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DottaandClaude Opus 5.5 65f41593d1 fix(runner): tell agents a skill found in a directory is imported, not re-created (#19983)
## Thinking Path

> - Paperclip is the open source app people use to manage AI agents for
work
> - Agents can add skills to the company library in two ways: author new
content with `create_skill`, or import an existing skill so its source
is kept
> - #18717 told agents in the `create_skill` contract to import "an
existing skill" instead of copying it
> - An agent read "existing" as "already in the company library"
> - It searched the library, found no match, and saved a managed copy of
a SKILL.md from a vetted local directory
> - The copy has no source locator, so update, audit and reset flows
cannot follow the source
> - This pull request says in the same contract that a SKILL.md in a
local directory, repository, URL or catalog is an existing skill even
when the library has no match
> - The benefit is that agents import such skills and keep their
provenance

## Linked Issues or Issue Description

Refs #18717

**What happened**

A person asked the CEO agent: "Find a useful accessibility-review skill
and add it to our company." The conversation pointed to a vetted local
directory with a SKILL.md. The agent called `search_skills`, found no
match, and wrote in its reasoning "No existing accessibility skill. Now
create it via paperclip_create_skill". It saved a `managed` skill with
`sourceLocator: null`. It did not call the import API that the
`create_skill` description recommends.

**Expected behavior**

The agent imports the skill from its directory through `POST
/api/companies/{companyId}/skills/import`. The saved skill is
`local_path` with the directory as its source locator.

**Steps to reproduce**

1. Put a SKILL.md in a directory that a company project workspace
allows.
2. Give the directory path to the agent in chat, and ask it to add the
skill to the company.
3. Look at the saved skill. Before this change, the agent can save a
`managed` copy without a source locator.

## What Changed

- Add one sentence to the `create_skill` description in
`packages/paperclip-runner/src/protocol-actions/create-skill.ts`: a
SKILL.md in a local directory, repository, URL or catalog is an existing
skill, even when the company library has no match, so import it instead
of copying its content.
- Regenerate the semantic action catalog, the semantic tool contracts,
the protocol manifest digest and the seeded catalog digest.
- Extend the existing contract test so that the discovered, live and
scenario descriptions all contain the new rule.

## Verification

- `pnpm exec vitest run
src/semantic-tools/paperclip-semantic-tools.test.ts -t "distinguishes
authored skills"` in `packages/paperclip-runner` passes. The new
assertion fails on the parent, because the parent description does not
contain the sentence.
- `node scripts/generate-semantic-action-catalog.mjs --check`, `node
scripts/generate-protocol-manifest.mjs --check` and `node
scripts/generate-semantic-contracts.mjs --check` pass.
- End-to-end chat eval `skills.find-and-install` (runner-opencode,
local), with this commit cherry-picked onto the eval branch: before, run
42448994428 failed because the agent saved a managed copy. After, run
42450246200 passed. The agent quoted the new sentence in its reasoning,
imported the directory through the import API, and the saved skill is
`local_path` with the vetted directory as its source locator.

## Risks

- Low risk. The change is model-facing text only. It does not change
permissions, routes or tool inputs.
- Agents that author truly new skills still use `create_skill`. The
sentence applies only when a SKILL.md already exists somewhere.

## Model Used

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

## Checklist

- [x] I have included a thinking path that traces from project context
to this change
- [x] I have specified the model used (with version and capability
details)
- [x] I have checked ROADMAP.md and confirmed this PR does not duplicate
planned core work
- [x] I have searched GitHub for duplicate or related PRs and linked
them above
- [x] I have either (a) linked existing issues with `Fixes: #` / `Closes
#` / `Refs #` OR (b) described the issue in-PR following the relevant
issue template
- [x] I have not referenced internal/instance-local Paperclip issues or
links (only public GitHub `#NNN` / `github.com/paperclipai/paperclip`
URLs)
- [x] My branch name describes the change (e.g. `docs/...`, `fix/...`)
and contains no internal Paperclip ticket id or instance-derived details
- [x] I have run tests locally and they pass
- [x] I have added or updated tests where applicable
- [x] I have updated relevant documentation to reflect my changes
- [x] I have considered and documented any risks above
- [ ] All Paperclip CI gates are green
- [ ] Greptile is 5/5 with no open P2s, recommendations, or follow-ups
- [x] I will address all Greptile and reviewer comments before
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2026-11-07 23:47:30 -06:00
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
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 576ba29fff feat(recovery): settle the legacy controller lease on the shared ownership path (#19953)
## Thinking Path

