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Summary

Base-trust the published OpenShell v0.0.103 release identities without selecting that version at runtime. This prevents the later selector upgrade from authorizing its own release assets or supervisor image while NemoClaw continues to run OpenShell v0.0.101.

Related Issue

Part of #8893. Parent integration epic: #7937.

Changes

  • Add dormant v0.0.103 checksum-manifest, Homebrew formula, and extracted sandbox-binary identities to the base-owned installer trust set.
  • Add the official ghcr.io/nvidia/openshell/supervisor:0.0.103 immutable OCI index digest to the base-owned supervisor trust set.
  • Parse the candidate supervisor map strictly while authenticating every other byte of the candidate runtime source against a base-owned whole-file template hash.
  • Test wrong digests, version remapping, missing and duplicate identities, candidate-parser self-authorization, repository drift, consumer bypass, shadow maps, post-map mutation, and symlink input.
  • Remove an unrelated Shields conflict-resolution artifact.

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: v0.0.103 is dormant in this change. Active runtime selectors remain on v0.0.101, and no public behavior, configuration, API, policy, output, or workflow changes.
  • 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: Independent Codex Desktop security review passed all nine categories for commit 89b85d23de3. The additive merge at 71425c7e03ef did not change any of the six PR-specific files. Its other changes came from merged PR fix(hermes): keep lazy installer probe offline #9158, which passed its review and merge gates. The trust identities and dormant v0.0.103 selection state remain unchanged.
  • Non-success, skipped, or missing CI check accepted by maintainer — check name, approval link, and follow-up issue:

Documentation Writer Review

  • Documentation writer subagent reviewed the completed changes
  • Result: no-docs-needed
  • Evidence: Reviewed the complete six-file diff at 71425c7e03efc415bfebcfaa36c092566556b384 against base 996fc263473efdf81c00aa7dc5f8b768ac65a338. Each PR-specific file is byte-identical to commit 89b85d23de3a3410e1cb9cf43386d8eb0bc92c88, which received independent documentation and security review. The merge commit adds reviewed content from merged PR fix(hermes): keep lazy installer probe offline #9158 only. Active OpenShell selection remains v0.0.101. This PR changes no user command, configuration, API, policy, output, or workflow.
  • Agent: Codex Desktop

DGX Station Hardware Evidence

  • Tested on DGX Station
  • Tested commit: Not applicable; scripts/prepare-dgx-station-host.sh is unchanged.
  • Station profile/scenario: Not applicable.
  • Result: Not applicable.
  • Supporting evidence: Not applicable.

Verification

  • PR description includes a Signed-off-by: line and every commit appears as 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 — normal commit hooks passed; the pre-push hook could not run the unavailable local TypeScript compiler. GitHub CI is validating the six-file change.
  • Targeted behavior tests pass for the current change set, or tests are marked not applicable above — the focused trust suite previously passed 105 tests; GitHub CI is validating the latest PR commit.
  • Applicable broad gate passed — GitHub CI is running.
  • 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)

Additional verification: the published v0.0.103 release manifests, formula, and inner sandbox binaries match the trust values in this PR. GitHub Packages maps the v0.0.103 supervisor tag to sha256:96228f110362ffd415bb12d3b7f584063c3c52c0c93f3ccf59faada1dc2dd5d3. Active blueprint, installer, Brev, and supervisor selectors remain on v0.0.101. The cross-issue sweep found no adjacent fixes or contradictions above the medium-confidence floor.


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@cjagwani cjagwani added integration: hermes Hermes integration behavior area: networking DNS, proxy, TLS, ports, host aliases, or connectivity area: providers Inference provider integrations and provider behavior area: sandbox OpenShell sandbox lifecycle, runtime, config, or recovery labels Aug 12, 2026
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Security review: PASS

Independent review of commit b4f8f11d1 found no security issues across secrets, input validation, authorization, dependency provenance, error handling, cryptography, configuration, testing, and holistic posture.

