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Summary

Re-onboarding a sandbox that OpenShell reports as Ready could leave its validated inference route reservation pending. That hid the sandbox from inventory and caused later pairing finalization to reject it. This change keeps created and reused rows pending through fallible finalization work, then publishes only the exact owning session's reservation after the validated route still matches.

Related Issue

Fixes #10207
Fixes #10209
Fixes #10214

Changes

• Finalize a pending sandbox inference route only when the onboarding session proves the exact current reservation authority.
• Keep created and reused registry rows pending through fallible journal, metadata, checkpoint, and Portable lifecycle work, then publish only when the same onboarding session completes the sandbox step.
• Restore a recreated default sandbox only when its owning session publishes the registration. Portable Hermes continues to use its qualified route receipt.
• Preserve the recorded gateway port when the same gateway re-reserves a reused sandbox.
• Emit one reuse message for an existing Ready sandbox after its route is validated.
• Report incomplete workspace restore paths and the failure reason, preserve the snapshot, leave the replacement unregistered, and print owner-scoped deletion and retry guidance. When the owning gateway cannot be established, warn the operator not to delete the replacement.
• Extend route-publication and double-onboard coverage for exact-owner publication, pending inventory, recreated-default restoration, stable sandbox identity, retained transaction receipts, and explicit recreation.

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: Not applicable because this pull request adds regression coverage.
• Tests not applicable; justification: Not applicable.
• 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: Codex Desktop completed the nine-category security review at commit 70ae0f501. PASS. Registry mutation remains under the registry lock; Portable Hermes still requires the exact qualified route reservation; ordinary publication now requires a pending row and an exact nonempty matching session identifier; omitted, empty, foreign, and publication-based authority fail closed; partial restore preserves the snapshot and unpublished registry state; recovery output contains no credential material; no dependency, cryptographic, privilege, or default-policy boundary changed; negative tests cover all rejected authority shapes.
• Non-success, skipped, or missing CI check accepted by maintainer; check name, approval link, and follow-up issue: No CI exception is accepted. All required checks must pass before merge.

Change Size

The current diff is 1,037 additions and 127 deletions across 27 files. The repository growth guardrail passes.

DGX Station Hardware Evidence

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

Verification

• PR description includes the applicable Signed-off-by: lines and every commit appears as Verified in GitHub
• Normal hooks passed for contributor commits; the exact follow-up also passed the checks listed below
• Registry route-reservation tests passed 31/31 at commit 70ae0f501
• The incomplete partial-restore regression passed 1/1 at commit 70ae0f501
• npm run build:cli, npm run typecheck:cli, and npm run checks:repository passed at commit 70ae0f501
• npm run docs:sync-agent-variants, Oxfmt, and git diff --check passed at commit 70ae0f501
• The current-main merge-tree was conflict-free when the commit was reviewed
• Applicable broad gate passed; the earlier npm test attempt built the CLI and plugin, then encountered unrelated local timeout and interactive-signing failures and was interrupted after about 46 minutes. This does not establish a passed broad gate.
• Quality Gates section completed with required justifications or waivers; exact GitHub gates remain in progress
• No secrets, API keys, or credentials committed
• npm run docs builds without warnings (doc changes only). At commit 70ae0f501, it passed with 0 errors and 2 existing Fern warnings.
• Doc pages follow the style guide (doc changes only)
• New doc pages include SPDX header and frontmatter (new pages only); no new page was added.

Documentation Writer Review

• Documentation writer subagent reviewed the completed changes
• Result: docs-updated
• Evidence: docs/reference/commands.mdx documents fail-closed recovery after incomplete workspace restoration into a replacement sandbox, including snapshot preservation, unpublished registry metadata, owner-scoped deletion, retry guidance, and the unknown-gateway safety warning.
• Agent: Codex Desktop

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Signed-off-by: Tinson Lai tinsonl@nvidia.com
Signed-off-by: Aaron Erickson aerickson@nvidia.com
Signed-off-by: Rebecca Sliter 571084+rsliter@users.noreply.github.com

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Walkthrough

The change adds session-owned route-reservation finalization for created and reused sandboxes. It updates registry persistence, onboarding flow, reuse messaging, recovery handling, and tests for ownership, identity, registry state, and recreation behavior.

