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Summary

Prepare the published documentation for the v0.0.111 release candidate. The changelog now records the user-facing changes since v0.0.110, and the command reference describes the shipped Portable Hermes lifecycle and OpenClaw Shields behavior.

Changes

  • Add the v0.0.111 changelog entry with links to the shipped fixes and their applicable documentation variants, including the newly landed migration-snapshot retention fix.
  • Document Portable Hermes receipt phases, supported lifecycle commands, runtime authority, and recovery guidance.
  • Document the OpenClaw connect warning emitted when Shields auto-relock during an active session, and correct uninstall wording for npm-linked packages.

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: This PR changes release notes and command-reference prose only; npm run docs validates the changed MDX, generated variants, and published routes.
  • 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

  • Verdict: docs-updated/pass
  • Reviewed commit: c9f7dd7ad81304961f5a9ecaebc09bd2137c9fd3
  • Scope: release-note routing, Portable Hermes and Portable OpenClaw runtime variants, Shields connect scope, and npm-link uninstall wording.

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

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  • 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
  • Targeted behavior tests pass for the current change set, or tests are marked not applicable above — command/result or justification: npm run docs passed; the route checker reported OK and Fern reported 0 errors with 2 pre-existing warnings.
  • Applicable broad gate passed — npm test for broad runtime/test-harness changes; npm run check for repo-wide validation/coverage changes — command/result: Not applicable to this documentation-only change.
  • 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) — it passes with 2 pre-existing Fern warnings.
  • Doc pages follow the style guide (doc changes only)
  • New doc pages include SPDX header and frontmatter (new pages only)

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

Summary by CodeRabbit

  • Documentation
    • Added release notes for v0.0.111, covering lifecycle receipts, network topology, recovery behavior, safeguards, diagnostics, messaging setup, migrations, compatibility, and automation updates.
    • Expanded command reference documentation for Portable Hermes lifecycle actions, including launch, connect, recover, start, and stop.
    • Documented status and read-only doctor diagnostics, receipt-aware Shields advisories, lifecycle handling, and rootless Podman resource behavior.

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The PR adds the v0.0.111 changelog and updates Portable Hermes command documentation. It documents lifecycle receipts, read-only commands, recovery behavior, diagnostics, compatibility, messaging setup, and release automation.

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Portable Hermes documentation

Layer / File(s) Summary
Portable Hermes lifecycle command reference
docs/reference/commands.mdx, docs/changelog/2026-08-18.mdx
The documentation defines receipt states, lifecycle command handling, read-only diagnostics, receipt-owned containers, uninstall safeguards, and network details.
Recovery, diagnostics, and compatibility notes
docs/reference/commands.mdx, docs/changelog/2026-08-18.mdx
The documentation covers Shields relock recovery, rebuild safeguards, credential and provider diagnostics, gateway recovery, network validation, migration naming, SSH cleanup, and OpenShell compatibility.
Messaging and release automation notes
docs/changelog/2026-08-18.mdx
The changelog records managed messaging setup, identity and token handling, policy presets, release automation, documentation updates, and contributor concurrency limits.

Estimated code review effort: 2 (Simple) | ~10 minutes

Merge Risk: ⚪ Minimal · up to c9f7d

This documentation-only change updates release notes and command references, with documentation validation passing; no actionable merge-blocking risk remains.

Possibly related PRs

  • NVIDIA/NemoClaw#9424: Implements the Portable Hermes lifecycle authority and receipt-aware command behavior documented here.
  • NVIDIA/NemoClaw#9510: Implements Shields recovery behavior and recovery receipts documented here.

Suggested labels: integration: hermes, v0.0.111, area: docs

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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 · 1 warning · 0 suggestions
  • Model comparison: normalized findings differ; normalized terminology decisions differ; normalized E2E selections differ; Nemotron reported the same number of blockers, 1 more warning, the same number of suggestions.

