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DottaandPaperclip 7ac99718a4 fix(workspaces): fence legacy sources for online migration (#19642)
## Thinking Path

> - Paperclip coordinates AI agents and preserves their saved work.
> - Remote workspace storage replaces legacy host directories with
durable snapshots.
> - Several legacy workspace records can name one physical project
directory.
> - A task lock alone cannot exclude a new task that selects that
directory.
> - Terminal recovery records can retain valid sources after physical
writers settle.
> - This change fences the source through its real preparation and
lifecycle owners.
> - Idle ordinary sources can then migrate while unrelated remote work
continues.

## Linked Issues or Issue Description

**What happened?**

Online migration rejects ordinary legacy directories when several
workspace records name the same path. A source inspection found 45
aliases across three project roots with no root Git marker or previously
imported nested child. The instance also had unrelated running remote
work. Requiring the whole instance to drain prevented useful migration
of these idle sources.

Terminal native sources and superseded finalization attempts also remain
blocked after their exact physical and durable owners settle. Their
files, provider allocations and recovery records must remain available
through the change of file authority.

**Expected behavior**

Migrate an idle ordinary source under a derived physical source fence.
Let unrelated object-backed turns continue. Preserve provider and
recovery obligations. Keep unknown writers, shared Git stores and
uncertain source state blocked.

**Steps to reproduce**

1. Create several local workspace records for one managed project
directory.
2. Give the aliases different source tasks. Leave their local writers
idle.
3. Keep a valid remote workspace turn running on another source.
4. Inspect or apply migration to an alias. The old owner returns
`overlapping_workspace_requires_maintenance`.
5. Retain a terminal native prepared source with a null coordinator
owner, or an old finalize attempt with an exact later committed receipt.
The old online path keeps these sources blocked.

**Paperclip version or commit**

Current tested head: `7478c817f09f7eed396922c0f7831af07ae6ff14`, based
on master `8621bcf53ee2e4bbefb7d193add42dd544ca06e8`. Related recovery
work: #19131.

**Deployment mode**

Hosted native Runner with remote workspace storage. Qualification uses
disposable local PostgreSQL databases, actual archive/storage owners and
synthetic source trees. The source observations were read-only.

## What Changed

- Retain the existing company/task source keys and add one physical
managed-project key. Heartbeat source selection, materialization, reopen
and lifecycle owners share it. Configured aliases of canonical task
directories retain their original task key.
- Fence runtime provision and each configured service CWD through both
startup owners. Check all unsettled service CWDs for physical source
overlap, even when workspace IDs differ. Runs with no services keep
their filesystem-free path.
- Derive a bounded ordinary alias closure. Lock every alias task and
lifecycle key. Reject foreign companies, changed membership, unproven
descendants, included Git metadata and other unresolved writer
obligations.
- Commit remote authority on the connection that holds source exclusion.
Refresh a stale selected local workspace after admission if migration
published remote authority. Publish activity after commit.
- Admit exact terminal native recovery sources under the existing
physical finalizer keys. Bind descriptors, allocations and owner
checkpoints to journaled fingerprints. Recheck them before capture and
publication.
- Add a separate company-scoped online entry for exact superseded
finalization receipts. Keep the offline entry's deployment prerequisites
and keep inventory read-only.
- Document the proof and the remaining Git/common-store extension. The
original files stay in place. No new scheduler, deployment action or
database migration is added.

## Verification

- Review found that the real reopen path could hold lifecycle exclusion
while waiting for a project source. The new actual nested-reopen
regression failed before the repair: lifecycle lock count was 1 while
another connection held the project fence. The repair acquires declared
and physical project sources before reconstruction and lifecycle. The
contention case, ordinary-fetch restore and runtime nested restore
passed. The lifecycle-worker restore first completed in 16.64 seconds
but exceeded its unchanged 15-second body limit; a bounded warm rerun
passed at that same limit. Both wrappers exited and completed cleanup.
The source type graph, module-boundary check and diff check pass. Final
7478 CI passed: 58 successful jobs, three skipped, one neutral and a
successful Snyk context. Fresh Greptile is 5/5 for exact7478, with no
unresolved threads. [Final
CI](https://github.com/paperclipai/paperclip/actions/runs/42318150314/job/128240631573).

