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DottaandClaude Opus 5.5 b5b972ceb1 fix(runner): stop provider tool processes that leave the owned process group (#19727)
## Thinking Path

> - Paperclip is the open source app people use to manage AI agents for
work
> - The local runner (`paperclip-runnerd`) supervises each provider
process, such as the ACPX sidecar for Claude, in its own process group
> - Run teardown stops that process group, and nothing else
> - Claude Code starts each Bash tool command in a new session
(`setsid`). A command such as `nohup ./bench.sh & echo $!` leaves a job
in that session, and the wrapper exits at once. The job is then a child
of init and outside the owned group
> - In a restart chaos storm, a run failed after a restart resume. Its
tool job kept running beside the task's next run, in the same workspace,
for more than four minutes
> - This pull request makes the supervisor record every process that its
provider starts, including processes that leave the group, and stop them
all before teardown reports success
> - The benefit is that a run's tools cannot outlive the run and cause
duplicate side effects in the next run

## Linked Issues or Issue Description

**What happened?**
A restart chaos storm ran a local ACPX Claude task. After a restart
resume, the agent ran `nohup ./bench.sh <nonce> > log 2>&1 & echo
"started pid $!"` and then ended its turn without a result. The run
failed with `native_finalization_missing`. The runner tore down the
sidecar group, and the guardian killed the provider group. `bench.sh`
was in the session that Claude Code made for the tool (pgid and sid =
the exited wrapper, ppid = 1). It was never signalled. It kept forking
`sleep 1` while the task's next run started and finished in the same
workspace.

**Steps to reproduce**
1. Run a local ACPX Claude task whose agent runs a Bash tool command
such as `nohup ./bench.sh x > log 2>&1 & echo $!`.
2. End the run (any outcome, including failure after a restart resume).
3. Run `ps -axo pid,ppid,pgid,command | grep bench.sh`. The job is still
running with ppid 1.

**Agent adapter(s) involved**
Claude Code (local ACPX). The gap is in the shared supervisor, so any
provider whose tools leave the group is affected.

**Root cause**
`SupervisedProcess`
(`packages/paperclip-runner/runner/crates/runner-core/src/process_supervisor.rs`)
spawns with `process_group(0)` and stops only that group in
`terminate_group`, `terminate_group_immediately`, `wait` and `Drop`. Its
own comment said that a caller that must exclude escaped or re-parented
descendants needs a separate lifetime fence. No caller had one. The ACPX
sidecar transport (`acpx_sidecar_transport.rs`, `shutdown` and `poison`)
and the ACPX provider guardian (`installation-integrity.ts`, which kills
only its own group) therefore left every `setsid` tool job behind. The
failure path after the resume was not special: the same gap applies to
every teardown.

**Expected behavior**
When a run ends for any reason, every process that its provider or tools
started stops, and teardown proves that they are gone. Identity comes
from PID, group, session and start time, never from a command name.

## What Changed

- Add the `paperclip-process-table` crate. It reads PID, parent, process
group and start time for every process (libproc on macOS, `/proc` on
Linux). `runner-core` forbids unsafe code, so the two checked libproc
calls live in this small crate.
- Add `process_lineage.rs` to `runner-core`. A sampler thread (every 50
ms) records each descendant of the supervised process by PID and start
time. It also records each group and session that a descendant leads,
with the leader's start time. A process belongs to the lineage when its
parent belongs, or when it is in a recorded group or session and started
no earlier than its leader. Groups and sessions that the supervised
process only inherited (runnerd's session) are never recorded. A
recorded ID whose PID now names a different process is dropped.
- `SupervisedProcess` samples the lineage just before it signals, and
after the leader is reaped it stops every live member: TERM, then KILL
after the shutdown grace. It fails with an error until it proves that no
member is alive (grace plus 5 s). This applies to `terminate_group`,
`terminate_group_immediately`, `wait` and `Drop`.
- If the lineage sampler cannot start, the supervisor stops the process
it just started and reports the failure, so a provider never runs
without tool cleanup.
- Table reads and state updates happen under one lock, so an older read
cannot erase members that a newer read recorded.
- The process table reports processes that exist but cannot be read. A
recorded member that cannot be read stays unresolved, and teardown fails
until its exit is proven.
- The Runner workspace now has two members.
`scripts/runner-release-crate-cache.mjs` and
`scripts/runner-debug-crate-cache.mjs` cache and mark current the
process-table lib unit with the Runner crate (otherwise Cargo rebuilds
the Runner crate after every restore). The debug contract accepts only
this library-only member and still refuses any other workspace change.
The workflow cache path lists and the debug clean step are updated to
match.
- `terminate_group_immediately` now accepts `EPERM` from the group
signal when the leader has already exited. macOS returns `EPERM` for a
group whose only member is the unreaped leader. The lineage pass then
proves that no other member remains.

