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Nicky LeachandPaperclip 09412e652a fix(runner): allow warm release to drain after provider restart (#20290)
## Thinking Path

> - Paperclip is the open source app people use to manage AI agents for
work.
> - Warm Runner sessions park after a turn so follow-up tasks can claim
the same process.
> - Claude restarts its ACPX provider after the controller receives the
terminal result.
> - That restart can delay the drain receipt beyond the release path's
one-second limit.
> - A failed drain prevents parking, so the idle timer later closes the
retained Runner.
> - This pull request uses the existing warm admission budget for
release drain.
> - The benefit is retained Runner reuse without moving provider restart
onto task dispatch.

## Linked Issues or Issue Description

Fixes: #20225. Refs #20190 and #20145. Related performance follow-up:
#20224.

## What Changed

- Align the release drain timeout with the existing 30-second warm
admission budget for every provider. Close paths keep their explicit
remaining deadlines.
- Keep the existing immediate completion when the drain receipt proves
settlement. Add no sleep, retry, provider branch or dispatch work.
- Add a real Runner regression with a fake ACPX sidecar whose
replacement start takes 1.5 seconds. One release call must park the
Runner, then a follow-up must claim the same Runner process.
- Document the release drain budget.

## Verification

- Targeted command in `packages/paperclip-runner`: `vitest run
src/live/runnerd-codex-transport-release-resume.test.ts
src/live/runnerd-codex-transport-settlement.test.ts
src/live/runnerd-codex-transport-deadlines.test.ts`: **46 passed**
across 3 files, 157.78 seconds.
- Independent parent verification reran the slow-restart and ordinary
cached cases: **2 passed**. Source review confirmed that release is the
only caller using the changed default; close callers supply explicit
deadlines.
- Negative control: with the original one-second timeout, the new test
fails because the single release call returns `false`. The fixed code
passes the new case.
- Built only the current-source Runner and two fixture binaries required
by these tests. The first sandboxed invocation could not bind its
loopback listener (`EPERM`); the test ran with loopback access
afterward.
- Full GitHub PR workflow
[42644210993](https://github.com/paperclipai/paperclip/actions/runs/42644210993)
passed on head `9cfda0927b514d8d40443b612afa92525b35b700`. Standard
Greptile scored this same head 5/5 with no review threads. Full
repository checks ran in GitHub CI, per the requested local test scope.
No live Claude session or hosted deployment was tested.

## Risks

- An unresponsive Runner can now hold release drain for up to the
existing 30-second warm admission limit. A healthy Runner returns as
soon as its receipt arrives. The provider restart stays at turn end;
task dispatch gets no fixed delay.
- Saved state, protocol and provider identity formats do not change.
Previous-release state carries forward under the existing validation.
- The controlled fake-sidecar test proves the restart timing race and
process reuse. It does not qualify live provider latency or a hosted
rollout.

## Model Used

- OpenAI GPT-6 through Codex, with repository tools, code editing and
targeted test execution. The exact serving revision 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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2026-11-09 07:43:27 -08:00
DottaandClaude Opus 5.5 dc9ad17515 perf(storage): time workspace snapshot save and restore steps and count storage retries (#20280)
## Thinking Path

- Cloud durable storage is a major source of failures and slowness on
staging. For example, a staging task failed when saving files after
automatic retries.
- Before measuring or fixing it, we need to see where storage time goes.
Today a saved-workspace restore before the turn appears only inside the
coarse `workspace_environment_realize` phase.
- After the turn, the save's encrypt, put, verify and multipart throttle
backoff have no timing at all. Only `captureMs`, `transferMs`,
`verifyMs`, `uploadMs` and `publishMs` exist, in `saveTiming`.
- Storage retries happen in the SDK and in the multipart uploader,
invisibly.
- This adds the measurement first, so the storage-mode chaos waves
(MinIO behind a fault proxy) can report save and restore p50/p95 and
point at the dominant wait.

## Linked Issues or Issue Description

**What happened?**
Durable-storage saves and restores were opaque in the run log and save
timing. A slow or repeatedly retried storage call could not be told
apart from slow capture, encryption or sandbox work.

**Steps to reproduce**
1. Run a remote task with S3-compatible durable storage, so it saves
after the turn and restores on the next run.
2. Inspect the run log and the `remote_workspace_snapshot` operation's
`saveTiming`. The restore's download, decrypt and verify, and the save's
put, verify and throttle backoff, have no timing.

**Expected behavior**
Each storage step has a duration, and storage request retries and
backoff are counted.

## What Changed

- `server/src/storage/request-stats.ts` (new): an async-local collector
of storage request statistics. Counts only:
  - `requests`, `attempts` and `failedRequests`;
  - `retryDelayMs` (SDK waits);
- `parts`, `throttled` and `backoffMs` (the multipart uploader's waits).
- `server/src/storage/s3-failure.ts`: `withS3FailureDiagnostics`, which
wraps every S3 send, records each request's SDK `$metadata.attempts` and
`totalRetryDelay`, on success and on failure.
- `server/src/storage/s3-multipart.ts`: records each uploaded part and
each resend wait, flagged throttled when the backend returned 503, 429
or SlowDown.
- `server/src/services/remote-workspace-snapshot-storage.ts`:
  - Each step is a `storage.snapshot.*` run phase:
    - save: `prior_attempts`, `encrypt`, `digest`, `put`, `verify`;
    - restore: `download`, `decrypt`, `verify_plaintext`, `publish`.
- A caller can pass a `timing` record that receives the step durations,
the bytes and the request statistics.
- `server/src/services/remote-workspaces.ts`:
  - The save passes a timing record, kept in `saveTiming.storage`.
- The sandbox unpack during a restore is its own phase,
`workspace.snapshot.sandbox_restore`.
- `execution-preparation-timing.ts`: the new phase names.
- `doc/run-log-events.md`: a new "Durable storage timing" section.

Because the restore runs inside run preparation, its steps of 50 ms or
more become `run.performance.span` rows with no extra plumbing. This is
run-log and instance-database data only; there's no Telemetry change.

## Verification

- `server`: `storage-s3-multipart-backoff`, `storage-s3-multipart`,
`storage-s3-multipart-throttle`, `storage-s3-failure-diagnostics`,
`remote-workspace-snapshot-storage` and `execution-preparation-timing`
tests: 86 passed. They include:
- collected stats for a throttled multipart upload: 12 requests, 7
failed, 7 throttled, 35.5 s backoff and 3 parts;
  - a save and restore that fill every step duration and the byte count.
- `remote-workspaces.integration.test.ts`: 112 passed. Its `saveTiming`
assertion now includes `storage`.
- Server typecheck: no errors in the touched files.

## Risks

- **Overhead:** one async-local lookup per S3 request, plus timestamps
per snapshot step.
- **Collector scope:** the collector only exists inside a snapshot save
or restore. Other storage callers are unaffected; they record nothing.
- **`saveTiming`** gains a `storage` object. Readers that compare it
exactly (one test, updated) will see the new field.

## Model Used

Claude Opus 5.5 (`claude-opus-5-5`, Anthropic), 1M context window, tool
use and code 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)
- [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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DottaandClaude Opus 5.5 3ef45fdd92 fix(recovery): let a new task wait for its manually paused assignee (#20281)
## Thinking Path

> - Paperclip is the open source app people use to manage AI agents for
work.
> - A person can pause an agent. Tasks assigned to a paused agent wait
until the person resumes it.
> - Stranded-task recovery looks for assigned work that cannot continue
and moves it to `blocked` for the board.
> - A task created for a manually paused agent has no run yet. Recovery
saw an assignee that is not invokable and moved the new task to
`blocked` a few seconds after creation.
> - The person paused the agent on purpose. The blocked task and its
"the board must choose the next action" comment fight that decision, and
the person must unblock the task by hand after resume.
> - This pull request lets new `todo` work with no run wait while a
manual pause lasts. The existing assigned-todo dispatch starts it when
the agent is resumed.
> - The benefit is that work queued for a paused agent starts on resume,
as the pause promises.

## Linked Issues or Issue Description

**What happened**
A chat evaluation pauses an agent (Morgan) and then runs `paperclipai
issue create ... --assignee-agent-id <Morgan> --status todo`. The CLI
returns the task with status `todo`. Within about five seconds the task
changes to `blocked`, with the system comment "Paperclip cannot safely
continue automatic recovery because the original assignee is not
invokable. The source assignment is unchanged and the board must choose
the next action." The server log shows only the expected 409 "Agent is
not invokable" for the assignment wake.

**Expected behavior**
The task stays `todo` while the person keeps the agent paused. When the
person resumes the agent, the task starts once. A comment and a
`blocked` status are not added.

**Steps to reproduce**
1. Pause an agent from its page.
2. Create a `todo` task assigned to that agent.
3. Wait for the stranded-task recovery sweep. See that the task is
`blocked` with the comment above.

## What Changed

- `server/src/services/recovery/service.ts`: in
`reconcileStrandedAssignedIssues`, skip a `todo` task with no run when
its assignee is paused with a `manual` lifecycle hold. The existing rule
above it already skips work whose run the pause cancelled. Other pause
causes, such as a budget hold, keep the existing escalation.
- `server/src/__tests__/heartbeat-paused-assignee-new-task.test.ts`: a
PostgreSQL test. The task stays `todo` with no comment and no run during
two recovery sweeps. After resume it starts exactly once and finishes. A
budget-held assignee still escalates.

## Verification

- `cd server && npx vitest run
src/__tests__/heartbeat-paused-assignee-new-task.test.ts`: 2 passed.
Without the fix, the first test fails with `expected 'blocked' to be
'todo'`.
- `npx vitest run src/__tests__/issue-recovery-actions.test.ts
src/__tests__/heartbeat-refused-assignment-wake.test.ts`: passed.
- `src/__tests__/issue-tree-pause-resume-run.test.ts` had timing
failures on this low-memory machine both with and without this change
(different tests each time). Those tests do not pause agents, so this
change does not reach them. CI runs them on this branch.

## Risks

- Low risk. The skip needs all of these: the agent is paused, it has a
`manual` hold, the task is `todo`, and the task has no run. Work that
already ran keeps the current rules.
- No persisted state changes shape. State saved by the previous release
carries forward: a task that the previous release already moved to
`blocked` stays `blocked`.

## Model Used

- Anthropic Claude Opus 5.5 (`claude-opus-5-5`), 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

Related: #20143 (a pause's stop never blocks the task behind an
incident), #9998 (open: reject paused agents as assignment targets).

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DottaandClaude Opus 5.5 6db0bb9776 fix(chat): tell agents which CLI commands a person runs in their own terminal (#20267)
## Thinking Path

> - Paperclip is the open source app people use to manage AI agents for
work.
> - People talk to agents in chat. The chat guidance in
`server/src/services/agent-conversations.ts` tells every chat agent how
to answer.
> - People often ask a chat agent for a terminal command: create a task,
download a plan, inspect or stop a run, or point the CLI at a company.
> - The guidance did not name the Paperclip CLI. Agents guessed: they
did the work themselves, wrote `curl`, used placeholder company ids, or
invented an API address.
> - The person then has to fix the command, or gets a file in the
agent's workspace instead of on their own machine.
> - This pull request adds one guidance paragraph. It names the
supported `npx paperclipai` commands, asks for real ids from the
conversation, and asks for the person's own Paperclip URL as a
placeholder.
> - The benefit is a command the person can run as it is, with the right
company and the right actor.

## Linked Issues or Issue Description

**What happened**
Three chat evaluations (cli-operations) asked for terminal commands.
"Show me how to point my terminal at the Acorn company." got `context
set` with `<acorn-company-id>` and an invented `http://localhost:3100`,
although the agent can read its company id. "Download this task's plan
from the terminal as a file." got a file saved in the agent's own
workspace and an attachment link, with no terminal command. "Show me the
command to inspect Morgan's last run and stop it if it is still
running." got `curl` with environment variables that exist only in the
agent's runtime.

**Expected behavior**
The agent gives `npx paperclipai` commands that the person runs in their
own terminal. The commands use real ids that the agent can read in the
conversation. The Paperclip address is the placeholder `<your Paperclip
URL>`. The agent says which commands need a board user.

**Steps to reproduce**
1. Open a chat with an agent.
2. Send "Download this task's plan from the terminal as a file."
3. See that the agent saves the file itself and gives no terminal
command.

## What Changed

- `server/src/services/agent-conversations.ts`: add a chat guidance
paragraph for terminal and CLI requests. It names the supported commands
for task creation, document download, run read and cancel, and context
profiles. It asks for one command per line, real ids, and the `<your
Paperclip URL>` placeholder.
- `cli/src/__tests__/chat-cli-guidance.test.ts`: a new test reads the
guidance and resolves every `npx paperclipai` command against the
registered commander commands. It fails on an unknown command, flag or
missing argument.
- `server/src/__tests__/agent-conversations.test.ts`: check that the
paragraph is in the directive and in the chat prompt.

## Verification

- `cd cli && npx vitest run src/__tests__/chat-cli-guidance.test.ts`: 3
passed.
- `cd server && npx vitest run src/__tests__/agent-conversations.test.ts
src/__tests__/board-access-denial.test.ts`: 80 passed.
- The chat evaluations `cli-operations.choose-cli-context`,
`export-document-cli` and `inspect-run-cli` run with this commit on an
evaluation branch. Results are added in a comment.

## Risks

- Low risk. The change adds prompt text and tests. Routes, permissions
and responses do not change.
- The chat prompt is about 300 words longer.
- If a CLI command or flag changes, the new CLI test fails until the
guidance changes too.

## Model Used

- Anthropic Claude Opus 5.5 (`claude-opus-5-5`), 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

Related: #20029 (terminal sign-in guidance in the API catalog).

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DottaandClaude Opus 5.5 f7c85bca18 test(runner-e2e): delete each runner E2E instance when it ends and expire kept instances after 6 hours (#20246)
## Thinking Path

> - Paperclip is the open source app people use to manage AI agents for
work
> - The restart chaos harness boots a full temporary Paperclip instance
per wave: embedded Postgres, workspaces and caches, often 5–13 GB
> - At wave end it deleted that instance only when the wave passed with
no harness error and no `--keep`
> - Almost every chaos wave has at least one failing task, so almost
every instance stayed on disk
> - Over Nov 6–9, 359 `paperclip-runner-e2e-*` directories filled the
machine's disk (ENOSPC), which stopped a running storm wave
> - This pull request deletes the instance at the end of every wave,
smoke and baseline run unless it is explicitly kept or its processes
could not be stopped, and expires kept instances after 6 hours
> - The benefit is that chaos waves can run back to back without filling
the disk

## Linked Issues or Issue Description

**What happened?**
`main.ts` kept the temporary root whenever `keep || anyFailure ||
harnessError`. A failing task is the normal output of a chaos wave, so
instances accumulated until the disk was full. The codex K13 storm
w-20261109T113925-s9403 died after about a minute with every task cut
off.

**Steps to reproduce**
1. Run any wave in which at least one task fails.
2. The `paperclip-runner-e2e-*` directory under the OS temp dir stays
behind, with no expiry.

**Expected behavior**
The instance is removed when the wave ends. Evidence is already in
`results/`. Only an explicit `--keep`, or a stop failure that may leave
processes running, keeps it, and kept instances expire.

**Actual behavior**
Every failing wave leaks its instance permanently.

## What Changed

- New shared `tests/runner-e2e/instance-retention.ts`:
- `releaseInstance` deletes the root unless `--keep` was passed or the
processes could not be stopped. In those cases it writes a
`.paperclip-runner-e2e-kept.json` marker (owner, reason, time) and sets
the directory to 0700. An optional `retain` list keeps small evidence
files and removes everything else.
- `sweepExpiredKeptInstances` removes `paperclip-runner-e2e-*`
directories that carry the marker, are older than 6 hours, and have no
live `postmaster.pid` anywhere inside them, and that no live process
command line references. Each root is made removable first, and one
failed delete does not stop the sweep. Unmarked directories are never
touched, so existing directories from older runs stay until someone
decides on them. `recovery_state` markers never expire.
- `createRunnerE2ETemporaryRoot` runs the sweep, so every caller gets
it.
- Callers:
- A wave whose Daytona cleanup is still pending (environment DELETE
blocked, sandboxes still running after cleanup, or cleanup errors) keeps
its instance as `recovery_state`, because its database owns that
cleanup.
- The wave releases its instance before writing the ledger and summary,
so a failed report write cannot skip cleanup.
- Restart chaos `main.ts` (crash-point suite included) releases the
instance in its final cleanup, which also runs on failure and
interrupts. The crash-point task-count check moved above supervisor
creation so that error no longer leaks a fresh root.
- `ttft-baseline.ts` releases after stopping the supervisor, including
on SIGINT and SIGTERM.
- The rolling-deployment and controller-replacement smokes now delete
their roots, keeping only the evidence report, logs and screenshots. If
cleanup is unconfirmed, the root is kept with a marker.
- `launch.ts` marks its unconfirmed-remote-cleanup root as
`recovery_state`, which never expires, and its
`PAPERCLIP_RUNNER_E2E_KEEP_FAILED_PRIVATE` root as `keep`. Its existing
deletion path is unchanged, and the file gets one line shorter.
- README: the instance lifecycle and `--keep`.

## Verification

- `npx vitest run --config tests/runner-e2e/vitest.config.ts`: 328
files, 6915 passed. The new retention tests cover:
  - deleting a finished instance, and retaining only listed evidence;
  - keeping it with a marker and mode 0700;
- sweeping only marked, expired instances whose Postgres isn't running,
while sparing fresh, live, recovery-state, unmarked and unrelated
directories;
  - a stale `postmaster.pid`;
  - sweeping on `createRunnerE2ETemporaryRoot`.

The create-sweep test failed before `createRunnerE2ETemporaryRoot` ran
the sweep.
- `npx vitest run --config tests/restart-chaos/vitest.config.ts`: 221
passed.
- `node scripts/typecheck-test-projects.mjs tests/runner-e2e` and
`tests/restart-chaos`: clean.
- No wave or smoke was run, because the disk is still nearly full.

## Risks

- A failed wave's instance is no longer available for post-mortem DB
inspection unless the wave ran with `--keep`. Evidence bundles in
`results/` are unchanged.
- The sweep relies on `postmaster.pid`. An instance whose Postgres was
started outside the harness, without that file, could be removed after 6
hours.

## 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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Pavel-GuseynovandClaude Opus 5.5 4d297b998a fix(server): give remote MCP tool calls a 30 second default deadline and record stream failure evidence (#19768)
## Thinking Path

> - Paperclip is the open source app people use to manage AI agents for
work
> - The tool gateway calls remote MCP servers over Streamable HTTP, and
a server can answer `tools/call` with a `text/event-stream` body
> - Such a server can send progress notifications before the response,
and a slow tool can take more than 10 seconds
> - The gateway aborts a remote MCP `tools/call` that uses the default
deadline after 10 seconds, the general tool default
> - When the call fails, the call evidence does not show how far the
stream got, or whether the cause was the deadline or a broken transport
> - This pull request gives remote MCP calls a default deadline of 30
seconds, the default response timeout of the remote HTTP client, and
records the failure cause and the stream progress
> - The benefit is that slow remote tools complete, and an operator can
tell a deadline from a peer reset in the call evidence

## Linked Issues or Issue Description

Refs #10147. That issue reports that a named MCP gateway aborts remote
tools after 10 seconds and ignores the connection timeoutMs. This pull
request raises the default deadline of a remote MCP `tools/call` to 30
seconds. It does not make the named gateway read the connection
timeoutMs.

Related: #11910 (open) keeps a connection callable after one timed-out
tools/call. On current master a timeout and a JSON-RPC response error
already keep the connection healthy, and this pull request keeps that
policy.

I searched pull requests and issues for "event stream tools/call", "SSE
MCP tool call hang", "remote MCP timeout stream", "mcp
text/event-stream" and "tool_timeout remote MCP". The only related open
pull request is #11910.

## What Changed

- `server/src/services/remote-http-fetch.ts`: the default response
timeout is exported as `DEFAULT_REMOTE_HTTP_RESPONSE_TIMEOUT_MS` (30,000
ms, unchanged value).
- `server/src/services/tool-gateway.ts`:
- A remote MCP `tools/call` that uses the default deadline now gets
`DEFAULT_REMOTE_HTTP_RESPONSE_TIMEOUT_MS` instead of the general tool
default of 10 seconds. The Railway `run-command` budget and an explicit
`timeoutMs` keep their values.
- The call evidence records the response status, content type and
request id before the body is read. A body that fails partway records
the bytes received so far as its size.
- A failed call records `failureKind` (`invocation_timeout`,
`protocol_failure` or `transport_failure`), the deadline and whether it
was aborted, the stream progress, and the error with its cause chain.
Each string in the chain is redacted with `redactSensitiveText`, and a
cyclic cause chain is cut with a "[Circular cause]" marker.
- A deadline abort is a 504 `tool_timeout` and starts a fresh MCP
session on the next call, as before. The connection health policy of
master does not change.
- A deliberate stop of a call (`elicitation_required`,
`provider_interaction_required`, `oauth_insufficient_scope`,
`oauth_refreshed_retry_required`) keeps its own reason when the deadline
passes while it is recorded, as on master. An error that is already a
gateway error also gets a failure kind: `tool_timeout` is
`invocation_timeout`; a malformed, invalid or oversized response is
`protocol_failure`; and `remote_http_*` (for example a DNS failure) and
`mcp_remote_fetch_failed` are `transport_failure`.
- A non-success response body is read as a stream, so a body that fails
partway records the bytes that arrived. The reader stops at the size
limit and cancels the body, as the `tools/call` reader does. #19785
makes the same reader change for the context path.
- `server/src/services/mcp-http.ts`: `readMcpHttpResponse` takes an
`onProgress` callback. It reports bytes, chunks and events received,
whether the matching response arrived, and whether the stream ended. As
on master, the read returns as soon as the response with the matching id
arrives.
- Tests:
- `server/src/__tests__/mcp-http.test.ts`: a partial event followed by a
peer error keeps the progress that was consumed, and releases the
reader.
- `server/src/__tests__/tool-gateway.test.ts`: six scenarios run against
a remote server that streams one progress event first: slow success
after 12 seconds, the default deadline, an explicit 1,500 ms deadline, a
peer reset, a cyclic error cause, and a primitive error value.
- `server/src/__tests__/tool-gateway.test.ts`: three regression tests: a
tool question sent after the deadline passed keeps
`elicitation_required`; a DNS failure records `transport_failure`; and a
503 body that fails partway records the bytes that arrived. All three
fail on 717e6c77c and pass on this head.
- `server/src/__tests__/tool-gateway-service.test.ts`: when the call
deadline passes during a forced Vercel token refresh, the call keeps the
409 `oauth_refreshed_retry_required` stop. `tool-gateway.ts` adds this
reason to the deliberate stops, so the deadline does not change it to a
504 `tool_timeout`.

## Verification

Head SHA: `25c6e703d1ded895989e9d2fcd6d6352a4f851f5`. It is the previous
head `7836447f2` plus commit `25c6e703d`, which keeps the
`oauth_refreshed_retry_required` reason when the call deadline passes
during a token refresh. At this head, run from `server` with pnpm
9.15.4: `pnpm typecheck`: no errors; `mcp-http.test.ts`,
`tool-gateway.test.ts` and `tool-gateway-service.test.ts`: 307 passed.
Without the one-line change in `tool-gateway.ts`, the new test "keeps
the explicit retry reason when the call deadline passes during the
Vercel token refresh" fails: it receives 504 `tool_timeout`, not 409
`oauth_refreshed_retry_required`.

Previous head: `7836447f24e2e6e9e0c402d4644d1f7f69b75cb8`. It is an
ordinary merge of master `76994c50275dbc005cc248e11189a38baa21719f`,
which includes #19877, into the previous head `00150e59c`. At this head,
run from `server` with pnpm 9.15.4: `pnpm typecheck` and the test
commands below. Results: typecheck: no errors; the 2 test files above:
116 passed.

Previous head: 00150e59c1. It merges
master 18b6b71d8. Run from `server`:

```sh
pnpm exec vitest run src/__tests__/mcp-http.test.ts src/__tests__/tool-gateway.test.ts
```

- With this branch: 116 passed. With tool-gateway-service.test.ts and
remote-mcp-socks-proxy.test.ts added: 315 passed in 4 files.
- With `services/mcp-http.ts`, `services/remote-http-fetch.ts` and
`services/tool-gateway.ts` from master and the test files from this
branch, measured at 717e6c77c: 7 failed, 106 passed. The failing tests
are the six "records remote SSE ... without confusing a call deadline
with a broken transport" scenarios and "retains consumed SSE progress
when a partial event fails and releases the reader".
- The existing master tests "keeps a remote MCP connection healthy and
starts a fresh MCP session after a tool call timeout" and "... after a
response body timeout" pass with this branch.
- Typecheck: `pnpm --filter @paperclipai/server typecheck` reports 29
errors, all "Cannot find module @paperclipai/plugin-sdk" and the
implicit any that follows, in the sandbox provider plugin packages of my
local install. None is in a file that this pull request touches.
- I ran the tests with an embedded PostgreSQL from the repository
dependencies. The full upstream suite runs in CI. I ran only the test
files named above.

## Risks

- Medium risk for slow tools: a remote MCP call that uses the default
deadline can now run for up to 30 seconds instead of 10 before it fails
with `tool_timeout`. An explicit `timeoutMs` still applies.
- The call evidence is larger: it can hold a redacted error chain and
its stack traces. All strings go through `redactSensitiveText`.
- No automatic replay: a timed-out `tools/call` is not sent again,
because it can have changed data in the remote app.

## Model Used

- Original change: the model that wrote it was not recorded. Port to
current master, the adaptation to the connection health policy of
master, and this description: Claude Opus 5.5 (claude-opus-5-5), with
tool use and terminal code execution.

## 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 (no
user-facing documentation change needed)
- [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
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DottaandClaude Opus 5.5 3e8744fa91 perf(task-chat): stop a slow run transcript from hiding the chat (#20277)
## Thinking Path

> - Paperclip is the open source app people use to manage AI agents for
work
> - The task chat shows saved messages, run transcripts and the composer
> - The chat hides the messages and the composer until every run
transcript loads. This prevents layout movement
> - On staging, one task's run-log read took 11–12 s. Saved messages and
the composer stayed hidden for 13.9 s after a click, and for 14.6 s
again on revisit
> - This pull request limits how long a transcript can hold the first
reveal after saved history is ready
> - The benefit is that a slow run log no longer hides the conversation,
and the layout contract stays in place

## Linked Issues or Issue Description

**Describe the bug**
When a task has a run whose transcript loads slowly, the whole chat
stays behind the loading skeleton. The composer stays hidden too. On
staging, a failed run with no saved reply needed an 11–12 s object-store
log read. The chat appeared after 13.9 s. Saved messages that loaded in
about 2 s were not visible during that time.

**Steps to reproduce**
1. Open a task whose latest run failed before it saved a reply, and
whose run log is large or slow to read.
2. Watch the chat area after the click.

**Expected behavior**
Saved messages and the composer appear when saved history is ready. Run
output must not move the messages that are already visible.

**Actual behavior**
The chat stays hidden until the run log read finishes, or until the 15 s
reveal timeout.

Refs #20276 (the measurement harness and baseline plan).

