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DottaandPaperclip ad55d0a281 fix(connections): repair personal credentials and request write access (#14739)
## Thinking Path

> - Paperclip is the open source app people use to manage AI agents for
work.
> - Agents use Apps through a gateway that checks identity, company
access, and action policies.
> - Personal pasted credentials can point to company secrets. Setup can
show success while the gateway rejects every call.
> - Several OAuth methods also omit the scopes needed for their
supported write actions.
> - This pull request gives setup, health checks, and invocation the
same credential rules. Owners repair existing connections by
reconnecting.
> - New connections request reviewed permissions for their supported
actions. Read-only choices remain available under Advanced.
> - Agents can use the connections people give them, while existing
consent, identity boundaries, and action restrictions remain enforced.

## Linked Issues or Issue Description

Refs #14009 and #14008. This addresses the personal-credential defect.
The separate GitHub organization-identity selection defect is outside
this change.

Related work: #13942 fixed part of new personal-key setup. #14200
independently fixes legacy personal reconnect and protects managed-agent
profile credentials during removal. This PR covers that ownership
invariant across key and secret-URL setup, reconnect, health, discovery,
and invocation, and keeps owner reconnect as the repair path. #14059
tracks requested versus provider-asserted OAuth scopes; it remains
separate work. I searched open PRs and issues for Zapier, Airtable
scopes, connector writes, and personal credential failures.

**What happened?**

A Zapier secret URL saved through personal setup can become a company
secret referenced by a user grant. Health checks bypass the gateway's
ownership check, so the connection appears healthy but calls fail with
`grant_credential_invalid`. Custom-header paths can also receive a
duplicate `credentials.` prefix. Omitted OAuth scopes make write access
depend on provider defaults.

**Expected behavior**

Personal invocation credentials belong to the selected user. Setup,
health, and actual calls enforce the same rule. New connections request
documented permissions for supported read and write actions. Existing
tokens gain no permissions without provider consent.

**Steps to reproduce**

1. Connect Zapier or a generic secret URL with the personal identity.
2. Allow an agent to use the connection and complete setup.
3. Invoke a tool through a run-scoped gateway. The legacy layout fails
ownership validation despite successful setup.

**Paperclip version or commit**

The implementation started from
`44736c9c7c67b7b646ead9d51721db10f5b83835` and was rebased onto master
at `94e8dec56`.

**Deployment mode**

Built from source. Regression tests use isolated PostgreSQL fixtures and
controlled MCP transports.

## What Changed

- Share credential writing, ownership validation, and canonical paths
across initial setup, resume, reconnect, rotation, health, discovery,
and gateway calls. Keep OAuth client-registration secrets separate from
invocation credentials.
- Existing personal connections with company-scoped credentials require
owner reconnect with a fresh key or secret URL. Reconnect creates a
correctly owned value and updates the existing grant and declarations.
There is no automatic ownership backfill or new startup hook.
- Preserve PostgreSQL timestamp precision when reconnect checks whether
a grant changed. Previously, converting the timestamp to a JavaScript
Date could reject reconnect with a false concurrent-change error.
- Protect credentials used by other grants, connections, bindings,
managed-agent profiles, routine triggers, or secret proposals from
connection removal.
- Review all 117 tool methods, including 84 OAuth methods. Record
explicit scopes or documented provider-default exceptions with official
evidence. Add Airtable's seven scopes, Hugging Face repository/job
scopes, and other documented MCP permissions.
- Prefer available write-capable methods. Put explicit read-only choices
under Advanced. Explain pasted-key permissions and offer reconnect for
missing OAuth consent. Preserve existing grants, policies, Google
availability gates, and curated scope allowlists.
- Reconnect generic secret URLs and custom headers using their stored
credential fields. Refresh the catalog after setup, correct reconnect
feedback and error guidance, and let Cancel exit invalid setup while
Save & exit retains draft-saving behavior.
- Apply ownership checks to the new GitHub repository/skill connection
picker. Align the permission audit with the Google scope reductions
merged on master.
- Add run-scoped gateway, ownership, owner-reconnect, OAuth URL,
insufficient-scope, UI, and catalog-wide regression coverage. Update the
connector playbook and permission audit.

