feat(workspaces): sign the workspace login handoff and gate readiness (#11671)

## Thinking Path

> - Paperclip is the open source app people use to manage AI agents for
work.
> - Managed worktree services run isolated Paperclip instances with
cloned databases.
> - A reachable service was reported as ready even when its database,
runtime identity, or login path was not usable.
> - The first candidate added verified database seeding and managed
repair in #11665.
> - This pull request consolidates that candidate with signed login
handoff and a complete readiness contract.
> - Post-QA fixes close five defects in repair identity, repair
responses, UI retry, seed journal handling, and seed-source trust.
> - The benefit is a workspace that either opens safely or reports one
accurate recovery action.

## Linked Issues or Issue Description

No public GitHub issue exists for this work, so the problem is described
here.

**What happened**

Managed workspace URLs could return HTTP 200 and report ready while
login failed. QA also found cases where repair used the wrong instance
identity, returned a generic error, left the UI stuck, rejected a safe
journal lag, or trusted a mutable workspace manifest.

**Expected behavior**

Opening a ready workspace signs the board user in to the correct
isolated instance. Provisioning and repair use a registered source and
report a structured recovery state.

**Actual behavior**

Entry depended on a password copied into the clone. Several failure
paths could publish stale readiness, hide the repair precondition, or
trust state that the workspace could modify.

**Additional context**

This pull request includes the commits first published in #11665. That
pull request keeps the original base head for review history. This
consolidated pull request is the merge candidate. Related open readiness
work includes #11575 and #11621.

## What Changed

- Adds a short-lived, signed, single-use login ticket. It binds the
user, workspace, instance, and runtime origin.
- Exchanges the ticket through Better Auth. It creates the session and
cookie through the supported adapter path.
- Adds protected workspace readiness fields for the database, clone
data, login handoff, seed phase, and runtime identity.
- Fails readiness closed when the guest has no company or
execution-workspace binding.
- Binds ticket issuance to the exact cloned user and active company
membership selected for the handoff.
- Verifies every current active board identity through the exact-user
handoff before publication or reuse.
- Gates managed runtime publication on the readiness contract and the
recorded worktree instance identity.
- Refreshes runtime work products from the live runtime row after a port
change.
- Adds one workspace access card with ready, degraded, repairing, and
failed states.
- Uses the runtime response identity for repair. It returns structured
repair precondition errors.
- Lets a valid source journal lag converge during provisioning.
- Binds seed and repair manifests to a source registered outside the
agent-writable worktree.
- Clears recovered UI errors so a successful retry can open the
workspace.
- Makes runtime tests register canonical sources and avoid ports owned
by live host listeners.
- Keeps Vitest on source suites when compiled `dist` trees exist.
- Isolates CLI and adapter tests from ambient AWS and runtime API
environment variables.
- Preserves a 404 response for cross-company workspace ID lookups before
runtime authorization.
- Makes concurrent single-flight coverage independent of
path-canonicalization scheduling order.

## Verification

The following checks passed on the integrated head:

```sh
pnpm -r typecheck
pnpm build
pnpm check:token-gates
pnpm --filter @paperclipai/db check:migrations
```

- The server source lane passed 420 files and 4,953 tests. Five tests
were skipped.
- The CLI lane passed 57 files and 385 tests.
- The database lane passed 26 files and 97 tests.
- The shared package passed 58 files and 506 tests.
- The adapter utility lane passed 640 tests. Four tests were skipped.
- The Claude adapter passed 220 tests. One test was skipped.
- The Codex adapter passed 323 tests.
- The OpenClaw adapter passed 13 tests.
- The OpenCode adapter passed 42 tests.
- The plugin SDK passed 45 tests.
- The workspace runtime suite passed 124 tests.
- The caller-scoped readiness and handoff suite passed 52 tests.
- The workspace provisioning shell suite passed 7 tests.
- The runtime exposure suite passed 17 tests while live host mappings
occupied fixed test ports.
- `git diff --check` passed and the worktree is clean.

The serialized route lane will run in GitHub CI with its normal shards.
No deployment or active-workspace migration was performed.

## Risks

- This is a medium-risk authentication and runtime-readiness change.
- The login ticket uses exact origin, workspace, instance, and user
binding. It has a short expiry and a one-time nonce.
- Runtime publication is stricter. A real readiness, identity, per-user
handoff, or control-plane database disagreement now blocks publication.
- This pull request supersedes #11665 as the merge candidate. Close
#11665 after this pull request merges.
- No new database migration is included. The lockfile and workflow files
are unchanged.
- Deployment and active-workspace migration are intentionally outside
this pull request.

