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Summary

  • rehydrate the Daytona SDK sandbox after a successful native start and prove Toolbox exec with a bounded, retrying real command
  • record STOPPED on owned handles after a successful stop
  • if the rehydrated sandbox alone is exec-dead, create and prove a replacement before deleting the unusable original and moving the owned handle to the new ID
  • roll back unhealthy replacements, never recreate for control-plane get failures, and allow stateful callers to disable recreation
  • document the replacement trade-off: persistent volumes and provider configuration are preserved, but non-volume filesystem changes are not copied

Regression controls

  • MUST-FIRE: modeled post-restart 502 causes a healthy replacement, old-ID cleanup, registration/ownership transfer, and final replacement cleanup
  • MUST-NOT-FIRE: a healthy native restart uses a fresh SDK client and performs no create/delete
  • MUST-NOT-FIRE: transient post-start probe failures settle before recreation is considered
  • MUST-NOT-FIRE: control-plane rehydrate failures and explicit opt-out perform no create
  • MUST-FIRE: an unhealthy replacement is deleted and never takes over the original handle
  • MUST-FIRE: failure to delete the original rolls back the healthy replacement and retains retryable ownership
  • credential-gated provider smoke runs exec before stop, stop/start, exec after start, then verifies every observed sandbox ID is gone from Daytona

Validation

  • npm test — 110 passed, 0 failed, 2 credential-gated smoke tests skipped
  • npm run typecheck
  • npm run build
  • git diff --check
  • npm audit --omit=dev --audit-level=high — 0 vulnerabilities

Live-provider gap

The Daytona credential broker correctly blocked access because rotation and exact-item authorization are still pending. No live-tier pass is claimed. Independent adapter-boundary verification showed that post-start rehydration flips the modeled stale-client 502 case from reproducing to fixed, and its controls remain green. The new provider smoke is ready to run as soon as the credential gate clears.

Community context: daytonaio/daytona#3425 describes a related 502/missing-daemon symptom, but this fix and its tests do not assume that issue is the production root cause.

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Walkthrough

Daytona runtime startup now rehydrates sandboxes, probes exec readiness, and recreates failed sandboxes by default. The runtime preserves provider metadata, updates replacement handles, supports lifecycle fallbacks, and documents the opt-out configuration.

Changes

Daytona restart recovery

Layer / File(s) Summary
Runtime lifecycle contracts
src/daytona/runtime.ts
Adds recreateOnFailedStart, declared lifecycle capabilities, centralized sandbox removal, improved stop handling, and metadata validation.
Restart recovery flow
src/daytona/runtime.ts
Rehydrates sandboxes after start, retries exec probes, creates metadata-preserving replacements, rolls back failed operations, and updates registered handles.
Restart recovery validation
src/daytona/runtime.test.ts, README.md
Tests native restarts, replacement and rollback paths, cleanup, metadata propagation, smoke behavior, and documented configuration.
Estimated code review effort: 4 (Complex) ~45 minutes

Merge Risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to fb828

This PR adds restart recovery that can replace a sandbox and transfer ownership, but replacement creation may omit environment, volume, or network settings if the sandbox is not fully hydrated before the original is deleted. Smaller metadata, state-reporting, and timeout concerns also remain. Merge should wait for the replacement-preservation issue to be fixed or explicitly accepted.

Sequence Diagram(s)

sequenceDiagram
  participant DaytonaRuntime
  participant DaytonaClient
  participant Sandbox
  participant ExecDaemon
  DaytonaRuntime->>DaytonaClient: start sandbox
  DaytonaClient-->>DaytonaRuntime: restarted sandbox
  DaytonaRuntime->>ExecDaemon: probe exec readiness
  ExecDaemon-->>DaytonaRuntime: readiness result
  DaytonaRuntime->>DaytonaClient: create replacement if probe fails
  DaytonaClient-->>DaytonaRuntime: replacement sandbox
  DaytonaRuntime->>DaytonaClient: remove original sandbox
  DaytonaRuntime-->>DaytonaClient: update sandbox handle
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Poem

I’m a rabbit with a runtime key,
Restarting sandboxes carefully.
If exec stays asleep in its lair,
A fresh one rises, metadata there.
Handles hop to IDs anew.