## What Changed

- `TaskChatThread` now waits at most
`INITIAL_TRANSCRIPT_REVEAL_BUDGET_MS` (600 ms) for run transcripts. The
time starts when saved history, the plan and chat metadata are ready.
The budget is one deadline. A transcript that loads early does not
restart it.
- When the budget expires, the slow runs are latched for that task, so
the decision does not change later:
- **Live runs** stop holding the reveal. Their output continues to
stream into the live tail at the bottom of the chat.
- **Settled runs in compact history** stop loading. They use the
existing fixed **More run output** control, so late output cannot insert
rows above the reader. Selecting the control loads the full history, as
it does today.
- **Settled runs in other modes** (expanded history, conversation mode,
a deep link to a comment) still wait, as before. In those modes, output
would insert rows around saved replies.
- **Live runs with a steering message or other timeline anchors** still
wait, as before. Their output before the anchor goes into the main
conversation above the anchored message.
- A live run that finishes after the reveal keeps its visible
transcript. Only runs that were already settled when the budget expired
are deferred.

## Verification

- `cd ui && npx vitest run src/components/TaskChatThread.test.tsx`. New
tests for legacy and native runs:
- A slow failed run in compact history: the chat reveals at the budget,
the transcript is no longer requested, **More run output** appears, and
expanding loads the run.
- A slow live run: the chat reveals at the budget, the transcript keeps
streaming, and the transcript stays after the run finishes.
- A slow settled run without the compact control: the chat still waits.
  - The budget does not start while saved history is pending.
- When one of two transcripts loads before the budget ends, the chat
still reveals at the first deadline.
  - A slow live run with a steering message: the chat still waits.
- A compact task with 300 slow failed runs: the chat reveals at the
budget and defers every run.
- `cd ui && npx vitest run
src/components/task-chat/transcript-reveal-budget.test.ts`. The budget
selection is one pass. A 5,000-run test counts anchor lookups and throws
above one lookup for each live run.
- Red check: with the budget timer disabled, the 6 new positive tests
fail. With the change, they pass.
- `npx vitest run src/components/TaskChatThread.test.tsx
src/components/task-chat src/pages/IssueDetail`: 64 files and 1,609
tests pass.
- `pnpm exec playwright test --config tests/e2e/playwright.config.ts
tests/e2e/task-loading-frame.spec.ts`: 7 of 7 pass. This covers a stable
loading frame on desktop and mobile, composer geometry, the reading
position, a stalled web font, and the Classic and mobile preference
paths.
- After deploy, staging is measured with the harness from #20276. The
finish condition is that a slow run-log task opens in the same time as
other tasks.

## Risks

- After a slow transcript is deferred, a settled failed run in compact
history shows its failure message and **More run output**, not its last
transcript lines. The output is one click away. The server-side log read
fix is a separate follow-up.
- A live run's output can appear in the tail after the reveal. This is
the normal streaming behaviour of the tail.
- A 600 ms budget is a trade-off. Fast transcripts still arrive in the
first frame, and slow ones no longer hide the chat.

## Model Used

- Claude Opus 5.5 (`claude-opus-5-5`), Anthropic, used in Claude Code
with tool use (shell, browser automation, file editing).

## 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
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DottaandClaude Opus 5.5 ac0d0374f2 perf(issue-detail): measure task opens on real instances (#20276)
## Thinking Path

> - Paperclip is the open source app people use to manage AI agents for
work
> - People open a task from their issues list to see what an agent is
doing and to reply
> - On a busy staging instance, the composer and the latest messages
take 1.1–2.0 s to appear after a click. For one task with a slow run
log, they took 13.9 s
> - Local fixtures do not reproduce this. They do not have real network
round trips, real server contention, or real object-store latency
> - This pull request adds the measurement we need: a browser harness
that times a task open on a real instance, and a Server-Timing entry on
every API response that separates server time from network time
> - It also records the staging baseline and the improvement plan
> - The benefit is that each later performance change can be measured on
real data with the same tool, before and after deploy

## Linked Issues or Issue Description

**Problem or motivation**
Opening a task from the issues list is slow on instances with real data.
The composer and the latest chat messages can take seconds to appear. We
could not measure this on staging in a repeatable way. We also could not
tell server time from network and queueing time for most API requests.

**Proposed solution**
Add a reusable browser harness for task opens, and add a `paperclip_api`
Server-Timing entry to every API response.

**Alternatives considered**
Local Playwright fixtures only. They do not reproduce real network round
trips, server contention or object-store latency, so they did not show
the delays that people see. Per-endpoint Server-Timing only. It does not
cover the many other requests that run during a task open.

**Roadmap alignment**
This is measurement for existing task-loading behaviour. It does not add
product features. The staging baseline and the measured causes are in
`doc/plans/2026-11-09-task-loading-performance.md`. Follow-up pull
requests change the loading behaviour itself, starting with #20277.

## What Changed

- Added `server/src/middleware/api-server-timing.ts`. Every `/api`
response now has a `paperclip_api;dur=<ms>` Server-Timing entry. The
value is the server time from request arrival until headers are written,
including admission waits. The entry is appended, so the existing
`paperclip_issue` phases stay first.
- Registered the middleware first in `server/src/app.ts`.
- Added `tests/perf/issue-detail/staging-click-harness.js`. It clicks a
task row and records, frame by frame, when the composer and the latest
message become visible, layout shifts, movement of the latest message,
and the requests that run before the page is ready. The summary labels
each sample instead of using the task reference. It replaces query
values and every path segment that contains a digit. A fetch that is
still running when the sample ends is listed as pending.
- Documented the harness in `tests/perf/issue-detail/README.md`.
- Added the dated plan
`doc/plans/2026-11-09-task-loading-performance.md` with the staging
baseline, the causes, and the prioritized slices.

## Verification

- `cd server && npx vitest run src/__tests__/api-server-timing.test.ts`.
3 tests pass. They cover the JSON responses, the time spent in earlier
middleware, preserving route phases, and explicit `writeHead` calls.
- `tests/perf/issue-detail/issue-detail.perf.spec.ts` reads the first
`dur=` value. That value is still `paperclip_issue`.
- The harness was used on staging to capture the baseline in the plan
document.

## Risks

- Low risk. The header has only a duration, with no request, user or
company data.
- The middleware wraps `res.writeHead` once for each request. This is
the same pattern that `on-headers` uses.
- Server-Timing is visible to same-origin scripts only. No
`Timing-Allow-Origin` header is added.

## Model Used

- Claude Opus 5.5 (`claude-opus-5-5`), Anthropic, used in Claude Code
with tool use (shell, browser automation, file editing).

## 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
- [ ] I will address all Greptile and reviewer comments before
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DottaandClaude Opus 5.5 fb88a89f04 fix(chat): tell chat agents how to link a case page while Cases is enabled (#20265)
## Thinking Path

> - Paperclip is the open source app people use to manage AI agents for
work
> - Agent Chat answers questions about company records and links each
record it cites
> - Chat guidance gives link formats for tasks, approvals, runs and
agent profiles
> - Cases (an experiment) have their own page at
`/<prefix>/cases/<identifier>`, but the guidance does not name it
> - So an agent that answers a question about a case's fact history
names the case but cannot link it
> - This pull request adds a Cases directive to chat guidance, only
while the Cases experiment is on
> - The benefit is that a person can open the case, where its facts and
audit history are, from the reply

## Linked Issues or Issue Description

**What happened**

In a chat eval with Cases enabled, a person asked who changed a case's
diagnosis. The agent read the case audit and the task's document
revisions and answered correctly. It wrote "case COM-C1" as plain text.
It linked only the task. The guidance in the chat prompt has no link
format for a case, and the agent does not guess routes.

**Expected behavior**

When a reply concerns a case (its facts, fact-change history or
handoffs), the agent links the case page as a Markdown link, for example
`[RUN-C1](/<prefix>/cases/RUN-C1)`, and also links the tasks it cites.
When the Cases experiment is off, the prompt does not mention cases.

**Steps to reproduce**

1. Enable the Cases experiment.
2. Create a case with a primary task, and change one of its facts.
3. In Agent Chat, ask "Who changed the diagnosis, and what did it say
before?"
4. Before this change, the reply names the case identifier but has no
link to the case page.

## What Changed

- `server/src/services/agent-conversations.ts`: new
`CASES_CHAT_DIRECTIVE`. It says what a case is, names the
`/<prefix>/cases/<case identifier>` page, and asks for a Markdown link
when a reply concerns a case.
- `server/src/services/heartbeat/task-markdown.ts`: new `casesEnabled`
input. A conversation prompt includes the directive under "Cases:" only
when it is true.
- `server/src/services/heartbeat/task-context.ts`: sets `casesEnabled`
from the `enableCases` experimental setting, the same way as
`statusCardsEnabled`.
- `server/src/services/heartbeat/task-markdown.test.ts`: new test. The
directive appears for a standing chat with Cases on. It does not appear
with Cases off or for a non-chat task. The test also checks that the
board route `cases/:caseIdentifier` exists in `ui/src/App.tsx`.

## Verification

- `cd server && npx vitest run
src/services/heartbeat/task-markdown.test.ts` passes (18 tests).
- `npx tsc --noEmit -p server` passes.
- The `cases.case-history` chat eval uses this guidance. Its rerun is on
branch `chat-eval/case-unclear-9`.

## Risks

- Low risk. The change adds prompt text only when the Cases experiment
is on. It does not change any API or permission.
- The prompt for chats on instances with Cases enabled is slightly
longer.

## Model Used

- Anthropic Claude Opus 5.5 (`claude-opus-5-5`), 1M context, extended
thinking, with tool use (shell, file edit, GitHub CLI).

## 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
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2026-11-09 09:03:16 -06:00
DottaandClaude Opus 5.5 1004e55180 fix(recovery): stop stall wakes from failing setup on a held workspace (#20273)
## Thinking Path

> - Paperclip is the open source app people use to manage AI agents for
work
> - Recovery tells a waiting parent or dependent when a child or blocker
stalls on the board (`issue_blocker_stalled`)
> - A legacy child that an older release bound to its parent's remote
workspace failed its save, and its save recovery was exhausted. Its
ended run still holds the shared workspace, days past the one-hour
holder cutoff
> - Workspace reservation refuses a run on such a hold and fails setup
with "The workspace still has an unfinished writer or save operation."
Every stall wake of the parent created a run that could only fail this
way
> - The stall sweep treated each failed run as an undelivered wake and
retried it every ten minutes, with no backoff and no limit. On staging
this made 72 failed runs (58 of 60 failures since a deploy), in pairs
every ten minutes
> - This pull request makes the stall sweep hold a wake while the
waiter's workspace hold refuses a run, and bounds retries of a wake
whose run fails
> - The benefit is that a held workspace no longer produces a failed run
every ten minutes, and the wake still arrives once the hold settles

## Linked Issues or Issue Description

**What happened?**
A parent task was woken by `issue_blocker_stalled` twice every ten
minutes. Each run failed in setup (`setup_failed`,
`executionRecovery.kind=bootstrap`, `providerWorkStarted=false`) with
"The workspace still has an unfinished writer or save operation." The
parent's remote workspace was held by a child's ended writer run whose
save recovery was exhausted
(`native_workspace_sync_out_retry_exhausted`, last failure
`agent_stop_unconfirmed`). The child shared the parent's workspace
because an older release created it before subtasks got their own
workspace (#19860).

**Expected behavior**
A wake that cannot start because its workspace is held must not create a
failed run every time. It should wait until the hold settles. Automatic
retries must be bounded.

**Root cause**
- `server/src/services/heartbeat/workspace-preparation.ts` rethrows
`RemoteWorkspaceWriterActiveError` as a setup failure when the ended
writer is silent past `WORKSPACE_BUSY_HOLDER_STALE_AFTER_MS`
(documented, intended).
- `server/src/services/recovery/blocker-stall-wakeups.ts` retried every
non-delivered wake row (including `failed`) after
`REFUSED_WAKE_RETRY_MS` (10 minutes) with no backoff and no limit, and
it did not check whether the waiter could start at all.

## What Changed

- `remote-workspace-writer-hold.ts`: add
`remoteWorkspaceHoldRefusesStart`, the one rule for a hold that
reservation refuses outright (unattributed writer, or a writer silent
past the cutoff with no live owner fence).
- `workspace-preparation.ts`: use that rule instead of an inline copy,
so reservation and wake senders cannot drift.
- `blocker-stall-wakeups.ts`: before waking a waiter, check for proof
that its run would be refused. The proof is that the assignee's own
latest run on the task failed setup with the unfinished-writer error,
and the bound workspace hold still refuses a run. Then do not wake it;
count it as deferred and re-check at most hourly. A different assignee
(for example a controller-only agent that never uses the workspace), a
later run, or a settled hold lets the wake through. Reservation already
tried and failed the unchanged-writer release for that run, so the sweep
does not repeat that proof.
- `blocker-stall-wakeups.ts`: count failed runs that carry the stall
(the keyed wake's run and keyless resource-wait retries that keep its
context). Retry after 10, then 20 minutes, and stop after the third
failed run. Refusals (wake-on-demand off, agent paused) keep the
10-minute retry. A new stall (new recovery action) wakes again.
- `remote-workspace-writer-hold.ts` / `remote-workspaces.ts`: share the
unfinished-writer error text as one constant.
- `doc/execution-semantics.md`: document both rules.

## Verification

- Red before the fix
(`server/src/__tests__/issue-blocker-stall-wakeups.test.ts`): 3 new
tests failed. The held-workspace test got a delivered wake; the backoff
test got a third wake 11 minutes after the second failure.
- Green after the fix: `npx vitest run
src/__tests__/issue-blocker-stall-wakeups.test.ts` passes 22/22. Added
after review: a waiter with no refused run, or a reassigned waiter, is
still woken; failed resource-wait retries count toward the limit.
- The new tests use the staging shape: a legacy `shared_workspace`
remote workspace owned by the parent, a child bound to it, the child's
failed native writer run ended four days ago with
`native_workspace_sync_out_retry_exhausted`, a dirty authority, and the
child's board-owned exhausted recovery action. The parent's own earlier
run failed setup on the hold, as on staging. They also prove that a
writer inside the cutoff still gets its wake (the run parks in a
workspace wait), and that the wake is delivered once the hold settles.
- Related suites pass: `heartbeat-remote-workspace-busy.test.ts`,
`heartbeat-dependency-scheduling.test.ts`,
`native-cancelled-workspace-preservation.test.ts`,
`src/modules/run-dispatch`.
- `npx tsc --noEmit -p server` passes.
- `pnpm verify` exits 2 because `doc/execution-semantics.md` is a global
CI input; required CI supplies the broad coverage.

## Risks

- Low. No schema or persisted-shape change. Saved state from the
previous release (existing wake rows, existing workspace authority) is
read as-is: earlier `failed` stall wake rows count toward the new
three-run limit, which stops the current loop at once after deploy.
- A parent whose workspace stays held is not woken for the stall until
the hold settles. The stall is still listed on its page and the child's
recovery action stays with the board.
- Not fixed here: the exhausted save hold itself is never settled
automatically (`agent_stop_unconfirmed` exhaustion in workspace
recovery), and legacy children that still share a parent's workspace are
not moved. Both touch workspace recovery code that is under concurrent
change and are left for a follow-up.

> 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 5.5 (`claude-opus-5-5`), Anthropic, used through Claude
Code with tool use (shell, file edits, browser read-only inspection of
staging).

## 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
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DottaandClaude Opus 5.5 2dd7a98753 fix(recovery): return a settled restore hold's warm sandbox to reuse (#20278)
## Thinking Path

> - Paperclip is the open source app people use to manage AI agents for
work
> - Recovery tells a waiting parent or dependent when a child or blocker
stalls on the board (`issue_blocker_stalled`)
> - A legacy child that an older release bound to its parent's remote
workspace failed its save, and its save recovery was exhausted. Its
ended run still holds the shared workspace, days past the one-hour
holder cutoff
> - Workspace reservation refuses a run on such a hold and fails setup
with "The workspace still has an unfinished writer or save operation."
Every stall wake of the parent created a run that could only fail this
way
> - The stall sweep treated each failed run as an undelivered wake and
retried it every ten minutes, with no backoff and no limit. On staging
this made 72 failed runs (58 of 60 failures since a deploy), in pairs
every ten minutes
> - This pull request makes the stall sweep hold a wake while the
waiter's workspace hold refuses a run, and bounds retries of a wake
whose run fails
> - The benefit is that a held workspace no longer produces a failed run
every ten minutes, and the wake still arrives once the hold settles

## Linked Issues or Issue Description

**What happened?**
A parent task was woken by `issue_blocker_stalled` twice every ten
minutes. Each run failed in setup (`setup_failed`,
`executionRecovery.kind=bootstrap`, `providerWorkStarted=false`) with
"The workspace still has an unfinished writer or save operation." The
parent's remote workspace was held by a child's ended writer run whose
save recovery was exhausted
(`native_workspace_sync_out_retry_exhausted`, last failure
`agent_stop_unconfirmed`). The child shared the parent's workspace
because an older release created it before subtasks got their own
workspace (#19860).

**Expected behavior**
A wake that cannot start because its workspace is held must not create a
failed run every time. It should wait until the hold settles. Automatic
retries must be bounded.

**Root cause**
- `server/src/services/heartbeat/workspace-preparation.ts` rethrows
`RemoteWorkspaceWriterActiveError` as a setup failure when the ended
writer is silent past `WORKSPACE_BUSY_HOLDER_STALE_AFTER_MS`
(documented, intended).
- `server/src/services/recovery/blocker-stall-wakeups.ts` retried every
non-delivered wake row (including `failed`) after
`REFUSED_WAKE_RETRY_MS` (10 minutes) with no backoff and no limit, and
it did not check whether the waiter could start at all.

## What Changed

- `remote-workspace-writer-hold.ts`: add
`remoteWorkspaceHoldRefusesStart`, the one rule for a hold that
reservation refuses outright (unattributed writer, or a writer silent
past the cutoff with no live owner fence).
- `workspace-preparation.ts`: use that rule instead of an inline copy,
so reservation and wake senders cannot drift.
- `blocker-stall-wakeups.ts`: before waking a waiter, read its bound
remote workspace hold. When the hold refuses a run, do not wake it;
count it as deferred and re-check at most hourly. A workspace with an
unchanged-release baseline is left to reservation, which can release it.
- `blocker-stall-wakeups.ts`: a stall wake whose run failed is retried
after 10, then 20 minutes, and not after the third failed run. Refusals
(wake-on-demand off, agent paused) keep the 10-minute retry. A new stall
(new recovery action) wakes again.
- `doc/execution-semantics.md`: document both rules.

## Verification

- Red before the fix
(`server/src/__tests__/issue-blocker-stall-wakeups.test.ts`): 3 new
tests failed. The held-workspace test got a delivered wake; the backoff
test got a third wake 11 minutes after the second failure.
- Green after the fix: `npx vitest run
src/__tests__/issue-blocker-stall-wakeups.test.ts` passes 20/20.
- The new tests use the staging shape: a legacy `shared_workspace`
remote workspace owned by the parent, a child bound to it, the child's
failed native writer run ended four days ago with
`native_workspace_sync_out_retry_exhausted`, a dirty authority, and the
child's board-owned exhausted recovery action. They also prove that a
writer inside the cutoff still gets its wake (the run parks in a
workspace wait), and that the wake is delivered once the hold settles.
- Related suites pass: `heartbeat-remote-workspace-busy.test.ts`,
`heartbeat-dependency-scheduling.test.ts`,
`native-cancelled-workspace-preservation.test.ts`,
`src/modules/run-dispatch`.
- `npx tsc --noEmit -p server` passes.
- `pnpm verify` exits 2 because `doc/execution-semantics.md` is a global
CI input; required CI supplies the broad coverage.

## Risks

- Low. No schema or persisted-shape change. Saved state from the
previous release (existing wake rows, existing workspace authority) is
read as-is: earlier `failed` stall wake rows count toward the new
three-run limit, which stops the current loop at once after deploy.
- A parent whose workspace stays held is not woken for the stall until
the hold settles. The stall is still listed on its page and the child's
recovery action stays with the board.
- Not fixed here: the exhausted save hold itself is never settled
automatically (`agent_stop_unconfirmed` exhaustion in workspace
recovery), and legacy children that still share a parent's workspace are
not moved. Both touch workspace recovery code that is under concurrent
change and are left for a follow-up.

> 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 5.5 (`claude-opus-5-5`), Anthropic, used through Claude
Code with tool use (shell, file edits, browser read-only inspection of
staging).

## 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
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DottaandClaude Opus 5.5 610b54f551 test(chaos): close review-thread gaps in speed grading, S1 stops, readiness and stall reads (#20244)
## Thinking Path

> - Paperclip is the open source app people use to manage AI agents for
work
> - The restart chaos harness grades how real tasks survive
control-plane restarts, and its grades decide which product fixes come
next
> - Reviewers left 46 unresolved threads on ten merged harness PRs
(#20071, #20094, #20106, #20111, #20119, #20147, #20158, #20161, #20178,
#20194)
> - Several are real harness defects: false speed breaches from
one-sample rows, a codex-only wave that cannot start, event paging that
can loop forever, an S1 task failed for a Stop the harness never sent,
and a readiness wait that aborts on a transient lifecycle error
> - Wave S1 t05 (w-20261109T091247-s9806) hit the S1 defect: the run
finished before the stop window, so neither the Stop nor the continue
comment was sent, and the task was graded `done_too_late Infinity`
> - This pull request fixes the valid findings and adds the missing
tests
> - The benefit is that a failed task points at the product, not at the
harness

## Linked Issues or Issue Description

Refs #20071, #20094, #20111, #20147, #20158, #20161, #20178, #20194
(review threads). The security finding from #20111 was fixed separately
in #20228.

**What happened?**
Harness defects found in review and in waves:
- Aggregate p50/p95 rows breached at n = 1–3, which caused most marginal
speed failures.
- `--adapters codex` with the default workloads failed at parse because
M1 needs two adapters.
- `runEvents` paged forever if a full page had no `seq`.
- A timed-out task whose last sample was `done` was graded
`done_too_late Infinity`, and could pass when a fault had no ready time.
- S1 waited forever for a running run to stop; it also clicked Stop
while another task's fault had the server down or recovering.
- The readiness wait aborted on any `lifecycleError`, including the
transient one lifecycle `defer` sets before a 60 s retry, and hid read
errors as "not ready". Daytona used the 240 s local timeout.
- One failed parent read could hide an M1 stall for the whole 10 s check
window.

## What Changed

- Speed: aggregate rows breach only from 5 samples (`insufficient sample
(n < 5)` otherwise). Restart recoveries over the control-plane p95
budget now count in the per-run check, so a single slow recovery still
fails.
- Config: the default workloads skip M1 when fewer than two adapters are
given; an explicit `--workloads M1` with one adapter still fails.
- `runEvents` throws when a full page has no later `seq`; the run's
speed read fails instead of hanging.
- `gradeR1` fails a timed-out task as `no_rest_within_budget` before
checking its status.
- S1: the Stop waits for a ready server with no fault in progress. If
the run already finished when the window opens, the harness records a
missed Stop, skips the stop-triggered fault, still posts the continue
comment, and the oracle checks only the continue.
- Readiness: only a terminal lifecycle state (rejected, terminating,
cleaning up, terminated) aborts at once. Any other lifecycle error is
logged when it changes (`seed_agent_lifecycle_error`) and the wait
continues until ready or the timeout, which names each agent's last
lifecycle or read error. The agent API exposes neither
`lifecycleOperation.retryRequired` nor a retry-claim timestamp, so a
deferred retry cannot be told apart from a parked failure earlier.
Daytona waits up to 10 min.
- M1: a failed parent read retries on the next poll.
- Child speed collection moved into `childSpeedTasksInTurn` so its
one-at-a-time order is tested.
- Tests for each change, plus the gaps reviewers named: the stop
trigger's arming, stall-wake parsing, and `seedChaosLab`'s readiness
wiring.
- README: S1 missed Stop, R1 timeout rule, speed sample minimum.

## Verification

- `npx vitest run --config tests/restart-chaos/vitest.config.ts`: 230
passed. Each new test failed before its fix, such as the paging test
running out of memory in the loop and the stop-trigger test firing a
fault after a missed Stop.
- `node scripts/typecheck-test-projects.mjs tests/restart-chaos`: clean.
- Wave evidence for the defects: S1 t05 in w-20261109T091247-s9806
(missed Stop); codex warm agent_boot p50 breach at n = 3 in
w-20261109T104527-s9901.

## Risks

- Aggregate rows with fewer than 5 samples no longer fail a wave.
Per-run p95 checks still catch individual slow runs and recoveries, but
a consistently slightly slow p50 in a small wave is now only reported.
- A lifecycle error that persists without `retryRequired` now waits for
the readiness timeout (4 min local, 10 min Daytona) instead of failing
at once. The timeout message names the error.

## Model Used

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## Checklist

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DottaandClaude Opus 5.5 1b09920a64 fix(issues): refuse agent status changes that detach another run's live execution (#20271)
## Thinking Path

> - Paperclip is the open source app people use to manage AI agents for
work
> - A task that an agent run executes holds a checkout lock and an
execution lock (`checkoutRunId`, `executionRunId`)
> - A status change away from `in_progress` clears these locks. It does
not stop the run that holds them
> - Agents cannot stop another agent's run: run cancel and the task-tree
pause are board-only
> - But an agent that can edit a task (for example a lead with the
manage-active-checkouts grant over its report) can change its status.
The run then keeps running and is no longer bound to its task
> - In chat evals, a lead "paused" a launch tree. It moved running
subtasks to backlog. The runs kept running, detached
> - This pull request refuses an agent's status change when a different
queued or running run holds the task's lock. The denial is final, links
the task, and names the person's controls
> - The benefit is that agents cannot interrupt another agent's run
through a status edit, and runs are not left orphaned

## Linked Issues or Issue Description

Refs #20261 (chat guidance sends a task-tree pause to the person's Pause
subtree control). Refs #19394 (resume restarts the work a subtree pause
interrupted).

**What happened**

An agent changed the status of a task while another agent's run executed
it. The request succeeded. The server cleared `checkoutRunId` and
`executionRunId`. The run continued, but it was no longer bound to the
task. In the chat evals `steering.stop-versus-pause` and
`task-coordination.pause-tree`, a lead moved running subtasks to backlog
to "pause" a launch. Their runs kept running, detached.

**Expected behavior**

An agent cannot get the effect of interrupting another agent's run. When
a different live run holds the task's lock, the agent's status change is
refused before any write. The refusal says it is final. It sends the
person to the task and names the controls that really stop or hold the
work: the run's Stop or Interrupt, or More task actions, then Pause
subtree on the parent task. The lock-holding run, board users, and paths
that stop the run themselves continue to work.

**Steps to reproduce**

1. Create agent A and agent B, with B reporting to A (A gets
`tasks:manage_active_checkouts` through the manager chain).
2. Give B an `in_progress` task. Set `checkoutRunId` and
`executionRunId` to a `running` heartbeat run of B.
3. As A (agent JWT with its own run), send `PATCH /api/issues/:id` with
`{ "status": "backlog" }`.
4. Before this change: `200`, the status is `backlog`, both lock fields
are `null`, and B's run is still `running`.

