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DottaandPaperclip 0e325e8d52 fix(runner): settle saved handoffs after verified shutdown (#20336)
## Thinking Path

> - Paperclip manages AI agents and their work.
> - An agent can save a question or approval handoff before its provider
stops.
> - A missing provider terminal notification does not prove that the
saved work failed.
> - Runner already verifies provider exit, event drain, tool settlement
and suspension.
> - This change uses that proof to settle the same saved handoff.
> - Unproven shutdown holds continuation and explains that the work is
saved.
> - Recovery must never repeat the completed work or allow overlapping
execution.

## Linked Issues or Issue Description

Refs #20330. That PR extends the Codex terminal drain window. This
change handles the separate case where no terminal arrives but the owned
shutdown can prove stopped execution.

**What happened?**

A native run saved a human handoff, accepted cancellation, and later
stopped its provider. The missing terminal notification still made the
attempt fail and show “Couldn’t finish this attempt.”

**Expected behavior**

Keep the saved handoff. Accept its yielded result after either an
authoritative provider terminal or verified shutdown of the exact
execution. If shutdown remains uncertain, retain the handoff and explain
the hold without offering a duplicate Retry.

**Steps to reproduce**

Save a governed wait, acknowledge interruption, and omit the provider
terminal. The new regression uses the real Runner binary and a
controlled Codex process. The old runtime rejects the handoff instead of
asking the existing shutdown owner to settle it.

**Deployment mode**

Native Runner with Codex. Local verification used macOS arm64 and Node
26.4.0. Hosted sandbox recovery has not been qualified.

## What Changed

- Add an optional driver shutdown-settlement operation. Runner returns
proof only after its existing stop, drain, tool settlement and
suspension barrier passes.
- Bind the receipt to the run, normalized session and turn. Persist it
with the saved wait and validate it during recovery.
- Complete the same yielded handoff after verified shutdown. Retire the
stopped session from warm reuse. Do not invent a provider terminal or
complete usage.
- Retain a named shutdown-pending condition under the existing bounded
same-run recovery policy. Preserve actual provider failures and
integrity failures.
- Show saved-work shutdown guidance in task and inbox presentation. Keep
genuine approvals authoritative and disable duplicate Retry.
- Document the completion and restart contract. The checkpoint field is
additive; older checkpoints retain the terminal-or-shutdown path.

## Verification

- Red: the new runtime regression failed against the original
implementation because verified shutdown was never requested. Server
presentation and error-classification regressions also failed before the
fix.
- Red: both inbox shutdown states showed generic text before the inbox
change.
- Green: Runner runtime, shutdown and harness-backend suites pass 301
tests. Tests cover missing terminals, failed stop proof, wrong identity,
cancellation, late proof, genuine provider failure, and restart after
receipt persistence. Recovery completes once without another model turn.
- Green: the native executor and task-presentation suites pass 1,371
tests. Execution projection, inbox and blocker presentation pass 125
tests. Two test-authoring mistakes were corrected: an integrity-error
text expectation and an assertion for a nonexistent projection field.
Their initial failures remain in local logs.
- Runner TypeScript and full server layered type checks pass. Token
gates and diff whitespace checks pass.
- Live provider acceptance: real Runner and Codex with gpt-6.1-sol, one
disposable local workspace, one tool call, and one deliberately dropped
terminal notification. The saved file, bound settlement receipt, one
accepted yielded result, one provider turn, confirmed provider exit and
suspended Runner all passed. The tool handler and persistence port were
controlled. This does not claim a full server or hosted journey.
- The full browser question-and-answer cell stopped before execution
because OPENAI_API_KEY was absent. No model work ran in that attempt.
Hosted sandbox recovery and the full browser continuation journey remain
unverified.
- `pnpm verify` returned exit 2 because the execution-spec change
requires broad CI. Required CI will supply that coverage; a full local
repository suite was not repeated.

- Review correction in `8553da244e`: a failed trailing-event write could
hide a provider failure. A new regression reproduced red, then passed
after all ordinary drain errors retained the named pending condition. No
settlement receipt or result can be accepted after that error. The live
missing-terminal check passed again on the corrected runtime.
- The real PostgreSQL control-plane regression and three existing
governed-wait controls pass. The new case persists one accepted yielded
result, a bound shutdown receipt, and the original pending human
question without a provider terminal.
- First CI revision `7c2cb9b1`: test-program typecheck found a missing
`PrpEvent` annotation in the new fixture. The annotation is fixed and
the Runner test-program typecheck passes. Runner support also timed out
in the unchanged `registered roots remain protected even when equal to
genuine public static bytes` case after 30 seconds. One unchanged local
diagnostic passed in 3.69 seconds overall. The hosted timeout cause
remains unknown; no timeout, fixture, or assertion was weakened.
[Original failed support
job](https://github.com/paperclipai/paperclip/actions/runs/42670851821/job/129346900133).

- Rebased onto the merged #20330 and current recovery changes. The
combined branch passes 1,402 executor/presentation tests. Both prompt
and 18-second provider terminals still pass. A warm session with no
terminal passes after the full 30-second drain and verified
stop/suspension. Its initial overly broad assertion rejected a
nonterminal turn event; the corrected assertion rejects every terminal
type. The rebased CI gate was cancelled before any runner or step
started; its cause is unconfirmed and it supplies no validation credit.
Final revision `b49ec5a144` starts fresh CI and review.

- Final-head CI attempt 1 failed before creating jobs. GitHub reports an
internal server error (correlation
`2c576b07-b67f-4179-a69f-74f7d99cd926`), followed by empty
runner-selection outputs for the aggregate jobs. One unchanged-commit
retry was requested; the initial admission failure remains recorded. [CI
run](https://github.com/paperclipai/paperclip/actions/runs/42673159868).

- **Current blocker:** final head
`b49ec5a144e94e41e96e2508a79bd9aec91fe45a` has a fresh 5/5 Greptile
review and zero unresolved threads, but required CI is not complete.
GitHub reports an active [Actions and Checks API
incident](https://www.githubstatus.com/incidents/tp8cghg7tlc4). Attempt
2 ran only part of the full selected graph. Build, canary, Rust, sandbox
providers, admitted browser shards and other completed test jobs passed.
The E2E aggregate correctly failed because `policy` and `e2e_shards` had
`abandoned` results. Server shard 5/12 received a runner shutdown signal
at 18:36:55 UTC and its test step was cancelled; its job still reports
in progress. The shutdown cause is not established. The separate review
workflow had the same pre-execution internal-error class and passed one
bounded retry. No further retry was submitted during the incident.
Resume with the missing/cancelled coverage after GitHub recovers; do not
count the absent typecheck, Runner or support jobs as passes. [Failed
coverage
gate](https://github.com/paperclipai/paperclip/actions/runs/42673159868/job/129354318236),
[interrupted server
shard](https://github.com/paperclipai/paperclip/actions/runs/42673159868/job/129350854174).

## Risks

- A missing terminal can use one additional bounded shutdown interval.
Unknown shutdown still blocks continuation.
- Provider terminal and usage accounting keep their separate meaning.
The receipt proves stopped execution and settled tool outcomes, not
model success.
- Recovery rejects a foreign receipt, a later turn, an active turn with
a settled receipt, and an actual failed provider terminal.
- There is no database migration. Older checkpoint shapes remain
readable. Drivers without this optional proof retain a named pending
state.
- This PR does not deploy the fix or repair an existing hosted task.

## Model Used

OpenAI Codex, GPT-6 family, with reasoning, repository tools and local
code execution. The exact serving model ID and context window are not
exposed in this session. Live test inference used gpt-6.1-sol.

## 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
- [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

---------

Co-authored-by: Paperclip <noreply@paperclip.ing>
2026-11-09 13:46:16 -06:00
DottaandClaude Opus 5.5 251c6d5c69 fix(recovery): settle a remote workspace save whose process died mid-save (#20326)
## Thinking Path

> - Paperclip is the open source app people use to manage AI agents for
work
> - Native runs in remote sandboxes save the workspace as snapshot
operations (`workspace_operations`, phase `remote_workspace_snapshot`).
Each save invocation is listed in `saveWork.activeIds` while it runs
> - When a controller process is killed during a save, its invocation
stays listed and the operation stays `running`
> - Nothing recorded which process ran the invocation, so the shared
ownership reconciler could not prove the owner gone and never settled
the save
> - The task's bounded retry then waited behind that save forever
> - This pull request records the owning process for each save
invocation, and lets the reconciler settle a save whose owner is proven
gone
> - The benefit is that a restart during a save no longer wedges the
task

## Linked Issues or Issue Description

**What happened?**
In a restart-chaos wave on Daytona with a real cloned repository, two
tasks each started their first remote snapshot save (`boundary:
initial`, epoch 1). A SIGKILL hit the controller during the save, before
any upload. Each run ended `process_lost` and got a bounded retry. The
retries stayed `queued` forever, the snapshot operations stayed
`running` with `saveWork.activeIds: [<dead invocation>]` and
`quiescedAt: null`, and the sandbox leases stayed active. The ownership
reconciler reported the saves as owner-gone but had no way to settle
them.

**Expected behavior**
After a restart, recovery must settle a remote snapshot save whose
owning process is gone. It is marked failed with provenance, so the
task's retry can continue. A save that is still running must stay
untouched.

**Steps to reproduce**
1. Run a native task with a remote workspace (for example Daytona with a
`git_repo` project source).
2. Kill the controller (SIGKILL) while the first workspace save is in
flight, before its upload.
3. After the restart, the run ends `process_lost` and its retry is
promoted to `queued`, but the save operation stays `running` and the
retry never starts.

**Paperclip version or commit**
`master` at 1b7fe33432.

Refs #20291 (the quiesced case: a save with no active invocation) and
#20233 (the same ownership pattern for local workspace commands).

## What Changed

- `saveRemoteWorkspace` records the controller process stamp of each
invocation in `saveWork.owners` when it registers the invocation. It
removes that entry when the invocation settles. A module-level set marks
invocations that are still running in this process
(`isRemoteWorkspaceSaveInvocationLive`).
- The ownership registry owns a `remote_snapshot_save` with active
invocations by that stamp. A save whose active invocations have no
stamps was written before this change and is owned by its run, as with
finalize attempts. A mix of stamps, or more than one process, is
unprovable.
- `settleAbandonedRemoteSnapshotSave` settles a save with active
invocations once its owner is proven gone:
- Process-owned: the proven stamp must still match every active
invocation, and none may be live in this process.
  - Legacy run-owned: the run must be terminal.
- Either way it clears the active invocations, records them as
`abandonedInvocationIds`, and marks the save `failed` with `lastFailure:
remote_workspace_save_abandoned`. The #20291 re-arm of blocked fallbacks
still applies.
- The controller instance lease counts running saves stamped with this
boot as held work, so a long save keeps its owner provably alive.
- The ownership inventory row for this kind describes the stamp.

## Verification

- Red before the fix, green after: `settles a remote snapshot save whose
process died mid-save, and keeps live, foreign or unprovable ones`
(`ownership-reconciliation-report.test.ts`). On master it settles 0
rows. With the fix it settles exactly two:
  - a save stamped by a dead process (proof `pid_dead`);
- the wave's shape: an unstamped active invocation on a `process_lost`
run.
It keeps five kinds of save running: a save stamped by this live
process, a stamp from another PID space, a legacy save on a live run, a
save with mixed stamps, and (in the older #20291 test) a stamped active
invocation.
- `stamps each save invocation with the process that runs it and clears
the stamp when it settles` (`remote-workspace-save-concurrency.test.ts`)
pauses a real save mid-flight. It checks the owner stamp and the
in-process live mark, then checks that both are cleared after the save
finishes.
- The reconciler, save-concurrency, remote workspace lifecycle, snapshot
retention, retained-source fallback, preparation gates, and controller
instance lease suites pass (153 tests, 1 environment-gated file
skipped).
- `PAPERCLIP_TYPECHECK_LOW_MEMORY=1 pnpm typecheck` in `server` passed.
- Not yet verified: the full Daytona wave replay that shows the queued
retry starts after the save settles. I asked the chaos harness owner to
replay it on this build.

## Risks

- A legacy save (written before this change) with an active invocation
is settled when its run is terminal. The finalize-attempt kind uses the
same rule. During a rolling deploy, an old-release process could still
be running such a save for a terminal run. If that save later succeeds,
its publication still marks the operation `succeeded`.
- If the retry in the wave is also held by the dead writer's dirty
workspace authority, settling the save may not be enough to start it.
The replay will show whether a second change is needed.
- No schema or API change. `saveWork.owners` is new optional metadata.

## Model Used

- Claude Opus 5.5 (`claude-opus-5-5`) in 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
requesting merge

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---------

Co-authored-by: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-11-09 13:27:44 -06:00
Dotta 0eacad0d0c fix: refresh preserved harness receipt facts without copying archives (#20322)
## Thinking Path

> - Paperclip is the open source app people use to manage AI agents for
work.
> - Volume-free deployment must preserve historical controller files
before removing the old disk.
> - A WEB preservation receipt binds an archive and source files to the
selected session and database facts.
> - Later metadata changes can make those facts stale while the
preserved files and archive remain unchanged.
> - The existing owner refuses every stale receipt, so preservation
cannot converge.
> - This pull request refreshes only facts freshness after it verifies
the same source bytes, checkpoints and archive.
> - Existing locks and an old-receipt digest comparison prevent a
concurrent replacement from being overwritten.

## Linked Issues or Issue Description

Refs #19814 for WEB evidence preservation without settling remote
recovery. Refs #19832 for bounded larger inventories. Related harness
receipt PRs were searched; no existing change provides this guarded
refresh.

**What happened?**

A valid WEB preservation receipt becomes stale after later run metadata
changes. Its original-volume owner refuses another preservation attempt
because an invalid receipt already exists. This leaves an eligibility
blocker even when the source and saved archive are unchanged.

**Expected behavior**

The original-volume owner can refresh stale facts only after it proves
every other persisted binding unchanged. It retains the prior receipt
and remote recovery state.

**Steps to reproduce**

1. Preserve a settled session's WEB files and controller evidence.
2. Add later run metadata so its database facts digest changes.
3. Preserve the same scope again. The previous implementation refuses at
the existing-receipt check.

**Paperclip version or commit**

The failure was reproduced on master
`12523fb677585fcd6da929f868014514a4e96e87`. This branch includes master
`1b7fe33432016b3b27ccdfbf7b8944da4b40726d`.

**Deployment mode**

Managed Linux server with PostgreSQL and durable object storage.

## What Changed

- Reuse the exact prior archive for existing WEB receipts. Recheck
current source bytes, controller history, checkpoint material and
archive bindings. Read back ciphertext and verify its size and hash.
- Permit only database/local-observation freshness changes. Selected
session, source run, controller, archive, WEB entries, and assets must
still match the prior proof. Local inode and timestamp observations may
change across attempts; preserved bytes, paths and modes must match.
- Recheck current facts and source files under the existing finalizer,
task and run fences. Accept a matching concurrent winner or require the
exact previous receipt digest before replacement.
- Retain the prior database and local facts digests, witness
fingerprint, observation time and receipt digest in the same
company-scoped activity transaction. Require those four fields to
reconstruct the exact prior proof from unchanged current bindings before
replacement. Normal audit redaction stays enabled.
- Preserve current-key checks and archive reads on ordinary idempotent
calls. Keep active-source, changed-evidence and cancellation refusals.
- Document the refresh contract. No schema, saved-run format or public
API change.

## Verification

- Genuine RED: the new real PostgreSQL/encrypted-archive case failed at
the old previous-invalid gate.
- Before the audit review follow-up, the full local owner suite passed
**94/94 integration cases in 50.01 seconds**. It covers same-archive
refresh with no PUT, audit history, current-key failures, unreadable
archives, cancellation, changed files, replaced volume, active sources,
matching concurrent winners and conflicting receipt replacement.
- The cases also cover a source becoming active during an idempotent
readback. Earlier 91- and 93-case runs preceded these final review
guards and are not the final result.
- Server typecheck, module boundaries and diff checks passed on the
final production/test bytes before the clean master merge. Required CI
supplies final-head breadth. Four narrow post-merge
refresh/current-key/idempotent regressions passed in 5.70 seconds on
`82e270f29fff98442c4184b96082f72f18a88721`.
- The fixtures use a real disposable PostgreSQL database and actual
local encrypted archives/storage. Controlled faults affect the stated
storage or concurrency boundary. They do not prove a hosted refresh or
archive plaintext cold restore.
- The existing integration file now exceeds 1,000 lines. Keeping these
cases with its private original-volume, controller, archive and
PostgreSQL fixture avoids duplicating that setup.
- Initial worktree preflight stalled on the global package-manager
wrapper. Preflight completed with the existing pinned toolchain. No
setup failure is counted as a product test pass.
- Review found that activity redaction could change a full prior-receipt
copy. A new regression enabled the real username censor and reproduced
that mismatch. The fix stores only the four changed scalar fields and
their original proof digest; a prepublication canonical reconstruction
guard rejects dropped or unknown fields.
- On the audit follow-up, 16 affected real PostgreSQL cases passed in
11.98 seconds; 80 unchanged cases were intentionally skipped. They
include real redaction with a username-containing WEB path,
reconstruction across two refreshes, unknown prior fields, CAS, active
sources, current-key failures, unavailable archives and cancellation.
Final server typecheck and boundaries passed. This was an intermediate
revision; the final-head results appear below.
- A second review found that comparing old inode/timestamp observations
also broke ordinary valid retries. Three real cases reproduced
valid-receipt touch/inode failures and stale-facts touch failure. The
fix permits metadata freshness changes across attempts while keeping
exact byte/path/mode/checkpoint/archive coverage and the existing locked
within-attempt metadata fence.
- Final local owner suite on the metadata follow-up: **102/102
integration cases passed in 44.04 seconds**, including valid
touch/new-inode retries, stale refresh with the same archive and no PUT,
four-scalar audit reconstruction, changed bytes/mode/entries, and a
touch during archive readback that must refuse. Server typecheck, module
boundaries and diff checks passed. The final-head CI and review results
appear below.
- Final head `c81475c927d0862dcb8d2c2356dc41ab4a27e63f`: [PR workflow
attempt
5](https://github.com/paperclipai/paperclip/actions/runs/42667287803/attempts/5)
completed successfully at 19:24:28 UTC on 2026-11-09. All 51 jobs are
accounted for: 49 passed and 2 were skipped. The actual [final ci /
verify](https://github.com/paperclipai/paperclip/actions/runs/42667287803/job/129382061558)
and [E2E
aggregate](https://github.com/paperclipai/paperclip/actions/runs/42667287803/job/129381486342)
passed. Typecheck, build and the selected test lanes passed. The
exact-head rollup is successful with no pending or failed checks.
- Attempt 5 resolved both trusted workflows to
`3a2f71db31aa99633610dc241f55f34ac65124de`, after #20339 merged. Its
routing gate passed and real jobs started. This verifies successful
startup and completion of this rerun; it does not exercise the
empty-runner fallback because routing succeeded.
- Earlier CI failures on `82e270f29fff98442c4184b96082f72f18a88721` and
attempts 1–4 of this final-head workflow remain nonpasses. Attempt 1 had
interrupted leaf jobs and failed aggregates. Attempts 2 and 3 ended in
workflow failure without a final verify job. Attempt 4 failed startup
with zero jobs and empty-runner errors. Those failures are not counted
as passes or labeled unrelated.
-
[Greptile](https://github.com/paperclipai/paperclip/pull/20322#issuecomment-6746395090)
and
[Ponytail](https://github.com/paperclipai/paperclip/pull/20322#issuecomment-6746327827)
reviewed the unchanged final head at **5/5**. Both historical review
threads are resolved; no inline thread remains open.
- Hosted application to an actual stale scope remains pending normal
release delivery.

## Risks

- Refresh must not bless different preservation evidence. The
unchanged-binding checks, fresh file and checkpoint proof, exact archive
reuse, source capability and locked receipt comparison remain mandatory.
- A fresh capability has a new witness fingerprint and expiry. The audit
retains the old fingerprint, database/local facts digests and
observation time. All unchanged proof bindings remain on the current
receipt. Their canonical reconstruction must match the old digest. The
new capability is validated at entry and publication.
- Readback verifies ciphertext size/hash and current-key checkpoint
material. This change does not claim a new archive GCM/plaintext
restore.
- Archive identity and rows remain unchanged, so retention ownership
does not change. Failed refreshes retain the previous receipt, original
files and unresolved remote recovery obligations.
- Older receipt shapes are not rewritten automatically. Normal
validation and named preservation refusals remain in force.

## Model Used

OpenAI Codex, GPT-6.1 Sol (`gpt-6.1-sol`), with reasoning, repository
tools and code execution. Context-window size is not exposed by the
runtime.

## 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
2026-11-09 13:26:27 -06:00
DottaandClaude Opus 5.5 bce7503a82 perf(workspaces): time a restore's sandbox upload and extraction separately (#20331)
## Thinking Path

> - Paperclip is the open source app people use to manage AI agents for
work
> - Remote (sandbox) workspaces are restored from a durable snapshot
before a later turn, so restore time delays that turn's first token
> - #20280 added run-log timing for the storage steps of a save and a
restore
> - A Daytona wave with a Paperclip-sized workspace (~750 MB) spent 39.9
s preparing the workspace of a restored run. The storage steps
(download, decrypt, verify, publish) took 2.4 s, and
`workspace.snapshot.sandbox_restore` took 35.6 s
> - The archive helper unpacks the same archive locally in 3.6 s, so
most of that time is elsewhere, probably copying 750 MB into the
sandbox. One span cannot say which
> - This pull request splits that span into the upload into the sandbox
and the extraction in it
> - The benefit is that the next measurement shows which part to fix

## Linked Issues or Issue Description

Refs #20280

**What happened?**
A restored run on Daytona spent 35.6 s in
`workspace.snapshot.sandbox_restore` (wave `w-20261109T170632-s9921`, R1
workload, 754,838,327-byte snapshot). The run log records only that
total, so it cannot show whether the copy into the sandbox or the unpack
inside it is slow.

**Steps to reproduce**
1. Run a remote workspace task with a large repository on Daytona and
let a later run restore it.
2. Read the restored run's `run.performance.span` events.
3. Only `workspace.snapshot.sandbox_restore` covers the time after the
storage download.

**Expected behavior**
The run log separates the upload into the sandbox from the extraction
there.

## What Changed

- `remote-workspace-transport.ts` (`restoreRemoteWorkspaceDirectory`):
the archive copy into the sandbox runs inside
`workspace.snapshot.sandbox_upload`, and the in-sandbox restore command
inside `workspace.snapshot.sandbox_extract`. Both are children of the
existing `workspace.snapshot.sandbox_restore`.
- `execution-preparation-timing.ts`: the two new phase names. A traced
`measureRunPhase` scope also carries its preparation ancestor's run
(`recordRunId`). Without it, with an OTLP endpoint set, a step nested
inside another step (here, upload and extract inside `sandbox_restore`)
never reached the run log. Execution attempts still record nothing.
- `doc/run-log-events.md`: the two rows in the durable storage timing
table.
- No behavior change. This is a run-log change: the rows stay in the
instance database.

## Verification

- New test `times the restore's sandbox upload and extraction as
separate run-log steps` (`remote-workspace-transport.test.ts`). It
restores a real archive through the real helper, inside the production
`sandbox_restore` step with an OTLP endpoint set, with a 60 ms pause in
each step, then reads the drained run phases. It fails without the spans
or without the scope fix.
- New test `records a step nested inside another step when an OTLP
endpoint is set` (`execution-preparation-phases.test.ts`). It fails
without the scope fix.
- `npx vitest run` on `execution-preparation-phases`,
`execution-preparation-timing`, `execution-timing-context`,
`database-operation-attribution`, `native-workspace-finalization-work`,
`remote-workspace-transport` and `remote-workspace-snapshot-storage`:
256 passed.

## Risks

- Low risk. Two more measured steps on the restore path; spans under 50
ms are not recorded.

## 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
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DottaandClaude Opus 5.5 f56b097fbd fix(recovery): move stranded legacy subtasks off a parent's held workspace (#20314)
## Thinking Path

> - Paperclip is the open source app people use to manage AI agents for
work
> - Agents split work into subtasks. Since #19860, every subtask gets
its own execution workspace from the project base, and a subtask that an
older release bound to its parent's workspace moves to its own workspace
on its next admission
> - Some legacy subtasks never get a next admission. Another task held
the shared workspace with unsaved files, so their runs failed setup
before any provider work. Stranded-work recovery then blocked them and
handed them to the board
> - On staging, a parent and two of its children stayed blocked for four
days this way. The children could have run in their own workspace at any
time
> - This pull request makes the scheduled recovery-action sweep move
such a child to its own workspace and continue it, with no person
> - The benefit is that a legacy subtask never stays blocked on a
workspace that it should not share, and the parent keeps its own
workspace

## Linked Issues or Issue Description

Refs #19860 (subtasks get their own workspace; legacy children move at
admission)
Refs #20295 (the held workspace's exhausted save now settles
automatically)
Refs #20273 (stall wakes wait while a workspace hold refuses a run)

**What happened?**
A parent task and three children shared the parent's remote workspace,
because an older release created the children before #19860. One child's
ended run held the workspace with unsaved files. The other two children
were woken, but each run failed setup with "The workspace still has an
unfinished writer or save operation." (`setup_failed`,
`executionRecovery.kind=bootstrap`, `providerWorkStarted=false`).
Stranded-work recovery then set each child to Blocked with a board-owned
escalation (`board_escalation_no_takeover_v1`) that asked a board
operator to retry. The #19860 move happens only at the next admission,
and a blocked child gets no admission.

