Preflight was hard-failing the workspace boot when required env vars or
legacy auth_token_files were missing, raising SystemExit(1) before
main.py's PR #2756 try/except could mount the not-configured handler.
Result: codex/openclaw workspaces launched without OPENAI_API_KEY were
INVISIBLE — `/.well-known/agent-card.json` never returned 200, the bench
timed out at 600s, canvas had no actionable signal. PR #2756 fixed half
the puzzle (decouple agent-card from adapter.setup() failure); this
fixes the other half (decouple from preflight failure).
Caught by bench-provision-time run 25335853189 on 2026-05-04: codex and
openclaw both timed_out at 609s while claude-code (whose default model
needs no env) hit 86.7s on the same AMI. Hermes hit 147s because hermes
config doesn't declare top-level required_env.
After this change:
- Missing required_env: WARN (operator sees it in boot logs); workspace
proceeds to adapter.setup() which raises with the same env-name detail;
PR #2756's try/except mounts the not-configured handler;
/.well-known/agent-card.json serves 200; JSON-RPC POST / returns
-32603 "agent not configured" with the env-name in `error.data`.
- Missing auth_token_file (legacy path): same treatment.
- Other preflight failures (runtime adapter not installable, invalid
A2A port) STAY as fails — those are structural, the workspace truly
can't run.
Updated 4 existing tests that asserted `report.ok is False` on
required_env / auth_token misses to assert `report.ok is True` and
check `report.warnings` instead. All 31 preflight tests pass; full
suite 1664 pass + 1 unrelated flake on staging.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
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