- Full CI on `e4283b3452` passed the other server, build and type
checks. One exposure owner case failed: two execution workspaces
received one preview pair after source admission serialized their
starts. The first local seven-case run reproduced that failure; adding
the owner argument alone did not change the hash payload. The completed
repair binds run-scoped reuse to its execution-workspace owner. All
seven existing real-process/fake-broker cases then passed in 13.81
seconds, with wrapper exit 0 and cleanup complete. Public scope IDs and
explicit project/agent sharing are unchanged. The final7478 head passed
all required CI and fresh review gates.

- The service/source/restore owner canary passed 25 cases across four
suites before the final no-service fast-path guard (41.33 seconds). This
includes actual project service processes with a different project ID
and no execution-workspace ID. Their startup waits for source ownership,
migration stays blocked while they run, and the source becomes eligible
after their verified stop. The final three-case runtime canary passed at
the final source inputs (18.70 seconds). It covers that fast path and
both service-CWD variants. Both wrappers exited 0 and completed cleanup.
- The boundary-repair canary passed 9 cases across four suites at
`7c18f1c170`. It covers the real rehome/conversion gateway, project
command provisioning, future task selection, stale imported authority,
foreign-company binding, and existing standalone filesystem callers. The
shared PostgreSQL wrapper exited 0 and completed cleanup. Duration:
94.15 seconds.
- The P1 diagnostic passed 46 cases across five suites at the pre-rebase
P1 revision. It covers the actual importer with an export warning
created by `recordNativeFinalizationFailure`, strict
prepared-source/action bindings, finalizer locks, source/lifecycle
races, unrelated remote execution, and bare Git with external
alternates. It uses the repository shared PostgreSQL wrapper,
`--fsModuleCache`, and a local-only 90-second hook allowance. Duration:
245.44 seconds. No product timeout changed.
- The canonical retained-directory compatibility check passed 22 cases
across two suites. Missing archived task directories still import from
authenticated restore points; they do not need a present-directory
source proof.
- Both initial P1 regressions were observed before the fix. The real
finalizer warning made the importer ineligible. The old archive owner
accepted a nested bare repository borrowing external objects. The new
cases pass and preserve the original warning, prepared descriptor,
allocations and files.
- Prior attempts remain non-passes: the first 23-case canary passed on
an earlier head; its exact-head rerun hit 30-second database
setup/cleanup limits. A read of the owned PostgreSQL server found a
template clone waiting on `DataFileExtend` for 58 seconds. A broader
owner run was intentionally interrupted during slow existing heartbeat
setup. One diagnostic invocation used an invalid CLI option and executed
no tests. A later review canary passed 21 cases and failed the new real
restore contention case: cwd-only admission missed the declared project
of an external worktree. Its fixture also omitted the required
file-repository authorization callback and produced an unhandled
rejection after the failed assertion. The repaired run passed 22 cases,
exited 0 and completed cleanup. These earlier failures are not reported
as passes.
- The recovery owner passed 37 PostgreSQL cases, including 14 new and 23
existing finalized-recovery cases. The operation reconciliation owner
passed 40 cases. The initial archive run passed 103 cases and found a
missing closed diagnostic entry; the corrected diagnostic and expanded
Git rejection cases pass in the P1 run.
- The full server type graph passes with the Runner source exports
mapped locally because this checkout has no built Runner declarations.
The latest module-boundary check and `git diff --check` pass. Standard
package build/typecheck and broad final-head regression coverage remain
required in CI.
- The initial CI exposed missing admission scopes for standalone
filesystem APIs and a changed foreign-company error. The latest repair
keeps those APIs independent of a database and holds physical fences at
their actual database-backed mutation owners. The branch also includes
the existing master fix for unchanged Runner default-model assertions.
New review findings and new-head CI are being checked.
- The local canary command and bounded source selection are documented
in `doc/plans/2026-11-06-online-ordinary-source-fence.md`. Source
observations only read data. A fresh bounded metadata probe found 254
pending legacy records and zero unsettled local-process services. No
live import, hold, cancellation, provider action or source filesystem
write was performed for this change.

