fix(runtime): the native profile still named env-exec.sh, renamed in #212

[defangdevs]

Summary

packages.<system>.runtime does not evaluate on master:

$ nix build --no-link .#packages.aarch64-linux.runtime
error: opening file '/nix/store/…-source/modules/src/env-exec.sh': No such file or directory

94663f0 ("fix(env): one parser for the env store, and multi-line values (#212)") rewrote the env-exec wrapper in Python and renamed the asset to env-exec.py. The NixOS side moved with it (modules/agent-box.nix.in:218 reads @@include:src/env-exec.py@@); nix/runtime.nix:122 and flake.nix's runtime-profile check did not.

That makes this launch-blocking, not CI-only: aws/lightsail-native-template.yaml runs

nix profile install --profile /nix/var/nix/profiles/agent-box "${AgentBoxFlakeRef}#runtime"

as the first thing after installing Nix, so a native box launched from master never comes up.

Why it survived since #212

The check written for exactly this drift can't report it — it fails at eval on the same missing file — and nothing runs it. ci.yml names its checks one at a time (multi-user, module-single-file, module-generated-up-to-date, assemble-module-escaping, envstore-format, registry-protocol, download-route, webhook-route, vm-closure, golden-snapshot, plus the VM tests) and neither runtime-profile nor agentbox-render is in that list; aws-ci.yml runs tests/test_agentbox.py directly rather than through the flake, so it never evaluates .#runtime either. (phantom-unit-overrides and session-route are in the same position — exposed by the flake, run by nobody. Left alone here; this PR only adds the two that cover the backend that was actually broken.)

So both native checks are added to ci.yml. agentbox-render earns its place separately from aws-ci.yml's python step: it also hands the rendered Caddyfile to caddy validate, and it runs on ci.yml's triggers rather than aws-ci.yml's path filter — which does not include the modules/src/ assets the render embeds, so a guide change today leaves tests/native/expected stale with nothing to notice.

Test plan

• nix eval .#packages.aarch64-linux.runtime.drvPath — evaluates (it did not before)
• nix eval .#checks.x86_64-linux.runtime-profile.drvPath — evaluates
• ci.yml parses as YAML and the two new steps are present

The full runtime-profile build was not run locally: this box is at 94% disk and building the profile (agent CLIs, ttyd, caddy) would not fit. That is what the new CI step is for, and it is the gate this PR should be judged on — if it goes red, the payload list needs more than a rename.

Fixes #374. Unblocks #376 (native self-update), which builds …#runtime before swapping the profile.

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The runtime profile now resolves included sources, combines Python payloads with envstore.py, validates generated payloads, and runs native runtime and renderer checks in CI. The native guide includes screenshot upload instructions.

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Runtime validation

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Resolve runtime payload sources nix/runtime.nix	The runtime profile uses shared source-tree resolution. Shell payloads reject unresolved includes and pass bash -n. Python payloads combine envstore.py with daemon and environment executor sources.
Validate resolved payloads flake.nix	Validation compares resolved payloads with installed scripts, conditionally checks webhook payloads, validates Python composition and syntax, and preserves renderer failure status while showing logs.
Run native CI checks .github/workflows/ci.yml, tests/native/expected/etc/agent-box-guides/AGENTS.agent.md	CI runs native runtime payload and renderer checks with read-only contents access. The guide documents screenshot uploads with agent-box-upload.

Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~25 minutes

Merge Risk: 🔵 Low · up to a8953

The runtime asset rename and CI coverage changes are localized and address the reported evaluation failure. The PR is mergeable with explicit owner follow-up to correct an explanatory comment in nix/runtime.nix that names load() instead of load_into(); this is documentation-only and does not indicate a runtime defect.

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✅ Passed checks (5 passed)

Check name	Status	Explanation
Title check	✅ Passed	The title clearly identifies the runtime fix: updating the native profile reference from env-exec.sh after the asset was renamed in #212.
Description check	✅ Passed	The description directly explains the runtime evaluation failure, the env-exec.py rename, the added CI checks, and the related test results.
Docstring Coverage	✅ Passed	No functions found in the changed files to evaluate docstring coverage. Skipping docstring coverage check. Docstring coverage is scoped to functions touched by this diff. Analyzed 0 functions across 0…
Linked Issues check	✅ Passed	Check skipped because no linked issues were found for this pull request.
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In @.github/workflows/ci.yml:
- Around line 121-125: Add an explicit least-privilege permissions block to the
workflow containing these checks, defaulting to contents: read; grant any
additional permission only at the specific job or step that requires it, while
leaving the runtime-profile and agentbox-render build steps unchanged.
- Around line 124-125: Update the “Check native renderer output” step to
preserve failures from the renderer test pipeline by enabling pipefail or
otherwise checking the Python command’s exit status before displaying its
output; keep the existing nix build and result output behavior intact.

In `@nix/runtime.nix`:
- Line 122: Update the agent-box-env-exec payload to use
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envStoreLib as established in the corresponding agent-box module, so
AGENT_BOX_ENV_EXEC executes the Python wrapper correctly.

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[defangdevs]

CI on the first commit came back red on the new runtime-profile step, which is exactly what it was added for. Two more commits, and the scope of this PR has grown with what the check found:

1. agent-box-env-exec (98e3695, pushed by another session on this box). The rename alone was not enough: payload is writeShellScriptBin, so it handed bash a Python file — line 29: syntax error near unexpected token '(' ... def load_into(environ, path, skip=()):. And env-exec.py is not self-contained; it calls load() and uses os without importing either, because the module splices lib/envstore.py above it (envExecWrapper). Now built with writers.writePython3Bin and the same composition.