Changes

Sandbox route reservation lifecycle

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Registry finalization contract src/lib/state/registry.ts, src/lib/state/registry/types.ts, src/lib/state/registry-route-reservation.test.ts	The registry validates reservation sessions, retains session receipts after publication, prevents receipt transfer, and claims the initial default sandbox.
Onboarding finalization flow src/lib/onboard.ts, src/lib/onboard/machine/handlers/sandbox.ts, src/lib/onboard/sandbox-create/orchestration.ts, src/lib/onboard/sandbox-registration.ts, src/lib/onboard/created-sandbox-finalization.ts	Onboarding passes reservation session IDs through registration and finalizes reservations after sandbox creation effects or reuse bookkeeping. Hermes portable onboarding skips finalization. Reuse output records a [reuse] Skipping sandbox note.
Behavioral validation and recovery src/lib/onboard/machine/*test.ts, src/lib/actions/sandbox/snapshot-restore-*, test/onboarding/onboard.test.ts, test/e2e/live/double-onboard.test.ts	Tests verify finalization order, ownership failures, crash and snapshot recovery, reuse behavior, sandbox identity preservation, registry cleanup, gateway reuse, and explicit recreation.

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

Merge Risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to d3351

This change finalizes reused sandbox route reservations and registry state, but the current implementation may publish a reservation without validating its owning session, risking incorrect sandbox routing or inventory during concurrent onboarding. The required broad validation also did not complete successfully, so merge should wait for the ownership issue and test-gate outcome to be resolved or explicitly accepted.

Suggested reviewers: apurvvkumaria, cv, rsliter

Sequence Diagram(s)

sequenceDiagram
  participant SandboxOrchestration
  participant SandboxHandler
  participant SandboxRegistry
  SandboxOrchestration->>SandboxHandler: create or reuse sandbox
  SandboxHandler->>SandboxRegistry: finalizeSandboxRouteReservation(name, sessionId)
  SandboxRegistry-->>SandboxHandler: ownership result
  SandboxHandler-->>SandboxOrchestration: continue onboarding or report changed ownership

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Check name	Status	Explanation	Resolution
Docstring Coverage	⚠️ Warning	Docstring coverage is 36.36% which is insufficient. The required threshold is 80.00%. Docstring coverage is scoped to functions touched by this diff. Analyzed 11 functions across 20 files.	Write docstrings for the functions missing them to satisfy the coverage threshold.

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Check name	Status	Explanation
Linked Issues check	✅ Passed	The implementation addresses the linked objectives [#10207] [#10209] [#10214]. It finalizes owned route reservations, publishes reused registry rows, preserves sandbox identity and inventory visibilit…
Out of Scope Changes check	✅ Passed	The code and test changes remain within the linked onboarding, sandbox reuse, route reservation, registry publication, and reuse-reporting objectives. No unrelated changes are identified.
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Title check	✅ Passed	The title clearly and concisely describes the primary change: finalizing reused sandbox state during onboarding.

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Explanation

The implementation addresses the linked objectives [#10207] [#10209] [#10214]. It finalizes owned route reservations, publishes reused registry rows, preserves sandbox identity and inventory visibility, prevents foreign-session finalization, and announces sandbox reuse.

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Reviewed commit b130ae2 against base commit 41bb231.

I found no concrete defect in the 12-file diff. The change stays within the accepted bug scope in #10207, #10209, and #10214. The session-owned reservation finalization rejects foreign ownership, runs under the route-mutation lock, and has focused ownership, ordering, reuse, and recreation coverage. The changed user text follows WRITING.md.

Evidence checked:

• The latest PR commit matched the commit under review immediately before this review.
• GitHub reports the commit signature as verified, and DCO passed.
• CodeRabbit reported no actionable findings.
• The complete review-thread query returned zero threads.
• PR Advisor did not produce findings because its specialist jobs failed during advisor inference or analysis.
• CodeQL, ShellCheck, the repository checks, sandbox E2E jobs, and most managed-startup jobs passed.
• One OpenClaw managed-startup job remains in progress. The growth guard timed out in its setup hook, and the generic-GPU selector and PR Advisor jobs failed.
• Local focused Vitest validation could not start because this isolated worktree has no installed Vitest dependencies.