**Expected behavior**
A subtask that failed only because of a legacy shared-workspace binding
continues in its own workspace from the project base automatically. The
parent and the shared workspace stay unchanged.

**Steps to reproduce**
1. With a release before #19860, create a parent task and children that
share its remote workspace.
2. Let one child's run end with unsaved files whose save is not settled.
3. Wake another child. Its run fails setup on the workspace hold, and
stranded-work recovery blocks it with a board escalation.
4. See that the blocked child is never moved to its own workspace and
never runs again.

**Root cause**
`server/src/services/execution-workspaces.ts`
(`releaseAncestorWorkspaceBindingAtAdmission`) moves a legacy child only
when a run of the child is admitted.
`server/src/services/recovery/service.ts`
(`reconcileStrandedAssignedIssues`) ignores Blocked tasks, so nothing
admits a child that a setup failure on the shared hold blocked.

## What Changed

- `server/src/services/execution-workspaces.ts`: extract the binding
release into `releaseAncestorWorkspaceBinding(tx, …)`, which runs inside
the caller's transaction. Admission uses it unchanged (same guards: no
other running run of the task, no unsettled workspace recovery, only a
relative's workspace).
- New `server/src/services/recovery/legacy-workspace-rehome.ts`
(`rehomeStrandedLegacyWorkspaceTasks`). It selects a board-owned
stranded escalation whose latest run failed setup on the workspace
writer hold before any provider work, for a Blocked task bound to a
relative's workspace. In one transaction it releases the binding,
resolves the escalation with the outcome
`legacy_shared_workspace_rehomed`, sets the task to `todo`, records a
pending wake (`legacyWorkspaceRehome.wake: "pending"`), and records
`issue.legacy_workspace_rehomed` system activity. After commit it wakes
the assignee once (`issue_recovery_action_restored`, with a fresh
session) and marks the wake `delivered` only when a run is created. A
wake lost to a crash, refused (`null`), or failed stays pending and
backs off (5 minutes, doubling, at most an hour); the pass returns the
earliest owed wake as its retry deadline, so the recovery worker
schedules it. Candidates are paged by action id.
- Guards: the Blocked status must come from that escalation (set after
the failed run, and no status decision at or after the block), the
shared dependency-readiness rule must allow work (cancelled blockers and
done blockers that still save files keep it blocked), the failed run
must belong to the current assignee, and the binding release must be
allowed. Otherwise nothing changes.
- `reconcileActiveRecoveryActions` (the company-scoped sweep that the
scheduled issue-recovery worker runs for each company with an active
recovery action) runs this pass first. `recoveryActionSweepCondition()`
also selects a company whose moved task still owes its wake.
- `doc/execution-semantics.md`: documents the move and what a moved
child sees.

### What a moved child sees

A fresh workspace from the project base, exactly like a new top-level
task in the project. It does not get the parent's changes. It does not
get its own earlier files from the shared workspace either, because
nothing of its work ran there (its runs failed setup before any provider
work). The child that still holds the shared workspace with unsaved
files is not moved by this change: its save recovery owns the hold
(#20295 settles it automatically), its files stay in the shared
workspace and in that recovery's saved-work receipts, and it moves on
its first admission after that recovery settles (the #19860 rule).

### Previous-release story (`rules/upgrade-safe-run-state.mdc`)

- **Migrated, no schema change.** The change reads escalations and task
bindings that older releases saved, and it changes only the task's
binding row, the task status, and the escalation. It does not change
saved run identity (native execution input, leases, checkpoints,
sessions). The regression test seeds the exact staging shape (Nov 4–5
evidence fields, `retryReason: workspace_busy`, `latestRunErrorCode:
setup_failed`).
- **Mid-run deploy.** A child with a running run or an unsettled
workspace recovery is not moved (the same guards as the admission
release).

## Verification

- Red (the move disabled), `npx vitest run
src/__tests__/legacy-workspace-rehome.test.ts`: 1 failed, 2 passed. The
staging-shape case failed because the stranded child stayed Blocked and
bound to the parent's workspace.
- Green: 8 of 8 pass. All cases run the scheduled path: the company is
selected by `recoveryActionSweepCondition()` and the pass is
`recoveryService(...).reconcileActiveRecoveryActions({ companyId })`
with the real heartbeat wake.
- Staging shape: a parent and 3 children share the parent's workspace.
One child holds it with a dirty writer run. Two children are blocked by
board escalations after setup failed on that hold. After the
stranded-work sweep, both children are unbound from the shared
workspace, their escalations are resolved by the system with text that
asks no person to act, and each child is woken exactly once with a fresh
session. Each child runs once through the real heartbeat path outside
the shared workspace and completes. The parent and the writer child keep
their bindings, the shared workspace row is unchanged, and nothing runs
for them. A later pass changes nothing.
- A move whose wake was lost to a crash: the scheduled worker still
selects the company, delivers the wake once, and the child runs and
completes.
- A refused wake (`null`) or a thrown enqueue stays pending, backs off,
does not hold up other wakes, is reported to the worker as the next
deadline, and keeps the company selected after a restart; once accepted,
it settles.
- Thirty rejected escalations do not hide a later eligible one (paging).
- A child with a cancelled blocker stays blocked with its board
escalation.
- A child whose last status decision came before the block moves; one
decided after the block stays blocked.
- A stranded child whose setup failed for another reason stays blocked
with its board escalation.
- A task bound to the workspace it created (the parent) is never moved.
- Related suites pass: `subtask-workspace-independence`,
`heartbeat-workspace-busy`, `heartbeat-remote-workspace-busy`,
`heartbeat-held-comment-wake`, `recovery-deadline-acceptance`,
`heartbeat-retry-scheduling`, `task-workspace-binding` (278 tests), and
after the review changes `issue-blocker-stall-wakeups`,
`issue-recovery-deadlines`, `issue-recovery-work-lifecycle`,
`recovery-durable-wait-projection`, `owner-gone-attestation` (124 tests
with the two workspace suites).
- `pnpm verify`: exit 2 ("broader verification required", because
`doc/execution-semantics.md` is a global CI input). Required CI supplies
the broad coverage.
- `npx tsc --noEmit -p server/tsconfig.json`: passes.

## Risks

- The pass changes a Blocked task to `todo` only under narrow guards,
and only for a task bound to a relative's workspace whose last run
failed setup on that workspace's writer hold. A Blocked status from
another decision, or an unresolved blocker, keeps the task blocked.
- The moved child starts again from the project base. This is the
product rule for subtasks. Nothing of its own work is dropped, because
its runs failed before any provider work.
- The pass runs inside the existing active recovery action sweep and
selects at most 25 escalations and 25 pending wakes per pass.

> 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 API checks) and
extended reasoning.

## Checklist

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

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2026-11-09 12:15:25 -06:00
DottaandPaperclip 76254ead22 fix(runner): allow Codex interruption to settle governed waits (#20330)
## Thinking Path

> - Paperclip manages AI agents and their work.
> - A native run must stop provider work before it waits for a human
response.
> - The Codex transport allows 30 seconds for a control command.
> - The governed-wait loop used its 15-second default for Codex.
> - A valid interruption terminal at 18 seconds therefore failed the
run.
> - This change gives Codex the existing 30-second terminal drain
allowance.
> - The run still fails if it cannot prove that the provider turn ended.

## Linked Issues or Issue Description

**What happened?** A Codex run can save a human wait, accept an
interruption, and fail before the provider sends its terminal. Its saved
wait remains intact, but normal finalization does not occur.

**Expected behavior:** Allow terminal delivery through the transport's
bounded command window. Keep missing-terminal cases closed.

**Steps to reproduce:** Run the new protocol regression against the old
backend. The real Runner binary uses a controlled Codex process that
delays its interruption terminal for 18 seconds. The run fails at the
15-second drain deadline. The same process passes with this change.

**Paperclip version or commit:** Reproduced against `1b7fe33432`.

**Deployment mode:** Local test of the native Runner path. The incident
was observed in a hosted sandbox.

**Installation method:** Source checkout.

**Operating system:** macOS arm64 for local verification. Hosted
incident runtime was Linux.

**Additional context:** No matching repair was found. This addresses a
reproducible deadline mismatch. The hosted log ends terminal observation
at 15 seconds, so it cannot prove whether that provider would have
settled within 30 seconds. The approved local live-provider check
passed. This PR does not claim recovery of the hosted task.

## What Changed

- Give Codex a 30-second governed-wait terminal drain through the
existing backend option.
- Keep other providers and the caller's shorter execution bound
unchanged.
- Add real Runner protocol cases for prompt, delayed, and absent
terminal delivery. Check retained wait state and one provider turn.
- Document the bounded wait and terminal-proof requirement.

## Verification

- Red: the 18-second controlled-provider case failed with
`governed_wait_provider_terminal_unproven` on the old backend. The
prompt case passed.
- Green: 282 tests passed across the native runtime, harness backend,
and new Runner protocol suite, including a repeat on the rebased PR
revision. `pnpm verify --explain` returned exit 2 because the
execution-contract document requires broad CI; the [required CI
run](https://github.com/paperclipai/paperclip/actions/runs/42668235142)
passed on the final head. All 58 applicable checks passed; the three
skipped checks were the two unrelated Storybook jobs and the
selected-test planner replaced by broad coverage.
- The missing-terminal case still fails without `completeRun` or a
successful run terminal. The saved governed wait remains available. Only
one provider turn and one tool call occur.
- Existing runtime tests cover shorter deadlines, foreign or unproven
terminals, complete usage without a terminal, and checkpoint recovery
without another model turn.
- Live acceptance at `f3da2b87425d4fd45c649bfc98785c61f82abbe0`: real
Runner binary, Codex CLI 0.165.0, gpt-6.1-sol, Node 26.4.0, macOS arm64,
disposable local workspace. One `request_human_input` tool call returned
a pending interaction fixture. The real provider emitted
`turn.interrupted`; the controller accepted the yielded wait and its run
terminal. The check passed in 8.14 seconds. The tool callback and
persistence port were controlled; no hosted server permission or
Notebook publication claim is made.
- Initial local probe setup failed before model execution: first the
explicit launch lacked `app-server`, then it omitted the Runner
permission configuration. The successful check used the Runner's normal
launch arguments and isolated home with the approved existing account.
- Hosted sandbox acceptance and recovery remain unverified. The
18-second delayed shutdown is a controlled protocol regression; the live
model check proves normal shutdown, not that specific latency.

## Risks

- A Codex provider that never stops can occupy the settlement window for
up to 15 additional seconds. It still fails closed and is quarantined.
- No persisted schema, provider identity, permission, or recovery rule
changes. Previous-release checkpoints use the same format and existing
recovery checks.
- This change cannot fix a provider that never emits a terminal. It also
does not grant missing setup permissions or decide pending approvals.

## Model Used

OpenAI Codex, GPT-6 family. The exact serving model ID and context
window are not exposed in this session. Used reasoning, tool calls, code
edits, and local 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
requesting merge

Co-authored-by: Paperclip <noreply@paperclip.ing>
2026-11-09 12:11:47 -06:00
Dotta a3e7e63330 Guard Native recovery with process-space proof and explicit containment (#19813)
## Thinking Path

> - Paperclip manages agents and their work.
> - Recovery must preserve execution ownership and accepted results.
> - A saved PID proves nothing outside its recorded process namespace.
> - Uncertain unfinished work must stay held until its original owners
stop.
> - Operators need a source-bound containment action and a separate
ordinary Retry.
> - Accepted results must use the existing finalizer without another
provider turn.
> - This PR keeps those paths safe, recoverable, and quiet between real
obligations.

## Linked Issues or Issue Description

Refs: #19713

Refs: #19591

Recovery could use a local PID to release or replace a controller from
another process namespace. Connected-chat Retry also rejected successful
containment on a task in `todo`. The new containment action used a
broader permission than the existing owner-stop action. A later review
found that result-less guards also rejected the existing accepted-result
confirmation action.

## What Changed

- Record and verify the controller's kernel/PID namespace. Keep unknown
and foreign unfinished ownership held. Preserve independent durable stop
evidence and the existing remote lease fences.
- Use the shared accepted-result ownership reconciler. Bind settlement
to the observed lease token, generation, boot, PID, namespace and
process birth. Retain finalizer, cleanup, current-controller, live-owner
and remote exclusions.
- Share the remote-owner reader across recovery consumers. Scope runner
leases to the same company, task and run. Do not make local PID probes
for remote accepted-result ownership.
- Gate original-host containment on `runtime:confirm_owner_stop`. Bind
it to the current task, source, assignee, original expiry, lease and
Stop state. Audit separate controller/provider containment and reviewed
action outcomes.
- Keep containment separate from ordinary Retry. Use one canonical
committed receipt and the normal admission, budget, workspace and
lineage checks. Preserve the recorded external-action outcomes.
- Keep the controller-only confirmation actionable for both result-less
work and accepted results. Result-less work gets its next source-bound
attention in the same transaction. Accepted results keep their original
result and use normal shared settlement/finalization.
- Keep identity inspection quiet. Preserve the original foreign-owner
expiry and use the existing scoped finalizer in accepted-result recovery
controls.
- Update the recovery card, validators, execution projection, docs and
access maps. Reuse existing canonical columns; add no migration or
ownership backfill.

## Verification

Current publication head: `71ea76b568de09d6313d8992e803131d9d5c54f3`.

**The current fix has a causal red/green check.** On the test-only
revision, both foreign-local stopped/fenced controller cases failed
because recovery probed saved runner, process-group and provider PIDs in
this host's namespace. This measured the wrong probes; it did not run
duplicate providers. After the fix, the same two cases passed every
no-probe, no-claim, no-controller-stamp, no-stop-receipt and
unchanged-authority assertion. Three existing remote preparation, grace
and fenced-controller progress cases also passed. Total: **5 passed, 0
failed;170 filtered rows excluded**. All three normal affected App
TypeScript programs passed on this head (660,681 and428 roots).

The fix separates a controller wait from execution stop proof.
Independent live/grace evidence still schedules recovery. A
stopped/fenced foreign controller can pass this namespace guard only for
remote execution, which keeps its later checkpoint and never-launched
checks. Foreign local execution stays held before runner or provider PID
inspection.

Earlier source-scoped results remain evidence, not fresh executions on
the current head:

- On `c86dd741`, the complete failed-owner file passed **25/25**, with
no skips or filters. Empty scans wrote no controller stamps. Foreign
ownership kept its original expiry. Normal returned-claim settlement and
attention at the exact deadline passed.
- On `c86dd741`, **15 selected accepted-result/restart controls
passed**. The81 filtered rows are excluded. Both completion cases used
the existing scoped finalizer and kept their accepted result without
another provider turn.
- Trusted CI at synthetic merge `50d072a5` (actual master `1b7fe334`
plus `c86dd741`) passed the complete **17-case maintenance-server
file**. This includes the original90-real-second quiet observation and
two qualified hourly windows. The quiet case took118,918ms. The four
jobs that failed on the earlier publication all passed on that synthetic
merge.
- On `6243b32c`, the complete ownership-report file passed **29/29**.
Native NULL namespace stayed unprovable and generic compatibility
remained. Three selected recovery controls passed;170 filtered rows are
excluded.
- On `f81f2c3c`,356 business cases passed: whole ownership-route221,
recoveryUI70, owner-proof38 and controller-confirmation8; selected
accepted-result authority18; and one real connected-chat containment,
separate authorized Retry, useful Native result and downstream reply
case. The2,024 filtered rows are excluded. A separate earlier
accepted-result causal case kept the original result and completed after
restart without replay.

Normal Shared exports, App programs, UI typecheck, token gates and map
checks passed on their recorded revisions. Unchanged DB, adapter, Eval
and Runner inputs/outputs have explicit carry proofs. The clean normal
merge with fetched master `8fe524f7` preserves all31 exclusive owned
paths and14,827 unrelated master entries. The nine overlapping paths
were reviewed, including the upstream unidentified-run stop action.
Fresh CI must validate that actual merge composition.

PG cases used existing external PG17, fresh owned databases, pools at
most4, one worker and no SQL observer during cases. Registered clients
and recorded process groups closed. Independent final SQL audits found
zero campaign sessions before normal database cleanup. Original failing
fixtures remain retained.

Original failures are preserved. One new test first failed compilation
due to a missing getter import; an import-only correction passed its
full owning programs before the causal red/green check. A local quiet
attempt stopped in the normal prerequisite hook before any business case
and its collector rejected two normal build markers. The later17-case CI
pass establishes quiet recovery; it does not turn that failed local
collector into a pass. An earlier useful case passed before its private
cleanup collector failed on an owned read-only directory; normal cleanup
completed after all owners closed. Earlier runner-shutdown cancellation
and a separate private whole-suite failure remain unexplained.

Current-head checks are complete:57 success,1 neutral and3 skipped,
including the successful aggregate CI gate. The legacy status passed.
Greptile is5/5 and Ponytail gives an explicit5/5 Ship verdict for this
head. All seven review threads are resolved. Full recursive typecheck,
the full test suite and release build were not repeated locally. No
result here proves deployed suspension, a live provider or termination
on another host.

## Risks

- Unknown physical ownership can require an owner/admin action. A false
containment statement can be unsafe.
- New work, reassignment, Stop, renewed authority, accepted results or
pending cleanup can invalidate an action. The operator must refresh.
- Controller confirmation does not prove provider/tool containment.
Completed external actions must not be replayed.
- Generic legacy and child-process compatibility remains separate from
the strict Native controller policy.
- Existing saved state and canonical schema are preserved. Permanent
safety refusals remain held with their normal named recovery path.

## Model Used

OpenAI `gpt-6.1-sol` agents implemented and tested the changes with
reasoning, repository tools and code execution. A GPT-6-based Codex
managing agent reviewed and integrated them. The host does not expose
the manager's exact build or the context-window sizes.

## 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 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
2026-11-09 12:06:11 -06:00
Devin FoleyandPaperclip 0f84df91da fix(native): accept a completed child's file in the parent's completion report (#20325)
## Thinking Path

> - Paperclip is the open source app people use to manage AI agents for
work
> - In onboarding, the agent plans the user's first task, creates one
child task for the work, and waits for it
> - The `first-task` skill tells the agent to publish a requested file
on the child task. When the parent wakes, the agent links the child's
file and does not publish a copy
> - Native `register_deliverable` is bound to its current task, so the
parent cannot register the child's file again
> - The native completion check required each cited attachment to be on
the task being completed
> - So when the parent cited the child's download link,
`paperclip_finish` failed, and the agent reported the finished
onboarding task as blocked
> - This pull request lets a completion report cite an attachment on a
direct child task that is done
> - The benefit is that onboarding closes after its child task delivers
a file, and the user does not see a false "blocked" status

## Linked Issues or Issue Description

Related: #18258 (onboarding artifact completion instructions).

**What happened?**
An onboarding run created a child task to build and publish a project.
The child task registered `project.zip` with `register_deliverable` and
was marked done. The parent woke with reason `issue_children_completed`.
The agent called `paperclip_finish` with `reportedWorkDisposition:
"done"` and cited the child's `/api/attachments/<id>/content` link. The
call failed two times with:

```
Completion cites no registered attachment on this task. Use register_deliverable for the requested file and cite deliverable:<attachmentId> from its receipt.
```

The skill does not let the agent register the file on the parent, so the
agent called `paperclip_block` with "Paperclip completion validation" as
the owner. The parent task stayed `blocked`. Nothing wakes it again.

**Expected behavior**
The parent completes and links the child's file.

**Steps to reproduce**
1. Create a task with a child task.
2. In a native run on the child, register a file with
`register_deliverable`, and mark the child done.
3. In a native run on the parent, call `paperclip_finish` with
`reportedWorkDisposition: "done"` and the child's
`deliverable:<attachmentId>` or
`/api/attachments/<attachmentId>/content` as evidence.
4. The call fails with "Completion cites no registered attachment on
this task".

## What Changed

- `server/src/services/native-runtime/native-deliverable-feedback.ts`:
when a cited attachment is not on the task,
`validateNativeDeliverableEvidence` also looks for it on a direct child
task with status `done`. If it is there, the citation is accepted.
- The child's file is context, the same as an attachment from an earlier
run on the same task. It does not count as this run's publication of a
file that the parent's own request names.
- With `lockSources`, the finalization path locks the attachment and
child task rows with `FOR SHARE NOWAIT`, as it does for other sources.
  - The error text now says "on this task or its completed child tasks".
- This applies to the `paperclip_finish` check and to the two
finalization checks, because they use the same function.
- `doc/AGENT-ARTIFACTS.md`: the native runner section states that a
completion report can cite a file on a completed direct child task.

## Verification

- Extended "prepares one verified same-run attachment and replays
without duplicates" in
`server/src/services/native-runtime/native-runner-file-handoff.test.ts`:
  - An attachment on an unrelated task is still rejected.
  - An attachment on a child task that is not done is still rejected.
- An attachment on a done child task is accepted, through
`paperclip_finish` and through the locked finalization path.
- When the parent's own request names a file, the child's file alone
does not satisfy it.
- Without the source change, the test fails with the same error as the
run above.
- `npx vitest run` on `chat-attachment-reuse`,
`native-completion-feedback`, `native-completion-format-feedback`,
`native-deliverable-feedback`, and `native-runner-file-handoff` tests in
`server/src/services/native-runtime`: 281 passed.
- `npx vitest run src/__tests__/native-result-commit-work.test.ts
src/__tests__/native-status-arbiter-corpus.test.ts` in `server`: 167
passed.
- `npx tsc --noEmit -p server/tsconfig.json` passes.

## Risks

- Only direct children with status `done` are accepted. A grandchild's
file, or a file on a child that is not done, is still rejected.
- A parent that names a requested file in its own request still needs
its own delivery evidence. This keeps the current rule for earlier
outputs.
- A task that is already blocked by this error does not change. The user
can mark it done, or comment so the agent runs again.

## Model Used

- Claude Opus 5.5 (`claude-opus-5-5`), Anthropic, used through Claude
Code with tool use (code reading, database queries, shell commands, and
test runs).

## 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

Co-authored-by: Paperclip <noreply@paperclip.ing>
2026-11-09 09:44:17 -08:00
DottaandClaude Opus 5.5 47dccbf3eb fix(recovery): re-prove an exhausted save's agent stop and free the workspace (#20295)
## Thinking Path

> - Paperclip is the open source app people use to manage AI agents for
work
> - When an agent run ends, Paperclip saves the files that the run
changed in its remote workspace. Until that save settles, the run holds
the workspace, so no other task can write it
> - When the save fails, a bounded system recovery proves that the agent
stopped (a provider stop receipt) and then saves the files again
> - If the stop cannot be proven before the 30-minute recovery window
ends, the recovery is exhausted with `agent_stop_unconfirmed`.
Exhaustion was terminal: Paperclip never proved the stop again, even
after the run ended and its sandbox had a stop receipt
> - The hold then stayed forever. On staging, a child task's save was
exhausted this way on Nov 5. Its parent and its two sibling tasks share
that workspace, and all of them stayed blocked for four days
> - This pull request re-arms such an exhausted save automatically, on a
bounded backoff, once the run is provably over. After the bounded
re-arms, the hold continues from the last save with the unsaved files
attached
> - The benefit is that a dirty workspace hold always settles without a
person, and no unsaved work is discarded silently

## Linked Issues or Issue Description

Refs #20273 (the stall sweep stops failing wakes against this kind of
hold)
Refs #20278 (a settled restore hold returns its warm sandbox)
Refs #19860 (subtasks get their own workspace)

**What happened?**
A child task's run wrote its remote workspace and failed to save it
(`native_workspace_sync_out_retry_exhausted`). The save recovery made
one attempt. That attempt failed with `agent_stop_unconfirmed`, and the
recovery window ended before a second attempt. The recovery became
`exhausted`. Ten minutes after the first attempt, the sandbox lease got
a provider stop receipt, so the agent was provably gone. But nothing
looked at the exhausted recovery again. The run kept the workspace's
writer hold. The parent task and every other task on that workspace
could not start ("The workspace still has an unfinished writer or save
operation."). The blocker told a person to press Retry.

**Expected behavior**
An unproven stop is a wait, not a refusal of the saved files. When the
run is over, recovery must prove the stop again and finish the save, so
the hold settles automatically. If the stop still cannot be proven,
Paperclip must keep the unsaved files and then release the hold. A
person must not need to act.

**Steps to reproduce**
1. Run a task in a remote (sandbox) workspace. Make its final save fail.
2. Keep the workspace recovery from proving the agent stop until its
30-minute window ends (for example, keep the finalization ownership
busy).
3. See that the recovery action is `exhausted` with
`agent_stop_unconfirmed`, and that it stays so after the lease gets a
stop receipt.
4. Wake another task bound to the same workspace. See that its setup
fails because the workspace is held.

**Root cause**
- `server/src/services/workspace-recovery.ts`
(`recoverRetainedWorkspace`): an `exhausted` state only goes to the
sibling settlement and to the retained-source fallback. The fallback
accepts only permanent source refusals (`isUnverifiableSourceFailure`).
Every other exhausted state is handed to the board and never attempted
again.
- `recheckStoppedWorkspaceRecovery` skips `exhausted` states, and it
only accepts acknowledged cancellations. A failed run whose lease got a
stop receipt later is never re-examined.
- `retainedWorkspaceCandidates(…, obligationsOnly)` and
`nextWorkspaceRecoveryAt` do not select exhausted
`agent_stop_unconfirmed` holds, so the recovery worker never wakes for
them.

