feat(sandbox): add a durable stop hold that prevents restart until explicit release
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- Dificuldade
- 5/5
- Tempo estimado
- Mais de uma semana
- Facilidade para iniciantes
- 35/100
- Tipo de issue
- Funcionalidade
- Clareza
- Razoavelmente clara
- Status de atividade
- Ativa
- Stack de tecnologia
- grpc, rust
- Domínio
- authorization, backend-api-design, security
Direção de pesquisa
Comece revisando o trabalho existente do ciclo de vida de StopSandbox e StartSandbox em #2652 e no PR #2653 mesclado, abrangendo CLI, gRPC API, SDKs, reconciliação do gateway e drivers de computação. Rastreie a serialização existente por sandbox e a intenção durável de stop/start; em seguida, use os critérios de aceitação para verificar holds duráveis, starts protegidos, liberação explícita, tratamento de falhas e cobertura para reinicialização, concorrência, identidade obsoleta e um caminho real de driver.
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Descrição
User Story
As an operator responding to suspicious or otherwise unwanted agent activity, I want to stop a sandbox and place a durable activation hold at the OpenShell gateway, so that every OpenShell client is prevented from restarting it until an explicit release while the sandbox identity and workspace remain available.
Problem Statement
OpenShell now provides storage-preserving, driver-neutral sandbox stop and sandbox start operations. Stop makes exec, SSH, forwarding, and exposed services unavailable and persists Stopped across gateway restart, but StartSandbox remains a valid operation for the same retained sandbox.
A product layered on OpenShell can record its own local “do not restart” flag, but that flag is not authoritative at the OpenShell lifecycle boundary. A direct CLI, SDK, API client, reconciler, or another controller can still request StartSandbox. Implementing the hold independently in every consuming product would duplicate lifecycle state and produce inconsistent guarantees.
NVIDIA/NemoClaw#10140 is a concrete downstream request for a quarantine-style operator command. NemoClaw can provide the convenience UX, but a restart prohibition that applies to all OpenShell clients needs a gateway-owned primitive.
Impact / Why This Matters
Today an operator can stop a sandbox while retaining its workspace, but preventing reactivation depends on coordination outside OpenShell. That is sufficient for ordinary idle resource management, not for an explicit operator hold where accidental or competing-client restart must be rejected.
The downstream alternatives are either incomplete (guard only NemoClaw-managed activation paths) or duplicative (add a second sandbox lifecycle authority above OpenShell). A small gateway-enforced hold would give NemoClaw and other orchestrators one portable contract across Docker, Podman, Kubernetes, VM, and future compute drivers.
Proposed Design
Add a public sandbox lifecycle hold operation and a separate explicit release operation. The final command names can be chosen during triage; one possible workflow is:
openshell sandbox hold my-sandbox --reason "unexpected outbound activity"
openshell sandbox release-hold my-sandbox --hold-id <id>
Externally observable behavior:
- Applying a hold durably records bounded, non-secret hold metadata before requesting the existing storage-preserving stop operation.
- The gateway rejects
StartSandboxand any gateway reconciliation path that would reactivate the sandbox while the hold is active, regardless of which CLI, SDK, API client, or consuming product makes the request. - If the stop request fails or its outcome is inconclusive, the hold remains active and status reports that the stop was not confirmed. The operation must not claim complete containment.
- Sandbox status exposes the active hold ID and creation time, plus bounded operator reason metadata if supported.
- Release requires an explicit release operation bound to the current hold. Release clears the hold but does not start the sandbox.
- Delete remains a separate operation with its existing state-removal semantics.
- The sandbox record, policy, provider attachments, settings, service definitions, and persistent workspace remain retained.
- The gateway composes this with the existing driver-neutral stop/start lifecycle; compute drivers do not need a separate quarantine API unless a concrete backend requirement later demonstrates one.
This is a lifecycle authorization and durable-intent feature, not a claim of forensic preservation or complete incident response. Credential revocation, evidence bundles, operation journals, independent postcondition observers, and cross-system atomicity are out of scope.
Acceptance Criteria
- A held sandbox has durable, bounded, non-secret hold metadata visible through the public API and CLI status.
- The hold survives gateway restart.
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StartSandboxand gateway-owned automatic reactivation reject a held sandbox before compute mutation. - Applying a hold uses the existing per-sandbox lifecycle serialization and requests the existing driver-neutral stop behavior.
- A stop failure or ambiguous result leaves the hold active and is reported without claiming the sandbox is fully contained.
- Release is an explicit authorized operation bound to the active hold and does not start the sandbox.
- Repeating hold or release requests has deterministic, non-destructive behavior.
- Delete remains available according to its existing authorization and cleanup contract.
- Public CLI, gRPC, and supported SDK surfaces expose the capability consistently.
- Tests cover concurrent start/hold, gateway restart, stop failure, stale release identity, release-without-start, retained state, and at least one real compute-driver E2E path.
Alternatives Considered
- Use
sandbox stoponly: retains state and shuts down access, but any authorized client can immediately callsandbox start; it does not express an operator hold. - Keep the hold only in NemoClaw: can guard NemoClaw commands but cannot guard direct OpenShell clients or other controllers, and makes NemoClaw a second lifecycle authority.
- Add a driver-specific quarantine RPC: places policy and durable intent below the gateway even though the gateway already owns lifecycle state, authorization, reconciliation, and the cross-driver stop contract.
- Delete the sandbox: prevents restart but removes the sandbox identity and may remove the workspace/evidence the operator intends to retain.
- Use “quarantine” as the public term: understandable for operators, but OpenShell already uses quarantine terminology for fail-closed policy generations. A neutral “hold” name may avoid conflating the two; naming does not change the required behavior.
Agent Investigation
Verified against OpenShell main at e64b0352e8965bec7e5683cb231ca38f9d4760ce.
- #2652 and merged PR #2653 established public, durable, storage-preserving stop/start across the CLI, gRPC API, SDKs, gateway reconciliation, and supported compute drivers.
- The gateway documentation states that stopped sandboxes cannot be connected to, executed in, transferred to, forwarded from, or reached through exposed services, and that stable
Stoppedintent survives gateway restart. - The gateway already owns per-sandbox lifecycle serialization and persists
Stopping -> Stopped -> Startingintent before driver mutation. - Both
StopSandboxandStartSandboxcurrently use the publicsandbox:writeauthorization surface; the sandbox resource has no distinct hold state or start guard. - No existing OpenShell issue found in searches for quarantine, lifecycle hold, freeze, or guarded restart defines this capability.
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