## Risks

- Run-scoped reuse now includes execution-workspace ownership in its
private key. Explicit project/agent sharing keeps its previous identity.
- A missing writer owner could make a source proof unsafe. Admission
derives physical aliases, includes future project selection and retains
all existing source/lifecycle/finalizer locks. Unknown and changed state
fail closed.
- Cross-company physical alias checks use bounded minimal-path pages.
Lexical-prefix filtering cannot safely replace them because a symlink
can hide a foreign alias. Unknown paths or more than 10,240 foreign
records leave the source explicitly unproven. More than 1,000
same-company local records also fail closed.
- The project key can serialize local preparation within one project. A
first project waits; additional project acquisition fails on contention
to avoid a lock cycle. Remote authority keeps its remote preparation
path.
- Recovery preservation does not prove provider termination or
successful file recovery. Existing provider allocations, checkpoints,
task intent and recovery actions remain authoritative.
- This slice does not finish shared Git migration. Git
administrative/common-object/alternates closure and exact nested
imported-child coverage remain the next owned extension. No global
writers-stopped shortcut is used online.

## Model Used

OpenAI GPT-6 through Codex, with reasoning, tool use and code execution.
The host does not expose a more specific backend model ID or
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

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Co-authored-by: Paperclip <noreply@paperclip.ing>
2026-11-06 18:42:45 -06:00
DottaandPaperclip 5e4cc01073 feat(workspaces): keep remote files off the webserver disk (#18403)
Keep native sandbox workspace files independent of the webserver disk. Use encrypted saved versions and Postgres ownership so a replacement server can recover files and continue work. Enable the path by default for new eligible workspaces when durable storage is configured.

Preserve explicit opt-outs and existing host workspaces. Include safe snapshot repair, Files access, import, migration and retention. Bound saved-Files resources, preserve imported Git recovery, reject unfinished Git operations, publish immutable concurrent captures, and verify permanent object-version deletion.

Validated 471 targeted local controls, build/typechecks, all 40 CI partitions, fresh Greptile 5/5 and security review. The PR records original failed attempts and scoped retries.

Co-Authored-By: Paperclip <noreply@paperclip.ing>
2026-10-31 14:54:01 -05:00
DottaandPaperclip 3a726e676f feat: enforce private task permissions across execution and data (#10633)
Enforce private task and project access across direct reads, search, execution, files, plugins, live delivery, and sharing mutations. Preserve downward-only sharing, current responsible-user authorization, and audited emergency access. Bind historical draft assets with migration 0314.

Co-Authored-By: Paperclip <noreply@paperclip.ing>
2026-10-07 07:06:40 -05:00
1477d1ecea test: remove the no-op sequential describe modifier (#15286)
## Thinking Path

> - Paperclip is the open source app people use to manage AI agents for
work.
> - Paperclip runs the server and runner test suites with Vitest.
> - Vitest 5 removes the deprecated `describe.sequential` property, so
the pending Vitest 5 upgrade fails the type-check and test jobs.
> - `describe.sequential` only changes behaviour inside a
`describe.concurrent` suite, or when `sequence.concurrent` is on.
> - This repository has neither, so the modifier changed nothing at run
time.
> - The benefit is that the Vitest 5 upgrade can land, and the test
files lose a modifier that did no work.

## Linked Issues or Issue Description

Refs: #12969

## What Changed

- Replace every `describe.sequential` use with a plain `describe` call.
- Drop the `{ concurrent: false }` suite option from the two runner test
files.
- Add a comment to `server/vitest.config.ts` that records why these
suites must run one test at a time.
- Leave the package manifests and the lockfile unchanged.

