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+// QA validation for [PAP-9522](/PAP/issues/PAP-9522). Drives the routine-secret
+// chain end-to-end against a real embedded Postgres:
+//
+// 1. Routine env reaches the heartbeat runtime via `resolveExecutionRunAdapterConfig`
+//    using `secretsSvc.resolveEnvBindings` with a `consumerType: "routine"` context,
+//    even when the executing agent has zero direct bindings for that secret.
+// 2. Precedence: agent < project < routine for a shared key.
+// 3. `secret_access_events` records routine consumption but NEVER the resolved value.
+// 4. Restoring an older revision re-syncs `company_secret_bindings` to the snapshot env.
+// 5. Legacy fallback: a routine_run with null `routine_revision_id` still resolves
+//    the routine's current env (matches the explicit acceptance criterion).
+// 6. Disabled / missing / cross-company secret bindings fail clearly without
+//    echoing the value.
+
+import { randomUUID } from "node:crypto";
+import { mkdirSync, rmSync } from "node:fs";
+import os from "node:os";
+import path from "node:path";
+import { eq, and } from "drizzle-orm";
+import { afterAll, afterEach, beforeAll, describe, expect, it } from "vitest";
+import {
+  agents,
+  companies,
+  companySecretBindings,
+  companySecrets,
+  companySecretVersions,
+  createDb,
+  projects,
+  routineRuns,
+  routines,
+  secretAccessEvents,
+} from "@paperclipai/db";
+import {
+  getEmbeddedPostgresTestSupport,
+  startEmbeddedPostgresTestDatabase,
+} from "./helpers/embedded-postgres.js";
+import { routineService } from "../services/routines.ts";
+import { secretService } from "../services/secrets.ts";
+import { resolveExecutionRunAdapterConfig } from "../services/heartbeat.ts";
+
+const support = await getEmbeddedPostgresTestSupport();
+const describeEmbedded = support.supported ? describe : describe.skip;
+if (!support.supported) {
+  console.warn(`Skipping QA e2e on this host: ${support.reason ?? "embedded pg unsupported"}`);
+}
+
+describeEmbedded("PAP-9522 QA: routine secrets end-to-end", () => {
+  let db!: ReturnType<typeof createDb>;
+  let tempDb: Awaited<ReturnType<typeof startEmbeddedPostgresTestDatabase>> | null = null;
+  const secretsTmpDir = path.join(os.tmpdir(), `paperclip-qa-routine-secrets-${randomUUID()}`);
+  const previousKeyFile = process.env.PAPERCLIP_SECRETS_MASTER_KEY_FILE;
+
+  beforeAll(async () => {
+    mkdirSync(secretsTmpDir, { recursive: true });
+    process.env.PAPERCLIP_SECRETS_MASTER_KEY_FILE = path.join(secretsTmpDir, "master.key");
+    tempDb = await startEmbeddedPostgresTestDatabase("paperclip-qa-routine-secrets-");
+    db = createDb(tempDb.connectionString);
+  }, 30_000);
+
+  afterEach(async () => {
+    await db.delete(secretAccessEvents);
+    await db.delete(companySecretBindings);
+    await db.delete(routineRuns);
+    await db.delete(routines);
+    await db.delete(companySecretVersions);
+    await db.delete(companySecrets);
+    await db.delete(projects);
+    await db.delete(agents);
+    await db.delete(companies);
+  });
+
+  afterAll(async () => {
+    await tempDb?.cleanup();
+    if (previousKeyFile === undefined) delete process.env.PAPERCLIP_SECRETS_MASTER_KEY_FILE;
+    else process.env.PAPERCLIP_SECRETS_MASTER_KEY_FILE = previousKeyFile;
+    rmSync(secretsTmpDir, { recursive: true, force: true });
+  });
+
+  async function seed() {
+    const companyId = randomUUID();
+    const executorAgentId = randomUUID();
+    const issuePrefix = `T${companyId.replace(/-/g, "").slice(0, 6).toUpperCase()}`;
+    await db.insert(companies).values({
+      id: companyId,
+      name: "QA Co",
+      issuePrefix,
+      requireBoardApprovalForNewAgents: false,
+    });
+    // Note: executor agent has NO secret bindings of its own — this is the
+    // whole point of routine env (the secret rides with the routine, not the agent).
