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Summary

A sandboxed Gym evaluation run with an expired policy credential reported backoff limit exceeded, and nothing in the job output named the credential. The provider's 401 was collapsed into a bare 500 by Gym's component server, wrapped by the host as {"code": "internal"}, returned through the sandbox proxy as HTTP 200, and then the sandbox was destroyed with its logs. Diagnosing one occurrence took a hand-built sandbox to read logs the job never surfaced. After this change the same run fails with the endpoint, the model, and the name of the env var to rotate.

Changes

  • Preflight. bootstrap_gym_host probes the configured policy endpoint with a one-token completion before building Gym's servers and refuses to start on 401 only. A 403 is equally an egress proxy, a per-path policy, or a quota rule, and the probe cannot tell which — it posts to /chat/completions, while Gym's model server also speaks /responses, so probe and rollouts are not guaranteed to take the same path. Refusing to start is unrecoverable; letting a run through costs only the diagnosis. So a 403 is logged as inconclusive and startup continues. A completion rather than GET /v1/models, because providers commonly serve the model list unauthenticated. The probe refuses redirects: following one would re-send the Authorization header to whatever the endpoint names, and Docker applies no egress policy. Every other outcome is logged as inconclusive and left to the rollouts, which retry and report per-example — failing the run on a transient would trade a recoverable rollout error for an unrecoverable startup one.
  • Output tail. sys.stdout/sys.stderr are wrapped so the last 80 lines ride out on the error envelope. Credential values are masked and each captured line is bounded to 500 chars, since that envelope reaches the caller and the job log. The masked set is the environment (names matching KEY|TOKEN|SECRET|PASS|CREDENTIAL|AUTH|PRIVATE) plus the resolved policy key, since a config may inline that key literally rather than reference ${oc.env:VAR} — in which case no env name covers it. Masking applies to what is captured, not to what the host writes for an operator, and an unterminated line is held until a terminator arrives so a secret straddling two writes is still matched whole. That held line is capped at the captured width plus the longest secret — bounded, since nothing obliges a writer to emit a newline, with enough kept that a secret crossing the cap survives whole to be masked. All 80 lines are rendered into the failure — the host already bounded the tail against its response budget, so a second bound at render time would only drop diagnostics that survived the wire.
  • The 503 carries the envelope. A bootstrap failure answers 503 with the same error envelope a 200 would, and the SDK renders it with the same helper rather than truncating the raw body — the tail is oldest-first, so a truncation lands on the traceback that says why the host never started.
  • Terminal bootstrap failure. A bootstrap failure no longer exits the process — exiting takes the sandbox down with its logs and leaves the caller polling an address that never answers. The host serves HTTP anyway, reports {"status": "failed"} on /health and the stored error on any rollout, and OpenSandboxGymHostProvider.wait_ready raises GymHostBootstrapFailed the moment it sees that rather than running out its readiness deadline. _get_json now keeps the 503 body it used to discard.
  • render_host_error moved from the evaluator SDK into sandboxed_gym.host.models so the provider and the SDK render the envelope the same way.

Type of Change

  • Code change (feature, bug fix, or refactor)
  • Code change with documentation updates
  • Documentation only
  • Contributor tooling or automation
  • CI, build, or test infrastructure

Quality Gates

  • Tests added or updated for changed behavior
  • Existing tests cover changed behavior — justification:
  • Tests not applicable — justification:
  • Documentation updated for user-visible behavior
  • Documentation not applicable — justification: no user-facing surface changes. The improvement is in the text of an existing failure; the docs do not document the old message.

