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DottaandPaperclip 018993140f feat: let agents name prompt-only tasks (#14761)
## Thinking Path

> - Paperclip is the open source app people use to manage AI agents for
work.
> - Users create tasks with a title and a description.
> - A required title adds work when the prompt already explains the
request.
> - An agent can name the task once it reads that request.
> - This pull request accepts prompt-only tasks and starts them with a
short prompt slice.
> - A scoped title tool lets the assigned agent replace that slice early
without changing execution state.
> - A live browser eval checks the real agent call, saved title, audit
entry, and preservation of user titles.

## Linked Issues or Issue Description

**Subsystem affected**

Cross-cutting: task creation, shared contracts, database, server, runner
tools, and board UI.

**Problem or motivation**

Users must currently write a title before they can submit a detailed
task prompt. The agent has enough context to write a useful title
itself.

**Proposed solution**

Make the title optional when a description is present. Save the first
120 characters of the normalized prompt as a provisional title. Ask the
assigned agent to call `set_task_title` early. Use an atomic
provisional-title guard to preserve titles supplied or edited by users.
Keep explicit titles supported.

Related: #14543 and #14556 concern empty-title submission. This change
intentionally enables that submission when a prompt is present, instead
of requiring a title.

## What Changed

- Add the `titleNeedsGeneration` field with an idempotent migration.
Keep existing titles unchanged.
- Add `PUT /api/issues/:id/title` and the native and legacy
`set_task_title` tool. Enforce company access, active-run ownership,
shared, bounded retry receipts across native/HTTP calls, and
transactional audit logging. Refresh external-object links after commit,
with the same feature gate and plugin detectors as ordinary title edits.
- Add early naming guidance in Standard, Ask, and Plan task context.
Preserve the description, status, and assignment.
- Allow prompt-only root and child task creation, plus draft restoration
in the New Task dialog. Keep user titles supported.
- Add an opt-in Product E2E suite for prompt-only Standard and Ask
tasks, plus an explicit-title control. It checks actual provider calls
within the first five tools, persisted state, audit attribution, and the
reloaded UI.
- Preserve a closed vocabulary of API key maintenance phrases in
declared prose while rejecting opaque credential suffixes. Add one
bounded naming retry after wording is rejected, without treating the
rejected call as a saved title.
- Repair the native cleanup receipt check exposed during full
verification: accept matching input digests, retain legacy input checks,
and reject conflicting receipts.

## Verification

- Live Product E2E on `f43478473800e3a46b85c5ee79677efdb15108e7`: **3/3
passed** with native Codex `gpt-5.4-mini`, first attempts only,
automatic retries disabled. Standard and Ask each saved “Rotate expired
API key” on their first tool call, with matching persisted state and a
single same-run audit entry. The explicit-title control retained its
user title with zero title writes. All three verified the reloaded
browser UI.
- Campaign: `local-2026-09-30T21-30-11-021Z`. Earlier failed campaigns
are retained separately; they exposed credential-prose handling and
prompted the naming recovery fix. No failed result was regraded or
deleted.
- Reproduce with `pnpm test:e2e:runner -- --id
task-titles.runner-codex-mini.local.prompt-title-standard --id
task-titles.runner-codex-mini.local.prompt-title-ask --id
task-titles.runner-codex-mini.local.preserve-explicit-title
--max-automatic-retries 0` and an authorized provider key.
- Full `pnpm -r typecheck` and `pnpm build` passed on the latest commit.
The runner build used the configured external eval source tree.
- Product E2E unit suite: **61 files, 818 tests passed**; E2E typecheck
and UI token gates passed.
- Title API/native regressions cover prompt-only and explicit child
creation, user edits, ownership/company isolation, external reference
refresh, cross-surface retry replay, and the 64-key limit without
receipt eviction. All passed. Prompt-context coverage: **44 tests
passed**.
- Rust credential regressions: **35 tests passed**, including benign
maintenance qualifiers and opaque credential rejection in every declared
prose field. Catalog/report reconciliation: **28 tests passed**. Native
recovery: **560 tests passed**.
- Broad local `pnpm test:run`: **14,555 tests passed** in the general
server group; two suites failed to initialize embedded PostgreSQL and
the existing 40,000-file Git streaming stress test exceeded its
300-second macOS timeout. All three suites then passed in isolation (**5
tests passed**) without code or timeout changes. The original full local
command exited nonzero and is not being represented as a clean full run.
- Latest-head GitHub checks are green: **53 passed, 4 skipped, zero
failed or pending**, including all test shards and the canary packaging
dry run. Greptile reviewed the same commit at **5/5**, with zero
unresolved review threads.

## Risks

- The additive database field must reach the server and UI together. The
migration uses `IF NOT EXISTS` and defaults existing tasks to a final
title.
- Title generation depends on the assigned agent running. Tasks without
a run keep their provisional title.
- Live qualification covers the native Codex path in Standard and Ask
modes. API/legacy and Plan behavior have deterministic coverage.
- The credential-prose exception validates the entire suffix against a
closed maintenance vocabulary. Unknown suffixes, assignments, quoted
values, credential prefixes, and diagnostics retain strict checks.

## Model Used

OpenAI Codex, based on GPT-6, with reasoning, tool use, and code
execution. The exact deployment ID and context window are not exposed in
this session. The live eval uses the native Codex `gpt-5.4-mini`
profile.

