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fix(onboard): exclude the GPU proof from the sandbox create fingerprint - #12372

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nemoclaw onboard --resume can now recreate or repair a sandbox with GPU passthrough after an earlier run completed the sandbox step. Before this change, that resumed run always exited with "A previous onboarding attempt recorded sandbox '' with different build or policy inputs than this run requests." A change to the sandbox GPU settings is still rejected.

Reason

The onboarding sandbox step records a sandbox_create fingerprint after createSandbox() returns. The fingerprint serialized the whole sandbox GPU configuration object. When GPU passthrough is enabled, sandbox creation runs the GPU proof after the sandbox is Ready and writes the proof result to sandboxGpuProof on that same object. The recorded fingerprint therefore included the GPU proof, which is a result of creation, not an input.

A resumed run rebuilds the GPU configuration without sandboxGpuProof. The pre-create check in assertCheckpointCreateInputsStillMatch then never matched, so every resume that recreated or repaired the sandbox exited. The output then recommended nemoclaw onboard --resume again, which repeated the same failure.

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  • src/lib/onboard/machine/handlers/sandbox.ts:
    • currentSandboxCreateFingerprint serializes the sandbox GPU configuration without sandboxGpuProof. A configuration without that field serializes as before, so fingerprints recorded without a GPU proof stay valid. The Hermes GPU proof and the GPU compatibility fallback write the same field, so this change also covers them.
    • Receipts recorded before this change still contain sandboxGpuProof. Its value is not available on resume, so the check cannot rebuild the old fingerprint. Checkpoint crash recovery and assertCheckpointCreateInputsStillMatch now pass the recorded fingerprint through withoutRecordedSandboxGpuProof first. It locates the recorded GPU settings after the current fields that precede them and removes only sandboxGpuProof. A receipt without that member is unchanged and still needs an exact match.
  • src/lib/onboard/machine/handlers/sandbox-recreate-resume.test.ts: two tests run onboarding twice on one saved session. The first run's createSandbox writes a GPU proof onto the configuration that it receives. The resumed run finds the sandbox not ready. Each test runs once with a recorded receipt that omits the GPU proof and once with a receipt that contains it.
    • The first test proves that the resumed run recreates the sandbox.
    • The second test proves that a change to the sandbox GPU mode is still rejected.
  • src/lib/onboard/machine/handlers/sandbox-checkpoint-crash-recovery.test.ts: two crash-recovery tests use a recorded receipt with a GPU proof whose text contains }|.
    • The first test proves that the resumed run reuses the surviving sandbox.
    • The second test proves that a change to the sandbox GPU mode is still rejected.

Verification

  • npx vitest run --project cli src/lib/onboard/machine/handlers/sandbox-recreate-resume.test.ts src/lib/onboard/machine/handlers/sandbox-checkpoint-crash-recovery.test.ts — without the sandbox.ts change of the latest commit, the two new tests that accept a receipt with a GPU proof failed with exit 1 from rejectDriftedCheckpointFingerprint, and 47 tests passed. With the change, 49 tests passed, including after the documentation review corrections.
  • NEMOCLAW_CORPORATE_CA_IMPORT=0 npx vitest run --project cli src/lib/onboard/machine src/lib/onboard/abandoned-route-reservation.test.ts — 76 files and 1075 tests passed.
  • NEMOCLAW_CORPORATE_CA_IMPORT=0 npm run test:changed — growth guardrails passed (7 tests); 24 files and 285 tests passed.
  • NODE_OPTIONS=--max-old-space-size=12288 npm run typecheck:cli — passed.
  • npm run checks:repository — 18 of 18 checks passed.
  • npm run test:titles:check — passed, including after the documentation review corrections.
  • npx oxlint and npx oxfmt --check on the changed files, and git diff --check — clean.
  • git commit pre-commit and commit-msg hooks — passed, including the codebase growth guardrails and commitlint.
  • Documentation review of the staged tree on bd5e395e23 — PASS, no documentation update needed. Its two wording corrections are applied.
  • Not run: reproduction on GPU hardware, npm test, and npm run validate:pr.
  • The diff contains no secrets, API keys, or credentials.