> - Paperclip is the open source app people use to manage AI agents for
work
> - Legacy (non-native) runs hold a controller lease on `heartbeat_runs`
while the server prepares and dispatches the adapter. The shared
ownership reconciler now settles proven-gone owners (Phase 2 of the
durable ownership plan)
> - The lease stamped only a boot id. The reconciler could never prove
its owner gone (`missing_identity` in the Phase 2 data), and recovery
released it by age: lease expiry (60 s), then a 5-minute age guard on
dispatched runs
> - A hard-killed server's legacy run therefore stayed `running` for up
to 6 minutes after the next boot
> - This pull request records the controller process with the claim,
registers a compare-and-swap settle, and makes live-run recovery use the
shared prover instead of the age guard when the controller is proven
gone
> - The benefit is that a dead controller's run is settled at once,
while a live, unprovable, or previous-release controller keeps today's
behavior

## Linked Issues or Issue Description

Refs #19933 (the settle hook, merged). Stacked on #19950 (migration
0446, registry) and targets its branch until it merges; then it
retargets to master.

**What happened?**
After a hard kill, a dispatched legacy run stayed `running` until its
controller lease expired and its last update was 5 minutes old.

**What did you expect?**
The next boot proves the old controller gone and fails the run as a lost
process at once.

**Steps to reproduce**
1. Start a legacy (non-native) run and let it dispatch the adapter.
2. Kill the server (SIGKILL).
3. Start the server. The run stays `running` for up to 6 minutes.

## What Changed

- `heartbeat_runs.controller_process` (jsonb, migration 0447): `{bootId,
pid, hostHash, processStartedAt}` of the claiming server process. It
names the controller only while its `bootId` equals
`controller_boot_id`. Revocation swaps the boot id, so a revoked lease
never keeps it.
- `legacyControllerClaim` writes it in the same UPDATE (from
`currentControllerProcessStamp()`, no I/O).
- `legacy-controller-lease.ts`: `legacyControllerOwnerStamp`,
`legacyControllerProvenGone` (calls `proveOwnerGone`), and
`settleLegacyControllerLease` (compare-and-swap expiry of the proven
controller's outstanding lease after it wakes live-run recovery).
- `ownership-registry.ts`: `legacy_controller_lease` registers `settle`
and `listForRuns`. The owner is the bound process; other rows are
boot-id fences. The listing covers outstanding leases only.
- `heartbeat/recovery.ts` (3 small hunks): a controller of another boot
that the shared prover proves gone has its live lease settled through
`settleOwnableKind` and skips the age guard. The local child-process
check after it is unchanged, so a live child still keeps the run
running.
- Migration 0447 builds the partial index with `CREATE INDEX
CONCURRENTLY` (heartbeat_runs is a known-large table) and is added to
`MIGRATIONS_WITH_TOP_LEVEL_STATEMENTS`.

Bespoke code deleted: none. The kind had no liveness proof; the age
guard stays for controllers that are not proven gone.

## Verification

- `cd server && npx vitest run
src/services/legacy-controller-lease.test.ts`: 33 passed.
- `cd server && npx vitest run
src/__tests__/ownership-reconciliation-report.test.ts`: 17 passed.
- Red with `recovery.ts` and `ownership-registry.ts` from the base
commit (tests, schema and lease module from this branch): 4 failed, 29
passed. Red: the crash-point reaper test, the expired-lease age-guard
test, the reconciler settle test, the exact-controller CAS test. The
tests were written after the code.
- New tests:
  - the claim stamps this process, and a changed boot id unbinds it;
- crash point: a controller dispatched the adapter and was killed with
its lease live; the startup reaper (default 5-minute age guard) fails
the run as `process_lost` at once;
  - a dead controller's expired lease skips the age guard;
- counter-cases keep the run and lease through the reaper and a
reconciler pass: a live earlier-boot PID, a dead PID in another PID
space, and a previous-release row with no `controller_process`; an
expired lease of a live controller stays behind the age guard;
- a read-only pass (`record: false`) never settles; a recording pass
expires the lease and leaves the run to live-run recovery;
  - settle refuses a controller that changed after the proof.
- Not run locally: typecheck (CI runs it) and the wide suites.