I am submitting a neutral review because the remaining check state and unavailable local test run do not provide complete approval evidence. I found no defect that warrants a changes-requested review.

[cv]

My earlier neutral review is superseded by this review. A delayed independent review identified a concrete failure-order defect in the 12-file diff.

Blocking: keep the route reservation pending until the create transaction commits.

In src/lib/onboard/machine/handlers/sandbox.ts:1985, the flow clears pendingRouteReservation before these fallible operations:

• recreate journal reload, source retirement, repair-success recording, and registry commit at lines 1987–1990;
• registry metadata update at lines 2003–2012;
• sandbox step completion at lines 2015–2026.

If any operation throws or the process stops after line 1985, list and other consumers can observe the row as published although the create or recreate transaction did not commit. The catch at lines 1991–1993 records failure but does not restore the owned pending marker.

Move publication to the final commit boundary, or restore the same session-owned reservation on every later failure. Add a test that injects a post-create failure and proves the registration remains hidden. This preserves the pending-row crash-safety invariant that the surrounding completion comment describes.

I did not include unrelated findings from the independent reviewer that fall outside this PR's 12-file diff.

[cv]

A second concrete defect affects the new finalization contract.

Blocking: an already-published row does not prove reservation ownership.

finalizeSandboxRouteReservation returns true at src/lib/state/registry.ts:443-449 for any same-name row that has no pending markers. This return occurs before the function checks sessionId. The reuse flow at src/lib/onboard/machine/handlers/sandbox.ts:1117-1125 treats true as proof that its session still owns the reservation.

If another onboarding session replaces and publishes the same-name row before a stale session reaches this call, the stale session accepts the replacement as its own and continues checkpoint and metadata writes. The test at src/lib/state/registry-route-reservation.test.ts:366-383 currently requires this unconditional success.

Require an exact reservation receipt, row generation, or equivalent identity that survives publication and distinguishes the owning transaction. Add a concurrent-replacement test that rejects the stale session. Idempotence must apply only to the same committed transaction, not any published row with the same name.

[apurvvkumaria]

This PR remains deferred pending maintainer decisions.

The linked issues #10207, #10209, and #10214 still need triage, so the proposed re-onboarding behavior is not yet an accepted product contract. The current revision also leaves two related concurrency decisions unresolved:

• When the pending route reservation should become visible relative to the remaining fallible transaction, metadata, and checkpoint operations, including how ownership is restored after a later failure.
• What durable reservation identity proves that the current onboarding session, rather than another session that published the same sandbox name, owns the row being finalized.

These choices affect the transaction boundary and concurrent-session contract. I am not changing or approving that behavior until the linked scope is accepted and maintainers agree on the ownership model. Tinson Lai remains the original contributor; the current change is below the large-change threshold.

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TypeScript / code-coverage/plugin

The overall line coverage in commit 70ae0f5 in the fix/reonboard-sandbo... branch remains at 96%, unchanged from commit 07fc85c in the main branch.

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The overall line coverage in commit 70ae0f5 in the fix/reonboard-sandbo... branch remains at 83%, unchanged from commit 3cb2ff4 in the main branch.

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File	main 3cb2ff4	fix/reonboard-sandbo... 70ae0f5	+/-
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src/lib/onboard...age/contract.ts	98%	97%	-1%
src/lib/adapter...shell/client.ts	87%	86%	-1%
src/lib/onboard...uild-context.ts	74%	74%	0%
src/lib/actions...box/snapshot.ts	82%	82%	0%
src/lib/onboard...e-onboarding.ts	84%	84%	0%
src/lib/onboard...rchestration.ts	28%	28%	0%
src/lib/onboard...finalization.ts	73%	77%	+4%
src/lib/actions...ch-readiness.ts	76%	81%	+5%
src/lib/onboard...host-forward.ts	55%	84%	+29%

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Maintainer decision and sensitive-path review for exact head 70ae0f501e509bfd9ec89d0e5ac84c5f11149e41:

• Decision: Accept.
• Reason and placement: This is a core NemoClaw bug fix for same-name re-onboarding. The accepted contract is that a healthy sandbox can be reused without disappearing from inventory or failing pairing finalization, and that reuse is reported consistently.
• Accountable maintainer: Aaron Erickson.
• Validation plan: exact-head required CI; focused route-transaction, crash-recovery, registration, onboarding, and growth-guardrail tests; the focused double-onboard live E2E; GitHub-verified commits; CodeRabbit and PR Review Advisor; human review and unresolved-thread audit.