## What Changed

- New `server/src/services/workspace-recovery-stop-proof.ts`
(`rearmExhaustedStopProof`). For an exhausted save whose last failure is
`agent_stop_unconfirmed` (`recheck_evidence`), it starts a new bounded
system recovery generation. It does this only when the source run is
provably over: the run is terminal, no local execution remains, and no
controller lease or finalizer lease is live. The new generation repeats
the strict stop proof (a provider stop receipt) and the save. It records
an `issue.workspace_recovery_rearmed` system activity.
- Re-arms are bounded: at most 4. The first is due at once. The next
ones are due 30 minutes, 2 hours and 8 hours after the previous re-arm.
The `stopProofRecovery` marker in the recovery action evidence records
the count and the next due time.
- `workspace-recovery-fallback-discovery.ts`: new discovery conditions
(`stopProofRearmPendingCondition`, `stopProofRearmDueAt`,
`stopProofRearmDueCondition`) and `retainedHoldFallbackEligible`.
`retainedWorkspaceCandidates` (worker pass) and
`nextWorkspaceRecoveryAt` use them, so the recovery worker wakes when a
re-arm is due.
- `workspace-recovery-fallback.ts`: when every re-arm is spent and the
stop is still unproven, the hold takes the existing retained-source
fallback. The unsaved files are attached to the task (unapplied, secrets
omitted), the unverified epoch is abandoned, and the task continues from
the last save.
- `system-recovery-state.ts`: the exhausted `agent_stop_unconfirmed`
text now says that Paperclip tries again automatically. It no longer
asks a person to press Retry. Retry stays available.
- Review follow-ups: the re-arm applies to every workspace recovery the
worker owns (restore and historical holds too). A due re-arm is
scheduled no earlier than the source run's controller or finalizer lease
expiry, so the worker is not woken every 15 seconds while a lease is
live. A fallback whose bounded checks are spent is reconsidered once
when an allocation of the source run changes, and
`settleStopOnlyCleanup` wakes the workspace recovery worker when it
records a stop receipt. The automatic-retry text is shown only while a
re-arm remains.
- `doc/execution-semantics.md`: documents the re-arm, its bounds, the
fallback, and the upgrade behavior.

### Previous-release story (`rules/upgrade-safe-run-state.mdc`)

- **Carried forward, no migration.** A hold exhausted by an older
release has no `stopProofRecovery` marker. The recovery worker treats it
as due at once and re-arms it on its first pass after deploy. The new
regression test saves the exact Nov 5 evidence shape (`attempts: 1`,
`retriesUsed: 0`, `state: exhausted`, no marker) and resumes it with the
new code.
- **Mid-run deploy.** A run that is still running, or whose controller
lease or finalizer lease is live, is not re-armed. The test covers a
live controller lease. The re-arm uses the same CAS (generation and
revision) and the same row locks as the other recovery writers, so an
old worker's late write cannot overwrite the new generation.
- **No new refusal codes.** No saved run identity changes. The re-arm
writes only recovery-action evidence.

## Verification

- Red (before the fix), `npx vitest run
src/services/workspace-recovery-stop-proof.test.ts`: 3 failed, 1 passed.
The staging-shape test failed because the worker did not wake
(`nextWorkspaceRecoveryAt` returned `null`) and the hold stayed. The
backoff and fallback tests failed for the same discovery gap.
- Green (after the fix): 4 of 4 pass.
- Staging shape: a parent and 3 children that share one remote
workspace. One child's save is exhausted with `agent_stop_unconfirmed`,
and its run ended days ago with a stop receipt. Before recovery, the
hold refuses the parent (`remoteWorkspaceHoldRefusesStart` is `true`).
The recovery worker discovers the hold, re-arms it, proves the stop,
saves the files and completes. The workspace is not dirty, it has a new
snapshot, and the hold is `free` for the parent. The action stays
system-owned and its text asks no person to act.
- A live controller lease keeps the hold. No re-arm happens and no lease
is resumed.
- A re-arm that is not yet due is not discovered. The worker's next wake
is in the future, and the text says that Paperclip tries again
automatically.
- After 4 re-arms, the hold continues from the last save. The unsaved
files are captured as a task attachment, and the hold is `free`.
- A live controller lease defers the worker's next wake to the lease
expiry, and the hold is not selected before it.
- A spent fallback is not selected, and a later lease change (a late
stop receipt) makes it selected again; the worker then settles it.
- `system-recovery-state.test.ts`: the automatic-retry text appears only
while a re-arm remains.
- Related suites, all pass: `src/services/workspace-recovery*`,
`src/services/remote-workspace*`,
`src/services/system-recovery-state.test.ts`,
`src/services/task-retry.test.ts`,
`src/__tests__/heartbeat-observed-workspace-preservation.test.ts` (34
files, 1510 tests), plus the stop-cleanup suites
(`environment-retained-orphan-sandbox`, `live-recovery-work`,
`retained-native-session-cleanup-work`,
`legacy-workspace-restore-recovery`, native workspace warm-reuse,
cancelled preservation, reconstruction and failed recovery; 11 files,
622 tests).
- `pnpm verify`: exit 2 ("broader verification required", because
`doc/execution-semantics.md` is a global CI input). The focused suites
above cover the change, and required CI supplies the broad coverage.
- `npx tsc --noEmit -p server/tsconfig.json`: passes.

## Risks

- A re-armed generation resumes the stopped sandbox to save its files.
This is the same physical path as a manual Retry. It runs only when the
source run is provably over.
- Re-arms are bounded (4) and spaced, so a stop that can never be proven
does not loop. After that, the existing retained-source fallback settles
the hold. If the retained files cannot be read, the fallback records
why. This is the same behavior as for a refused source.
- The parent's workspace receives the child's saved files, because the
child (bound by an older release) wrote that workspace. This is the
existing #19860 behavior: the files that a legacy child left in the
shared workspace stay there. #20314 moves the stranded legacy children
to their own workspace.

> 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 API checks) and
extended reasoning.

## 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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Co-authored-by: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-11-09 11:44:15 -06:00
DottaandPaperclip ff2d463eed feat(cli): manage agent grants and keep remote login on the public origin (#20323)
## Thinking Path

> - Paperclip lets people control their AI agents and permissions.
> - Remote operators need a browser-approved CLI login.
> - Proxies can send that login's approval link to an internal host.
> - Human member commands cannot grant an agent an explicit permission
such as commentary:view.
> - This change keeps approval on the canonical public origin and adds
Board-only single-grant commands.
> - The API checks company access and permission-management authority
and records each change.
> - An operator can sign in, grant one agent permission, and preserve
the agent's other grants.

## Linked Issues or Issue Description

**What happened?**

A proxied CLI login returned an approval URL on the upstream host. The
signed-in browser was on the public host. The CLI also had no command to
add an arbitrary explicit agent grant: member commands manage human
members, while agent permissions:update exposes fixed configuration
fields.

**Expected behavior**

Approval uses the configured canonical public origin. A Board operator
with users:manage_permissions can grant or revoke one explicit agent
permission without replacing other grants or activating an inactive
membership.

**Steps to reproduce**

Configure a public auth origin. Create a CLI challenge through a proxy
that replaces forwarded-host headers. Inspect the approval URL. Then try
to grant commentary:view to an agent through the CLI.

## What Changed

- Use the existing public-origin resolver for CLI approval URLs.
- Add agent permission:grant and permission:revoke commands.
- Add PATCH /api/agents/{id}/permission-grants with strict shared
validation and Board-only OpenAPI metadata.
- Serialize each mutation on the agent row. Preserve unrelated grants
and membership state. Commit the grant and its activity record together
and publish activity after commit.
- Document remote login and single-grant management.

## Verification

- The new approval-link regression failed before the fix and passes
after it.
- All 25 CLI auth route tests pass.
- All 72 affected CLI, login and OpenAPI tests pass.
- All 5 PostgreSQL grant tests pass, including actual commentary reads
(403 before grant, 200 after grant, 403 after revoke), preservation,
audit attribution, concurrent additions, invalid inputs, inactive or
missing membership, agent self-grants, cross-company denial, and
rollback on audit failure.
- Shared and CLI typechecks and server declaration-layer checks pass.
- pnpm verify requests broad CI coverage because doc/CLI.md is a global
verification input. Greptile reviewed final head
338c58fb24 at 5/5 with no findings. All 58
non-skipped checks pass on that head. CI run:
https://github.com/paperclipai/paperclip/actions/runs/42663640985. Live
target acceptance is in progress.

## Risks

This adds an explicit permission-management API. It requires Board
authentication, company access, and users:manage_permissions.
Foreign-company agents return 404. Granting a key intentionally makes
that key unscoped in its company; revocation removes that key. Other
keys and agent configuration remain unchanged. Inactive memberships and
unapproved or terminated agents cannot gain grants. No schema change is
needed. Revert this change to remove the new management surface;
existing grants retain their normal authorization rules.

## Model Used

OpenAI GPT-6 through Codex, with reasoning, code editing, shell tools,
and browser testing. The runtime does not expose a more specific model
ID or 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
- [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

---------

Co-authored-by: Paperclip <noreply@paperclip.ing>
2026-11-09 11:35:52 -06:00
Dotta 1b7fe33432 fix(workspaces): preserve import verification across process restarts (#20311)
## Thinking Path

> - Paperclip is the open source app people use to manage AI agents for
work.
> - Online import preserves old local files before the web server can
use a disposable filesystem.
> - A parent import must authenticate saved child archives before it can
omit their directories.
> - The operation journal preserves import identity, but completed child
checks existed only in process memory.
> - A container restart therefore repeated downloads, decryption and
restoration that had already succeeded.
> - This pull request saves a versioned verification receipt on each
immutable child snapshot.
> - A replacement process can reuse those checks while it reacquires
locks and verifies current local files.

## Linked Issues or Issue Description

Refs #19854 for verification reuse within a live source fence. Refs
#19873 for cohort import. Refs #20298 for the separate remote-hold
admission fix. Searched related workspace verification and restart PRs;
none provides durable child verification.

**What happened?**

Replacing a server container interrupts a long online import. The
original operation and snapshot survive, but a later invocation
downloads, decrypts and restores completed child archives again. The
current cache ends with the source-lock owner.

**Expected behavior**

Completed immutable checks survive process and scratch loss. Resume
keeps the same operation and snapshot, reuses only correctly bound
verification, and publishes once. Current local files and Git state must
still be checked under fresh source locks.

**Steps to reproduce**

1. Import two nested child workspaces, then start the parent import.
2. Kill the importer after a child verification finishes. Remove its
scratch directory.
3. Resume in a new process. Before this fix, the completed child is
downloaded and restored again.

**Paperclip version or commit**

The regression fails on the previous migration verifier. The final
branch includes master at `189fefb99183953be37f0d1084275fbb0f35d6e2`.

**Deployment mode**

Managed Linux server with PostgreSQL and explicit S3 storage
configuration.

## What Changed

- Add optional opaque storage namespace identity. S3 binds it to the
explicit endpoint, region, bucket, normalized prefix and addressing
style. Implicit endpoints retain full verification.
- Save a versioned child-snapshot receipt only after canonical crypto,
manifest and file restoration succeed and a second HEAD confirms the
same strong ETag and size.
- Bind reuse to the complete snapshot reference, key material, child
lineage, source operation and storage namespace. Require a fresh strong
HEAD and canonical validation that the current secret provider can
unwrap the saved snapshot key.
- Keep current directory/Git capture and source-owner checks on every
invocation. Read-only verifier callers do not write checkpoints.
- Merge checkpoint metadata under a short row lock without changing
parent journal hashes, snapshot retention or update timestamps. Bound
reads and writes. Lock timeouts, statement timeouts, deadlocks and
serialization conflicts are safe cache misses. Other errors remain
fatal.
- Extend real PostgreSQL/Git/archive tests with process death, scratch
removal, resume, changed bindings and single publication.

## Verification

- Baseline RED: two import invocations read each child twice. With
durable receipts, each child is read once across both invocations.
- Real process regression passed on the final rebased head: SIGKILL the
owned importer after one checkpoint, delete all scratch, and resume in a
new Node process. It retains the same operation and snapshot, reads each
child once across both processes, and records one publication.
- 53 focused cases passed in 104.86 seconds on the final production
bytes before rebase. They cover existing nested/cohort behavior,
namespace identity, changed source/reference/key/lineage/ETag, unknown
proof versions, weak validators and bounded row contention.
- After clean rebase and stronger scratch/snapshot assertions, the real
process case passed again in 18.54 seconds. Server TypeScript, module
boundaries and diff checks passed on final head
`9da68ee7ce4a778201ef85e21a11c49eeea7bc16`. Required CI supplies
final-head broad coverage.
- The initial restricted-network dependency setup failed; unchanged
preflight passed with normal network access. Initial TypeScript failures
in test pipe assertions were corrected. No failed attempt is counted as
a pass.
- Review found a missing current-master-key check. A real restart
regression with all child checkpoints complete reproduced unsafe
publication after switching to a different valid master key. Follow-up
`7ea92c2abd9ffdb2e7dd81cecf62c8fc7a6e74a5` delegates to the canonical
snapshot-key owner before both durable and in-memory cache hits.
- The fixed process regressions passed 2/2. Ten key-authority and
existing identity/source guard cases passed. The wrong-key process now
refuses with zero additional child payload GETs, no publication, and
unchanged original journal/snapshot rows. Server typecheck, module
boundaries and diff checks passed on the follow-up.
- Review also found that transient database failures could make the
optional checkpoint cache stop a valid import. Read and save now fall
back only for SQLSTATE `55P03`, `57014`, `40P01`, and `40001`.
Connection loss, identity changes, crypto failures, programming errors
and cancellation remain fatal. Reads use a read-only transaction with
one-second lock and eight-second statement limits.
- The checkpoint database-fault regression failed two cases before the
fix. All four recoverable import cases then passed. The final selected
run passed 21 cases, including fatal-error and cancellation controls,
real row contention, both process-restart cases and key/identity guards.
Server typecheck and boundaries passed. Fault injection is limited to
the checkpoint database boundary; the importer, PostgreSQL, Git,
archives, storage and publication remain real.
- Latest master was merged without rewriting published history. Six real
import/process-restart cases passed again on final head
`8c8e4213a680ebb5c8d6864416bc3a4f271e1e76` in 38.03 seconds. [Required
CI](https://github.com/paperclipai/paperclip/actions/runs/42658248222)
finished with 54 successful checks and four intentional skips; Snyk
passed. [Fresh
review](https://github.com/paperclipai/paperclip/pull/20311#issuecomment-6745354381)
is 5/5 with all four threads addressed and resolved. Hosted verification
after normal release delivery remains pending.

## Risks

- A stale receipt could skip authentication of a different object.
Complete reference/lineage/namespace binding, fresh strong HEAD and
row-locked save validation prevent that reuse. Missing or unsupported
hints trigger full verification.
- Mutable local files can change between attempts. Their source locks
and fresh captures remain required; a checkpoint never certifies current
local bytes.
- Checkpoint persistence can contend with other snapshot owners. It has
one-second lock and eight-second statement limits; the four classified
transient SQL errors retain the normal fully verified path. Other
database errors stop the import so lost source ownership cannot be
hidden.
- No schema, archive format, public API or saved-run identity change.
Older snapshots without receipts remain readable and get full
verification. Existing data and recovery obligations stay intact.

## Model Used

OpenAI Codex, GPT-6.1 Sol (`gpt-6.1-sol`), with reasoning, repository
tools and code execution. Context-window size is not exposed by the
runtime.

## 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
2026-11-09 11:03:48 -06:00
DottaandClaude Opus 5.5 099adb2728 fix(recovery): settle a remote workspace save that stopped without finishing (#20291)
## Thinking Path

> - Paperclip is the open source app people use to manage AI agents for
work
> - Native runs in remote sandboxes save the workspace as snapshots.
Each save is a `workspace_operations` row with phase
`remote_workspace_snapshot`
> - The ownership registry lists that kind as in-progress work, but it
had no settle step
> - When a restart cut off a failing final save, the row stayed
`running` after its invocations had all stopped and its run had ended
> - The retained-source fallback refuses while any workspace operation
is running, so a task whose saved files could not be verified could
never continue from its last save
> - This pull request lets the ownership reconciler settle that row as
failed
> - The benefit is that the automatic fallback can continue such a task
without any user action

## Linked Issues or Issue Description

**What happened?**
A native run in a remote sandbox finished its turn. Its final workspace
save failed because the sandbox disk was full ("No space left on device"
in the snapshot copy). A graceful restart then interrupted the retry.
The run ended as `native_workspace_sync_out_retry_exhausted`. Its
`remote_workspace_snapshot` row kept `status: running` for six days,
with `saveWork: { activeIds: [], unknown: false, quiescedAt: <time> }`
and `exportCleanup: { state: "pending" }`. The retained-source fallback
checked the task and refused with `workspace_operation_running`, so the
task stayed blocked.

**Expected behavior**
A save with no active or unknown invocation, whose run is terminal, is
finished work. The reconciler must mark it failed, so the fallback can
continue from the last committed save. A save that might still be
running must stay untouched.

**Steps to reproduce**
1. Run a native task in a remote sandbox. Make its final save fail, then
restart the server during the retry, so the save's work is quiesced and
the operation stays `running`.
2. Let the task's recovery refuse with an unverifiable-source failure
(for example `allocation_ownership_ambiguous`).
3. The retained-source fallback refuses with
`workspace_operation_running` on every check, and the task never
continues.

**Paperclip version or commit**
`master` at f7c85bca18.

Refs #20282 (the other cause of the same stuck task: a false ownership
refusal).

## What Changed

- `settleAbandonedRemoteSnapshotSave`
(`recovery/workspace-finalize-attempt-settlement.ts`) settles a
`remote_workspace_snapshot` row in `running` or `pending` only when all
of these are true:
- its save work is quiesced (`activeIds` is empty and `unknown` is
false);
  - its run is terminal.
It sets `status: failed`, records `abandonedSave` provenance and
`lastFailure: remote_workspace_save_abandoned`, keeps `saveWork` and
`exportCleanup`, writes a `workspace_operation.reconciled` activity
entry, and wakes the workspace's terminal work.
- The ownership registry wires it as the settle of
`remote_snapshot_save`.
- In the same transaction it re-arms blocked fallbacks. For every open
hold whose fallback check last refused with
`workspace_operation_running` and whose source run used this save's
workspace, it clears the check and wakes the workspace-recovery queue. A
hold that had already spent its 12 checks (no next check) continues as
well.
- The settle uses the save path's own `readSaveWork`, now exported, so
it never settles save work that the save path would treat as invalid.
- Because the row now has a `lastFailure`, `retireQuiescedSaves` retires
it like any failed save when a later final save commits. A later retry
of the same save boundary reopens a failed row, as before.
- The ownership inventory row for this kind names the new settle.

## Verification

- Red before the fix, green after: `settles a remote snapshot save that
stopped without finishing after its run ended, and keeps open or live
ones` (`ownership-reconciliation-report.test.ts`). Before: `settled: 0`.
After: only the abandoned save settles. Saves with a live run, an active
invocation, or unknown save work stay `running`.
- Red before the fix, green after, end to end: `continues once the
reconciler settles a final save a restart left running after its run
ended` (`workspace-recovery-fallback.test.ts`). The fallback first
refuses with `workspace_operation_running`, and the test then spends its
check budget (12 checks, no next check), so the hold drops out of
discovery. After one ownership reconciliation pass, the save is `failed`
and the check is cleared. The worker then resolves the hold with
`retained_source_unverifiable_continued_from_last_saved`. Without the
re-arm, this test fails.
- The reconciler test also covers save work that is not quiesced
(`quiescedAt: null`), save work that is invalid (`quiescedAt: ""`), and
a `pending` save.
- `workspace-recovery-fallback.test.ts` (16 tests),
`ownership-reconciliation-report.test.ts`, and the remote workspace
lifecycle, save-concurrency, and snapshot-retention suites pass (80
tests, 1 environment-gated file skipped).
- `PAPERCLIP_TYPECHECK_LOW_MEMORY=1 pnpm typecheck` in `server` passed.

## Risks

- A save in another process registers its invocation in `activeIds` in
the same row-locked transaction before it runs. The settle locks the row
and requires `activeIds` to be empty and `unknown` to be false, so it
cannot fail a save that is still working.
- A save whose process died with its invocation still in `activeIds`
stays `running`. That case needs an owner-death proof, which is out of
scope here.
- No schema or API change.

## Model Used

- Claude Opus 5.5 (`claude-opus-5-5`) in Claude Code, with tool use
(shell, file edits, read-only browser diagnostics).

## 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 fd2e7482c0 fix(runner): stop a lost runnerd's provider and tools from a durable lineage journal (#20270)
## Thinking Path

> - Paperclip is the open source app people use to manage AI agents for
work
> - A local native run uses one runner daemon (`paperclip-runnerd`).
runnerd starts the provider (for example OpenCode), and the provider
starts tool processes
> - When runnerd dies in the middle of a tool call, the provider and its
tools are re-parented. The only record of that process tree was in
runnerd's memory
> - Close then cannot prove that those processes stopped. It quarantines
the session, and the next attempt stops with
`native_session_cleanup_quarantined`: "Automatic recovery stopped /
operator recovery required"
> - Restarts and runner loss are product failures. Interrupted work must
recover by itself, and it must never get two writers in one workspace
> - This pull request makes runnerd journal its process lineage to disk,
and makes close stop and prove gone every journalled process after
runnerd is lost
> - The benefit is that a killed runnerd leads to an automatic, safe
retry within the normal attempt budget, instead of an operator stop

## Linked Issues or Issue Description

Refs #20259 (runner loss classification and the lineage sampler panic).
Refs #20260 (automatic continuation of an inert cleanup quarantine).

**What happened?**
A chat eval killed only the owned local `runnerd` process (SIGKILL)
during an OpenCode tool call
(`chat-features.runner-opencode.local.recovery.retry-exhausted`,
`recovery.explain-stall` and `recovery.source-action`). Attempt 1
recorded `native_runner_process_exited` with "Retry scheduled 1/3".
Attempt 2 stopped with `native_session_cleanup_quarantined`. The task
was blocked with no owner, and the next action was operator recovery.

**Expected behavior**
After runnerd is lost, the product stops the provider and tool processes
that runnerd started, proves them gone, and continues the run within its
retry budget. When it cannot prove that, it keeps the fail-closed
quarantine.

**Steps to reproduce**
1. Start a local native OpenCode (or Codex) run.
2. Let the agent run a tool that leaves the provider's session (for
example `nohup job &`).
3. Send SIGKILL to the `runnerd` PID only.
4. Close rejects with `runner did not durably suspend before
checkpoint`, and the next attempt fails with
`native_session_cleanup_quarantined`.

**Paperclip version or commit**
master at 4c15eea770

## What Changed

- `process_lineage.rs`: runnerd journals each supervised process's
lineage to `<runner state>/process-lineage/lineage-<runnerd
pid>-<n>.json`. The journal holds the root, every member, and every
group and session a member leads, each with its start time. The first
record is written when the provider is spawned, before any tool can run.
Later records are written by the existing 50 ms sampler only when the
record changes. A teardown that proves the lineage gone removes the
journal.
- `process_lineage/journal.rs` (new module): the on-disk format, the
write rules and the reaper `reap_journals`. The reaper refuses when
runnerd never journalled (no writer marker) or when runnerd is still
alive. It restores each journal into the same `LineageState` rules,
sends TERM and then KILL only to processes whose PID and start time
still match, and reports `verified` only when none remain. A journal
that it cannot read refuses the proof.
- Unsampled escapes: each record stores `sampled_through`, the newest
process start that its read listed. The value is refreshed at most once
a second while the membership is unchanged. The reaper refuses
(`unattributed_orphan`) when a same-user orphan (parent PID 1) that is
in no journal started after that point. Such a process can be a tool
that started after the last read, so the reaper neither signals it nor
ignores it.
- A failed journal write removes the writer marker. Removal needs no
free space. After that, no reap can verify from a record that may be
missing a member.
- `paperclip-runnerd`: durable mode enables the journal before any
provider starts. A new `reap-lineage --state-dir --runner-pid` mode
prints the report and exits 0 only when verified.
- `runnerd-codex-transport.ts`: close samples whether runnerd exited
unsuspended before close sent any signal. In that case, for a runnerd
that this transport spawned on this host, it runs the reaper from the
same executable. A verified report ends the session as a crash stop with
its durable record intact. Recovery then continues the run. Any other
result keeps the existing `NativeSessionCloseUnrecoverableError`
quarantine. Launcher-owned (remote) and adopted runners do not use this
path.
- `runnerd-codex-transport.ts`: close does not queue a durable
`runner.suspend` for a runnerd that it already knows is lost. Before,
that suspend stayed pending in the saved control-plane state. A later
runnerd on the same root then failed at startup with `terminal command
result acknowledgement changed its durable identity`. The shared
suspension barrier is unchanged for remote and adopted runners.
- `runnerd-codex-transport.ts`: a runnerd that exits during close (for
example because its provider snapshot is unreadable) is not a loss. It
keeps the quarantine.
- `runnerd-codex-transport.ts`: `#runnerHasExited` treated a
signal-killed runnerd as alive, because `exitCode` is `null` and only
`signalCode` is set. Close then spent its whole deadline trying to
suspend a dead runner. It now checks `signalCode` too.
- `fake-codex-app-server`: `--spawn-escaped-tool-job <pidfile>` starts a
tool job in its own session at turn start.
- `doc/execution-semantics.md`: describes the journal, the reaper and
the fallback.