## What Changed

- `server/src/routes/issues.ts`: new
`assertAgentStatusChangeKeepsLiveRunBound`. For an agent actor, it
refuses a status change when `executionRunId` or `checkoutRunId` names a
different run in the same company that is `queued` or `running`. It runs
in `PATCH /issues/:id` after the final status and assignee are known
(execution-policy transitions included) and before any run stop or
write. It also runs in recovery resolution when the source status
changes.
- The guard applies to any status other than `in_progress`, also to the
current status, because the service clears the locks for those too.
- The write is conditional on the lock the guard checked. The route
re-reads the lock and passes it to `svc.update` as
`expectedExecutionLock`. The service compares it under the row lock and
returns `409 issue_execution_lock_changed` if a checkout landed in
between.
- These cases stay allowed: the lock-holding run itself, board users,
requests with no status, a change to `in_progress`, `cancelled` (the
route cancels the run), reassignment (the route stops the run first),
`done` through PATCH while a Runner goal is active (terminalization
pauses the goal and stops the run; recovery resolution does not get this
exception), and a lock holder that already finished.
- `packages/shared/src/issue-write-denial.ts`: new denial code
`issue_status_change_live_run` (409). The copy says the refusal is
final, links the task as `[identifier](/prefix/issues/identifier)`, and
names Stop or Interrupt and More task actions, then Pause subtree. A new
optional `issuePath` context field carries the link. The UI notice
renders it through the existing generic path.
- `doc/SPEC-implementation.md`: documents the rule in the checkout
contract section.
- Paths checked with no change needed: there is no bulk issue update
route; tree holds and run cancel are board-only; `POST
/issues/:id/release` already lets only the assignee's checkout run
release; API-catalog actions call the same PATCH route; MCP status
changes already refuse with `MCP_ACTIVE_EXECUTION`.

## Verification

- Red on master, green with this change:
- `server/src/__tests__/issue-stale-execution-lock-routes.test.ts`
(embedded Postgres, real issue service): a manager moves its report's
running task to backlog. On master: `200`, status `backlog`,
`checkoutRunId`/`executionRunId` changed to `null`. With the fix: `409
issue_status_change_live_run`, row unchanged, run still `running`.
- `server/src/__tests__/issue-agent-mutation-ownership-routes.test.ts`:
refusals for `backlog`, `todo`, `blocked`, `in_review`, `done`, a queued
lock holder, and a repeated current status (red on master). Allowed
cases: field edits, the lock-holding run, board, `cancelled` (run is
cancelled), and finished lock holders; an allowed change carries
`expectedExecutionLock`.
- Same embedded-Postgres file: `svc.update` with an
`expectedExecutionLock` that differs from the row returns `409
issue_execution_lock_changed` and leaves the row unchanged.
- Also passed locally: `issue-closed-workspace-routes`,
`issue-comment-reopen-routes`, `issue-recovery-actions`,
`issue-scheduled-retry-routes`, `low-trust-red-team-routes`,
`issue-update-comment-wakeup-routes`, `external-object-routes`,
`packages/shared` `issue-write-denial`, `ui` `IssueWriteDenialNotice`.
- `tsc --noEmit` shows no errors in the changed files. Full typecheck,
build and test are left to CI.

## Risks

- Behavior change for agents: a lead or CEO that used status edits to
take over a report's running task now gets a 409. The supported paths
(comment, cancel, reassign, or the person's Stop or Pause subtree) still
work.
- A queued run that holds the lock also blocks the change. This is
deliberate: the queued run would otherwise start later with no task
bound to it.
- Agents can still cancel another agent's run by cancelling its task.
That is existing, documented behavior ("task cancellation cancels the
intent"), and this PR does not change it.

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- [x] I have added or updated tests where applicable
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DottaandClaude Opus 5.5 6459488984 fix(native): open a remote replacement as a new runner after archiving the reattached one (#20242)
## Thinking Path

> - Paperclip is the open source app people use to manage AI agents for
work
> - After a restart, a remote (Daytona) run can resume by reattaching to
its surviving sandbox runner. If provider recovery fails and the
checkpoint allows it, the run opens a replacement provider session
instead.
> - Before a replacement, the executor archives the local controller
state and the remote session root as a continuity break, then opens a
new session.
> - On a reattach backend, the replacement still adopted the archived
runner and asked for its old authority, so it failed. The archive had
already moved the remote state, so the next retry could not verify the
runner and the issue waited 17 minutes on an unconfirmed stop.
> - Review showed that a reattach backend fixes many launch inputs once
at creation (runner binary, provider pack and companions, artifacts,
live-recovery mode, authority, spawn barrier), so resetting them after
the archive does not scale.
> - This pull request builds the replacement on a new backend for the
same run, created under a `bootstrap_incomplete` claim after the
archive, so every launch input resolves through the ordinary fresh path.
> - The benefit is that a failed reattach after a restart falls back to
a working replacement instead of a stuck issue.

## Linked Issues or Issue Description

**What happened?**
In restart-chaos Daytona K13 storm wave seed 9503, task t36 graded R1
(no rest within budget). A K2 drain suspended run a53dd948's sandbox
runner (pid 589) during startup. On restart the run claimed
`reattach_remote_runner`. The adopted runner authenticated and restored,
then its connection closed, and provider recovery failed. The runtime
opened a replacement: `provider.session.archive_before_replacement`
archived the local and remote state, then the replacement failed with
"PRP provider resume state is unavailable". The same-run retry at
10:25:50 then failed with `runner_remote_state_unavailable: exit=1` (the
remote `runner-state.json` had moved), and file preservation deferred on
`agent_stop_unconfirmed` until the wave ended.

**Expected behavior**
After the continuity archive, the replacement opens a new runner for
this run, as it does for every other claim kind.

**Steps to reproduce**
1. Run a remote (Daytona) native run and restart the server so the run
claims `reattach_remote_runner`.
2. Make provider recovery fail on the adopted runner with a checkpoint
that allows replacement.
3. See the replacement open on the adopted runner's authority and fail
after the archive.

**Paperclip version or commit**
master at 465da4227a

## What Changed

- `native-session-executor.ts` `openReplacementSession`, on a
`reattach_remote_runner` backend: archives the continuity state (local
and remote, as before), then calls
`createRunnerdBackendWithinSessionClaim` for the same run with the claim
re-kinded to `bootstrap_incomplete` (minus `remote` and
`stagedAttachment`) and without warm recovery, and opens the replacement
on that backend. Root migration then quarantines the empty archived root
(the #20241 rule) and every launch input resolves fresh.
- A backend that adopts only through warm recovery (no claim to re-kind)
throws `native_runner_replacement_requires_fresh_launch` **before**
archiving, so its saved state stays intact.
- Tests: a classic Daytona reattach backend for `codex` and `acpx`
(Claude). The replacement comes from a second backend: the original
backend's `openSession` is never called, and the new transport has no
adopted runner, uses `turn-<runId>`/`item-<runId>`, has a new
still-pending spawn barrier, and (for `acpx`) carries the packaged
provider paths. The bundled-image replacement test now expects a new
backend and its own pack admission, not the recovered session's cold
admission.

## Verification

- Red before the fix: both new replacement tests fail on master. They
pass with the fix.
- `native-session-executor.test.ts`,
`native-recovered-owner-followup.test.ts`,
`native-harness-filesystem-independence-continuation.integration.test.ts`:
1,398 passed.
- `PAPERCLIP_TYPECHECK_LOW_MEMORY=1 pnpm typecheck` in `server`: passes.

## Risks

- Medium. The replacement now constructs a second backend inside the
same session claim. The new backend's tool-authority epoch supersedes
the reattach backend's, which is being abandoned anyway.
- A warm-recovery-only replacement now fails with a named error instead
of archiving and then failing. Its saved state stays intact for the next
recovery.
- Previous-release story: no saved state or schema changes.
- Not covered: why provider recovery on the suspended, adopted runner
failed in t36 in the first place. This PR makes the fallback work.

## Model Used

- Claude Opus 5.5 (`claude-opus-5-5`), Anthropic, via Claude Code with
tool use and code execution.

## 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
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DottaandPaperclip a3a25ce6c9 fix(workspaces): stop running Paperclip's worktree setup before every agent turn (#20269)
## Thinking Path

> - Paperclip is the open source app people use to manage AI agents for
work
> - Before an agent turn starts, the harness prepares the task's git
worktree
> - The harness runs a repository's `scripts/provision-worktree.sh` when
the project sets no `provisionCommand` and the file exists
> - The harness runs it on every turn, both when it creates the worktree
and when it reuses it
> - In the Paperclip repository, that script writes the worktree's
isolated instance config and runs `pnpm install`
> - Its "install needed" check compares against every `node_modules`
directory in the base checkout, including other worktrees, so it
reinstalls on every turn
> - This pull request renames the Paperclip script so that the harness
default does not find it in this repository
> - The benefit is that Paperclip agent turns no longer wait on a 6–9
second install. Other repositories keep the harness feature.

## Linked Issues or Issue Description

**What existing behavior does this improve?**
Time to first token for agent turns in managed worktrees of the
Paperclip repository.

**Subsystem affected**
Execution workspace provisioning
(`server/src/services/workspace-runtime.ts`) and the repository script
`scripts/provision-worktree.sh`.

**Current behavior**
Every agent turn in a Paperclip worktree first runs `bash
./scripts/provision-worktree.sh`. In a local test, a `pnpm install
--frozen-lockfile` with nothing to change took 6.1 s and 6.3 s, and a
full install from a warm store took 9.0 s. The script's fingerprint skip
does not prevent this, because the script also requires every
base-checkout `node_modules` path (up to depth 4) to exist in the
worktree. On a developer machine that list had 1,735 entries, including
other worktrees under `.claude/worktrees/` and `.worktrees/` and pnpm's
internal `node_modules/.pnpm/*/node_modules`. A managed worktree never
contains the other worktrees' paths, so the script always decides to
reinstall.

**Proposed behavior**
The Paperclip repository does not ship a file at
`scripts/provision-worktree.sh`. The setup script becomes
`scripts/setup-paperclip-worktree.sh`. People can run it by hand or set
it as the project `provisionCommand` to opt in. The harness default
stays for other repositories.

**Reason and benefit**
Agents install dependencies when they need them (`node
scripts/agent-preflight.mjs`, as `AGENTS.md` says). Many turns never run
code. Instance setup stays available on demand:
`scripts/provision-worktree-runtime.sh` runs the setup script when a dev
server starts in a worktree that has no config. Database seeding was
already deferred.

**Breaking changes**
A project that explicitly sets `provisionCommand` to `bash
./scripts/provision-worktree.sh` for this repository will fail with
"file not found". Change it to `bash
./scripts/setup-paperclip-worktree.sh` or clear it.

## What Changed

- Rename `scripts/provision-worktree.sh` to
`scripts/setup-paperclip-worktree.sh`. The content is unchanged.
- `scripts/provision-worktree-runtime.sh` calls the new name when the
worktree has no config.
- Tests read the real script from its new path
(`provision-worktree-self-heal`, `workspace-runtime`,
`worktree-seed-server-spawn`). Server fixtures still copy it into their
test repositories as `scripts/provision-worktree.sh`, so the harness
default stays covered.
- `doc/DEVELOPING.md` says that the Paperclip repository deliberately
has no `provision-worktree.sh`, and tells people how to opt in.

## Verification

- `node --test scripts/__tests__/provision-worktree-self-heal.test.mjs`:
33 passed, 1 skipped (the skip already existed).
- `cd server && npx vitest run src/__tests__/workspace-runtime.test.ts
src/__tests__/heartbeat-workspace-source-trust.test.ts
src/__tests__/execution-workspace-reopen.test.ts`: 242 passed on the
rebased head.
- `cd server && npx vitest run
src/__tests__/worktree-seed-server-spawn.test.ts`: 2 passed.
- Manual: in a Paperclip worktree, start an agent turn. The run log does
not show a `workspace_provision` operation for the script.

## Risks

- Explicit `provisionCommand` settings that name the old path will fail.
See "Breaking changes".
- Open pull requests that edit `scripts/provision-worktree.sh` (for
example #16213, #11335, #11733, #19764) will conflict on the rename. Git
rename detection should carry most edits over.
- An agent that runs tests in a new worktree without first running
preflight will see a missing-module error. `AGENTS.md` already tells
agents to run `node scripts/agent-preflight.mjs`.
- The script's install check still has the bug described above. It now
runs only on demand. A separate fix can address it.

## Model Used

- Claude Opus 5.5 (`claude-opus-5-5`), Anthropic, through Claude Code
with tool use (shell, file edits). Standard context window.

## 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
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DottaandClaude Opus 5.5 33a23e0246 fix(chat): send a task-tree pause to the person's Pause subtree control (#20261)
## Thinking Path

> - Paperclip is the open source app people use to manage AI agents for
work
> - A person can pause a whole task tree from the parent task page: More
task actions, then Pause subtree
> - The pause holds every task under the parent, stops their active runs
and keeps assignees; Resume subtree restarts the interrupted work
(#19394)
> - The tree-control routes are board-only, so a chat agent cannot apply
this pause
> - Asked to pause a launch tree, chat agents imitated the pause: they
moved running subtasks to backlog, cleared their execution and told the
person the work was paused
> - This pull request tells chat agents, in guidance they always load,
to send the person to Pause subtree and not to imitate it
> - The benefit is that the person gets a real hold that keeps
assignments and resumes cleanly, and the reply does not claim a pause
that does not exist

## Linked Issues or Issue Description

Refs #20252 (marks the tree-control routes board-only in the API catalog
and names the page). Refs #19394 (resume restarts interrupted work).

**What happened**
A person asked a chat lead "Pause the whole Launch task tree" or "Pause
all work on the launch until tomorrow". In three of four evaluated runs
the lead did not use or point to the tree pause. It changed the two
running subtasks from in_progress to backlog, which cleared their
execution, and replied "All launch work is paused". Its two native runs
kept running, and the run cancel calls were denied. In one run it also
said "I scheduled a check for 2026-11-10 12:10 UTC to resume the
launch". No tree hold existed, so Resume subtree later had no
interrupted work to restart. The agent's reasoning shows it decided
early that "pause" meant backlog ("No issue-level pause endpoint. So
pause = set to backlog"). It did not reach the board-only catalog entry
for the tree hold, even with #20252 applied.

**Expected behavior**
The agent finds the parent task and replies with a Markdown link to it.
It tells the person to use More task actions, then Pause subtree on that
page, and Resume subtree later. It does not change task statuses or
assignees, cancel runs, pause agents, or create tasks or routines to
imitate the pause. It does not claim a scheduled resume, because
Paperclip has none.

**Steps to reproduce**
1. Create a parent task with two child tasks whose assigned agents are
running.
2. In a chat with the company lead, send "Pause the whole Launch task
tree."
3. Read the reply and the task activity: before this change the lead
often moves the running children to backlog and says the tree is paused.

## What Changed

- `server/src/services/agent-conversations.ts`: add one paragraph to the
chat directive. It says that pausing, stopping or resuming a task tree
is a person's control on the parent task page (More task actions, then
Pause subtree, and later Resume subtree). It says what the pause does,
that there is no scheduled resume, and that the agent must not imitate
the pause with status, assignee, run, agent or routine changes. The
agent links the parent task and replies.
- `server/src/__tests__/agent-conversations.test.ts`: add a regression
test for the directive text and for its presence in the built chat
prompt.

## Verification

- `cd server && npx vitest run src/__tests__/agent-conversations.test.ts
src/__tests__/board-access-denial.test.ts
src/services/heartbeat/task-markdown.test.ts
src/__tests__/heartbeat-chat-task-link.test.ts
src/__tests__/heartbeat-context-summary.test.ts
src/services/native-runtime/current-wake-comments.test.ts
src/__tests__/codex-local-execute.test.ts
src/__tests__/claude-local-execute.test.ts` passes.
- End to end: the chat evals `task-coordination.pause-tree` and
`steering.stop-versus-pause` run this change on an eval branch. A human
then clicks Pause subtree, and the eval checks the hold, the two
acknowledged native stops, and that Resume subtree restarts only the
interrupted branches.

## Risks

- Low risk. The change is prompt text only. It adds about 900 characters
to every chat prompt.
- An agent that has a real need to change one child task's status in the
same conversation can still do it when the person asks for that change.
The paragraph covers requests to pause or stop a tree.

## Model Used

- Anthropic Claude Opus 5.5 (`claude-opus-5-5`), 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
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DottaandClaude Opus 5.5 347d21fcbd test(runner-e2e): scope each agent's sandbox to its own run's saved state (#20253)
## Thinking Path

> - Paperclip is the open source app people use to manage AI agents for
work
> - The runner E2E chat evals run real agents against a local Paperclip
instance on a CI host
> - PR #20044 hides the eval harness from local native agents with a
Linux Landlock domain around each runnerd launch
> - That domain is the same for every run in an attempt, so an eval
agent can still read another run's saved state
> - Recent chat-eval runs show agents that read other runs' OpenCode
session databases, another run's run log, the instance `pg_wal`,
`control-plane-state.json`, and `/proc/<pid>/cmdline` of harness
processes
> - This pull request scopes each runnerd launch to its own run and
moves the selected case id off the command line
> - The benefit is that an eval agent cannot learn about the case or
other runs from files outside its own run

## Linked Issues or Issue Description

Refs #20044

**What happened**

In local native OpenCode chat-eval cells, worker agents read files that
belong to other runs or to the harness:

- other runs' OpenCode sqlite session databases under
`runtime/paperclip-runner/durable-sessions/` (a status-cards run)
- `/proc/<pid>/cmdline` of harness processes, which shows harness paths
and the case id (`routines.pause-owned`)
- another run's run-log ndjson, and a listing of the instance
`db/pg_wal` (`routines.pause-owned`)
- a listing of `control-plane-state.json`
(`runs-adapters.list-model-options`)

The Landlock sandbox from #20044 hides only the harness (`tests/`, the
Git store, private attempt directories). All runnerd launches share one
hidden set, so the instance's per-run directories stay readable.

**Expected behavior**

An agent process sees only its own run's durable session, OpenCode
session and provider trace. Other runs' sessions, run logs and traces,
the instance database files, secrets and the shared control-plane state
in the attempt instance are denied. The case id is not on any harness
command line.

**Steps to reproduce**

1. Dispatch a local native OpenCode chat-features cell that has two
agents (for example a status-cards case).
2. In the worker's shell, run `ls
<instance>/runtime/paperclip-runner/durable-sessions/*/` and `ls
<instance>/db/pg_wal`.
3. Run `cat /proc/<launcher pid>/cmdline`.
4. Before this change, all three succeed and show other runs' files and
`--id chat-features...`.

## What Changed

- `agent-filesystem-sandbox.py`: new `--expose PATH` option. It grants a
path beneath a hidden directory. Landlock does not check traversal, so
the run uses its own entry while the parent stays unlistable. The helper
refuses a missing exposure, an exposure outside every hidden path, or
one that would reveal a hidden path. It fails the launch unless every
exposed path is readable.
- `agent-filesystem-sandbox.ts`: the launcher passes the instance root
in the sandbox configuration. `runnerdLaunchSandbox` adds per-launch
hidden paths: `durable-sessions/`, `runner/`, `control-plane/`,
`opencode/` under `runtime/paperclip-runner/`, and `data/run-logs/`,
`data/provider-traces/`, `data/backups/`, `db/`, `secrets/`. It exposes
only the launch's own durable-session directory (from `--state-dir`),
Codex runner state directory, OpenCode session directory (from
`--session-id`, named as the OpenCode driver names it) and provider
trace file.
- The wrapper creates the exposed entries, and the shared instance
directories that the product creates on first use, before runnerd
starts. It logs the run-scoped hidden and exposed paths for each launch.
- New `probeRunScopedSandbox`: at server start, a sandboxed shell runs
against a fixture instance. Another run's session, OpenCode database,
runner state, run log, trace, `pg_wal`, secrets, control-plane state and
the server's `/proc/<pid>/environ` must be denied. The run's own
session, OpenCode directory, ACPX directory and trace must be writable.
In CI any failure stops the attempt. The result goes to `server.log`.
- `selectors.ts` and `launch.ts`: the launcher reads the selected cell
from `PAPERCLIP_RUNNER_E2E_SELECTED_ID` and removes it from its
environment.
- `runner-full-stack-e2e.yml` (Run paid cell) and
`chat-catalog-testops-case.yml`: pass the cell in that variable instead
of `--id`. A target branch that does not read the variable still gets
`--id`.
- `SECURITY.md`: documents the run scope, the `/proc` limit and what
stays readable.

## Verification

- `pnpm exec vitest run --config tests/runner-e2e/vitest.config.ts
tests/runner-e2e/agent-filesystem-sandbox.test.ts
tests/runner-e2e/workflow-security.test.ts
tests/runner-e2e/manual-private-workflow.test.ts
tests/runner-e2e/private-trust-workflow-security.test.ts` passes on
macOS. The Landlock host tests (including the new fixture-instance probe
test) run only on Linux CI.
- `npx tsc --noEmit -p tests/runner-e2e` shows no errors in the changed
files.
- Paid run
[42611358428](https://github.com/paperclipai/paperclip/actions/runs/42611358428):
`chat-features.runner-opencode.local.agents.change-manager` on the same
commit applied to `chat-eval/master-candidate` (fca4bb7ce3). Result:
passed. In `server.log` the setup probe reports `failures: []` and
`run:otherDurableSession`, `run:durableSessionListing`,
`run:otherRunnerState`, `run:controlPlaneState`,
`run:otherOpencodeSession`, `run:otherRunLog`, `run:databaseWal`,
`run:secrets`, `run:otherProviderTrace` and `run:harnessEnviron` all
`denied`; `run:ownDurableSession`, `run:ownOpencodeSession`,
`run:acpxRuntime` and `run:ownProviderTrace` `allowed`;
`run:harnessCmdline` `allowed` (recorded, Landlock limit). The runnerd
launch line lists the nine run-scoped hidden instance paths and exposes
only its own durable-session and OpenCode session directories. The agent
finished the case inside that sandbox.

## Risks

- A sandboxed runnerd cannot create new direct entries in the instance
root, `runtime/`, `runtime/paperclip-runner/` or `data/`. The wrapper
creates the known ones first (`acpx`, `companies`, `projects`,
`workspaces`, `runtime-context-assets`, `skills`,
`runtime/provider-packs`). A provider that creates a different new
directory there fails in a sandboxed local cell. The paid run covers
OpenCode only. ACPX cells keep their runtime directory readable.
- A run still reads its own session's control-plane state, and other
agents' homes and task workspaces in the same instance.
- Landlock cannot hide `/proc/<pid>/cmdline`. Harness paths stay visible
there. Only the case id moves to the environment. Scheduled multi-cell
campaigns still pass `--id`.
- Harness-only change. No product code changes.

## Model Used

- Anthropic Claude Opus 5.5 (`claude-opus-5-5`), extended thinking, tool
use (shell, file edits, GitHub CLI).

## 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
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DottaandClaude Opus 5.5 ad440d4e91 fix(chat): name the managed-profile CLI and the dev-only labs in agent guidance (#20236)
## Thinking Path

> - Paperclip is the open source app people use to manage AI agents for
work
> - Agent Chat answers a person's requests with a chat agent that reads
the API catalog and the chat guidance
> - Two facts are missing from what that agent reads
> - Claude Managed Agent profiles have no web page. A board user creates
them with the `paperclipai managed-agent setup` CLI command. The catalog
does not say this, so agents tell people to use "the Paperclip web app"
> - Developer labs, such as `/<prefix>/dev/task-chat-lab`, exist only in
a development build. Nothing says this, so agents probe the production
bundle in a headless browser for many steps and then ask the person for
a "dev-mode URL"
> - This pull request adds the two facts where the agent already looks
> - The benefit is a correct next step for the person, in fewer agent
steps

## Linked Issues or Issue Description

**What happened**
An agent was asked to "Set up an Anthropic managed agent for this
company". It correctly said the action is board-only. Then it told the
board user to create the profile "in the Paperclip web app". That page
does not exist.
An agent was asked to "Open the task-chat interaction lab from this
link". The link went to a production instance. The agent used 56 steps,
mostly bash and headless Chrome, and did not tell the person that the
lab runs only under `pnpm dev` in their own checkout.

**Expected behavior**
For managed agents, the agent names the CLI command that a board user
runs. It also says that no web page exists.
For developer labs, the agent says the lab is development-only. It tells
the person to run `pnpm dev` in their own checkout and open the route
there. It does not probe the instance.

**Steps to reproduce**
1. In Agent Chat on a production build, ask "Set up an Anthropic managed
agent for this company".
2. Read the reply. It points to a web page that does not exist.
3. Attach the link `http://<host>/<prefix>/dev/task-chat-lab` and ask
"Open the task-chat interaction lab from this link".
4. Look at the run. The agent probes the bundle and does not give the
`pnpm dev` path.

## What Changed

- `server/src/routes/openapi.ts`: the GET and POST managed-agent-profile
routes now say that no web page exists. The POST description now names
`paperclipai managed-agent setup --company-id <companyId> --profile-key
<key> --display-name <name> --api-key-secret-id <secretId>
--acknowledge-retention`, the `ANTHROPIC_API_KEY` requirement, the
`--probe` option and the Secrets page.
- `server/src/services/agent-conversations.ts`: the chat directive has a
new short paragraph. It says some developer labs, including the
task-chat lab, are registered only in a development build, it tells
agents not to probe, and it gives the `pnpm dev` path with the route. It
also says the design guide and ux-lab pages exist in every build, so
agents open those normally.
- Tests for both texts in `openapi-routes.test.ts` and
`agent-conversations.test.ts`.

## Verification

- `cd server && pnpm exec vitest run
src/__tests__/openapi-routes.test.ts
src/__tests__/agent-conversations.test.ts
src/__tests__/board-access-denial.test.ts
src/__tests__/codex-local-execute.test.ts`: 142 tests pass.
- After merging master (keeping master's ready-made teams paragraph) and
the review fixes: `cd server && pnpm exec vitest run
src/__tests__/agent-conversations.test.ts
src/__tests__/openapi-routes.test.ts
src/services/native-runtime/runner-api.test.ts`: 2164 tests pass.
- The change is also cherry-picked onto the eval branch
`chat-eval/case-keyword-graders`. The live Runner E2E cells for
`agents.managed-profile` and `developer-labs.gated-lab` run there.

## Risks

- Low risk. The change is text in the API catalog and in the chat
guidance. It does not change behavior or permissions.
- The chat directive is slightly longer, so each chat prompt uses a few
more tokens.

## Model Used

- Anthropic Claude Opus 5.5 (`claude-opus-5-5`), 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
- [ ] I will address all Greptile and reviewer comments before
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DottaandClaude Opus 5.5 2b461b2f58 fix(native): require publication for files named under a Deliverable label (#20231)
## Thinking Path

> - Paperclip is the open source app people use to manage AI agents for
work
> - Native agents finish a task with a completion report, and a server
gate checks that requested files are published to the task
> - The gate finds a file request only from a creation verb, such as
"Write report.pdf"
> - Delegated briefs often list the output under a "Deliverable:" label
instead, and the gate did not know `.html` or `.css` names
> - So a worker can finish a website task with `index.html` only in its
own workspace, and the person cannot open it
> - This pull request makes a file named under a Deliverable label a
requested file output
> - The benefit is that the worker gets the existing "use
register_deliverable" feedback before the task closes

## Linked Issues or Issue Description

No public issue exists. Bug description:

**What happened**
A person asked the CEO: "Make me a simple website introducing our
business." The CEO delegated a task. Its brief said "Deliverable: - A
self-contained static website in this task's workspace: index.html plus
a stylesheet (for example styles.css)". The worker wrote `index.html`
and `styles.css` in its workspace. It did not call
`register_deliverable`. It cited `index.html` and `styles.css` as
completion evidence, and the gate accepted the report. The task was
marked done with no attachment. The CEO then told the person that the
files were "in the task workspace".

**Expected behavior**
A brief that names a file as its deliverable is a file request. The
completion gate must reject a workspace-only file and tell the worker to
publish it with `register_deliverable`.