2. The four @@include@@ payloads (bcd5e87). With the profile finally building, the check's own MARKER guard has something to say: supervisor.sh, mark-stopped.sh, session-cli.sh and webhook-spawn.sh each carry @@include:lib/registry.sh@@, and payload shipped that line verbatim to the box. bash runs it as a command that does not exist, and every registry helper below it is undefined — in the supervisor, which is the process that starts every session.

That is the settings-daemon bug (the one that served @@include:settings.css@@ inside a <style> tag on a live Lightsail box) landing in the payload where it matters most. payload now gets the same treatment: resolved through bin/assemble-module.py --resolve, as a derivation rather than readFile into a writer, which would be import-from-derivation and stop .#runtime evaluating from another architecture. check_payload diffs against resolve(src/<file>) rather than the raw source — the identity for a marker-free file, so one rule covers both — because demanding the raw source is demanding the bug. webhook-spawn.sh and webhook-cli.sh were not checked at all and now are.

Verified locally without building the profile (this box has 2 GB free, the closure is ~1.2 GB unpacked): the payload composition and the check's comparison were simulated over all 11 shell payloads — each parses under bash -n, no marker survives, the four marker payloads gain the 212 lines of lib/registry.sh, and every check_payload comparison passes. nix eval of both .#packages.<sys>.runtime and .#checks.<sys>.runtime-profile succeeds. The real gate is this PR's CI.

Worth stating plainly for review: the last native Lightsail launch ran a supervisor with a literal marker line in it. Whatever else was wrong with that box, this was underneath it.

Also, a process note rather than a code one: three sessions converged on this branch tonight because a CI-failure webhook dispatched on it while I was working it. That is resolved (both stood down, and my subscription now claims #376/#377 by number), and #378 — the native backend shipping no env-store CLI at all — came out of the same convergence and is deliberately left out of scope here.

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Third red, third layer — and this one is the last of the payloads, so a note on what the check keeps finding.

agent-box-settings (341031a). With env-exec fixed and the markers resolved, the build finally reached the settings daemon and failed its flake8 gate with F821 twelve times: keys, update, load, as_dict, ENV_HEADER. Same shape as env-exec — the daemon is not self-contained, and the module prepends lib/envstore.py to it (settingsDaemon in agent-box.nix.in) because the env store's format has one parser (#212). nix/runtime.nix built it from the resolved daemon alone. Had the profile ever built, a native box's settings page would have raised NameError on every env endpoint it serves.

That is three independent breakages in one profile, each hidden behind the one before it, and all three predate this PR. The pattern is the same every time: an asset the module composes, shipped by the native side uncomposed.

Both review findings taken:

• permissions: contents: read on ci.yml — it had none, so it ran on the repository default while building pull-request-controlled Nix and Python. aws-ci.yml already declares it.
• The agentbox-render pipeline: python3 tests/test_agentbox.py -v 2>&1 | tail -20 now writes to a file and dumps tail -80 only on failure. You are right about the exit status in principle. The sharper problem is one I hit debugging this PR: when the renderer test failed, the last 20 lines were the progress output that followed the assertion, so nix log showed a wall of restarted … lines and not one word of the failure. It cost me a temporary flake.nix edit to see what was wrong. Writing to a file fixes both.

Also regenerated tests/native/expected. Master's fixture has been stale since #367 added the screenshot section to the shipped guide: aws-ci.yml's path filter does not include modules/src, and nothing else ran the native render, so nothing noticed. That is exactly the gap this PR closes, so it has to land with the fixture correct — and it is a fourth, independent instance of the same root cause.

Note for merge order: #376 regenerates the same fixture file. Whichever lands second wants a rebase; #377 first is the sane order, since #376's agentbox update cannot work until .#runtime builds.

[defangdevs]

The profile builds. Fourth run got all the way through it, and every payload assertion passed:

ok: bin/agent-box-supervisor == resolve(src/supervisor.sh)
ok: bin/agent-box-attach == resolve(src/attach.sh)
ok: bin/agent-box-mark-stopped == resolve(src/mark-stopped.sh)
ok: bin/agent-box-spot-monitor == resolve(src/spot-monitor.sh)
ok: bin/agent-box-update == resolve(src/update.sh)
ok: bin/agent-box-codex-remote-control == resolve(src/codex-remote-control.sh)
ok: bin/agent-box-claude-session-start-hook == resolve(src/claude-session-start-hook.sh)
ok: bin/agent-box-session-bare == resolve(src/session-cli.sh)
ok: bin/agent-box-upload == resolve(src/upload-cli.sh)
ok: bin/agent-box-env-exec == src/lib/envstore.py + src/env-exec.py
ok: bin/agent-box-settings == …
ok: units/… (all six)

The only failure left was the check's own doing (d5276f1): python3 -m py_compile "$profile/bin/agent-box-env-exec" writes a __pycache__ beside its input, and its input is a store path —

[Errno 13] Permission denied: '/nix/store/…-agent-box-runtime/bin/__pycache__'
SYNTAX: bin/agent-box-env-exec

— reported as a syntax error in a file that is perfectly good Python. ast.parse reads and parses without writing anything.

So the tally for this PR, all pre-existing and each hidden behind the previous one: .#runtime did not evaluate (stale filename), then did not build (Python in a bash shebang), then did not build again (settings daemon missing the env-store library), and underneath all of it four payloads — the session supervisor among them — were being shipped with an unexpanded @@include:lib/registry.sh@@ line in place of 212 lines of registry protocol. Plus a native fixture stale since #367. One check, never run, over one repo's worth of drift.