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fix(onboard): fail closed when base-image override can't be honored - #11152
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The managed-image onboarding path (the default for openclaw, hermes, langchain-deepagents-code, and pi) installs an exact, pre-verified digest from the release catalog and never reads NEMOCLAW_SANDBOX_BASE_IMAGE_REF or its per-agent equivalents. An operator who set the override expecting it to gate the base image got no error, no warning, and a sandbox built from the trusted managed image while believing their override took effect. resolveSandboxWorkloadSource() now rejects onboarding (and managed rebuild) when the agent's override env var is set but the resolved workload is the managed-image path, which cannot honor it. The existing custom-Dockerfile path (--from <Dockerfile>) is unaffected and continues to honor the override exactly as before. Fixes #11138 Signed-off-by: Yanyun Liao <yanyunl@nvidia.com>
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Included review availability: Your plan provides up to 12 included reviews per hour; 10 remain after this review. 📝 WalkthroughWalkthroughThe pull request centralizes agent-specific base-image variable resolution and rejects configured overrides for managed-image onboarding and rebuilds. Tests verify fail-closed behavior and credential redaction. Documentation defines override support for legacy workloads. ChangesManaged-image override handling
Priority: ➖ Normal — Schedule the onboarding fail-closed fix because it prevents silent acceptance of untrusted base-image overrides across managed workloads while preserving supported custom-Dockerfile and rebuild behavior. Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~20 minutes Severity of issue fixed: Medium Merge Risk: ⚪ Minimal · up to No actionable merge-blocking risk remains: managed-image rebuild rejection is intentional and consistently implemented and documented. Sequence Diagram(s)sequenceDiagram
participant OnboardOrchestration
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The "integration" Vitest project's shared env previously set NEMOCLAW_SANDBOX_BASE_IMAGE_REF unconditionally, as a leftover safety net against the legacy custom-Dockerfile resolver attempting a real local build. Since the managed-image workload now fails closed when this override is set but cannot be honored (previous commit), the blanket pin broke every integration test that reaches a default managed-image onboard (most of them use their own NEMOCLAW_TEST_MANAGED_IMAGE_CATALOG=1 fixture already and never relied on this override). Remove the project-wide pin; the full onboarding integration suite (87 files, 1355 tests) passes without it. Signed-off-by: Yanyun Liao <yanyunl@nvidia.com>
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getAgentSandboxBaseImageEnvVar("pi")resolves toNEMOCLAW_PI_SANDBOX_BASE_IMAGE_REF. For a qualified Pi candidate, the managed-image path rejects a non-empty override because it installs an exact catalog digest. Pi’s custom-Dockerfile path is also rejected, so do not document--fromas an exception.🤖 Prompt for AI Agents
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In `@docs/reference/commands.mdx`:
- Around line 3962-3974: Add a Pi-specific AgentOnly documentation section
naming NEMOCLAW_PI_SANDBOX_BASE_IMAGE_REF and state that qualified Pi candidates
reject non-empty overrides because managed onboarding installs an exact catalog
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Two problems with the previous placement of the managed-image override rejection: The check ran inside resolveSandboxWorkloadSource, after the managed catalog was resolved. Under the prefer-managed policy a catalog outage takes the unavailable-catalog fallback to the legacy Dockerfile path, which does consume the override, so a default onboard did not always fail closed as documented. The same resolver also serves managed rebuild. Rebuild keeps its own base-image preflight and immutable handoff validation, and the per-agent override stays documented as usable there, so rejecting it broke a supported Hermes rebuild. Move the guard into prepareSandboxWorkloadSource, before catalog resolution and behind an explicit rejectUnsupportedBaseImageOverride input that only the onboarding orchestration sets. That call site now also passes startupProfile.environment, so the catalog decision and the override decision read one environment authority instead of two. Refs #11138 Signed-off-by: Yanyun Liao <yanyunl@nvidia.com>
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In `@src/lib/onboard/sandbox-workload-rebuild.test.ts`:
- Around line 326-339: Replace the mocked prepareSandboxWorkloadSource in the
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path, including the supported NEMOCLAW_HERMES_SANDBOX_BASE_IMAGE_REF override.
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Reviewed commit 51d9fcd against base 133a188. Approved. Managed-image onboarding and rebuild now reject the applicable base-image override before catalog access or mutation. Legacy Dockerfile workloads retain their validated override path, including the OpenClaw compatibility variable. The current Advisor specialists found no change-required issue. CodeRabbit's actionable test finding is resolved in this commit, and its remaining docstring warning is non-blocking. Focused validation passed: 5 files and 108 tests. All required checks pass, all commits have valid signatures, and the change restores the existing contract in #11138. Security review: all nine categories pass. The change adds fail-closed input handling at the managed-image trust boundary, does not expose override values, adds no dependency or cryptographic change, preserves authorization and persistence boundaries, and covers shipped agents, candidate agents, catalog failure, rebuild, legacy behavior, and credential redaction.