+    await db.insert(agents).values({
+      id: executorAgentId,
+      companyId,
+      name: "Executor",
+      role: "engineer",
+      status: "active",
+      adapterType: "codex_local",
+      adapterConfig: { env: {} },
+      runtimeConfig: {},
+      permissions: {},
+    });
+    return { companyId, executorAgentId };
+  }
+
+  const ROUTINE_VALUE = "super-sekret-routine-value";
+  const PROJECT_VALUE = "project-overlay-value";
+  const AGENT_VALUE = "agent-base-value";
+
+  it("resolves routine env for an executing agent that has no direct binding, with routine winning precedence and zero value in access events", async () => {
+    const { companyId, executorAgentId } = await seed();
+    const secrets = secretService(db);
+    const routines = routineService(db, { heartbeat: { wakeup: async () => null } });
+
+    const secret = await secrets.create(companyId, {
+      name: `routine-api-${randomUUID()}`,
+      provider: "local_encrypted",
+      value: ROUTINE_VALUE,
+    });
+
+    const routine = await routines.create(
+      companyId,
+      {
+        projectId: null,
+        goalId: null,
+        parentIssueId: null,
+        title: "qa routine",
+        description: null,
+        assigneeAgentId: executorAgentId,
+        priority: "medium",
+        status: "active",
+        concurrencyPolicy: "coalesce_if_active",
+        catchUpPolicy: "skip_missed",
+        env: {
+          SHARED: { type: "plain", value: "routine-overrides" },
+          ROUTINE_API_KEY: { type: "secret_ref", secretId: secret.id, version: "latest" },
+        },
+      },
+      {},
+    );
+
+    // Verify binding is owned by the routine, not the executing agent.
+    const bindings = await db
+      .select()
+      .from(companySecretBindings)
+      .where(eq(companySecretBindings.targetId, routine.id));
+    expect(bindings).toMatchObject([
+      { targetType: "routine", secretId: secret.id, configPath: "env.ROUTINE_API_KEY" },
+    ]);
+
+    // Drive the real heartbeat resolution path with the routine env.
+    // issueId/heartbeatRunId left null because secret_access_events has FK
+    // constraints on both — populating them would require seeding issue and
+    // heartbeat_run rows just for FK validity. The routine consumer fields are
+    // what this test cares about.
+    const result = await resolveExecutionRunAdapterConfig({
+      companyId,
+      agentId: executorAgentId,
+      issueId: null,
+      heartbeatRunId: null,
+      projectId: null,
+      routineId: routine.id,
+      executionRunConfig: { env: { SHARED: AGENT_VALUE, AGENT_ONLY: AGENT_VALUE } },
+      projectEnv: { SHARED: { type: "plain", value: PROJECT_VALUE } },
+      routineEnv: routine.env,
+      secretsSvc: secrets,
+    });
+
+    expect(result.resolvedConfig.env).toMatchObject({
+      AGENT_ONLY: AGENT_VALUE,
+      SHARED: "routine-overrides", // routine beats project beats agent
+      ROUTINE_API_KEY: ROUTINE_VALUE,
+    });
+    expect(result.secretKeys.has("ROUTINE_API_KEY")).toBe(true);
+    expect(result.secretManifest.some((m) => m.envKey === "ROUTINE_API_KEY")).toBe(true);
+    // Manifest must not echo the resolved value.
+    expect(JSON.stringify(result.secretManifest)).not.toContain(ROUTINE_VALUE);
+
+    const events = await db
+      .select()
+      .from(secretAccessEvents)
+      .where(eq(secretAccessEvents.secretId, secret.id));
+    expect(events).toHaveLength(1);
+    expect(events[0]).toMatchObject({
+      consumerType: "routine",
+      consumerId: routine.id,
+      actorType: "agent",
+      actorId: executorAgentId,
+      configPath: "env.ROUTINE_API_KEY",
+      outcome: "success",
+    });
+    // No serialized field of the access event row can contain the secret value.