**Steps to reproduce**
1. Call `explicitlyRequestsFileOutput` with the brief above.
2. See that it returns `false`, so `validateNativeDeliverableEvidence`
accepts the bare `index.html` evidence ref.

## What Changed

- `explicitlyRequestsFileOutput` now also returns true when a
`Deliverable:` / `Deliverables` label line (plain, bold or heading), or
a bullet or numbered item in the list below it (blank lines between
items allowed), names a file. Relative paths such as `dist/index.html`
count.
- Under the label, web page files (`.html`, `.htm`, `.css`) count with
the existing file types.
- Items that name an input ("a summary of input.csv", "a comparison of
input.csv and baseline.csv"), describe a repository change, pull
request, commit or branch, forbid the named file (`do not create
report.pdf`), name a file to edit in place (`update styles.css`) without
asking to publish it, send the file inline (`index.html and styles.css
inline in the reply`), or forbid creating files, do not count. An inline
or no-upload instruction about another output in the same item
(`index.html and a short summary in the reply`, `index.html; do not
upload it externally`) does not cancel the named file. The
repository-change check ignores file names, so `branch-report.pdf` still
counts.
- The sentence-based detector is unchanged.
- `doc/AGENT-ARTIFACTS.md` describes the label rule.

## Verification

- `cd server && npx vitest run
src/services/native-runtime/native-deliverable-feedback.test.ts
src/services/native-runtime/native-runner-file-handoff.test.ts` (197
pass), then after the review fixes
`native-deliverable-feedback.test.ts`,
`native-completion-format-feedback.test.ts` and
`chat-attachment-reuse.test.ts` (211 pass). The 13 first-round review
cases fail on the original head.
- New cases: the real delegated brief, inline labels, heading lists,
numbered lists and bold labels require publication. Unlabelled text,
inline-chat deliverables, input references, repository changes, text
after the list ends, and "Deliverable quality ..." prose do not.
- The chat eval `onboarding.first-work` exercises this path end to end
on its candidate branch.

## Risks

- Low risk. The change only adds a true result for labelled file
outputs; an inline-only or no-file label item stays false, as the
sentence detector already decided.
- A labelled brief that names a file which is not a repository change
now needs `register_deliverable` or an accessible work product. That is
the documented delivery rule.

## Model Used

- Anthropic Claude Opus 5.5 (`claude-opus-5-5`), 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
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DottaandClaude Opus 5.5 68253e3175 fix(recovery): continue a run refused by an inert cleanup quarantine with no click (#20260)
## Thinking Path

> - Paperclip is the open source app people use to manage AI agents for
work
> - When a native session's cleanup fails unrecoverably, the runtime
quarantines it in process. The next run for that task is refused with
`native_session_cleanup_quarantined`.
> - A board Retry or a new message already recovers from this.
`verifyStoppedNativeSessionForContinuation` proves that the old runner
and providers stopped, releases the quarantine and starts a fresh
session.
> - Without a click nothing recovers. The automatic safe-replacement
sweep proves stopped sessions only with the Codex replacement verifier,
which needs the failed run's own active turn. A run refused before
launch never has one, so the sweep skips it on every pass.
> - Restarts must recover on their own. This pull request lets the sweep
use the same continuation proof for a cleanup-quarantined run.
> - The benefit is that an inert quarantine turns into a fresh-session
continuation with no click, and an unproven one still keeps its board
Retry.

## Linked Issues or Issue Description

**What happened?**
In restart-chaos wave seed 9802 (local, G1, Claude), task t02's run
71f03e16 succeeded, but its runner cleanup could not prove it drained
and was quarantined. Follow-up run 0b4b404f was refused before launch
with `native_session_cleanup_quarantined`, and the task showed
"Automatic recovery stopped" until someone pressed Retry.

**Expected behavior**
When the quarantined session's owner run and every provider process are
proven stopped, recovery continues the task by itself in a fresh
session, without charging an attempt. When that cannot be proven, the
board Retry stays available.

**Steps to reproduce**
1. Have a native run succeed while its runner cleanup is quarantined.
2. Let the next run for the task be refused with
`native_session_cleanup_quarantined` before it launches.
3. Stop the old runner and provider processes, then run the
safe-replacement sweep. No successor is created.

**Paperclip version or commit**
master at 8eb11fa8aa

## What Changed

- `native-session-executor.ts`: new
`verifyStoppedNativeSessionForAutomaticReplacement`. It returns the
existing replacement proof, or, for a
`native_session_cleanup_quarantined` run with no replacement proof, the
continuation proof that the board Retry already uses (Codex and ACPX,
including an inherited owner run).
- `server/src/index.ts`: the safe-replacement sweep uses that verifier.
- The existing sweep then retires the quarantine, records
`native.stopped_text_turn_verified` and queues a successor with
`forceFreshSession: true` at the failed run's attempt number, so no
attempt is charged.
- `quarantined-task-retry.test.ts`: "recovers a quarantined $provider
source that never launched with no click…" for Codex and ACPX (Claude).
A stopped owner makes the sweep queue one fresh-session successor at the
same attempt. A running owner (Codex) or a live ACPX agent process
queues nothing and leaves the board Retry in place.

## Verification

- Red before the fix: with the replacement-only proof, the stopped case
queues no successor. It passes with the fallback, and the running-owner
case passes on both.
- `quarantined-task-retry` (35), `native-safe-replacement`,
`native-replacement-evidence`: pass.
- `PAPERCLIP_TYPECHECK_LOW_MEMORY=1 pnpm typecheck` in `server`: passes.

## Risks

- Low to medium. The fallback applies only to
`native_session_cleanup_quarantined` runs. It uses the stricter
continuation proof that already gates the board Retry: owner run
settled, local leases released, runner and every recorded provider pid
absent, and an unchanged retained state. The sweep keeps every other
gate (task ownership, failure-block receipt, attempt limit, effect
inventory).
- Previous-release story: no schema or saved-state change.

## Model Used

- Claude Opus 5.5 (`claude-opus-5-5`), Anthropic, via Claude Code with
tool use and code execution.

## 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
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DottaandClaude Opus 5.5 1a007c4ef1 fix(accounting): settle a native run that only inherited its predecessor's runner identity as no provider work (#20250)
## Thinking Path

> - Paperclip is the open source app people use to manage AI agents for
work
> - Each finished run settles its accounting. A native run whose
provider never started settles at once with no charge. Other runs wait
for a usage receipt, bounded by a closure timeout.
> - A company budget policy can block unpriced usage. Unpriced cost rows
then trip a hard stop that pauses the company.
> - A follow-up run that is refused before launch carries its
predecessor's runner pid and start time. The "never started" check
required a null pid, so this run waited out the closure timeout, held
the board's Retry for ten minutes, then settled as unknown unpriced
usage and paused the company. The task said "budget" although almost
nothing was spent.
> - This pull request recognizes an identity that the run only
inherited, so the run settles at once with no charge.
> - The benefit is that a pre-launch failure after a restart no longer
blocks Retry or pauses the company.

## Linked Issues or Issue Description

**What happened?**
In restart-chaos wave seed 9802 (local, G1), task t02 graded R3
`retry_no_new_run`. Follow-up run 0b4b404f failed 0.3 s after start with
`native_session_cleanup_quarantined`. It recorded no
`native.process_start_requested`, but its row carried `process_pid`
11356 and the start time of predecessor run 71f03e16 in the same native
session. Its accounting stayed pending until 11:37:23, ten minutes
later, then settled as an `unpriced` cost event with billing type
`unknown`. The board Retry, accepted at 11:28:37 and held until that
accounting released, was then refused with "Company cannot start work
because recorded usage has no reliable price". The company was paused
with `pause_reason = budget`, and the task showed `userAction: "budget"`
with no working Retry.

**Expected behavior**
A native run that never launched its own runner settles at once with no
charge, whatever runner identity it inherited. The held Retry
dispatches, and the company keeps running.

**Steps to reproduce**
1. Have a native follow-up run inherit its predecessor's runner identity
(pid and start time).
2. Fail it before it records any process start (for example, with a
quarantined cleanup).
3. Enable a company budget policy that blocks unpriced usage, then run
accounting. The run stays pending until the closure timeout, settles as
unknown unpriced usage and pauses the company.

**Paperclip version or commit**
master at 0d80b74c21

## What Changed

- `server/src/services/heartbeat/runtime-selection.ts`: when selection
copies a previous run's process identity into a native run that has none
of its own, it also records `inheritedProcessIdentityRunId` in that
run's `runnerProfileJson`.
- `server/src/services/run-cost-accounting.ts`:
`nativeProviderWorkNeverStarted` accepts either a null process identity,
or the `inheritedProcessIdentityRunId` marker with no own
`native.process_start_requested` / `native.process_identity_recorded`
event. It never reads the predecessor's mutable process columns, so
settled-process cleanup cannot erase the proof and no session-history
scan is needed.
- Tests:
- `runtime-selection.test.ts`: selection writes the marker only when a
prior identity is copied. End to end, after cleanup clears the
predecessor's process columns, `accountRunCost` settles the refused
follow-up at once with no cost event.
- `closed-native-receipt-accounting.test.ts`: the marker settles at once
with no charge and no company pause under a blocking policy. An own
recorded start, or an identity without the marker, stays pending.

## Verification

- Red before the fix: the inherited case stays pending (`accountRunCost`
returns `false`).
- `runtime-selection` (except six dynamic-skill tests that need a local
`.claude/skills/slack/SKILL.md`, which fail identically on master),
`closed-native-receipt-accounting`, `cost-data-quality`,
`admission-independent-of-cleanup`: pass.
- `PAPERCLIP_TYPECHECK_LOW_MEMORY=1 pnpm typecheck` in `server`: passes.

## Risks

- Low. The predicate widens only for a run that carries the
selection-written marker and recorded no process start of its own.
Receipt sequence, fences, journaled receipts and a settled coordinator
are still required.
- Previous-release story: forward-only. Runs selected by an older build
have no marker. Their pending debt keeps today's behavior and settles at
the accounting closure timeout. paperclipai/paperclip#20254 (budget
owner) makes such a lost-receipt charge no longer trip a blocking
unpriced-usage policy, so those runs no longer pause a company. No
schema change.
- Out of scope: the session cleanup quarantine itself
(paperclipai/paperclip#20260).

## Model Used

- Claude Opus 5.5 (`claude-opus-5-5`), Anthropic, via Claude Code with
tool use and code execution.

## 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
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DottaandClaude Opus 5.5 4c15eea770 fix(accounting): a run's unproven accounting never holds the company (#20254)
## Thinking Path

> - Paperclip is the open source app people use to manage AI agents for
work
> - After a restart, each lost provider receipt leaves an accounting
debt that settles later
> - In restart-chaos G1 (seed 9802, task t02), six debts each waited the
full 10-minute closure bound, and the board's accepted Retry waited with
them
> - The last debt settled as an unpriced charge. Under the blocking
unpriced-usage policy, that charge hard-stopped the whole company, which
cancelled the Retry, and the task showed "budget"
> - Dotta's plan decision 1 says accounting is never a company-wide
gate: admission reads per-run exposure and real hard stops only
> - This pull request makes those debts settle at once when the stop is
proven, records accounting-settled charges without a company hold, and
labels the remaining accounting wait correctly
> - The benefit is that a restart no longer stalls a company's work for
10 minutes or stops it outright

## Linked Issues or Issue Description

Refs #20250 (Phase 2: a run that only inherited its predecessor's runner
identity settles at once; this PR builds on it), #19944, #19826, #19857

**What happened?**
Restart-chaos wave w-20261109T111954-s9802 (G1), task t02, master
c5da0b88ad. After a K-fault restart at 11:27, six `run_accounting_debt`
records were "unprovable". Each settled exactly 10 minutes after its run
finished: bf9ea6b4 and c2e222a2 at 11:30, 097d0036 at 11:35, f64f9f46
and aa2c9f03 at 11:36, and 0b4b404f at 11:37:23.
- Four runs were `cancelled` (issue_terminalized), with
`native.local_process_stopped` as their last process event and no
recorded pid. The receipt-closed rule accepted that stop proof only for
`failed` runs.
- 0b4b404f failed with `native_session_cleanup_quarantined` before it
started any process. It journaled no receipt, but it carried pid 11356
of the previous run's warm runner, so the never-started rule did not
apply.
- At 11:37:23, 0b4b404f settled as an unpriced unknown-billing charge
with zero tokens. With `unpricedUsagePolicy: block`, the company hit a
hard stop at 11:37:24 (24 of 3000 cents). The pause cancelled the
board's Retry (751751ea, accepted at 11:28:37), and the task showed
`userAction: "budget"`.

**Expected behavior**
Accounting debts whose provider stop is proven settle at once.
Accounting never holds or pauses the whole company. A wait caused by
unpriced usage is labeled as accounting, not budget.

**Steps to reproduce**
Restart the control plane while native runs are being cancelled, with
the company's unpriced-usage policy set to block. Before this change,
the debts wait 10 minutes and then hard-stop the company.

## What Changed

- `run-cost-accounting.ts`: a verified local process stop closes the
receipt source for `cancelled`, `timed_out` and `interrupted` runs as
well as `failed` ones. The inherited-pid run (0b4b404f) is covered by
#20250, so this PR does not change the never-started rule.
- `budget-exposure.ts`: a final charge that accounting settled without
its receipt (receipt unavailable, closure timed out, capture failed, or
lost on restore) never trips the blocking unpriced-usage policy.
Unpriced usage from a complete receipt still does. A capture failure
stays exempt even if a later report adds usage, because its receipt is
never certified complete. This removes the restart-derived special case,
because the rule now covers every accounting-settled charge.
- `task-interruption-presentation.ts`: a `budget.blocked` wait caused by
the unpriced-usage refusal is shown as `accounting.unpriced_usage`, with
accounting wording, for both a held Retry and a never-started task. Only
the fixed refusal phrase is matched; the stored message is never shown.
- `doc/SPEC-implementation.md`: the admission and accounting rules are
updated to match.

## Verification

- `closed-native-receipt-accounting.test.ts`: new tests for cancelled,
timed-out and interrupted runs with a verified stop; they were red
before the fix. When a timed-out closure settles under the blocking
policy, the board's saved Retry is promoted (due at once) and never
cancelled. That assertion was red on master, where the hard stop
cancelled it. Seven tests that asserted the old rule (an
accounting-settled charge keeps the blocking policy) now assert that the
charge is recorded and the company stays active and admits work. All 61
pass.
- `task-interruption-query.test.ts` (Postgres): a Retry held by the
unpriced refusal, and a skipped wake, are labeled
`accounting.unpriced_usage`. A budget hard stop keeps `budget.blocked`.
The test was red before the fix.
- Also passing: `run-cost-accounting`, `cost-data-quality`,
`idle-accounting-work`, `native-usage-delivery.integration`,
`task-interruption-presentation`, and the accounting and budget tests in
`heartbeat-process-recovery`. Server typecheck has no errors in the
changed files. The only local errors are in
`native-session-executor.ts`, from a stale local runner build.
- Not run: the G1 chaos rerun. Phase 3 runs it after merge.

## Risks

- Behavior change: a charge that accounting settled without a receipt no
longer hard-stops a company under the blocking policy. That includes a
remote run whose closure evidence never arrived, which may still have
spent. The charge stays in Costs with provenance and an activity entry,
and the spend still counts toward the budget limit. This follows plan
decision 1.

> 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 5.5 (`claude-opus-5-5`), Anthropic, via Claude Code with
tool use (shell, file edits, test execution). Extended reasoning
enabled.

## 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
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2026-11-09 07:02:47 -06:00
DottaandClaude Opus 5.5 7044ff96e3 fix(api-catalog): mark task-tree controls board-only and name the Pause subtree page (#20252)
## Thinking Path

> - Paperclip is the open source app people use to manage AI agents for
work
> - Agents read the API catalog (`server/src/routes/openapi.ts`) to find
what they can call and who performs each action
> - A task-tree pause holds a parent task and all of its subtasks. Only
a person can apply it; every tree-control route calls `assertBoard`
> - The catalog did not list these routes as board-only, so it showed
them as `board_or_agent`, and it did not say where a person pauses a
tree
> - A chat agent asked to "pause all work on the launch until tomorrow"
did not use or name the tree pause. It moved the running child tasks to
backlog, cleared their assignees, and told the person that all work was
paused
> - This pull request marks the six tree-control routes board-only and
describes the human control on the task page
> - The benefit is that the agent can send the person to the real
persistent pause instead of improvising one

## Linked Issues or Issue Description

**What happened**
In the chat eval `steering.stop-versus-pause` (runner-opencode, GitHub
Actions run 42606822088), the CEO agent got "Pause all work on the
launch until tomorrow." It sent `PATCH /api/issues/{id}` with a backlog
status for the two running Website tasks. That cleared their execution
assignments. It replied "All launch work is paused." In a sibling eval
run where the agent called `POST /api/issues/{id}/tree-holds`, it got
403 "Board access required". The catalog showed that route as callable
by agents.

**Expected behavior**
The catalog marks every tree-control route board-only. The create-hold
entry tells the agent that a person pauses the tree on the task page
with More task actions, then Pause subtree, and resumes it there. It
also says that backlog or reassignment is not a tree pause.

**Steps to reproduce**
1. Run `buildOpenApiSpec()` on master.
2. Read
`paths["/api/issues/{id}/tree-holds"].post["x-paperclip-authorization"]`.
3. It is `{ actor: "board_or_agent" }`, but the route calls
`assertBoard`.

## What Changed

- Added the six tree-control operations (`tree-control/state`,
`tree-control/preview`, `tree-holds` list/create/get,
`tree-holds/{holdId}/release`) to `BOARD_ONLY_OPERATIONS`.
- Added a description to `POST /api/issues/{id}/tree-holds` that names
the board-only rule, the task page path, the Pause subtree and Resume
subtree controls, and says backlog or reassignment is not a tree pause.
- Added an `openapi-routes.test.ts` case for the board-only
authorization and the description.

## Verification

- `pnpm exec vitest run server/src/__tests__/openapi-routes.test.ts -t
"task-tree controls"` fails before the change and passes after it.
- `server/src/__tests__/openapi-routes.test.ts` and
`server/src/services/native-runtime/runner-api.test.ts` pass (2111
tests).
- The fix is cherry-picked onto the chat-eval branch for an end-to-end
rerun of `steering.stop-versus-pause` and
`task-coordination.pause-tree`.

## Risks

- Low risk. Catalog metadata only. The routes already reject agents, so
no runtime permission changes.
- Agents now see these operations as board-only. That matches the
existing 403.

## Model Used

- Anthropic Claude Opus 5.5 (`claude-opus-5-5`), 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
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DottaandClaude Opus 5.5 ba75b44c3c fix(chat): name the addressee on human-only card denials and list team requirements (#20245)
## Thinking Path

> - Paperclip is the open source app people use to manage AI agents for
work
> - Agent Chat answers a person's requests with a chat agent that reads
API results and the chat guidance
> - A decision card can be human-only and addressed to one person, and
the teams catalog lists ready-made teams with their requirements
> - When an agent tried to accept another person's card, the denial said
only "human-only", so the agent told the asker to accept the card
themselves
> - When an agent recommended a catalog team, the guidance asked only
for roles, so the agent left out the required skills
> - This pull request makes the denial name the addressee as the only
resolver, and asks agents to list a team's roles, required skills and
configuration inputs
> - The benefit is that chat answers send people to the right person and
show what a team needs before install

## Linked Issues or Issue Description

Refs #20206, #20220, #20239

**What happened**
Alex wrote "I approve Riley's request." in Agent Chat. The pending card
is human-only and addressed to Riley. The agent tried to record the
decision and got `403 interaction_human_only` with only "This
issue-thread interaction is human-only". The reply correctly said the
card stays pending, but it then told Alex to "accept or decline that
request" on the task. Alex cannot do that; only Riley can.
In a second chat, a person asked "Do we have a ready-made team for
building a website?". The agent recommended Product Engineering and its
roles. It did not name the four required skills that the catalog
returned in `requiredSkills`.

**Expected behavior**
When an agent cannot resolve a card that is addressed to another person,
the reply names that person as the only one who can resolve it. The
reply does not tell the asker to act on the card.
When an agent recommends a catalog team, the reply names the team's
roles, every required skill and every configuration input. It says that
a catalog listing does not mean the accounts are configured.

**Steps to reproduce**
1. As user Alex, create a `request_confirmation` card with
`resolverPolicy: "human_only"` and `addresseeUserId` set to user Riley
on Alex's chat task.
2. In that chat, write "I approve Riley's request."
3. Read the agent run. `resolve-from-comment` returns 403
`interaction_human_only` without the addressee. The reply tells Alex to
accept or decline the card.
4. In a new chat, ask "Do we have a ready-made team for building a
website?".
5. Read the reply. It names Product Engineering and its roles, but not
its required skills.

## What Changed

- `server/src/services/issue-thread-interaction-resolution.ts`: when an
agent is denied on a human-only card that is addressed to a person other
than the verified replying user, the denial says the card is addressed
to that person, that only they can accept or decline it, that the denial
is final, and that the agent must not ask the asker to act on the card.
The details include `addresseeUserId`. Cards without an addressee keep
the old message.
- `server/src/routes/issues.ts`: the route adds the addressee's display
name to that denial (`details.addresseeName` and the message). If the
name lookup fails, the generic addressee text stays.
- `server/src/services/agent-conversations.ts`: the teams catalog
paragraph asks agents to name a recommended team's roles (`agentSlugs`),
every required skill (`requiredSkills`, by ref) and every configuration
input (`envInputs`), and to say that a listing does not mean accounts
are configured.
- Tests: evaluator unit tests, a route-level test for the named denial,
and a directive assertion.

## Verification

- `cd server && npx vitest run
src/services/issue-thread-interaction-resolution.test.ts
src/__tests__/agent-conversations.test.ts
src/__tests__/issue-thread-interaction-routes.test.ts
src/__tests__/confirmation-comment-resolution.test.ts`: 4 files, all
pass.
- `tsc --noEmit -p server/tsconfig.json`: passes.
- The change is cherry-picked onto the eval branch
`chat-eval/case-reply-completeness`. The live Runner E2E cells
`questions-and-approvals.wrong-reviewer` and `teams.find-team` run
there.

## Risks

- Low risk. The resolver decision does not change: the same requests are
allowed and denied. Only the denial text and details change for agents
on addressed human-only cards.
- The denial reads one user row for the display name. A failed read
falls back to the generic text.
- The chat directive is slightly longer, so each chat prompt uses a few
more tokens.

## Model Used

- Anthropic Claude Opus 5.5 (`claude-opus-5-5`), 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
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DottaandClaude Opus 5.5 3374ca54f5 fix(runner): record a runner exit mid-turn as runner loss, and stop the lineage sampler panicking (#20259)
## Thinking Path

> - Paperclip is the open source app people use to manage AI agents for
work
> - The native runner (`runnerd`) runs each provider turn, and the
server records why a run stopped and what the person can do next
> - When `runnerd` exits during a provider turn, the server saved the
run as `native_provider_terminal_failed`: "The provider session is
permanently unusable", with automatic retries stopped
> - The real cause was the runner process, and the transport already
names it (`native_runner_process_exited`) at the start of the
closed-stream message
> - Separately, the process-lineage sampler added in #19727 panicked on
Linux debug builds when a provider tool started its own session, and
that panic text became the run's visible failure
> - This pull request records a runner exit mid-turn as runner loss, and
reads session IDs without the assertion that panicked
> - The benefit is that a person sees the true cause of a stopped run,
and recovery treats a lost runner like every other runner exit

## Linked Issues or Issue Description

Refs #19727

**What happened**

A chat eval killed only the owned `runnerd` process (SIGKILL) while a
provider tool was running. The run failed with `errorCode:
native_provider_terminal_failed` and the next action "The provider
session is permanently unusable". The error text was `Notification
transport failed closed: native_runner_process_exited: runnerd exited
unexpectedly: paperclip-runnerd panic: panicked at
rustix-1.1.4/src/pid.rs:61:9: assertion failed: raw > 0`. The panic came
from the lineage sampler thread before the kill. It called
`rustix::process::getsid`, which asserts a nonzero session. A kernel
thread, or a process whose session leader is outside the PID namespace,
reports session 0.

**Expected behavior**

A runner process exit is recorded as `native_runner_process_exited`, the
same cause the server already uses for a runner exit outside a turn.
Recovery then applies its normal runner-loss rules (checkpoint evidence,
bounded attempts, cleanup quarantine). The lineage sampler does not
panic, and its diagnostics do not replace the real failure text.

**Steps to reproduce**

1. Start a native OpenCode run on Linux with a debug `runnerd`.
2. Let the agent run a shell tool that starts its own session (for
example a long `node -e` command).
3. Send SIGKILL to the `runnerd` PID only.
4. Read `GET /api/heartbeat-runs/<runId>`: `errorCode` is
`native_provider_terminal_failed` and the error names the rustix panic.

## What Changed

- `nativeSessionFailureSourceCode` returns
`native_runner_process_exited` for a `NativeProviderTerminalFailure`
with code `notification_transport_failed` when its message starts with
`Notification transport failed closed: native_runner_process_exited: `.
Only the runner transport writes that prefix. Other closed-stream causes
stay `native_provider_terminal_failed`.
- `paperclip-process-table` has a new `session(pid)` function. Linux
reads the session field of `/proc/<pid>/stat`. macOS calls `getsid`. A
session of 0 or an error gives `None`.
- `process_lineage` reads sessions through
`paperclip_process_table::session` instead of rustix `getsid`.
- Regression tests: the runner-loss classification (attempts 1 and 3,
and three negative shapes), the stat session parser with a kernel-thread
line, and a live read of this process's session.

## Verification

- `cd server && npx vitest run
src/services/native-runtime/native-session-executor.test.ts -t "runner
process exit that closed|preserves stable provider and runner|model
rejection from a provider terminal|operator-owned through terminal"` (8
passed)
- `cd packages/paperclip-runner/runner && cargo test -p
paperclip-process-table` (macOS: 3 passed; the Linux-only parser tests
run in CI)
- `cd packages/paperclip-runner/runner && cargo test -p
paperclip-runner-core --lib process_lineage` (6 passed)
- End to end: the `recovery.*` chat eval cells that kill `runnerd` are
run against this change on a separate eval branch.

## Risks

- Behavior shift: a runner exit during a turn now follows runner-loss
recovery instead of stopping as a permanent provider failure. Recovery
still decides from durable evidence. Ambiguous state stays terminal, and
an unverified cleanup stays quarantined.
- Previous-release story: no persisted shape changes. Runs saved earlier
with `native_provider_terminal_failed` keep that code. Only new failures
are classified with the new rule.
- The session read on Linux now uses `/proc` instead of a syscall. It
gives the same value, and it reports 0 (now `None`) in the same cases.

## Model Used

- Anthropic Claude Opus 5.5 (`claude-opus-5-5`), via Claude Code with
tool use (shell, file edits).