## Verification

- Rust, `cargo test -p paperclip-runner-core --lib process_lineage` (14
pass) and `process_supervisor` (20 pass). New cases:
- `reaping_refuses_an_orphan_born_after_the_last_sample`: a tool starts
after the last read, starts a new session and exits, and leaves a
non-leader orphan job. The reap refuses and does not signal the job. It
fails without the guard.
- `a_failed_journal_write_withdraws_the_writer_marker` and
`an_unchanged_record_is_rewritten_only_to_advance_sampled_through`.
- `reaping_stops_a_dead_runners_provider_and_its_escaped_tool_job`: a
real provider and a real `setsid` tool job, with a dead writer. The reap
stops both, proves them gone and retires the journal and marker.
- `reaping_refuses_without_a_marker_or_while_the_writer_lives` and
`reaping_refuses_an_unreadable_journal`.
- `a_journalled_record_restores_the_same_lineage`: after a round trip,
the restored record still finds a re-parented job and its later child,
and ignores an unrelated process.
- TypeScript, live with the real debug runnerd: `stops a lost runnerd's
provider and escaped tool job from its lineage journal`.
- `journal=true`: SIGKILL runnerd mid-turn. The escaped tool job
outlives runnerd. Close resolves, the job is gone, and the report is
`verified`. Before the fix, close rejected with `runner did not durably
suspend before checkpoint` and the job stayed alive.
- `journal=false` (an older runnerd with no journal): close still
rejects, and the job is not signalled.
- `runner-lineage-reap.test.ts`: a report from an older runnerd, a
malformed report, or an inconsistent `verified` report never counts as
proof.
- Turn-start cost: the journal adds one single-process read and one
small file write when runnerd spawns its provider (about 1.5 ms in a
macOS debug build), once for each runnerd. Nothing is added for each
turn.
- Paid runner E2E,
`chat-features.runner-opencode.local.recovery.retry-exhausted`, on the
eval branch with this fix (runs 42637596571 and 42644400434). Before the
fix (run 42615758956), attempt 2 stopped with
`native_session_cleanup_quarantined`. Now each of the three runnerd
kills records `native_runner_process_exited`. Attempts 1 and 2 are
`retryable_failure`, and attempt 3 is `terminal_failure` with cause
`native_session_retry_exhausted` (attempt 3 of 3). The reaper ran after
the first kill and verified. The cell still fails one eval setup check.
The check waits for an *active* exhausted recovery action, but
`execution-recovery-resolution.ts` settles that action as resolved and
blocks the task (`preserve_without_replay_v1`). That is a separate
grader decision, outside this PR.

## Risks

- Medium. The change only affects a close where runnerd already exited
without suspending and without a signal from close. Every other close is
unchanged.
- The reaper signals processes by PID. Each signal re-checks the PID's
start time first, and a group or session is used only while its leader
PID still names the recorded process (the same rules as the existing
in-process teardown).
- A crash stop leaves the durable root unsuspended. The coordinator
already scheduled a retry for `native_runner_process_exited`. That retry
now runs instead of failing on the quarantine. The paid E2E shows that
attempts 2 and 3 start on the same run.
- The escape guard can refuse when an unrelated same-user process
becomes an orphan in the window of about one second after the last read.
The fallback is today's quarantine. An orphan of a subreaper other than
init is not seen by the guard.
- The journal adds at most one small write each second for each runnerd
while processes start on the host. This happens on the background
sampler, not before turn start.
- Previous-release story: no database or saved-session schema change.
The journal is a new file in the runner state directory. A runnerd from
an older release writes no journal and has no `reap-lineage` mode. Its
loss keeps today's quarantine, and the existing board Retry and
stopped-session proofs still apply.

## 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
- [ ] All Paperclip CI gates are green
- [ ] Greptile is 5/5 with no open P2s, recommendations, or follow-ups
- [x] I will address all Greptile and reviewer comments before
requesting merge

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2026-11-09 10:19:41 -06:00
Dotta 5c73633a8f fix(workspaces): preserve remote recovery holds during online import (#20298)
## Thinking Path

> - Paperclip is the open source app people use to manage AI agents for
work.
> - Online workspace import preserves old controller-local files while
unrelated remote work continues.
> - A task can have an old local checkout and a separate durable remote
workspace.
> - A terminal remote run can retain a file-recovery hold on that task.
> - The legacy source checker rejects remote references, so that hold
blocks independent local imports.
> - This pull request proves that the hold belongs only to the separate
remote source and fences its finalizer during import.
> - Old files can migrate while the remote recovery obligation stays
intact.

## Linked Issues or Issue Description

Refs #19873 and #19854 for the existing cohort and source-verification
paths. Searched related online migration and remote recovery PRs; no
duplicate fix was found.

**What happened?**

Online import rejects a legacy Git checkout with
`online_workspace_source_scope_unproven` when a same-task failed run has
a prepared reference to a separate durable remote workspace. The legacy
run reader rejects remote references before the hold can be classified.

**Expected behavior**

Independent local files can import under their source fences. The
separate remote workspace, dirty writer, allocation, accepted result and
recovery hold must stay intact.

**Steps to reproduce**

1. Create related local Git workspaces.
2. Record a terminal failed native run and an exhausted file-recovery
hold for a separate durable remote workspace on the same task.
3. Import the local leaf online. The old checker refuses before capture.

**Paperclip version or commit**

Reproduced on master at `052c638b519ebb15f81e4fcd1a96adf6cd3b2f10`.

**Deployment mode**

Managed server with PostgreSQL and remote Runner execution.

## What Changed

- Add a distinct remote-only preservation proof. Keep remote runs
excluded from legacy export sources.
- Use the canonical source inspector and prepared-reference matcher.
Bind the run, finalizer, action, task, accepted result, authority,
allocation and prior committed snapshot.
- Acquire the held run's finalizer fence through the existing sorted
lock path. Existing source-proof reinspection rejects changes before
publication.
- Preserve previous-release prepared references with an older baseline
snapshot. Do not require that snapshot's epoch or source run to equal
the current run.
- Add real PostgreSQL import, authenticated cold restore, preservation,
refusal, lock-contention and publication-race regressions. Document the
behavior.

## Verification

- Genuine baseline failure on unchanged product: the real importer
refuses with `online_workspace_source_scope_unproven`.
- Final focused regression file: 23 tests passed in 13.19 seconds
through the canonical isolated PostgreSQL wrapper on Node 24.22.2.
- 24 existing affected migration/recovery tests passed against the same
final production bytes. Another 83 tests were explicitly excluded by the
focused selection; no full-suite pass is claimed.
- The positive imports local bytes, confirms the remote finalizer fence
is held during upload, leaves all remote records unchanged, parks the
original repository and authenticates/restores the archive.
- Refusal and race cases cover malformed, foreign, same-local and mixed
references; active owners/writers; changed allocation, result, task,
action, authority and baseline; and finalizer contention.
- Server TypeScript check, module-boundary check and `git diff --check`
passed.
- An intermediate run had one incorrect assertion that expected an
explicit empty legacy-source array. The canonical journal omits that
empty field. The final assertion accepts absence and still forbids any
exported remote source. Final relevant results are 23 new plus 24
existing passes, rather than a claim that the earlier invocation passed
in full.
- Required CI passed on head `6a278e717db2b5f614b0a595f99bfd0fb5430227`:
55 successful checks and 4 intentional skips. [CI
run](https://github.com/paperclipai/paperclip/actions/runs/42650025033).
Greptile reviewed that head at 5/5 with no actionable findings or open
inline/review comments. Hosted continuation remains pending normal
delivery.

## Risks

- A false disjointness proof could admit an unsafe local import. Strict
company/task/source binding, the canonical inspector, finalizer fencing
and publication revalidation retain refusal on uncertainty.
- This does not recover or settle remote files. Dirty authority and the
original recovery obligation remain unchanged.
- No schema, public API, archive format or saved-run identity changes.
Existing persisted state carries forward.

## Model Used

OpenAI Codex, GPT-6.1 Sol (`gpt-6.1-sol`), with reasoning, repository
tools and code execution. The runtime does not expose the context-window
size.

## 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
2026-11-09 10:13:41 -06:00
Nicky LeachandPaperclip 052c638b51 fix(environments): honor stopped-task proof after warm preparation (#20289)
## Thinking Path

> - Paperclip is the open source app people use to manage AI agents for
work.
> - A warm plugin Runner retains its task for later runs.
> - A follow-up can find that the retained task has stopped.
> - The resume path already asks settle to check status before it sends
stop.
> - A saved startup marker disabled this order, even after warm
preparation had finished.
> - This pull request applies the same stop-proof check to all
observed-stop releases.
> - The next run skips a repeated stop when status proves both execution
and required preparation have stopped.

## Linked Issues or Issue Description

Fixes: #20224
Refs #20203

## What Changed

- Remove the startup-marker exclusion from the existing status-first
path. Keep the existing shared confirmation check. It still requires
`preparationStopped: true` for startup work.
- Keep stop followed by status when the first status lacks the required
proof. Keep the startup drain, credential writeback, complete, and
cleanup failure handling.
- Add retained-task coverage with the startup metadata that warm
preparation saves. Cover a startup cleanup whose first status lacks
preparation proof.
- Update the plugin task lifecycle contract.

## Verification

- Local macOS, source base `3e8744fa91`: from `server`, `pnpm exec
vitest run src/__tests__/environment-task-runtime.test.ts
src/__tests__/plugin-warm-tasks.integration.test.ts
src/__tests__/plugin-task-credential-writeback.test.ts` passed: 3 files,
82 tests. The integration tests use real embedded PostgreSQL and
controlled plugin results.
- After restoring the fix, the two affected files passed again: 73
tests.
- Independent parent verification on commit `19f720ff68`: the two files
filtered to the changed startup-proof and retained-task cases passed (4
tests). Independent source review found no actionable issue.
- Baseline proof: with only the source condition restored to upstream,
the new retained-task test with saved startup metadata fails because it
sees an extra `stop`. The case without that metadata passes. The source
fix was then restored.
- The retained-task regression asserts exactly `environmentResumeLease`,
`status`, `complete`, and `environmentAcquireLease`, with both task
operations bound to the old task. The startup test also proves that
missing preparation proof sends `stop` and a second `status`.
- Test setup: `node scripts/agent-preflight.mjs --skip-rust-debug
--explain` installed dependencies, then stopped because Cargo is
unavailable on this Mac. Initial test collection failed because the
plugin SDK output was absent. `pnpm --filter @paperclipai/plugin-sdk
build` built that required dependency and the shared package; the
targeted test run then passed.
- Standard Greptile reviewed commit
`19f720ff686058b4dd6b34f27cdfb9c8ff60e50a` at 5/5 with no review
threads.
[Review](https://github.com/paperclipai/paperclip/pull/20289#issuecomment-6743829614).
- Full local checks were not run, as requested. [GitHub PR workflow
42644023868](https://github.com/paperclipai/paperclip/actions/runs/42644023868)
passed on final commit `19f720ff686058b4dd6b34f27cdfb9c8ff60e50a`. It
supplied broad typecheck, build, and test coverage. The separate Snyk
status passed. Optional Storybook checks were skipped.
- The change removes one provider stop call on the reported path. The
issue's measured eight calls would become seven if other calls stay the
same. The earlier five-call target is not claimed. No deployed latency
measurement is claimed.

## Risks

- A provider that cannot prove preparation stopped still gets stop and
status. That fallback can cost one extra status call, as the existing
status-first contract already allows.
- A status failure keeps cleanup pending and blocks replacement. No
termination proof or credential handoff is skipped.
- No schema, API, dependency, or timer change. No added work on
successful task reuse or ordinary task dispatch.
- Live provider acceptance remains unrun. The local evidence checks
orchestration and stop-proof handling.

## Model Used

- OpenAI Codex, GPT-6 family, with reasoning, repository inspection,
shell tools, and code execution. The exact serving model ID and context
window are not exposed by 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
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2026-11-09 07:44:19 -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
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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 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
- [ ] 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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2026-11-09 08:28:21 -06:00
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
- [ ] 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 08:28:04 -06:00
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.

## Model Used

- Anthropic 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
- [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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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 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 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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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,
file edits, test runs) 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 6fd46c0025 perf(budgets): judge Paperclip's share of restart recovery; report the provider's session load (#20183)
## Thinking Path

- Speed budgets protect the time to first visible agent activity, and
restart recovery is one of the judged metrics
(`native-speed-budgets.ts`, wave grader).
- In the B1 concurrency-6 chaos wave (`w-20261109T045320-s9807`), Codex
`restart_recovery` was p50 8.6 s and p95 11.2 s, against a budget of 6.5
s and 8.0 s. At concurrency 4 (K13) it was 3.8 s and 5.0 s.
- The preparation spans on a copy of the kept database break it down:
- Paperclip's share (ready → claim → prepare → runtime stage → runner
launch) is a steady 1.2–2.0 s.
- `provider.session.load`, the Codex app-server boot plus
`thread/resume` of long saved sessions, takes 3.0–6.3 s, 65–75% of each
recovery.
- Resumes run concurrently, and the worktree lock and the startup
reconciler are not on the path.
- Judging the full latency therefore mixes our code with provider and
session-size effects. Budget the part we control, so a regression in our
code shows up regardless of session size or concurrency, and report the
rest.

## Linked Issues or Issue Description

**What happened?**
`restart_recovery` breached its budget whenever many long provider
sessions resumed at once, although Paperclip's own recovery work stayed
within about 2 s. The breach did not point at anything Paperclip could
fix, and a real regression in our code could hide inside the
provider-load variance.

**Steps to reproduce**
1. Run a local chaos wave at concurrency 6 with long-running Codex tasks
and K1/K2/K4 faults (for example B1, seed 9807).
2. Compare `restart_recovery` in `speed.json` with
`provider.session.load` in the recovered runs' run logs.

**Expected behavior**
The budget judges Paperclip's share of a recovery. The provider's
session load and the full latency are reported but not judged.

## What Changed

- `server/src/services/native-runtime/native-speed-budgets.ts`:
- New budgeted metric `restart_recovery_control_plane`: from `ready` to
the start of `provider.session.load`, or to the next provider event when
nothing reloads (for example a reattached runner).
- Its budget is 2.5 s / 4.0 s for claude, codex and opencode. Measured:
1.2–2.0 s per run at concurrency 6.
  - The full `restart_recovery` stays in the table for reporting.
  - Breach payloads carry `restartTotalMs` and `providerLoadMs`.
- `server/src/services/native-runtime/native-run-trace.ts`:
- The per-run check records when `provider.session.load` starts, keeps
the recovery measurement, and judges it when the run finishes.
- It judges after the deferred diagnostics drain, so a provider span
committed after the provider event still counts.
  - It emits `restart_recovery_control_plane` breaches only.
- `tests/restart-chaos/ttft-baseline-stats.ts`: each recovery sample
gains `controlPlaneMs` and `providerLoadMs`. The provider-load start is
the span event's write time minus its duration.
- `tests/restart-chaos/wave-speed.ts`:
- Three restart rows per adapter: `restart_recovery` (report-only),
`restart_recovery_control_plane` (budgeted) and `restart_provider_load`
(report-only).
  - All three have outage time removed.
- `tests/restart-chaos/ttft-baseline.ts`: the recovery table adds a
"Paperclip share" column.
- Docs: `doc/run-log-events.md` (metric and payload) and the
speed-budget table in
`doc/plans/2026-11-07-durable-ownership-and-reconciliation.md`.

## Verification

- `server`: `npx vitest run
src/services/native-runtime/native-speed-budgets.test.ts`, 18 passed.
Two new tests:
  - a recovery dominated by provider load does not breach;
- a slow Paperclip share breaches with `restartTotalMs` and
`providerLoadMs`, even when the provider span is committed after the
provider event.

The existing recovery tests moved to the new metric. All six were red
before the trace change.
- `tests/restart-chaos`: `npx vitest run --config
tests/restart-chaos/vitest.config.ts wave-speed.test.ts
ttft-baseline-stats.test.ts`, 29 passed. New tests cover the sample
split and the grader rows (a judged share, a report-only provider load,
zero breaches).
- Server typecheck: no errors in the touched files.

## Risks

- **Lower sensitivity to provider-side slowdowns.** A provider
regression in session load no longer breaches. It stays visible in the
report-only rows and in breach payloads.
- **Runs with no `provider.session.load` span** (reattach, or an adapter
that doesn't emit it) are judged on the full latency against the
control-plane budget. That's conservative.
- **Run-log consumers that filter on `metric: "restart_recovery"`** see
`restart_recovery_control_plane` from now on. The doc notes the change
date.

## 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
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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 ad2304dc88 fix(chat): recover a held conversation turn's answer after a restart (#20204)
## 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 turn can end while its task stays held: a pending approval,
an execution stage or a dependency blocker keeps the status.
> - #20179 made live run completion post that held turn's answer. It
added `conversationTurnAnswered()`.
> - Background presentation recovery still required a
`conversation_turn_finished` decision and a `done` result.
> - If the server restarts between the status commit and the live
presentation, recovery skips the held turn. The person never gets an
answer.
> - Restarts are product failures. A committed answer must not be lost.
> - This pull request makes recovery use the same answered rule as the
live path, through one shared helper.
> - The benefit is that a held turn's answer reaches the chat exactly
once, with or without a restart.

## Linked Issues or Issue Description

Refs #20179 (live fix; this PR closes the "Known gap" in its Risks
section).

**What happened**

In an Agent Chat, the agent resubmitted a hire approval and ended its
turn with a yielded result. The finalizer committed
`governed_response_waiting` and moved the task to `in_review`. The
server restarted before run completion posted the reply. Background
presentation recovery found the run as a candidate, but declined it,
because it accepted only `conversation_turn_finished` with a `done`
result. No reply was posted. The run stayed a pending presentation
candidate.

**Expected behavior**

After a restart, recovery posts the held turn's final answer exactly
once. It never posts a second copy when the live path already presented
the answer. When the turn's own question or confirmation card presents
it, recovery posts nothing and records that decision, as the live path
does.

**Steps to reproduce**

1. Open an Agent Chat. Link a pending hire approval to the chat task.
2. Let the agent end the turn with a yielded result and a
`response_wake` continuation. The status decision commits as
`governed_response_waiting`.
3. Stop the server after the status commit and before run completion
presents the reply.
4. Start the server. Presentation recovery runs.
5. See that the chat shows no reply.

## What Changed

- `server/src/services/native-runtime/native-governance.ts`: add
`conversationTurnPresentsAnswer()`. It is the one rule for whether a
successful conversation turn's prose is its answer:
`conversation_turn_finished`, or a committed decision with no pending
card of the turn (`conversationTurnAnswered()`).
- `server/src/services/heartbeat/run-completion.ts`: the live path calls
the shared helper. No change in behavior.
- `server/src/services/native-runtime/native-run-finalizer.ts`
(`recoverCommittedNativeChatResponse`):
- A current conversation turn no longer needs
`conversation_turn_finished`. The turn must still be the unsettled
current turn: same agent, user, session generation, `conversationState:
active`, and no other execution run. A `conversation_turn_finished` turn
still needs `in_progress`.
- A conversation turn with a `yielded` result is accepted next to
`done`.
  - The resolver gets `conversationTurnFinished` from the shared helper.
- When the turn's own card presents it, recovery records
`presentationDecision: none` (reason
`committed_conversation_interaction_presented`) and settles the
conversation turn, like the live path. The run then leaves the pending
presentation set. Before, such a run stayed a candidate.
-
`server/src/services/native-runtime/native-response-presentation-query.ts`:
the candidate prefilter matches the same turns: any committed reason for
an active conversation turn, and `yielded` conversation results.
-
`server/src/services/native-runtime/agent-chat-response-recovery.test.ts`:
restart regressions with the real finalizer and a real database.
- `doc/execution-semantics.md`: state that recovery applies the same
rule.

## Verification

- Failing first. With only the new tests applied, 5 of 7 new cases
failed: pending approval, revision-requested approval, execution stage
(all yielded), pending approval with `done`, and the own-card case. The
run was a candidate, but recovery posted nothing and did not settle it.
- After the fix: `cd server && npx vitest run
src/services/native-runtime/agent-chat-response-recovery.test.ts
src/services/heartbeat/run-completion.test.ts
src/__tests__/idle-native-finalization.test.ts
src/services/presentation-ownership-read.test.ts
src/services/chat-monitor-continuation.test.ts
src/services/native-runtime/native-preserved-monitor-wait.test.ts
src/services/native-runtime/native-response-publication-retry.test.ts
src/services/heartbeat/run-lifecycle.test.ts
src/__tests__/scoped-deadline-work.test.ts
src/services/native-runtime/paperclip-control-plane-port.test.ts
src/__tests__/heartbeat-run-summary.test.ts
src/__tests__/agent-conversations.test.ts`: 12 files, 627 tests passed.
- The new cases check:
- Held turns: the run is a candidate, the check posts the exact final
answer once, the presentation decision is recorded, the run leaves the
candidate set, and a second recovery returns false with one comment.
  - Live already presented: no candidate, no second comment.
- Own question card: no comment, `presentationDecision: none`, the card
stays pending, the conversation settles to `waiting`, and the run leaves
the candidate set.
- Previous-release live decision `none` (`yielded_control_plane_wait`):
kept, not re-presented.
- `tsc --noEmit -p server`: no errors in changed files. Four unrelated
errors remain in this local worktree (`esbuild` not linked in
`native-harness-prestage.test.ts`, and a linked-package type mismatch in
`run-dispatch/adapters/postgres.ts`).
- Turn start: no change. The helper runs only in run completion (after
the provider turn ends) and in background presentation recovery. Nothing
new runs before `turn.start`, and no files move. The live path keeps the
same queries: it short-circuits on `conversation_turn_finished`, and
otherwise runs the same card read as before.

## Risks

- Low to medium. Recovery can now post the answer of a conversation turn
whose task is held. This matches the live path since #20179.
- A card-presented turn found by recovery is now settled with
`presentationDecision: none`. Before, it stayed a pending candidate and
kept the presentation worker (and idle-sleep checks) busy.
- A `conversation_turn_finished` turn keeps the `in_progress` check.
Held turns accept any status their gate committed. The unsettled-turn
checks (active conversation state, session generation, execution run)
still block stale or superseded turns.
- Previous-release state: no persisted shape changes. A run committed by
the previous release with no saved presentation decision (the restart
window) is recovered by the new code. The test fixture uses the
unchanged finalizer, so it saves exactly the previous release's shape. A
run whose live path already recorded a decision keeps it. A held turn
that the previous release recorded as `yielded_control_plane_wait` is
not re-presented, so no late duplicate or stale reply appears.
- Not changed: generic stranded-work recovery in `recovery/service.ts`
still skips only `conversation_turn_finished` runs during the
publication window.

> 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,
file edits, test runs) 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)
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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
- [x] I have considered and documented any risks above
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Nicky LeachandClaude Opus 5.5 990de1e0bf perf(environments): release a stopped plugin task once (#20203)
## Thinking Path

> - Paperclip is the open source app people use to manage AI agents for
work
> - Plugin environment drivers with `supportsTasks` run agents as
provider tasks, and warm runs keep a parked task for the next run
> - A follow-up run can find that its parked task already stopped. Core
then retires that task before it acquires a new one
> - Core sent `stop`, `status`, and `complete` in the settle step. Then
the plugin release hook sent `stop`, `status`, and `complete` again for
the same task. Every call was on the critical path of the new run
> - This pull request removes the repeated calls and keeps every call
that does work no other call does
> - The benefit is a faster start for a run whose parked task already
stopped

## Linked Issues or Issue Description

No issue exists. This follows the enhancement template.

**What existing behavior does this improve?**

The release of a plugin task lease that has already stopped. This occurs
when a follow-up run finds that its parked warm task stopped.

**Subsystem affected**

Server: plugin environment drivers and the plugin Runner task lifecycle.

**Current behavior**

Core sends `stop`, `status`, and `complete` in the settle step. Then the
plugin release hook sends `stop`, `status`, and `complete` again for the
same task. Core also sends `stop` after resume already saw that the task
stopped. On a hosted test deployment, 8 of 40 follow-up runs took this
path. From the resume to the new acquire, these runs spent P50 1014 ms
and P90 1080 ms. These 8 runs are the full overall P90 (1275 ms).

**Proposed behavior**

Core does not call the release hook when settle confirmed the stop and
completed the same task. After a resume with no lease, Core sends
`status` first, and sends `stop` only when `status` does not confirm the
stop.

**Reason and benefit**

The repeated calls do no new work. Removing them saves about 355 ms,
plus the `stop` share of about 187 ms, for each such run. These numbers
are modeled from trace timings.

**Breaking changes**

None for the plugin API. A task driver must release task-scoped
resources in its `status` or `complete` handling. The doc now says this.

**Additional context**

The settle `status` stays. Providers release task storage there, and it
records the stop that gates the credential writeback and `complete`.

## What Changed

- `settleDispatchedEnvironmentTask` now returns `"completed"` when it
confirmed the stop and completed the task in this call, `"stopped"` when
the lease was already settled, and `false` otherwise.
- The plugin driver release does not call `environmentReleaseLease` when
settle returned `"completed"`. In all other cases it calls the hook as
before.
- When `environmentResumeLease` returns no provider lease, the release
sends `status` first. It sends `stop` (and a second `status`) only when
that `status` does not confirm `executionStopped: true`. Startup and
startup-cleanup leases keep the old `stop` first order.
- The cleanup sweep (`retryPendingSandboxTeardown`) and
`destroyRunLease` do not change. A settle failure still leaves the lease
in `pending_cleanup`, and the sweep runs `stop`, `status`, `complete`,
and the release hook.
- `doc/plugins/PLUGIN_RUNNER_EXECUTION.md` tells drivers about the new
order and that task-scoped resources must be released in `status` or
`complete`.