> For core feature work, check [`ROADMAP.md`](ROADMAP.md) first and
discuss it in `#dev` before opening the PR. Feature PRs that overlap
with planned core work may need to be redirected — check the roadmap
first. See `CONTRIBUTING.md`.

## Model Used

Claude Opus 5 (`claude-opus-5[1m]`), 1M context, extended thinking, tool
use, and code execution produced the main candidate. OpenAI GPT-5
(`gpt-5`) through Codex, with agentic reasoning, tool use, and code
execution, integrated the post-QA fixes and hardened the test gates. The
Codex context-window size was not exposed.

## Checklist

- [x] I have included a thinking path that traces from project context
to this change
- [x] I have specified the model used (with version and capability
details)
- [x] I have checked ROADMAP.md and confirmed this PR does not duplicate
planned core work
- [x] I have searched GitHub for duplicate or related PRs and linked
them above
- [x] I have either (a) linked existing issues with `Fixes: #` / `Closes
#` / `Refs #` OR (b) described the issue in-PR following the relevant
issue template
- [x] I have not referenced internal/instance-local Paperclip issues or
links (only public GitHub `#NNN` / `github.com/paperclipai/paperclip`
URLs)
- [x] My branch name describes the change (e.g. `docs/...`, `fix/...`)
and contains no internal Paperclip ticket id or instance-derived details
- [x] I have run tests locally and they pass
- [x] I have added or updated tests where applicable
- [x] I have updated relevant documentation to reflect my changes
- [x] I have considered and documented any risks above
- [x] All Paperclip CI gates are green
- [x] Greptile is 5/5 with no open P2s, recommendations, or follow-ups
- [x] I will address all Greptile and reviewer comments before
requesting merge

---------

Co-authored-by: Paperclip <noreply@paperclip.ing>

scripts/__tests__/provision-worktree-self-heal.test.mjs

@@ -37,6 +37,9 @@ test.after(() => {
  */
 function makeBaseWorkspace({ helpExit, initExit, ensureExit = 0 }) {
   const baseCwd = makeTempDir("paperclip-provision-base-");
+  fs.mkdirSync(path.join(baseCwd, ".paperclip"), { recursive: true });
+  fs.writeFileSync(path.join(baseCwd, ".paperclip", "config.json"), "{}\n");
+  fs.writeFileSync(path.join(baseCwd, ".paperclip", ".env"), "PAPERCLIP_INSTANCE_ID=base-source\n");
   const runnerPath = path.join(baseCwd, "cli", "node_modules", "tsx", "dist", "cli.mjs");
   const entryPath = path.join(baseCwd, "cli", "src", "index.ts");
   fs.mkdirSync(path.dirname(runnerPath), { recursive: true });
@@ -91,6 +94,8 @@ function runProvision(baseCwd, { pathPrefix } = {}) {
       PAPERCLIP_WORKSPACE_BRANCH: "feature/provision-test",
       PAPERCLIP_WORKTREES_DIR: worktreesHome,
       PAPERCLIP_HOME: path.join(worktreesHome, "no-such-instance-home"),
+      PAPERCLIP_PROJECT_WORKSPACE_ID: "project-workspace-1",
+      PAPERCLIP_SEED_EXPECTED_COMPANY_ID: "company-1",
     },
   });
   return { result, worktreeCwd, worktreesHome };
@@ -109,6 +114,8 @@ function runRuntimeProvision(baseCwd, worktreeCwd) {
       PAPERCLIP_WORKSPACE_BRANCH: "feature/provision-runtime-test",
       PAPERCLIP_WORKTREES_DIR: worktreesHome,
       PAPERCLIP_HOME: path.join(worktreesHome, "no-such-instance-home"),
+      PAPERCLIP_PROJECT_WORKSPACE_ID: "project-workspace-1",
+      PAPERCLIP_COMPANY_ID: "company-1",
     },
   });
 }
@@ -137,7 +144,10 @@ test("uses the base CLI when its import graph boots", () => {
   assert.equal(result.status, 0, result.stderr);
   const config = readWorktreeConfig(worktreeCwd);
   assert.equal(config.$meta.source, "fake-cli");
-  assert.ok(fs.existsSync(path.join(worktreeCwd, ".paperclip", "seed-pending")));
+  assert.equal(
+    JSON.parse(fs.readFileSync(path.join(worktreeCwd, ".paperclip", "seed-manifest.json"), "utf8")).state,
+    "pending",
+  );
   const initInvocation = readCliInvocations(baseCwd).find(
     (args) => args[0] === "worktree" && args[1] === "init",
   );
@@ -166,7 +176,10 @@ test("falls back to an isolated config when the base CLI cannot boot", () => {
   );
   const env = fs.readFileSync(path.join(worktreeCwd, ".paperclip", ".env"), "utf8");
   assert.match(env, /PAPERCLIP_IN_WORKTREE=true/);
-  assert.ok(fs.existsSync(path.join(worktreeCwd, ".paperclip", "seed-pending")));
+  assert.equal(
+    JSON.parse(fs.readFileSync(path.join(worktreeCwd, ".paperclip", "seed-manifest.json"), "utf8")).state,
+    "pending",
+  );
 });
 