## Verification

- `cargo test -p paperclip-runner-core --lib -- process_lineage tool_job
immediate_group_fence` (macOS, local).
- New real-process tests in `process_supervisor.rs`: a supervised shell
starts a wrapper with `setsid` (Perl `POSIX::setsid`), the wrapper runs
`nohup <loop> &`, writes the job PID and exits. The test asserts that
the job is outside the owned group and re-parented, then calls
`terminate_group`, `terminate_group_immediately` or drops the process,
and asserts that the job is gone when the call returns.
- Red: with the tracker disabled, all three fail with `tool job <pid>
outlived its provider`.
  - Green: all three pass.
- Unit tests in `process_lineage.rs` cover a re-parented job, a job that
left its group but stayed in the recorded session, a session made after
the first sighting, PID reuse, and no claim through the supervisor's
inherited session.
- `node --test scripts/__tests__/runner-release-crate-cache.test.mjs
scripts/__tests__/runner-debug-crate-cache.test.mjs` (new case: the
process-table library is cached with the crate, and any other member
still needs review).
- `cargo test -p paperclip-process-table` (includes an exited process
reported as gone), and `cargo test -p paperclip-runner-core --lib` (570
passed).
`acpx_provider_backend::tests::unconfirmed_suspension_state_becomes_recoverable_only_after_cleanup_and_suspend`
fails sometimes under full-suite load. It fails at the same rate with
the tracker disabled, so it is a flake that already existed.
- Sampler cost: one table read takes about 0.4 ms for 1,200 processes on
macOS (about 0.8% of one core for each supervised process).
- The restart-chaos replay (`--replay w-20261107T023921-s7106/t67`) did
not run. The local session was not permitted to load provider
credentials. It is not proven against a live Claude run.

## Risks

- Teardown now stops all the processes that a provider started, also
intentional background jobs. This is the intended contract: nothing
outlives the run.
- A wrapper that lives less than one sample (50 ms) and orphans a job
before the sampler sees it is not recorded. Claude Code's wrapper
sources a shell snapshot and lives for seconds. On Linux, a
child-subreaper would close this gap. That is not in this change.
- When `runnerd` itself is killed with SIGKILL, this code does not run.
The provider guardian still kills its own group, but escaped tool
sessions are not stopped in that case.
- Teardown can return a new error when it cannot prove the lineage
stopped. Callers already handle `terminate_group` errors as provider
shutdown failures.
- The server does not yet gate the next run on the tool lineage of the
prior run directly. It relies on the runner finishing its teardown
before the runner exits.

## Model Used

- Claude Opus 5.5 (`claude-opus-5-5`), Anthropic, with tool use and code
execution in 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)
- [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
- [ ] All Paperclip CI gates are green
- [ ] 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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2026-11-07 08:24:41 -06:00
DottaandPaperclip 1c9ca5829f perf(ci): overlap Runner workloads and cache debug workspace builds (#18794)
## Thinking Path

> - Paperclip is the open source app people use to manage AI agents for
work.
> - Required CI checks protect its server and Runner contracts.
> - Recent full runs waited on general server files and the final Runner
lane.
> - That Runner lane ran package tests before native server tests.
> - PR jobs also rebuilt unchanged debug workspace binaries.
> - This pull request overlaps those workloads and reuses exact trusted
build inputs.
> - The benefit is a shorter critical path with the same test coverage
and AWS authorization.

