fix(auth): honor responsible-user grants for company skills (#9571)

## Thinking Path

> - Paperclip is the open source control plane people use to manage
AI-agent companies
> - Company skills are governed resources, so board users and agents
acting for responsible users must be authorized consistently before
mutating skill configuration
> - The responsible-user authorization intersection handled several task
permissions but did not map company-skill mutation actions to the
corresponding `skills:create`, `skills:update`, and `skills:delete`
grants
> - That gap caused valid skill import and mutation requests to be
rejected even when the responsible user held the exact direct permission
required by the route
> - The branch also introduces the repo-sourced `prepare-paperclip-pr`
skill so the standard PR preparation process is versioned and reviewable
alongside the code
> - This pull request adds the missing authorization mappings, covers
board, agent, JWT-route, and denial behavior with regression tests, and
adds the renamed PR-preparation skill
> - The benefit is that governed company-skill workflows honor explicit
grants without weakening the responsible-user permission intersection

## Linked Issues or Issue Description

No public issue exists. Bug-report shape:

- **Affected area**: company skill authorization and skill import routes
- **Observed behavior**: agents acting under a responsible user could
receive `403` responses for company-skill mutations even when that user
had the matching direct `skills:create`, `skills:update`, or
`skills:delete` grant
- **Expected behavior**: the responsible-user authorization intersection
should accept exact company-skill grants while preserving denials for
missing or unrelated grants
- **Reproduction**: authenticate as an agent with a responsible user,
grant that user the relevant company-skill permission, then import or
mutate a company skill
- **Additional repository change**: adds the renamed
`prepare-paperclip-pr` skill as the versioned source of truth for PR
preparation

Supersedes #9324, which added the PR-preparation skill under the old
`prepare-pr` name.

## What Changed

- Added `.agents/skills/prepare-paperclip-pr/SKILL.md` with the standard
worktree, commit, rebase, guardrail, review-loop, and handoff procedure
- Mapped company `skill_config:create`, `skill_config:update`, and
`skill_config:delete` actions to direct `skills:create`,
`skills:update`, and `skills:delete` responsible-user grants
- Preserved restrictive behavior for unsupported resources, missing
grants, and unrelated permissions
- Added authorization-service regression coverage for board actors and
responsible-user agent intersections
- Added route-level JWT regression coverage for company skill imports,
including allowed and denied cases

## Verification

- `pnpm exec vitest run
server/src/__tests__/authorization-service.test.ts
server/src/__tests__/company-skills-import-authz-routes.test.ts` — 42
tests passed
- `pnpm -r typecheck` — passed
- `pnpm build` — passed
- `pnpm test:run` — server and UI groups passed; one unrelated CLI
doctor assertion failed because the execution environment injects static
`AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID`/`AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY`, which intentionally changes
the result from `pass` to `warn`
- `env -u AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID -u AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY
NODE_ENV=development pnpm exec vitest run
cli/src/__tests__/secrets.test.ts -t 'passes AWS doctor checks when
non-secret provider config is present'` — passed, confirming the
full-suite failure is environment-specific
- GitHub CI — all required checks passed on head `0758393c`; one
unrelated `packages/db/src/client.test.ts` 5-second timing timeout
passed on the single allowed failed-job rerun after three consecutive
local passes (42/42 tests)

## Risks

- Low-to-moderate authorization risk: the change expands accepted
responsible-user grants only for company-scoped skill configuration
actions and is protected by explicit allow/deny regression cases
- No database migrations, workflow changes, lockfile changes, or UI
changes
- The added skill is documentation consumed by agent tooling and does
not alter runtime application behavior

> 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

- OpenAI Codex coding agent; exact runtime model ID and context-window
size were not exposed to the session. Used reasoning, terminal
execution, Git/GitHub tooling, and test/build execution.
- Earlier commits were assisted by Claude Fable 5 (`claude-fable-5`) and
an OpenAI Codex coding agent, as recorded in the branch history/task
workflow.

## 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 documented the one
environment-specific full-suite failure
- GitHub CI — all required checks passed on head `0758393c`; one
unrelated `packages/db/src/client.test.ts` 5-second timing timeout
passed on the single allowed failed-job rerun after three consecutive
local passes (42/42 tests)
- [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

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Co-authored-by: Paperclip <noreply@paperclip.ing>
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@@ -474,6 +474,26 @@ function activeResponsibleUserCanAuthorizeIssueAction(
);
}
function activeResponsibleUserCanAuthorizeAgentGrantedSkillChange(
action: AuthorizationAction,
membership: ResponsibleUserSnapshot["activeMembership"],
agentDecision: AuthorizationDecision,
actorAgentId: string | null | undefined,
) {
return Boolean(
action === "skill_config:update" &&
membership &&
membership.status === "active" &&
membership.membershipRole !== "viewer" &&
agentDecision.allowed &&
(agentDecision.reason === "allow_direct_change" || agentDecision.reason === "allow_consented_change") &&
agentDecision.grant?.principalType === "agent" &&
agentDecision.grant.principalId === actorAgentId &&
(agentDecision.grant.permissionKey === "skills:create" ||
agentDecision.grant.permissionKey === "skills:suggest-changes"),
);
}
function scopeBoolean(scope: Record<string, unknown> | null | undefined, key: string) {
return scope?.[key] === true;
}
@@ -1521,6 +1541,21 @@ export function authorizationService(db: Db) {
});
}
}
if (input.action === "agent_config:read") {
return decideWithAgentConfigReadGrant("user", input.actor.userId);
}
if (input.action === "agent_config:update") {
return decideWithProtectedChangeGrants("user", input.actor.userId, {
direct: "agents:configure",
suggest: "agents:suggest-changes",
});
}
if (input.action === "skill_config:update") {
return decideWithProtectedChangeGrants("user", input.actor.userId, {
direct: "skills:create",
suggest: "skills:suggest-changes",
});
}
if (!permissionKey) {
if (
input.action === "agent:read" ||
@@ -1568,21 +1603,6 @@ export function authorizationService(db: Db) {
if (policyEffect.kind === "restricted") return denyRestrictedAssignmentPolicy(policyEffect);
return grantDecision;
}
if (input.action === "agent_config:read") {
return decideWithAgentConfigReadGrant("user", input.actor.userId);
}
if (input.action === "agent_config:update") {
return decideWithProtectedChangeGrants("user", input.actor.userId, {
direct: "agents:configure",
suggest: "agents:suggest-changes",
});
}
if (input.action === "skill_config:update") {
return decideWithProtectedChangeGrants("user", input.actor.userId, {
direct: "skills:create",
suggest: "skills:suggest-changes",
});
}
return decidePrincipalGrant({
companyId,
principalType: "user",
@@ -1865,6 +1885,21 @@ export function authorizationService(db: Db) {
? "RESPONSIBLE_USER_UNAUTHORIZED"
: "RESPONSIBLE_USER_UNAVAILABLE";
if (
activeResponsibleUserCanAuthorizeAgentGrantedSkillChange(
input.action,
snapshot.activeMembership,
agentDecision,
input.actor.agentId,
)
) {
// Skill mutations are governed by the agent's explicit skill-change
// grant. The responsible-user intersection still requires an active
// non-viewer user, but does not require duplicating that grant on the
// responsible user's board account for standard heartbeat JWTs.
return agentDecision;
}
const userDecision = snapshot.userExists && snapshot.activeMembership
? await decideBase({
...input,