### Dispatch count for a stopped parked task (resume to new acquire)

| | Calls |
| --- | --- |
| Before | resume, stop, status, (credentials), complete, release hook
(stop, status, complete), acquire: 9 provider calls (10 with Codex
writeback) |
| After | resume, status, (credentials), complete, acquire: 4 provider
calls (5 with Codex writeback) |

The modeled saving is about 540 ms for each such run: about 355 ms for
the repeated release, and about 187 ms for the settle `stop` and
`status`. This pull request keeps the settle `status`, so the real
saving is about 355 ms plus the `stop` share of the 187 ms. These
numbers are modeled from trace timings. They are not measured on this
branch.

### What covers each removed call

- Release hook `stop`, `status`, `complete`: settle already sent `stop`
and `status` and checked `executionStopped: true` for the same task id
(`lease.providerLeaseId`), then sent `complete`. The skip uses settle's
success as its condition, not the code path.
- Settle `stop` after a resume with no lease: the next `status` must
report `executionStopped: true`. If it does not, Core sends `stop` and
`status` as before.

### What each kept call protects

- Settle `status`: providers release task storage and cancel
preparations here. It also writes `runnerTaskExecutionStopped`, which
the credential writeback and the `complete` bookkeeping need.
- Credential writeback: Codex can rotate its token. The writeback must
land before the new task installs credentials. It still runs inside
`complete`, before the new acquire.
- Settle `complete`: it retires every run lease that owned the task and
clears the dispatch marker.
- Release hook when settle did not complete a dispatched task in this
call: the provider may still hold the lease.

## Verification

- `pnpm --filter @paperclipai/shared --filter @paperclipai/plugin-sdk
build`
- `pnpm --filter @paperclipai/server typecheck`
- `npx vitest run src/__tests__/plugin-warm-tasks.integration.test.ts
src/__tests__/plugin-task-credential-writeback.test.ts
src/__tests__/environment-task-runtime.test.ts`
- Related suites: `environment-runtime`,
`plugin-runner-task.integration`, `task-creation-recovery.integration`,
`heartbeat-plugin-environment`, `native-startup-cleanup-recovery`,
`plugin-environment-driver-ready-recovery`,
`environment-task-authority.integration`, `native-workspace-warm-reuse`,
`remote-workspaces.integration`, `legacy-workspace-restore-recovery`,
`plugin-task-source-recovery.integration`,
`managed-plugin-environments`.

Locally, all of these pass except `heartbeat-plugin-environment`
"inherits the instance default environment across companies…". That test
also fails locally with the `origin/master` service files, so this
change does not cause it.

The existing `plugin-runner-task.integration` same-run replacement test
now expects no release hook after a completed settle.

New tests:

- The stopped parked path sends exactly resume, `status`, `complete`,
acquire. The `status` goes to the old task.
- A resume with no lease for a task that still runs sends `status`,
`stop`, `status`, `complete`.
- A failure at `status`, `complete`, or `stop` leaves the lease in
`pending_cleanup`, and the sweep then sends `stop`, `status`,
`complete`, and the release hook.
- With an observed stop, the Codex writeback runs before `complete`. A
writeback failure leaves the lease for cleanup, and the retry writes
back and completes.
- A startup-cleanup lease still sends `stop` first.

## Risks

- A third-party task driver that releases resources only in
`onEnvironmentReleaseLease` would not get that call after a completed
settle. The doc now states the requirement. The cleanup sweep still
calls the hook after any failure.
- A driver that returns no lease from resume while the task still runs
costs one extra `status`. The behavior stays correct.
- No migration. No API change for plugins.

## Model Used

- Claude Opus 5.5 (`claude-opus-5-5`), 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
- [ ] 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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2026-11-08 23:00:49 -08:00
Devin FoleyandPaperclip 9b71d03215 fix: recover interrupted native preparations and unblock upgrades (#20177)
## Thinking Path

> - Paperclip manages AI-agent companies and their work.
> - A native run prepares its workspace before a runner PID or
checkpoint exists.
> - A server crash can interrupt that stage and leave its controller on
another host.
> - Recovery needs a durable owner proof, a delivered recovery wake, and
the saved execution contract.
> - The old paths missed controller lease registration and boot proof,
skipped checkpoint-free preparations, and counted retained work as live
upgrade blockers.
> - This PR connects preparation to the existing controller lease and
recovery paths, and separates retained work from the upgrade census.
> - The result is bounded recovery without a second executor or loss of
saved work.

## Linked Issues or Issue Description

**What happened?**

A native preparation interrupted by a server crash could remain running
indefinitely with no runner PID or checkpoint. Native controller stamps
did not wake the shared instance lease. That lease was disabled on
volume-backed Railway services, and native takeover omitted the boot
binding needed for its cross-host proof. Scoped recovery selected
checkpoint-backed runs but skipped these preparations. The upgrade probe
then counted the retained row as current execution and could block every
later upgrade.

**Expected behavior**

Track the preparation's controller before a runner starts. Recover it
through the normal classifier after proving its owner stopped or fencing
that boot. Keep live or unprovable owners held. Deliver recovery wakes
to preparations without checkpoints. Preserve unresolved historical work
and report it separately from current execution during upgrade
observations.

**Steps to reproduce**

1. Save an observed native preparation with no runner process, result,
provider-start evidence or checkpoint.
2. Replace its controller with a process in another PID space. Let its
owner lease expire and send a scoped recovery wake.
3. Before this fix, recovery skips the checkpoint-free preparation or
cannot prove its foreign controller stopped. Upgrade readiness continues
to count that old row as a live blocker.

Related work: #18037, #19651, #19868, and #20168. The foreign-PID guard
from #19868 remains. The queued first-turn input fix from #20168 is
included through the current base.

## What Changed

- Register the existing instance lease when native execution and restart
claims are written. Keep passive identity reads free of ownership
effects. Keep that lease enabled on volume-backed Railway services
unless explicitly disabled.
- Preserve the existing PID/start-time proof within the same readable
PID space. Bind foreign or unknown-space takeover to its saved boot and
last write. A live lease or grace period keeps the run held with a
scheduled check. Repeated evidence waits preserve their timestamp.
- Include explicitly fenced, checkpoint-free preparations in the
existing finite recovery candidate inventory. Normal launch, checkpoint,
provider evidence and admission checks still decide whether work may
resume.
- Expose the existing board stop-confirmation operation for historical
foreign-host owners. Bind confirmation to the exact run, boot, PID,
process start and host. Reject changed ownership.
- Report narrowly defined old, unowned preparations as
`retainedBlockedRuns` outside the live upgrade census. Local executions,
pending admission, drain state, truncation and positive checkpoint proof
retain their barriers.
- Update the execution contract and add PostgreSQL, real-route, race and
preservation regressions.

## Verification

- Genuine red/green regressions cover the old upgrade census, missing
native lease registration, the volume-backed default, foreign-host
confirmation, and scoped recovery skipping checkpoint-free preparation.
Test bodies ran against real PostgreSQL before their corresponding
production changes.
- Combined verification before the final idle correction (head
`055be6c84d9`): **459 passed, 22 skipped, 11 files passed**. Covers
controller lease/identity, native restart classification and
integration, host confirmation, heartbeat recovery, instance route
authorization, upgrade readiness, and queued first-turn input. The
focused command used `pnpm exec vitest run` with those 11 suites and
`--maxWorkers=1 --no-file-parallelism`. The 22 skipped cases require the
Rust debug fake-Codex fixture, which was not built locally; the
real-process CI coverage must pass.
- `pnpm --filter @paperclipai/server typecheck`: passed on head
`055be6c84d9b058064daad0af71bb5d893ab9529`.
- Actual route proof uses the real heartbeat service and PostgreSQL.
Unauthorized access returns 403. The retained run and owner records
remain unchanged. Recovery integration admits one bootstrap claim across
two replacement controllers, keeps a live owner held, and preserves
local execution.
- `pnpm verify`: exit 2, requests broad CI because the execution
contract changed. Full local suite not run. Current-head CI must supply
broad coverage.
- Local source checkout on macOS ARM64, Node v25.6.1, pnpm 9.15.4. Tests
use isolated PostgreSQL. No live provider restart is claimed by those
fixtures.
- CI found an idle-query regression in the first version of the lease
wiring. Two focused PostgreSQL regressions reproduced the misplaced
identity-read notification and the missing claim notification. The fix
moves registration to actual ownership writes. `env -u npm_execpath pnpm
exec vitest run server/src/__tests__/maintenance-server-routes.test.ts
--maxWorkers=1 --no-file-parallelism`: **17 passed**, including 90 real
seconds and two qualified hourly windows with no extra idle queries. An
initial local setup attempt inherited npm metadata and did not run
tests; clearing that metadata selected the correct pnpm helper. Three
focused controller/native suites also passed **168 tests, 22
fixture-gated skips**. Server typecheck passed after the correction on
head `4a527326dcd5b3a9e286f0e4c3e761d3056af4d9`.
- The older CI server shard also exposed a same-space graceful-restart
regression. The new boot fallback had overridden local process-exit
proof. Seven suspension cases and a focused unit regression reproduced
it; the fix limits boot fallback to foreign or unknown PID spaces. Fresh
verification on `acf1065d98150210c1e227c7f3b05a1eb489730b`: **251
passed, 22 fixture-gated skips, 4 files passed**, including all **40**
graceful-restart suspension tests. Server typecheck passed. The local
regression failed before this correction, and the same-space and
foreign-space paths pass together after it.
- Current-head CI completed successfully on
`acf1065d98150210c1e227c7f3b05a1eb489730b` (run 42568109784). Greptile
reviewed that exact head at 5/5 with no unresolved review threads.
- Secret and private-data scans passed. No workflow, lockfile or
migration changes.

## Risks

- The instance lease now applies to volume-backed Railway services. Its
existing 30-second renewal, quiescence, grace and self-fence behavior
applies while work is held. Idle servers retain the existing no-query
behavior. An explicit `PAPERCLIP_CONTROLLER_INSTANCE_LEASE=off` remains
available.
- A controller lease proves only the server owner's state. It does not
prove an agent process stopped or authorize replay, resource release or
volume removal. The existing classifier and provider/runner checks
remain responsible for those decisions.
- Previous-release records keep their shape and saved state. A missing
boot lease stays unprovable and requires the scoped stop-confirmation
path. A changed confirmation target is rejected.
- The upgrade observation does not recover a held task by itself. Source
tests do not qualify a hosted replacement. Deployment and the affected
task's useful result must be verified separately.
- This repairs recovery after a crash; it does not claim to identify or
fix every source of heap exhaustion.

## Model Used

OpenAI `gpt-6.1-sol`, xhigh reasoning effort, through Codex in T3 Code,
with repository, shell, and GitHub tools. Context window size is not
exposed by the runtime.

## 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
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2026-11-08 21:53:13 -08:00
DottaandClaude Opus 5.5 95bf90bd2c fix(chat): post a conversation turn's answer while an approval holds the task (#20179)
## Thinking Path

> - Paperclip is the open source app people use to manage AI agents for
work.
> - People talk to agents in chat. The agent's final message becomes the
chat reply.
> - A chat turn can end while the task stays held. For example, the
agent resubmits a hire approval and the approval is pending.
> - The finalizer keeps the task in review for the approval
(`governed_response_waiting`). That decision is not
`conversation_turn_finished`.
> - Run completion then treats the yielded turn as a control-plane wait.
It records `presentationDecision: none` and posts no comment.
> - The person never sees the agent's answer. The chat shows nothing
after the request.
> - This pull request counts a committed conversation turn as answered
unless its own pending question or confirmation card presents it.
> - The benefit is that the person always gets the reply, whatever state
the task keeps.

## Linked Issues or Issue Description

Refs #19971 (post the full final reply). That fix covers the reply text.
This fix covers replies that were never posted.

**What happened**

In a chat, the person asked the CEO agent to change a proposed hire to a
cheaper model and send it back for approval. The agent resubmitted the
approval correctly. It called `paperclip_finish`, and Paperclip accepted
the report with "task is still waiting for approval". The run succeeded
and the task moved to `in_review`. The run event
`run.presentation.resolved` recorded `commentAction: none` (reason
`yielded_control_plane_wait` on master). The agent's final message never
reached the chat.

**Expected behavior**

A chat turn's accepted final answer is always posted to the
conversation. An approval, an execution stage or a dependency blocker
can hold the task. It must not hide the reply. Only a question or
confirmation card that the turn itself left pending presents the turn
instead of its prose.

**Steps to reproduce**

1. Open an Agent Chat with an agent. Link a hire approval in
`revision_requested` to the chat task.
2. Ask the agent to change the hire and resubmit it.
3. The agent resubmits the approval and ends the turn with a yielded
result and a response wake.
4. See that the chat shows no reply. The run is `succeeded` and its
presentation decision is `none`.

## What Changed

- `server/src/services/native-runtime/native-governance.ts`: move the
pending-card query of `pendingNativeGovernance()` into
`pendingNativeInteraction()`, with no change in behavior. Add
`conversationTurnAnswered()`. It returns false only when a pending
thread interaction (the same predicate as status arbitration) gates the
turn. It checks cards on their own, so a pending execution stage does
not hide a card.
- `server/src/services/heartbeat/run-completion.ts`: a successful
conversation run whose status decision committed now passes
`conversationTurnFinished: true` to the presentation resolver, unless
`conversationTurnAnswered()` is false. The existing
`conversation_turn_finished` path is unchanged.
- `server/src/services/heartbeat/run-completion.test.ts`: add a
regression table with a real database. A pending approval, a
revision-requested approval, a pending execution stage and a dependency
blocker now post the answer. A finished turn still posts. The turn's own
question card still owns the response, also when an execution stage is
pending.
- `doc/execution-semantics.md`: state the rule.

Other finish outcomes I checked:

- `done` or `needs_review` with a gate (`governed_gate_pending`): the
result is not yielded, so the reply was already posted.
- `blocked` (`paperclip_block`, waiting on a person or another task):
not yielded, so the reply was already posted.
- Yielded with a dependency blocker
(`durable_dependency_blocker_bound`), or with
`record_finalization_error` (`prior_status_preserved_no_live_path`,
`monitor_wait_authority_lost`): the reply was also dropped. This fix
covers them, because the rule does not depend on the reason code.

## Verification

- `cd server && npx vitest run
src/services/heartbeat/run-completion.test.ts`: 118 passed. Before the
fix, 4 new cases failed (both approval states, execution stage,
dependency blocker). The finished-turn and question-card cases passed
both before and after.
- `cd server && npx vitest run
src/__tests__/heartbeat-run-summary.test.ts
src/services/heartbeat/run-comment-selection.test.ts
src/__tests__/slack-conversation-lifecycle.test.ts
src/services/native-runtime/agent-chat-response-recovery.test.ts
src/__tests__/chat-run-milestone-governed-work.test.ts
src/__tests__/agent-conversations.test.ts`: all passed.
- `tsc --noEmit -p server`: no errors in the changed files. Unrelated
errors in this worktree come from an unbuilt local Runner package.
- An end-to-end chat eval run on the case branch is in progress. I will
add its result here.

## Risks

- Low risk. The change only affects successful Agent Chat runs with a
committed status decision. Ordinary tasks and external chat (Slack,
GitHub) keep their own paths. External chat returns before this check.
- A turn that yields while an approval is pending now posts its prose.
The approval stays pending and the task status does not change.
- One extra small read (the task row and pending gates) runs after a
conversation turn that is not `conversation_turn_finished`. It runs
after the provider turn ends, so it does not add time before the first
token.
- Previous-release state: no persisted shape changes. The fix reads
`finalizationPhase` and `finalizationReasonCode`, which the previous
release already writes. A run in flight at the deploy completes on the
new code and posts its reply. A run that completed before the deploy
keeps its recorded decision; nothing re-presents it.
- Known gap, unchanged: background presentation recovery for
conversations still requires `conversation_turn_finished` with a `done`
result. If the server restarts between the status commit and the live
presentation, a held yielded turn is not re-posted. That is a separate
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

- Anthropic Claude Opus 5.5 (`claude-opus-5-5`), with tool use (shell,
file edits, test runs) 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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2026-11-08 23:17:36 -06:00
DottaandClaude Opus 5.5 5a51a7685d fix(budgets): raise_budget_and_resume continues the work its budget stopped, once (#20144)
## Thinking Path

> - Paperclip is the open source app people use to manage AI agents for
work
> - A budget hard stop cancels the scope's running work; the board
resolves it with Raise budget and resume
> - In the restart-chaos H1 scenario, the cancelled tasks did not
continue after resume and each needed a manual Retry
> - Resume is the board's explicit decision to continue, so the work it
stopped should continue once, as if the board clicked Retry
> - This pull request files that Retry automatically, keyed by the
cancelled run, once the run's stop has settled
> - The benefit is that a budget raise restores the work without manual
Retries, without repeating completed work, and without charging the
run's attempt budget

## Linked Issues or Issue Description

Refs #20143 (bug B; this PR builds on it), #20113 (bug A), #20101
(superseded: split into #20143 and this PR)

**What happened?**
Restart-chaos waves w-20261108T195944-s42 and w-20261108T210118-s9802
(H1). After `raise_budget_and_resume`, CHA-3's budget-cancelled run
(enforcement stop) and CHA-1's run (agent lifecycle pause from the
budget hold) stayed cancelled until someone clicked Retry.

**Expected behavior**
Resuming continues each task its budget stopped, exactly once, with no
attempt charged, an activity entry, and no repeat of work that already
continued. A run a person stopped stays stopped.

**Steps to reproduce**
Set a budget below spend while a task runs; let the stop cancel the run;
resolve with Raise budget and resume. Before this change, no new run is
queued.

## What Changed

- New table `budget_resume_claims` (migration 0451). One row per
cancelled run, outside the run's result JSON, so a Stop that settles
during the resume cannot erase it.
- `markBudgetCancelledWorkForResume` (called by `resolveIncident` before
the incident closes): claims every task run its budget stopped since the
incident opened. That covers runs budget enforcement fenced, including
stops still in flight, and runs the agent lifecycle pause stopped for
this budget (`pauseStop`, carried from the lifecycle operation's
`pauseCause` so a resume before the Stop keeps the link). Runs a person
stopped are excluded. Two indexed passes led by `(company_id, status)`.
- `deliverBudgetResumeContinuations`: once a claimed run's stop settles,
files the resolving board member's Retry (`requestTaskRetry`,
idempotency key `budget-resume:<run>`, with the member's session source
and the chat Retry callback). The Retry path checks, under the task
lock, that the run is still the task's latest and the task is open, so
continued or completed work is never repeated. Claim settlement and its
activity entry commit together; retryable refusals and errors retry.
- Delivery runs in the always-on budget-enforcement worker after each
pass's Stop delivery. Its schedule includes deliverable claims and the
earliest stale-claim expiry. The execution-continuation worker is a
backstop.
- `agent.paused` / `agent.resumed` logging is in #20113.
`budget.cancelled_work_resume_requested` (incident) and
`budget.cancelled_work_continued` / `_not_continued` (task) are recorded
here.

## Verification

- New `budget-resume-continuation.test.ts` (Postgres, real
`resolveIncident` → claims → `requestTaskRetry` → real `resumeTaskRetry`
into a queued run):
- each task continues once, including a blocked task; repeat delivery or
resolve saves nothing new;
- a stop still in flight at resume, whose terminal write replaces the
result JSON, is still continued;
  - a 30-task scope is fully continued;
- a lifecycle-pause stop caused by the budget is continued, and one
caused by a manual pause is not;
- continued work, done tasks, a run that finished before its stop, and
person-stopped runs (including ones enforcement also fenced) are not
continued.
- `lifecycle.test.ts`: the pause records its cause on the operation and
on stopped runs, including when the budget is resumed before the pause's
Stop. `budget-enforcement-worker.test.ts`: delivery after Stop delivery,
and a wake at claim expiry.
- 287 tests across the affected suites passed. Server typecheck
(`typecheck-layers`, low-memory): no errors.
- Not run: the H1 chaos rerun (Phase 3 runs it after merge).

## Risks

- Resume now continues budget-stopped tasks automatically. A board that
wants a task stopped can Stop it again; person-stopped runs are never
continued.
- A new table and one index (migration 0451).

> 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
- [x] I will address all Greptile and reviewer comments before
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DottaandClaude Opus 5.5 b54317d3fb fix(native): give a preparing run's first turn the user's queued messages instead of interrupting it (#20168)
## Thinking Path

> - Paperclip is the open source app people use to manage AI agents for
work
> - A Paperclip Runner (native) run prepares its workspace and
environment before it starts its first provider turn. This can take
about a minute.
> - A user's message that arrives during that time waits as a deferred
wake behind the run. The Interrupt control then cancelled the run before
any provider turn.
> - The cancel threw away the whole preparation. A new run had to
prepare again, so the user waited longer for the first token.
> - This pull request gives the run's first turn the queued messages.
The run seals its first-turn input immediately before `turn.start`, so
the messages are part of the prompt that the turn starts with.
> - The benefit is that the user sees the message handled in the same
run, with no cancel and no second preparation.

## Linked Issues or Issue Description

**What happened?**
A Paperclip Runner run took about 54 s to prepare (environment startup,
workspace, runtime selection). The user sent a second message 32 s into
that time and clicked Interrupt 21 s later. Interrupt cancelled the run
as `operator_interrupted` ("Interrupted to send queued messages") before
any provider turn. A new run then prepared again from the start. The
runtime-selection transaction that froze the run's input completed about
5 s before the click, and the coordinator claim came 4 s after it, so
the message could not be given to the first turn at any point in the old
code.

**Expected behavior**
When a user message arrives for a task whose current run has not started
its first provider turn, the run does not stop. The message goes into
that run's first turn. A run that is in a turn is interrupted as before.

**Steps to reproduce**
1. Assign a task to a Paperclip Runner agent with a sandbox environment,
so preparation takes a long time.
2. While the run prepares, post a second comment on the task.
3. Click Interrupt on the queued message before the run starts its
provider turn.
4. See that the run is cancelled and a new run prepares again.

**Paperclip version or commit**
Staging revision b43cccbb0.

## What Changed

- `server/src/services/native-runtime/first-turn-queued-input.ts` (new):
`claimFirstTurnQueuedInput` seals a run's first-turn input in one
transaction. It locks the task, the deferred wakes, and the run in the
same order as the queue routes. It takes the responsible user's plain
queued comments in queue order (not interaction answers, interrupt
intents, independent continuations, conversations, or other users'
messages). It renders them with source-trust sanitizing and secret
redaction, then writes a `firstTurnQueuedInput` receipt
(`paperclip.first-turn-queued-input.v1`) into the run context. A second
call for the same run returns the same messages.
`runAcceptsFirstTurnQueuedInput` is true for a running native (or
preparing native) run that has no receipt and no accepted provider turn.
- `packages/paperclip-runner/src/native-session-runtime.ts`: new
`getFirstTurnQueuedInput` option. The runner calls it immediately before
the first `session.startTurn` and appends the result to `task.prompt`
(or to `events` for a resumed-session continuation envelope). It is not
called for the disposition-only recovery turn.
- `native-session-executor.ts`: passes the claim to the runner. A failed
seal commits nothing, so the executor logs it and starts the turn
without the messages. The messages stay queued.
- `queued-comment-delivery.ts`: a message in a run's receipt counts as
delivered only after the provider accepted that run's turn
(`turn.accepted` or the provider's `turn.started`), and only if the
message was not edited after the seal. Release promotion, Send, and
later first turns use this rule. `explicit-native-continuation.ts` uses
the same rule for stopped native runs.
- `routes/issues.ts` Interrupt: when the target run has not sealed its
first turn and has no accepted turn, the route does not record interrupt
intent and does not cancel the run. The response has
`executionWait.reason = "first_turn_pending"`. Other runs are
interrupted as before.
- Queue views (`routes/issues.ts` and the wake-queue adapter) hide
messages that the active run took into its first turn. Queue edits keep
those ids on the wake, so a run that fails before acceptance still
leaves them queued.
- `run-state.ts`: the issue-control run projection includes the receipt,
so the queue poll can hide taken messages.
- `doc/execution-semantics.md`: new section "Queued messages before a
native run's first turn".

## Verification

- Red before the fix, green after:
- `pnpm --filter @paperclipai/server exec vitest run
src/__tests__/issue-queued-comments-routes.test.ts -t "first
turn|already started"`: Interrupt on a preparing run and on a claimed
native run before `turn.start` does not stop the run, and the first turn
gets both messages in order. Before the fix, both cases cancelled the
run.
- `pnpm --filter @paperclipai/paperclip-runner exec vitest run
src/native-session-runtime.test.ts -t "first-turn queued input"`: the
claim runs immediately before `turn.start`, and the first turn's prompt
ends with the queued messages. Before the fix, the claim was never
called.
- `pnpm --filter @paperclipai/server exec vitest run
src/services/native-runtime/first-turn-queued-input.test.ts`: a run that
fails before `turn.start` leaves the message queued. The next run
delivers it, and after that no later run or copied retry context takes
it again. Before the delivery rule, the "exactly once" and "accepted
then failed" cases failed.
- Safety cases that pass before and after: Interrupt still cancels a run
whose provider accepted a turn (including a run saved by the previous
release with no receipt) and a run whose first-turn input is already
sealed. The existing "explicit interrupt fallback" cases for preparing
and native runs without a responsible user still pass.
- Speed: the seal is one short transaction before `turn.start`. In the
embedded-Postgres test it took 5.5 ms. It removes a full second
preparation (54 s on staging) from the message-to-first-token time.
- Related suites: `src/modules/wake-queue`,
`explicit-native-continuation`, `issue-queued-comment-queue`,
`issue-queued-comments-routes`, `queued-comment-consumption`,
`heartbeat/run-state` (888 tests), `native-session-executor.test.ts`
(1306 tests), and the full `native-session-runtime.test.ts` (238 tests)
pass. `pnpm --filter @paperclipai/server typecheck` passes.
- Not done: no live run against a real provider or sandbox. Staging was
read only.