## Why the modifier did nothing

The Vitest documentation states that `describe.sequential` is useful to
run tests in sequence inside a `describe.concurrent` suite, or with the
`--sequence.concurrent` option. `sequence.concurrent` defaults to
`false`.

This repository satisfies neither condition:

- No test file uses `describe.concurrent`, `it.concurrent`, or
`test.concurrent`.
- `server/vitest.config.ts` sets `sequence.concurrent: false`, with
`maxWorkers: 1`, `maxConcurrency: 1`, and `isolate: true`.
- `packages/paperclip-runner/vitest.config.ts` sets no `sequence` block,
so the `false` default applies.

`packages/db` and `cli` already run the same embedded-Postgres suites
with a plain `describe`, and those jobs are green. The server package
was the only outlier.

The modifier did carry one real piece of knowledge: these suites need
their tests to run one at a time. The new comment in
`server/vitest.config.ts` records that reason next to the setting that
enforces it.

## Verification

- `git grep` for `describe.sequential` returns nothing outside
`node_modules`.
- The author ran the changed server test files under the installed
Vitest 4, and the results match the results without this change.
- Two very large embedded-Postgres test files exceeded the author's
local memory limit, so the CI test jobs cover those two.
- The two changed runner test files have pre-existing local failures
caused by a missing Rust toolchain and a missing global `pnpm` binary.
The failures are identical with and without this change.
- The author type-checked the changed files and found no new error.
- CI must pass the typecheck, build, server test, and runner verify
jobs.

## Risks

- Low risk. Suite execution stays serial, because the Vitest config
enforces it.
- The change adds no dependency and changes no package manifest or
lockfile.
- A future change that turns `sequence.concurrent` on would break these
suites. The new config comment warns against it.

## Model Used

- Claude Sonnet 5 — code edits and local verification.
- OpenAI Codex, GPT-5 — the earlier revision of this branch.

## Test plan

- [x] Every CI check reaches a terminal green state. A pending or queued
check is not a pass.
- [x] The `Typecheck + Release Registry` job passes. This change must
not introduce a type error.
- [x] The `Build` job passes.
- [x] The server test jobs and the runner verify jobs pass.
- [x] Greptile re-reviews this commit set and posts a passing verdict.
The dependabot waiver does not apply to this pull request.
- [x] `mergeable` reads `MERGEABLE` as a terminal value.

## 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 linked the related public issue with `Refs: #12969`
- [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

Co-Authored-By: Priya Raman <priya.raman@paperclip.ing>

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Co-authored-by: Priya Raman <priya.raman@paperclip.ing>
Co-authored-by: Paperclip <noreply@paperclip.ing>
Co-authored-by: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Co-authored-by: nickyleach <331803+nickyleach@users.noreply.github.com>
2026-10-06 07:19:15 -07:00
DottaandPaperclip a2bf936f9a feat(workspaces): sign the workspace login handoff and gate readiness (#11671)
## Thinking Path

> - Paperclip is the open source app people use to manage AI agents for
work.
> - Managed worktree services run isolated Paperclip instances with
cloned databases.
> - A reachable service was reported as ready even when its database,
runtime identity, or login path was not usable.
> - The first candidate added verified database seeding and managed
repair in #11665.
> - This pull request consolidates that candidate with signed login
handoff and a complete readiness contract.
> - Post-QA fixes close five defects in repair identity, repair
responses, UI retry, seed journal handling, and seed-source trust.
> - The benefit is a workspace that either opens safely or reports one
accurate recovery action.

## Linked Issues or Issue Description

No public GitHub issue exists for this work, so the problem is described
here.

**What happened**

Managed workspace URLs could return HTTP 200 and report ready while
login failed. QA also found cases where repair used the wrong instance
identity, returned a generic error, left the UI stuck, rejected a safe
journal lag, or trusted a mutable workspace manifest.