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  • Pull request title follows the repository's Conventional Commit format
  • Every commit includes an appropriate Signed-off-by: trailer
  • uv run pre-commit run -a passes, or any blocked checks are identified below
  • Targeted tests pass, or tests are marked not applicable above
  • No secrets, API keys, or credentials are included

Targeted validation:

  • uv run pre-commit run -a — all hooks pass.
  • pytest packages/sandboxed_gym/tests — 388 passed, 9 skipped, 1 failed. The failure is test_opensandbox_driver.py::test_destroy_sandboxes_matching_refuses_an_empty_selector, which needs the opensandbox SDK that is not installed in this checkout. Pre-existing; confirmed by running it against a clean tree.
  • pytest packages/nemo_evaluator_sdk/tests/agent_eval/test_gym_sandboxed_runtime.py — 24 passed.
  • pytest packages/nemo_evaluator_sdk/tests/agent_eval — 1226 passed, 11 skipped, 1 failed (test_fabric_integration.py::test_fabric_codex_live_eval_captures_atif_trajectory, a live test needing credentials; pre-existing).
  • ruff check, ruff format --check, ty check — clean, with zero ty diagnostics in the changed files.
  • Every new test was mutation-verified: the behaviour it covers was broken on purpose and the test confirmed to go red.

Known limitations

  • The tail does not capture Gym's component servers. nemo_gym starts them with Popen(stdout=sys.stdout), so they inherit fd 1/2 and write past Python's stream objects. The tail carries the host's own output — the bootstrap sequence, the head-server thread, and the ClientResponseError naming the loopback component that failed — but not the component's own traceback. Routing Gym's log_dir output into the envelope is the follow-up; the preflight is what covers the credential case that motivated this.
  • Nested OmegaConf defaults are not resolved. _resolve_env_interpolation handles ${oc.env:VAR} and ${oc.env:VAR,default}; it cannot balance a nested interpolation such as ${oc.env:A,${oc.env:B}}. OmegaConf is not importable here — this module's source is injected verbatim into the sandbox image and may import only the standard library, PyYAML, and nemo_gym. An unresolved value is reported as unresolved and preflight is skipped, so the degradation is to the old behaviour, never to a wrong answer.
  • Not exercised end-to-end on a live cluster. The preflight and the terminal-failure path are covered by unit tests only. The failure they replace was reproduced on the QA cluster before this change; the fixed path has not been run there since.

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  • Bug Fixes
    • Startup now distinguishes rejected credentials and refused requests from other endpoint-check failures. Other failures do not prevent startup, unresolved configuration skips the check, and redirects are not followed.
    • When Gym host startup fails, health and rollout requests report the failure with captured host output. Output is limited, and sensitive values are masked.
    • Host error details are preserved when reported, including decoded details from temporary service responses. Responses without decodable details fall back to a starting status.

…imeout

A sandboxed Gym evaluation run with an expired or invalid policy credential
reported "backoff limit exceeded". Nothing in the job's output named the
credential: the provider's 401 was collapsed into a bare 500 by Gym's component
server, wrapped by the host as {"code": "internal"}, and returned through the
sandbox proxy as HTTP 200. The sandbox was then destroyed, taking its logs with
it. Diagnosing one run took a hand-built sandbox to read logs the job never
surfaced.

Three changes, each addressing one hop where the cause was dropped:

- The host probes the configured policy endpoint before building Gym's servers
  and refuses to start on a 401/403, naming the endpoint, the model, and the env
  var the key came from. Any other probe outcome is inconclusive and left to the
  rollouts, which retry and report per-example.
- Host stdout/stderr is tailed into the error envelope, so a failure carries the
  host's own output out of a sandbox that is about to be destroyed. Values of
  secret-named env vars are masked and each line is bounded before capture, since
  that envelope reaches the caller and the job log.
- A bootstrap failure is now terminal rather than fatal. The host serves HTTP
  anyway and reports "failed" on /health and on any rollout, and the OpenSandbox
  provider stops polling the moment it sees that instead of running out its
  readiness deadline and raising a bare timeout.

Known limitation: Gym runs its component servers as subprocesses that inherit
fd 1/2, so their output does not pass through the host's Python streams and is
not captured by the tail. The preflight is what covers the credential case.