## Risks

- Previous-release state: a deferred wake saved by the previous release
has the same shape and is taken normally. A run saved by the previous
release has no receipt. If it is resumed before its first turn, it seals
on the new release. If its provider already accepted a turn, Interrupt
stops it as before. A run saved by the previous release while it was in
`turn.start` but before acceptance counts as unsealed, so in that short
window an Interrupt does not stop it and the message is delivered at the
turn boundary.
- Rollback: if the server rolls back after a run sealed and its turn was
accepted, the old release does not read the receipt and can deliver
those messages a second time.
- A first turn that does not use the fresh-turn path (restart
continuation, disposition-only recovery) does not call the claim. Its
messages are delivered at the turn boundary as before.
- A message that arrives after the seal waits for the turn boundary.
Interrupt stops the run as before.
- No schema migration. The receipt is a key in the run context.

## Model Used

- Claude Opus 5.5 (Anthropic), model ID `claude-opus-5-5`, used through
Claude Code with tool use (shell, file edits, test execution, read-only
browser).

## 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 098f7d370b fix(workspaces): release an unchanged remote writer without a snapshot and wake its waiters (#20171)
## Thinking Path

> - Paperclip is the open source app people use to manage AI agents for
work
> - A remote (sandbox) task workspace has one writer run at a time. The
writer holds the workspace until its files are saved as a snapshot
> - A run that a user comment interrupts right after its claim did no
work. No provider turn started and no command ran in the sandbox
> - Paperclip still kept its sandbox, then took a full snapshot of the
unchanged workspace. On a 2 GB repository this took 3 minutes
> - The next runs failed setup with `workspace_busy` ("ended, but its
workspace save has not settled"). The retry then waited for the
one-minute settling re-check after the save. The user's message waited
more than 4 minutes
> - This pull request releases such a writer at once, at the saved
version it started from, when durable evidence proves that it changed
nothing. It also wakes parked `workspace_busy` waiters when a hold
settles
> - The benefit is that an interrupted run no longer delays the next
message by a full workspace save

## Linked Issues or Issue Description

**What happened?**
A remote-workspace run was claimed (`native.coordinator.claim`). One
second later a board comment interrupted it (`operator_interrupted`). It
made no provider turn and no tool calls. Cancelled-workspace
preservation still retained its sandbox, and workspace recovery took a
full `remote_workspace_snapshot` of the unchanged workspace (3 minutes
for a 2 GB repository). Two follow-up runs were cancelled with
`workspace_busy`. Their retry was due during the save, and it parked for
the one-minute settling re-check after the save finished.

**Expected behavior**
A writer that provably changed nothing releases the workspace at once
and keeps its existing `snapshotId`. The next run is admitted without
`workspace_busy`. When a save does run, waiters start as soon as it
commits.

**Steps to reproduce**
1. Run a task on a remote sandbox workspace that already has a saved
version.
2. Interrupt the run with a board comment right after the claim, before
the provider turn.
3. See the full snapshot operation on the interrupted run and
`workspace_busy` on the follow-up runs.

**Paperclip version or commit**
Staging served revision b43cccbb0. Reproduced on `master` by the new
regression tests.

## What Changed

- `prepareRemoteWorkspace` records `remoteWorkspaceUnchangedBaseline`
(epoch, writer run, saved version) when preparation started from a clean
saved version and added nothing to it: no recovered attachments, no
repository outside the saved version and no workspace migration.
- New `proveRemoteWorkspaceUnchanged`
(`remote-workspace-unchanged-proof.ts`). It uses only durable evidence.
The writer run must have ended without a result, and its owner fence
must be clear. It must have no process fields, no execution, provider or
tool events (the shared `executionStartedEventPredicate`), no native
result, no runner checkpoint rows (the controller writes one before
every runner command), and no provider turn in a checkpoint that names
this run. It must have no workspace operation other than a restore or a
`workspace_finalize`/`workspace_recovery` receipt, so provisioning and
saves count as writes. Every task repository must be in the saved
version. Any missing or ambiguous evidence refuses.
- New `releaseUnchangedRemoteWorkspaceWriter`. It sets the authority to
clean with no writer, keeps `snapshotId`, marks the run reference
`saved`, logs `workspace.snapshot_skipped_unchanged` and sends the same
notifications as a final save. It never waits on a writer run that
another transaction holds (`skip locked`).
- The release applies in three places: the next run's
`reserveRemoteWorkspace`, cancelled/failed-workspace preservation
(`preserveNativeFailedWorkspace`), and `saveRemoteWorkspace` with the
final boundary. The final save returns the same version on a repeated
call, so a recovery that raced the release finishes without a capture.
- The final-save commit and the unchanged release call
`wakeWorkspaceBusyWaitersInTx`. A parked waiter whose holder was that
writer is due at once, not at the one-minute settling re-check.
- `doc/execution-semantics.md` describes the release and the wake.

## Verification

- `pnpm --filter @paperclipai/server exec vitest run
src/services/remote-workspace-unchanged-release.test.ts` (13 tests,
embedded Postgres, real archive capture):
- Staging shape (claim, then interrupt with no provider work): the next
reservation is admitted. No snapshot operation is recorded. The run
reference is `saved` at the old `snapshotId`. Red on `master`: "The
workspace still has an unfinished writer or save operation."
- A later final save, behind the `workspace_finalize` receipt that
production finalizers publish first, returns the same version with no
capture, a repeat returns it again, and a parked waiter becomes due now.
Red on `master`: a new snapshot is captured.
- Negatives that still do a full save: `turn.started`, `provider.event`,
`tool.execution.started`, `native.process_start_requested`, a
provisioning command that wrote into the workspace, a recorded process,
a live owner fence, and a writer that is still running.
- Upgrade safety: no baseline (a writer prepared by the previous
release), a baseline without its saved version, and a baseline with
another schema each keep the full save.
  - A full final save wakes the parked waiter. Red on `master`.
- `native-cancelled-workspace-preservation.test.ts`: a new case shows
that a cancelled writer with a baseline and no work is released, with no
retained lease and no recovery action. Red on `master` (the
restore-recovery hold was recorded). The other 44 cases pass unchanged.
- I also ran the related remote-workspace, workspace-recovery, native
preservation and run-dispatch suites locally.

## Risks

- A false "unchanged" verdict would drop unsaved files. The proof
requires a positive baseline from preparation and refuses on any write
record. Only `.paperclip-runtime` (excluded from snapshots) is written
by runner staging before a process starts. A deploy that lands mid-run
keeps the full save, because the proof reads only durable rows.
- Previous-release state: a writer prepared without the baseline (or
with an unknown or partial one) keeps today's full save. An older server
ignores the new metadata key.
- Waiters now start sooner after a final save. Arrival order among
waiters is unchanged (the park check still admits the earliest first).
- Other ways a hold can settle (for example a stop receipt that turns an
unused reservation free) still rely on the one-minute re-check.

## Model Used

- Claude Opus 5.5 (`claude-opus-5-5`), Anthropic, used in Claude Code
with tool use (shell, file edits and a read-only browser for staging
evidence).

## 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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Devin FoleyandPaperclip 546cfee919 fix(github): send gh repo create and fork to the connection's tools (#20142)
## Thinking Path

> - Paperclip is the open source app people use to manage AI agents for
work
> - Agents with a managed GitHub connection get `git` and `gh` launchers
that use the connection's credential
> - The launcher gives that credential to any `gh` command, and the
broker does not see which command runs
> - So `gh repo create` and `gh repo fork` skip the connection's tool
switches, ask-first approvals, owner defaults, and audit
> - The connection's `create_repository` and `fork_repository` tools
apply all of these
> - This pull request stops `gh repo create`, `gh repo new`, and `gh
repo fork` when a managed credential is in use, and names the tool to
use instead
> - The benefit is that repository creation follows the connection's
rules, whichever path the agent tries first

## Linked Issues or Issue Description

Refs #20141 (default owner for `create_repository` and
`fork_repository`).

**What happened?**
An agent with a managed GitHub connection can run `gh repo create` in
its shell. The command uses the connection's token, but it does not use
the connection's tool rules. If the user turns off or reviews
`create_repository` on the connection, the agent can still create a
repository with `gh`. The owner default from #20141 also does not apply,
so the command can fail with `403 Resource not accessible by
integration` when the App is installed only on an organization.

**Expected behavior**
With a managed connection, repository creation and forks go through the
connection's tools. The tool switch, approvals, owner default, and audit
apply.

**Steps to reproduce**
1. Connect GitHub with a managed connection.
2. Set the connection's `create_repository` tool to off or ask first.
3. In an agent run, run `gh repo create demo --private`.
4. The command runs with the connection's credential and ignores the
tool setting.

## What Changed

- `packages/adapter-utils/src/github-launcher.ts`: when the broker
returns a managed credential, `gh repo create`, `gh repo new`, and `gh
repo fork` exit with code 1 before `gh` starts. The message names the
`create_repository` or `fork_repository` tool and tells the agent to
finish with Git.
- `--help` still runs. Other `gh` commands do not change. Executions
without a managed credential run these commands as before.
- `doc/execution-github-identity.md`: describes the behavior and states
that this is guidance, not a security boundary.

## Verification

- New test in `packages/adapter-utils/src/github-launcher.test.ts`:
"sends repository creation and forks to the connection's tools when a
connection is in use". It covers `create`, the `new` alias, `fork`,
`--help`, another `gh repo` command, and the case without a connection.
It fails without the launcher change.
- `npx vitest run src/execution-target.test.ts
src/github-launcher-environment.test.ts src/github-launcher.test.ts` in
`packages/adapter-utils`: 83 passed.
- `npx vitest run src/drivers/acpx/github-launcher.test.ts` in
`packages/paperclip-runner`: 3 passed.
- `npx vitest run src/services/heartbeat-github-launchers.test.ts` in
`server`: 12 passed.
- `npx tsc --noEmit -p packages/adapter-utils` passes.

## Risks

- Agents that used `gh repo create --source . --push` must now call
`create_repository`, then add the remote and push with Git. The message
tells them to do this.
- If the connection's tool is off for the agent, the agent cannot create
a repository. This is the purpose of the tool setting.
- This is not a security boundary. Other commands that receive the
token, such as `gh api`, can still call the same GitHub endpoints.
- Running launchers keep their earlier source until the next run stages
new launchers.

## Model Used

- Claude Opus 5.5 (`claude-opus-5-5`), Anthropic, used through Claude
Code with tool use (code reading, shell commands, and test runs).

## Checklist

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

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2026-11-08 17:08:35 -08:00
Devin FoleyandPaperclip 0e49576fd9 fix(github): default repository owner to the only installed organization (#20141)
## Thinking Path

> - Paperclip is the open source app people use to manage AI agents for
work
> - Agents use a managed GitHub connection to create repositories and to
fork repositories
> - The Paperclip GitHub App can be installed only on an organization,
and not on the user's personal account
> - Then `create_repository` and `fork_repository` fail when
`organization` is empty, because GitHub sends them to the personal
account
> - Agents, approval cards, and connection tests all fail on their first
attempt with `403 Resource not accessible by integration`
> - This pull request fills an empty `organization` with the only
organization where the App is installed
> - The benefit is that repository creation works on the first attempt
for these connections

## Linked Issues or Issue Description

No public issue exists. Refs #19655 (GitHub repair guidance for the same
error).

**What happened?**
A user connected GitHub through the managed connection. The Paperclip
GitHub App was installed on one organization and not on the user's
personal account. An agent called `create_repository` without
`organization`. GitHub returned `POST https://api.github.com/user/repos:
403 Resource not accessible by integration`. The test button on the
connection page gave the same error. The agent then stopped and asked
the user to create the repository manually.

**Expected behavior**
When the App can create repositories only in one organization, an empty
`organization` uses that organization. The approval card and the test
result show that owner.

**Steps to reproduce**
1. Install the Paperclip GitHub App on one organization only. Do not
install it on the personal account.
2. Connect GitHub with the managed connection.
3. Run `create_repository` with only `name`, from an agent or from the
connection test dialog.
4. GitHub returns 403.

## What Changed

- Added `server/src/services/tool-access/github-default-owner.ts`. It
finds the default organization from the grant's access snapshot. It
returns an organization only when there is exactly one installation, and
the snapshot marks that owner's repositories as organization
repositories. Older snapshots without account types get no default until
access is refreshed.
- `governedToolArguments` in `tool-gateway.ts` fills an empty
`organization` for `create_repository` and `fork_repository` on managed
GitHub connections. The change occurs before policy, approval signing,
previews, and audit. Thus agent calls, approval cards, and connection
tests use the same owner.
- The grant lookup runs only for these two tools, and only when
`organization` is empty. If the credential is unavailable, the call does
not change and fails with its own error at dispatch.
- An explicit owner does not change. A fork into its own owner does not
change. Token (PAT) connections, personal installations, and multiple
organizations keep GitHub's behavior.
- `projectedConnectionToolInputSchema` describes the default on the
`organization` argument. Agents and the connection test form see where
the repository goes.
- Updated `doc/connections/GITHUB.md`.

## Verification

- `pnpm --filter @paperclipai/server typecheck` passes.
- `npx vitest run
src/services/tool-access/github-default-owner.test.ts`: new unit tests
for the owner rules (single organization, personal installation, several
organizations, another person's account, older snapshots, blank values,
forks into the same owner, schema text).
- New gateway test in `src/__tests__/tool-gateway.test.ts`: "defaults
GitHub repository creation to the only installed organization for agents
and connection tests". It covers an agent call, an explicit owner, a
connection test call, and a personal installation. It fails without the
gateway change.
- Related suites pass, 393 tests in 9 files: `tool-gateway.test.ts`,
`tool-gateway-service.test.ts`, `connection-instructions.test.ts`,
`github-access-errors.test.ts`, `github-default-owner.test.ts`,
`tool-gateway-discovery-http.test.ts`,
`github-operation-credentials.test.ts`,
`project-git-authorization.test.ts`, `prompt-injection-gateway.test.ts`.
- Not tested against a live GitHub App installation.

## Risks

- Low risk. The default applies only when the grant snapshot shows one
organization installation and no personal installation. Without the
change, these calls fail with 403.
- A stale access snapshot can choose the organization after a user
installs the App on the personal account. Installation events and
**Refresh access** update the snapshot.
- An approval that was created before this change, without
`organization`, no longer matches the projected arguments. That approval
cannot run and must be requested again. Without the change, it fails
with 403.
- `gh repo create` and `gh repo fork` in agent shells do not use the
gateway, so they keep GitHub's personal default.

## Model Used

- Claude Opus 5.5 (`claude-opus-5-5`), Anthropic, used through Claude
Code with tool use (code reading, shell commands, and test runs).

## 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 95d476c57b docs(plans): record the measured seed experiment for per-turn uploads (#20139)
## Thinking Path

- #20100 proposed sending only the changed files on per-turn follow-ups,
with the repository seed held inside Daytona in a snapshot or a volume.
It asked for one measured experiment before building.
- Snapshot and volume operations were blocked by our Daytona key's
permissions. A restricted key with those permissions now exists, so the
experiment has run.
- This PR records the numbers and the decision in the design doc.

## Linked Issues or Issue Description

Refs #20100

**What happened?**
The #20100 design's seed-location choice was unmeasured: snapshot build
time and volume read speed were both open questions.

**Steps to reproduce**
1. Run the SDK timing of direct upload, volume extract, and snapshot
build and create on the paperclip seed (58.7 MB gzip) in Daytona `us`, 2
vCPU.

**Expected behavior**
The design doc states the measured winner, the per-turn saving, the
one-time cost, and the work needed to build it.

## What Changed

- `doc/plans/2026-11-08-incremental-per-turn-workspace-upload.md`:
  - The status now reads: measured; snapshot chosen; not built.
  - New "Experiment results" table:
    - direct upload: 6.4 s per turn;
    - volume: 6.8 s per turn, which rules it out;
- snapshot: about 2–3.5 s per turn, after a 177 s build per seed
generation.
- Findings: fork is unsupported, compression is exhausted, and the
snapshot builder runs as `daytona` and does not extract archives.
- New "Work to build the snapshot seed" list: lifecycle, sandbox
creation, verification and fallback, expiry and cleanup, and rebuild
policy.

## Verification

Docs only. Every Daytona resource the experiment created was deleted,
and an account-wide listing confirmed none remained.

## Risks

None at runtime.

## 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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2026-11-08 18:21:08 -06:00
DottaandClaude Opus 5.5 2a16be36ab docs(plans): per-turn follow-ups without re-uploading the repository (#20100)
## Thinking Path

- Per-turn remote sandboxes stay the default while warm reuse (#20048)
is on hold.
- On the paperclip clone, a per-turn follow-up spends about 13 s in
`workspace_sync.transfer`, though its changes pack in 0.5 s: every fresh
sandbox receives the whole 70 MB (gzip) seed again, at about 5 MB/s from
the controller.
- The coordinator asked for a design that uploads only changed files
into a fresh sandbox, with a full-upload fallback, measured against the
spans. It also asked to build it only if the implementation is bounded
and safe.

## Linked Issues or Issue Description

Refs #20048

**What happened?**
Per-turn follow-ups on large repositories wait about 13 s re-uploading
the full workspace seed even when almost nothing changed (pack 0.54 s,
transfer 13.3 s, time to first token about 31 s).

**Steps to reproduce**
1. Run `tests/restart-chaos/ttft-baseline.ts --env daytona
--workspace-repo <paperclip clone>` with per-turn sandboxes.
2. Compare `workspace_sync.pack` and `workspace_sync.transfer` on the
follow-up turn.

**Expected behavior**
A follow-up uploads only its overlay into a sandbox that already holds
the seed, falling back to the full upload when unsure.

## What Changed

- `doc/plans/2026-11-08-incremental-per-turn-workspace-upload.md`. It
contains:
- the measured span table and the size analysis (220 MB archive, 70 MB
gzip, about 5 MB/s);
- the expected saving: about 12–13 s per follow-up, time to first token
about 31 s → about 18 s;
- a design keyed by seed generation with a content-hashed manifest,
using a Daytona snapshot (preferred) or a Daytona volume to hold the
seed;
  - the overlay-only turn flow, with a verified fallback;
  - one bounded experiment to choose the seed location before building.
- Not built yet: both seed locations need provider capabilities
(snapshot build time, volume read speed) that must be measured first, so
the implementation isn't bounded until the experiment picks one.

## Verification

Docs only.

## Risks

None at runtime.

## 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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2026-11-08 14:21:24 -06:00
DottaandClaude Opus 5.5 c02fd8d427 docs(plans): salvage-then-retire design for kept restore-source and done-task warm sandboxes (#20087)
## Thinking Path

- Paperclip keeps some remote sandboxes after their run: warm ones for
reuse, and failed runs' stopped sandboxes as workspace-restore sources.
- In the warm Daytona chaos waves for #20048, the real leaks were
restore sources that nothing retires once a user Retry closes their
recovery actions. Separately, a done task's suspended warm sandbox is
only destroyed when its environment is deleted.
- Retiring them early needs a provider-I/O salvage step: compare against
the durable save, export anything unsaved to the issue, then destroy.
That spans recovery, storage, attachments and teardown. The coordinator
asked for a design note so it can be its own reviewed task instead of a
rushed patch.

## Linked Issues or Issue Description

Refs #20048, #20085, #20086

**What happened?**
Closed restore sources and done-task warm sandboxes stay suspended until
their environment is deleted, costing storage. No path compares them
with the last durable save or exports their unsaved files before
retirement.

**Steps to reproduce**
1. A run fails; its sandbox is kept as a `retain_on_failure` restore
source.
2. The user clicks Retry; a fresh run succeeds and the task is done.
3. The restore-source sandbox is never retired until the environment is
deleted.

**Expected behavior**
After a clean compare, or a confirmed export of anything unsaved to the
issue, the sandbox is destroyed. If salvage fails, it stays suspended
and is retried.

## What Changed

- `doc/plans/2026-11-08-restore-source-salvage-and-warm-retirement.md`:
a design for one owned kind (`environment_kept_sandbox_retirement`) on
the shared reconciler. It covers listing rules for both cases (24 h
default retention for done-task warm sandboxes), a three-stage salvage
state machine (compare, export, retire) with a provider-I/O step and
receipt table, failure handling that never destroys without proof, and
the test plan.

## Verification

Docs only; no code or tests changed.

## Risks

None at runtime. Additive documentation.

## 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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2026-11-08 14:13:05 -06:00
DottaandClaude Opus 5.5 b32ef9f111 perf(budgets): judge time to first visible agent activity; keep time to first text as a reported metric (#20077)
## Thinking Path

- The native speed budgets (plan invariant 8) judge how fast an agent
responds. They judged `task.time_to_first_token`: time to the first
deliverable **text**.
- In the clean local restart storm (w-20261108T153612-s9401), Claude
breached its TTFT budget (cold p50/p95 17.4/34.7 s against 16.5/30). The
per-run spans showed this was not a control-plane wait: in all 49 cold
runs (and 76% of warm), Claude started a tool call before writing any
text. Its first visible activity came at 7.4 s p50 from run creation;
first text came at 19.6 s. Codex never calls a tool first.
- So first text charges model tool work as latency for tool-first
adapters. What the user experiences as "the agent responded" is the
first visible activity: a text delta, a tool-call start, or a thinking
indicator.
- The coordinator decided: budgets judge time to first visible agent
activity from run creation, with the budget numbers unchanged; first
text stays a reported metric with no budget for tool-first adapters.

## Linked Issues or Issue Description

**What happened?**
Local storm s9401: the Claude TTFT budget breached on every aggregate,
while the control-plane steps (queue 0.05 s, prepare 0.3 s, runner
startup ~4 s, first provider event 1.3–1.8 s) were well within budget.
The rest of the first-text wait was Claude streaming tool input (about
5.5 s per call) and running tools before it wrote text.

**Steps to reproduce**
1. Run a Claude task whose first action is a tool call (most real
tasks).
2. Read the run log: `provider.time_to_first_agent_event` ends at the
tool call; `task.time_to_first_token` ends many seconds later at the
first text.
3. The speed budget judges the later one and reports a breach.

**Expected behavior**
The budget judges the first visible agent activity from run creation
(`task.time_to_first_agent_activity`). Time to first text is still
recorded and reported.

## What Changed

- `server/src/services/native-runtime/native-session-executor.ts`: when
the first meaningful agent event commits (the existing
`firstMeaningfulAgentEventKind`: text delta, tool-call start, or
reasoning), record `task.time_to_first_agent_activity`. It uses the same
detached anchor resolution as TTFT (accepted comment, answered question,
durable wake request, or run creation), so it adds nothing to the turn
path.
- `server/src/services/native-runtime/native-speed-budgets.ts`: the
metric is now named `time_to_first_activity` (was `ttft`), with
identical budget numbers. The type comment documents the definition and
why first text is unbudgeted.
- `server/src/services/native-runtime/native-run-trace.ts`: the budget
check judges `task.time_to_first_agent_activity` from run creation,
keeping the existing input-wait handling. `task.time_to_first_token` is
no longer budgeted.
- `tests/restart-chaos/ttft-baseline-stats.ts` and `ttft-baseline.ts`:
report first activity from run creation (the budgeted value) next to
TTFT.
- Docs: `doc/observability.md` (new span) and
`doc/plans/2026-11-07-ttft-baseline.md` (metric table).
- Tests:
- A tool-first turn records first activity at the tool call (5 s) while
TTFT records first text (16 s).
- A tool-first trace with slow first text but fast first activity is
within budget.
  - The existing budget tests now judge the activity span.

Observability path (AGENTS.md section 5.7): the new run-log span uses
only the existing `eventKind` and `anchor` attributes. Its name survives
run-log redaction intact; checked with `redactEventPayload`. The
operator OTLP gate is unchanged. It is not Telemetry.

## Verification

- `cd server && npx vitest run
src/services/native-runtime/native-speed-budgets.test.ts
src/services/native-runtime/native-run-trace.test.ts`: 44/44 pass.
- `cd server && npx vitest run
src/services/native-runtime/native-session-executor.test.ts -t "first
visible activity|first assistant text once|first-token timing"`: 7/7
pass.
- `npx vitest run --root tests/restart-chaos`: 159/159 pass; `tsc` on
`tests/restart-chaos` is clean.

## Risks

- **A metric rename.** Consumers of `run.performance.budget_exceeded`
see `metric: "time_to_first_activity"` instead of `"ttft"`. In-repo
there are none besides the tests; Phase 3's chaos speed grade switches
to the new span.
- **A looser budget for slow first text.** Intentional: first text is
reported, not judged. A regression in control-plane latency still shows
up in first activity.