**Expected behavior**

Opening a ready workspace signs the board user in to the correct
isolated instance. Provisioning and repair use a registered source and
report a structured recovery state.

**Actual behavior**

Entry depended on a password copied into the clone. Several failure
paths could publish stale readiness, hide the repair precondition, or
trust state that the workspace could modify.

**Additional context**

This pull request includes the commits first published in #11665. That
pull request keeps the original base head for review history. This
consolidated pull request is the merge candidate. Related open readiness
work includes #11575 and #11621.

## What Changed

- Adds a short-lived, signed, single-use login ticket. It binds the
user, workspace, instance, and runtime origin.
- Exchanges the ticket through Better Auth. It creates the session and
cookie through the supported adapter path.
- Adds protected workspace readiness fields for the database, clone
data, login handoff, seed phase, and runtime identity.
- Fails readiness closed when the guest has no company or
execution-workspace binding.
- Binds ticket issuance to the exact cloned user and active company
membership selected for the handoff.
- Verifies every current active board identity through the exact-user
handoff before publication or reuse.
- Gates managed runtime publication on the readiness contract and the
recorded worktree instance identity.
- Refreshes runtime work products from the live runtime row after a port
change.
- Adds one workspace access card with ready, degraded, repairing, and
failed states.
- Uses the runtime response identity for repair. It returns structured
repair precondition errors.
- Lets a valid source journal lag converge during provisioning.
- Binds seed and repair manifests to a source registered outside the
agent-writable worktree.
- Clears recovered UI errors so a successful retry can open the
workspace.
- Makes runtime tests register canonical sources and avoid ports owned
by live host listeners.
- Keeps Vitest on source suites when compiled `dist` trees exist.
- Isolates CLI and adapter tests from ambient AWS and runtime API
environment variables.
- Preserves a 404 response for cross-company workspace ID lookups before
runtime authorization.
- Makes concurrent single-flight coverage independent of
path-canonicalization scheduling order.

## Verification

The following checks passed on the integrated head:

```sh
pnpm -r typecheck
pnpm build
pnpm check:token-gates
pnpm --filter @paperclipai/db check:migrations
```

- The server source lane passed 420 files and 4,953 tests. Five tests
were skipped.
- The CLI lane passed 57 files and 385 tests.
- The database lane passed 26 files and 97 tests.
- The shared package passed 58 files and 506 tests.
- The adapter utility lane passed 640 tests. Four tests were skipped.
- The Claude adapter passed 220 tests. One test was skipped.
- The Codex adapter passed 323 tests.
- The OpenClaw adapter passed 13 tests.
- The OpenCode adapter passed 42 tests.
- The plugin SDK passed 45 tests.
- The workspace runtime suite passed 124 tests.
- The caller-scoped readiness and handoff suite passed 52 tests.
- The workspace provisioning shell suite passed 7 tests.
- The runtime exposure suite passed 17 tests while live host mappings
occupied fixed test ports.
- `git diff --check` passed and the worktree is clean.

The serialized route lane will run in GitHub CI with its normal shards.
No deployment or active-workspace migration was performed.

## Risks

- This is a medium-risk authentication and runtime-readiness change.
- The login ticket uses exact origin, workspace, instance, and user
binding. It has a short expiry and a one-time nonce.
- Runtime publication is stricter. A real readiness, identity, per-user
handoff, or control-plane database disagreement now blocks publication.
- This pull request supersedes #11665 as the merge candidate. Close
#11665 after this pull request merges.
- No new database migration is included. The lockfile and workflow files
are unchanged.
- Deployment and active-workspace migration are intentionally outside
this pull request.

> 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 (`claude-opus-5[1m]`), 1M context, extended thinking, tool
use, and code execution produced the main candidate. OpenAI GPT-5
(`gpt-5`) through Codex, with agentic reasoning, tool use, and code
execution, integrated the post-QA fixes and hardened the test gates. The
Codex context-window size was not exposed.