Signed-off-by: Sandy Chapman <schapman@nvidia.com>
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The Gym host checks configured policy credentials before importing Gym, captures bounded and masked output, and serves bootstrap errors. The host provider and SDK format those errors and include host output details.

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Gym host startup and error reporting

Layer / File(s) Summary
Credential preflight and bootstrap diagnostics
packages/sandboxed_gym/src/sandboxed_gym/runtime/gym_host_runtime.py, packages/sandboxed_gym/tests/test_gym_host_runtime.py
The runtime probes configured policy credentials before importing Gym. HTTP 401 and 403 produce credential-rejection and request-refusal errors. It captures bounded, masked output and includes bootstrap failures in health and rollout responses. Tests cover preflight, output capture, and failure responses.
Host error formatting and readiness polling
packages/sandboxed_gym/src/sandboxed_gym/host/models.py, packages/sandboxed_gym/src/sandboxed_gym/host/opensandbox.py, packages/sandboxed_gym/tests/test_opensandbox_host_provider.py
The host formats error details and appends the full supplied output tail with its line count. The provider raises on failed readiness responses and decodes JSON bodies from HTTP 503 responses. Tests cover error details and fallback behavior.
SDK rollout error rendering
packages/nemo_evaluator_sdk/src/nemo_evaluator_sdk/agent_eval/runtimes/gym/sandboxed.py, packages/nemo_evaluator_sdk/tests/agent_eval/test_gym_sandboxed_runtime.py
The SDK uses the host error formatter for errors in rollout responses. For HTTP errors, it renders the JSON error value when present and otherwise uses response text. Tests cover output-tail labels and non-mapping errors.

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sequenceDiagram
  participant OpenSandboxHostProvider
  participant GymHostRuntime
  participant render_host_error
  OpenSandboxHostProvider->>GymHostRuntime: Poll readiness endpoint
  GymHostRuntime-->>OpenSandboxHostProvider: Return HTTP 503 with failed status and error
  OpenSandboxHostProvider->>render_host_error: Format error and output tail
  render_host_error-->>OpenSandboxHostProvider: Return rendered error
  OpenSandboxHostProvider->>OpenSandboxHostProvider: Raise GymHostBootstrapFailed with host ID
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Bound pending host output before merging to prevent a long unterminated line from exhausting host memory. The credential probe also warrants owner confirmation for any policy endpoints that do not use Bearer authentication.

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🟡 Minor · The 503 bootstrap error skips render_host_error and loses the traceback. · sandboxed.py:269-275

packages/nemo_evaluator_sdk/src/nemo_evaluator_sdk/agent_eval/runtimes/gym/sandboxed.py:269-275
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The 503 bootstrap error skips render_host_error and loses the traceback.

A host that is not ready now returns _BOOTSTRAP_ERROR with a 503 status, and that body includes host_output_tail. This branch keeps only response.text[:2000]. The tail holds up to 80 lines of up to 500 characters each, ordered oldest first. The cut therefore removes the end of the traceback.print_exc() output, which holds the cause. Decode the body and render it with the same helper as the 200 path.

Proposed fix
         if response.status_code >= 400:
-            # The body is the host's own error envelope; it names which example or server failed,
-            # which the status code alone does not.
-            raise RuntimeError(
-                f"sandboxed Gym host returned {response.status_code} from {self._config.rollout_url}: "
-                f"{response.text[:2000]}"
-            )
+            try:
+                payload = response.json()
+            except ValueError:
+                payload = None
+            error = payload.get("error") if isinstance(payload, Mapping) else None
+            detail = render_host_error(error) if error is not None else response.text[:2000]
+            raise RuntimeError(
+                f"sandboxed Gym host returned {response.status_code} from {self._config.rollout_url}: {detail}"
+            )
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In `@packages/sandboxed_gym/src/sandboxed_gym/runtime/gym_host_runtime.py`:
- Around line 227-246: Update the HTTPError handling in the policy preflight so
401 and 403 responses remain inconclusive and do not raise
PolicyCredentialRejected; log the status and continue, since this flow cannot
establish the endpoint’s authentication scheme.
- Around line 115-121: Update _SECRET_ENV_NAME_RE and _secret_env_values to
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Gym request flow to decode the response body and pass its error envelope to
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…on it

