diff --git a/bin/nemoclaw.js b/bin/nemoclaw.js
index 76e9512f5..9cc8bda65 100755
--- a/bin/nemoclaw.js
+++ b/bin/nemoclaw.js
@@ -570,6 +570,15 @@ async function sandboxConnect(sandboxName) {
   exitWithSpawnResult(result);
 }
 
+function buildSandboxLogsArgs(sandboxName, follow) {
+  const args = ["sandbox", "connect", sandboxName, "--", "tail", "-n", "200"];
+  if (follow) {
+    args.push("-f");
+  }
+  args.push("/tmp/gateway.log");
+  return args;
+}
+
 // eslint-disable-next-line complexity
 async function sandboxStatus(sandboxName) {
   const sb = registry.getSandbox(sandboxName);
@@ -641,9 +650,7 @@ async function sandboxStatus(sandboxName) {
 }
 
 function sandboxLogs(sandboxName, follow) {
-  const args = ["logs", sandboxName];
-  if (follow) args.push("--follow");
-  runOpenshell(args);
+  runOpenshell(buildSandboxLogsArgs(sandboxName, follow));
 }
 
 async function sandboxPolicyAdd(sandboxName) {
diff --git a/test/cli.test.js b/test/cli.test.js
index f255c6781..0912ee1f1 100644
--- a/test/cli.test.js
+++ b/test/cli.test.js
@@ -104,7 +104,7 @@ describe("CLI dispatch", () => {
     expect(r.out.includes("nemoclaw debug")).toBeTruthy();
   });
 
-  it("passes --follow through to openshell logs", () => {
+  it("routes logs to sandbox connect tailing the gateway log", () => {
     const home = fs.mkdtempSync(path.join(os.tmpdir(), "nemoclaw-cli-logs-follow-"));
     const localBin = path.join(home, "bin");
     const registryDir = path.join(home, ".nemoclaw");
@@ -138,13 +138,56 @@ describe("CLI dispatch", () => {
       { mode: 0o755 }
     );
 
+    const r = runWithEnv("alpha logs", {
+      HOME: home,
+      PATH: `${localBin}:${process.env.PATH || ""}`,
+    });
+
+    expect(r.code).toBe(0);
+    expect(fs.readFileSync(markerFile, "utf8")).toContain("sandbox connect alpha -- tail -n 200 /tmp/gateway.log");
+  });
+
+  it("passes --follow through to tail inside sandbox connect", () => {
+    const home = fs.mkdtempSync(path.join(os.tmpdir(), "nemoclaw-cli-logs-follow-"));
+    const localBin = path.join(home, "bin");
+    const registryDir = path.join(home, ".nemoclaw");
+    const markerFile = path.join(home, "logs-follow-args");
+    fs.mkdirSync(localBin, { recursive: true });
+    fs.mkdirSync(registryDir, { recursive: true });
+    fs.writeFileSync(
+      path.join(registryDir, "sandboxes.json"),
+      JSON.stringify({
+        sandboxes: {
+          alpha: {
+            name: "alpha",
+            model: "test-model",
+            provider: "nvidia-prod",
+            gpuEnabled: false,
+            policies: [],
+          },
+        },
+        defaultSandbox: "alpha",
+      }),
+      { mode: 0o600 }
+    );
+    fs.writeFileSync(
+      path.join(localBin, "openshell"),
+      [
+        "#!/usr/bin/env bash",
+        `marker_file=${JSON.stringify(markerFile)}`,
+        "printf '%s ' \"$@\" > \"$marker_file\"",
+        "exit 0",
+      ].join("\n"),
+      { mode: 0o755 }
+    );
+
     const r = runWithEnv("alpha logs --follow", {
       HOME: home,
       PATH: `${localBin}:${process.env.PATH || ""}`,
     });
 
     expect(r.code).toBe(0);
-    expect(fs.readFileSync(markerFile, "utf8")).toContain("logs alpha --follow");
+    expect(fs.readFileSync(markerFile, "utf8")).toContain("sandbox connect alpha -- tail -n 200 -f /tmp/gateway.log");
   });
 
   it("connect does not pre-start a duplicate port forward", () => {