## 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
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DottaandClaude Opus 5.5 b3bf12a5db fix(workspaces): close a retained local task directory as archived, not cleanup_failed (#20248)
## Thinking Path

> - Paperclip is the open source app people use to manage AI agents for
work
> - A task runs in an execution workspace. A person or an agent can
close that workspace and keep its files for later
> - A local workspace directory that the runtime did not create is never
removed on close. Examples are an operator directory and an isolated
task directory that retention keeps
> - The cleanup result still said `cleaned: false`, because that
directory still exists
> - So every close of such a workspace got the status `cleanup_failed`,
with no cleanup reason
> - This pull request treats that directory as retained by design, so
the close records `archived`
> - The benefit is that a normal close no longer shows a failure that
did not happen

## Linked Issues or Issue Description

Refs #16776 (related: records-only archive of shared non-git sessions;
that PR changes close readiness, this PR changes the recorded close
outcome)

**What happened**
A chat agent closed a completed task's execution workspace with `PATCH
/api/execution-workspaces/:id` and `status: "archived"`. The workspace
is a `local_fs` isolated task directory with `createdByRuntime: false`.
The workspace got `status: "cleanup_failed"`, a `closedAt`, and
`cleanupReason: null`. The files stayed, as intended. The agent then had
to tell the person that cleanup failed.

**Expected behavior**
The close records `status: "archived"`. The retained directory is the
intended outcome, so it is not a failed cleanup. A runtime-created
directory is still removed.

**Steps to reproduce**
1. Create a task workspace whose `local_fs` directory exists and has
`metadata.createdByRuntime: false` (for example an isolated task
directory).
2. Close it with `PATCH /api/execution-workspaces/:id` and body
`{"status":"archived"}`.
3. Read the workspace. Its status is `cleanup_failed` and
`cleanupReason` is `null`.

## What Changed

- `cleanupExecutionWorkspaceArtifacts` reports `cleaned: true` for a
`local_fs` directory that the runtime did not create. It never removes
that directory, so nothing is left to clean.
- Added
`server/src/__tests__/workspace-cleanup-retained-local-dir.test.ts`: a
retained directory reports `cleaned: true` and keeps its files; a
runtime-created directory is still removed.

## Verification

- `pnpm exec vitest run
server/src/__tests__/workspace-cleanup-retained-local-dir.test.ts` fails
before the change (`cleaned: false`) and passes after it.
- `server/src/__tests__/workspace-runtime.test.ts` (179),
`execution-workspaces-routes.test.ts` (17),
`execution-workspaces-service.test.ts` (85) and
`workspace-delivery-cleanup.integration.test.ts` (19) pass.
- End to end: the chat eval `workspaces.close-and-reopen`
(runner-opencode) failed only on `status: cleanup_failed` after a
correct agent close in GitHub Actions run 42606822088. This fix is
cherry-picked onto the eval branch for a rerun.

## Risks

- Low risk. Only `local_fs` workspaces with `createdByRuntime` not
`true` change. Git worktrees, runtime-created directories, plugin and
remote workspaces keep their behavior.
- The terminal reaper uses the same cleanup function. It now records
`archived` instead of `cleanup_failed` for such a retained directory.
Isolated task directory retention treats both statuses as closed, so
retention is not changed.

## Model Used

- Anthropic Claude Opus 5.5 (`claude-opus-5-5`), 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
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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
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DottaandClaude Opus 5.5 7adb78d811 perf(heartbeat): retry a preparation a restart interrupted at once (#20255)
## Thinking Path

- Restart recovery should resume interrupted work quickly. #20072 added
an `interrupted_preparation` retry lane for runs whose preparation a
restart interrupted before any provider work.
- Phase 3's local R1 replay (`w-20261109T110754-s9807`) showed
`restart_recovery_control_plane` p95 about 41 s for both Claude and
Codex (n=6).
- From the kept database, the earlier slow samples are back-to-back
faults (#20243 now skips those). The two that remain uninterrupted,
Codex `8a008160` and Claude `ca74c302`, are `interrupted_preparation`
successors:
  - created at 11:09:41.7–41.8, as f03 recovered;
  - `scheduled_retry_at` 26.3 s and 34.2 s later;
  - claimed 18.5 s and 26.5 s after f04 was ready.
- The lane reused the transient-failure backoff (30 s, then 60 s,
jittered). A restart isn't a transient fault, so the successor shouldn't
wait.

## Linked Issues or Issue Description

Refs #20072

**What happened?**
After a restart interrupted a run's preparation, its successor was
scheduled with the transient-failure backoff (about 30 s). Recovery took
about 40–50 s instead of a few seconds.

**Steps to reproduce**
1. Interrupt a run's preparation with a control-plane restart (for
example K1/K2 during workspace preparation).
2. The successor is created with `scheduled_retry_reason:
interrupted_preparation` and `scheduled_retry_at` about 30 s out.

**Expected behavior**
The first retry of a preparation a restart interrupted starts at once.
Backoff applies only if it keeps being interrupted.

## What Changed

- `server/src/services/heartbeat/retries.ts`: new
`computeInterruptedPreparationRetrySchedule`, used by the
interrupted-preparation lane.
  - Attempt 1 is due immediately (delay 0).
- Attempt 2 onwards uses the transient schedule, shifted by one, with
the longest delay from then on.
- The lane's attempt cap (`INTERRUPTED_PREPARATION_RETRY_MAX_ATTEMPTS`)
and the failure-budget guard are unchanged.
- `retries.test.ts`: a schedule test covering an immediate first
attempt, backoff afterwards, the longest delay later, and invalid
attempts. It's red on master.

## Verification

- `retries.test.ts`: 24 passed.
- `interrupted-preparation-hold-settle`,
`workspace-recovery-preparation-dispatch` and
`run-dispatch/adapters/postgres` tests: 118 passed.
- `heartbeat-process-recovery.test.ts` filtered to interrupt, prepare
and retry cases: 59 passed and 1 failed. The failure, "escalates (does
not retry) an accepted-interaction-continuation setup failure…", is
order-dependent within the filtered batch: it passes alone both on
master and with this change. The unfiltered file exceeds the local
timeout; CI runs it.

## Risks

- **A preparation that itself crashes the server** now retries once
immediately before backing off. It stays bounded by the lane's attempt
cap and the existing failure-budget guard.
- **No change** to transient-failure retries or to other lanes.

## Model Used

Claude Opus 5.5 (`claude-opus-5-5`, Anthropic), 1M context window, tool
use and code execution, via Claude Code.

## Checklist

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details)
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planned core work
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them above
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#` / `Refs #` OR (b) described the issue in-PR following the relevant
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URLs)
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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
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DottaandClaude Opus 5.5 8eb11fa8aa fix(runner): fail closed with a recorded cause when runner event commits stall (#20235)
## Thinking Path

> - Paperclip is the open source app people use to manage AI agents for
work
> - A Runner streams numbered events to the control plane, which commits
each one and acknowledges the committed prefix
> - In restart chaos wave `w-20261109T093417-s9807`, t01 (claude R1,
local), the control plane never committed Runner seq 34. Every failure
path in `#event` closed the connection without recording why. The Runner
reconnected 2,848 times over 14 minutes and nothing detected it
> - This pull request makes that loop a detected, named failure that
carries its cause
> - The benefit is that a wedged event stream becomes a visible run
failure with a reason, instead of a silent "running" task

## Linked Issues or Issue Description

Refs #19831. Restart chaos wave `w-20261109T093417-s9807` (master
`df4562ab38`), task t01, run `d08dc899`.

**What happened** (Phase 2's re-check of the kept instance):
- The provider kept working. Claude's transcript runs to 09:47:03 and
ends in `paperclip_finish`.
- The Runner, its ACPX provider state, and the controller journal agree
on acked seq 33. The controller never commits Runner seq 34 (Write
progressed, 09:36:25.892).
- Phase 2 replayed the kept outbox offline. Runner seq 34 fails
`validatePrpEvent`: its `/payload/target` contains a newline from a
malformed Claude Write call. `#event` closes without a reason, and the
Runner redelivers the same bytes forever. (Phase 2's separate PR stops
the producers from emitting such paths.)
- Every `#event` failure path closed the connection without recording a
reason, so the cause was invisible. An outbox that already holds such an
event can only be cleared by failing closed.
- The `<instance>:<run>:N` ids in `heartbeat_run_events` come from the
TS driver's own projection numbering, so there was no Runner sequence
rewind.

## What Changed

-
`packages/paperclip-runner/src/control-plane/durable-prp-control-plane.ts`:
- `#eventCommitFailed` replaces the bare `connection.close()` on each
`#event` commit-failure path. It records a bounded cause:
`event_sequence_mismatch` for an out-of-order event,
`event_schema_invalid:<issue paths>` for an event that fails
`validatePrpEvent`, the error's code or name (never its message) for a
commit callback error, `journal_sequence_not_contiguous`,
`journal_commit_refused`, or `checkpoint_flush_failed:<cause>`.
- If failures continue for the same run at the same acknowledged cursor
for at least 20 attempts and 45 s, it fails closed with
`NativeSessionProtocolIntegrityError("runner_event_commit_stalled",
"<cause> at source seq N")`, where N is the failing event's own
sequence. Only a moved acknowledged cursor counts as progress (a
replayed, already acknowledged duplicate does not), and a different run
starts a fresh counter. A single transient failure still just
reconnects, as before.
- A checkpoint flush that fails before any outbound frame also counts,
as `checkpoint_flush_failed:<cause>`. That includes the authentication
challenge and the welcome, so a reconnect that cannot even authenticate
still reaches the bound.
- A journal write that throws (`#store.commit`, `#store.commitEvent`, or
the welcome save) leaves the store unwritable until reload, so it fails
closed at once with `journal_write_failed:<code>`.
- `packages/paperclip-runner/src/contracts/native-session-backend.ts`:
new reason `runner_event_commit_stalled`, with an optional `detail` in
the message.

## Verification

Red/green:
- "bounds commit-stall reconnects for an out-of-order event": a
schema-valid event with the wrong `sourceSeq` fails closed with
`event_sequence_mismatch at source seq 5`. Before this it closed
silently forever. "… for 20 failures inside 45 s" pins the time bound:
20 failures over 19 s do not fail closed.
- "fails closed when checkpoint storage keeps failing before a reconnect
authenticates": with checkpoint persistence refusing (`ECONNREFUSED`),
20 reconnect attempts fail before authentication, then the control plane
fails closed with `checkpoint_flush_failed:ECONNREFUSED at source seq
1`. Without this, those attempts close silently.
- "fails closed at once when the journal cannot record a runner event":
a journal write throwing `ENOSPC` fails closed with
`journal_write_failed:ENOSPC at source seq 1`, and the private error
text is not carried. On master the connection only closes.
- `durable-prp-control-plane.test.ts` "fails closed with the schema
issue when the runner keeps redelivering an invalid event (restart chaos
t01)": an event that fails `validatePrpEvent` is redelivered 20 times
over 57 s of mocked clock. On master the control plane only closes; with
this PR it fails closed with `runner_event_commit_stalled` and detail
`event_schema_invalid:/… at source seq 1`.
- `durable-prp-control-plane.test.ts` "fails closed when runner events
keep failing to commit without progress": 20 reconnects over 57 s of
mocked clock, each commit failing with `ECONNRESET`. On master nothing
fails closed. With this PR the 20th failure reports
`runner_event_commit_stalled` with detail `ECONNRESET at source seq 1`,
and the private error message is not carried. File: 201 passed,
including the existing "keeps a non-typed commit failure retryable"
cases.

Static checks:
- `tsc --noEmit` passes for `packages/paperclip-runner` and `server`.
The server is unchanged.

## Risks

- Storage that keeps failing event commits for at least 45 s and 20
attempts now fails the run (operator recovery) instead of looping
silently. Shorter outages are unchanged.
- The recorded cause is a code or error name only, never error text, so
no tool content or credentials reach the run error.
- No schema change and no change to persisted state formats.

## Model Used

- Claude Opus 5.5 (`claude-opus-5-5`), Anthropic, via Claude Code with
tool use (shell, file edits).

## 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
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DottaandClaude Opus 5.5 0d80b74c21 test(chaos): treat a crash-restart EPERM as a warning once the server pid is dead (#20232)
## Thinking Path

> - Paperclip is the open source app people use to manage AI agents for
work
> - The restart chaos harness crashes the local Paperclip server with
SIGKILL (K1, K13 storms) and grades how tasks survive
> - `crashForRestart` sends SIGKILL to every process group the server
owns
> - On macOS, `killpg` can report EPERM for a group whose members are
still exiting
> - When that happens the fault is recorded as failed, and the wave
exits 2, even though the server process itself is dead
> - This pull request tolerates EPERM in the crash path once the server
pid is confirmed dead, and logs it as a warning
> - The benefit is that a wave grades the product, not a cleanup race in
the harness

## Linked Issues or Issue Description

**What happened?**
A local Codex K13 storm at concurrency 6 (wave w-20261109T084023-s9403,
112 tasks) exited 2 because faults f04 and f09 failed with `kill EPERM`.
The server pids of both faults had died, and the tasks recovered
normally.

**Steps to reproduce**
1. Run a long K13 storm on macOS with high concurrency.
2. Occasionally the SIGKILL of the server's process groups races with
members that are exiting.

**Expected behavior**
If the server process is dead, the crash completes and the remaining
cleanup continues; the EPERM is recorded as a warning.

**Actual behavior**
The fault fails with `kill EPERM` and the wave reports an error.

## What Changed

- `crashForRestart` catches EPERM from the group SIGKILL. It then sends
SIGKILL to the server pid directly if needed and waits for it to exit
within the forced timeout.
- If the server exited, it re-observes the tree and sends SIGKILL to
each remaining group on its own, so one group's EPERM does not leave the
others to drain gracefully. It logs a warning naming the server pid and
any group that still refused SIGKILL, then continues with the normal
post-kill cleanup.
- If the server is still alive, or the error is not EPERM, the error is
rethrown as before.
- Four tests: EPERM with a dead server finishes with a warning; a
detached descendant is still killed without a graceful drain when the
first group kill reports EPERM; EPERM with a surviving server fails; a
non-EPERM error fails. The failure tests stop their owners in `finally`.

## Verification

- `npx vitest run --config tests/runner-e2e/vitest.config.ts
tests/runner-e2e/server-stop.test.ts`: the dead-server test fails before
the change (`kill EPERM`), the descendant test fails against the first
revision (the descendant drains on SIGTERM), and all 22 pass after it.
- `node scripts/typecheck-test-projects.mjs tests/runner-e2e`: clean.

## Risks

- A group that is still running and returns EPERM is no longer reported
in the crash step itself. The cleanup that follows still checks every
observed group, and it fails if any group survives.

## 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
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DottaandClaude Opus 5.5 2ea1a4f4eb fix(chat): tell chat agents what a status card is and to reply now after queuing one (#20230)
## Thinking Path

> - Paperclip is the open source app people use to manage AI agents for
work
> - Agent Chat lets a person talk to an agent in a standing conversation
> - Status Cards is an experimental feature: a saved card on the
company's Status page that a summarizer agent keeps up to date
> - A chat agent cannot read the experimental settings, so nothing it
reads says that status cards exist, how to create one, or where a card
lives
> - When a person asks for a status card, the agent writes a Markdown
task document instead. When a person asks for a refresh, the agent
queues it and then sleeps and polls the card for minutes
> - This pull request tells the chat agent about Status Cards only while
the experiment is on, and makes the create and refresh catalog entries
say that the work is queued and the agent replies now with the card link
> - The benefit is that the agent creates a real card, links it, and
does not hold the chat open while the summarizer works

## Linked Issues or Issue Description

**What happened**
With Status Cards enabled, a person asked the CEO agent "Make me a
status card showing the launch's biggest blockers." The agent's
reasoning treated "status card" as a format. It never searched for the
feature and saved a Markdown task document. In a second chat, a person
asked "Refresh the launch status card now." The agent searched for about
54 s to learn what a status card is, called the refresh route, and then
slept 20, 30 and 45 s to poll the card, although its guidance says not
to sleep or poll. The refresh response also did not include the card's
page link. Separately, a teammate assigned as the card's summarizer
spent over two minutes looking for the undefined summary sentinel format
named in its update task, so a failed generation never reached its
blocked state in time.

**Expected behavior**
While the experiment is on, the agent knows that a status card is a
saved feature at `/<prefix>/status/<cardId>`. It creates one with `POST
/api/companies/{companyId}/status-cards`, or refreshes one with `POST
/api/status-cards/{id}/refresh`. It replies at once with the card as a
Markdown link and says that the summarizer updates the card. When the
experiment is off, the agent sees no status card guidance.

**Steps to reproduce**
1. Enable Status Cards in Instance Settings > Experimental.
2. Open a chat with the CEO agent.
3. Send "Make me a status card showing the launch's biggest blockers."
4. See that the agent writes a task document and no card appears on the
Status page.

## What Changed

- Add `STATUS_CARDS_CHAT_DIRECTIVE` in
`server/src/services/agent-conversations.ts`. It says what a status card
is, names the Status page and card routes, names the create and refresh
routes, and tells the agent to reply now with the card's `href` as a
Markdown link instead of polling.
- Render the directive in standing-chat task markdown only when
`statusCardsEnabled` is true
(`server/src/services/heartbeat/task-markdown.ts`). Set the flag from
the experimental settings that the heartbeat already loads
(`server/src/services/heartbeat/task-context.ts`). No new query runs
before the turn starts.
- Add descriptions to the create and refresh entries in the API catalog
(`server/src/routes/openapi.ts`). They say that the summarizer does the
work in its own run, and that the agent replies now with the returned
link.
- Return the card's `href` in the refresh response and in the card list,
as create, get, update and archive already do
(`server/src/routes/status-cards.ts`). An agent that reuses a listed
card can then link it.
- Tell the agent to report the outcome the refresh response gives:
queued, already running, or no run started (deferred by policy, or a
concurrent refresh already finished).
- Define the summary sentinels in the update task prompt
(`server/src/services/status-cards.ts`). The prompt told any assigned
summarizer to "preserve" the built-in Summarizer's `STATUS:` and
`<<<SUMMARY-DRAFT>>>` sentinels without defining them. A non-built-in
summarizer searched for the format for minutes. The prompt now gives the
exact lines, says the PUT body is plain Markdown, and says to comment
and block the task when no summary can be produced, so the card keeps
its previous summary and shows the failure.
- Add tests: the directive appears only in standing chats with the
experiment on, and its page paths are real routes in `ui/src/App.tsx`;
the catalog descriptions; the refresh response `href`.

## Verification

- `cd server && npx vitest run
src/services/heartbeat/task-markdown.test.ts
src/__tests__/openapi-routes.test.ts src/__tests__/status-cards.test.ts
src/__tests__/agent-conversations.test.ts` passes (all pass;
`status-cards.test.ts` also checks the update task prompt).
- `npx tsc --noEmit -p server` reports no errors in the changed files.
- End to end: the `status-cards.create-card` and
`status-cards.refresh-card` chat evals run with this commit
cherry-picked onto their case branch.

## Risks

- Low risk. The text is added only to standing-chat context and only
while the experiment is on.
- The refresh response gains one field (`card.href`). Existing clients
ignore unknown fields.

## Model Used

- Anthropic Claude Opus 5.5 (`claude-opus-5-5`), 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
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DottaandClaude Opus 5.5 9db7da444f fix(chat): point agents at the teams catalog for ready-made teams (#20239)
## Thinking Path

> - Paperclip is the open source app people use to manage AI agents for
work
> - Agent Chat answers a person's requests with a chat agent that reads
the API catalog and the chat guidance
> - Paperclip ships a teams catalog of ready-made teams that a company
can preview and install
> - The chat guidance does not name this catalog, and its API catalog
entries have only short summaries
> - So agents asked for a "ready-made team" check only the existing
agents and skills, or search npm and GitHub
> - This pull request names the teams catalog where the agent already
looks: the chat guidance and the API catalog entries
> - The benefit is that agents find, preview and link ready-made teams
instead of saying none exist

## Linked Issues or Issue Description

**What happened**
An agent was asked "Do we have a ready-made team for building a
website?". It read only the company's agents, projects and skills. It
replied that the company has no website team and offered to hire agents.
It did not read the teams catalog, which has a Product Engineering team.
An agent was asked "Show me what installing the website team would
add.". It found `GET /api/teams/catalog`, but found no team named
"website". It then searched local files, the skills catalog, npm and
GitHub until the turn timed out. It did not preview the install.

**Expected behavior**
The agent reads the teams catalog and chooses a team by its description
and roles. It previews an install with the preview route, which creates
no resources. It does not link a teams catalog page, because the web app
does not route one. It does not search outside Paperclip for other
teams. It knows who can install a team, and it names the `paperclipai
teams install` command for a board user. Preview also works in Ask and
Plan modes, because it saves no data.

**Steps to reproduce**
1. Create a company with only a CEO agent.
2. In Agent Chat, ask "Do we have a ready-made team for building a
website?".
3. Read the run. The agent does not call `GET /api/teams/catalog`, and
the reply says no team exists.
4. In a new chat, ask "Show me what installing the website team would
add.".
5. Read the run. The agent searches npm and GitHub and does not call the
preview route.

## What Changed

- `server/src/services/agent-conversations.ts`: the chat directive has a
new short paragraph. It says that ready-made teams are packages in the
teams catalog. It tells the agent to list the catalog, to choose by
description and roles, and not to search package registries,
repositories or the web. It names the preview route and says that
preview creates no resources. It says who can install. It says that the
web app has no teams catalog page, so the agent must not link one, and
it names the `paperclipai teams install <team id> --company-id
<companyId>` command for a board user.
- `server/src/routes/openapi.ts`: `GET /api/teams/catalog` now has a
description and documents its `q`, `kind` and `category` query
parameters. The preview route says that it creates no resources. The
install route says who can install and names the CLI command.
- `server/src/services/native-runtime/runner-api-catalog.ts`: the team
preview route is allowed in Ask and Plan modes, like other reads. It
computes a plan and saves no data. Install stays in standard mode only.
- Tests in `agent-conversations.test.ts` and `runner-api.test.ts`. The
API search for "ready-made team" now returns `GET /api/teams/catalog`
first. A test validates a preview call in Ask mode and rejects install
in Ask mode.

## Verification

- `pnpm exec vitest run --root server
src/services/native-runtime/runner-api.test.ts
src/__tests__/agent-conversations.test.ts
src/__tests__/openapi-routes.test.ts
src/__tests__/teams-catalog-routes.test.ts`: all tests pass.
- The change is also cherry-picked onto the eval branch
`chat-eval/case-teams`. The live Runner E2E cells for `teams.find-team`,
`teams.preview-install` and `teams.install-team` run there.

## Risks

- Low risk. Most of the change is text in the API catalog and in the
chat guidance, plus documented query parameters that the route already
reads.
- One behavior change: agents in Ask and Plan modes can now call the
team preview route. The route only computes a plan, and it applies the
same company access check.
- The chat directive is slightly longer, so each chat prompt uses a few
more tokens.
- Related open PR #18970 adds request body schemas to the same team
routes. The two changes touch nearby lines and can need a small merge.

## Model Used

- Anthropic Claude Opus 5.5 (`claude-opus-5-5`), 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
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DottaandClaude Opus 5.5 9715b3d210 test(restart-chaos): do not grade a recovery that a back-to-back fault interrupted (#20243)
## Thinking Path

- #20183 split restart recovery so the speed budget judges Paperclip's
own share (`restart_recovery_control_plane`).
- In Phase 3's local mixed wave (`w-20261109T104527-s9901`, master
3963d38560), Claude's control-plane recovery was p50 1.4 s but p95 24.2
s (n=19). That suggested an occasional 20 s wait on Paperclip's side.
- The kept database shows otherwise. The slow samples all come from
back-to-back faults on one run (`566c07b4`):
- f07 was ready at 10:56:45.39; the run requested its runner at 45.70;
f08 (K6) killed the server at 45.78.
  - f09 started 0.69 s after f08 was ready.
- So each "sample" spans the next fault's outage plus a repeated
recovery. Outage time is removed, but the repeated claim, prepare and
launch work and the partial attempt are still charged. Paperclip has no
wait to fix; the grader mismeasures overlapping faults.

## Linked Issues or Issue Description

Refs #20183

**What happened?**
A recovery sample that a later fault interrupted before its next
provider event was graded as if it were one long recovery. That inflated
the control-plane p95 (Claude, 24.2 s) in fault storms.

**Steps to reproduce**
1. Run a chaos wave with back-to-back faults (for example the mixed wave
seed 9901: f07 K4 → f08 K6 0.4 s after ready → f09 K6 0.7 s after
ready).
2. Look at `restart_recovery_control_plane` for runs in flight across
those faults.

**Expected behavior**
Only uninterrupted recoveries are graded. Interrupted ones are counted
and reported.

## What Changed

- `tests/restart-chaos/ttft-baseline-stats.ts`:
  - `BaselineFault` gains `startedAt`.
- When a later fault starts inside a sample's window (after ready,
before the next provider event), `recoverySamples` marks the sample
`interruptedByFault` and nulls its latencies. The later fault's own
sample measures that run.
- `tests/restart-chaos/wave-speed.ts`:
  - `faultRuns` passes `startedAt`.
- `WaveSpeed` reports `recoveryInterruptedByFault`, which no longer
counts as "no provider event".
  - The speed summary prints it.
- Tests:
- A new back-to-back case: the interrupted sample is skipped and the
later fault's 1.5 s recovery is graded. It's red without the change and
green with it.
  - The `faultRuns` expectation includes `startedAt`.

## Verification

- `npx vitest run --config tests/restart-chaos/vitest.config.ts
tests/restart-chaos/wave-speed.test.ts
tests/restart-chaos/ttft-baseline-stats.test.ts`: 32 passed.
- Against the wave: the two samples behind the tail (f07 → f08, f08 →
f09) are exactly the interrupted ones. The next slowest Claude sample
(f10, 15.6 s) includes a 9.4 s `provider.session.load`, so its
control-plane share is about 6 s.

## Risks

- **Harness grading only; no product change.** Fault storms produce
fewer graded samples, and the count is reported, so a wave that is
mostly interrupted is visible.
- **A real Paperclip wait** that happened to straddle a later fault
would be hidden in that sample. It would show up in uninterrupted
samples.

## Model Used

Claude Opus 5.5 (`claude-opus-5-5`, Anthropic), 1M context window, tool
use and code 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)
- [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
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DottaandClaude Opus 5.5 3f2a940d5b fix(runner): answer held Paperclip tool calls after a local restart before the next turn (#20227)
## Thinking Path

> - Paperclip is the open source app people use to manage AI agents for
work
> - When a restart interrupts a turn, the Runner keeps each Paperclip
tool call the model made as "held" until Paperclip answers it, and it
refuses to start the next turn while any call is held
> - Paperclip answers held calls after a reattach through its tool
recovery path. That path was wired only for remote runners
> - In restart chaos wave `w-20261109T084023-s9403`, t101 (local codex,
K2 then K1) held a `read_document` call that nothing answered, so the
continuation's `turn.start` failed and the task needed a Retry
> - This pull request wires held-call recovery for local runners too,
and makes `turn.start` answer or wait for held calls first
> - The benefit is that a turn lost to a restart no longer strands the
run behind one unanswered call

## Linked Issues or Issue Description

Refs #19831. Restart chaos wave `w-20261109T084023-s9403` (master
`fc5c79a327`), task t101 (codex C1, K2, local).

**What happened:**
- Run `4b5810d5` called `read_document` (`exec-ac8fa9b4`) around the K2
drain at 09:08:18. A K1 then killed the next server start.
- At 09:08:36 the third controller reattached. The Runner restored the
conversation and reported the old turn lost
(`provider_turn_lost_on_restore`, recoverable). The held call stayed
pending, by design: a held call accepts a late result.
- The controller had the call: the quarantine detail lists
`exec-ac8fa9b4` under `semanticTools.pending`. But
`recoverPendingSemanticInputs()` returned at once: for a local run
`controllerPersistence` is unset, so `recoverSemanticToolInput` was
`undefined`.
- At 09:08:46 the continuation's `turn.start` failed with "cannot
prepare the next provider turn while tool calls are active (pending: 1
[read_document:exec-ac8fa9b4…])". The run ended
`native_session_interrupted`.

