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Dotta 65aee998a3 fix(server): settle empty environment cleanup notifications (#19316)
## Thinking Path

> - Paperclip is the open source app people use to manage AI agents for
work.
> - Environment workers retain cleanup duties and retry them safely.
> - A metadata change can notify the worker without adding cleanup debt.
> - The pending-cleanup worker kept a work hold during its thirty-second
spacing window even when its owner reported no debt.
> - Historical cleanup already checks that condition without advancing a
provider sweep.
> - This PR applies the same owner check to pending cleanup and
preserves later notifications.
> - An empty notification can settle while real cleanup and uncertain
work still block sleep.

## Linked Issues or Issue Description

Refs #18646. That change covers empty historical-cleanup notifications.
This follow-up covers the pending-cleanup queue. Related runtime work:
#18988.

A search of open and closed PRs and issues found no duplicate
pending-queue fix. This repairs an existing worker under the roadmap's
Cloud deployment work.

**What happened?**

A normal metadata update on a released lease left one tracked work
intent and a scheduled pass. The actual cleanup deadline was null before
and after the update. The worker kept the hold until its spacing window
ended.

**Expected behavior**

The worker can clear an empty notification through its existing owner
predicate after a normal sweep and deadline read complete. It must
retain new debt, unresolved transactions, failed sweeps, failed reads
and later notifications. Provider sweep spacing and cleanup retry
deadlines must stay unchanged.

**Steps to reproduce**

1. Create and release a fixture cleanup lease through the normal
services.
2. Start the registered worker and confirm that its cleanup deadline is
null.
3. Change the released lease's metadata before the thirty-second spacing
window ends.
4. Run the new test. The original worker keeps an active intent even
though eligibility remains empty.

**Paperclip version or commit**

Candidate: `69aaee95cd73322a37e0270354d4a06bf5512ba7`. It normally
merges actual master `cd3832d2357eab481a861331ba1bc944a0b951f4`. The
focused retry repair follows the original two-file fix. Every other tree
blob still matches that master. The diff has two files.

**Deployment mode**

Source checkout with external PostgreSQL 17 and controlled coordinator
time. No deployed host or database suspension result is claimed.

## What Changed

- Apply the existing cheap deadline check to both registered cleanup
queues during provider spacing.
- Clear only the captured notification generation when the owner returns
no deadline and the latest normal sweep completed successfully.
- Invalidate that coverage before every full sweep. Startup and later
sweep failures keep their existing retry even if a metadata notification
has no database deadline.
- Add real PostgreSQL controls for empty metadata changes, concurrent
debt, unresolved transactions, failed reads through drain/resume, and
unread-spool recovery after startup and later sweep failures.
- Retain the original provider sweep, retry, deferred-buffer, creation,
startup, historical and shutdown controls.

## Verification

**Real PostgreSQL red/green qualification passed.** The original
empty-notification counterfactual failed at active work one, expected
zero, after actual null eligibility reads (16.706s). Review then found a
missing failed-sweep combination. Two additional cases using the real
malformed spool and ordinary metadata notifications reproduced lost
retries on the earlier published head, both at the intended pending
predicate (42.144s). One case fails at startup; the other first
completes a successful sweep, then fails a later sweep. Failed fixtures
and original logs remain retained.

At measured source `1ccd227c51e03ab4306d7cb85cf81efb0e3d3678`, all **29
owner cases passed in 113.061s**, without filters or skips. The tests
repair the actual spool, recover the ordinary cleanup lease, perform
provider cleanup once, preserve the later-sweep backoff, and return to
quiet. Normal migrations used a fresh owned external database; each pool
was capped at four with one worker. The first test-fixture attempt
accidentally replaced the real spool driver; that setup failure is
preserved separately and was corrected before the counterfactual. No
final cleanup result or receipt was seeded.

Run the full owner suite against a fresh, owned external test database
with normal migrations applied:

```sh
pnpm --filter @paperclipai/server exec vitest run src/__tests__/environment-cleanup-work.test.ts --maxWorkers=1 --no-file-parallelism
```

Set `PAPERCLIP_ENVIRONMENT_CLEANUP_TEST_DATABASE_URL` to that fixture.
Local qualification uses one worker and a pool of four.

Current native TypeScript checks passed: normal production declaration
layers (44.127s) and the affected test entry using the repository's
actual CI options and references (3.922s). Own dependency builds passed.
A frozen install first found stale upstream ACPX patch metadata;
normally carrying #19294 corrected the hash references for the same
package version. No lock policy was relaxed.

Full local workspace typecheck, tests and build were not run in this
bounded external-PG lease. Fresh checks on the current head
`69aaee95cd73322a37e0270354d4a06bf5512ba7` completed with **53
successes, one neutral Pony review and two skips**, with no pending or
failed gates. Its [PR
workflow](https://github.com/paperclipai/paperclip/actions/runs/42104787089),
aggregate verification and commitperclip review succeeded. The complete
latest edited Greptile and Pony summaries both gave **5/5**. Both review
threads are resolved, and all root and nested thread pages were
inspected.