## Outcome Deep Agents Code E2E onboarding and fresh re-onboarding omit the base-image override when using managed images. Both paths verify the selected image digest, revision, and cohort through the existing shared receipt check. ## Reason PR #11152 rejects overrides that managed-image onboarding cannot honor. The E2E fixtures still forwarded that obsolete input. ### Related issues Fixes #11305. ## Changes - Apply the managed-image path to published cohorts and PR catalogs. - Omit base overrides during initial and fresh re-onboarding, then verify the recreated sandbox's managed-image receipt. - Extend deterministic coverage for an absent catalog variable, an explicit initial override, and valid and stale DCode receipts after a successful fresh re-onboarding script. - Preserve the selector that limits Deep Agents checks to DCode, with regression coverage for other onboarding profiles. - Incorporate the main-branch repairs for inherited cache, WeChat verifier, runtime digest, and dashboard-forward test failures. ## Verification - `npm run validate:pr`: passed, including repository checks, E2E semantic phase plans, source-shape and growth checks, commitlint, and CLI TypeScript. Validation tooling was compared with canonical base `ae5b2ca922023120f90e23242c133c774ae30aa0`; resolved validator entry points matched a clean installation. - Repair commit: `e3db6cef44d3f25384efa18718ebb196e534d8bf`. - Focused E2E-support tests: 55 passed across the onboarding and managed-image receipt suites. The unchanged cloud-experimental support suite passed in the previous repair cycle. - Inherited CI regression suites: 69 passed across WeChat locked installation, MCP image contracts, and onboarding after incorporating [#11332](#11332). The earlier OpenClaw integrity contract check passed all 8 tests. - Local review attempted twice. The first attempt failed during dependency download due to sandbox DNS restrictions. The second reached configuration but could not connect to its OpenShell gateway; cleanup also reported a temporary-file permission error. No local specialist review completed. - Earlier focused DCode E2E passed on `ba79a090fd1f8baaf4d294a6dea3ee8a71c0d492`: [run attempt 2](https://github.com/NVIDIA/NemoClaw/actions/runs/34383957103/attempts/2). CI passed on `e3db6cef44d3f25384efa18718ebb196e534d8bf`: [run](https://github.com/NVIDIA/NemoClaw/actions/runs/34404910253). - [All nine Advisor specialists](https://github.com/NVIDIA/NemoClaw/actions/runs/34403520376) completed on `63cb32fe3a2ff411c14d4381cbb9fcfa0462ba67`. This update adds the requested positive DCode receipt case and addresses CodeRabbit’s absent-catalog test input. - CodeRabbit withdrew its runtime-probe finding after verifying that the current selector supplies scripts only for DCode: [review disposition](#11308 (comment)). - CodeRabbit completed review of `e3db6cef44d3f25384efa18718ebb196e534d8bf` with no actionable findings. All nine [Advisor reports](https://github.com/NVIDIA/NemoClaw/actions/runs/34406483527) were read. The artifact-retirement findings are deferred by maintainer scope decision: [disposition](#11308 (comment)). The generic docstring warning is advisory; this repair does not add a public API. - Title-only follow-up `0574ad91e0137e8d85ee871ac3029e28e5973c0f` clarifies that managed-image onboarding omits an explicit base override. Its focused onboarding suite passed all 35 tests. Final-commit [CI passed](https://github.com/NVIDIA/NemoClaw/actions/runs/34408067266), and all nine [Advisor reports](https://github.com/NVIDIA/NemoClaw/actions/runs/34409614153) were read. The only remaining Advisor finding repeats the artifact cleanup already deferred above. CodeRabbit completed its incremental review with no actionable comments; its overview repeats the previously withdrawn runtime-probe concern, whose selector and regression coverage remain unchanged. No unresolved in-scope implementation finding remains. - The diff contains no secrets, API keys, or credentials. --- Signed-off-by: San Dang <sdang@nvidia.com> Signed-off-by: Rebecca Sliter <571084+rsliter@users.noreply.github.com> <!-- This is an auto-generated comment: release notes by coderabbit.ai --> ## Summary by CodeRabbit * **Bug Fixes** * Improved managed-image onboarding and fresh re-onboarding to work without catalog configuration or base-image overrides. * Added validation for image digests, source revisions, cohorts, and published receipt evidence. * Ensured non-Deep Agents onboarding modes skip Deep Agents-specific checks. * **Documentation** * Clarified managed-image validation and image publication evidence requirements. * **Tests** * Expanded coverage for valid and stale image receipts, multiple agents, published cohorts, candidate catalogs, and explicit image overrides. <!-- end of auto-generated comment: release notes by coderabbit.ai --> --------- Signed-off-by: San Dang <sdang@nvidia.com> Co-authored-by: Rebecca Sliter <571084+rsliter@users.noreply.github.com>
Summary
A sandbox base-image override (
NEMOCLAW_SANDBOX_BASE_IMAGE_REFand its per-agent equivalents) that cannot be resolved to a trusted digest is currently accepted silently on a default onboard, instead of aborting. This PR makes onboarding fail closed for that case.Closes #11138.