## What Changed

- `server/src/services/native-runtime/native-session-executor.ts`: the
runnerd transport now always gets `recoverSemanticToolInput`, not only
when `controllerPersistence` (remote) is set. It uses the same epoch
check and `SessionAuthorityEpoch.recover`. Recovery re-authorizes and
re-runs reads, and replays receipts for mutations; it never repeats an
uncertain mutation.
- `packages/paperclip-runner/src/live/runnerd-codex-transport.ts`
(`#startTurnWork`): when the control plane has unsettled semantic
inputs, it runs `recoverPendingSemanticInputs()` before queueing
`turn.start`, and waits for that pass, bounded by the turn-start
deadline. Recovered results are queued as commands ahead of
`turn.start`, and the Runner applies commands in order. If recovery has
not finished by the deadline, the turn start fails with
`native_turn_start_held_tool_calls_unresolved` instead of sending
`turn.start` behind it. When everything is settled there is no wait, so
a normal turn start is unchanged. Live calls of a turn being replaced
are not waited on; the replaced start still rejects them.
-
`packages/paperclip-runner/src/control-plane/durable-prp-control-plane.ts`:
`recoverPendingSemanticInputs()` passes are serialized. A call made
while the startup pass is still answering a held call waits for that
pass, then runs its own, so the turn-start gate cannot finish early by
skipping a call that is already being recovered.

## Verification

Red/green:
- `native-session-executor.test.ts` "answers a local run's held
Paperclip tool calls after a restart (restart chaos t101)". On master
`recoverSemanticToolInput` is `undefined` for a local run; with this PR
it is wired.
- `runnerd-codex-transport.test.ts` "answers a held call before starting
the next turn (restart chaos t101)", against real runnerd and fake
Codex, with a slow startup recovery pass already in flight when
`turn/start` arrives. On master `turn/start` never ran recovery, and
without the serialization `turn.start` is queued before the held call's
result. With this PR the held call is recovered once and its result is
queued before `turn.start`.

Regression and static checks:
- `runnerd-codex-transport.test.ts`,
`durable-prp-control-plane.test.ts`,
`runnerd-codex-transport-adoption.test.ts`: 510 passed.
- `native-session-executor.test.ts` and `native-session-resume.test.ts`:
1368 passed, 1 failed. The failing case, "archives a damaged prior epoch
… with real runnerd", fails identically on master on this Mac (`ENOENT …
authority-epochs`), so CI is its reference.
- `tsc --noEmit` passes for `packages/paperclip-runner` and `server`.

## Risks

- Local runs now recover held calls after a reattach, as remote runs
already did. Reads re-run under current authority. A mutation without a
saved receipt still returns no result and stays held, as before.
- `turn.start` may now wait up to its existing deadline while a recovery
pass runs, then fails clearly if it has not finished. It never waits
when nothing is unsettled, so normal turns get no added latency before
`turn.start`.
- No schema change and no change to persisted run state formats.

## Model Used

- Claude Opus 5.5 (`claude-opus-5-5`), Anthropic, via Claude Code with
tool use (shell, file edits).

## 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
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DottaandClaude Opus 5.5 c5da0b88ad fix(native): take over a remote runner at once when its old controller is proven gone (#20240)
## Thinking Path

- Restart recovery should be fast and fault-proof; "restarts are product
failures". Remote (Daytona) runs must recover as quickly as local ones
once it is safe.
- Phase 3's Daytona K13 storm (`w-20261109T100435-s9503`) showed Codex
`restart_recovery_control_plane` p50 34.9 s, p95 61.1 s. That's
Paperclip's own share, before any provider load.
- The run logs show why. After a hard restart, each slow run sat in
"Native restart recovery is waiting for safe ownership evidence" with
reason `remote_controller_lease_live` for about 51 s, until the dead
controller's 60 s remote-controller lease expired.
- On the remote path, `evaluateNativeControllerTakeover` deliberately
skips every process proof and waits for the lease. That's correct when
the previous controller might live in another container or on another
host. When it recorded this exact process space, the shared prover (pid,
process start, boot id) can prove it gone, which is the same proof the
local path already trusts.

## Linked Issues or Issue Description

**What happened?**
After a hard control-plane restart, a remote (Daytona) native run could
not be recovered until the dead controller's 60 s remote lease expired.
Recovery took about 35–60 s, even though the old controller process was
provably gone.

**Steps to reproduce**
1. Run a Codex task in a Daytona environment.
2. Hard-kill the control plane (SIGKILL) while the run is active, then
restart it.
3. The run logs `native.recovery.transition` "waiting for safe ownership
evidence" (`remote_controller_lease_live`) and resumes only when the
lease expires.

**Expected behavior**
When the previous controller ran in this same process space and is
proven gone, recovery takes over the remote runner immediately. It still
waits for the lease whenever the previous controller cannot be proven
gone.

## What Changed

- `server/src/services/native-runtime/native-restart-recovery.ts`,
`evaluateNativeControllerTakeover` with `remoteLeaseFenced`:
  - An expired or released lease is allowed, as before.
- A live lease whose holder recorded this exact process space
(`controllerHostHash`, neither missing nor unknown) and a controller PID
goes through the shared owner-gone prover, with
`requireStoppedController`. A positive proof allows the takeover, with
reason `remote_lease_<proof reason>`, for example
`remote_lease_controller_process_dead`.
- The one-release null-host fallback is never accepted for a remote
runner.
- A holder in another process space is never probed (the existing "must
not probe another container's PID" test still holds). It waits for the
lease, as before.
- `native-restart-recovery.test.ts`: a new test, red on master, covers:
  - takeover when this-process-space controller is dead;
  - waiting while it is alive;
  - waiting without a probe when the process space differs.

## Verification

- The 7 server test files that cover the takeover decision pass (351
tests): `native-restart-recovery`, `native-controller-host-recovery`,
`native-remote-retry-admission`, `native-recovered-owner-followup`,
`native-runner-restart-diskless.integration`, `heartbeat/recovery` and
`controller-instance-lease`.
- Evidence: kept-instance DB copy from the Daytona K13 wave. In run
`ba194ae7`, the `awaiting_evidence` transition
`remote_controller_lease_live` lasted from 04:26:06.8 to 04:26:57.9,
then `bootstrap_incomplete` restart.
- A Daytona K13 rerun will measure the before and after.

## Risks

- **Takeover soundness** rests on the shared prover, which the local
path already uses for the same controllers: same process space, PID dead
or definitely restarted, and boot-id proof where needed. If the old
controller is alive, the decision still waits for the lease.
- **Multi-host or containerized controllers** record a different process
space, so they are unaffected and still fenced by the lease.
- **The remote runner** keeps its own reconnect grace (7 min). The new
controller reattaches through the existing durable-authority path; only
the wait before that changes.

## Model Used

Claude Opus 5.5 (`claude-opus-5-5`, Anthropic), 1M context window, tool
use and code 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)
- [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
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DottaandClaude Opus 5.5 bd83715a6e fix(recovery): bootstrap a remote follow-up again when a restart cut it off after retiring its finished owner (#20241)
## Thinking Path

> - Paperclip is the open source app people use to manage AI agents for
work
> - A restart must resume in-progress runs on its own. Restart recovery
classifies each claimed native run and the executor acts on that claim.
> - A C1 follow-up on a remote sandbox first retires the finished owner
of the previous turn (it archives the previous controller state), then
launches a new runner.
> - A restart in that window left the run with an inherited session
checkpoint but no runner for this run. Recovery read the inherited
checkpoint as proof of a live remote runner and claimed reattach. The
executor then found no runner identity and failed with
`durable_identity_unreadable`, so the user had to press Retry.
> - This pull request makes recovery recognize that nothing reached a
runner for this run, and makes the executor bootstrap again over the
empty root.
> - The benefit is that this restart window resumes the follow-up by
itself.

## Linked Issues or Issue Description

**What happened?**
In restart-chaos Daytona K13 storm wave seed 9503, task t03 (codex, C1)
graded R3 retry_needed. Follow-up run 0d8b7258 retired its previous
owner at 10:07:32.988 ("Run 4ee1c19a finished without a saved runner
checkpoint; starting a new runner"). A K1 kill at 10:07:34 cut it off
before any runner start was requested. On restart, recovery claimed
`reattach_remote_runner` and the executor failed with
`runner_state_identity_mismatch: durable_identity_unreadable`. The run
ended with `native_continuation_requires_reconciliation` and a Retry
offer.

**Expected behavior**
Recovery sees that no runner was ever requested for this run, claims
`bootstrap_incomplete`, and the executor starts the new runner the first
attempt was about to start.

**Steps to reproduce**
1. Run a remote (Daytona) C1 follow-up whose previous turn finished.
2. Kill the server after the follow-up retires the finished owner and
before it records `native.process_start_requested`.
3. Restart the server. See the `reattach_remote_runner` claim and the
`durable_identity_unreadable` failure.

**Paperclip version or commit**
master at 3963d38560

## What Changed

- `native-restart-recovery.ts`: the `remote_runner_never_launched` proof
also holds when the run carries only its continued session. That means a
session checkpoint with a matching identity and no projected provider
event, active turn, semantic result, terminal or pending runtime
request, plus the predecessor's `sessionIdBefore`. The proof still
requires no `native.process_start_requested`, no controller checkpoint
for this run, no runner process identity and no `sessionIdAfter`. The
classifier then sees no checkpoint for this run.
- `native-session-executor.ts`: a `bootstrap_incomplete` claim over a
root with no runner identity and no controller state quarantines that
root and bootstraps again for a remote target too. Previously only a
local target with no live runner process could do this. Such a root was
never authenticated by a controller on this host.
- Tests: four classifier cases (restart; a requested runner start, a
pending runtime request and a projected provider event stay held). Two
executor cases (created and replacement sandbox) restart the exact state
the kill left after the retire.

## Verification

- Red before the fix: the classifier test got a non-bootstrap claim. The
executor tests failed with `runner_state_identity_mismatch:
durable_identity_unreadable`, the error from the wave. Both pass after
it.
- `native-runner-restart-recovery.integration.test.ts` and
`native-recovered-owner-followup.test.ts`: 239 passed.
- `native-session-executor.test.ts`: 1,310 passed.
- `PAPERCLIP_TYPECHECK_LOW_MEMORY=1 pnpm typecheck` in `server`: passes.

## Risks

- Low to medium. The proof widens only for a claimed remote run with
none of its own start, checkpoint, runner or provider evidence. A
pending runtime request in the inherited checkpoint still holds the run,
as in #20226.
- The quarantined root keeps the archived previous owner for inspection.
The usual quarantine retention applies.
- Previous-release story: no saved state or schema changes. A run that
an older build left in this state is classified with the new rule at its
next claim.

## Model Used

- Claude Opus 5.5 (`claude-opus-5-5`), Anthropic, via Claude Code with
tool use and code execution.

## 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
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DottaandClaude Opus 5.5 465da4227a fix(runner): drop a tool target path that breaks a line so the controller can acknowledge its event (#20238)
## Thinking Path

> - Paperclip is the open source app people use to manage AI agents for
work
> - The Paperclip Runner turns provider tool calls into durable PRP
events. The controller acknowledges each event only after it validates
and commits it.
> - The controller's event schema forbids line terminators in a safe
path such as `tool.execution` `target`.
> - The ACPX sidecar and the Rust runner accepted a location path that
contained a newline. Claude sometimes emits a malformed Write call that
puts the file content into the path.
> - The controller refused that event without an acknowledgement. The
runner redelivered the same bytes, and the run stopped making progress
for 14 minutes (2,848 reconnects).
> - This pull request makes both producers drop such a path, so the
event carries a null target and the controller accepts it.
> - The benefit is that a malformed provider path can no longer wedge a
run's event delivery.

## Linked Issues or Issue Description

**What happened?**
In restart-chaos wave seed 9807 (claude, R1, local), the run stopped
receiving events after runner source seq 33. The runner reconnected
2,848 times in 14 minutes. Offline replay of the saved runner outbox
through the controller's `validatePrpEvent` showed that seq 34 fails
`/payload/target` (the safePath pattern), because the target is
`packages/shared/src/chaos/slug-2c5c3c8f.ts\n<parameter
name="content">export function chaosSlug…`. Seq 35, 39 and 40 (the same
tool call) fail the same way.

**Expected behavior**
The runner never emits an event that the controller's schema refuses. A
malformed tool path becomes a null target, and the tool event still
arrives.

**Steps to reproduce**
1. Have an ACPX provider send a tool call whose location path contains a
newline (for example, a Write call with the content in the path).
2. See that the runner emits `tool.execution.progressed` with that
target.
3. See that the controller closes the connection without an
acknowledgement on every redelivery.

**Paperclip version or commit**
master at 3963d38560

## What Changed

- `runner-core/src/tool_file_changes.rs`: new `is_single_line_path`,
which refuses control characters and U+2028/U+2029 (the characters
ECMAScript `.` does not match). `normalize_relative` uses it, so
file-change paths are covered too.
- `runner-core/src/provider_events.rs`: `safe_acpx_location` uses the
same check (it replaces the NUL-only check).
- `src/drivers/acpx/safe-locations.ts`: the sidecar drops a location
whose path contains a control character or U+2028/U+2029.
- Tests: a Rust test covers the observed path, `\r`, U+2028, U+2029 and
tab, plus a full ACPX tool-call normalization with a broken location and
file change. A TS sidecar test covers the same paths.

The controller-side detection and reason capture for a refused event is
in paperclipai/paperclip#20235 (Phase 5). This PR does not touch the
controller.

## Verification

- Red before the fix: the Rust test
`drops_a_location_whose_path_breaks_a_line` and the TS test `drops a
path that breaks a line…` both failed. Both pass after it.
- `npx vitest run src/cli/acpx-sidecar-locations.test.ts
src/cli/acpx-runtime-sidecar.test.ts src/drivers/acpx` in
`packages/paperclip-runner`: 1,818 passed.
- `PAPERCLIP_TYPECHECK_LOW_MEMORY=1 pnpm typecheck` in
`packages/paperclip-runner`: passes.
- `cargo test --lib` in `runner-core`: 598 passed. Four
`task_memory::tests::monitor_*` tests fail on this macOS host in
isolation too. That file is unchanged here (last changed in #18801), and
the CI Rust job is the authority.

## Risks

- Low. Only a path that the controller already refuses is dropped. A
valid POSIX filename with a tab is now dropped as a display target too,
which is consistent with the existing ACPX rich-event check
(`char::is_control`).
- Previous-release story: a runner outbox already saved with such an
event (from an older runner) still holds it. That case needs the
controller detector in paperclipai/paperclip#20235, which fails the run
closed instead of looping. No saved state, schema or pack contract
changes here.

## Model Used

- Claude Opus 5.5 (`claude-opus-5-5`), Anthropic, via Claude Code with
tool use and code execution.

## 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
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DottaandClaude Opus 5.5 3963d38560 test(chaos): drop the R1 clone's remote so agents cannot push to the operator's checkout (#20228)
## Thinking Path

> - Paperclip is the open source app people use to manage AI agents for
work
> - The restart chaos harness runs real agents against a local Paperclip
and grades how they survive restarts
> - The R1 workload clones `--workspace-repo` (usually the operator's
own Paperclip checkout) and has agents change code in that clone
> - The clone kept `origin` pointing at the operator's checkout over
`file://`
> - An agent in an R1 workspace could therefore `git push` branches or
commits into the operator's real repository
> - This pull request removes the clone's remote right after the pinned
checkout
> - The benefit is that agent code in an R1 wave can no longer write to
the operator's checkout

## Linked Issues or Issue Description

Refs #20111 (review thread on the R1 workload)

**What happened?**
A review of #20111 noted that the cloned R1 workspace still has `origin
= file://<operator checkout>`. Project worktrees created from that clone
inherit the remote, so an agent can push into the operator's repository.

**Steps to reproduce**
1. Run a wave with `--workloads R1 --workspace-repo <checkout>`.
2. In a task worktree, run `git remote get-url origin`. It prints
`file://<checkout>`.

**Expected behavior**
The workspace has no path back to the operator's checkout.

**Actual behavior**
`git push origin HEAD:refs/heads/x` from the workspace would create a
branch in the operator's checkout.

## What Changed

- `cloneWorkspaceRepository` runs `git remote remove origin` after the
clone and any pinned-commit fetch.
- The clone test asserts that both the plain and the pinned clone have
no remote, that `git push origin` fails, and that no branch appears in
the source.

## Verification

- `npx vitest run --config tests/restart-chaos/vitest.config.ts
tests/restart-chaos/seed.test.ts`: the new assertions fail before the
change (`expected 'origin' to be ''`) and pass after it (8/8).
- `node scripts/typecheck-test-projects.mjs tests/restart-chaos`: clean.
- Audit of the three R1 waves that already ran (w-20261108T215822-s9805,
w-20261109T030542-s9805, w-20261109T081456-s9901): no reflog entry of
type push on any local ref in the operator checkout during the wave
windows, no `CHA-*` or R1 branch there, unchanged hooks, and no push in
the kept clones' logs. Nothing was pushed.
- A short local R1 wave on this branch confirms workspace provisioning
works without the remote (result in a comment below).

## Risks

- If Paperclip workspace provisioning needed `origin` in the project
repository, R1 tasks would fail to provision. The confirming R1 wave
covers this.

## 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
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DottaandClaude Opus 5.5 780f378f60 fix(recovery): settle a local workspace command whose server process died mid-command (#20233)
## Thinking Path

> - Paperclip is the open source app people use to manage AI agents for
work
> - A run prepares its execution workspace with local commands
(`workspace_provision`, `worktree_prepare`, teardown, cleanup). The
server records each command as a `workspace_operations` row.
> - A restart can stop the server while such a command runs. The row
then stays `running` forever, because no process or recovery path owns
it.
> - The restart-chaos harness found this. A K2 drain interrupted a run,
then the server started `bash ./scripts/provision-worktree.sh` for the
run and exited before it finished. The retry succeeded, but the old row
stayed `running`.
> - The ownership reconciler already settles finalize attempts whose
process died. Local command operations had no owner stamp and no
ownership kind.
> - This pull request stamps each local command operation with the
process that runs it and adds a `workspace_command_operation` ownership
kind that fails an abandoned one.
> - The benefit is that a restart never leaves a stuck workspace
operation behind.

## Linked Issues or Issue Description

**What happened?**
In restart-chaos wave seed 9807 (local, R1, faults K1/K2), tasks t03 and
t04 graded R6 with `running_workspace_operations`. A K2 drain
interrupted the run with `server_shutdown_interrupted`. A
`workspace_provision` operation started 0.3 s later in the same process
and never finished. The retry run succeeded. The orphan operation stayed
`running` forever.

**Expected behavior**
When the process that ran a local workspace command is gone, recovery
closes the operation. It does not change the run or its outcome.

**Steps to reproduce**
1. Start a run that provisions a worktree with a provision command.
2. Drain or restart the server while the command runs.
3. After the restart, see that the `workspace_operations` row for the
command stays `running`.

**Paperclip version or commit**
master at d2fe85e57c

## What Changed

- `workspace-operations.ts`: a local command phase (`worktree_prepare`,
`workspace_config_freshness`, `workspace_provision`, `workspace_seed`,
`workspace_runtime_provision`, `workspace_repair`, `workspace_teardown`,
`worktree_cleanup`) without a runtime-control stamp now records
`commandOwner` (the controller process stamp). This process tracks the
operation as live while it runs. Finalize attempts and command
operations share one live-id set.
- `workspace-finalize-attempt-settlement.ts`: the finalize settle is now
a factory. A second instance settles abandoned command operations with
`abandonedCommand` provenance and an activity entry. Both instances skip
a row with a runtime-control stamp.
- `ownership-registry.ts`: new owner-gone-attestable kind
`workspace_command_operation`. The owner is the `commandOwner` process.
A row without a stamp is owned by its run.
- `controller-instance-lease.ts`: a running command stamped with this
boot holds the controller instance lease, like a finalize attempt.

## Verification

- Red before the fix: the two new tests and the kind-list test failed.
Green after it.
- `server/src/__tests__/ownership-reconciliation-report.test.ts` (29
pass): a dead-process `workspace_provision` operation and an unstamped
one with a terminal run are failed. A live, foreign-PID-space,
active-run, unowned or runtime-control operation stays `running`. The
recorder stamps `commandOwner` on a running provision command.
- Related suites pass: `workspace-runtime`,
`workspace-operations-reconciliation`,
`workspace-runtime-control-recovery`, `execution-preparation-phases`,
`controller-instance-lease`, `heartbeat-workspace-finalize-branch`,
`execution-workspace-runtime-control-conflict` (265 tests).
- `PAPERCLIP_TYPECHECK_LOW_MEMORY=1 pnpm typecheck` in `server` passes.

## Risks

- Low. The settle fails only a row whose stamped process is proven gone,
or an unstamped row whose run is terminal. It compares the owner stamp
in the same transaction, and it never touches an operation that this
process still runs.
- A failed command row is now visible as `failed` with an interruption
message instead of `running`. Run outcomes do not change.

## Model Used

- Claude Opus 5.5 (`claude-opus-5-5`), Anthropic, via Claude Code with
tool use and code execution.

## Checklist

- [x] I have included a thinking path that traces from project context
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planned core work
- [x] I have searched GitHub for duplicate or related PRs and linked
them above
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#` / `Refs #` OR (b) described the issue in-PR following the relevant
issue template
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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
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DottaandClaude Opus 5.5 267f54ef72 fix(chat): make task-not-found, unreachable-MCP and board denials final for agents (#20208)
## Thinking Path

> - Paperclip is the open source app people use to manage AI agents for
work
> - People talk to their agents in Agent Chat, and the agents act
through the Paperclip API
> - A board-only denial now tells the agent that it is final and where
the person acts (#20151, #20182). Other refusals and errors still give
no sign that they are final
> - So the agent keeps trying until the reply deadline, and the person
gets no answer. In chat evaluations this happened on a task lookup that
returned 404, on an MCP server that Paperclip could not reach, on a
model question, and after a final budget denial
> - This pull request makes those answers say that they are final and
what the person must do, and it tightens the chat guidance after a
board-only denial
> - The benefit is a prompt, correct reply instead of a long search or
forbidden workarounds

## Linked Issues or Issue Description

Refs #20151, #20182 (same remedy for board-only denials).

**What happened**
In four Agent Chat evaluation cases on a slower model, the agent did not
reply before its deadline:
- Asked to open a task from an old link, the agent got `404
{"error":"Issue not found"}`. It quoted the private-task guidance, then
searched archived projects, activity and the old host for 3 more
minutes.
- Asked to connect an MCP server at an unreachable URL, the agent got
`502 {"error":"fetch failed","code":"runtime_error"}` from the health
check. It retried, then used `curl` on the host and gateway IP addresses
to look for the server.
- Asked which coding models an agent can use, the agent got the
runtime's model list in its first minute. The catalog did not say how to
list OpenRouter models or that these lists answer the question, so it
enumerated OpenRouter with the shell until the deadline.
- Asked to raise a budget, the agent got the final board-only denial.
The chat guidance said "Complete other permitted work", so it probed
approvals and other routes and replied too late.

**Expected behavior**
The answer the agent receives says whether it is final and what the
person must do, with a link when the page is known. The agent replies at
once. It does not search other routes, retry, or contact other network
addresses.

**Steps to reproduce**
1. Open Agent Chat with a CEO agent.
2. Ask it to open a deleted task by its old link, or to connect an MCP
server at a closed local port.
3. The agent calls `GET /api/issues/{id}` (404) or `POST
/api/tool-connections/{id}/health-check` (502 "fetch failed").
4. The body says nothing about finality. The agent keeps searching or
probing and replies late or not at all.

## What Changed

- `GET /api/issues/:id`: for an agent, the 404 body adds `code:
"issue_not_visible"` and a `remediation`. It says that the lookup is
final, that the agent must not search other routes or open a similarly
named task, and that it should reply now and offer sharing or pasting. A
missing task, a private task and another company's task get the same
body, so the body reveals nothing. People and other routes keep the
plain body.
- MCP health check and catalog refresh: when Paperclip cannot reach the
server (connection refused, DNS, network, reset, timeout or TLS), an
agent's error adds a `remediation`. It says the person must correct the
URL or start the server, that the agent must not contact other hosts,
ports or network addresses, and it links Connectors (`/<prefix>/apps`).
Status, `error` and `code` do not change.
- `AGENT_CHAT_DIRECTIVE`: after a board-only denial, the agent replies
now instead of making more calls. "Complete other permitted work" is
removed.
- API catalog: `POST /api/companies/{companyId}/tools/connections` says
it saves without a check and points MCP-by-URL setup at
`tools/apps/connect`, which checks the server first and saves nothing
for a fresh setup that cannot reach it. `GET
/api/companies/{companyId}/adapters/{type}/models` says which lists
answer a model question (the runtime's list with `provider`, `acpxAgent`
for ACPX agents and `environmentId`, and `opencode_local` with
`provider=openrouter` for OpenRouter keys), that the OpenRouter list is
not a qualification, and that with those inputs these calls answer the
question. `openrouter` is added to the documented `provider` values.
- API catalog authorization: budget policy upsert, budget incident
resolution, company and agent budget updates, and approval
approve/reject are now listed as board-only. Their routes already call
`assertBoard`, but the catalog said `board_or_agent`, so an agent
explored them as its own action before it got the 403.
- Tests: new `agent-refusal-finality.test.ts` (including the catalog
actor for the budget and approval routes); the private-task access test
now checks that a private and a missing task give an agent the same 404
body; the guidance test checks the new wording.

## Verification

- `cd server && npx vitest run
src/__tests__/agent-refusal-finality.test.ts
src/__tests__/board-access-denial.test.ts
src/__tests__/issue-access-grants-routes.test.ts
src/__tests__/authz-existence-oracle-guard.test.ts`: all pass (embedded
Postgres included).
- `cd server && npx vitest run src/__tests__/error-handler.test.ts
src/__tests__/generic-mcp-connection.test.ts
src/__tests__/openapi-routes.test.ts
src/__tests__/remote-http-rebinding.test.ts
src/__tests__/cloud-portfolio-error.test.ts
src/__tests__/database-backup-catalog-guidance.test.ts`: 183 tests pass.
- `npx tsc --noEmit -p server`: passes.
- Real chat journeys on the chat evaluation branch (runner-opencode):
the results will follow in a comment.

## Risks

- Low risk. HTTP status, `error` and `code` stay the same for each
changed error. Agents get extra top-level fields (`code` on the task
404, `remediation`). A client that compares a whole agent 404 body for
`GET /api/issues/:id` exactly will see a change.
- The task 404 body is the same for missing, private and other-company
tasks, so it adds no existence oracle. Other issue routes keep their
plain body.
- The guidance change can make an agent stop after a board-only denial
in a request that had other, permitted parts. The agent still reports
what it finished.

## Model Used

- Anthropic Claude Opus 5.5 (`claude-opus-5-5`), 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
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2026-11-09 04:30:19 -06:00
DottaandClaude Opus 5.5 d2fe85e57c fix(secrets): delete a secret that a binding proposal referenced (#20193)
## Thinking Path

> - Paperclip is the open source app people use to manage AI agents for
work.
> - Agents can propose a secret binding. A person approves or rejects it
on a review card.
> - Each binding proposal row refers to one source: a secret or a
pending secret proposal. A check constraint enforces this.
> - The secret reference used `ON DELETE SET NULL`. When a person
deletes the secret, Postgres sets the reference to null. The check
constraint then rejects the row.
> - So a person cannot delete any secret that a binding proposal ever
referenced. The API returns 500.
> - This pull request deletes the proposal rows together with the
secret, as the other source reference already does. Before the delete,
it rejects pending proposals so their cards close with a reason.
> - The benefit is that secret deletion works again and no review card
points at a removed proposal.