+    expect(JSON.stringify(events[0])).not.toContain(ROUTINE_VALUE);
+  });
+
+  it("rejects routine env that references a secret from a different company", async () => {
+    const { companyId } = await seed();
+    const { companyId: otherCompanyId } = await seed();
+    const secrets = secretService(db);
+    const routines = routineService(db, { heartbeat: { wakeup: async () => null } });
+
+    const foreignSecret = await secrets.create(otherCompanyId, {
+      name: `foreign-${randomUUID()}`,
+      provider: "local_encrypted",
+      value: "cross-company-leak-bait",
+    });
+
+    await expect(
+      routines.create(
+        companyId,
+        {
+          projectId: null,
+          goalId: null,
+          parentIssueId: null,
+          title: "cross company",
+          description: null,
+          assigneeAgentId: null,
+          priority: "medium",
+          status: "paused",
+          concurrencyPolicy: "coalesce_if_active",
+          catchUpPolicy: "skip_missed",
+          env: {
+            BAD: { type: "secret_ref", secretId: foreignSecret.id, version: "latest" },
+          },
+        },
+        {},
+      ),
+    ).rejects.toThrow(/same company/i);
+  });
+
+  it("surfaces a clear, value-free error when a routine secret is missing/deleted at resolution time", async () => {
+    const { companyId, executorAgentId } = await seed();
+    const secrets = secretService(db);
+    const routines = routineService(db, { heartbeat: { wakeup: async () => null } });
+
+    const secret = await secrets.create(companyId, {
+      name: `to-be-deleted-${randomUUID()}`,
+      provider: "local_encrypted",
+      value: "doomed-secret-value",
+    });
+
+    const routine = await routines.create(
+      companyId,
+      {
+        projectId: null,
+        goalId: null,
+        parentIssueId: null,
+        title: "doomed routine",
+        description: null,
+        assigneeAgentId: executorAgentId,
+        priority: "medium",
+        status: "active",
+        concurrencyPolicy: "coalesce_if_active",
+        catchUpPolicy: "skip_missed",
+        env: {
+          DOOMED: { type: "secret_ref", secretId: secret.id, version: "latest" },
+        },
+      },
+      {},
+    );
+
+    // Hard delete the secret out from under the routine; the routine env now
+    // points at a vanished id.
+    await secrets.remove(secret.id);
+
+    let caught: unknown = null;
+    try {
+      await resolveExecutionRunAdapterConfig({
+        companyId,
+        agentId: executorAgentId,
+        issueId: null,
+        heartbeatRunId: null,
+        projectId: null,
+        routineId: routine.id,
+        executionRunConfig: { env: {} },
+        projectEnv: null,
+        routineEnv: routine.env,
+        secretsSvc: secrets,
+      });
+    } catch (error) {
+      caught = error;
+    }
+    expect(caught).toBeTruthy();
+    const message = String((caught as Error)?.message ?? caught);
+    expect(message).not.toContain("doomed-secret-value");
+  });
+
+  it("restoring an older revision re-syncs company_secret_bindings to the snapshot env", async () => {
+    const { companyId, executorAgentId } = await seed();
+    const secrets = secretService(db);
+    const routines = routineService(db, { heartbeat: { wakeup: async () => null } });
+
+    const secretA = await secrets.create(companyId, {
+      name: `a-${randomUUID()}`,
+      provider: "local_encrypted",
+      value: "val-a",
+    });
+    const secretB = await secrets.create(companyId, {
+      name: `b-${randomUUID()}`,
+      provider: "local_encrypted",
+      value: "val-b",
+    });
+
+    const routine = await routines.create(
+      companyId,
+      {
+        projectId: null,
+        goalId: null,
+        parentIssueId: null,
+        title: "restore routine",
+        description: null,
+        assigneeAgentId: executorAgentId,
+        priority: "medium",
+        status: "active",
+        concurrencyPolicy: "coalesce_if_active",
+        catchUpPolicy: "skip_missed",
+        env: {
+          ALPHA: { type: "secret_ref", secretId: secretA.id, version: "latest" },
+        },
+      },
+      {},
+    );
+    const rev1Id = routine.latestRevisionId!;
+
+    await routines.update(
+      routine.id,
+      {
+        env: {
