fix(backup): recover Shields policy snapshot - #9510
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📝 WalkthroughWalkthroughThe change binds Shields policy artifacts and adds one-shot snapshot recovery receipts. Backup Shields windows preserve receipts during unlock and use them during relock. Tests cover restoration, authority checks, receipt consumption, and failure handling. ChangesPolicy snapshot recovery
Estimated code review effort: 4 (Complex) | ~45 minutes Merge Risk: 🔵 Low · up to The change is mergeable with explicit owner follow-up because shared test setup can leak environment or mock state between cases, and a fixture may accept malformed plan overrides, reducing confidence that the affected tests reliably validate behavior. Possibly related PRs
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participant BackupShieldsWindow
participant shieldsDown
participant PolicySnapshot
participant shieldsUp
BackupShieldsWindow->>shieldsDown: Request recovery receipt
shieldsDown->>PolicySnapshot: Bind restrictive snapshot
shieldsDown-->>BackupShieldsWindow: Return recovery receipt
BackupShieldsWindow->>shieldsUp: Pass recovery receipt during relock
shieldsUp->>PolicySnapshot: Restore and verify snapshot
shieldsUp-->>BackupShieldsWindow: Complete relock
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Why this blocks
This change creates a second policy-artifact authority for the same Shields transition. ShieldsDownTransition.forwardPolicy and publishShieldsDownForwardPolicy/requireShieldsDownForwardPolicy already bind a policy to its path, size, mode, owner, link count, and SHA-256 digest. They also verify the file through one descriptor before and after reading it (src/lib/shields/index.ts:171-519).
The new WeakMap receipt repeats that design in ShieldsPolicySnapshotRecoveryData, assertGeneratedPolicySnapshotPath, readAuthorizedPolicySnapshot, and restoreShieldsPolicySnapshotRecoveryWithoutHostLock (src/lib/shields/index.ts:1389-1402 and :1646-1754). The PR adds 180 net source lines for a second qualifier around the existing transition's snapshotPath.
The capture also rereads the snapshot after shieldsDown returns. The existing Shields-down owner already has policyYaml, snapshotPath, processToken, and the transition before it weakens policy (src/lib/shields/index.ts:5033-5071). This post-transition capture duplicates work and creates another authority boundary.
Refactor direction
Have the existing Shields-down transition owner issue the one-shot backup recovery receipt from the policy bytes and path it already captured. Reuse one bound-policy artifact type and descriptor validator for both restrictive and forward policy artifacts. The backup window can retain the opaque receipt. shieldsUp can consume it under the existing transition lock.
Remove the post-transition capture API, the second path parser, and the second file reader. Keep the missing-snapshot and changed-snapshot tests. Add receipt-reuse and transition-drift coverage at the shared authority boundary.
Expected result
The change has one transition authority, one policy-artifact validator, and one one-shot recovery receipt. The source diff should be materially smaller than the current +180 net lines.
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Resolved by 3f7e26c: the Shields-down transition owner now issues the receipt from its existing policy bytes and transition authority. The duplicate capture API, path parser, and file reader were removed, and both policy artifacts now use one shared descriptor validator.
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The prior changes request is resolved at 3f7e26ce898d1da016bdb7b6e282452d706ef243.
The Shields-down transition owner now issues the recovery receipt from its existing policy bytes, snapshot binding, and active transition. The backup flow no longer rereads and requalifies the snapshot after Shields are down.
BoundShieldsPolicyArtifact, describeBoundShieldsPolicyArtifact, and requireBoundShieldsPolicyArtifact now provide one descriptor and validator for forward-policy recovery and restrictive-snapshot recovery. The follow-up also removes captureShieldsPolicySnapshotRecovery, assertGeneratedPolicySnapshotPath, and readAuthorizedPolicySnapshot.
Receipt reuse and transition drift now have coverage at the shared authority boundary. The follow-up deletes seven net production lines. More importantly, it removes the second authority and duplicate file-reader design identified in the prior review. I found no remaining LOC or design-pattern blocker in this review scope.
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In `@src/lib/actions/sandbox/backup-shields-window.ts`:
- Around line 102-118: Move the assignment that clears
window.policySnapshotRecovery to immediately before the Shields-up recovery
call, so the receipt is consumed before
restoreShieldsPolicySnapshotRecoveryWithoutHostLock executes. Remove the
success-only clearing after the call, while preserving the existing success and
failure handling in relockBackupShieldsWindow.