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Title check ✅ Passed The title clearly summarizes the primary change: recovering exec functionality after a Daytona sandbox restart.
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src/daytona/runtime.ts (1)

699-708: 🗄️ Data Integrity & Integration | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

Record STOPPED only after a stop call actually runs.

entry.sandbox.stop?.() is a no-op when the sandbox exposes no stop method. Line 707 still sets handle.state = 'STOPPED'. The handle then reports a stopped sandbox that is still running, and a caller can skip a later real stop.

Set the state only when one of the two stop paths executes.

🐛 Proposed fix
     if (client.stop) {
       await client.stop(entry.sandbox);
-    } else {
-      await entry.sandbox.stop?.();
-    }
-    handle.state = 'STOPPED';
+      handle.state = 'STOPPED';
+      return;
+    }
+    if (typeof entry.sandbox.stop === 'function') {
+      await entry.sandbox.stop();
+      handle.state = 'STOPPED';
+    }
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In `@src/daytona/runtime.ts` around lines 699 - 708, Update the stop logic around
the client.stop fallback so handle.state is set to STOPPED only when client.stop
or entry.sandbox.stop actually exists and is invoked; leave the state unchanged
when both stop methods are unavailable.
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src/daytona/runtime.ts (1)

736-736: 🩺 Stability & Availability | 🔵 Trivial | ⚡ Quick win

Consider bounding the rehydration lookup.

This file already bounds control-plane lookups with lookupDeadline and awaitLookupOperation. Line 736 calls this.daytona.get with no deadline. A hung get blocks start for as long as the underlying HTTP client allows, and the probe budget below it never runs.

Wrapping the call keeps start bounded and preserves the current behavior that a get failure never triggers recreation.

♻️ Proposed refactor
-    const restartedSandbox = await this.daytona.get(handle.id);
+    const restartedSandbox = await awaitLookupOperation(
+      this.daytona.get(handle.id),
+      lookupDeadline(undefined),
+      `rehydrating sandbox ${handle.id} after start`,
+    );
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In `@src/daytona/runtime.ts` at line 736, Wrap the rehydration lookup in start
around this.daytona.get(handle.id) with the existing lookupDeadline and
awaitLookupOperation mechanism, so a hung control-plane request is bounded while
get failures still skip recreation and preserve the current flow.
README.md (1)

48-54: 📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🔵 Trivial | 💤 Low value

Document the control-plane failure path.

The runtime never creates a replacement when the post-start get rehydration fails, because that failure does not prove the exec daemon is dead. The test at src/daytona/runtime.test.ts lines 1546-1571 asserts this. Callers that read this section can conclude that any failure after start triggers replacement.

Add one sentence that states the runtime propagates control-plane rehydration errors without creating a replacement.

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In `@README.md` around lines 48 - 54, Add a sentence to the post-start failure
documentation clarifying that control-plane rehydration errors from the
post-start get operation are propagated directly and do not trigger replacement
creation; keep the existing replacement behavior for confirmed exec-daemon
failures unchanged.
src/daytona/runtime.test.ts (1)

1485-1501: 📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🔵 Trivial | ⚡ Quick win

Add persistent-volume replacement coverage. Add volumes to the fixture and assert that create receives the same volume definitions. Daytona accepts arbitrary string labels, so code-toolbox-language requires no separate change.