## Verification

Latest commit `97bc0b86e0eae0ec892e4ac44beff1a66164b20e` passes all
CI/status gates (55 completed check runs, no failures or pending checks)
and has a completed Greptile review at **5/5 with no outstanding
findings**. GitHub reports the PR as mergeable/CLEAN.

- **Embedded browser:** used the actual server and built UI from this
worktree, a fresh isolated database, and local HTTP MCP fixtures.
Completed personal bearer-key, secret-URL, and custom-header setup;
reproduced the legacy ownership failure; reconnected through the owner’s
form; and completed writes afterward. Read-back was verified for
bearer-key and secret-URL connections. Public organization-wide setup
appeared immediately in Browse without reload. Zapier URL
validation/Cancel and Google’s enrollment gate were also exercised.
- **Persistence and invocation:** verified user ownership, canonical
`credentials.authorization` / `remote.url` / `headers.X-Api-Key`
declarations, and unchanged connection/grant identity. The old company
secrets retain their ownership. Separate HTTP calls through an actual
run-scoped gateway session completed a write and read-back.
- **Backend coverage:** the final gateway suite passes all 82 cases,
including catalog Zapier and generic inline reconnect. It checks
company/user isolation, canonical declarations, same-endpoint URL
validation, fresh credentials, retained restrictions, and real gateway
read/write execution using fixture transport. A timestamp with
PostgreSQL microseconds covers the former false reconnect conflict.
- **Local checks:** 368 catalog, gateway, repository, and UI tests
passed before the final extra Zapier case; 49 GitHub skill access tests
also passed. All three Apps browser regressions pass, including
reconnect through the actual form and catalog visibility without reload.
Full `pnpm -r typecheck`, `pnpm build`, server typecheck after the final
patch, and token gates passed. Full tool-access service runs hit varying
15-second Google fixture timeouts; both affected cases and the updated
reconnect assertion pass in isolation (3 tests). The complete test
matrix passes in CI on this head.
- **Verification limits:** no live provider account was available for
Zapier/Airtable/OAuth consent or account-bound write proof. Public
metadata and local fixtures do not establish provider consent. The
original development database clone failed on a pre-existing missing
`tool_connections_transport_check` constraint; browser acceptance used a
fresh isolated database created by the normal CLI onboarding flow.

## Risks

- Existing broken personal connections stay unusable until their owner
reconnects. Health, discovery, and invocation return an actionable
ownership error; startup does not rewrite credential ownership.
- Scope changes affect new authorization requests. Providers may still
require resource selection, account roles, paid plans, or app
verification. Existing consent and action restrictions remain unchanged.
- Shared credentials are retained rather than reassigned or revoked.
Provider-default exceptions and unavailable live checks are documented
in `doc/connections/CONNECTOR-PERMISSION-AUDIT.md`.
- No new endpoint, database table, lockfile change, or CI workflow
change is included.

## Model Used

OpenAI Codex, based on GPT-6, with reasoning, code editing, shell
execution, web research, and browser tools. The exact deployment model
ID and context window were not exposed in this session.

## Checklist

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

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Co-authored-by: Paperclip <noreply@paperclip.ing>
2026-09-30 14:32:34 -05:00
DottaandPaperclip d72389bee2 feat: add Browser Use Cloud connector and live task browsers (#14627)
## Thinking Path

> - Paperclip is the open source app people use to manage AI agents for
work.
> - The Apps gateway gives agents governed access to external tools.
> - Browser Use Cloud can run browser work, but a tool result alone does
not let a person watch or take over.
> - A task needs a durable browser session, a visible viewer, and
recorded costs.
> - This pull request adds a Browser Use Cloud v4 connection and
interactive browser tabs on tasks.
> - People can follow the work, interact with the page, and retain the
browser after the agent finishes.

## Linked Issues or Issue Description

**Problem or motivation**

Agents need governed access to Browser Use Cloud. People need to see and
interact with the same browser from the task. A browser must remain
available after a run finishes and appear at the correct point in the
task feed.

**Proposed solution**

Add a native REST connection for the v4 API. Bind each session to its
company, task, agent, and credential grant. Open its interactive viewer
in the task side panel. Record provider costs as financial events. Use
`browser-use-cloud` as the app and connector key. Keep its skill with
the connector and deliver it only with authorized connection tools.

**Alternatives considered**

A v3 MCP connection would expose tools without the v4 lifecycle
integration. An external viewer link would leave the task. A fixed
viewer size would prevent pages from responding to changes in the task
pane.