## Checklist

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

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Co-authored-by: Paperclip <noreply@paperclip.ing>
2026-08-19 02:37:02 -05:00
Dotta 4c349fe6b7 feat(runtime): managed Tailscale HTTPS lifecycle, durable runtime leases, and bounded control recovery (#11525)
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> **Stacked pull request.** This targets #11524. Merge #11524 first.
Review only the second commit, `feat(runtime): managed Tailscale HTTPS
lifecycle...`.

## Thinking Path

> - Paperclip is the open source app people use to manage AI agents for
work
> - Paperclip starts and supervises managed runtime services, so an
agent's branch can be previewed while the agent works
> - The previous pull request added the host broker, the shared
contract, and the database columns, but no code used them
> - A managed runtime can only be exposed over HTTPS if it holds a
stable loopback port pair for the whole life of the service. The current
control path cannot promise this: two controls can race the same
execution workspace, a stranded control can stay `running` forever, and
a start can adopt a port it does not own
> - This pull request adds the HTTPS lifecycle and the control-path
hardening that the lifecycle depends on
> - The benefit is that a managed preview becomes reachable from another
device, and a managed control now always reaches a terminal state

## Linked Issues or Issue Description

No public GitHub issue exists. The change follows the feature request
template.

**Subsystem affected**

Managed workspace runtime services, workspace operations, the execution
workspace routes, and the workspace runtime UI.

**Problem or motivation**

A managed runtime service is reachable only on loopback, so a preview
cannot be opened from a phone or a second computer. Exposing it safely
needs an exclusively held port pair. Three existing gaps block that.
Overlapping controls can race the same workspace. A control whose owner
dies stays `running` and blocks the lane forever. Port allocation does
not confirm that the process holding a port is the process Paperclip
spawned.

**Proposed solution**

Add the exposure lifecycle on top of the broker from #11524: reserve
before spawn, expose after readiness, validate the public URL, and
remove on stop. In the same change, make managed controls mutually
exclusive per workspace, give each control a durable issue-owned lease
and a terminal state, and verify port ownership before use.

**Alternatives considered**

- Add HTTPS exposure without the control hardening. This was rejected
because a raced or stranded control makes exposure point at the wrong
process.
- Guard the lane with an in-memory lock only. This was rejected because
the lock does not survive a server restart, so the lane can be lost or
double-claimed.
- Trust the requested bind address. This was rejected because a checkout
that predates managed HTTPS overwrites `PAPERCLIP_BIND` from its own
`--bind` argument, and then binds the wildcard address.

**Roadmap alignment**

This completes the managed workspace runtime capability that already
exists. It adds no new product surface beyond the HTTPS link.

**Additional context**

This is the second of three pull requests. The third adds central
mediation of leased port pairs.

## What Changed

Exposure lifecycle:

- Add the server-side broker client and the exposure lifecycle manager.
The manager reserves the mapping before spawn, exposes after backend
readiness, validates the public URL, and removes the mapping on stop.
- Default managed worktree runtimes to `tailscale_https`, read exposure
intent from legacy `expose` blocks, and backfill runtimes that are still
HTTP-only.
- Verify listener ownership for the app port and its Vite HMR companion
before the broker is asked to expose anything. An unrelated listener on
either port fails the start closed.
- Force the loopback bind through argv instead of environment hints.
Leave a non-Paperclip service's `--bind` argument alone.
- Probe loopback for readiness instead of the public URL, and give Vite
HMR its own loopback-bound server in middleware mode.
- Preserve operator-declared Serve mappings across the managed
lifecycle, so cleanup never removes a mapping that Paperclip did not
create.
- Name which listener predicate denied an expose, so an operator can act
on the message.