## Linked Issues or Issue Description

Refs #18544, #18773, #18774, #18798, #18799.

**What existing behavior does this improve?**

The wall time of required PR tests and the precision of affected-test
selection.

**Current behavior**

General server and native files use two workers. The second Runner
Vitest lane runs its package shard and then the native server group.
Each Runner job compiles debug workspace units again. A Vite raw import
also retains its consumer for unrelated source edits.

**Proposed behavior**

Use three isolated workers for general server files and four for native
files. Reuse the two Runner slots for a complete package suite and a
complete native server suite. Restore all debug binaries only on an
exact input key. Record raw imports as explicit file inputs.

## What Changed

- Separate the Runner package and native server workloads without adding
CI jobs. Preserve the old command arguments for master-pinned workflows,
local commands, and other shard counts.
- Increase file workers while retaining fork isolation, serial cases,
and the shared-database guard.
- Add an exact debug workspace cache. Derive binary targets from Cargo.
Include source, fixtures, generated inputs, manifests, compiler
identity, flags, Cargo configuration, and checkout path in its key.
Discard incomplete restores. Only verified master pushes can save it.
- Keep older PR checkouts working when they lack the new cache helper.
- Track Vite `?raw` imports as repository file inputs. Keep unknown
loaders, untracked files, and opaque effects conservative.
- Add cache and coverage guards and document the behavior. AWS runner
authorization is unchanged.
- Keep paired test benchmarking available when install hooks correctly
disable materialized dependency reuse. The old benchmark asserted a
cache hit in that safe fallback.
- Wait for active dispatch work to finish before asserting idle reads.
Analyze the two 16,400-row database fixtures before their queries so
they have current planner statistics. Suppress only PostgreSQL notices
inside the cleanup transaction to avoid logging every cascaded table;
warnings/errors remain visible. Row counts, real queries, assertions,
database reset, and timeouts remain unchanged.