## 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
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2026-11-08 12:32:42 -06:00
DottaandClaude Opus 5.5 4f7eee10c2 feat(recovery): let the board confirm an unrecorded owner stopped for every settling process kind (#20084)
## Thinking Path

> - Paperclip is the open source app people use to manage AI agents for
work
> - Recovery releases in-progress records (leases, claims, intents) only
when it can prove their owner is gone
> - A record saved before its server process was fully recorded is
`unprovable`, and it is never released on its own
> - #20067 added a board-only action to confirm that such an owner
stopped, but only the environment run lease used it
> - Other settling kinds (for example the legacy controller lease, which
shows `missing_identity` rows in the Phase 2 reconciler data) stay stuck
with no way forward
> - This pull request opens the same confirmation to every settling kind
whose record names a partly recorded server process
> - The benefit is that an operator can release these stuck records
safely, and recovery settles them at once

## Linked Issues or Issue Description

Refs #20067, #20054

**What happened?**
The Phase 2 reconciler data shows `legacy_controller_lease` records that
stay `unprovable` with `missing_identity`: they were saved before
Paperclip stored the controller's PID space. Recovery never releases an
unprovable owner, and only the environment run lease offered the board's
"confirm the previous server stopped" action. These records, and records
of other settling kinds saved the same way, had no path forward.

Also, a board confirmation did not wake the reconciler. Unprovable
records are not watched, so the release waited for some unrelated pass.

**Expected behavior**
Recovery asks the board on the record's task. After the board confirms,
recovery releases the record through the kind's own compare-and-swap
settle, at once. A confirmation never releases a record that changed
since the board was asked.

**Steps to reproduce**
1. Have a legacy run whose `controller_process` was recorded without a
host hash (an older server).
2. Run the ownership reconciliation pass. The record is `unprovable`
(`missing_identity`) and no board action appears.

**Paperclip version or commit**
master at c55af26821.

## What Changed

- `ownership-registry.ts`: a new `ownerGoneAttestable` helper opts a
settling kind in. The kind asks the board (cause
`ownership_owner_unprovable`) only for a process-owned record that is
unprovable for a legacy reason and has a version. Opted in:
`legacy_controller_lease`, `environment_teardown_claim`,
`sandbox_creation_intent`, `workspace_runtime_control_operation`,
`native_workspace_finalize_attempt`, `native_finalizer_lease`,
`native_cleanup_lease`.
- `owner-gone-attestation.ts`:
- The request records the record version (`recordUpdatedAt`), and each
pass refreshes an open request to the current version.
- The board submits the version it was shown (`recordVersion`, a new
optional field in `confirmOwnerGoneSchema`). The confirmation is refused
with 409 unless that equals the request's current version and the locked
record's version.
- `recordVersionAttestations` reads back every resolved confirmation.
Any one that names the record's current version applies.
- `confirmOwnerGone` now wakes the ownership reconciler in its
transaction.
- Each opted-in kind has a version lock. For an `operator_attested`
proof, its settle runs in a transaction that locks the record row and
re-checks the confirmed version before the kind's own compare-and-swap.
- `ownership-invariant-report.ts`: in the periodic pass and in one-shot
settles, a matching confirmation turns a legacy `unprovable` verdict
into `gone` (`operator_attested`). A live or provable owner always wins.
The extra read runs only when a kind has such a record.
- `WorkspaceExportRecovery.tsx`: the board's confirmation names the
stuck record by kind (for example "This task's earlier run"), with a
generic fallback, and sends the version it showed.
- `doc/execution-semantics.md`:
- It describes the action, the version binding and which kinds are
offered.
- It updates the controller-lease section to match #20054: the holdings
list, and that the lease is off only on Railway deployments with an
exclusive volume.

## Verification

- `pnpm exec vitest run src/__tests__/owner-gone-attestation.test.ts`
(server): 10/10. The new legacy-controller cases fail without the
change:
  - the board is asked, and nothing is released before the confirmation;
- the confirmation wakes the reconciler, and the next pass settles the
record as `operator_attested`;
- a record that changed after the confirmation is not released, and a
fresh request is raised;
- a record of these kinds with no owner stamp is not offered, because
its settle could never release it;
- a confirmation for a version the record no longer has is refused, and
the refreshed request then applies;
- a write between the reconciler's listing and its settle stops the
release inside the settle's transaction.
- The 10 server ownership suites (registry, report, owner proof,
controller lease, legacy controller, teardown, finalize, token leases):
332/332.
- `pnpm exec vitest run
src/components/WorkspaceExportRecovery.control.test.tsx` (ui): 48/48.
- `pnpm check:token-gates`: all gates clean.
- `PAPERCLIP_TYPECHECK_LOW_MEMORY=1 pnpm typecheck` in `server` and
`ui`: passed.

## Risks

- A wrong release would be serious. The safeguards:
- The confirmation applies only while the record's last-write time
equals the one the board was asked about, and only while the prover
still finds the recorded process unprovable for a legacy reason.
- Each kind's settle still compare-and-swaps on the exact recorded
process.
- A record of these kinds with no owner stamp at all is not offered.
Those settles cannot release it, so it keeps its existing recovery path.
- Kinds that are unowned by design (queued pending cleanup, accounting
debt) are not offered.

## 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
- [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 e8a3f1f6f2 feat(recovery): prove a replaced container's records gone through a fenced controller epoch (#20054)
## Thinking Path

> - Paperclip is the open source app people use to manage AI agents for
work
> - After a restart, the control plane settles in-progress records
(leases, claims, intents) only once it proves their owner process is
gone
> - The proof compares host and PID space, so a stamp from a replaced
container or a rebooted machine stays unprovable forever, and its
records never settle
> - Self-hosted users on Docker, Kubernetes and Fly hit this on every
redeploy; a Railway deployment with an exclusive volume is covered by
`deployment_replaced` (#20026)
> - This pull request adds a fenced controller epoch: each boot holds a
database lease, and an expired boot is fenced so its records can be
proven gone
> - The benefit is that work stranded by a replaced container is
recovered, without keeping an idle database awake

## Linked Issues or Issue Description

Follow-up to #20026 and the Phase 2 durable-ownership data. Related:
#19965 (owner stamps), #19883 (process space). No duplicate PR was
found.

**What happened?**

A record stamped by a server process in another container reports
`different_process_space`. A dead PID elsewhere is never proof, so the
record stays `unprovable` and is never settled. Every redeploy of a
self-hosted container leaves such records behind.

**Expected behavior**

A record owned by a server boot that was replaced (stopped cleanly, or
lost its lease and was fenced) is proven gone and settled exactly once.
A live boot's records stay with it. An idle server issues no recurring
queries.

**Steps to reproduce**

1. Run Paperclip in a container and start work, so an environment lease
is stamped by that boot.
2. Replace the container. The new container has a new PID namespace.
3. The ownership reconciler reports `different_process_space`
(unprovable) for the old lease, forever.

**Paperclip version or commit**

`master` before this PR.

## What Changed

- New `controller_instances` table (migration 0449): boot id, epoch
(bigserial), process space, pid, a lease on the database clock,
`fenced_at` / `fenced_by_epoch`, `stopped_at`.
- `controller-instance-lease.ts`, registered with the shared
delivery-work coordinator (`controller-instance-lease` queue, runs
during drain):
- **Holds work → renews; idle → silent.** One upsert creates the row on
first use and extends the lease only if the boot holds work: a stamp
within the last 90 s, or a stamp whose ownership write may still be
pending (held until the server's tracked work settles, capped at 10
minutes; a renewal that sees some other held record does not clear it,
so a slow ownership write cannot be outlived), or an in-progress record
held by its boot id. Those records are active environment leases,
in-flight cleanup claims, sandbox creation intents, workspace finalize
attempts, agent lifecycle steps, native finalizer and cleanup leases
(`lease_holder` bound to the token), open native coordinator claims, and
running legacy runs. Renewal runs every 30 s while the boot holds work.
When it finds none, the lease lapses and the worker sleeps until the
next stamp (`onControllerStamp`).
- **No idle trailing statements.** When the server's last tracked work
settles, the worker re-checks holdings at once, at most every 5 s (the
rate limit also absorbs the worker's own run). So the last check happens
with the work, not 30 s later.
- **Quiesce, don't crash.** Each renewal has a 10 s bound. A failed or
timed-out renewal applies an internal task drain, so no new work is
dispatched. A recovered renewal resumes. The boot exits only after 60 s
of failure (counted from the first failed attempt's start) while it
still holds work, or at once when it finds itself fenced.
- **Fence on demand, by a newer epoch.** For a stamp from another host
or PID space, the prover reads that boot's row:
    - `stopped` or `fenced`: gone.
    - live lease: alive.
- otherwise, the boot's last sign of life is the later of its lease
expiry and the record's last write plus the TTL. Within 30 s of that,
the owner stays `alive` (`controller_lease_grace`), so the settle watch
keeps rechecking. After that, the prover fences the boot, but only with
a lease row of its own (created on demand) and only an older epoch.
  - A graceful shutdown records `stopped_at`.
- A reconciliation pass that settles nothing (`record: false` or
`settle: false`) never fences and never creates the boot's row.
- `owner-proof.ts`: these proofs apply only to server-held records. A
stamp with a recorded process group stays unprovable, because agent
processes can outlive their server. The reconciler passes each record's
`updatedAt` to the proof.
- `task-admission.ts`:
- the quiesce drain never replaces an operator's drain, and has no idle
owner, so HTTP stays open;
- a `subscribeIdleWorkSettled` hook fires when the last tracked work
finishes.
- Off on a Railway deployment with an exclusive volume (it has its own
replacement proof). `PAPERCLIP_CONTROLLER_INSTANCE_LEASE=on|off`
overrides this. A stateless Railway service keeps the lease. A server
without its own lease row never fences.
- `maintenance-server-routes.test.ts`: in the post-run quiet window, the
lease may check once more that the run's records were released. The test
now excludes those statements, then asserts that the lease issues
nothing in a further window.
- Docs: `doc/execution-semantics.md`; the Phase 2 data doc records the
two known gaps.

## Verification

- `controller-instance-lease.test.ts` (15 cases):
- a replaced container with all Railway variables empty is fenced and
settled exactly once over two passes;
  - a live lease is alive;
- an owner in grace, and work written after an idle lapse, stay alive
and watched;
  - an older epoch never fences a newer one;
- no fencing without its own lease row (off or unregistered), and an
idle prover creates its row on demand;
  - a stopped boot is gone;
  - process-group stamps stay unprovable;
- idle issues zero statements, and one upsert renews only while records
are held;
  - **a 45 s outage:** quiesced, no exit, resumes;
- **a renewal that never answers:** bounded, and the boot exits on time;
- **a 70 s outage:** exits at 60–65 s, and the successor recovers the
work exactly once;
  - fenced: stops;
  - the settle re-check;
- graceful stop; off on a volume-exclusive Railway deployment, on for a
stateless one, and the on/off override;
  - a running legacy run keeps the lease live.
- Red, with the proof's instance check removed: the replaced-container,
live, stopped and successor cases fail.
- Wider: task-drain, idle-sleep, idle-local-work, owner-proof and
ownership suites, plus the maintenance quiet-window tests. Server
low-memory typecheck is clean.

## Risks

- **Clock skew.** The proof compares a record's `updatedAt` (often the
writer's clock) with the lease (database clock). The 30 s grace absorbs
ordinary skew.
- **A new exit path exists.** A server whose database is unreachable for
more than 60 s while it holds work now exits, after first quiescing.
This is the intended safety backstop.
- **Bounded trailing activity.** A lease that holds work issues one
statement every 30 s, plus at most one check when its work settles. An
idle server issues none.
- **Boots from before this release** have no row, and their records stay
unprovable. The board "mark owner gone" action for those follows in a
separate PR.

## Model Used

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

## Checklist

- [x] I have included a thinking path that traces from project context
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- [x] I have checked ROADMAP.md and confirmed this PR does not duplicate
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
- [x] I have added or updated tests where applicable
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Nicky Leach 17ad23aafe fix(workspaces): back off failed terminal cleanup and retire abandoned reservations through remove (#20020) 2026-11-08 07:12:48 -08:00
DottaandClaude Opus 5.5 c966334ec3 fix(recovery): settle a run-less lease once its stamped holder is proven gone (#20026)
## Thinking Path

> - Paperclip is the open source app people use to manage AI agents for
work
> - The control plane recovers in-progress records after a server
restart through a shared ownership path
> - Run-less sandbox leases (login, probe, harness verification) were
released only by a five-minute idle sweep
> - That sweep releases by age: it leaves a dead holder's sandbox for
minutes and takes a live login session's sandbox
> - This pull request settles a run-less lease only when its stamped
holder is proven gone
> - The benefit is no stuck sandbox after a restart, and no live session
loses its sandbox

## Linked Issues or Issue Description

Related: #19965 (named the owner of login/probe leases), #19964 (the
run-lease settle this mirrors). No duplicate PR was found.

**What happened?**

The final Daytona chaos wave `w-20261108T083036-s9401` recorded I2
`environment_login_probe_lease` (`pid_dead`) on 2 records. These were
the codex agent's harness-verification leases. A restart killed their
holder. The leases stayed `active` until the five-minute idle sweep
released them. The same sweep releases any run-less lease after five
idle minutes, also when its holder is alive.

**Expected behavior**

A run-less lease is released as soon as its stamped holder is proven
gone. A lease whose holder is alive is never released, however long it
is idle.

**Steps to reproduce**

1. Start a Daytona wave: `node cli/node_modules/tsx/dist/cli.mjs
tests/restart-chaos/main.ts --env daytona --daytona-image <image>`
(K1/K4 faults).
2. Let a fault kill the server while an agent's harness verification
holds its sandbox lease.
3. See the reconciler report I2 `environment_login_probe_lease` until
the idle sweep releases it.

**Paperclip version or commit**

`master` at `8475826d2d`.

## What Changed

- New `settleEnvironmentLoginProbeLease`, registered on
`environment_login_probe_lease`. It runs only for a stamped holder that
is proven gone, and compares and swaps on that exact stamp.
- It moves the lease to `pending_cleanup` with the recovered-orphan
reason, so the cleanup sweep destroys the sandbox in its next tick.
- It leaves the lease alone when a legacy shutdown fence applies, or
when another live lease holds the same provider resource.
- The idle sweep for run-less leases now covers only legacy rows saved
before holders were stamped (no `leaseController` key). Stamped rows are
never released by age.
- `holderUnchanged` is now exported from the run-lease settle so both
settles share it.
- The controller stamp (`leaseController`, and every other
`ControllerProcess` stamp) now records the platform deployment when the
platform names one (Railway: project, environment, service, deployment,
volume). `controllerStamp` passes it to `proveOwnerGone`. A container
redeploy changes the PID space, and the old stamp would read
`different_process_space` (unprovable) forever. Now the existing
`deployment_replaced` proof shows the old holder gone. This also covers
`environment_run_lease_active` and the other kinds built on
`controllerStamp`.
- `currentDeploymentIdentity` in `owner-proof.ts` now delegates to
`currentControllerDeployment`, so there is one parser.
- Data doc: added the final Daytona wave, the six Daytona-only crash
points (4 pass, 2 not reached, no violations), and the cause of the
roughly 450 s codex TTFT. Runs waited behind the agent's harness
verification, which restarted after each fault; boot itself took about
32 s.
- Restart-chaos README: corrected which Daytona crash points a plain
task reaches.

## Verification

- Red, before the change:
`environment-login-probe-lease-ownership.test.ts` failed 3 of 6. No
settle happened, and the idle sweep released 3 live holders' leases.
- Green: `pnpm exec vitest run` passes for
`environment-login-probe-lease-ownership`,
`environment-run-lease-ownership` and
`heartbeat-orphaned-active-lease-sweep` (45/45), and for
`environment-lease-owner-stamps`,
`heartbeat-observed-workspace-preservation`,
`ownership-reconciliation-report`, `heartbeat/recovery` and
`workspace-recovery-warm-handoff`.
- Redeploy: a stamp from a replaced Railway deployment settles with
`deployment_replaced`. A stamp from the same deployment in another PID
space stays `active`. This was red when `controllerStamp` dropped the
deployment.
- Live-owner counter-cases: the current process, another live PID,
another PID space, and a lease re-stamped after the proof all stay
`active`. A read-only pass never settles.
- Not re-run live: the Daytona wave and crash points ran before this
fix. The next Daytona wave should show no
`environment_login_probe_lease` I2.

## Risks

- A stamped run-less lease whose live holder never releases it, because
of a bug in that process, is no longer released after five idle minutes.
It is released once that process exits. This is the intended trade:
never take a live holder's sandbox.
- On an ephemeral server without a platform deployment identity (not
Railway), a stamp from a replaced container is still unprovable. Such a
run-less lease stays `active` until the provider expires the sandbox,
and the reconciler reports it as unprovable. Before this PR, the
five-minute sweep released it by age. This is the same open gap as
unstamped legacy leases on an ephemeral server: there is no operator
action yet. It is listed as a Phase 2 follow-up.
- Legacy unstamped run-less leases keep the age fallback. These are rows
written before #19965, and no current code writes them.

## Model Used

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

## 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
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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 68d5fb5a6e feat(chaos): check I6 and I8 per crash point; ready the Daytona points (#19984)
## Thinking Path

> - Paperclip is the open source app people use to manage AI agents for
work
> - The on-demand crash-point suite (#19946) kills the control plane at
named durable write boundaries and checks the plan's invariants
> - Its first full run measured I1–I4 and I7, but I5, I6 and I8 were
reported as not measured
> - #19960 (generation stamping) and #19863 (speed budgets) now record
what I6 and I8 need in the run log
> - The six Daytona-only points have not run yet, and three of them
cannot be reached by a plain task
> - This pull request checks I6 and I8 per point, names the I5 gap, and
readies the Daytona points for the coming Daytona wave
> - The benefit is that every invariant is either asserted or a named
gap, and a Daytona run explains any point it cannot reach

## Linked Issues or Issue Description

Refs #19831 (plan, Phase 5). Follows #19946 (the suite). Uses #19960
(event generations) and #19863 (speed budgets).

**Problem**
- The suite reported I5, I6 and I8 as "not measured".
- A Daytona run would report three points as `not_reached` with no
reason.
- A Daytona run without its key or image failed only after a 3-minute
boot.

**Expected behavior**
- I6 and I8 are checked at each point.
- I5 is a named gap with its reason.
- Daytona points say what they need, and a Daytona run checks its inputs
before it boots.

## What Changed

- `tests/restart-chaos/invariants.ts`: `runLogViolations` checks two
invariants from the run log, scoped to the wave's company:
- I6: a run that failed with an error that names a stale or
earlier-generation event;
- I8: each `run.performance.budget_exceeded` event, with the budget
evidence (metric, measured, p95, adapter, start kind).
Both are keyed by run or event id, so the per-point baseline diff
charges each one to the point that produced it. I5 is reported as
`notMeasured` with a reason (`I5_GAP`).
- `packages/shared/src/crash-point-registry.ts`: an optional
`prerequisite` on the three Daytona points a plain task cannot reach.
These are the teardown claim (needs a failed release), the reusable
destroy (needs a `reuse_by_environment` lease), and stop-and-retain.
- `tests/restart-chaos/crash-points.ts`:
- `--list` prints each point's `needs:`, and a `not_reached` result
names it too;
- `--env daytona` refuses to start without `DAYTONA_API_KEY` and an
image.
- Docs: the README and the plan describe the I5/I6/I8 coverage and the
Daytona points.

## Verification

- `pnpm exec vitest run --config tests/restart-chaos/vitest.config.ts
tests/restart-chaos/crash-points.test.ts`: 12 passed.
- `cd packages/shared && npx vitest run src/crash-points.test.ts`: 15
passed.
- `node scripts/typecheck-test-projects.mjs tests/restart-chaos` and
`npx tsc --noEmit -p packages/shared` both pass.
- I ran `runLogViolations` against a throwaway Postgres 18 with seeded
rows, then stopped and deleted it. It returned:
  - I8 for the budget breach, with its evidence;
- I6 for the run of this company that failed on
`stale_generation_event`.
It excluded the other company's stale run, the `process_lost` run and a
non-budget event.
- `node scripts/crash-points.mjs --list --env daytona` lists 19 points,
with `needs:` on the three. `--env daytona` with no key or image fails
at once with the missing names.
- No harness run: the harness slot is held for other work. The next
suite run exercises the new checks.

## Risks

- Test harness only; no product code.
- I6 is a proxy: it matches the run's error text and code. A failure
that names a generation for another reason would be reported, with its
evidence, for a person to judge.
- I8 can flag breaches on a loaded host. Each breach carries its
measured and budget values, so a load-caused breach is visible as one.

## 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
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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 46bf913fb9 docs(plans): record the Pi steer duplicate after a restart and its follow-up (#19982)
## Thinking Path

> - Paperclip is the open source app people use to manage AI agents for
work
> - A person can steer a running Codex or Pi turn, and since #19970 a
queued follow-up steers automatically
> - Restart recovery (#19962) delivers a steered message that the model
did not read before the restart, exactly once for Codex
> - Pi gives the run log no read evidence for a steer, so after a
restart a Pi steer that the model already read can arrive again
> - The fix needs changes to the closure-pinned Pi distribution, which
waits for the next Pi re-qualification
> - This pull request records the limit and the follow-up plan so they
are not lost
> - The benefit is that the next Pi re-qualification can include the
definitive fix

## Linked Issues or Issue Description

**What is the documentation problem?**
The Pi steering limit after a restart, and its planned fix, were only in
pull request text and session notes.

**Where?**
`doc/plans/2026-11-07-pi-steer-restart-limit.md` (new).

**What should it say?**
Codex delivers an unread steered message exactly once after a restart.
Pi can duplicate a message it already read, and never loses one. The
note also gives the reasons, the follow-up plan (option A), its costs,
and the rejected options.

Refs #19962, Refs #19970

## What Changed

- New `doc/plans/2026-11-07-pi-steer-restart-limit.md`. It covers the
limit, why Pi has no read evidence, the follow-up (forward Pi's native
user `message_start` through pi-acp, acpx, the sidecar and Rust into a
`userMessage` item), its re-qualification costs, and the rejected
options.

## Verification

- Documentation only. Read the note. The facts match
`packages/paperclip-runner/src/steering-delivery.ts`,
`patches/pi-acp@0.0.33.patch`, `pi-closure-pins.ts` and
`rules/acpx-profile-identity.mdc`.

## Risks

- None. Documentation only.

## Model Used

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

## Checklist

- [x] I have included a thinking path that traces from project context
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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)
- [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
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DottaandClaude Opus 5.5 d33b3ac263 fix(wake-queue): save temporarily refused work intents and promote them through one path (#19956)
## Thinking Path

> - Paperclip is the open source app people use to manage AI agents for
work
> - Users send work to agents as assignments, comments and Retries. The
wake queue delivers each one as a run
> - When an admission check refused a wake for a temporary reason, the
wake often ended as a terminal skip, so the work was lost
> - Restart-chaos waves found dropped comments and Retries (RC-37,
s7532) and double delivery (RC-53). Each fix covered one hold type
> - The durable ownership plan (section E) asks for one outbox rule: a
closed set of terminal outcomes, a saved deferral for every temporary
refusal, and one promotion path
> - This pull request adds that rule. It saves messages refused by a
pause, promotes deferred intents from every hold-release event through
one function, and adds a reconciler backstop
> - The benefit is that an accepted message is delivered exactly once
after a pause lifts, and the reconciler reports any intent that is stuck
or dropped

## Linked Issues or Issue Description

Refs #19831 (plan, section E), #19838 (inventory, wake-queue rows and
section 1b), #19927 (Phase 2 data: the I4 false positive), #19702,
#19741, #19829, #19826. Builds on #19944 (section D, merged).

**What happened?**
- A user commented while the agent was paused, or while the company was
paused. Admission refused the wake. Nothing saved the message as
pending, so when the pause lifted, nothing delivered it.
- Hold-release events woke different subsets of workers. A saved intent
then waited out a 30-second refusal backoff after its hold cleared.
- The I4 reconciler check matched free text with a regular expression.
Phase 2 found a false positive: a delivered retry whose error said
"retrying once".

**Expected behavior**
An accepted work intent ends only as delivered, consumed by a later run,
task cancelled, or hard stop. Every temporary refusal saves the intent
as `deferred` with its reason and its release trigger. Every
hold-release event promotes deferred intents through one function
(invariant 4).

**Steps to reproduce**
Pause an agent. Post a user comment on its task. Resume the agent. On
`master` the comment is never delivered as a wake.