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In `@src/daytona/runtime.test.ts` around lines 1485 - 1501, Extend the fixture and
expected object in the relevant runtime test to include persistent-volume
definitions, then assert that the create call preserves and receives the same
volumes unchanged. Keep the existing arbitrary string label coverage, including
code-toolbox-language, without adding separate label handling.
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Inline comments:
In `@src/daytona/runtime.ts`:
- Around line 892-898: Update updateHandleFromSandbox so createdAt, updatedAt,
and lastActivityAt are assigned to handle only when the corresponding sandbox
values are defined, preserving existing timestamps and avoiding explicit
undefined properties.
- Around line 838-881: Hydrate the sandbox with refreshData() after
attachSandbox() and before replacementCreateParams() or replacement creation,
ensuring env, volumes, and network settings are populated for attached
sandboxes. Preserve the existing replacementCreateParams mapping and deletion
flow.

---

Outside diff comments:
In `@src/daytona/runtime.ts`:
- Around line 699-708: Update the stop logic around the client.stop fallback so
handle.state is set to STOPPED only when client.stop or entry.sandbox.stop
actually exists and is invoked; leave the state unchanged when both stop methods
are unavailable.

---

Nitpick comments:
In `@README.md`:
- Around line 48-54: Add a sentence to the post-start failure documentation
clarifying that control-plane rehydration errors from the post-start get
operation are propagated directly and do not trigger replacement creation; keep
the existing replacement behavior for confirmed exec-daemon failures unchanged.

In `@src/daytona/runtime.test.ts`:
- Around line 1485-1501: Extend the fixture and expected object in the relevant
runtime test to include persistent-volume definitions, then assert that the
create call preserves and receives the same volumes unchanged. Keep the existing
arbitrary string label coverage, including code-toolbox-language, without adding
separate label handling.

In `@src/daytona/runtime.ts`:
- Line 736: Wrap the rehydration lookup in start around
this.daytona.get(handle.id) with the existing lookupDeadline and
awaitLookupOperation mechanism, so a hung control-plane request is bounded while
get failures still skip recreation and preserve the current flow.
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Resolves README.md conflict: keeps the Agent37/capabilities section
from main and the Daytona restart-recovery section from this branch,
both purely additive.

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- Hydrate a list-derived attached sandbox via refreshData() before
  building replacement params, so env/volumes/network settings aren't
  silently dropped when recreating a sandbox that was registered via
  attachSandbox() rather than getById()/findAllByLabels().
- Only mark a handle STOPPED when a stop call actually ran.
- Don't overwrite handle timestamps with undefined when a replacement
  sandbox omits one, matching registerSandbox's existing pattern.
- Bound the post-start rehydration get() with the file's existing
  lookup-deadline helper.
- README: clarify that a rehydration failure is propagated as-is and
  never triggers replacement, distinct from a probe failure.

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The smoke suite's `after` hook loops over createdSandboxIds and calls
daytona.get(id) followed by daytona.delete(sandbox). daytona get/delete
is eventually consistent: after runtime.destroy(handle) already removes
the sandbox, get can still resolve briefly, and the subsequent delete
then rejects 404. Only the get was guarded by isTestDaytonaNotFound;
the delete rejection landed in cleanupFailures and failed the entire
after hook even though cleanup succeeded.

Extend the same isTestDaytonaNotFound guard to the delete call so a
404 there is treated as "already gone" rather than a cleanup failure.
assertDaytonaSandboxGone still runs afterward and confirms absence in
either path, so a real never-deleted sandbox continues to fail the
hook. Any non-404 delete error still bubbles.

Blast radius: DAYTONA_API_KEY-gated smoke suite only, skipped in CI
and in this environment (skip count unchanged: 5 before, 5 after).
Worst case if the classifier misclassifies a real delete failure as
404: one cleanupFailures entry silently dropped in the smoke `after`
hook — bounded, non-production.

Addresses cubic-dev-ai review thread on PR #14
(src/daytona/runtime.test.ts line 1890). Pattern mirrors the adjacent
get-guard in the same cleanup loop.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 <noreply@anthropic.com>

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