Key evidence:

  • Candidate files are opened fail-closed with symlink/special-file rejection, inode/device revalidation, and a 1 MiB bound.
  • Supervisor identities accept only literal semantic versions, the official image repository, and immutable SHA-256 digests.
  • The candidate map is strictly parsed, but cannot authorize itself: a base-owned hash authenticates every other byte of the operational runtime source.
  • Negative tests cover wrong digests, remapping, missing/duplicate identities, candidate-parser bypass, repository drift, consumer bypass, shadow maps, post-map mutation, and symlink input.
  • Exact focused result: 3 test files, 105/105 tests passed.
  • v0.0.103 remains dormant; active runtime selection stays on v0.0.101.

Reviewer: Codex Desktop security-review subagent.

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Code Coverage Overview

Languages: TypeScript

TypeScript / code-coverage/plugin

The overall coverage in commit 71425c7 in the codex/openshell-0103... branch remains at 96%, unchanged from commit 996fc26 in the main branch.

TypeScript / code-coverage/cli

The overall coverage in commit 71425c7 in the codex/openshell-0103... branch remains at 82%, unchanged from commit 996fc26 in the main branch.

Show a code coverage summary of the most impacted files.
File main 996fc26 codex/openshell-0103... 71425c7 +/-
src/lib/onboard...-transaction.ts 94% 92% -2%
src/lib/state/config-io.ts 95% 93% -2%
src/lib/state/o...config-merge.ts 92% 92% 0%
src/lib/credentials/store.ts 57% 57% 0%
src/lib/inference/config.ts 98% 98% 0%
src/lib/runner.ts 78% 78% 0%
src/lib/sandbox...rce-identity.ts 85% 85% 0%

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📝 Walkthrough

Walkthrough

The installer hash checker now validates supervisor runtime OCI identities and OpenShell 0.0.103 assets. Tests cover trusted and tampered runtime manifests. Interrupted Shields-down recovery is extracted into a helper. Managed-image publication contract coverage is consolidated.

Changes

Supervisor Runtime Trust

Layer / File(s) Summary
Trusted identity contracts and release pins
scripts/check-installer-hash.sh, scripts/checks/extract-installer-pins.mts, test/helpers/openshell-release-fixtures.ts
Trusted supervisor identities, runtime template hashes, sandbox digests, checksum manifests, and OpenShell 0.0.103 assets are defined.
Supervisor runtime parser validation
scripts/check-installer-hash.sh, scripts/checks/extract-installer-pins.mts
The checker requires --supervisor-runtime, parses the literal manifest map, validates trusted identities, and checks the selected release.
Release and adversarial trust coverage
test/installer-hash-check.test.ts, test/installer-sandbox-build-trust.test.ts, test/installer-supervisor-manifest-trust.test.ts
Fixtures and tests cover trusted releases, altered digests, duplicate versions, bypass attempts, unauthorized repositories, map mutation, and symlink inputs.

Interrupted Shields-down Recovery

Layer / File(s) Summary
Interrupted recovery extraction
src/lib/shields/index.ts
Interrupted Hermes recovery now runs through completeInterruptedShieldsDown, which preserves rollback, policy, route, audit, transition, and failure handling.

Managed Image Publication Contract

Layer / File(s) Summary
Publication artifact contract coverage
test/managed-image-publication-retention.test.ts, test/managed-image-publication-workflow.test.ts
The publication tests validate exact aggregate and agent-platform artifact metadata, error handling, and 90-day retention.

Test Maintenance

Layer / File(s) Summary
Lint suppression cleanup
src/lib/onboard/child-exit-tracker.test.ts
An obsolete Biome suppression comment is removed.

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

Mergeability Score: 🟡 Moderate · up to 122bd

The PR adds a retention test with an incorrect contract path format, causing it to mismatch the workflow and potentially fail or provide invalid coverage. Correct the path before merging; no direct runtime behavior change is indicated.