## What Changed

- New `server/src/services/work-intent-outbox.ts`:
- `WORK_INTENT_TERMINAL_OUTCOMES`: the closed set of terminal outcomes.
- `TEMPORARY_REFUSAL_TRIGGERS`: maps each temporary refusal code to its
release trigger.
- `promoteDeferredWorkIntents`: the one promotion function. It removes
the 30-second refusal backoff from the matching deferred intents. It
then wakes run dispatch, the saved-receipt worker and stranded-work
recovery, and hints each saved intent of the issue.
- `heartbeat/queue.ts`: the #19829 save-as-deferred block is now a
shared helper. A user's message refused by a paused agent, a paused
company, or a budget pause that is not a reached hard stop is saved with
`executionWait: { reason, trigger, message }`. The caller still gets a
409. The message is saved only when the task's latest run is terminal,
because the release drain promotes a saved message behind that run. A
task that never ran keeps the message in the task, and stranded-work
recovery starts the task once the pause lifts. A `pending_approval`
agent and a task-tree hold are not changed here: the release drain still
fails a promoted wake for a pending approval, and tree holds have their
own resume path.
- Hold-release events call `promoteDeferredWorkIntents`:
  - accounting settled (`run-cost-accounting.ts`);
  - environment lease released (`environments.ts`, two sites);
  - native run projected terminal (`native-run-projection.ts`);
  - budget pause lifted (`budgets.ts`);
  - company reactivated (`companies.ts`);
  - task-tree hold released (`issue-tree-control.ts`);
  - agent lifecycle ready (`agent-lifecycle-driver.ts`).
- Reconciler (`recovery/ownership-registry.ts`,
`ownership-invariant-report.ts`, `native-finalization-reconciler.ts`):
- registers three new kinds: `wake_request_deferred`, `queued_run` and
`scheduled_retry_run`;
- I4 now reads the closed refusal code (the wake `reason`) of accepted
intents, not free text;
- a new I4 check reports a deferred pause refusal whose pause has lifted
for more than 5 minutes. The worker then promotes it as a backstop;
- a lifted pause inside its 5-minute grace window returns its deadline
through `nextDueAt`, and the worker also wakes on agent-lifecycle
signals (company and agent pause changes). So a missed release event is
still checked.
- `doc/SPEC-implementation.md`: adds the rule "Accepted work intents are
delivered exactly once".

## Verification

Each focused file ran alone in one vitest process (`--maxWorkers=1`) on
embedded Postgres. Results at `2875c85fd2`:

| Question | Loop | Elapsed | Result |
|---|---|---|---|
| Is a comment refused by a pause saved, then delivered once after the
pause lifts? | `heartbeat-held-comment-wake.test.ts -t "pause lifts"` |
8 s | 2 pass. With `queue.ts` from `master`, both fail: no intent is
saved |
| Does I4 use the closed code, and does it catch a stuck deferral? |
`ownership-reconciliation-report.test.ts` | 45 s | 20 pass. This
includes the Phase 2 "retrying once" false positive and the case
"paused, then lifted" |
| No regression on the paths that changed | held-comment (15),
archived-company guard (8), undispatched execution wait (32), deferred
receipt work (45), recovery pause durability (16), native run projection
work (55), tree-control routes and services (19, 1, 7) | 8–334 s each |
All pass |

- Exactly-once: each pause test runs two promotions (a release event,
then the reconciler backstop) and many dispatch passes. It asserts one
delivery. The existing consumption tests (RC-53) still pass.
- Server package typecheck passes.
- Speed: nothing new runs before `turn.start`. The new admission work
happens only on a refusal. Promotion runs in the release transaction and
in the background reconciler.
- Not run here: chaos waves. The coordinating session schedules them on
the shared harness.

## Risks

- `promoteDeferredWorkIntents` moves `updated_at` back for deferred
intents that were refused in the last 30 seconds. A busy company with
many release events can retry refused intents more often. Each retry
re-runs normal admission, and the refusal resets the backoff.
- More release sites now wake run dispatch and stranded-work recovery.
These notifications are coalesced per company.
- Lifting a pause is now the operator's explicit authorization to send
what the pause refused, as Send is after a Stop. When the pause stopped
the task's run, the lifted pause issues the task's next explicit wake,
which adopts the saved message once. Other messages queued behind an
acknowledged Stop keep the existing rule. If Stop recovery still holds
the task, the message waits for that recovery.
- An agent pause's stop sweep keeps the messages that the pause deferred
(`preservePauseDeferred`). Terminate and cleanup stops still end them.
- The backstop check reads only pause refusals (`company.inactive`,
`agent.not_invokable`), because those holds can be checked exactly.
Other deferred kinds keep their existing promotion paths.

## Model Used

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

## Checklist

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- [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
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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 051834bdc8 feat(chaos): add the on-demand crash-point suite and its manual CI workflow (#19946)
## Thinking Path

> - Paperclip is the open source app people use to manage AI agents for
work
> - A control-plane restart between two durable writes leaves an
in-progress record owned by a dead process
> - Random restart-chaos waves found these 20 ms–1 s windows only by
luck
> - #19937 added `crashPoint(name)`, and #19938 put it at 20 durable
write boundaries
> - Nothing yet runs a task, kills the server at a chosen point,
restarts it, and checks the plan's invariants
> - This pull request adds that on-demand suite, as a local command and
as a manual CI workflow (not a required check, per Decision 2)
> - The benefit is a repeatable work list: which boundary breaks which
invariant, for Phases 2–4

## Linked Issues or Issue Description

Refs #19831 (plan, Phase 5 and Decision 2). Refs #19861 (report-only
reconciler used for I1–I7). Stacked on #19938 (call sites), which is
stacked on #19937 (helper).

**Problem**
The named crash points cannot be exercised end to end. No command arms
one point, runs real agent tasks across it, restarts, and grades the
result.

**Expected behavior**
`node scripts/crash-points.mjs --points <glob> --kinds <id> --adapters
<list>` runs one wave per selected point and reports each point as pass,
fail (with failing R rules and violated invariants), not reached, or
harness error. A `workflow_dispatch` workflow runs the same thing on
demand.

## What Changed

- **Runtime arming.** `PAPERCLIP_CRASH_POINT_CONTROL=<file>`, in the
shared helper and the runner mirror. Each hit reads `<token>
<name>[:<nth>]`, and a new token resets the count. It is test mode only:
`NODE_ENV=production` ignores it, and the disarmed path is still one
comparison.
- **`tests/restart-chaos/main.ts --crash-point
<a>:<nth>,<b>:<nth>,...`** (config, types, ledger):
  - one booted server and no Vite UI;
- per point: take an invariant baseline, launch the point's batch, arm
the point, then on rest disarm it and check invariants as violations
that are new since the baseline;
  - every task is graded R1–R6 and T;
  - `crash-point.json` (v2) holds one entry per point.
- **`tests/restart-chaos/supervisor.ts`:**
  - every spawn gets the control file;
- a SIGKILL whose receipt names the child's pid is restarted like K1:
the control file is emptied first, the owned tree is killed, and a
replacement starts. A failed tree cleanup fails the fault;
- the isolated instance pins `PAPERCLIP_IN_WORKTREE=false` (a
`.paperclip/.env` above the checkout otherwise suppressed all
scheduling);
  - `RESTART_CHAOS_HEALTH_TIMEOUT_MS`.
- **`tests/restart-chaos/invariants.ts`:**
- the Phase 1 report-only pass with `record: false`: two real-clock
passes for I1 and I2, and one pass 15 minutes ahead for I3, I4 and I7;
  - spool kinds are read from the wave's instance;
  - an unfinished pass is a harness error;
  - each violation carries its wake and run state as evidence.
- **`tests/restart-chaos/crash-points.ts` and
`scripts/crash-points.mjs`:**
- select points by glob, kind and environment, and run them in one wave;
  - a per-point outcome: pass, fail, not_reached or harness_error;
  - `SUMMARY.md` with a violation evidence column.
- **`.github/workflows/crash-points.yml`**, manual only, under the
paid-workflow contract:
  - a credential-free `authorize` job;
  - a `suite` job in `runner-e2e-paid` whose first step reauthorizes;
  - a frozen install with `--ignore-scripts` and no shared cache;
  - only the selected adapters' keys;
  - the workflow is added to both security-test allowlists.
- **Docs:** "Crash-point suite" in `tests/restart-chaos/README.md`, and
"Built (Phase 5)" plus the first work list in the plan.

## Verification

- Focused tests:
- `pnpm exec vitest run --config tests/restart-chaos/vitest.config.ts
tests/restart-chaos/crash-points.test.ts`;
- `cd packages/shared && npx vitest run src/crash-points.test.ts`: 15
tests, including runtime arming in a real child process;
- `node --test scripts/__tests__/release-verify-workflow.test.mjs`: 72
tests;
  - `tests/runner-e2e/workflow-security.test.ts`: 19 tests.
- Typecheck: `node scripts/typecheck-test-projects.mjs
tests/restart-chaos` passes.
- Loop line: question "how long is one crash-point loop?" | loop: `node
scripts/crash-points.mjs --points <one>` (codex A1) | elapsed 2.7 min
end to end: boot 9 s, crash 9 s after arming, replacement ready in 6 s,
rest about 2 min | result: one point alone takes about 3 min. Before
this change it took about 15 min (one cold boot per point, Vite UI, host
at load 77).
- Full local run, 14 points, codex A1, 11.8 min in all:
- every point was reached (the server killed itself at each one, and the
replacement came back);
  - 11 pass;
- `workspace.finalize.after_start_before_copyback` and
`workspace.finalize.after_copyback_before_done` fail I2 and R6: a
`workspace_finalize` operation stays running after the run succeeded;
- `wake.claim.after_run_running_before_wakeup_claimed` reports I4. Its
evidence shows the wake failed with "…retrying once", and the retry
delivered the work, so this is the known refusal-regex false positive.
- The 6 Daytona-only points were not run.

## Risks

- Test harness and an on-demand workflow only. No product code changes.
- `.github/**` needs a CODEOWNER review. The workflow uses provider
keys, so it refuses non-default branches and actors that are not on the
allowlist, like `runner-full-stack-e2e.yml`.
- `PAPERCLIP_IN_WORKTREE=false` is pinned in every chaos wave, not only
crash-point waves. A chaos instance is never a worktree dev instance, so
scheduling must not be suppressed.

## 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
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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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Devin FoleyandPaperclip ab82ac0191 fix(workspaces): retire recovered workspace copies after a successful turn (#19979)
## Thinking Path

> - Paperclip is the open source app people use to manage AI agents for
work.
> - With remote (sandbox) execution, every turn ends by saving the whole
working folder, so the next turn can continue on any sandbox.
> - When a run is cut off mid-turn and its task continues in a new
workspace, preparation attaches the dead run's saved workspace under
`.paperclip-recovered/<operationId>`, so the agent can recover
unfinished work.
> - Nothing ever removes that attachment. Every later save archives and
uploads it again, and a new sandbox restores it again.
> - The attachment is a full workspace, `.git` included, so every save
for that task is roughly twice as big. The extra size lasts until the
task ends.
> - This pull request removes an attachment after a run that was shown
it succeeds, and keeps a retired record so it is never attached or shown
again.
> - The benefit is that affected tasks go back to normal save sizes
after their first successful turn, without changing how recovered work
reaches the agent.

## Linked Issues or Issue Description

**What existing behavior does this improve?**
Recovery attachments in remote workspaces
(`.paperclip-recovered/<operationId>`).

**Subsystem affected**
Server: remote workspace preparation and recovery attachments.

**Current behavior**
`retainRemoteRecoveryAttachments` keeps every recorded attachment on
every later preparation, and no code path removes one. On one hosted
instance, 10 active workspaces carried 18 attachments. One task's saves
went from 746 MB to 1,472 MB at a single save and stayed there. The
largest grew from 709 MB to 3.3 GB. A 3.3 GB workspace needs most of a
10 GB sandbox disk during each save. When a task moves again, the new
attachment contains the older one, so the copies nest.

**Proposed behavior**
Each live attachment records the run it was shown to. When that run has
succeeded, the next preparation removes the attachment from the sandbox,
after checking its exact provenance. It keeps a `retired` record, so:
- a sandbox restored from an older save is cleaned up too;
- the attachment is never attached or shown to an agent again.

**Reason and benefit**
A run that saw the attachment and succeeded had a full turn to use it.
Removing it then returns the task's saves to normal size and frees
sandbox disk.

**Breaking changes**
None. Records written before this change have no `presentedToRunId`.
They are stamped on their next preparation and retired after the
following successful run.

Related: none found.

## What Changed

- `remote-workspace-recovery-attachments.ts`:
- New `retiredRecoveryAttachments`. It returns attachments already
retired, and attachments shown to a different run that has since
succeeded.
- `retainRemoteRecoveryAttachments` removes those attachments from the
sandbox and keeps a `retired: true` record for each.
- `attachPreservedRemoteWorkspaceSnapshots` skips retired operation IDs.
- `workspace-recovery-snapshot.ts`: `attachPreservedWorkspaceSnapshots`
also skips retired operation IDs.
- `remote-workspace-transport.ts`: new `removeRemoteRecoveryAttachment`.
- It reuses the attachment probe's checks: a real directory under the
workspace root, and an exact `provenance.json`.
  - It makes read-only directories writable before removing them.
  - It removes `.paperclip-recovered` once it is empty.
- Anything else at that path fails the preparation instead of being
deleted.
- `remote-workspaces.ts`: computes the retired set before attaching. It
writes `presentedToRunId` on each live record, and keeps retired records
unchanged.
- `heartbeat/workspace-preparation.ts`: never shows retired records to
an agent.
- `doc/execution-semantics.md`: describes retirement.

## Verification

- `pnpm --filter @paperclipai/server typecheck`: exit 0.
- New tests:
- `remote-workspace-transport.test.ts`: removal against real sandbox
commands. It removes an attachment with exact provenance, including a
read-only directory, and leaves sibling attachments. It refuses a
foreign proof or a symlinked directory without deleting anything. It
reports a missing attachment, and removes the empty parent folder.
- `workspace-recovery-preparation.test.ts`, new `retired_followup` case.
The run shown the attachment succeeds. The next preparation, on a fresh
sandbox restored from that run's save, removes the attachment and
records it as retired. A later preparation after a failed run still
neither attaches nor shows it.
- `ordinary_followup` (the agent deleted the attachment itself) now also
ends with a retired record instead of an empty list.
- A retired operation ID is not attached again, even to an empty
destination.
- 13 recovery and remote-workspace suites: 836 passed. With the source
change reverted, the 3 new or changed preparation cases and the 5 new
transport cases fail.

## Risks

- **An agent can lose access to recovered work after one successful
turn.** That happens if a successful run never looked at the attachment.
The source run's saved snapshot in storage is not touched, so an
operator can still recover it.
- **Retired records stay in workspace metadata.** There is one small
record per attachment, and each later preparation sends one sandbox
probe per record.
- **Nested attachments are unchanged.** If no turn succeeds between two
moves, the newer attachment still contains the older one. That older
copy may hold work nobody has recovered yet, so this change does not
drop it.
- Low risk overall: the change is limited to remote workspace
preparation and is fail-closed on provenance.

> 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`) in Claude Code, with tool use
(shell, file edits, test runs, read-only database queries). AI-assisted
investigation, change and tests, with human direction.

## 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
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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 f6cb3e43f4 fix(admission): admit new work independent of other runs' cleanup and accounting (#19944)
## Thinking Path

> - Paperclip is the open source app people use to manage AI agents for
work
> - Budget admission decides if new agent work can start in a company
> - Five admission gates waited on the cleanup or accounting of other
runs
> - The restart-chaos campaign found that these gates froze companies
for up to 10 minutes, caused false budget pauses, denied in-run writes,
and dropped wakes, comments and Retries
> - The durable ownership plan (Decision 1) removes the company-wide
accounting gate. It does not narrow it again
> - This pull request removes the five gates. Unfinished accounting now
adds its bounded estimate to exposure
> - The benefit is that one run's unsettled accounting never stops the
other work in its company

## Linked Issues or Issue Description

Refs #19831 (plan, section D), #19838 (inventory, finding 3), #19927
(Phase 2 reconciler data), #19497, #19724, #19826.

**What happened?**
Admission refused new work in these cases, with no reached hard stop and
no pause:
- a terminal run awaited accounting (`waitingRunCount`);
- a native run recovered its accounting (`recoveringRunCount`);
- a budget-owned scope hold awaited reconciliation, after the hard stop
no longer applied;
- a budget input was older than 15 s (`budget_evaluation_work`);
- the predecessor run row of a task was missing (`hasPendingRunCleanup`
failed closed).

**Expected behavior**
Admission never waits on the cleanup or accounting of another run. Only
a reached hard stop, an explicit pause or an inactive company refuses
new work (invariant 3).

**Steps to reproduce**
Make a company with an active budget policy. Leave one failed run with
`cost_accounting_pending = true`. Request work for another agent. On
`master` admission refuses with "Company cannot start work while
completed runs await accounting."

## What Changed

- `budgets.ts`: admission refuses only for a reached hard stop or an
explicit pause. The code removes `observedBlocks`, the
`recoveringRunCount` check, the stale `budgetHeld` refusal and the 15 s
input-age gate. It also removes the unused
`inspectInvocationEligibility`. `reconcileScope` no longer returns
accounting holds.
- `budget-exposure.ts`: removes the `waiting` and `recovering`
aggregates and the own-task subquery. The admission query is smaller.
Unfinished accounting stays exposure: the larger of the held reservation
and the observed cost.
- `budget-evaluation-work.ts`: removes `oldestBudgetInputAt`, which
nothing reads now.
- `execution-blocker.ts`: `hasPendingRunCleanup` returns false for a
missing run row. A run row that is deleted removes its finalization
coordinator and nulls its lease references, so the row owns nothing. A
predecessor that owns a lease or a coordinator still holds the successor
of its own task.
- `recovery/ownership-invariant-report.ts`: the I3 check no longer
mirrors the removed gate. It reports a wake request or a run that was
refused with an accounting-hold reason. Any such report is a regression.
- `doc/SPEC-implementation.md`: adds the product rule "Admission is
independent of cleanup and accounting". `doc/execution-semantics.md` is
aligned.

## Verification

- New `server/src/__tests__/admission-independent-of-cleanup.test.ts`,
on embedded Postgres. It has one case per gate. All six cases fail on
`master` and pass here. A seventh case (an explicit pause still refuses)
passes on both. One case also asserts invariant 3 together with
exposure: two failed runs that each hold a 400-cent reservation fill a
1000-cent budget, and a hard stop still refuses.
- Existing tests that asserted the old gates now assert admission
(invariants 3 and 4): `closed-native-receipt-accounting`,
`budgets-service`, `budget-evaluation-work`,
`heartbeat-held-comment-wake`, `ownership-reconciliation-report`. In
`heartbeat-held-comment-wake`, each saved comment, Retry, assignment and
continuation is delivered exactly once while another run's accounting is
pending. Settling accounting later does not deliver it again.
- All six files pass locally, one file per process. The server package
typecheck passes.
- Speed: admission is on the turn path. This change only removes work
from it: two correlated aggregates, one own-task subquery and one
`budget_evaluation_work` read per policy. No wait or I/O is added before
`turn.start`.
- Not run here: the chaos waves (K13 storm, K6 crash loop, K4 long
holds). The coordinating session schedules them on the shared harness.

## Risks

- Behavior change: work starts while accounting for other runs settles.
Spend stays bounded by the reservation capacity check and the hard stop,
which read the ledger plus observed cost. A run that has no reservation
and no observed cost adds zero exposure until its charge commits. This
is the gap that Decision 1 accepts. Budget enforcement was already best
effort (SPEC 11.6).
- A budget-owned pause with no reached hard stop no longer refuses work
in budget admission. The paused company or agent is still refused by the
existing pause checks until the budget worker lifts the pause.

## Model Used

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

## Checklist

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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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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 a4a3e342ec fix(recovery): charge a restart attempt only when the provider accepted a turn and made no progress (#19948)
## Thinking Path

> - Paperclip is the open source app people use to manage AI agents for
work
> - A run has an execution recovery budget: three provider attempts for
native runs, and two failure retries for legacy runs
> - In the restart chaos campaign, control-plane restarts used up that
budget for runs that were healthy (RC-22, 22b, 22c, 40 and 60)
> - #19720 and #19747 fixed two variants with watermark heuristics, and
legacy interrupted preparation still spent the failure budget
> - The durable-ownership plan (section F, invariant 5) asks for one
rule: charge an attempt only when a recorded outcome proves that
provider work started and no progress followed
> - This pull request adds that rule and moves the native restart charge
and the legacy preparation retry onto it
> - The benefit is that a restart never spends budget for work the
provider never started, while real failure loops and crash loops stay
bounded

## Linked Issues or Issue Description

Refs #19720, #19747, #19856

**What happened?**
A control-plane restart charges a provider attempt by heuristics. The
first crash restart always charges. A later restart charges unless the
previous resume had no start evidence (#19747) or completed work
(#19720). A runner that spawned but whose provider never accepted a turn
counted as started, so a K6 crash loop could still spend the budget.
Legacy runs whose preparation a restart interrupted
(`providerWorkStarted: false`) spent `failureRetries`, the same counter
as real failures (`execution-recovery-attempt.ts`).

**Expected behavior**
An attempt is charged only when the provider accepted a turn
(`turn.accepted` or `turn.started`) and no accepted turn then completed
work. A startup before spawn, a runner that spawned but was never
admitted, and a `turn.start` the provider did not accept are not
charged. The generation-12 cap still bounds uncharged restarts.

**Steps to reproduce**
Start a native run at its last attempt. Kill the controller after the
runner spawns but before the provider accepts a turn. Before this
change, the next restart claim blocks the run with
`execution_recovery_budget_exhausted`.

## What Changed

- New `server/src/services/native-runtime/provider-attempt-outcome.ts`:
the one rule. `readProviderAttemptOutcome()` returns
`provider_not_started`, `provider_started_without_progress` or
`provider_progressed` from run events. `providerAttemptChargesBudget()`
charges only the second. `providerAttemptWindowStart()` starts the
attempt window at the latest `native.process_start_requested`, so
earlier work never counts for a later attempt.
`PROVIDER_ATTEMPT_CREDIT_GENERATION_LIMIT` (12) is the shared cap.
- `restartResumeKeepsAttempt()` (`native-restart-recovery.ts`) now
applies that rule to the attempt the restart interrupted, including the
first restart. It keeps the unstarted-resume carry from #19747, the
reattachment rule (an adopted provider counts as started), the drain
exemption from #19625, and the generation-12 cap. A history entry from
an older release without a recorded position still charges.
- Legacy runs: `interrupted_preparation` is now an uncharged retry lane
(`execution-recovery-attempt.ts`). It keeps its own counter, bounded at
the same cap (12), and never changes `failureRetries`. `retries.ts` uses
the longest transient delay after the second lane attempt.
- `doc/execution-semantics.md` states the rule.
- Accounting has its own "provider work started" readers (inventory
Summary finding 5). Phase 3 owns those; this PR exposes the rule for
them to adopt and does not change them.

## Verification

- `native-runner-restart-recovery.integration.test.ts` (embedded
Postgres, real `claimNativeRestartRecoveries`): 129 passed. New cases,
red on master:
- not charged at the last attempt for a claimed remote bootstrap, a
remote bootstrap retry, and a claimed unlaunched remote run;
- not charged when the runner spawned but was never admitted, and when
the provider did not accept `turn.start`;
- not charged on the first restart when the original attempt already
made progress;
- a normal retry that spawned but was never admitted is not charged, and
earlier work still does not count for it.
- Counter-cases, green on master and with the change: an accepted
`turn.accepted` or `turn.started` with no progress is charged; the
generation cap blocks at the last attempt; crash loops with and without
progress stay bounded; the #19720 and #19747 cases still pass.
- `execution-recovery-attempt.test.ts`: new lane tests (red on master).
- `workspace-recovery-preparation-dispatch.test.ts` (25 passed),
`heartbeat-process-recovery.test.ts` (interrupted-run cases),
`run-dispatch/adapters/postgres.test.ts` (interrupted cases).
- `server` typecheck (`scripts/typecheck-layers.mjs`, low-memory mode):
no errors.
- Not run: chaos waves (the coordinator schedules them on this host),
and the full server suite (CI covers it).

## Risks

- Behavior change: the first crash restart no longer charges when no
accepted turn is recorded. If a crash lands before the controller
projects the provider's `turn.accepted`, that attempt is not charged.
This fails toward more retries, and the generation-12 cap bounds it.
- A legacy preparation crash loop now gets up to 12 retries instead of
2. Each retry still passes the normal issue gates and keeps the
transient delay.
- The new queries use the `(run_id, seq)` index, once per restart claim.
Nothing new runs before `turn.start`.

> 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

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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 b4842df1e4 docs(plans): Phase 2 Daytona wave results (#19947)
## Thinking Path

> - Paperclip is the open source app people use to manage AI agents for
work.
> - Phase 2 of the durable-ownership plan moves in-progress record kinds
to one shared ownership path, guided by chaos data.
> - The first data doc (#19927) covered local waves only. Remote
runners, leases and sandboxes need a Daytona wave.
> - This pull request adds the results of one Daytona wave to the data
doc.
> - The benefit is that Phase 2 and Phase 3 prioritize remote kinds from
measured data.

## Linked Issues or Issue Description

Refs #19927 (data doc), #19934 (claimed-wake settle), #19863 (speed
budgets).

**What is the problem?**
The Phase 2 data doc had no remote data.

**Where is it documented?**
`doc/plans/2026-11-07-phase2-reconciler-data.md`.

**What should change?**
Add the Daytona wave's per-kind violations, settle latency, failures and
speed numbers.

## What Changed

- Added a "Daytona wave" section: 6 tasks with K1, K2 and two K4 outages
of about 575 s. 5 of 6 passed, and R6 was clean.
- Recorded the t03 failure: a Retry was cancelled by the company-wide
accounting gate (Phase 3 scope).
- Recorded the claimed-wake leak again (#19934 fixes it) and remote
settle times of 76–107 s.
- Corrected the earlier note about the image content-ID mismatch.

## Verification

- Wave `w-20261108T012041-s9301`; the numbers come from a copy of the
kept database and the read-only ownership sampler.
- This is a docs-only change.

## Risks

- Low. Docs only. The samples are small and the doc says so.

## Model Used

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

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- [x] I have added or updated tests where applicable
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2026-11-07 20:37:38 -06:00