property when it did not exist, and set the bridge test's terminal state explicitly. The three unresolved CodeRabbit threads report these same regressions.
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Commit 5a0f90f removes the generic exit-time lifecycle release, preserves uncommitted containment, restores complete stdin descriptors, and defines the bridge test terminal state. The requested findings are fixed.
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In `@test/package-contract/cli/policy-dispatch.test.ts`:
- Line 255: Update the runPolicyAddExternal invocation in this non-TTY test to
override NEMOCLAW_NON_INTERACTIVE with undefined instead of passing an empty
environment override, ensuring the test exercises non-TTY detection rather than
the environment-only branch.
- Around line 257-263: Strengthen the `--from-file` CLI test by asserting that
the recorded policy calls include the exact load operation with `{ type: "load",
path: file }`. Update the `loadPresetFromFile` stub or expectations around the
existing `calls` assertion so a different forwarded path cannot still satisfy
the test, while preserving the existing apply-call and no-prompt checks.
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Addressed PRA-1 in 9ea18da. One table-driven regression now exercises lock-free dry runs for all eight policy and channel mutators while preserving valid per-command preview inputs. |
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Approved based on code-diff review. Required GitHub checks must pass before merge.
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Addressed the current PRA-1 in e4018e6. Focused baseline exclusion and restoration tests now prove that missing-terminal sessions require explicit acknowledgement, do not prompt, and do not mutate. |
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Addressed both package-contract review threads in 8cd0bd7. The no-terminal case now clears |
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Approved at exact commit 8cd0bd7. Non-terminal policy and channel operations remain fail-closed without prompting, and package-contract coverage now proves the exact file dispatch path without relying on the environment-only branch. Normal hooks pass; the current GitHub cycle remains a merge gate.
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Summary
Channel and policy mutations treated a session as interactive whenever
NEMOCLAW_NON_INTERACTIVEwas unset, so a headless run reached a prompt, hit stdin EOF, and exited from inside the sandbox mutation-lock callback. The abandoned generation then escalated to durable containment and blockedsnapshot,recover, andrebuilduntil an operator cleared the lock by hand, and--dry-runwas blocked with them because the lock is taken before the preview check. A missing terminal on stdin now counts as non-interactive, the lock releases its generation when a command exits mid-operation, and a preview no longer takes the lock.Related Issue
Fixes #8877
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isNonInteractiveSession()insrc/lib/core/non-interactive.ts, true whenNEMOCLAW_NON_INTERACTIVE=1or stdin is not a terminal.isNonInteractiveEnv()keeps its environment-only meaning, and its consumers inonboard.ts,actions/sandbox/destroy.ts,domain/lifecycle/options.ts, andinference/ollama/proxy.tsare unchanged. Widening the shared predicate would makenormalizeDestroySandboxOptionsreturnyes: trueon every headless run, sodestroywould stop asking before removing a sandbox and its gateway. That is a separate decision from this defect, so the two predicates stay distinct. The repository already carried this pattern inactions/sandbox/rebuild-usage-notice.tsandactions/uninstall/run-plan.ts.src/lib/actions/sandbox/policy-channel.tsand inparsePolicyAddOptionsinsrc/lib/domain/policy-channel.ts, sochannels add|remove|start|stopandpolicy add|remove|exclude|restorestop prompting without a terminal.policy addwas the last confirmation still keyed to the environment variable alone; a documentation review of the first pass found the asymmetry.NEMOCLAW_NON_INTERACTIVE=1still reports that a preset name is required; a missing terminal reports that no input is available on stdin, reusing the existingexitPromptStdinClosedmessage rather than naming a variable the operator never set.withMcpLifecycleLockandwithMcpLifecycleLockSyncinsrc/lib/state/mcp-lifecycle-lock-acquisition.tswhen the process exits while the callback runs.policy-channel.tsalone holds around 60process.exitcalls across seven lock entry points, every one of which skips thefinally; a release registered for the duration of the hold fixes them together and covers every otherwithSandboxMutationLockcaller. Fail-closed behaviour is unchanged: aNEMOCLAW_DURABLE_CONTAINMENTfailure throws and still retains the gate throughretainOwnedLifecycleGateAfterFailure, and an abnormal kill still leaves a stale generation for the reaper. Protected byreleases the owned generation when an asynchronous operation exits the process (#8877)and its synchronous pair.--dry-runbefore acquiring the lock throughwithSandboxMutationLockUnlessPreview, for all seven mutations. Each preview path was checked to be read-only up to itsif (dryRun)return. Protected bypreviews a channel removal without taking the lock (#8877).docs/reference/commands.mdx,docs/reference/network-policies.mdx,docs/reference/troubleshooting.mdx,docs/network-policy/apply-policy-presets.mdx,docs/manage-sandboxes/add-channels-after-onboarding.mdx,docs/manage-sandboxes/runtime-controls.mdx,docs/deployment/deploy-to-headless-server.mdx, anddocs/security/credential-rotation.mdxfor the session rule and the lock-free preview.Type of Change
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process.exit, which is a deliberate narrowing of when a generation survives a command; the retention path for durable containment and for abnormal termination is untouched, but the boundary moved. Second,policy excludeandpolicy restorereach their acknowledgement gate on a headless host without the operator setting anything, so the--forceor--yesrequirement is now the only thing standing between a headless caller and a baseline exclusion.Documentation Writer Review
docs-updatedNEMOCLAW_NON_INTERACTIVEso the no-terminal--from-filepath is genuinely exercised, then asserts the exact supplied file path is loaded. Production code, CLI behavior, prompts, flags, and existing non-terminal documentation are unchanged.Verification
Signed-off-by:line and every commit appears asVerifiedin GitHubpre-commit,commit-msg, andpre-pushhooks passed, ornpm run validate:prpassed after refreshingorigin/mainwhen hooks were skipped or unavailablenpx vitest run src/lib/domain/policy-channel.test.ts src/lib/core/non-interactive.test.ts src/lib/state/mcp-lifecycle-lock-acquisition.test.ts src/lib/actions/sandbox/policy-channel-{policy,refresh,lock,baseline,conflict}.test.ts— 8 files, 147 tests passed;npx vitest run test/channels-add-preset.test.ts test/channels-add-deepagents-rejection.test.ts test/channels-add-bridge-lifecycle.test.ts— 3 files, 46 tests passed;npx vitest run src/lib/actions/sandbox/ src/lib/state/ src/lib/core/— 3398 passed against an identical pre-change baseline failing set on the same machine, all of them local timeoutsnpm testfor broad runtime/test-harness changes;npm run checkfor repo-wide validation/coverage changes — command/result:npm run docsbuilds without warnings (doc changes only)Signed-off-by: Tinson Lai tinsonl@nvidia.com
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