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  • established — lifecycle receipt at docs/changelog/2026-08-18.mdx:12: Keep `lifecycle receipt` for the recorded Portable lifecycle authority.
  • established — receipt-owned at docs/reference/commands.mdx:295: Keep `receipt-owned` when the text describes resources validated against a lifecycle receipt.
  • justified — Portable Hermes at docs/reference/commands.mdx:290: Keep `Portable Hermes` where the Portable profile behavior differs from other Hermes paths.
  • established — auto-relock at docs/reference/commands.mdx:1255: Keep `auto-relock` for the timed automatic restoration event.

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## Summary

This pull request (PR) fixes typed live E2E artifact lookup after
semantic test titles were introduced. Registry targets now bind the
artifact fixture to their stable target ID. LangChain Deep Agents Code
reads base image publication evidence from the directory that the
trusted workflow writes and uploads.

## Confirmed E2E Root

`typed E2E titles / ArtifactSink root identity / DCode publication
evidence written by stable target ID but read from semantic-title slug`

- Source workflow: [run
32204372503](https://github.com/NVIDIA/NemoClaw/actions/runs/32204372503),
attempt 1, at `ee6762b9941777d64dad832994b03ca2a572d4c9`.
- Failed target: [job
95930234625](https://github.com/NVIDIA/NemoClaw/actions/runs/32204372503/job/95930234625),
LangChain Deep Agents Code on GitHub Actions.
- Failure: phase 1 stopped in 19 ms at
`loadDcodeBaseImagePublicationEvidence:103` with `Deep Agents Code
GitHub Actions run is missing published base evidence`. No onboarding or
runtime phase ran.
- The workflow validated the exact candidate checkout, CLI artifact,
base image publication index, linux/amd64 child digest, and
stripped-base negative import gate. Sanitization, evidence upload,
Docker authentication cleanup, and workspace cleanup passed.

PR #9514, merged as `1acc902896e6324f773df9dbcc32a761118c6f05`, changed
typed live test titles from a stable target ID to `<target-id>:
<semantic test title>`. The workflow continued to write
`dcode-base-image.json` below `${TARGET_ID}`. The E2E artifact fixture
derived its directory from the complete semantic test title.

## Changes

- Add typed `e2eArtifactRootId` test metadata. The stateful E2E artifact
fixture uses it before the existing `task.name` fallback.
- Bind both supported and skipped registry target registrations to the
already validated `target.id`.
- Reuse one Deep Agents Code base image publication evidence fixture
across the parser tests and artifact-root regression test.
- Keep one nested Vitest regression test. It writes evidence below the
stable target ID, asserts that ID as the artifact-root basename, and
confirms no directory is derived from the semantic test title.
- Leave `createArtifactSink`, the workflow fixture, workflow publication
and upload paths, credentials, redaction, and cleanup unchanged.

## Base SHA Reconciliation

Latest PR commit `69e46712823e50d0d009e8300f91ee519098649d` is a normal
GitHub-Verified merge with ordered parents
[`a5cbade3e7d375c14a515d9ff6950e4a7af0e647`,
`7afe39541e81f70d9e1aa39c49415084d8276524`]. PR base SHA
`7afe39541e81f70d9e1aa39c49415084d8276524` adds #9551, #9434, #9564, and
#9566 after previous base SHA
`cc45d243dcc256aba7b8d6a761c75d771148ead5`. None changes the six files
in this PR, `ArtifactSink`, or trusted E2E workflow files. #9566 changes
only `test/package-contract/cli/credentials-cli-command.test.ts` and
corrects the inherited provider-reservation assertion that caused
pre-reconciliation `build-typecheck` to fail. The base-composition tests
below continue to exercise the #9424 shared onboarding paths. The net PR
diff contains six files: the stateful E2E fixture, registry target test,
two E2E-support tests, and two E2E-support fixtures.