In `@src/lib/shields/index.ts`:
- Around line 5456-5467: Before calling
restoreShieldsPolicySnapshotRecoveryWithoutHostLock in the
policySnapshotRecovery flow, check persisted Shields state and skip recovery
when it is not DOWN; consume the recovery receipt through an exported one-shot
discard helper that removes its WeakMap entry without validating state, while
retaining normal recovery and failure handling when the state is DOWN.
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In `@src/lib/shields/index.ts`:
- Around line 1704-1744: Add negative-path tests for the Shields policy snapshot
recovery flow around consumeShieldsPolicySnapshotRecovery and
requireBoundShieldsPolicyArtifact, covering snapshot-path symlink replacement,
unsafe permissions or link count, and changed persisted snapshot authorization;
assert each case rejects recovery and preserves the existing protections against
tampering, receipt reuse, and transition-authority drift.
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Correction to my prior review: the shell stripped inline code from that submission. This is the complete revision-bound review.
Security Review: WARNING
Commit under review: 9b5855a695ddd6cdc6ca183f8bab49644ed81961
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Blocking finding:
- Add negative-path coverage for the new restrictive-policy snapshot recovery authority. Production correctly opens the bound artifact with
O_NOFOLLOWand verifies exact file type, mode, owner, group, link count, size, content hash, persisted state, and transition authority before recovery. The exact tests cover content replacement, receipt reuse, the already-locked case, and transition drift, but they do not exercise symlink substitution, unsafe mode or link count, or changed persisted snapshot authorization. This is a security-sensitive recovery path, so those defenses need regression tests. Each test should prove recovery fails without overwriting or consuming attacker-controlled filesystem state.
Nine-category review:
- Input validation: PASS.
- Authentication and authorization: WARNING, due to the missing authority-boundary tests above.
- Secrets and sensitive data: PASS.
- Command and code injection: PASS.
- Path and filesystem safety: WARNING, due to the missing symlink and metadata tests above.
- Network security: PASS.
- Cryptography and integrity: PASS.
- Dependency and supply-chain risk: PASS.
- Denial of service and failure handling: PASS.
Validation at the exact commit: plugin build passed; src/lib/shields/openclaw-transition.test.ts passed 52/52 with process inspection available; test/rebuild-shields-window.test.ts passed 10/10; and git diff --check passed.
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Security Review: PASS
Commit under review: 7bc8f9e627d52906e679c53f73a852e0118b5257
Base SHA: d583fa10fef0932b3aa411aa5af51b95732b9d82
The test-only follow-up closes the prior warning. It proves that restrictive-policy snapshot recovery rejects a symlink replacement, unsafe permissions, multiple hard links, and changed persisted snapshot authorization. Each case also proves the one-shot receipt is consumed after the failed attempt, and the symlink case preserves the untrusted target.
Nine-category result:
- Input validation: PASS.
- Authentication and authorization: PASS.
- Secrets and sensitive data: PASS.
- Command and code injection: PASS.
- Path and filesystem safety: PASS.
- Network security: PASS.
- Cryptography and integrity: PASS.
- Dependency and supply-chain risk: PASS.
- Denial of service and failure handling: PASS.
Exact validation: src/lib/shields/openclaw-transition.test.ts passed 56/56 with process inspection available; git diff --check passed; and GitHub reports the new commit Verified. The production implementation is unchanged from the previously reviewed fail-closed authority boundary.
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Documentation Writer Review: BLOCKED
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The owning backup guide is inaccurate at docs/manage-sandboxes/backup-restore.mdx. It tells the operator to run the printed shields up command after every failed relock. This PR intentionally rejects that retry when preserved recovery authority or snapshot metadata is invalid and instead tells the operator to restore a trusted backup and recreate the sandbox.
Required correction:
If lockdown cannot be restored, `backup-all` stops and does not process the remaining sandboxes.
For an ordinary relock failure, correct the reported issue and follow the printed recovery command before rerunning `$$nemoclaw backup-all`.
If NemoClaw reports that Backup Shields policy recovery failed, do not retry Shields up from the mutable live policy.
Restore a trusted backup, recreate the sandbox, and then rerun `$$nemoclaw backup-all`.Then run agent-variant synchronization and npm run docs, request a fresh exact documentation review, and publish a docs-updated receipt. The PR body must also select code change with documentation updates and cite the exact security PASS for 7bc8f9e627.
The five-file implementation and final negative tests otherwise match issue #9452. The exact security review is PASS, and the new tests passed 56/56.
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39-54: 📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick winRemove the unchecked fixture cast.