Control-path hardening:

- Make `start`, `stop`, `restart`, and job `run` mutually exclusive per
execution workspace. An overlap gets `409
workspace_runtime_control_in_progress`, and authorization is still
checked first.
- Take a durable exclusivity lease on the execution workspace, owned by
the controlling issue. A different issue gets `409
workspace_runtime_lease_conflict` before any operation is recorded.
Board and operator actions bypass the lease.
- Give every control a terminal state. Each control stamps its owning
process and pid, heartbeats while it runs, and has a wall-clock ceiling.
Recovery of a stranded control uses a compare-and-swap on `updated_at`,
so a live owner is never stolen.
- Bound readiness probes, verify allocated port ownership on POSIX and
Windows, harden sibling port allocation, and reconcile desired runtimes
on server startup.
- Surface exposure state and bounded runtime errors in the workspace
runtime UI.
- Record the new behavior in `doc/DEVELOPING.md`.

## Verification

Focused checks, all run on this branch:

- `npx tsc --noEmit -p server/tsconfig.json` — 139 errors, exactly the
count on `master`. All 139 come from the unbuilt
`@paperclipai/plugin-sdk` package.
- `pnpm --filter @paperclipai/ui typecheck` — clean.
- Server suites, 177 tests pass across 9 files:
`workspace-runtime.test.ts`, `workspace-runtime-leases.test.ts`,
`workspace-runtime-control-recovery.test.ts`,
`execution-workspace-runtime-control-conflict.test.ts`,
`execution-workspace-runtime-lease-route.test.ts`,
`workspace-operations-reconciliation.test.ts`,
`workspace-runtime-start-terminality.test.ts`, `app-hmr-port.test.ts`,
and `workspace-runtime-ready-comment.test.ts`.
- Exposure unit suites, 77 tests pass: `src/services/runtime-exposure/`
and `workspace-runtime-exposure-backfill.test.ts`.
- UI: `WorkspaceRuntimeControls.test.tsx` and
`WorkspaceServiceControlBar.test.tsx` — 34 tests pass.

**One suite is red on the development host and is expected to be green
in CI.** `server/src/services/workspace-runtime-exposure.test.ts` has 10
failures on the machine used to write this branch. The cause is host
contamination, not the code. That machine already runs an HTTPS canary
that holds ports 42000, 42001, 52000, and 52001 on a tailnet address.
The suite allocates from the same range, so the new listener-ownership
check correctly reports:

```
listener_ownership_mismatch — port 42000 is bound to 100.123.243.20, 127.0.0.1,
fd7a:115c:a1e0:0:0:0:dd3a:f314 ... instead of loopback only
```

A CI runner has no listener on those ports, so the check sees loopback
only and the suite passes. Please confirm this from the CI result on
this pull request rather than from a local run on a host that already
exposes a managed runtime. This is a real weakness of the current test
fixture, and the third pull request in the series removes it by
allocating the pair through a central mediator instead of a stubbed
availability check.

`workspace-runtime-https-live-exercise.test.ts` needs a live `tailscale`
host and was not run locally.

## Risks

- This is the behavior-bearing pull request of the three, so it carries
the most risk.
- Two new `409` responses appear on managed control routes. A caller
that assumed a control always starts must handle a conflict. Board and
operator actions are deliberately exempt, so an agent lease cannot lock
an operator out.
- Managed worktree runtimes now default to `tailscale_https`. If the
host has no working broker, the start fails closed and reports the
exposure failure instead of silently serving plain HTTP. This is
intended, and it is the reason the failure message names the denying
predicate.
- Startup reconciliation touches persisted runtime rows. It is scoped to
desired state and does not resurrect a service that never came up.
- The lease has a 30-minute time to live and explicit release paths, so
a crashed owner cannot hold a lane forever.
- No migration runs in this pull request. The tables and columns land in
#11524.

> For core feature work, check [`ROADMAP.md`](ROADMAP.md) first and
discuss it in `#dev` before opening the PR.

## Model Used

Claude Opus 5 (`claude-opus-5`), 1M context window, extended thinking,
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, with the one
host-contaminated suite explained above
- [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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