The current head only removes four changed code-comment lines to follow
CONTRIBUTING.md. Its emitted JavaScript is byte-identical to the
measured parent `1ccd227c51e03ab4306d7cb85cf81efb0e3d3678`; tests,
configuration and dependencies are unchanged. The local 29-case evidence
therefore carries to this head without a duplicate local run. The remote
results above are fresh for the current head.
On the earlier head, Runner CI failed an omitted-context
checkpoint-settlement case. The fresh Runner job on this head passed
without a rerun. The original failure logs are preserved and its cause
remains unproven; current success is recovery evidence, not a causal
explanation.

The recorded test and migration command PIDs were reaped; an independent
audit verifies zero owned database clients before normal cleanup. Failed
fixtures remain retained. The process audit covers recorded command
PIDs, not an exhaustive history of child processes.

The long quiet assertion uses controlled coordinator time and actual SQL
counters. It does not prove a real twenty-minute quiet window, provider
behavior or deployed suspension.

## Risks

The empty read must not erase a notification that arrives while it runs.
The captured generation and transaction controls preserve that boundary.
An unknown or failed read keeps work pending. Empty deadline rows cannot
cover a failed sweep or an unread local spool; only a successful normal
sweep and deadline read establish that coverage. No cleanup row,
resource claim, provider action, authorization rule, sweep spacing or
retry deadline is removed.

## Model Used

OpenAI `gpt-6.1-sol` produced the delegated regression tests and source
review. OpenAI Codex, based on GPT-6, implemented the small worker
change and managed integration and verification. Both used repository
tools and code execution. Exact served backend revisions and context
limits were not exposed.

## 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 linked an existing public issue or described the
issue using the issue template
- [x] I have not referenced internal or instance-local Paperclip issues
or links
- [x] My branch name describes the change and contains no internal issue
ID
- [x] I have run tests locally and they pass
- [x] I have added or updated tests where applicable
- [x] I have checked that no documentation change is needed for this
internal worker fix
- [x] I have considered and documented risks
- [x] All Paperclip CI gates are green
- [x] Greptile is 5/5 with no open findings
- [x] I will address all reviewer comments before requesting merge
2026-11-06 13:04:40 -06:00
DottaandPaperclip ccc63ea458 fix(server): prove completed history before idle sleep (#18646)
Reviewed and verified at 592bce69c6.

Co-Authored-By: Paperclip <noreply@paperclip.ing>
2026-11-03 12:37:25 -06:00
DottaandPaperclip 71c04c0bfb fix: stop idle environment cleanup polling (#17145)
## Thinking Path

> - Paperclip is the open source app people use to manage AI agents for
work.
> - Agent environments can leave pending teardown or unverified provider
resources.
> - Recovery must preserve those resources until ownership and workspace
safety allow cleanup.
> - Empty maintenance scans keep an idle instance and its database
active.
> - The existing rows, transaction signals, and scheduler can represent
the actual recovery obligation.
> - This pull request schedules pending cleanup and historical
verification only while work remains.
> - An empty or fully verified instance stops these scans without losing
cleanup recovery.

## Linked Issues or Issue Description

**What happened?**

The server scanned pending environment cleanup on its maintenance tick.
The run reaper also scanned it even when it recovered no runs or active
leases. Historical resource verification scanned every five minutes,
including when all history already had valid cleanup proof.

**What did you expect?**

Writes should wake cleanup. Pending rows, deferred orphan buffers, and
unverified history should retain recovery deadlines. When none remain,
these workers should make no periodic database or provider calls.

**Steps to reproduce**

Start a configured instance with no pending leases and fully verified
history. Leave it idle. Observe repeated pending-cleanup and
historical-verification reads from the maintenance paths.

Related: #17106 supplies the preceding login-cleanup migration. #13523
improves lease-reaper query indexes. #16809 addresses reusable-sandbox
recovery authority. This PR keeps those authority checks in their
existing services.

## What Changed

- Register two workers with the existing delivery coordinator and shared
scheduler. Remove their unconditional maintenance-tick calls. Run the
reaper's inline pending cleanup only after it recovers actual work.
- Add commit-aware signals to the audited lease and custom-image
writers. Existing transactions notify directly; other writers use one
small transaction helper. No tables or migrations are added.
- Derive pending cleanup deadlines from the existing row backoff and
retry or claim metadata. Retain a historical retry only while an
unverified candidate exists.
- Register unwritten orphan buffers across runtimes that share the
database handle. Buffer registration wakes recovery without a database
connection. Load the existing spool at startup and retry failed or
capacity-limited loads while needed.
- Isolate spool failures per runtime. Attempt all buffers and persisted
pending rows, then retain a retry for any failed spool.
- Document producer coverage, idle behavior, and remaining blockers.
Update the sleep inventory.
- Repair the inherited CSS-recovery E2E test: the current build no
longer emits task-page CSS. Exercise the actual lazy environment
stylesheet, preserving real network failure, recovery, and bounded
reload assertions.

