* feat(mantis): add exec and restart lane primitives
Give the proof agent a developer shell inside each SUT container and an
in-container gateway restart so it can design scenarios like a local
developer: patch openclaw.json and restart, stage plugins and fixtures,
run node/tsx against the read-only repo root, inspect SQLite state.
- container script: exec (docker exec as mantis-sut, bounded by timeout),
restart (request file + TERM), sut_command becomes a relaunch supervisor
- lane CLI: exec returns bounded stdout/stderr/exitCode and records a
redacted invocation; restart waits for a fresh [gateway] ready marker
- MAX_SENDS 12 -> 40 (shared-QA-bot flood safety, not a scenario bound)
- runtime root chown root:mantis-proof, mode 1770 so the agent can stage
files while root-owned attestation stays unreplaceable
* docs(mantis): let the proof agent design scenarios like a local developer
Lead with developer-shell parity, allow reading whatever code the scenario
needs (PR text still untrusted, PR code only inside SUT lanes), document
exec/restart shapes, and reserve block for hard impossibilities.
* fix(mantis): keep the SUT exec result type local
* fix(mantis): resume the agent when it ends without a manifest
Run 32615428295 (exec branch on #127950) hit Codex context compaction at
03:52:11 and the model answered with a confabulated "handoff" message instead
of continuing; codex exec exited 0 with no mantis-evidence.json and the
trusted-evidence step failed the run with no verdict.
The agent step now checks for the manifest after codex exits and, when it is
missing, resumes the same thread (`codex exec ... resume --last -`, verified
against codex-rs/exec/src/lib.rs at rust-v0.149.0: cwd-matched latest thread,
`-` reads the prompt from stdin) with a short correction prompt, bounded to
three resumes. The main prompt states that a handoff/summary is never an
acceptable final message.
Inside gateway runs the prepared model runtime is a static snapshot whose
ModelRegistry is empty on a fresh state dir; configured models are served
through the snapshot's prepared facts. The pdf tool resolved candidates via
the registry-only resolveModelFromRegistry helper, so every fallback
candidate failed with `Unknown model` while the main turn and image tool
(already on resolveModelAsync) worked.
Resolve each pdf candidate through resolveModelAsync with the prepared
stores, matching the image sibling, and delete the registry-only helper.
Adds a regression test that acquires a real static prepared runtime on a
fresh state dir with a config-inline model.
Observed live: Mantis run 32574012855 (both lanes died in the pdf bridge).
The pdf tool auto-resolves its model from plugin manifest defaults
(openai gpt-5.5), which the Mantis SUT catalog does not define, so every
pdf round trip died with "Unknown model: openai/gpt-5.5" before
native-vs-fallback dispatch (run 32572580656). Pin
agents.defaults.pdfModel to the only harness model and account for the
pdf tool's own provider request in the staged-media recipe wait/pins.
* feat(e2e): record provider media content facts
* docs(mantis): list staged-media recipe in recipe index
* fix(mantis): isolate mock provider evidence
* fix(mantis): state provider facts as tamper-evident, not provenance-trusted
The mock sidecar makes provider request facts tamper-evident: candidate
code cannot alter or remove a recorded request. It cannot make them
provenance-authenticated — every process in the SUT container shares the
internal network, UID, and gateway config, so nothing distinguishes the
gateway flow from any other candidate-originated request. The proof
prompt and busy-queue recipe now state exactly that property instead of
calling the facts trusted.
* fix(mantis): redact unparseable provider request bodies
Media redaction walks the parsed JSON body, so a request that fails
JSON.parse fell back to logging the raw text — leaking base64 payloads
the redactor exists to strip. Unparseable bodies now log a bounded
byte-count marker instead; regression posts a malformed body carrying a
data URL and asserts the payload never reaches the record.
* fix(mantis): expose newest provider records through a seq-stamped tail
The lane's requests surface kept the first 100 provider records, so a
session longer than the window hid exactly the newest requests a proof
asserts on. The mock server now stamps each record with a producer-owned
absolute seq ordinal, and the lane reads a bounded 128-record tail —
mirroring the sibling botApiRequests window. Regression writes 130
records and asserts the tail keeps seq 3..130; it fails pre-fix.
Makes the Mantis Telegram Desktop proof agent programmable at its trust boundaries: declarative Bot API fault rules (drop/status per method), per-request scripted mock-provider responses, observe-until predicates (post-cursor events/text, cumulative provider count), and bounded proxy-side recording of outbound Bot API requests as trusted lane facts. Adds a reusable recipe library under .github/codex/prompts/mantis-recipes/ and raises the proof agent's reasoning effort to high.
Security: the SUT container shadows proxy-control with an inaccessible tmpfs so candidate PR code sharing the mantis-sut uid cannot read or rewrite the proxy's recorded evidence; unmount is blocked by cap-drop/no-new-privileges. Proof doctrine now treats proxy-recorded Bot API facts as trusted comparison evidence and provider request logs as diagnostics.
Follow-up named in PR: move the mock OpenAI server out of the SUT container so provider request facts also become candidate-tamper-proof.
Remove the premature visibility classifier and let one proof agent configure and exercise the disposable Telegram gateway. Align mock response timing with the 15-minute lane budget while preserving credential isolation through the alias-token proxy.
Move Mantis Telegram Desktop proof from the remote AWS/Crabbox lane to a recorder-driven local Docker desktop. Keep proof scenarios agent-authored, cache trusted build outputs, and publish exact visible Telegram evidence without writing the QA bot token to artifacts.
Co-authored-by: Ayaan Zaidi <hi@obviy.us>
Ayaan Zaidi