**Roadmap alignment**

This extends the governed Apps gateway and Connected Apps roadmap. It
uses the existing task, grant, secret, approval, and financial records.
The work was requested by the maintainer. A search found no duplicate
Browser Use connector PR or issue.

## What Changed

- Add the Browser Use Cloud app, brand asset, API-key connection, and
profile settings under the `browser-use-cloud` key.
- Bundle the `browser-use-cloud` skill with the connector. Keep it out
of global `skills/` discovery. Deliver it only with authorized task/run
connection tools. Remove retired connector skill keys from runtime
overlays and preserve unrelated browser skills.
- Expose seven v4 tools through the governed gateway and deliver them to
native and CLI agents.
- Persist sessions, browsers, runs, event and recovery cursors, shutdown
leases, and cumulative cost accounting. Recover uncertain paid starts
without replaying them.
- Enforce task ownership, credential grants, approvals, revoked access,
and budget limits.
- Add interactive task browser tabs and compact chronological feed
entries. Retain the viewer across tab switches and keep visible idle
browsers open.
- Add debounced automatic viewport fitting, standard size presets, and a
viewer ownership lease.
- Add lifecycle, authorization, accounting, viewport, UI, and Storybook
coverage.
- Add an idempotent database migration after the current master
migration. Preserve deployed migration hashes. Migrate pre-release Cloud
connection and financial keys without replacing grants, credentials, or
browser history.
- Document provider behavior, live acceptance results, and the lack of
documented passkey forwarding.

## Verification

- Full workspace typecheck and production build pass on the updated
branch.
- Token gates, brand asset validation, module boundaries, and migration
ordering pass.
- Cloud tests verify global skill exclusion, authorized task/run
delivery, unassigned agents, disabled connections, revocation, adapter
isolation, and secret exclusion. The existing AgentMail connector
assignment test also passes.
- Migration replay runs twice against existing browser work and
financial records. It preserves the records and avoids duplicate costs.
- The focused provider, app catalog, OpenAPI, connection gateway, and
migration regression suites pass. Recovery coverage includes lost
replies, process crashes, provider rejection, and browser arrival
acknowledgement.
- All 54 checks pass on `2974b5f03641ad0cea3c941d8c02579316fa8c92`,
including the full test matrix, browser E2E shards, build, typecheck,
security, and release canary. Two optional Storybook jobs are skipped.
- Greptile is 5/5 on the same commit, with zero unresolved review
threads. The corrected review uses the actual master-to-head diff.
- The local `pnpm test:run` started and was stopped after the full CI
matrix passed. It did not complete locally; the full-suite result above
comes from CI.
- Earlier live acceptance used an isolated company with a capped
provider credential. The agent opened paperclip.ing, the embedded viewer
accepted navigation, and the same browser stayed available after
completion and tab switches.
- The local Storybook build passes. Stories cover the panel, footer,
feed entries, settings, lifecycle failures, and viewport modes with an
offline viewer fixture.

## Risks

- Browser Use charges for hosted work. Provider caps and local budget
checks reduce exposure; reported costs can arrive after work completes.
- Viewer and CDP URLs grant access to the browser. The server validates
and restricts them. They are excluded from agent results and durable
event data.
- Runtime resizing of v4 agent browsers uses a provider option confirmed
by live testing but absent from its published agent schema. Resizing
during a click may invalidate coordinates. Fixed presets remain
available.
- Viewport ownership is process-local and resets on restart. The
lifecycle and accounting records remain in the database.
- The original intermittent embedded-viewer stall has not been fully
diagnosed. A bounded reconnect and active-session recovery cover the
observed failure paths.
- Live tests did not cover every revocation, approval, rate-limit, or
restart case. Deterministic integration tests cover those paths. Passkey
forwarding is not claimed.
- Unknown create outcomes keep the credential available for cleanup.
Run-list absence cannot prove a paid POST was rejected, so recovery
stays pending until it can identify provider work.

## Model Used

OpenAI Codex, GPT-6. Used reasoning, repository search, code execution,
browser interaction, and test tools. The exact serving model ID and
context-window size were not exposed in this session.

## Checklist

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

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Co-authored-by: Paperclip <noreply@paperclip.ing>
2026-09-30 07:13:16 -05:00