Security verdict

Safe to merge once the external validation plan is green. I found no remaining security finding in the completed diff. The remediation keeps created and reused registry rows pending through fallible journal, metadata, and checkpoint work; publication is the final handler commit. The published row retains the owning session ID as the durable transaction receipt, so only the same committed transaction is idempotent. A stale session is rejected after another session publishes the same sandbox name. The follow-up preserves the existing schema-5 Hermes portable qualified-reservation commit instead of adding the normal deferred-publication marker to that already-atomic path. The generic snapshot finalizer now refuses any session-owned pending row, so snapshot recovery cannot bypass route ownership. Registration staging compares only the route fields that reservation authority owns; reasoning and NIM metadata remain registration-owned while session and gateway identity remain mandatory.

Category	Verdict	Reason
Secrets and credentials	PASS	No credential value or trust boundary was added; only the non-secret onboarding session receipt is retained.
Input validation and sanitization	PASS	Registration staging revalidates pending state, owner, gateway, and normalized inference selection under the registry lock.
Authentication and authorization	PASS	Publication requires the exact owning onboarding session; ownerless, foreign, and stale sessions fail closed.
Dependencies and third-party libraries	PASS	No dependency or artifact source changed.
Error handling and logging	PASS	Post-create failure leaves the row hidden; ownership failure stops onboarding without publishing another transaction.
Cryptography and data protection	PASS	No cryptographic mechanism or protected data flow changed.
Configuration and security headers	PASS	No deployed security configuration, policy, or header changed.
Security testing	PASS	Coverage includes foreign ownership, post-create failure, exact-owner retry, concurrent replacement, ownerless re-reservation, publication order, and crash recovery.
System security	PASS	Registry publication now preserves the full state-transition invariant across concurrency, retries, and partial failure.

Files reviewed: src/lib/onboard.ts, src/lib/onboard/created-sandbox-finalization.ts, src/lib/onboard/machine/core-flow-phases.test.ts, src/lib/onboard/machine/handlers/sandbox-checkpoint-crash-recovery.test.ts, src/lib/onboard/machine/handlers/sandbox-dcode-selection.test.ts, src/lib/onboard/machine/handlers/sandbox-route-mutation-lock.test.ts, src/lib/onboard/machine/handlers/sandbox-route-publication.test.ts, src/lib/onboard/machine/handlers/sandbox-test-fixtures.ts, src/lib/onboard/machine/handlers/sandbox.test.ts, src/lib/onboard/machine/handlers/sandbox.ts, src/lib/onboard/sandbox-create/orchestration.ts, src/lib/onboard/sandbox-registration.test.ts, src/lib/onboard/sandbox-registration.ts, src/lib/state/registry-route-reservation.test.ts, src/lib/state/registry.ts, src/lib/state/registry/types.ts, test/e2e/live/double-onboard.test.ts, and test/onboarding/onboard.test.ts.

Local evidence on the remediation: 197 focused tests passed before the final review-only expectation updates; a final serial transaction/crash/growth set passed 146/146; the adjacent created-sandbox, runtime-provider, and orchestration set passed 154/154 with an isolated HOME; The final CodeRabbit remediation set passed 103/103 focused registry, snapshot, reuse, DCode, and growth tests. The managed-image route-authority correction passed 86/86 focused route, registration, and growth tests. The final composition-only correction passed the local 32/32 growth guard and keeps src/lib/onboard.ts net-negative against the PR base and current main. Published route receipts are accepted by both ordinary OpenClaw pairing and the launch-readiness registry projection while pending rows remain rejected; those corrections passed 100/100 and 98/98 focused readiness, finalization, registry, reuse, and growth tests. The advisor-requested partial-restore recovery guidance passed 46/46 focused finalization and growth tests. Hermes schema-5 publication and ordinary default restoration passed 167 focused tests, with the final affected subset passing 73/73 after adjustment. Complete partial-restore details passed 46/46 focused finalization and growth tests. Final Hermes portable publication and fail-closed restore gates passed 148 focused portable, installer, route-publication, default-restoration, restore-failure, orchestration, and growth tests. Gateway-scoped partial recovery and pending Portable recovery passed 138 focused tests. CLI type-check, lint, repository checks, commit hooks, pre-push type-check, and semantic E2E phase validation passed. The full parallel suite reproduced broad unrelated timeout and host-state/plugin failures, so exact-head CI remains authoritative for the broad gate.