Reproduction
On our Ubuntu 24.04 x86_64 test host (no GPU), from a fresh uninstall + latest-
mainbuild:Environment
814772eedd4c1f2fd7a8769a33c3032b30076811build)Observed on
main(before fix)The override is silently ignored — the sandbox is created from the real managed image, not the substituted content, but the operator gets no indication the override never took effect.
Observed on the fix branch (after fix)
Analysis
prepareSandboxWorkloadSource()(src/lib/onboard/workload/source.ts) has two outcomes:kind: "legacy-dockerfile"(used for a--from <Dockerfile>custom build, viasrc/lib/agent/base-image.ts::ensureAgentBaseImage, which does read the agent's override env var) andkind: "managed-image"(the default for every shipped/candidate managed-image agent — openclaw, hermes, langchain-deepagents-code, pi — which installs an exact digest from the GHCR release catalog and never reads any override env var at all).A default onboard (no
--from) always resolves tokind: "managed-image".NEMOCLAW_SANDBOX_BASE_IMAGE_REF(openclaw) /NEMOCLAW_HERMES_SANDBOX_BASE_IMAGE_REF/NEMOCLAW_LANGCHAIN_DEEPAGENTS_CODE_SANDBOX_BASE_IMAGE_REF/NEMOCLAW_PI_SANDBOX_BASE_IMAGE_REFare simply never consulted on this path — not evaluated, not rejected, not warned about. The documented contract ("an override that resolves to no immutable trusted digest is supposed to abort onboarding") only ever applied to the separate custom-Dockerfile path.Fix
prepareSandboxWorkloadSource()now checks, right before it would returnkind: "managed-image", whether the agent's override env var is set. If it is, onboarding (or managed-image onboarding and rebuild) aborts with a clear error instead of silently proceeding, since the managed-image path cannot honor the override. This is the single choke point used by both onboarding (prepareSandboxWorkloadSource, called fromonboard/managed-workload/onboard-orchestration.ts) and rebuild (onboard/workload/rebuild.ts, including the release-candidate direct-call path), so the fix covers the whole class of callers rather than one call site.OpenClaw keeps its original, pre-multi-agent env var name (
NEMOCLAW_SANDBOX_BASE_IMAGE_REF, no agent prefix); this name is now exported as a shared constant (OPENCLAW_SANDBOX_BASE_IMAGE_REF_ENV_VARinsrc/lib/onboard/base-image.ts) instead of being duplicated as a string literal.The custom-Dockerfile path (
--from <Dockerfile>) is unchanged and continues to honor the override exactly as before — verified with a regression test.Changes
src/lib/onboard/workload/source.ts: fail closed inprepareSandboxWorkloadSource()when an override env var is set but the managed-image workload can't honor it.src/lib/onboard/base-image.ts: exportOPENCLAW_SANDBOX_BASE_IMAGE_REF_ENV_VARas the single source of truth for OpenClaw's override env var name.src/lib/onboard/workload/preparation.ts: thread the (optional, defaults toprocess.env)environmentfield through toresolveSandboxWorkloadSource.src/lib/onboard/sandbox-workload-preparation.test.ts: regression tests — fails closed for the openclaw default override, for another agent's override (hermes), for a release-candidate agent's override (pi), still onboards normally with no override set, and still honors the override on the legacy custom-Dockerfile path.docs/reference/commands.mdx: clarify in all three per-agent override sections that the override applies only to a custom-image onboard (--from <Dockerfile>) and that a default onboard now fails closed if it's set.Type of Change
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npx prek run --all-filespasses (targeted files)npm testpasses (touched files: 46/46 insandbox-workload-preparation.test.ts, plus the fullworkload/managed-workload/agent/base-image/onboard/base-imagesuites)make docsbuilds without warnings (doc changes only)AI Disclosure
Signed-off-by: Yanyun Liao yanyunl@nvidia.com
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