Sequence Diagram(s)

sequenceDiagram
  participant HashChecker as check-installer-hash.sh
  participant PinParser as extract-installer-pins.mts
  participant RuntimeMap as supervisor runtime map
  participant ReleasePins as trusted release pins
  HashChecker->>PinParser: pass --supervisor-runtime
  PinParser->>RuntimeMap: load and parse manifest digest map
  PinParser->>ReleasePins: validate template and OCI identities
  PinParser-->>HashChecker: verify selected release pins
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PR Review Advisor — No blocking findings reported

Advisor assessment: No blocking advisor findings reported
Next action: No advisor follow-up needed.
Findings: 0 blockers · 0 warnings · 0 suggestions

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  • GPT-5.6 Terra (primary): Completed · high confidence · 0 blockers · 0 warnings · 0 suggestions
  • Nemotron 3 Ultra (second opinion): Completed · high confidence · 0 blockers · 0 warnings · 0 suggestions
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2 semantic terminology decisions

Terminology decisions are advisory. They affect the assessment only when a separate finding identifies concrete semantic impact.

  • established — supervisor manifest at scripts/checks/extract-installer-pins.mts:824: Keep `supervisor manifest`; existing repository use has the same meaning.
  • established — operational template at scripts/checks/extract-installer-pins.mts:808: Keep `operational template`; existing installer verification uses the same meaning.

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test/installer-supervisor-manifest-trust.test.ts (2)

81-86: 📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🔵 Trivial | ⚡ Quick win

Assert that the version-selection replacements changed the source.

selectOpenShellV00103 replaces the literals 0.0.101 and v0.0.101:. When the repository selects a later release, these replacements become no-ops. The fixture then returns the unchanged templates, and the selection tests at Lines 212-219 and Lines 221-232 stop exercising a 0.0.103 selection. addSandboxBuildPins already asserts its own mutation. Add the same guard here so drift fails loudly.

🛡️ Proposed guard
 function selectOpenShellV00103(): {
   blueprint: string;
   brevInstaller: string;
   installer: string;
 } {
+  assert.ok(
+    INSTALLER_TEMPLATE.includes('MAX_VERSION="0.0.101"'),
+    "selection fixture must start from a 0.0.101 installer template",
+  );
   const installer = addSandboxBuildPins(
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In `@test/installer-supervisor-manifest-trust.test.ts` around lines 81 - 86,
Update the fixture setup using INSTALLER_TEMPLATE and addSandboxBuildPins to
assert that each version-selection replacement changes the source before passing
it onward. Preserve the existing 0.0.103 substitutions and make the guard fail
loudly if the expected 0.0.101 or v0.0.101 literals are no longer present.

30-35: 📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🔵 Trivial | ⚡ Quick win

Duplicated 0.0.103 trust fixtures across two test files. test/helpers/openshell-release-fixtures.ts exports V00103_SANDBOX_BUILD_DIGESTS and V00103_SUPERVISOR_MANIFEST_DIGEST, but both test files redeclare the same literals. The copies can drift when the release pins rotate.

  • test/installer-supervisor-manifest-trust.test.ts#L30-L35: remove the local V00103_SUPERVISOR_MANIFEST_DIGEST and V00103_SANDBOX_BUILD_DIGESTS constants and import both from ./helpers/openshell-release-fixtures.
  • test/installer-sandbox-build-trust.test.ts#L30-L33: remove the local V00103_SANDBOX_BUILD_DIGESTS constant and import it from ./helpers/openshell-release-fixtures.
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rest with a brief reason, keep changes minimal, and validate.