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Inline comments:
In `@src/lib/onboard/machine/handlers/sandbox-dcode-selection.test.ts`:
- Around line 327-330: Update the assertions around finalizeRouteReservation in
the sandbox-dcode selection test to use a known non-empty reservation session ID
and verify the published registry state through the public boundary, rather than
relying on expect.any(String) mock-call assertions; apply the same change to the
related assertion near the second referenced block.

Apply the same fix in
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55 - 66: The pending-state assertion has the same observable-state verification
gap.

In `@src/lib/state/registry.ts`:
- Around line 455-466: Update finalizePendingSandboxRegistration to reject
pending sandbox rows with a reservationSessionId instead of publishing them
without ownership validation; preserve publishing for unowned pending rows and
add a regression test covering a session-owned row invoked through snapshot
restore.

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Synthesis status: Completed · high confidence · 1 blocker · 0 warnings · 0 suggestions

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PRA-1 Blocker — Inline the single-use Hermes registration adapter

• Location: src/lib/onboard/sandbox-create/orchestration.ts:103
• Category: architecture
• Problem: `completeHermesPortableSandboxRegistration` creates a separate exported owner for one Hermes registration callback. The helper only awaits registration, reads the registry entry, and rejects a missing entry; its only production call is the callback at line 1267.
• Impact: The registration boundary now has two owners and a wrapper-only test block. Future changes must preserve both without gaining behavior or a trust-boundary control.
• Fix: Inline the completion, registry read, and missing-entry check in the `registerSandbox` callback. Delete the helper and consolidate its wrapper tests into the transaction or orchestration-path coverage.
• Verification: Inspect the callback at `src/lib/onboard/sandbox-create/orchestration.ts:1262-1278`. It must still return the durable registry entry and reject when `registry.getSandbox(sandboxName)` returns `null`.
• Test coverage: Keep one Hermes transaction or orchestration-path test that completes registration without a durable registry entry and verifies that onboarding rejects.
• Evidence: `src/lib/onboard/sandbox-create/orchestration.ts:103-114` defines the adapter, and `:1267-1278` is its sole production caller. `src/lib/onboard/sandbox-create/orchestration.test.ts:153-192` contains tests only for the adapter's await/read/missing-entry behavior. `test/installer-integration/install-hermes-portable-active.test.ts:281-304` uses the same adapter in test composition rather than establishing another production consumer.

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• PRA-1: Remove Remove `completeHermesPortableSandboxRegistration` and its wrapper-specific unit tests.; use Perform the await, `registry.getSandbox(sandboxName)` read, and missing-entry error directly in the existing `registerSandbox` callback.. Net: -20 lines. Keep: Preserve the durable registry-entry check after registration; retain a transaction-level rejection test for a missing entry.

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src/lib/state/registry.ts (1)

158-171: 🗄️ Data Integrity & Integration | 🟠 Major | ⚡ Quick win

Prevent unowned registration from publishing a session-owned reservation.

If an existing row has pendingRouteReservation: true and a reservationSessionId, a call to registerSandbox(entry) without options.reservationSessionId skips this check. Lines 297-305 then clear the pending marker and session receipt and publish the row.

Require the exact owner session and pending: true whenever the existing pending row has a reservation session. Add regression cases for omitted and empty session IDs. This violates the PR ownership requirement because another onboarding session can modify and publish the reservation.