## Verification

October 24 integration update: merged current master and resolved the
runtime/spool conflicts. Preserve serialized ingestion of records
appended after startup. Plugin replacement failures now register
deferred recovery with an idle hold; concurrent callers share one
persistence attempt. The producer audit includes this new writer.

- Focused cleanup selection: 270 tests now pass across five suites. The
initial run lacked a built plugin SDK and executed no tests; building
the SDK fixed setup. The new concurrent-flush assertion then reproduced
duplicate rows; a single-flight guard fixed it and all 18 plugin
integration tests passed on rerun.
- Server typecheck passed. After review fixes, all 211 tests across the
cleanup worker, real orphan spool, environment runtime, and plugin
integration suites passed. These overlap the earlier focused selection.
The rate-limit test initially expected a write after twenty idle minutes
to wait; corrected it to assert that subsequent writes cannot accelerate
the five-minute cadence.
- Review fixes preserve retries for unreadable spool
directories/records, keep historical provider checks off the startup
wait while joining them at shutdown, and restore their independent
five-minute minimum spacing. The complete [CI
matrix](https://github.com/paperclipai/paperclip/actions/runs/40108905033)
passed on final commit `79ae1589c3c7b924db4bedb337d0c7ed3d95020b`,
including all E2E shards, server/workspace tests, runner checks,
typecheck, build/public-install verification, and security checks.

- CI found a stale E2E asset matcher: `issue-detail-*.css` is no longer
emitted. Both corrected browser tests passed against a fresh production
UI build and disposable local instance. Fresh Greptile review is 5/5 on
that same final commit, with all review threads resolved.

Previous implementation verification:

- `pnpm -r typecheck` and `pnpm build` passed.
- New PostgreSQL worker suite: 12 tests passed. Covers quiet configured
state, verified history, writes, outer commit and rollback, retry
deadlines, restart, drain, deferred orphan buffers, spool failure,
pagination, provider uncertainty, shutdown, and the idle run-reaper
path.
- Worker and environment runtime suites after review fix: 183 tests
passed. A new assertion reproduced buffer starvation before the fix.
Updated transaction fault injection and isolated simulated-instance
database handles. Server typecheck also passed after the fix.
- Run-recovery suites: 58 tests passed. Pending-cleanup suite: 38 tests
passed after updating the logging fixture to seed real orphan recovery;
an idle reaper no longer invokes cleanup.
- Stop and workspace-recovery integration selection: 268 tests passed;
two live-provider tests skipped by their environment gate. This overlaps
the worker suite and is not an additional unique-test count.
- Started the full local `pnpm test:run`, then stopped that older
duplicate run after CI found the fixture mismatch. The corrected 38-test
suite passed locally. The full sharded [CI
matrix](https://github.com/paperclipai/paperclip/actions/runs/39678174479)
passed on final commit `fc0ff3c4554ca4190a8b0b81ec06ef7065b8ad2c`,
including build, typecheck, runner, server, workspace, and E2E checks.
This is not a claim that the local full run completed.

## Risks

- Missing a future producer signal could delay discovery until restart.
The producer audit is documented in `doc/idle-environment-cleanup.md`.
Independent SQL writers and another server process are outside the
existing process-local notification contract.
- Historical candidates blocked by ownership or provider uncertainty
keep a five-minute retry until they can be verified. Provider
destruction, claim fencing, Stop retention, and workspace safety remain
controlled by their existing services.
- This does not remove orphan-active discovery or legacy shutdown
settlement from run recovery. Active custom-image expiry is also still
periodic. External wake coverage does not change.
- Local tests prove these workers become quiet and recover. They do not
establish deployed instance suspension or fleet cost savings.

## Model Used

OpenAI Codex (GPT-6), with code execution and reasoning. The exact
serving model ID and context size were not exposed.

## Checklist

- [x] I have included a thinking path that traces from project context
to this change
- [x] I have specified the model used (with version and capability
details)
- [x] I have checked ROADMAP.md and confirmed this PR does not duplicate
planned core work
- [x] I have searched GitHub for duplicate or related PRs and linked
them above
- [x] I have either (a) linked existing issues with `Fixes: #` / `Closes
#` / `Refs #` OR (b) described the issue in-PR following the relevant
issue template
- [x] I have not referenced internal/instance-local Paperclip issues or
links (only public GitHub `#NNN` / `github.com/paperclipai/paperclip`
URLs)
- [x] My branch name describes the change (e.g. `docs/...`, `fix/...`)
and contains no internal Paperclip ticket id or instance-derived details
- [x] I have run tests locally and they pass
- [x] I have added or updated tests where applicable
- [x] I have updated relevant documentation to reflect my changes
- [x] I have considered and documented any risks above
- [x] All Paperclip CI gates are green
- [x] Greptile is 5/5 with no open P2s, recommendations, or follow-ups
- [x] I will address all Greptile and reviewer comments before
requesting merge

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Co-authored-by: Paperclip <noreply@paperclip.ing>
2026-10-24 09:04:49 -07:00