Two gaps in the failure reporting added by the previous commit:

The output tail masked values found under secret-looking env var names, which
misses a config that inlines `policy_api_key` literally rather than referencing
`${oc.env:VAR}` — no env var holds that value, so nothing masked it on the way
out. The masked set is now composed from the environment and the resolved policy
key, and the env name pattern covers AUTH, PASS, and PRIVATE.

A 403 was reported as a rejected credential. An egress proxy or an endpoint
policy returns 403 too, so that diagnosis sends an operator to rotate a key that
was never at fault. The run still fails on 403 — the rollouts post to the same
URL with the same headers, so whatever refused the probe refuses all of them —
but only a 401 now names the credential.

Signed-off-by: Sandy Chapman <schapman@nvidia.com>
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🟠 Major · Prevent policy-key forwarding on preflight redirects. · gym_host_runtime.py:248

packages/sandboxed_gym/src/sandboxed_gym/runtime/gym_host_runtime.py:248
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Sensitive Data Exposure

Reachability: External
Exploitability: Difficult
CWE: CWE-200 — Exposure of Sensitive Information to an Unauthorized Actor

Prevent policy-key forwarding on preflight redirects.

urllib.request.urlopen follows redirects and can reuse the Authorization header. OpenSandbox usually denies unlisted destinations, but internet-enabled policies can allow other origins, and Docker applies no egress policy. Disable automatic redirects for this preflight, or allow only same-origin HTTPS redirects.

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In `@packages/sandboxed_gym/src/sandboxed_gym/runtime/gym_host_runtime.py` at line
248, Update the preflight request around urllib.request.urlopen to prevent
forwarding the Authorization header across origins: disable automatic redirects,
or restrict redirects to the same HTTPS origin. Preserve the existing preflight
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The credential-rejection message is what this change exists to produce, so pin
it exactly rather than probing it for four substrings. One of those substrings
was a bare hostname, which CodeQL reads as an incomplete URL sanitization check
(py/incomplete-url-substring-sanitization) and reports as a high-severity
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🟠 Major · Buffer partial writes before masking. · gym_host_runtime.py:122-145

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Buffer partial writes before masking.

When a bootstrap component writes a captured secret in nonblank fragments across two calls to the same wrapped stream, _OutputTail.write() scrubs each call independently. Neither fragment contains the full secret, so both enter host_output_tail unredacted. The wrapper captures them before forwarding, so underlying stream buffering cannot reunite them before masking. A failed bootstrap returns the tail from /health, and OpenSandbox.wait_ready() includes it in GymHostBootstrapFailed. Keep a bounded pending line per stream and scrub the reassembled line before adding it to _OUTPUT_TAIL.

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In `@packages/sandboxed_gym/src/sandboxed_gym/runtime/gym_host_runtime.py` around
lines 122 - 145, Update _OutputTail.write to retain a bounded pending line
across writes and scrub the reassembled line before appending it to the output
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The host captures 80 lines and ships them in the error envelope; the renderer
displayed the last 40. Half of what a dying sandbox paid to send across the wire
was dropped where someone would read it, and it dropped the oldest half, which
is where a traceback starts.

One bound, at the producer, where it can be held against the response size.

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🟠 Major · Buffer partial writes before masking. · gym_host_runtime.py:113-180

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Buffer partial writes before masking.

_OutputTail.write() splits each write independently. A secret split across two writes is stored as separate unmasked fragments. Bootstrap and rollout errors return _OUTPUT_TAIL in host_output_tail, so those fragments can reach the caller and job logs.