In `@test/installer-supervisor-manifest-trust.test.ts` around lines 30 - 35,
Remove the duplicated local trust fixtures and import the shared constants from
test/helpers/openshell-release-fixtures: in
test/installer-supervisor-manifest-trust.test.ts lines 30-35, import
V00103_SUPERVISOR_MANIFEST_DIGEST and V00103_SANDBOX_BUILD_DIGESTS; in
test/installer-sandbox-build-trust.test.ts lines 30-33, import
V00103_SANDBOX_BUILD_DIGESTS. Preserve the existing test references while
ensuring both files use the shared definitions.
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Nitpick comments:
In `@test/installer-supervisor-manifest-trust.test.ts`:
- Around line 81-86: Update the fixture setup using INSTALLER_TEMPLATE and
addSandboxBuildPins to assert that each version-selection replacement changes
the source before passing it onward. Preserve the existing 0.0.103 substitutions
and make the guard fail loudly if the expected 0.0.101 or v0.0.101 literals are
no longer present.
- Around line 30-35: Remove the duplicated local trust fixtures and import the
shared constants from test/helpers/openshell-release-fixtures: in
test/installer-supervisor-manifest-trust.test.ts lines 30-35, import
V00103_SUPERVISOR_MANIFEST_DIGEST and V00103_SANDBOX_BUILD_DIGESTS; in
test/installer-sandbox-build-trust.test.ts lines 30-33, import
V00103_SANDBOX_BUILD_DIGESTS. Preserve the existing test references while
ensuring both files use the shared definitions.

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Reviewed the current head, fail-closed trust parser, required CI, and exact-head advisor/security feedback. Required checks are green and no blocking code findings remain. Auxiliary base-image and OpenClaw activation failures remain for maintainer disposition.

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In `@src/lib/shields/index.ts`:
- Around line 4728-4797: The recovery tests for shieldsDown do not cover the
alreadyCommitted path. Add a test that persists an active transition, invokes
the public shieldsDown recovery call chain, and verifies recovery succeeds
without duplicating the audit commit, while preserving the existing
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In `@test/managed-image-publication-retention.test.ts`:
- Around line 47-52: Use the original slash-delimited platform value for the
contract path while retaining artifactPlatform for the artifact name. Update the
path construction in the returned object to match the managed-image workflow’s
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Managed image activation assigns Hermes a per-sandbox API port, but the runtime secret-boundary validator rejected that non-secret variable and forced the replacement container into a restart loop. Allow the assigned port, refresh the validator integrity pin, and cover the runtime environment contract.

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<!-- markdownlint-disable MD041 -->
## Summary
<!-- 1-3 plain sentences: what changes and why. Describe
before-and-after behavior when it applies. Follow the NemoClaw Writing
Guide: https://github.com/NVIDIA/NemoClaw/blob/main/WRITING.md. Do not
add unrelated prose cleanup. -->
The Pi agent directory held only its manifest, so no image source, entry
point, configuration generator, or baseline policy existed, and the
candidate managed-image agent list had no consumer. This adds the
NemoClaw-owned Pi image sources that install one exact package version
and integrity value with lifecycle scripts disabled, the startup entry
point, the credential-free model catalog generator, the deny-by-default
baseline policy, and the supply-chain record. CI now builds, validates,
and publishes exact Pi candidate digests for `linux/amd64` and
`linux/arm64` under a contract artifact name outside the all-agent
cohort download pattern, so a published candidate cannot enter the
atomic release cohort.