## Linked Issues or Issue Description

Refs #15644 (related: block secret deletion while bindings still exist).

**What happened**
`DELETE /api/secrets/:id` returned 500 for a secret that a binding
proposal referenced. The server log showed `new row for relation
"company_secret_proposals" violates check constraint
"company_secret_proposals_shape_check"`. This happened for pending,
rejected and approved proposals. It also happened after the person
removed the agent's binding.

**Expected behavior**
The person can delete the secret. Proposals that referenced it go with
it. A pending review card closes as rejected and tells why.

**Steps to reproduce**
1. An agent proposes a binding for an existing company secret (`POST
/api/agents/me/secret-proposals` with `secretId`).
2. Approve or reject the proposal, or leave it pending.
3. Delete the secret with `DELETE /api/secrets/:id`.
4. The response is 500 and the secret stays.

## What Changed

- `packages/db`: `company_secret_proposals.secret_id` now uses `ON
DELETE CASCADE`, the same as `secret_proposal_id`. Migration
`0452_secret_proposal_secret_cascade.sql` replaces the foreign key
(`DROP CONSTRAINT IF EXISTS`, then `ADD CONSTRAINT`).
- `server/src/services/secrets.ts`: `remove` accepts an optional
`beforeDelete` hook. The hook runs after the secret is marked deleted
and before its row is removed.
- `server/src/services/secret-proposals.ts`: new
`rejectPendingBindingsForSecret`. It rejects pending binding proposals
for a secret with a reason and returns them. This closes their review
cards and writes the normal activity entries. `createBinding` now holds
the secret row `FOR SHARE` in its insert transaction and refuses a
deleted secret. So no new pending proposal can start after the delete
marks the secret deleted.
- `server/src/routes/secrets.ts`: the delete route rejects pending
proposals in `beforeDelete`. For each one it sends the normal rejection
notice and wake (`notifySecretProposalResolution`), so the proposing
agent continues.
- `server/src/__tests__/secret-proposals-routes.test.ts`: a regression
test deletes a secret with a pending, rejected and approved binding
proposal through the route. It checks the secret and proposal are gone,
the card status is correct, and only the pending case sends one
rejection notice and one wake. A second test checks that a binding
proposal for a secret that the delete already marked deleted fails with
404.

## Verification

- Red first: the new test failed on `origin/master` with the shape-check
violation for all three cases.
- `cd server && vitest run --config vitest.config.ts
src/__tests__/secret-proposals-routes.test.ts`: 47 passed.
- `vitest run src/__tests__/chat-run-milestone-governed-work.test.ts
src/__tests__/agent-secrets-routes.test.ts
src/__tests__/secrets-service.test.ts`: 112 passed.
- `tsc --noEmit` for `server` and `packages/db`: pass. `pnpm --filter
@paperclipai/db run check:migrations`: pass.
- Found by the `secrets.secret-proposal` chat evaluation. Its cleanup
deletes the fixture secret and failed on this error in runs 42563093640
and 42571127911.

## Risks

- The migration only replaces one foreign key. It does not rewrite rows.
Existing rows already have a non-null `secret_id` or
`secret_proposal_id`, so nothing else changes.
- Deleting a secret now also deletes its binding proposal rows. The
activity log keeps the proposal history (`secret.proposal.*` and
`secret.deleted`). Secret-kind proposal rows that created the secret
keep `created_secret_id ON DELETE SET NULL`, so their history stays.
- Other paths that delete secrets (company deletion, user secret
cleanup) now cascade instead of failing on the same constraint. They do
not reject pending cards first.

## Model Used

Anthropic Claude Opus 5.5 (`claude-opus-5-5`), used 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
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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
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DottaandClaude Opus 5.5 d7d0f96f3f perf(runner): save provider state once per poll instead of once per frame (#20217)
## Thinking Path

> - Paperclip is the open source app people use to manage AI agents for
work
> - Native OpenCode, Codex and Cursor Cloud chat turns run through
runnerd. runnerd reads provider frames in order and keeps the run's
provider state in a durable file
> - For every frame that it reads, runnerd rewrote the whole provider
state file and called `fsync` on the file and on its directory. The
state holds every tool result kept in the turn, so each save got more
expensive as the turn went on
> - A tool call request is just the next frame. It waited behind one
full save for every frame before it. #20209 measured tool-call
turnaround that grew from about 1.4 s to about 15 s in one turn
> - #20209 stopped the OpenCode proxy from sending frames that runnerd
discards. Every frame that runnerd still reads still paid a full save,
and other proxies (for example Cursor Cloud) still send such frames
> - This pull request makes runnerd save the frames of one poll once,
before anything derived from them leaves runnerd. A save that would
write the bytes already on disk is skipped
> - The benefit is that the number of saves before a tool call no longer
grows with the number of streamed frames. In a local measurement, a tool
call after 400 frames with 830 KB of kept state took 0.57 s instead of
more than 30 s

## Linked Issues or Issue Description

Refs #20209
Related: #17514 (the same per-event full-state rewrite, on the server
control-plane side)

**What happened**

During a native OpenCode chat turn, tool-call turnaround grew from about
1.4 s to about 15 s as the turn went on. runnerd saved its complete
durable provider state, with `fsync`, after every provider frame. That
state includes the tool results kept so far in the turn. A tool call
request waited behind one full save for each earlier frame.

**Expected behavior**

The time to deliver a tool call must not grow with the number of
assistant-text, reasoning or item frames that came before it. A crash or
restart must still never lose state that a resumed run needs.

**Steps to reproduce**

1. Start a native OpenCode (or Codex app-server or Cursor Cloud) turn
that keeps a few tool results and then streams many text or reasoning
frames before its next tool call.
2. Measure the time from the tool call frame to the
`semantic_tool.input` event.
3. See that the time grows with the number of earlier frames and with
the size of the kept state. Locally, `cargo test -p
paperclip-runner-core --lib measure_streamed_frame -- --ignored
--nocapture` on `master` reports 102 saves and 9.3 s for 100 frames with
830 KB of kept state, and more than 30 s for 400 frames.

## What Changed

-
`packages/paperclip-runner/runner/crates/runner-core/src/provider_backend.rs`
and `codex_provider.rs`:
- The provider frame loop moves into `poll_provider_frames`. An ordinary
notification frame and a descendant notification frame no longer save
the state. They mark it as unsaved.
- After the loop, `poll_current_provider_with_control` saves the unsaved
state once. It also saves when a frame fails, before it returns the
error.
- Frames that already saved at once still do so: turn terminals, Cursor
Cloud terminal deliveries, `reconciliation_required`, protocol failures,
MCP permission and runtime requests, process exit, and new tool calls.
- A tool call that runnerd answers at once (an exact completed replay or
the receipt-limit stop) saves unsaved state before it writes to the
provider. A rejected tool call already saved first.
- `retained_events`, `execute` and `host_park_ready` save unsaved state
first, so no event, command result or park decision can expose state
that is not on disk.
- Courtesy rejections that `CodexProvider::poll` writes by itself
(unsupported requests, descendant requests, delayed requests after a
terminal, full runtime-request capacity) are held while runnerd reads a
batch (`hold_courtesy_responses`). runnerd sends them only after it
saves the state that covers every earlier frame
(`save_before_provider_writes`). A terminal frame also saves and
releases them before runnerd asks the provider for goal state or drains
the accounting tail. Released courtesy replies are best-effort, as
courtesy replies were before: a provider that already closed stdin
cannot turn a received terminal into a polling failure. The
receipt-limit stop sends held cancellations before its `turn/interrupt`
request, so their order to the provider does not change.
- The trace records for runnerd's normalization
(`rust_durable_normalization`), which name emitted event ids, are kept
until the state that holds those ids is saved. The trace therefore only
names saved events. Saved mappings are written before an exited or
failed provider is dropped, so they are not lost. Raw frame records
still go to the trace when a frame is read; they name no event ids.
- `save_unsaved_frame_state` does not write when the serialized state is
byte-for-byte the same as the saved file. All other saves write as
before.
- Serialization moves to `serialize_provider_state`, and the file write
moves to `write_state_bytes`. The write path (private temporary file,
`fsync`, rename, directory `fsync`, `0600`) does not change.
- New tests in
`packages/paperclip-runner/runner/crates/runner-core/src/tests/provider_frame_save_batching.rs`:
- `streamed_frames_do_not_multiply_durable_saves_before_a_tool_call`: 8
and 48 streamed frame pairs before a tool call need the same number of
saves (1). On `master` they need 18 and 98.
-
`batched_frame_state_is_saved_before_events_leave_and_survives_a_restart`:
at every poll, the saved file is equal to the in-memory state and holds
exactly the delivered events. A new executor loads the file after the
old one stops and gets the same state, the same unacknowledged events
and the pending tool call.
- `batched_frame_state_is_saved_when_a_later_frame_fails`: a frame that
fails after 20 batched frames still leaves those 20 frames on disk.
- `previous_release_state_is_rewritten_by_the_first_batched_save`: a
state file in an older shape (compact JSON without newer default fields)
loads, and the first batched save rewrites it. Unchanged state is not
rewritten. Changed state is.
-
`courtesy_rejections_reach_the_provider_only_after_earlier_frames_are_saved`:
when the courtesy rejection reaches the provider, the saved file (what a
restarted runnerd would load) already holds the 20 earlier frames and
equals the in-memory state. It fails if the hold is removed.
- `trace_interpretations_name_only_saved_events`: every event id that a
trace record names is in saved state at the moment the record is
written. It fails if records are written before the save.
-
`a_crash_inside_an_unsaved_batch_leaves_saved_state_and_provider_output_unchanged`:
after 122 frames are read and not yet saved, the saved file is
byte-for-byte unchanged and runnerd has written nothing to the provider.
A reload gets the pre-batch event sequence and no pending events.
-
`a_held_cancellation_that_cannot_reach_the_provider_keeps_the_completed_turn`:
the provider closes stdin and then completes the turn with a tool call
still pending. The held cancellation cannot be written, and the turn
still completes and is saved.
- `trace_interpretations_survive_a_provider_exit_in_the_same_poll`: the
trace keeps the mappings for frames that arrived in the same poll as the
provider exit.
- `measure_streamed_frame_cost_before_a_tool_call` (ignored): prints
saves and tool-call latency for different frame counts and kept-state
sizes.

## Verification

- `cargo test --locked -p paperclip-runner-core` (debug, macOS arm64):
library 595 passed, 1 failed; all 35 integration test binaries passed
(`--no-fail-fast`). The one library failure is
`task_memory::tests::monitor_bounds_notices`. It also fails when run
alone, takes about 9 minutes, and waits on file-watch timing in
`task_memory.rs`, which this PR does not touch. In one earlier run, two
ACPX park tests in `acpx_park_preparation` failed. The same binary also
failed on unchanged `master` (with a different test), and it passed in
the final run.
- `cargo test -p paperclip-runner-core --lib measure_streamed_frame --
--ignored --nocapture`, debug build, macOS APFS (`sync_all` is
`F_FULLFSYNC`). Each row is one turn: frames streamed, then one tool
call.

| Kept state | Frames | Saves (master) | Tool-call latency (master) |
Saves (this PR) | Tool-call latency (this PR) |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 4 KB | 100 | 102 | 946 ms | 1 | 18 ms |
| 4 KB | 400 | 405 | 3,791 ms | 7 | 70 ms |
| 211 KB | 100 | 102 | 3,207 ms | 1 | 37 ms |
| 211 KB | 400 | 405 | 12,803 ms | 7 | 193 ms |
| 833 KB | 100 | 102 | 9,251 ms | 1 | 93 ms |
| 833 KB | 400 | about 405 | more than 30 s (test deadline) | 7 | 567 ms
|

With 400 frames, the remaining saves are one per poll of up to 128
frames and one per controller acknowledgement.
- With the debug `paperclip-runnerd` and `fake-codex-app-server`
binaries from this branch: `npx vitest run` on
`src/live/runnerd-opencode-streaming-tools`,
`runnerd-opencode-assigned-tools`, `runnerd-codex-transport`,
`runnerd-codex-transport-settlement`,
`runnerd-codex-transport-cold-restore`, `runnerd-restart-continuation`,
`runnerd-saved-continuation`, `runnerd-detach-durability`, and
`src/cli/opencode-proxy-output`, `opencode-proxy-events`,
`opencode-app-server-proxy`: 11 files, 353 tests passed.

## Risks

- Durability. The rule is: nothing derived from a frame leaves runnerd
before the state that holds that frame is on disk. That covers delivered
events, command results, park decisions, tool results and rejections,
courtesy rejections, Cursor Cloud terminal acknowledgements, and trace
records that name event ids. The tests above check each of these.
- The unsaved window is at most one poll (128 frames). Every frame in it
is undelivered: no event from it reached the controller, and runnerd
wrote nothing to the provider while it was unsaved.
`a_crash_inside_an_unsaved_batch_leaves_saved_state_and_provider_output_unchanged`
proves this. A crash in the window therefore leaves the saved state and
everything the controller and provider have seen exactly as a crash just
before those frames were read. The resumed run starts from the same
event sequence, so it cannot deliver an event id twice. Its normal
recovery (thread resume and `thread/read` reconciliation) handles those
frames in the same way as frames still in the provider pipe. On
`master`, a crash could already lose the one frame being processed.
- One provider write can still happen in the window: `thread/read`,
which `CodexProvider::poll` sends to check the lineage of an unknown
helper thread. It is a read-only query that waits for its answer, and it
changes nothing on the provider side.
- Courtesy rejections now reach the provider at the end of the poll
instead of during it. The delay is one batch. The provider gets the same
replies.
- Previous-release story: the saved file shape does not change, and no
new field is saved. A file from the previous release loads as before.
The skip check compares exact bytes, so an older file is never treated
as already saved. The first save after an upgrade rewrites it in the
current shape. A deploy that lands mid-turn sees a file that the
previous release saved after each frame. That file is valid input for
this code.
- The ACPX backend has its own frame loop and is not changed here.

## Model Used

- Anthropic Claude Opus 5.5 (`claude-opus-5-5`), used through Claude
Code with tool use (shell, file editing) and extended thinking.

## 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
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#` / `Refs #` OR (b) described the issue in-PR following the relevant
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links (only public GitHub `#NNN` / `github.com/paperclipai/paperclip`
URLs)
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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
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DottaandClaude Opus 5.5 df4562ab38 fix(native): an inherited checkpoint with a pending runtime request is evidence (#20226)
## Thinking Path

> - Paperclip is the open source app people use to manage AI agents for
work
> - #20153 and #20214 let restart recovery set aside a remote
follow-up's admission-rebound checkpoint when the checkpoint is blank
and nothing of the run reached a runner. Recovery then restarts the
bootstrap instead of blocking
> - "Blank" checked the cursor, terminal turns, active turn, semantic
result and terminal, but not pending runtime requests
> - A rebound checkpoint that still carried an outstanding runtime
request would therefore be treated as no evidence. The run would restart
as a fresh bootstrap and drop that request
> - This pull request also requires no pending runtime requests before
the checkpoint counts as a blank admission checkpoint
> - The benefit is that an outstanding request always keeps the run on
its reconciling path

## Linked Issues or Issue Description

Refs #20214

**What happened?**
After #20214 merged, ponytail review noted that
`admissionCheckpointOnly` (shared by #20153's
`remoteRunnerNeverReceivedCommands` and #20214's
`inheritedCheckpointOnly`) did not inspect `pendingRuntimeRequests`. A
rebound checkpoint with a pending request would be demoted to "no
evidence", and the run restarted as `remote_execution_never_claimed`,
dropping the request.

**Expected behavior**
A checkpoint with any pending runtime request is evidence. The run is
not restarted as a fresh bootstrap.

**Steps to reproduce**
1. Claim restart recovery for an unclaimed remote follow-up whose
rebound checkpoint carries a pending runtime request and no other state.
2. Before this change, recovery claims `bootstrap_incomplete`.

**Paperclip version or commit**
Current master after #20214.

## What Changed

- `native-restart-recovery.ts`: `admissionCheckpointOnly` additionally
requires `pendingRuntimeRequests` to be absent or empty.
- `native-runner-restart-recovery.integration.test.ts`: a held case, an
unclaimed remote follow-up whose inherited checkpoint carries a pending
runtime request.

## Verification

- Red/green: on master the held case is restarted as
`bootstrap_incomplete`. With the change it is not, and the other cases
are unchanged.
- `vitest run` of `native-runner-restart-recovery.integration.test.ts`
and `native-restart-recovery.test.ts`: 2 files, 201 tests passed (14
skipped).
- `PAPERCLIP_TYPECHECK_LOW_MEMORY=1 pnpm typecheck` (`server`): passed.

## Risks

- Minimal. The change only narrows when a checkpoint counts as blank.
Every run it affects keeps the existing, more conservative
classification.

## Model Used

- Claude Opus 5.5 (`claude-opus-5-5`), via Claude Code with tool use
(shell, file edits, test execution).

## Checklist

- [x] I have included a thinking path that traces from project context
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details)
- [x] I have checked ROADMAP.md and confirmed this PR does not duplicate
planned core work
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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
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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
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DottaandClaude Opus 5.5 8525bb534c fix(chat): post a turn's answer when a card it did not create is pending (#20220)
## Thinking Path

> - Paperclip is the open source app people use to manage AI agents for
work.
> - People talk to agents in Agent Chat. The agent's final message
becomes the chat reply.
> - A chat thread can hold a pending card that the board addressed to
another person, for example a human-only confirmation for Riley.
> - When Alex asks the agent to act on that card, the agent correctly
gets `403 interaction_human_only` and writes a final answer that
explains the denial.
> - The shared answered rule (`conversationTurnAnswered()`, from #20179
and #20204) counted any pending human-only card in the thread as the
turn's own response. So the answer was suppressed, and the chat stayed
`active` with no reply.
> - This pull request limits that rule to cards that the turn's own run
created. Other cards still hold the task status.
> - The benefit is that the person always gets the turn's answer, unless
the turn itself asked a question with a card. Live completion and
restart recovery stay consistent.

## Linked Issues or Issue Description

Refs #20179, #20204 (the shared answered rule this PR corrects).

**What happened**

In an Agent Chat, the board created a pending `request_confirmation`
card with `resolverPolicy: human_only`, addressed to another user
(Riley). The card has no source run. Alex wrote "I approve Riley's
request." The agent tried to accept the card and got `403
interaction_human_only`. It then wrote a correct final answer: the card
needs Riley. The run succeeded with a `yielded` result and a
`response_wake` continuation. Run completion recorded
`presentationDecision: none`. No comment was created. The conversation
stayed `active`, so Alex never got a reply.

Cause: `conversationTurnAnswered()` reused the status-gate query
`pendingNativeInteraction()`. In conversation mode, that query excludes
another run's card only when it is an ordinary question or an `anyone`
confirmation. A human-only card addressed to someone else is kept. The
rule then treated that card as the card that "presents the turn",
although this run did not create it.

**Expected behavior**

A successful chat turn posts its final answer exactly once, and the
conversation moves to `waiting`. Only a pending question or confirmation
card that the turn's own run created presents the turn in place of its
prose. A card from an earlier turn, or one the board addressed to
another person, can hold the task status, but it does not suppress the
answer.

**Steps to reproduce**

1. Open an Agent Chat as Alex.
2. As the board, create a pending `request_confirmation` card in the
chat with `resolverPolicy: human_only` and `addresseeUserId` set to
another person.
3. Send "I approve Riley's request."
4. Let the agent try to accept the card, get `403
interaction_human_only`, and end its turn with a final answer.
5. See that no reply appears, `presentationDecision.commentAction` is
`none`, and `conversationState` stays `active`.

## What Changed

- `server/src/services/native-runtime/native-governance.ts`:
`conversationTurnAnswered()` now checks only pending cards whose
`sourceRunId` is the turn's run. `pendingNativeInteraction()` gets an
optional `createdByRun` filter for this. The status gate
(`pendingNativeGovernance()`) does not change, so another person's card
still holds the task.
- Both callers get the fix through the one shared rule
`conversationTurnPresentsAnswer()`: live run completion
(`run-completion.ts`) and background presentation recovery
(`recoverCommittedNativeChatResponse`).
- `server/src/services/heartbeat/run-completion.test.ts`: new live cases
"someone else's confirmation card" (board-created, human-only, addressed
to another user, no source run) and "earlier turn's question card"
(created by an earlier run of the same agent). Each case now also checks
that the conversation moves to `waiting`.
-
`server/src/services/native-runtime/agent-chat-response-recovery.test.ts`:
new restart case for the board-created card, plus a `waiting` check
after recovery.
- `doc/execution-semantics.md`: state that only the turn's own card
presents the turn.

## Verification

- Thesis: the reply is suppressed because the answered rule counts any
pending human-only card in the thread, not only this run's card. If this
is true, a turn with only a board-created card addressed to someone else
posts no comment on master, and restricting the rule to `sourceRunId =
runId` posts exactly one comment and settles the conversation to
`waiting`, with the own-card cases unchanged.
- Failing first: without the fix, the two new live cases failed
(`expected [] to deeply equal [answer]`). The new recovery case also
failed (no comment).
- After the fix:
- `cd server && npx vitest run
src/services/heartbeat/run-completion.test.ts -t "posts a waiting
conversation turn"`: 9 passed (includes the two own-card cases, which
still post nothing).
- `cd server && npx vitest run
src/services/native-runtime/agent-chat-response-recovery.test.ts`: 62
passed.
- Both suites use a real embedded PostgreSQL database.
- Turn start: no change. The rule runs only after the provider turn
ends.

## Risks

- Low. Only the presentation rule changes. The status gate, the
conversation settle rule (it already required `sourceRunId = run.id`)
and the external-chat path do not change.
- Behavior shift: a turn now posts its answer while another run's or the
board's card is pending. Before, the answer was lost. A card that the
turn itself created still presents the turn, as before.
- Previous-release state: no persisted shape change. A run that the
previous release already recorded as `none` keeps that decision.
Recovery does not re-present it.

> 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

- Anthropic Claude Opus 5.5 (`claude-opus-5-5`), with tool use (shell,
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## Checklist

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planned core work
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them above
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links (only public GitHub `#NNN` / `github.com/paperclipai/paperclip`
URLs)
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and contains no internal Paperclip ticket id or instance-derived details
- [x] I have run tests locally and they pass
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DottaandClaude Opus 5.5 fe72bc5f81 fix(native): roll back a warm rotation cut off before its new control plane once its runner is proven dead (#20218)
## Thinking Path

> - Paperclip is the open source app people use to manage AI agents for
work
> - A warm follow-up rotates authority before it attaches. It archives
the previous epoch (suspended runner state and settled controller) under
`authority-epochs/`, then writes its own control plane
> - #20146 taught recovery to roll back a rotation whose new control
plane held only an undelivered `run.attach`, once its runner was proven
dead
> - A hard kill can land one step earlier, after the archive and before
the new control plane exists. The root then holds only the archive, with
no active control plane and no runner state. The executor read "no
durable identity" and failed with `runner_state_identity_mismatch:
durable_identity_unreadable`
> - This pull request applies the same proven rollback to that earlier
point of the rotation
> - The benefit is that a hard kill anywhere in the rotation window
resumes the follow-up from the previous turn

## Linked Issues or Issue Description

Refs #20146

**What happened?**
Local mixed restart-chaos wave w-20261109T081456-s9901 (master
09e24dd12c), t15 (codex M1):
- Run `4b85497f` started at 08:29:32 as a warm follow-up and requested
its process, then K1 killed the server.
- Recovery stopped the previous run's warm runner (pid 60249) and
claimed `resume_dead_runner`.
- The executor failed with `runner_state_identity_mismatch:
durable_identity_unreadable`.

The quarantined root held:
- `authority-epochs/epoch-c2842347…` with the previous owner `dc7d447b`:
runner `suspended`, every command completed;
- no `control-plane/` state and no `runner/runner-state.json`, only
provider state.

A Retry ran fresh. Phase 3 also saw the same signature on Daytona;
#20214 covers that remote shape.

**Expected behavior**
For a local runner proven dead (`resume_dead_runner`), a root that holds
only the archive of a suspended previous owner of this session restores
that epoch, and the follow-up continues from the previous turn. Without
a dead-runner claim it still fails closed.

**Steps to reproduce**
1. Start a warm follow-up and hard-kill the server after the rotation
archives the previous epoch, before it writes the new control plane.
2. Restart. Before this change, the follow-up fails with
`durable_identity_unreadable`.

**Paperclip version or commit**
09e24dd12c (wave). Branch rebased on current master.

## What Changed

- `native-session-executor.ts`:
- `undeliveredAttachRotationSource` becomes `interruptedRotationSource`,
and the new `latestSuspendedArchivedEpoch` shares the epoch checks:
named by its identity digest, a matching suspended runner state.
- Besides #20146's undelivered-attach shape, it accepts a root with no
`runner-state.json` and no active control plane (absent or empty). In
that case the epoch must belong to this session (`normalizedSessionId`)
and to a different run.
- The rollback moves an active control plane aside only when one exists.
- `native-recovered-owner-followup.test.ts`: #20146's rotation test adds
the "cut off before its new control plane" shape. With a dead-runner
claim it is admitted from the restored previous owner; without the claim
it still fails closed.

## Verification

- Red/green: on master, the new admitted case fails with exactly
`durable_identity_unreadable`. With the change it is admitted. The
fail-closed cases are unchanged.
- `vitest run` of the recovered-owner, restart-recovery and bootstrap
test files and `native-session-executor.test.ts`: 8 files, 1627 tests
passed (14 skipped).
- `PAPERCLIP_TYPECHECK_LOW_MEMORY=1 pnpm typecheck` (`server`): passed.

## Risks

- Low risk:
- The rollback still requires a `resume_dead_runner` claim on a local
runner, an absent runner state, and an archived epoch of this session
whose runner is suspended and whose name matches its identity.
- Restoring only moves files back within the root, and nothing is
deleted.

## Model Used

- Claude Opus 5.5 (`claude-opus-5-5`), via Claude Code with tool use
(shell, file edits, test execution).

## Checklist

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them above
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#` / `Refs #` OR (b) described the issue in-PR following the relevant
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links (only public GitHub `#NNN` / `github.com/paperclipai/paperclip`
URLs)
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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
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DottaandClaude Opus 5.5 ad57d5cc12 fix(native): restart an unclaimed remote follow-up that carries only its inherited checkpoint (#20214)
## Thinking Path

> - Paperclip is the open source app people use to manage AI agents for
work
> - A remote per-turn follow-up inherits the previous run's session
checkpoint at admission, rebound to its own identity. Its session root
still holds the previous owner's remote marker until the follow-up
rotates authority
> - If a restart lands before the follow-up's controller ever claims
execution, recovery should restart its bootstrap: nothing of this run
reached any runner
> - Recovery's unclaimed-bootstrap check required no checkpoint and no
provider evidence. The inherited checkpoint failed both, so recovery
claimed `reattach_remote_runner`
> - Even under a bootstrap claim, the executor skipped the per-turn
projection restore for every restart claim. It therefore never
rehydrated the previous owner's external marker, and failed with
`runner_state_identity_mismatch: durable_identity_unreadable`
> - This pull request does not count the inherited checkpoint as
evidence for an unclaimed remote run, and lets a bootstrap claim restore
the previous owner's projection, as a fresh follow-up start does
> - The benefit is that a follow-up drained in its first second on
Daytona restarts on its own

## Linked Issues or Issue Description

Refs #20153

**What happened?**
Daytona per-turn restart-chaos K13 storm w-20261109T074128-s9503
(revision 9046884811), t26 (codex C1): follow-up run `f1ddc43d` started
at 07:54:18 and was drained by SIGTERM at 07:54:19, during workspace
staging.
- It had not requested a runner process, and its coordinator was never
claimed (provider attempt 0).
- Recovery claimed `reattach_remote_runner` (`hasCheckpoint: true`,
`hasProviderEvidence: true`, both from the inherited checkpoint).
- The executor failed with `runner_state_identity_mismatch:
durable_identity_unreadable`, because the session root held the previous
run's external marker. A Retry succeeded.