Keep the unfinished line in _OutputTail and scrub it only after a line terminator.

Suggested fix
 class _OutputTail:
     """Keeps the last ``limit`` lines written through it, and passes them on unchanged."""
 
     def __init__(self, stream: Any, buffer: collections.deque[str], secrets: tuple[str, ...] = ()) -> None:
         self._stream = stream
         self._buffer = buffer
         self._secrets = secrets
+        self._partial_line = ""
 
     def write(self, text: str) -> int:
-        for line in text.splitlines():
-            if line.strip():
-                self._buffer.append(self._scrub(line))
+        lines = (self._partial_line + text).splitlines(keepends=True)
+        self._partial_line = ""
+        if lines and not lines[-1].endswith(("\n", "\r")):
+            self._partial_line = lines.pop()
+        for chunk in lines:
+            for line in chunk.splitlines():
+                if line.strip():
+                    self._buffer.append(self._scrub(line))
         return self._stream.write(text)
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In `@packages/sandboxed_gym/src/sandboxed_gym/runtime/gym_host_runtime.py` around
lines 113 - 180, Update `_OutputTail.write()` to retain an unfinished line
across writes and only scrub and append it once a line terminator arrives, so
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Keep forwarding each original write unchanged to the wrapped stream.

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In `@packages/sandboxed_gym/src/sandboxed_gym/runtime/gym_host_runtime.py`:
- Around line 113-180: Update `_OutputTail.write()` to retain an unfinished line
across writes and only scrub and append it once a line terminator arrives, so
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…nosis

A bootstrap failure answers 503 carrying the same error envelope a 200 would,
but the SDK's `>= 400` branch truncated the raw body at 2000 characters without
rendering it. The tail is ordered oldest first, so the cut landed on the
traceback that says why the host never started — the terminal-failure path was
defeated at its last hop. It now decodes and renders the envelope the same way
the 200 path does.

The preflight reached the policy endpoint through `urlopen`, which follows
redirects and re-sends the `Authorization` header to whatever the endpoint
names. OpenSandbox usually denies unlisted destinations; Docker applies no
egress policy at all. It now goes through an opener that refuses to redirect, so
a 3xx surfaces as its own status and is treated as inconclusive.

`_OutputTail.write` masked each write independently, so a secret straddling two
writes was stored as two unmasked fragments — a writer flushes where it likes,
not where a secret ends. It now holds an unterminated line and masks only once a
terminator arrives.

Signed-off-by: Sandy Chapman <schapman@nvidia.com>

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In `@packages/sandboxed_gym/src/sandboxed_gym/runtime/gym_host_runtime.py`:
- Around line 134-135: Bound the unterminated output retained in `_partial` as
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A 403 was treated as an auth refusal alongside 401. It is equally an egress
proxy, a per-path policy, or a quota rule, and the preflight cannot tell which:
it probes /chat/completions, while Gym's model server also speaks /responses, so
there is no guarantee the probe and the rollouts take the same path.

The costs are asymmetric. Refusing to start is unrecoverable, and no retry helps
a run that would have worked. Letting one through costs only the diagnosis: the
run degrades to what it did before the preflight existed. So only a status that
can mean nothing but a rejected credential spends that budget, and 401 is the
only one. A 403 is logged as inconclusive and startup continues.

Signed-off-by: Sandy Chapman <schapman@nvidia.com>
Holding a line until its terminator left `_partial` unbounded, and nothing
obliges a writer to emit a newline. A component streaming without one grows that
buffer inside the host process for as long as it runs.

It is now capped at the captured width plus the longest masked secret. The extra
is what keeps masking honest: a secret starting inside the captured width is
held whole across the cut, so the end-of-line scrub still matches it rather than
publishing whatever half survived. Anything past that would be truncated away at
capture regardless.

Signed-off-by: Sandy Chapman <schapman@nvidia.com>
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