## Related Issue
<!-- Fixes #NNN or Closes #NNN. Remove this section if none. -->
Resolves #7925

## Changes
<!-- List concrete changes. If this adds an abstraction, configuration,
fallback, migration, or compatibility path, name its current requirement
and consumer, explain why a direct change is insufficient, and identify
the test that protects it. -->
- Add `agents/pi/Dockerfile.base` and `agents/pi/Dockerfile`: the
reviewed Debian security package set, the sandbox user at uid/gid 999
declared by `MANAGED_IMAGE_RUNTIME_IDENTITIES`, the resource-limit
hooks, the freestanding managed-bootstrap entry point, and the
root-owned managed-startup handoff.
- Pin the Pi runtime through `agents/pi/pi-runtime/package.json` and
`package-lock.json`, installed with `npm ci --omit=dev
--ignore-scripts`. The build asserts the version against `package.json`
and the integrity value against the lockfile before installing.
- Add `agents/pi/start.sh`: `umask 077`, entrypoint environment
normalization, the root-to-sandbox `setpriv` drop, fail-closed resource
limits, proxy values read only from root-owned image files, and
`PI_OFFLINE=1` with `PI_TELEMETRY=0`.
- Add `agents/pi/generate-config.ts`, which writes `models.json` at mode
`0600` with no credential and rejects an inference API family other than
`openai-completions` or a base URL that carries credentials.
- Add `agents/pi/policy-additions.yaml`, which allows the managed
inference route only and lists no agent-writable binary path.
- Add `agents/pi/dependency-review.md` with the package identity,
lockfile digest, and audit result.
- Add the read-only `pi-candidate` pull-request job and package-writing
`pi-candidate-publish` job to `.github/workflows/managed-images.yaml`
and the Pi lanes to `.github/workflows/base-image.yaml`, both covering
`linux/amd64` and `linux/arm64`.
- Add `scripts/checks/pi-candidate-artifacts.mts` to `npm run
checks:repository`. It binds the manifest, lockfile, both image sources,
the dependency review, and the managed-image contract to one package
identity, and verifies that the candidate contract artifact name stays
outside the all-agent cohort download pattern. This is the current
consumer of `CANDIDATE_MANAGED_IMAGE_AGENTS`, which had none.
- Add `tools/managed-images/validate-candidate-contract.mts`, which
reuses `parseManagedImageContractV1` so a candidate digest is held to
the same exact identity rules as a shipped image, and rejects a contract
whose agent is not a candidate.
- Add `agents/pi/Dockerfile` and `agents/pi/Dockerfile.base` to the
production build-arg guard so the new `PI_NPM_INTEGRITY` pin cannot be
overridden from a build command.
- Add `test/pi-candidate-runtime-artifacts.test.ts`, plus its watch
triggers and its nine source-shape contract exceptions.
- Repair the Pi local-base handoff by exporting Docker and OCI archives
from one Docker-container Buildx solve. Candidate validation loads the
Docker archive, while both candidate builds and digest-only publication
use the digest-qualified OCI layout as a named build context.
- Fix `agents/pi/generate-config.ts` to set the provider `api` field
Pi's own model-composition code requires and a non-secret managed-route
`apiKey` placeholder matching Deep Agents Code's identical pattern;
without the `api` field Pi could not compose any model. Reject an
inference setting that is empty after trimming.
- Remove a Darwin-compat `chmod` in `agents/pi/Dockerfile` that widened
`/sandbox/.bashrc` and `/sandbox/.profile` away from the exact mode
`start.sh`'s integrity check requires, which failed every Darwin-compat
Pi start closed. Compare the installed Pi version by exact match instead
of substring in both Dockerfiles.
- Port Hermes's corporate-CA merge into `agents/pi/start.sh` so a CA
baked at build time reaches Node's runtime trust bundle, matching the
existing Hermes and shared `scripts/nemoclaw-start.sh` behavior.
- Invoke `tools/managed-images/validate-candidate-contract.mts` through
`node --experimental-strip-types` instead of `npx tsx` in the shared Pi
candidate steps, which never run `npm ci`. The pull-request job has
read-only permissions. The non-pull-request publication job holds
`packages: write`.
- Close a file-system race CodeQL flagged in
`test/pi-candidate-runtime-artifacts.test.ts` and tighten its
network-policy binary-path assertion to an exact allowlist.
- Add the missing Pi entries to
`test/runtime-provider-source-shape.test.ts` and the missing workflow
watch triggers in `test/helpers/vitest-watch-triggers.ts`.
- Run the same declared-entrypoint qualification in the read-only
pull-request Pi matrix against the locally built image, while trusted
publication continues to qualify the exact published digest. Both paths
verify the sandbox UID, resource limits, corporate-CA membership and
root-owned bundle, persisted trust variables, and independent-shell
handoff.