**Expected behavior**
An unclaimed remote run whose only checkpoint is the admission-rebound
one, with no durable controller record and no provider events, restarts
its bootstrap (`remote_execution_never_claimed`). The executor
rehydrates the previous owner's projection and starts the follow-up from
it.

**Steps to reproduce**
1. Start a remote per-turn follow-up whose session root holds the
previous owner's external marker. Drain the control plane before the
follow-up's controller claims execution.
2. Restart. Before this change, recovery claims `reattach_remote_runner`
and the executor fails with `durable_identity_unreadable`.

**Paperclip version or commit**
9046884811 (wave). Branch rebased on current master.

## What Changed

- `native-restart-recovery.ts`:
- #20153's admission-rebound checkpoint test moves earlier. A new
`inheritedCheckpointOnly` holds for a remote sandbox run (not a plugin
task) with only that checkpoint, no durable controller record, no staged
attachment and no provider events.
- The unclaimed-bootstrap path and its classification then treat that
checkpoint as neither a checkpoint nor provider evidence.
- `native-inherited-runner-retry.ts` / `native-restart-recovery.ts`: a
warm continuation carries its settled predecessor's runner process
identity until it launches its own runner, and t26's row still held pid
596 at the restart.
- The new `carriesInheritedRunnerIdentity` reuses the same-run retry
path's proof (the exact pid, group and start time a settled predecessor
recorded).
- The restart classifier then ignores that inherited identity on the
unclaimed path, for a run that carries only its inherited checkpoint.
  - A process identity that is the run's own still holds the run.
- `native-session-executor.ts`: `restorePerTurnRunnerdController` now
also runs for a `bootstrap_incomplete` claim, but only when the root's
reference identity belongs to a previous run. A claim on the run's own
root returns early, as before.
- Tests:
- `native-runner-restart-recovery.integration.test.ts`: an unclaimed
remote follow-up with only its inherited checkpoint restarts, with no
process identity and with its predecessor's runner identity. It stays
held with its own runner identity, or when a provider event was
projected;
- `native-recovered-owner-followup.test.ts`: a bootstrap claim over the
previous owner's external marker is admitted, rehydrating the marker,
keeping the backup and quarantining nothing.

## Verification

- Red/green: both new tests fail on master. The classifier test claims
`reattach_remote_runner`, and the executor test fails with exactly
`durable_identity_unreadable`. Both pass with the change, and the held
case holds.
- `vitest run` over the restart-recovery, bootstrap, recovered-owner and
failed-workspace-recovery test files and
`native-session-executor.test.ts`: 9 files, 1715 tests passed (14
skipped). After the inherited-identity change, the restart-recovery,
bootstrap, recovered-owner, failed-workspace-recovery and
inherited-runner test files: 8 files, 407 tests passed (14 skipped).
Without the identity check, the inherited case is not restarted.
- `PAPERCLIP_TYPECHECK_LOW_MEMORY=1 pnpm typecheck` (`server`): passed.

## Risks

- Low risk:
- The inherited checkpoint stops counting only when the database shows
no controller record and no provider event for the run, and the existing
unclaimed-bootstrap conditions all still hold.
- The executor change runs the existing fresh-follow-up projection
restore, with all of its own checks, only for a root that still belongs
to the previous run.

## Model Used

- Claude Opus 5.5 (`claude-opus-5-5`), via Claude Code with tool use
(shell, file edits, test execution).

## 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
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issue template
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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
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DottaandClaude Opus 5.5 98e0f1fc0d fix(native-runtime): a stopped run cannot close a task another run continues; deliver a pre-restart comment at once (#20216)
## Thinking Path

> - Paperclip is the open source app people use to manage AI agents for
work
> - When the board stops a run and then posts a comment asking the agent
to continue, that comment starts a new run, and only that new run should
decide when the task is done
> - In restart chaos wave `w-20261109T081456-s9901`, t16 (claude S1, K1)
closed the task as done without the line the user asked for, and t10
(codex S1, K6) never woke a run for the continue comment, so it needed a
Retry
> - In t16, the stopped run's saved "done" result was accepted 10 s
after the continue run started. In t10, a restart killed the server 21
ms after the comment committed, before its wake was written, and the
comment backstop then waited out its 30 s grace
> - This pull request stops a run from closing a task that another run
now holds, and makes the backstop deliver at once a comment that
predates the server process
> - The benefit is that a user's latest direction after a Stop is
neither overridden by the stopped run nor lost to a restart

## Linked Issues or Issue Description

Refs #19831. Restart chaos wave `w-20261109T081456-s9901` (master
`09e24dd12c`), tasks t16 and t10.

**t16, from the kept database (CHA-20):**
- 08:29:19: the board stopped run 1 (`6e33d123`). Its saved result
reported done, but finalization failed on the stop
(`finalization_failed_claim_preserved`, a retryable failure).
- 08:29:41: the user's continue comment started run 2 (`2cb71c5b`). Run
2 held the task's execution and saw the comment.
- 08:29:51: the finalization reconciler retried run 1's saved result and
committed `completion_claim_policy_accepted` for run 1. The task closed
as done.
- From then on, every Paperclip tool call from run 2 was refused
(`paperclip_runner_tool_binding_not_authorized`), so it could not add
the `CONTINUE-…` line. Its result (blocked) was then preserved as
`terminal_status_preserved`.
- Run 2 ending `succeeded` with `native_session_lease_lost` follows from
this: its result was accepted before the lease was lost. The comment was
delivered; the model saw it.

**t10 (CHA-14):**
- The Stop moved the task to blocked. The user's comment reopened it to
todo at 08:26:28.633, and K6 killed the server at 08:26:28.654, before
the route wrote the comment's wake. No wake request exists for that
comment.
- This is not caused by the Stop, #20066 or #20180: the wake is written
after the comment commits, and the kill landed in between.
- The I4 backstop ("a user comment without a wake") matched the comment,
but treated it as possibly still getting its normal wake for 30 s. The
pass interval then pushed the check to 02:27:16, and the harness clicked
Retry at 02:26:59.

## What Changed

- `status-arbiter.ts`:
  - New `heldByAnotherRun(issue, runId)`.
- `supersedeStaleOwnerCompletion` also keeps status, with reason
`completion_run_superseded`, when the issue's `executionRunId` is a
different run. A run that was reassigned away still gets
`completion_owner_superseded`.
- `native-run-finalizer.ts` and `native-status-reassessment.ts` pass the
run id to that guard.
- `status-decision-committer.ts` rechecks the same rule under the issue
lock: a done decision for a non-conversation issue held by another run
raises `NativeStatusRaceError`. The finalizer then re-arbitrates and
keeps status.
- `ownership-invariant-report.ts`: the comment-without-wake grace now
only applies to comments created after this server process started
(`getServerProcessStartedAt`). Separate live server replicas are not
supported, and the wake is written by the process that accepted the
comment, so an older comment is owed at once. The startup pass now
delivers it. `runOwnershipReconciliationPass` takes an optional
`processStartedAt`.

## Verification

Red/green:
- `native-stale-owner-completion.test.ts`: three new tests.
- The unit policy: another run holding the task keeps status; the same
run, or none, still closes it.
- "does not let a stopped run's saved done result close the task a newer
run is continuing" (the t16 shape).
- "does not close the task when a newer run takes it after arbitration
but before the status commit" (only the committer recheck covers this).
  - On master: 3 failed. With this PR: 13 passed.
- `ownership-reconciliation-report.test.ts`: "finds at once a young user
comment whose wake a restart lost after the board stopped the run" (the
t10 shape). It fails on master and passes with this PR; the same comment
in a process that accepted it still waits for its grace deadline. The
file: 27 passed.

Regression and static checks:
- 16 nearby native finalization, status projection, workspace finalizer
and arbiter suites: 439 passed.
- `tsc --noEmit` passes for `server`, and for the two test files.

## Risks

- A done result now waits when a different run holds the task. That run
reaches its own decision; the earlier result stays as history. If the
holder is stale, the existing execution-lock recovery clears it, and a
later reassessment can then close the task.
- After a restart, a user comment newer than the task's last run, with
no wake, is delivered at the startup pass rather than 30 s later. A
replica that is still live and writing the same wake is not a supported
topology.
- No schema change and no change to persisted run state.

## Model Used

- Claude Opus 5.5 (`claude-opus-5-5`), Anthropic, via Claude Code with
tool use (shell, file edits).

## Checklist

- [x] I have included a thinking path that traces from project context
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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
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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
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DottaandClaude Opus 5.5 088bdf7cfa fix(daytona): wait out a sandbox state change before starting it for workspace realize (#20212)
## Thinking Path

> - Paperclip is the open source app people use to manage AI agents for
work
> - On Daytona, every run realizes its workspace in the leased sandbox.
Realizing it first makes sure the sandbox is started
> - Right after a control-plane restart, the sandbox can still be
mid-transition, for example stopping or starting from the previous
lifecycle step
> - The plugin called `sandbox.start` straight away. Daytona rejects
that with "Sandbox state change in progress", so the run failed
`setup_failed` and needed a Retry
> - This pull request waits out a sandbox's state change before starting
it, and retries a start the provider rejected for that reason, within
the existing start deadline
> - The benefit is that a run whose sandbox is briefly transitioning
starts on its own

## Linked Issues or Issue Description

Refs #20211

**What happened?**
Daytona per-turn restart-chaos K13 storm w-20261109T074128-s9503
(revision 9046884811), t07 (claude A1): run `5aabeb55` failed at
07:45:27 with `setup_failed` and "Failed to realize workspace for
environment … (sandbox): Sandbox state change in progress". The sandbox
was mid-transition after the restart, and realize neither waited nor
retried. A Retry succeeded.

**Expected behavior**
Realize waits for a transitional sandbox state to settle, then starts
the sandbox. If the provider still reports the state change, it retries,
all within the existing start deadline. Any other start error fails at
once, and a transition that outlasts the deadline still fails.

**Steps to reproduce**
1. Realize a workspace while the Daytona sandbox is `stopping` or
`starting`, or while `start` returns "Sandbox state change in progress".
2. Before this change, realize fails at once with that error.

**Paperclip version or commit**
9046884811 (wave). Branch rebased on current master.

## What Changed

- `packages/plugins/sandbox-providers/daytona/src/plugin.ts`:
`ensureSandboxStarted` now polls `refreshData` while the sandbox is in a
transitional state.
- The transitional states are `starting`, `stopping`, `restoring`,
`archiving`, `creating`, `pending_build`, `pulling_snapshot`,
`building_snapshot` and `resizing`.
- It polls every second, until the start deadline from `timeoutMs`. Each
read keeps the existing liveness bound.
- If the start fails with "state change in progress", it refreshes and
tries again, within the same deadline.
- The wait, every retry and the start share one deadline. Each read is
bounded by the time left, and the start receives only the remaining
seconds.
- As soon as any state other than `started` is observed, the lease's
stored session is dropped before waiting, so a restart that happened
outside the plugin never reuses a dead session.
  - Starting a settled sandbox (`startSettledSandbox`) is unchanged.
- `plugin.test.ts`:
  - realize waits for a stopping sandbox, then starts it;
  - realize retries a start that was rejected for a state change;
  - realize gives up once the transition outlasts the deadline;
  - another start error fails at once;
  - the start receives only the budget the wait left;
- a restart outside the plugin that the wait sees through opens a fresh
session.
  - The tests stub the API key with `vi.stubEnv`.

## Verification

- Red/green: on master, the wait and the retry cases fail with "Sandbox
state change in progress". With the change they pass, and the deadline
and other-error cases hold.
- `vitest run` in `packages/plugins/sandbox-providers/daytona`: 14
files, 614 tests passed (8 skipped).
- `tsc --noEmit` for the Daytona plugin package: passed.

## Risks

- Low risk. The wait is bounded by the start deadline the plugin already
used. Only transitional states and the provider's state-change rejection
are waited out, and every other error behaves as before.

## Model Used

- Claude Opus 5.5 (`claude-opus-5-5`), via Claude Code with tool use
(shell, file edits, test execution).

## 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
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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
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DottaandClaude Opus 5.5 6383eb8033 fix(authz): require board authority for agent budget changes on every route (#20213)
## Thinking Path

> - Paperclip is the open source app people use to manage AI agents for
work
> - Budgets stop agent spending. The budget hard stop is a control-plane
invariant
> - The budget routes (`PATCH /api/agents/:id/budgets`, `PATCH
/api/companies/:id/budgets`) are board-only
> - `PATCH /api/agents/:id` also accepts `budgetMonthlyCents`, and the
configuration service writes the agent budget policy from it. That route
had no board check for the field
> - So an agent, such as a CEO, a manager or the agent itself, can
change a monthly budget without a board user. This is a second route
around a board-only control, like the pause bypass that #20164 fixed
> - This pull request applies the budget route authority to every route
that writes an agent budget, and gives agents the final board-only
denial with a link to the budget page (#20151)
> - The benefit is that only the board changes budgets, and an agent
that asks gets a final answer that it can pass to the person

## Linked Issues or Issue Description

Refs #17857 (earlier fix, now in conflict with master; this PR rebases
it and adds the budget page link). Refs #20164 and #20151 (same pattern
for PATCH status and board-only denials).

**What happened**

An agent can send `PATCH /api/agents/{id}` with `budgetMonthlyCents`.
The route accepts it, and the configuration service writes the agent
budget policy. This works for the agent's own budget and, with update
permission, for other agents. The same field also reaches budget policy
through a configuration rollback, direct agent creation, an immediate
hire and a built-in agent provision. A chat eval
(`budgets-costs.resolve-budget`) found the route.

**Expected behavior**

Only a board user can change an active budget, as on the dedicated
budget routes. An agent gets `403` with code `board_access_required`.
The denial says it is final and links the agent's budget tab
(`/<prefix>/agents/<id>/budgets`) or the company budgets page
(`/<prefix>/activity/budgets`). An agent can still propose a budget in a
hire that waits for board approval. The approving board user activates
it.

**Steps to reproduce**

1. On master, authenticate as an agent of a company (for example the
CEO).
2. Send `PATCH /api/agents/{agentId}` with body `{"budgetMonthlyCents":
5000}`, for its own id or for another agent.
3. See `200`. The agent budget policy changes with no board action.
4. The new route tests reproduce this: on master source they fail with
`expected 200 to be 403`.

## What Changed

- `PATCH /api/agents/:id`: a changed `budgetMonthlyCents` requires a
board actor. An unchanged amount with other edits still works.
- Configuration rollback: a rollback that changes the budget requires a
board actor.
- `POST /api/companies/:id/agents` and an immediate `agent-hires`: a
positive budget requires a board actor. A hire that needs board approval
keeps the proposed budget and does not activate it before approval.
- Built-in agent provision: a budget override requires a board actor.
- `prepareAgentConfiguration` rejects an agent-originated budget change
again (defense in depth). An agent rollback with an unchanged amount
does not rewrite the policy.
- Board writes keep the actual operator identity. The initial hire
budget is saved in the hire transaction.
- `assertBoard` and `boardAccessRequired` take an optional board page.
Budget denials link the agent's budget tab or the company budgets page,
not the general agent profile.
- Agent access map updated.
- This includes the four commits of #17857 (f970f6b01f, 8c06aba41c,
e5682d22fa, b6cd49d4b6), rebased onto master with the conflicts
resolved, then squashed.

## Verification

- Red on master source, same tests: 12 budget tests fail. The PATCH
tests fail with `expected 200 to be 403` for the agent's own budget and
for a CEO on another agent. Built-in provision fails with `expected 200
to be 403`. Creation and immediate hire fail with `expected 201 to be
403`.
- Green with the fix: `cd server && npx vitest run
src/__tests__/agent-permissions-routes.test.ts
src/__tests__/built-in-agent-routes.test.ts
src/__tests__/built-in-agents.test.ts
src/__tests__/agent-hire-idempotency-routes.test.ts
src/__tests__/board-access-denial.test.ts
src/__tests__/agent-budget-configuration.test.ts`: 222 passed.
- `src/modules/agent-lifecycle/__tests__/lifecycle.test.ts` (embedded
Postgres): 76 passed.
- `agent-skills-routes`, `agent-adapter-validation-routes`,
`openapi-routes`, `agent-cross-tenant-authz-routes`: 275 passed.
- `node scripts/check-maps.mjs`: passed. `git diff --check`: passed.
- Server `tsc --noEmit`: no errors in changed files. One error in
`native-session-executor.ts` comes from a linked runner build in the
local worktree, not from this change. CI runs the full typecheck.

## Risks

- Agent clients that set an active budget directly now get `403`. They
must propose the budget in an approval-gated hire, or ask a board user.
- Agent creation with no budget or a zero budget is not changed. Pending
hire budgets do not activate before approval.
- Trusted internal plugin provisioning keeps its prior behavior and gets
no board identity.
- No schema or migration change.

## Model Used

- Anthropic Claude Opus 5.5 (`claude-opus-5-5`), with tool use and code
execution, in Claude Code. The rebased commits from #17857 were first
written with OpenAI `gpt-6.1-sol` through Codex.

## 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
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#` / `Refs #` OR (b) described the issue in-PR following the relevant
issue template
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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
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DottaandClaude Opus 5.5 b1049b174e fix(native): retire a finished remote owner whose suspend never finished once its sandbox leases ended (#20211)
## Thinking Path

> - Paperclip is the open source app people use to manage AI agents for
work
> - Before a per-turn follow-up starts a new runner, it retires the
previous turn's finished owner. Retirement requires the owner's
controller journal to be settled
> - A local runner that is proven stopped can no longer act on its own
lifecycle commands, so an unfinished `runner.suspend` from it does not
hold the follow-up
> - On a remote per-turn sandbox the same thing happens when a restart
or drain lands while the runner is suspending. But the remote path had
no equivalent rule, so the unfinished `runner.suspend` held the
follow-up even after the previous run's sandbox lease had ended
> - This pull request treats a remote owner's lifecycle commands as
settled once every sandbox lease of that run has been released or
expired, and none of them is the sandbox the follow-up now uses
> - The benefit is that a C1 follow-up after a restart on Daytona
continues on its own

## Linked Issues or Issue Description

Refs #20140

**What happened?**
Daytona per-turn restart-chaos K13 storm w-20261109T074128-s9503
(revision 9046884811, image 01246d43): 60 of 65 passed. Three C1
follow-ups failed with `runner_state_identity_mismatch:
prior_owner_terminal_state_indeterminate;
retirement_refused=journal_commands_unsettled(runner.suspend.pending)`:
- t04 codex, run `c7446d0c`;
- t16 claude, run `4b2c770f`;
- t39 claude, run `3ef7d934`.

For t04, the previous owner `fc585314` committed its `run.terminal`, and
its journal kept only `runner.suspend` pending. Its per-turn lease
(`5576f27d…`) expired at 07:43:52, and the follow-up ran on a new
sandbox. Each Retry succeeded.

**Expected behavior**
Once the previous run's sandbox leases have all ended, and the follow-up
runs on another sandbox, the previous runner cannot act on its suspend.
The finished owner is retired and the follow-up continues.

The owner stays held while any of these holds:
- a lease is active, retained or pending cleanup;
- the follow-up runs on the same sandbox;
- no lease is recorded.

**Steps to reproduce**
1. Finish a remote per-turn run whose controller journal keeps
`runner.suspend` pending after its committed run terminal, and let its
sandbox lease end.
2. Start a follow-up on a new sandbox. Before this change, retirement
refuses with `journal_commands_unsettled(runner.suspend.pending)`.

**Paperclip version or commit**
9046884811 (wave). Branch rebased on current master.

## What Changed

- `native-session-executor.ts`:
- the new `priorRemoteSandboxLeasesEnded` checks the previous run's
`environment_leases`: at least one lease, every one `released` or
`expired` with `releasedAt`, and none on the current target's provider
lease;
- `inspectFinishedPerTurnRunnerdOwner` passes the result as
`remoteRunnerGone` to `readSettledRunnerdProjection`, for the live root
and for quarantined copies. That function then ignores unfinished runner
lifecycle commands (`runner.suspend`, `runner.drain`,
`runner.shutdown`), exactly as it already does for a stopped local
runner.
- `native-recovered-owner-followup.test.ts`: a red/green test with lease
variants. A lease that ended or was released on another sandbox is
admitted. A retained lease, an ended lease on the same sandbox, or no
lease record stays held.

## Verification

- Red/green: on master, the two admitted cases fail with exactly the
production error; with the change they are admitted. The three held
cases hold on both.
- `vitest run` of the recovered-owner, remote-warm and restart-recovery
test files and `native-session-executor.test.ts`: 7 files, 1634 tests
passed (14 skipped).
- `PAPERCLIP_TYPECHECK_LOW_MEMORY=1 pnpm typecheck` (`server`): passed.

## Risks

- Low risk. Only runner lifecycle commands become settled, and only when
the database proves every sandbox of the previous run has ended and the
follow-up runs elsewhere. Unfinished turn, tool or result commands, a
missing run terminal and unanswered tool input still hold.

## Model Used

- Claude Opus 5.5 (`claude-opus-5-5`), via Claude Code with tool use
(shell, file edits, test execution).

## 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
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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
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DottaandClaude Opus 5.5 fc5c79a327 fix(guidance): tell agents who acts and which page to link for person-only steps (#20206)
## Thinking Path

> - Paperclip is the open source app people use to manage AI agents for
work
> - Agents in chat read the API catalog (`search_api`) and
`connections_search` to learn what they can do and who must act
> - Some requests need a step that only a person can take: connect an
assistant, allow a quarantined app action, turn on an experiment, enter
an API key, or finish their own connection request
> - For these steps, no catalog entry or search result said who acts or
which page to link, and none of them returns a board-only 403, so the
denial guidance from #20151 and #20182 does not reach them
> - The agent knew a person had to act, searched for the page until its
turn ran out, and never replied
> - This pull request puts the fact and the exact page link where the
agent already looks, following #20152 and #20170
> - The benefit is that the agent replies at once with the right page
instead of timing out

## Linked Issues or Issue Description

Refs #20151, #20152, #20170, #20182

**What happened**

In chat, five requests ended with no reply. The agent searched the API
until the turn deadline:
- "Connect my assistant so it can see our tasks." `GET /api/mcp/setup`
is refused for agents. Its catalog entry had no description, so the
refusal text "Its catalog description says who can use it" pointed at
nothing.
- "Use the app's new export feature." The new action was quarantined. No
catalog entry said where a person reviews it.
- "Let me chat with Morgan over iMessage." `connections_search` hides
chat channels while the Chat connectors experiment is off, so the agent
could not find iMessage or the setting that hides it. `POST
/api/companies/{companyId}/chat-endpoints` also accepted a draft
endpoint for the turned-off provider.
- "Connect my account using an API key." The service was the person's
own MCP server. `connections_search` returned no result and did not name
the secure "Connect your own MCP server" page.
- "I will finish Alex's connection request for them." No catalog entry
said that only the addressee can resolve a connection request card.

**Expected behavior**

The agent says who must act, links the exact page, and replies in the
same turn. It does not search further, does not ask for a key in chat,
and does not create another request.

**Steps to reproduce**

1. Ask a chat agent one of the five requests above, in the matching
state (for example, Chat connectors off, or a quarantined catalog
entry).
2. Watch the run events. The agent calls `search_api` and `call_api`
until the turn deadline and posts no reply.

## What Changed

- `server/src/routes/openapi.ts`: add catalog descriptions that say who
acts, link the page, and say not to search further:
- `GET /api/mcp/setup` and `POST /api/mcp/requests/{id}/consent` link
[Assistant connections](/<prefix>/apps/assistant-connection) and say the
consent screen offers only access within the person's own role.
- `GET /api/tool-connections/{connectionId}/catalog`,
`.../review-counts` and `GET
/api/companies/{companyId}/tools/apps/attention` say a quarantined
action waits for a person on
`/<prefix>/apps/<connectionId>/permissions`.
- The four `/api/connection-intents/{interactionId}/...` routes say only
the addressee can resolve the card, and link the task that holds it.
- `server/src/services/connection-intents.ts`:
- While Chat connectors is off, a search that names a chat-only channel
(for example iMessage) returns it as `unavailable`, with a reason that
links `/<prefix>/company/settings/instance/experimental`. Channels that
also offer tools, such as Slack, keep their current result.
- A single `unavailable` result now always gets the "explain the reason,
do not bypass" instruction.
- When no listed service matches and the person gave the service's own
server URL, the instruction links `/<prefix>/apps/byo`, the secure
"Connect your own MCP server" page, and says never to ask for a key in
chat.
- `server/src/routes/chat-channels.ts`: `POST
/api/companies/{companyId}/chat-endpoints` returns 403 with the
Experimental settings page while the provider's experiment is off (Chat
connectors, or GitHub review bots for GitHub). AgentMail is unchanged.
The catalog entry says the same. The UI already hides the setup pages in
this state.
- `GET /api/issues/{id}/interactions` says only the addressee resolves a
connection request card.
- A hidden channel that an aggregator can serve (for example Discord)
keeps its aggregator routes instead of the unavailable result.
- Tests: `person-only-page-guidance.test.ts` checks the catalog text and
that every named page is a route that `ui/src/App.tsx` mounts.
`connection-intents-service.test.ts` covers the hidden channel (off and
on) and the own-server page.

## Verification

- `cd server && npx vitest run
src/__tests__/person-only-page-guidance.test.ts
src/__tests__/connection-intents-service.test.ts` passes.
`chat-channels.integration.test.ts` passes with `-t` for every test that
posts to the create route.
- These related suites pass: `openapi-routes`,
`connection-aggregator-fallback`, `generic-mcp-connection`,
`assistant-connections-guidance`,
`company-model-service-settings-guidance`, `board-access-denial`,
`email-channels.integration`, and the eight suites that import
`runner-api-catalog`.
- `npx tsc --noEmit -p server` shows no errors in the changed files.
- End to end: the full-stack chat evals for the five requests ran on a
branch with this change. The run results are in the comments below.

## Risks

- Low risk. The change is text in the API catalog and in
`connections_search` results, plus one result for a channel that was
hidden before.
- A hidden channel now shows in search as `unavailable` with no methods.
It cannot be set up from the result, so the gate stays in place.
- Chat endpoint creation is now refused while the experiment is off.
Callers that created endpoints with the setting off now get 403. Three
integration tests that relied on that now turn the setting on first, and
a new test covers the refusal.
- The single-`unavailable` instruction now also applies in suggestion
mode. Before, that mode told the agent to "respect unavailable states"
with no reason.

> 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

- Anthropic Claude Opus 5.5 (`claude-opus-5-5`), used through Claude
Code with tool use (shell, file edits, test runs).

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2026-11-09 02:36:57 -06:00