TestMessagingPlanaccepts arbitrary keys and values....overridescan therefore replace requiredSandboxMessagingPlanfields with invalid data, whileas SandboxMessagingPlansuppresses the type error. UsePartial<SandboxMessagingPlan>or another explicit typed override type, then return the merged object without the assertion.As per path instructions, keep test fixtures aligned with the public contract to preserve behavioral confidence.
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Why this blocks
The earlier Shields policy-authority finding remains resolved, but the latest follow-up adds an unrelated 40 net test lines to repair one fixture type.
src/lib/onboard/__test-helpers__/dockerfile-patch-fixtures.ts is a new 48-line, one-consumer helper. Its buildMessagingPlan() and messagingChannel() functions repeat the typed plan and Telegram/Discord channel factories already owned by test/helpers/messaging-conflict-fixtures.ts:8-69. Source-level unit tests already import that established helper directly, including src/lib/onboard/messaging-conflict-guard.test.ts:6-13.
This turns removal of one unchecked cast into a +113/-73 delta, creates a second messaging-plan fixture owner, and expands a Shields backup-recovery PR with unrelated test infrastructure.
Refactor direction
- Remove
src/lib/onboard/__test-helpers__/dockerfile-patch-fixtures.ts. - Reuse the existing
makePlan(),tgChannel(), anddiscordChannel()factories fromtest/helpers/messaging-conflict-fixtures.ts. - Keep the small environment-encoding operation local to
dockerfile-patch.test.ts. - Update only the fields required by the current
SandboxMessagingPlancontract, including the build-step and render records.
Expected result
The fixture remains fully typed without an assertion, the codebase keeps one plan/channel fixture implementation, and this follow-up should remove roughly 30–40 lines while leaving the resolved Shields recovery design unchanged.
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Resolved at 5b16739: the one-consumer Dockerfile fixture module was deleted, and the test now reuses the existing shared messaging-plan and channel factories. A scope-limited resolution review follows.
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The changes request is resolved at 5b16739dc90649daa8b321fc506f80aa056df01f.
The follow-up removes the 48-line one-consumer dockerfile-patch-fixtures.ts module and reuses the established makePlan(), tgChannel(), and discordChannel() fixtures from test/helpers/messaging-conflict-fixtures.ts.
Only the environment encoder remains local to dockerfile-patch.test.ts, using the suite's existing Vitest environment-stub cleanup. The exact follow-up is +21/-58, a net reduction of 37 lines, and leaves one messaging-plan/channel fixture owner.
The previously resolved Shields receipt and policy-artifact authority design is unchanged. I found no replacement LOC or design-pattern blocker in this review scope.
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Approved at latest PR commit 5b16739.\n\nThe prior documentation block is resolved. The recovery guide now matches the fail-closed behavior. Production security behavior is unchanged from the approved review, and the later changes add the required documentation and reuse the typed test fixtures. The nine security categories pass. The documentation review receipt matches this commit. No remaining blocker found.
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Summary
backup-alland rebuild can now restore Shields lockdown when the restrictive policy snapshot disappears during the temporary unlocked window. The existing Shields-down transition owner issues a one-shot, integrity-bound recovery receipt before returning to the backup flow, andshields upconsumes it under the same transition lock.Related Issue
Fixes #9452
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shields up, while refusing changed or unsafe artifacts.Type of Change
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7bc8f9e627d52906e679c53f73a852e0118b5257by @rsliter.Documentation Writer Review
docs-updateddocs/manage-sandboxes/backup-restore.mdxwith fail-closed operator guidance for Backup Shields policy recovery. Agent-variant synchronization, guarded-route checks, andnpm run docspassed at5b16739dc90649daa8b321fc506f80aa056df01fwith 0 errors and 2 existing Fern warnings.DGX Station Hardware Evidence
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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 unavailable3f7e26ce898d1da016bdb7b6e282452d706ef243, 156/156 focused Shields tests and 113/113 snapshot/rebuild tests passed locally; the earlier DGX Spark Ubuntu aarch64 run at56c2adf3ae073c5030618193b506bed65066768fpassed 59/59 focused testsnpm testfor broad runtime/test-harness changes;npm run checkfor repo-wide validation/coverage changes — command/result: the relevant 269 Shields/snapshot tests, TypeScript (including CLI), source architecture, growth guardrails, commit hooks, and pre-push hooks passed; the full-suite baseline failure documented above was not reclassified as greennpm run docsbuilds without warnings (doc changes only) — agent-variant synchronization andnpm run docspassed with 0 errors and 2 existing Fern warnings.Signed-off-by: Prekshi Vyas prekshiv@nvidia.com
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