## Risks

- Previous-release story (rules/upgrade-safe-run-state.mdc): rows saved
by the previous release have no `controller_process`. They stay boot-id
fences with today's release (expiry, revocation, age guard). A rollback
ignores the column.
- Unprovable controllers (another host or PID space, unknown space, a
live PID with an unreadable start time) never release early. Their
handoff stays the lease expiry plus revocation, and the age guard. A
different host is never proof.
- Behavior change: a dispatched run whose controller is proven gone is
failed as `process_lost` without the 5-minute wait. The retry decision
is unchanged.
- The settle expires the lease only. Live-run recovery still settles the
run under its own checks. Accounting and workspace obligations are not
touched.
- The index build is concurrent. A cancelled build is retried by the
migrator's invalid-index handling.

## Model Used

- Claude Opus 5.5 (`claude-opus-5-5`), Anthropic, via Claude Code with
tool use (shell, file edits, local 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
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DottaandClaude Opus 5.5 c0c26188db fix(runner): stamp event generations and record an earlier generation's events as history (#19960)
## Thinking Path

> - Paperclip is the open source app people use to manage AI agents for
work
> - Native runs execute through the Paperclip Runner, which turns
provider output (Codex, OpenCode, Claude through ACPX) into durable
runner events
> - In the restart chaos campaign, events from an earlier turn or runner
generation failed the current turn about ten times (RC-15, 20, 20b, 20c,
33, 33b, 59 and 61)
> - #19718, #19722, #19772 and #19783 each special-cased one variant,
and other variants still fail the run
> - The durable-ownership plan (section G, invariant 6) asks for one
rule: every event carries its generation and turn, and an earlier
generation's events are recorded as history and never fail the current
turn
> - This pull request stamps the runner generation on every event and
applies one stale-event rule in the ACPX provider state, the Codex
driver (which Runnerd also uses for OpenCode) and the pending
`turn.start` check
> - The benefit is that a late report about a settled or restored turn
no longer stops a healthy turn, while events for a turn the runner never
saw still fail closed

## Linked Issues or Issue Description

Refs #19718, #19722, #19772, #19783

**What happened?**
A runner or provider can report a turn after that turn settled: a
resumed provider reports the lost turn's usage or terminal, an ACPX
sidecar emits a last delta after the turn terminal, or a held failure of
the previous turn sits in front of a new `turn.start`. Several of these
paths fail the current turn: ACPX `AcpxEventScope` rejects any event for
a non-active turn ("named a stale turn"), the Codex driver fails
`turn_binding_mismatch` for a settled turn's late item between turns,
and `runnerdPendingTurnStartFailure` reports any held non-recoverable
failure, whatever turn it names. Runner events carried no generation.

**Expected behavior**
An event for a turn that is not active, and that an earlier generation
accepted or this generation already settled, is recorded as history and
never fails the current turn. An event for a turn the runner never saw
still fails closed.

**Steps to reproduce**
ACPX: settle turn 1, start turn 2, and deliver a late `runtime.event`
for turn 1. Before this change, the provider state returns an error and
the run fails.

## What Changed

- Runner (`durable/state.rs`, `durable/runner.rs`): every event payload
carries `generation`, the runner process generation that emitted it. A
runner process that recovers state starts the next generation
(`begin_recovered_generation`); it is saved with the next normal write,
so recovery adds no write before the first turn. Loading stays pure. Old
saved state loads as generation 0. Outbox events keep their original
generation.
- PRP event schemas v1–v3 declare the optional `generation` property;
generated validators and the manifest are regenerated.
- ACPX (`acpx_event_scope.rs`, `acpx_provider_state.rs`): an event that
names a settled turn of this run becomes a bounded
`stale_generation_event` diagnostic (32 per state) and changes no state.
Unknown turns still fail.
- Codex driver (`codex-session-state.ts`,
`codex-session-notifications.ts`): one predicate, `isHistoryTurn()`: the
turn is not active, and it was restored from the checkpoint (an earlier
generation) or settled in this generation. The classifier's stale-turn
branch, the resume-usage branch, restored-terminal replay and the main
fail point (`notificationNamesActiveTurn`) all use it. A terminal for an
earlier generation's turn is history even when it disagrees with the
checkpoint. A terminal that contradicts a turn this same generation
settled is still a `conflicting_turn_terminal` integrity failure, and a
provider that starts a settled turn again is still rejected.
- Transport (`runnerd-codex-transport.ts`): a pending `turn.start`
ignores a held failure that names another provider turn.
- `DURABLE_TRANSPORT.md` documents the stamp and the rule.