## Type of Change

- [x] 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

- [x] Tests added or updated for changed behavior
- [ ] Existing tests cover changed behavior — justification:
- [ ] Tests 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 exact-69
correctness review, nine-category security review, and documentation
writer review passed. Exact-69 CodeRabbit and PR Review Advisor checks
passed; maintainer approval remains pending.
- [ ] Non-success, skipped, or missing CI check accepted by maintainer —
check name, approval link, and follow-up issue:

## Security and Documentation Review

- Independent nine-category security review of latest PR commit
`69e46712823e50d0d009e8300f91ee519098649d` passed. Stable target
identity flows from `target.id` through `e2eArtifactRootId` to the
existing `ArtifactSink`. The regression test writes publication evidence
only below the stable target ID. It confirms that the stateful fixture
selects that artifact root and does not create a directory from the
semantic test title.
- Exact-69 [PR Review Advisor run
32214387059](https://github.com/NVIDIA/NemoClaw/actions/runs/32214387059)
completed successfully with both model lanes and the publisher.
CodeRabbit status on `69e46712823e50d0d009e8300f91ee519098649d` is
successful and produced no new actionable comment.
- No documentation change is required. The existing E2E guides already
define stable target IDs as artifact identities,
`e2e-artifacts/live/<target-id>` as the standard layout, and the
semantic suffix as display text.
- The blocking [LOC Reduction / Codebase Simplicity
Review](#9562 (comment))
is addressed in `a5cbade3e7d375c14a515d9ff6950e4a7af0e647`: the parser
and artifact-root tests now share one publication evidence fixture, and
the duplicated second nested Vitest process was removed.

## DGX Station Hardware Evidence

- [ ] Tested on DGX Station
- Tested commit: Not applicable; this PR does not change
`scripts/prepare-dgx-station-host.sh`.
- Station profile/scenario: Not applicable.
- Result: Not applicable.
- Supporting evidence: Not applicable.

## Verification

- [x] PR description includes a `Signed-off-by:` line and every commit
appears as `Verified` in GitHub — GitHub reports all four PR commits as
Verified, and [exact-69 DCO job
95953058384](https://github.com/NVIDIA/NemoClaw/actions/runs/32214389535/job/95953058384)
passed.
- [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 — `npm run validate:pr` passed on
`69e46712823e50d0d009e8300f91ee519098649d` after reconciliation to base
`7afe39541e81f70d9e1aa39c49415084d8276524`.
- [x] Targeted behavior tests pass for the current change set, or tests
are marked not applicable above — command/result or justification:
- Before the fixture correction, the regression test was added to a
working tree based on base SHA
`164cb284fb1efebf3b038beffed4de9870543c44`. `npm exec -- vitest run
--project e2e-support test/e2e/support/e2e-artifact-root.test.ts` failed
1/1 with `Deep Agents Code GitHub Actions run is missing published base
evidence`.
- On latest PR commit `69e46712823e50d0d009e8300f91ee519098649d`, the
focused E2E-support command below passed 108/108 tests:

    ```shell
    npm exec -- vitest run --project e2e-support \
      test/e2e/support/e2e-artifact-root.test.ts \
      test/e2e/support/e2e-fixture-context.test.ts \
      test/e2e/support/dcode-base-image-runtime-evidence.test.ts \
test/e2e/support/base-image-publication-workflow-boundary.test.ts \
      test/e2e/support/e2e-live-skip-name-contract.test.ts \
      test/e2e/support/e2e-live-registry-discovery.test.ts \
      test/e2e/support/e2e-registry.test.ts \
      test/e2e/support/upload-e2e-artifacts-workflow-boundary.test.ts
    ```

- The PR-base-bound command below passed 498/498 selected tests, with 8
expected skips:

    ```shell
npm exec -- vitest run
--changed=7afe39541e81f70d9e1aa39c49415084d8276524 \
      --project cli --project plugin --project e2e-support
    ```

- On `69e46712823e50d0d009e8300f91ee519098649d`, after `npm run
build:cli`, `npm exec -- vitest run --project package-contract
test/package-contract/cli/credentials-cli-command.test.ts
--testTimeout=30000` did not pass: 15/25 tests passed and 10/25 failed
before the expected mocked CLI calls because this macOS checkout could
not revalidate gateway lifecycle authority. stderr also reported missing
development packages `@oclif/plugin-help` and `@oclif/plugin-plugins`
from the shared host `node_modules`; the changed rollback case recorded
no lifecycle calls. Exact-69 Linux [`build-typecheck` job
95953099102](https://github.com/NVIDIA/NemoClaw/actions/runs/32214389601/job/95953099102)
passed.