## Type of Change

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

## Quality Gates
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- [ ] Docs updated for user-facing behavior changes
- [x] Docs not applicable — justification: Public docs remain deferred
because Pi stays out of `SHIPPED_MANAGED_IMAGE_AGENTS`. The internal
supply-chain record in `agents/pi/dependency-review.md` is updated;
#7929 owns public Pi documentation and #8818 owns activation.
- [x] 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: pending maintainer
review of the Pi baseline policy, the startup privilege drop, the pinned
install, and the corporate-CA merge.
- [ ] Non-success, skipped, or missing CI check accepted by maintainer —
check name, approval link, and follow-up issue:

## Documentation Writer Review
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- [x] Documentation writer subagent reviewed the completed changes
- Result: `docs-updated`
- Evidence: `agents/pi/dependency-review.md` — independently reviewed
the complete 20-file diff at `5336c9348c0b8ec278a31c5340aa62840ec34b77`
against base `b89a870c70091c4ca97c692fd196327aead776a7`. All 15
non-merge PR commits and all 20 PR-specific file blobs are unchanged
from the prior reviewed head. The merge adds six PR #8908 OpenShell
trust-validation files outside the Pi image, runtime, manifest, policy,
package data, and candidate workflows. The dependency record still
matches Pi 0.84.1, its exact npm integrity, the lockfile SHA-256,
SHA-512 values for all 144 resolved archives, and the zero-vulnerability
audit. Pi remains non-selectable and outside the shipped and atomic
release cohorts. Issue #7929 owns public documentation, and #8818 owns
activation. At the exact reviewed head, 132 focused tests passed across
four files; `npm run checks:repository`, `npm run docs`, and `git diff
--check` also passed.
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## 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 — command/result or justification: `npx
vitest run test/pi-candidate-runtime-artifacts.test.ts` passed 27/27 at
exact head `5336c9348c0b8ec278a31c5340aa62840ec34b77`; current-main
OpenShell installer trust suites passed 105/105 across 3 files; Pi
artifact and onboard integration suites passed 86 tests across 3 files;
focused sandbox-stop and Podman lifecycle suites passed 95 tests across
4 files; `npm --prefix agents/pi/pi-runtime ci --omit=dev
--ignore-scripts` installed 144 resolved packages with integrity and
`npm audit --omit=dev` found 0 vulnerabilities; `npm run
source-shape:check` and `npm run checks:repository` passed.
- [x] Applicable broad gate passed — `npm test` for broad
runtime/test-harness changes; `npm run check` for repo-wide
validation/coverage changes — command/result: exact-head GitHub CI at
`5336c9348c0b8ec278a31c5340aa62840ec34b77` passed all 12 CLI shards and
aggregate `checks`; direct managed startup passed for OpenClaw, Hermes,
and Deep Agents Code; `PR exact all-agent managed runtime activation`
passed.
- [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)
- [ ] Doc pages follow the [style
guide](https://github.com/NVIDIA/NemoClaw/blob/main/docs/CONTRIBUTING.md)
(doc changes only)
- [ ] New doc pages include SPDX header and frontmatter (new pages only)

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Signed-off-by: Tinson Lai <tinsonl@nvidia.com>


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

* **New Features**
  * Added a Pi sandbox image for AMD64 and ARM64 platforms.
* Added configurable inference, proxy, and optional corporate
certificate support.
* Added secure sandbox execution with restricted networking, resource
limits, protected files, and credential-free model configuration.
* Added candidate image validation and separate publication workflows
before release.
* **Bug Fixes**
* Improved validation of dependencies, runtime artifacts, package
integrity, and platform-specific image contracts.
* **Tests**
* Added comprehensive coverage for Pi configuration, security
boundaries, and multi-platform builds.
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---------

Signed-off-by: Tinson Lai <tinsonl@nvidia.com>
Signed-off-by: Carlos Villela <cvillela@nvidia.com>
Signed-off-by: Rebecca Sliter <571084+rsliter@users.noreply.github.com>
Signed-off-by: Prekshi Vyas <prekshiv@nvidia.com>
Co-authored-by: Carlos Villela <cvillela@nvidia.com>
Co-authored-by: Rebecca Sliter <571084+rsliter@users.noreply.github.com>
Co-authored-by: Rebecca Sliter <sliterrm@gmail.com>
Co-authored-by: Prekshi Vyas <prekshiv@nvidia.com>
cv added a commit that referenced this pull request Aug 15, 2026
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## Summary

Model Router lifecycle operations could race across gateways or with
another onboarding run. Two processes could contend for one host port,
or destroy could stop a replacement router and overwrite its session.
Routed setup, resume, and teardown now serialize lifecycle work across
the current user's NemoClaw gateways. Destroy also verifies the captured
session before changing process or session state.