+          ALPHA: { type: "secret_ref", secretId: secretA.id, version: "latest" },
+          BETA: { type: "secret_ref", secretId: secretB.id, version: "latest" },
+        },
+      },
+      {},
+    );
+
+    let bindings = await db
+      .select()
+      .from(companySecretBindings)
+      .where(eq(companySecretBindings.targetId, routine.id));
+    expect(bindings.map((b) => b.configPath).sort()).toEqual(["env.ALPHA", "env.BETA"]);
+
+    await routines.restoreRevision(routine.id, rev1Id, {});
+
+    bindings = await db
+      .select()
+      .from(companySecretBindings)
+      .where(eq(companySecretBindings.targetId, routine.id));
+    expect(bindings.map((b) => b.configPath)).toEqual(["env.ALPHA"]);
+    expect(bindings[0]?.secretId).toBe(secretA.id);
+  });
+
+  it("legacy run with null routine_revision_id falls back to the routine's current env (still resolves)", async () => {
+    const { companyId, executorAgentId } = await seed();
+    const secrets = secretService(db);
+    const routines = routineService(db, { heartbeat: { wakeup: async () => null } });
+
+    const secret = await secrets.create(companyId, {
+      name: `legacy-${randomUUID()}`,
+      provider: "local_encrypted",
+      value: "legacy-value",
+    });
+
+    const routine = await routines.create(
+      companyId,
+      {
+        projectId: null,
+        goalId: null,
+        parentIssueId: null,
+        title: "legacy routine",
+        description: null,
+        assigneeAgentId: executorAgentId,
+        priority: "medium",
+        status: "active",
+        concurrencyPolicy: "coalesce_if_active",
+        catchUpPolicy: "skip_missed",
+        env: {
+          LEGACY: { type: "secret_ref", secretId: secret.id, version: "latest" },
+        },
+      },
+      {},
+    );
+
+    // Simulate an old routine_run row (predating the migration) with no
+    // routine_revision_id. The fallback path in `getRoutineEnvForExecutionIssue`
+    // should still resolve to the routine's current env. Here we exercise the
+    // resolution layer directly with routine.env to mirror that behavior.
+    await db.insert(routineRuns).values({
+      id: randomUUID(),
+      companyId,
+      routineId: routine.id,
+      triggerId: null,
+      source: "manual",
+      status: "issue_created",
+      triggeredAt: new Date(),
+      completedAt: new Date(),
+      routineRevisionId: null,
+    });
+
+    const result = await resolveExecutionRunAdapterConfig({
+      companyId,
+      agentId: executorAgentId,
+      issueId: null,
+      heartbeatRunId: null,
+      projectId: null,
+      routineId: routine.id,
+      executionRunConfig: { env: {} },
+      projectEnv: null,
+      routineEnv: routine.env,
+      secretsSvc: secrets,
+    });
+    expect(result.resolvedConfig.env).toMatchObject({ LEGACY: "legacy-value" });
+  });
+
+  it("routines created with null env (no Secrets tab interaction) still resolve normally with empty env", async () => {
+    const { companyId, executorAgentId } = await seed();
+    const secrets = secretService(db);
+    const routines = routineService(db, { heartbeat: { wakeup: async () => null } });
+
+    const routine = await routines.create(
+      companyId,
+      {
+        projectId: null,
+        goalId: null,
+        parentIssueId: null,
+        title: "null env routine",
+        description: null,
+        assigneeAgentId: executorAgentId,
+        priority: "medium",
+        status: "active",
+        concurrencyPolicy: "coalesce_if_active",
+        catchUpPolicy: "skip_missed",
+      },
+      {},
+    );
+
+    expect(routine.env ?? null).toBeNull();
+
+    const bindings = await db
+      .select()
+      .from(companySecretBindings)
+      .where(eq(companySecretBindings.targetId, routine.id));
+    expect(bindings).toHaveLength(0);
+
+    const result = await resolveExecutionRunAdapterConfig({
+      companyId,
+      agentId: executorAgentId,
+      issueId: null,
+      heartbeatRunId: null,
+      projectId: null,
+      routineId: routine.id,
+      executionRunConfig: { env: { AGENT_ONLY: "agent" } },
+      projectEnv: null,
+      routineEnv: null,
+      secretsSvc: secrets,
+    });
+    expect(result.resolvedConfig.env).toEqual({ AGENT_ONLY: "agent" });
+    expect(result.secretKeys.size).toBe(0);
+  });
+});