- `npm run test:e2e-phases:check` passed with 131 semantic E2E phase
plans across 86 files.
- The grouped 15-file CLI base-composition command below did not pass:
14 files and 274 tests passed, while two tests in
`src/commands/credentials.test.ts` hit the existing 5-second timeout
under concurrent load:

    ```shell
    npm exec -- vitest run --project cli \
      src/lib/onboard/experimental/hermes-portable-contract.test.ts \
      src/lib/onboard/experimental/hermes-portable-lifecycle.test.ts \
src/lib/onboard/experimental/hermes-portable-podman-authority.test.ts \
src/lib/onboard/experimental/hermes-portable-policy-authority.test.ts \
      src/lib/onboard/experimental/hermes-portable-receipt.test.ts \
      src/lib/onboard/experimental/portable-agent-lifecycle.test.ts \
      src/lib/onboard/managed-workload/onboard-orchestration.test.ts \
      src/lib/onboard/created-sandbox-finalization.test.ts \
      src/lib/actions/uninstall/run-plan-nvm-leftovers.test.ts \
      src/lib/actions/uninstall/run-plan.test.ts \
      src/commands/credentials.test.ts \
      src/lib/actions/global.test.ts \
      src/lib/actions/sandbox/mcp-bridge-input-targets.test.ts \
      src/lib/actions/sandbox/mcp-bridge-provider.test.ts \
      src/lib/state/registry-normalization.test.ts
    ```

  - The isolated credentials command then passed 7/7:

    ```shell
npm exec -- vitest run --project cli src/commands/credentials.test.ts
    ```

  - This MCP integration command passed 93/93 tests across five files:

    ```shell
    npm exec -- vitest run --project integration \
      test/cli/credentials-command.test.ts \
      test/mcp-add-crash-consistency.test.ts \
      test/mcp-destroy-lifecycle.test.ts \
      test/mcp-policy-key-ownership.test.ts \
      test/mcp-restart-policy-order.test.ts
    ```

- Fresh pre-commit, commit-msg, and pre-push hooks passed before
reconciliation. `npm run validate:pr` passed after reconciliation.
- [ ] Applicable broad gate passed — `npm test` for broad
runtime/test-harness changes; `npm run check` for repo-wide
validation/coverage changes — command/result: on pre-reconciliation
commit `ba8560a78551a9c40a5fe00fb1ddf4db7443cb1f`, `npm exec -- vitest
run --project e2e-support` did not pass locally: 2,983 tests passed, 38
skipped, and 42 failed. The failures reported host-wide subprocess
contention or a macOS/GNU `find` mismatch. The focused and changed-test
commands passed. Pre-reconciliation [build-typecheck job
95950501960](https://github.com/NVIDIA/NemoClaw/actions/runs/32213454369/job/95950501960)
and [exact-base main job
95940499627](https://github.com/NVIDIA/NemoClaw/actions/runs/32209943161/job/95940499627)
failed the stale provider-reservation assertion. #9566 corrected that
package contract on base `7afe39541e81f70d9e1aa39c49415084d8276524`.
Exact-69 [build-typecheck job
95953099102](https://github.com/NVIDIA/NemoClaw/actions/runs/32214389601/job/95953099102)
passed and supersedes both stale failures; remaining exact-69 CI is
pending.
- [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)

No live E2E workflow was dispatched for this PR.

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

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## Summary by CodeRabbit

* **Tests**
* Added end-to-end coverage for resolving publication evidence from
stable target-based artifact directories.
* Added validation that the stateful fixture selects the artifact root
for the stable target ID and does not create a directory from the
semantic test title.
* Reused one publication-evidence fixture across the existing
platform-reference, image-index, stale-candidate, and
metadata-validation tests.
* Added deterministic publication-evidence fixtures and metadata support
for associating end-to-end artifacts with stable target identifiers.
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Signed-off-by: Julie Yaunches <jyaunches@nvidia.com>
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