Review notes

  • Sensitive path: onboarding resume and sandbox checkpoint state. The fingerprint still compares every create input and excludes only the GPU proof. For a recorded receipt, only a sandboxGpuProof member in the GPU settings is removed before the comparison, and every other field still needs an exact match. The tests that change the GPU mode are the negative evidence for both checks. No credential, policy, or network behavior changes.
  • For NemoClaw-managed images, the first fingerprint field is the NemoClaw build version. After an upgrade, a session recorded by the earlier release still reports different build or policy inputs, with or without a GPU proof. Rerun that session with nemoclaw onboard --resume --recreate-sandbox or nemoclaw onboard --fresh. The receipt compatibility applies when that field matches, for example for a sandbox built with --from <Dockerfile>, whose first field is the sandbox name.

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

Summary by CodeRabbit

  • Bug Fixes
    • Sandbox recovery now handles older checkpoints containing GPU verification data, allowing compatible ready sandboxes to be reused and compatible unready sandboxes to be recreated during resume.
    • When recorded and current GPU modes differ, recovery stops before creating a sandbox and prompts for --recreate-sandbox. Other GPU configuration differences remain part of the compatibility check.

Signed-off-by: Tinson Lai <tinsonl@nvidia.com>
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Sandbox create fingerprints now exclude sandboxGpuProof. Checkpoint recovery normalizes older fingerprints that contain proof data. Tests cover recovery with matching GPU settings and rejection when the GPU mode changes.

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Layer / File(s) Summary
Normalize sandbox create fingerprints
src/lib/onboard/machine/handlers/sandbox.ts
The create fingerprint excludes sandboxGpuProof. A compatibility helper removes proof data from older recorded fingerprints while preserving other fingerprint inputs.
Apply normalized fingerprints during recovery
src/lib/onboard/machine/handlers/sandbox.ts, src/lib/onboard/machine/handlers/sandbox-checkpoint-crash-recovery.test.ts, src/lib/onboard/machine/handlers/sandbox-recreate-resume.test.ts
Crash recovery and create-input validation use normalized fingerprints. Tests cover reuse or recreation when GPU settings match, and rejection without sandbox creation when the mode differs.

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Change: Bug fix · Severity of issue fixed: Medium

Suggested reviewers: rsliter

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Resume after a transient sandbox failure should now accept older checkpoints that carry the GPU proof, while still rejecting changed GPU settings. No remaining merge-blocking risk was identified.

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Review comments at @src/lib/onboard/machine/handlers/sandbox.ts:
- Line 927: Update fingerprint comparison in the sandbox resume flow to preserve
compatibility with legacy proof-bearing sandbox_create receipts: when exact
matching fails, parse the legacy GPU JSON segment, remove only sandboxGpuProof,
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Receipts written before the fingerprint excluded sandboxGpuProof still
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Both fingerprint checks now remove only that member from the recorded
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Signed-off-by: Tinson Lai <tinsonl@nvidia.com>
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Reviewed at exact head e3336576ed01c7d96314366eeef311a3313e1ef4 against base 72a0b586db9ed6410dcacc75ac5e8711a13a22fb.

The change removes only the runtime-produced sandboxGpuProof from new create fingerprints and normalizes that one field in legacy receipts. Other GPU inputs and durable create intent remain exact-matched, malformed receipts stay fail-closed, and changed GPU mode is still rejected before sandbox mutation.

Evidence: 49 focused resume and crash-recovery tests passed locally on the exact head. All 65 GitHub checks passed, including CodeQL, CLI coverage, Docker and rootless Podman all-agent activation, and self-hosted security contracts. The nine-category security review found no blocking issue.

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