## 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

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Co-authored-by: Paperclip <noreply@paperclip.ing>
2026-09-30 16:48:24 -05:00
DottaandPaperclip f4cdc7b231 fix: recover transient workspace bootstrap scans (#13481)
## Thinking Path

> - Paperclip is the open source app people use to manage AI agents for
work.
> - The control plane prepares task workspaces before it starts an
agent.
> - Workspace preparation reads Git state so it can preserve edits and
exclude private files.
> - A failed scan was treated as a non-Git folder and lost its actual
failure code.
> - The resulting generic setup failure could not recover, even when the
cause was temporary.
> - This pull request keeps the cause and uses the existing bounded
retry schedule before provider startup.
> - Tasks can recover without human intervention, while permanent
failures and exhausted retries stop with useful guidance.

## Linked Issues or Issue Description

**What happened?**

A Git scan error during managed repository preparation became
`Configured repository folder is not a Git checkout`, followed by
generic `setup_failed`. The agent never started. Generic recovery could
not distinguish a temporary timeout from a bad workspace configuration.

**Expected behavior**

Keep the closed scan error code. Retry temporary timeouts and queue
saturation under the existing shared budget. Preserve edits, exclusions,
ownership, and pause gates. Stop permanent failures and exhausted
retries with a specific explanation. Do not replay historical generic
setup failures.

**Steps to reproduce**

1. Configure a task project with a local Git source that must be copied
into its managed repositories.
2. Make the ignored-file scan exceed its timeout before the agent
starts.
3. Before this fix, the snapshot returns null and the run ends as
non-retryable `setup_failed`.
4. Use the disposable browser fixture in
`tests/e2e/workspace-bootstrap/README.md` to inject real timeouts and
test the full recovery path.

**Paperclip version or commit**

Reproduced against `4510bf7c9e2fcbeb043445850928b5dcb79908ca`.

**Deployment mode**

Built from source. The defect is in core workspace setup, not a specific
model provider.

Related work: Refs #13442 (managed repository preparation), Refs #11572
(bounded Git scheduler), Refs #12997 (separate adapter startup retry
work), Refs #13469 (separate terminal-workspace scan performance work).

## What Changed

- Return the non-Git fallback only for repository discovery. Propagate
failed scans of a confirmed repository.
- Replace full ignored status output with an ignored-only directory
listing. Preserve NUL-delimited paths and exclusions.
- Preserve typed, sanitized scan errors through workspace preparation
and persist pre-provider failure details.
- Retry only timeouts and queue saturation, using the existing durable
two-retry budget and issue gates. Prevent generic recovery from adding
another budget.
- Show workspace-specific failure copy and actionable exhausted-recovery
notices.
- Add red-green unit tests, real-database restart and retry-boundary
tests, and opt-in browser acceptance fixtures with real Git subprocess
timeouts.
- Document the recovery contract and browser verification procedure.

## Verification

- Red: injected scan failures returned null instead of rejecting; setup
lost the timeout code; task-thread and recovery notices had generic
copy.
- Green: 119 focused adapter/backend tests, 20 recovery-boundary tests,
and 136 task-thread tests.
- `pnpm -r typecheck` — passed.
- `pnpm build` — passed on the final production code.
- `pnpm check:token-gates` — passed.
- The initial local `pnpm test:run` overlapped source edits and was
interrupted after two late-added assertions saw pre-fix behavior; it is
not counted as a green full run. A fresh final-head run passed all 229
tests across the six affected adapter/backend/UI suites. The clean
latest-head CI full test matrix passed: all five general-server shards,
all five serialized-server shards, and all three general-workspace
shards.
- Latest-head CI also passed all three browser shards and their
aggregate gate, typecheck and release registry, build, runner
verification, canary dry run, policy, Docker context integrity, and
security gates. Greptile: 5/5, with the review thread resolved.
- Browser: created a task in a disposable instance. A real Git timeout
scheduled recovery, the next run completed through the run-scoped API
without manual Retry, and Done survived reload. The deterministic
process worker checked preserved source edits and excluded private
files; no model calls were made.
- `WORKSPACE_BOOTSTRAP_TEST_URL=<disposable-instance-url> pnpm exec
playwright test --config
tests/e2e/workspace-bootstrap/playwright.config.ts` — 2 passed (3.6
minutes). The persistent case made exactly three failed attempts, never
started the worker, showed the cause-specific notice, stayed stopped for
another scheduler tick, and retained Blocked after reload.
- Extra red-green coverage: 50 recovery tests passed after fixing an
exhausted-bootstrap classification that incorrectly implied unknown
provider actions. Missing or uncertain evidence still retains the safety
hold.
- Verified the documented Git executable override during repository
seeding.

## Risks

- A confirmed repository scan failure now fails closed instead of
falling back to directory sync. This prevents unfiltered copying but
makes previously hidden errors visible.
- Temporary host problems can create up to two additional setup
attempts, 30 seconds apart. Permanent scan errors do not auto-retry.
Generic recovery cannot reset this budget.
- The durable retry path still enforces ownership, pause, and work
eligibility. Integration tests cover restart, duplicate promotion,
pause, exhaustion, and non-retryable categories.
- No schema migration, new runtime setting, new retry budget, production
deployment, or historical task replay.

## Model Used

OpenAI Codex, GPT-5-based coding agent, with reasoning, repository
tools, shell execution, and browser testing. The exact deployment model
ID and context-window size are not exposed in this session.

## 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

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Co-authored-by: Paperclip <noreply@paperclip.ing>
2026-09-15 12:37:21 -05:00