## Verification

- 196 affected CI tests passed, including routing, coverage, selection
failure fallbacks, shared-database serialization, and existing/new cache
guards. Final worker/cache adjustments also passed their focused checks.
- `pnpm build` and `pnpm -r typecheck` passed locally. Full test
coverage is being verified by the Linux CI profile; `pnpm test:run` was
not repeated as a full serial local run. The paired CI benchmark passed.
Both paired benchmarks passed, and full CI passed again after
integrating newer master commits. The external Paperclip Review app is
the only pending status.
- Actual debug artifacts remained fresh after simulating checkout
timestamps: Cargo completed in 0.82 seconds; the content key was
unchanged. This is local reuse evidence, not a measured GitHub cache
transfer.
- Same real UI inventory for a retention-test-only change: 861 files;
retained selection fell from 413 to 401. All 12 omitted files are
raw-input consumers; edits to their inputs remain covered by regression
tests.
- The first local worker comparison is invalid. Development dependency
links disappeared during its second run. The two-worker baseline also
had two macOS path assertions in company-skills. Neither result is
counted as a successful speedup. Dependencies were restored. A local
repeat was interrupted before producing results. The completed Linux
comparison below supplies the valid paired evidence.
- [Paired Linux
benchmark](https://github.com/paperclipai/paperclip/actions/runs/41671244016):
baseline and candidate ran the same 113 general-server files and 1,777
cases on one host. Wall time fell from 381.29s to 346.89s (9.0%). Both
exited successfully and file/case inventories matched exactly. The
fixture command took 31.77s versus 28.65s. This is one sequential pair,
excluding setup, queueing and the full CI critical path.
- [Repeat paired Linux
benchmark](https://github.com/paperclipai/paperclip/actions/runs/41675496862):
the same 113 files and 1,974 cases took 485.06s in the baseline versus
368.54s in the candidate (24.0%). File and case inventories again
matched exactly. The baseline includes newer master changes than the
first pair, so these are two independent comparisons, not repeated
timings of an identical tree.
- Initial full AWS profile: package suite passed 4,891 tests (289 files,
one skipped); native suite passed 172 tests (9 files, 12 pre-existing
platform/feature skips). Native execution took 239.06 seconds; the older
sample ran 165 native tests in 391.29 seconds. The package lane now
takes 11m01 including setup and debug compilation. This is an indicative
cross-run comparison, not a paired full-CI speedup claim.
- The initial run failed two UI fixtures, one serialized inbox
settlement assertion, and one dispatch idle assertion. The two UI
failures reproduced locally. The fixes preserve authorization,
admission, and zero-idle-read assertions. All four affected files passed
locally: 48/48 tests. Token gates passed. All four also passed in the
next AWS profile. That profile passed every other workload but timed out
the 16,400-row keyed attention fixture at its existing 180s limit; this
is accounted for by the explicit fixture-statistics change. Local
focused comparisons pass both large cases before and after; their
roughly 33s test execution is unchanged locally, so this is not claimed
as an additional speed gain. A full local file run passed both large
cases (7.57s / 18.05s) but hit the unchanged 30s teardown deadline on
its first test while emitting thousands of cascade notices. Cleanup now
suppresses those notices within its transaction; the complete file then
passed 34/34 in 107.72s. The latest-head AWS run passed the previously
failing shard: the keyed bulk case took 40.25s (previously exceeded
180s), the keyless case took 8.02s, and the complete attention file took
89.61s. The 16,400-row fixtures and original timeouts remain intact.
- [Full CI profile before master
integration](https://github.com/paperclipai/paperclip/actions/runs/41675497699)
passed on commit `5858956d4ac2c99c911ad2447b63e1f8fc84e31e`, including
all tests, build, typecheck and final verification. Greptile reviewed
that exact commit at 5/5; the only actionable review thread is resolved.
The separate Paperclip Review app is still queued.
- [Final merged-head
CI](https://github.com/paperclipai/paperclip/actions/runs/41678956312)
passed on `499aa206a6e03bf8f3249692ea731367a000591d`: 48 successful jobs
and one intentionally skipped file-selection job. Backup checkpoint
qualification and legacy security status passed. Greptile reviewed this
exact commit at 5/5. The PR is conflict-free; only the separate
Paperclip Review app remains queued.
- Integrated current master after #18798 and #18799 merged the inbox and
UI fixture fixes separately. Preserved master's inbox settlement fix and
verified its entire file (6/6 tests). Those three files are no longer
part of this PR's diff. Removed the temporary `profile-ci` label after
both successful benchmark pairs; the normal planner still schedules
every job because the CI configuration changes are global inputs.
- Second AWS profile: native tests took 229.97s with the same 172 passes
/ 12 skips; package tests took 427.44s with 4,891 passes / 10 skips. The
complete package job took 10m44, including setup and 79s debug
compilation.
- The PR uses the trusted workflow from master. Candidate worker/layout
code runs now; workflow-level debug restores begin after merge and the
first successful master cache writer.

## Risks

- Extra workers can expose load-sensitive tests. The final full CI
profile passed, but one run is not a long-term flake-rate measurement.
- The cache is an optimization only. Misses rebuild, and test commands
still execute. A new Cargo workspace member requires a cache-contract
review.
- Compiler alternatives remain experiments. Required TypeScript checks
are unchanged.

Typechecker experiment: three sequential checks per tool on identical
built projects, with TypeScript 7.0.2, Bun 1.4.4, and tsrs
0.20.1-ts7.1.0-beta. Median seconds (TypeScript / Bun / tsrs): shared
0.429 / 0.083 / 0.157; UI 2.554 / 0.390 / 0.740; server 9.949 / 1.194 /
1.782. TypeScript and Bun passed all three projects. All tools caught
the same four deliberate assignment, property, nullability, and
generic-constraint errors. tsrs reported one additional server TS2345
diagnostic in the run-dispatch adapter, so it did not pass the project
comparison. These local compiler times exclude generation and build
steps; they are not full CI savings.

## Model Used

OpenAI GPT-6 Codex. Tool use and code execution assisted this change.
The exact deployment identifier and context window 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>
2026-11-03 11:17:53 -06:00