## Related Issue

Follow-up to #9112 and #9098.

## Changes

- During routed onboarding, hold the onboarding session lock, then take
the gateway route lock and current-user Model Router port lock through
setup and registry publication.
- During destroy, take the gateway route lock, then the current-user
port lock, then try the onboarding session lock without waiting before
rechecking the captured identity.
- Recheck the captured session identity before teardown and use an
atomic session comparison-and-swap for cleanup, preserving a
concurrently created same-name replacement.
- Preserve valid router recovery metadata when a same-name replacement
uses another port, and limit manual recovery instructions to the router
that destroy could not identify or stop.
- Bound registry peer discovery and represent either an unavailable
process inventory or a completed scan with no matching process.
- Signal only an ownership-verified Model Router process. Locking
serializes NemoClaw lifecycle work; teardown also rechecks command-line
ownership and refuses PID-based `SIGKILL`.
- Cover cross-gateway onboarding, resume, destroy, same-name
replacement, lock contention, inconclusive process state, and compiled
teardown behavior.
- Document both lock orders, captured-session checks, and skip-and-warn
recovery behavior.

## Type of Change

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

## Quality Gates

- [x] Tests added or updated for changed behavior
- [ ] Existing tests cover changed behavior — justification:
- [ ] Tests not applicable — justification:
- [x] Docs updated for user-facing behavior changes
- [ ] Docs not applicable — justification:
- [x] Sensitive paths changed (security, policy, credentials, preflight,
onboarding, inference, runner, sandbox, or messaging)
- [x] Sensitive-path review completed or maintainer-approved waiver
recorded — reviewer/approval link/justification: Independent Codex
Desktop review passed all nine categories for commit
`ea4def461192227a28d2655fdb8c8aaf452f2c0c`:
#9185 (review).
All 21 PR-specific files remain byte-identical at `6e4d9a4e4c85`.
Subsequent additive merges introduced only reviewed PR #8908 and #9100
files. The incorporated Pi runtime files do not change Model Router
locks, process ownership checks, session state, documentation, or
lifecycle tests.
- [ ] 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/inference/set-up-model-router.mdx` and
`docs/reference/commands.mdx` at
`6e4d9a4e4c855499dc549326a7dfd05e9347d137` against base
`302e00dab158e5bfd6362a63778bf9247d7bac7a`. Both documentation files and
all 19 other PR-specific files are byte-identical to reviewed commit
`04b5fe8fa43a5551bb8d0355406149e60b063370`. The corrected description
still matches the implementation. The latest merge adds only PR #9100 Pi
runtime and candidate-image files. Those files do not change the Model
Router lifecycle surface. The earlier PR #8908 trust merge also remains
outside this surface. The reviewed docs build passed with 0 errors and 2
existing warnings.
- Agent: Codex Desktop
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## Verification

- [x] PR description includes a `Signed-off-by:` line for each
contributor and every commit 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 — command/result: focused CLI tests
passed 168/168; the compiled package contract passed 1/1 with isolated
`HOME` and loopback access; CLI type-checking, repository checks, the
docs build with 0 errors and 2 existing warnings, Oxfmt, and `git diff
--check` passed.
- [ ] Applicable broad gate passed — `npm test` for broad
runtime/test-harness changes; `npm run check` for repo-wide
validation/coverage changes — command/result: Required GitHub CI is the
broad gate.
- [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)
- [ ] Doc pages follow the [style
guide](https://github.com/NVIDIA/NemoClaw/blob/main/docs/CONTRIBUTING.md)
(doc changes only)
- [ ] New doc pages include SPDX header and frontmatter (new pages only)

---

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

---------

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