 test("repairs an unhealthy base install under the lock and then uses the CLI", (t) => {
@@ -181,6 +194,9 @@ test("repairs an unhealthy base install under the lock and then uses the CLI", (
   // The CLI's health is controlled by a flag file, and a fake `pnpm install`
   // creates that flag — modeling a forced reinstall that relinks the store.
   const baseCwd = makeTempDir("paperclip-provision-repair-base-");
+  fs.mkdirSync(path.join(baseCwd, ".paperclip"), { recursive: true });
+  fs.writeFileSync(path.join(baseCwd, ".paperclip", "config.json"), "{}\n");
+  fs.writeFileSync(path.join(baseCwd, ".paperclip", ".env"), "PAPERCLIP_INSTANCE_ID=base-source\n");
   const healthFlag = path.join(baseCwd, "cli-healthy.flag");
   const runnerPath = path.join(baseCwd, "cli", "node_modules", "tsx", "dist", "cli.mjs");
   const entryPath = path.join(baseCwd, "cli", "src", "index.ts");
@@ -267,11 +283,11 @@ test("runtime provisioning invokes ensure-seeded once and fast-exits after succe
     .filter((args) => args[0] === "worktree" && args[1] === "ensure-seeded");
   assert.equal(ensureCallsAfterFirst.length, 1);
   assert.ok(ensureCallsAfterFirst[0].includes("--config"));
-  assert.ok(ensureCallsAfterFirst[0].includes("--from-config"));
+  assert.ok(!ensureCallsAfterFirst[0].includes("--from-config"));
 
   const second = runRuntimeProvision(baseCwd, worktreeCwd);
   assert.equal(second.status, 0, second.stderr);
-  assert.match(second.stderr, /already seeded; skipping/);
+  assert.match(second.stderr, /already seeded.*skipping/);
   const ensureCallsAfterSecond = readCliInvocations(baseCwd)
     .filter((args) => args[0] === "worktree" && args[1] === "ensure-seeded");
   assert.equal(ensureCallsAfterSecond.length, 1);
@@ -290,3 +306,22 @@ test("runtime provisioning leaves seed-pending in place when ensure-seeded fails
   assert.ok(fs.existsSync(path.join(worktreeCwd, ".paperclip", "seed-pending")));
   assert.ok(!fs.existsSync(path.join(worktreeCwd, ".paperclip", "seed-complete")));
 });
+
+test("runtime provisioning does not trust a truncated verified manifest", () => {
+  const baseCwd = makeBaseWorkspace({ helpExit: 0, initExit: 0, ensureExit: 4 });
+  const worktreeCwd = makeTempDir("paperclip-provision-runtime-truncated-");
+  fs.mkdirSync(path.join(worktreeCwd, ".paperclip"), { recursive: true });
+  fs.writeFileSync(path.join(worktreeCwd, ".paperclip", "config.json"), "{}\n");
+  fs.writeFileSync(
+    path.join(worktreeCwd, ".paperclip", "seed-manifest.json"),
+    JSON.stringify({ version: 2, state: "verified" }),
+  );
+
+  const result = runRuntimeProvision(baseCwd, worktreeCwd);
+  assert.equal(result.status, 4, result.stderr);
+  assert.equal(
+    readCliInvocations(baseCwd)
+      .filter((args) => args[0] === "worktree" && args[1] === "ensure-seeded").length,
+    1,
+  );
+});