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Summary

Before this change, destroy could accept OpenShell's already-absent result and delete local state while the preflight-bound Docker container remained. This change removes only that immutable container ID, confirms it is absent, and preserves recovery state on any inspection or removal mismatch.

Related Issue

Fixes #9073

Changes

• Remove only the Docker container ID captured by the destroy preflight after OpenShell confirms sandbox deletion or absence.
• Fail closed and preserve the registry entry when Docker inspection, identity continuity, removal, or confirmation fails.
• Cover success and failure paths, and document the cleanup and retry behavior.

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:
• Docs updated for user-facing behavior changes
• Docs not applicable — justification:
• 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: Independent nine-category security review passed at exact PR head a3ed139d9; no findings remain.
• Non-success, skipped, or missing CI check accepted by maintainer — check name, approval link, and follow-up issue:

Documentation Writer Review

• Documentation writer subagent reviewed the completed changes
• Result: docs-updated
• Evidence: docs/reference/commands.mdx — documents exact-ID Docker orphan removal, fail-closed outcomes, registry preservation, and retry instructions.
• Agent: Codex Desktop

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.

Verification

• PR description includes a Signed-off-by: line and every commit appears as Verified in GitHub
• 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 — npx vitest run test/runtime-provider-source-shape.test.ts src/lib/actions/sandbox/rebuild-gateway-drift.test.ts src/lib/actions/sandbox/destroy-flow.test.ts src/lib/onboard/openshell-docker-sandbox-containers.test.ts passed 103 tests.
• Applicable broad gate passed — npm test for broad runtime/test-harness changes; npm run check for repo-wide validation/coverage changes — not applicable; this is a path-scoped destroy fix covered by the focused suite and npm run validate:pr.
• 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) — passed with 0 errors and 2 existing hidden Fern warnings.
• Doc pages follow the style guide (doc changes only)
• New doc pages include SPDX header and frontmatter (new pages only)

Additional validation: a dedicated Brev instance with Docker 29.7.2 removed the exact target container, preserved an unrelated control container, refused a same-name replacement, and was deleted after testing.

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Signed-off-by: Senthil Ravichandran senthilr@nvidia.com

Summary by CodeRabbit

• Bug Fixes
  • Improved sandbox destruction when OpenShell reports a sandbox as missing.
  • Safely removes only the previously identified orphaned container, preventing accidental removal of replacement or unrelated containers.
  • Preserves sandbox records when cleanup fails, allowing destruction to be retried.
  • Confirms container removal before reporting success.
  • Forced local cleanup now avoids unnecessary Docker removal.
  • Handles ambiguous container identities and Docker inspection failures safely.

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📝 Walkthrough

Walkthrough

Destroy removes the expected Docker container when OpenShell reports the sandbox absent. It validates identity and confirms removal. Failed cleanup preserves local state for retry. Forced local cleanup removes only the local record.

Changes

Sandbox destruction

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Exact-container cleanup helper src/lib/onboard/openshell-docker-sandbox-containers.ts, src/lib/actions/sandbox/destroy-presence.ts, src/lib/onboard/openshell-docker-sandbox-containers.test.ts	Adds exact-ID Docker cleanup with identity checks, forced removal, post-removal confirmation, and regression coverage.
Destroy-flow integration src/lib/actions/sandbox/destroy-execution.ts, src/lib/actions/sandbox/destroy-flow.test.ts, test/helpers/destroy-flow-test-harness.ts	Runs cleanup after an absent-sandbox result, preserves records when cleanup fails, skips Docker removal for forced local cleanup, and validates retry behavior.
Command documentation docs/reference/commands.mdx	Documents fail-closed cleanup when container identity or removal cannot be confirmed.

Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~20 minutes

Merge Risk: 🔵 Low · up to a3ed1

The destroy path now targets only the preflight-captured container and preserves recovery state on cleanup mismatches; it is otherwise mergeable, but the failure-path test does not demonstrate that the public destroy flow reaches the configured deletion failure, so owner follow-up is warranted.

Sequence Diagram(s)

sequenceDiagram
  participant DestroyExecution
  participant OpenShell
  participant DockerCleanup
  participant SandboxRegistry

  DestroyExecution->>OpenShell: Probe sandbox
  OpenShell-->>DestroyExecution: Sandbox absent
  DestroyExecution->>DockerCleanup: Validate and remove expected container ID
  DockerCleanup-->>DestroyExecution: Confirm cleanup or return error
  DestroyExecution->>SandboxRegistry: Remove local record after cleanup succeeds

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Linked Issues check	✅ Passed	The changes address issue #9073 by safely removing the matched container and preserving recovery state when cleanup cannot be verified.
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In `@src/lib/actions/sandbox/destroy-flow.test.ts`:
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• justified — exact Docker container at src/lib/onboard/openshell-docker-sandbox-containers.ts:124: Keep the modifier when the preflight-proven container must be distinguished from a same-name replacement.
• established — replacement cleanup at src/lib/onboard/openshell-docker-sandbox-containers.ts:106: Keep the established term for cleanup refusal after an identity replacement.

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Blockers

PRA-1 Blocker — Use untruncated Docker IDs for exact cleanup

• Location: src/lib/onboard/openshell-docker-sandbox-containers.ts:67
• Category: security
• Problem: The post-delete cleanup query formats `{{.ID}}` without `--no-trunc`, then compares that value with the full ID captured by the destroy preflight.
• Impact: Docker can return a shortened ID for `{{.ID}}`. The equality check then rejects the preflight-proven container, preserves the registry entry, and leaves the owned container after OpenShell confirms absence.
• Fix: Add `--no-trunc` to the managed-container query used by exact cleanup so both queries use full IDs. Keep the equality check and add a regression test that distinguishes a shortened ID from its full preflight ID.
• Verification: Inspect the Docker argv in `queryOpenShellDockerSandboxContainers` and compare its ID output with the `--no-trunc` identity probe before rerunning the focused Docker cleanup tests.
• Test coverage: Add a test in `src/lib/onboard/openshell-docker-sandbox-containers.test.ts` or the destroy-flow harness that supplies a full preflight ID and a Docker-style shortened query ID, then proves the implementation requests untruncated IDs and removes only the full matching container.
• Evidence: src/lib/onboard/openshell-docker-sandbox-containers.ts:15-24 constructs the managed-container query without `--no-trunc`. src/lib/onboard/openshell-docker-sandbox-containers.ts:93-108 requires `initial.ids[0] === expectedContainerId`. src/lib/actions/sandbox/destroy-presence.ts:56-61 obtains the preflight identity from the destroy identity inspection, whose changed tests use full IDs. test/helpers/destroy-flow-test-harness.ts:307-326 models the cleanup query with full IDs and does not cover shortened Docker output.

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