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In `@src/lib/state/registry.ts` around lines 158 - 171, Update registerSandbox to
reject registration when the existing sandbox row has a pending route
reservation with a reservationSessionId unless options.reservationSessionId is
present, non-empty, and exactly matches the stored owner; require
pendingRouteReservation to remain true. Apply this validation before the logic
that clears the reservation marker and publishes the row, and add regression
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In `@src/lib/state/registry.ts`:
- Around line 158-171: Update registerSandbox to reject registration when the
existing sandbox row has a pending route reservation with a reservationSessionId
unless options.reservationSessionId is present, non-empty, and exactly matches
the stored owner; require pendingRouteReservation to remain true. Apply this
validation before the logic that clears the reservation marker and publishes the
row, and add regression coverage for omitted and empty session IDs.

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[ericksoa]

Focused double-onboard follow-up on exact head 384b0b40db34492146021ec3e5de0539d862f3b2:

• Live run 32883870138 completed the first onboard, then the same-sandbox onboard failed pairing finalization because the published registry row no longer had a valid gateway binding.
• Real registry reproduction showed reserveSandboxInferenceRoute overwrote the existing gatewayPort: 8080 with undefined when a same-gateway reservation omitted the optional port. resolveOrdinaryOpenClawPairingTarget then correctly rejected the row.
• Commit 384b0b40db preserves the existing port only when gatewayName is unchanged. Cross-gateway retargeting still clears a stale port, preserving the existing fail-closed contract.
• Validation: focused route/publication/pairing tests 42/42; CLI build passed; isolated real registry reserve → publish → pairing-target reproduction now retains port 8080 and resolves the exact OpenClaw target.

Exact-head CI, managed-image evidence, Advisor/CodeRabbit, and the focused live rerun are in progress.

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[ericksoa]

Maintainer final-gate decision for exact head 70ae0f501e509bfd9ec89d0e5ac84c5f11149e41:

• Required/exact-head gates: all required checks pass; CI, growth, docs, installer hash, DCO/title, Podman, self-hosted E2E, security scanning, Code Quality/CodeRabbit, and the complete managed-image cohort pass. All 19 PR commits are GitHub-verified. The PR is mergeable and has zero unresolved review threads.
• Focused local evidence: 116/116 current-head ownership, registration, reuse, route-publication, and pairing tests pass.
• Live evidence: parent head 3b45ff62bbaa392dc0663bfdc180fb2c3064ff59 passed every one of the 10 double-onboard phases in run 32902561972, including same-name reuse, explicit recreation, sibling isolation, stop/start, stale-registry rebuild, gateway-stop guidance, and cleanup. The only current-head delta is reviewer-authored commit 70ae0f501e, which adds a fail-closed registration-owner check, three negative tests, and partial-restore documentation; it does not weaken or replace the live positive path. Current-head manual run 32906092885 was blocked before checkout on both attempts by the repository Actions installation token returning HTTP 403 from the PR-authentication request. I accept that non-success as transient CI infrastructure, not candidate evidence.
• Advisor: the published PRA-1 requests an unrelated single-use Hermes adapter refactor. That helper and ownership shape pre-exist unchanged in base 41bb231dabdd8f2305abb985e80ff0e2ba09c28e; it is outside this PR and is not a merge blocker. The current-head Advisor analysis attempt also had an external Operations-lane failure; the subsequent exact-head metadata run passed without publishing a new finding. I accept the pre-existing advisory item without broadening this bug-fix PR.
• Review blockers: the two old cv changes-requested reviews targeted b130ae2255afed507fc7ee7695d4addb113d45b3. Their publication-order and stale-session ownership defects are fixed, regression-tested, and superseded by the exact-head evidence above.

Decision: approved for a head-pinned admin squash merge once the stale changes-requested reviews are dismissed.

[ericksoa]

Approved exact head 70ae0f5. The publication-order and stale-session ownership blockers are fixed; the same-gateway port and reuse-reporting regressions are fixed; reviewer-authored registration ownership hardening is verified. Required CI and managed-image gates are green, CodeRabbit is green, all commits are verified, and review threads are resolved. Maintainer acceptance of the pre-existing Advisor item and pre-checkout manual-E2E Actions-token 403 is documented in issue comment 5417764417.

Addressed and superseded on exact approved head 70ae0f5. Publication remains pending through later fallible work, publication requires and retains exact session ownership, stale sessions are rejected, and focused/live evidence is documented in issue comments 5415747713 and 5417764417.