Deduplicate wake-payload issue descriptions and compact resume deltas (#10216)

## Thinking Path

> - Paperclip is the open source app people use to manage AI agents for
work
> - Heartbeat wake payloads and the task-context markdown are the two
channels that deliver an issue's brief into an agent's prompt
> - #10151 fixed wake-prompt-only adapter lanes waking without the issue
description by adding it to the structured wake payload
> - That left the description delivered twice per prompt on lanes that
also inject the task-context markdown, and re-delivered in full on every
resume wake, permanently bloating persistent-session context
> - This pull request makes the task markdown the single description
carrier on lanes that use it, and omits the description from
non-assignment resume deltas on all lanes while keeping it for
assignment-shaped and recovery wakes
> - The benefit is that every lane receives the brief exactly once when
it needs it, and long-lived sessions stop re-paying the full brief in
tokens on every wake

## Linked Issues or Issue Description

Refs #10151

Related prior work: #2883, #8402 (earlier description-delivery attempts
referenced by #10151). I searched the PR list for open work on
wake-payload description handling and found none besides the merged
#10151.

**Bug:** After #10151, adapters that inject the `Paperclip task context`
markdown (ACPX engine lanes, claude-local CLI, hermes server and
gateway) receive the issue description twice in a single prompt — once
in the wake prompt's `Issue description:` block and once in the task
markdown. Separately, resume deltas re-send the full description (up to
12k characters) on every wake even though the persistent session already
received it.

**Expected behavior:** The description appears exactly once per prompt
on every lane, and resume deltas only carry it when the resuming session
may not have seen the brief (assignment-shaped or recovery wakes),
leaving an explicit fetch breadcrumb otherwise.

**Reproduction:** Wake a claude-local or ACPX agent on an issue with a
description and inspect the assembled prompt: the description text
appears in both the wake-payload block and the task-context block. Wake
the same session again via a comment: the full description is present
again in the resume delta.

**Affected version:** Current `master` (with #10151 merged).

**Deployment mode:** Adapter-backed heartbeat execution, local and
sandboxed lanes.

## What Changed

- `renderPaperclipWakePrompt` accepts `suppressIssueDescription`; the
four task-markdown lanes pass it so the task markdown stays the single,
uncapped description carrier there.
- Non-assignment resume deltas omit the description and emit `- issue
description: omitted from this resume delta; fetch the issue if you need
the latest brief`. Assignment-shaped reasons (`issue_assigned`,
`issue_reopened_via_comment`, `issue_recovery_action_restored`,
`issue_tree_restored`) and recovery wakes still deliver the full brief.
- `buildPaperclipTaskMarkdown` gains `includeDescription`; the server
now also publishes `context.paperclipTaskMarkdownCompact` (description
stripped, directives and wake comment kept), and the new
`selectPaperclipTaskMarkdown` helper picks the right variant under the
same resume rules, falling back to the full markdown when no compact
variant exists (version skew safety).
- The wake prompt's description block now carries the same user-authored
trust framing the task markdown already had.

## Verification

- `npx vitest run packages/adapter-utils/src/server-utils.test.ts
packages/adapters/claude-local/src/server/acp.test.ts
packages/adapters/codex-local/src/server/acp.test.ts
server/src/__tests__/heartbeat-context-summary.test.ts` — 137 tests
passed, including new coverage for suppression, resume omission plus
breadcrumb, assignment-shaped resume inclusion, compact-variant
building, variant selection, and an end-to-end ACPX prompt-assembly test
asserting the description appears exactly once on fresh wakes and not at
all on comment resumes.
- `npx vitest run` in `packages/adapters/hermes` — 59 tests passed,
including a gateway execute-level test asserting the brief is sent
exactly once on fresh runs and not re-sent on stable-session resumes.
- `tsc --noEmit` in `packages/adapter-utils`,
`packages/adapters/claude-local`, `packages/adapters/hermes` — clean;
`server` matches the `master` baseline exactly (pre-existing plugin-sdk
resolution errors only, none in touched files).
- Pre-existing failures confirmed identical on clean `master`:
claude-local `execute.remote.test.ts` / `test.probe.test.ts`,
adapter-utils `mcp-isolation.integration.test.ts` (requires a newer
local Claude CLI).

## Risks

- Behavioral shift, prompt-only: a resumed session woken by a comment on
an issue it never handled (rare — assignment wakes normally precede
comment wakes) would not get the inline description; the breadcrumb plus
the standard issue-fetch path covers it.
- Additive context key (`paperclipTaskMarkdownCompact`); older adapters
ignore it and newer adapters fall back to the full markdown when it is
absent, so mixed-version deployments degrade to current behavior.
- No schema, migration, or API changes; the structured wake-payload JSON
shape is unchanged.
- Known follow-up deliberately out of scope: openclaw embeds the raw
wake-payload JSON (which still contains the description) in prompt text
for machine parsing. The hermes-gateway lane is handled: it detects
stable-session resumes (issue/agent session-key strategy plus a stored
prior session id), compacts the task markdown, and omits the description
from its prompt-embedded JSON copy.

> This is a focused correctness/efficiency fix to existing wake plumbing
and does not overlap with planned roadmap feature work.

## Model Used

- Anthropic Claude Fable 5 (`claude-fable-5`), extended thinking
enabled, with repository tool use, shell execution, and local test
execution via Claude Code.

## 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)
- [ ] My branch name describes the change (e.g. `docs/...`, `fix/...`)
and contains no internal Paperclip ticket id or instance-derived details
(execution-workspace branch, same convention as merged #10202)
- [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
(code-level docs; no user-facing docs affected)
- [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

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@@ -49,6 +49,7 @@ import {
renderPaperclipWakePrompt,
renderTemplate,
resolvePaperclipInstanceRootForAdapter,
selectPaperclipTaskMarkdown,
resolvePaperclipDesiredSkillNames,
removeMaintainerOnlySkillSymlinks,
rewriteWorkspaceCwdEnvVarsForExecution,
@@ -1965,12 +1966,17 @@ async function buildPrompt(ctx: AdapterExecutionContext, resumedSession: boolean
!resumedSession && bootstrapPromptTemplate.trim().length > 0
? renderTemplate(bootstrapPromptTemplate, templateData).trim()
: "";
const wakePrompt = renderPaperclipWakePrompt(context.paperclipWake, { resumedSession });
const taskContextNote = selectPaperclipTaskMarkdown(context, { resumedSession });
const wakePrompt = renderPaperclipWakePrompt(context.paperclipWake, {
resumedSession,
// The task-context markdown is the authoritative brief on this lane; keep
// the wake prompt's description copy out so the prompt carries it once.
suppressIssueDescription: taskContextNote.length > 0,
});
const shouldUseResumeDeltaPrompt = resumedSession && wakePrompt.length > 0;
const promptInstructionsPrefix = shouldUseResumeDeltaPrompt ? "" : instructionsPrefix;
const renderedPrompt = shouldUseResumeDeltaPrompt ? "" : renderTemplate(promptTemplate, templateData);
const sessionHandoffNote = asString(context.paperclipSessionHandoffMarkdown, "").trim();
const taskContextNote = asString(context.paperclipTaskMarkdown, "").trim();
const paperclipEnvNote = renderPaperclipEnvNote(env);
const apiAccessNote = renderApiAccessNote(env);
const prompt = joinPromptSections([