## Verification

- `cargo test -p paperclip-runner-core`: new
`records_late_events_for_a_settled_turn_as_history` (red before),
`stamps_every_event_with_the_runner_process_generation`; two existing
ACPX tests now assert "recorded as history, no state change" instead of
"rejected". Durable tests: 112 passed. `cargo fmt` clean.
- `codex-app-server-driver.stale-generation.test.ts` (new, 9 tests):
late item, delta, terminal and workspace change for a settled turn
during and before the next turn, an earlier generation's conflicting
terminal after recovery, and an unknown turn that still fails. Red on
master: 8 of 9 (the during-turn cases on master already dropped the
event, with a different diagnostic; the between-turn and recovery cases
failed the session).
- `runnerd-pending-turn-start-failure.test.ts` (new): an earlier turn's
held failure no longer fails the pending start; the pending turn's own
failure and a failed run terminal still do.
- `vitest run src/drivers/codex src/live/runnerd-codex-transport`: 787
passed; 2 Codex executable-resolution tests timed out under host load
and pass when run alone.
- `tsc -p tsconfig.json` for the runner package, `check:protocol-types`,
`check:replay-goldens`: clean.
- Not run: chaos waves (the coordinator schedules them on this host).

## Risks

- A late report about a settled turn is now dropped with a diagnostic
instead of failing. A provider that keeps working on a settled turn
could have its output ignored silently; a provider that starts a settled
turn again, or names a turn the runner never saw, still fails closed.
- `generation` is a new optional field. Consumers that do not know it
ignore it, as the PRP contract requires.
- The generation counter is written with the next normal state save, so
there is no new write 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

- [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 fda58d8cc1 fix(chat): post the complete final reply, not a 4,000-character run-log preview (#19971)
## 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.
> - The runner cuts every completed agent message to a 4,000-character
run-log preview. The server then posts that preview as the reply.
> - A long answer, for example a list of 501 open tasks, reaches the
person cut off with "…[truncated]".
> - PR #19959 fixed only the case where the accepted summary starts with
the exact preview text. It missed runs where the final prose differs
from the summary.
> - This pull request keeps the complete final answer in the runner, and
makes the server never prefer a preview over a complete source.
> - The benefit is that the person receives the agent's complete reply.

## Linked Issues or Issue Description

Supersedes #19959.

**What happened**

A chat agent wrote a final answer of about 4,985 characters (all 501
tasks). The posted chat reply was a 4,000-character preview that ended
with "…[truncated]".

**Expected behavior**

The person receives the agent's complete final message. A preview of a
message is never posted when a complete text exists.

**Steps to reproduce**

1. Ask a chat agent (OpenCode or Codex) to list a large set of open
work, so that its final answer is longer than 4,000 characters.
2. Let the run finish.
3. Read the chat reply. It ends with "…[truncated]" at 4,000 characters.

Root cause:

-
`packages/paperclip-runner/runner/crates/runner-core/src/provider_events.rs`:
the codex/OpenCode facade projection of `item/completed` and the ACPX
`AssistantMessage` projection cut the final answer with
`bounded_text(text, MAX_TEXT_CHARS)` (4,000 characters).
- `durable/state.rs` `sanitize_value` caps every string again at 4,096
bytes before the event goes to the server.
- `server/src/services/heartbeat-run-summary.ts`
`resolveHeartbeatRunResponse` gives an explicit `final` agent message
top precedence, so it posts the preview.

## What Changed

- Runner (`provider_events.rs`): a completed `final_answer` agent
message keeps its complete redacted text, up to a new 32,000-character
`MAX_FINAL_AGENT_MESSAGE_CHARS` bound. Progress prose and in-flight
items keep the 4,000-character preview.
- Runner (`durable/state.rs`): `preserve_final_agent_message_text` keeps
the complete redacted text of a completed final agent message when it
fits in half of the transport frame. Otherwise the marked preview stays,
so a large message never fails the frame check.
- Server (`heartbeat-run-summary.ts`):
`readCompletedAssistantMessageCandidate` marks a stored preview as
`bounded`. The resolver never posts a bounded preview while a complete
source exists. It posts a marked adapter final response or the accepted
semantic summary instead
(`bounded_final_agent_message_replaced_by_semantic_summary`). It posts
the marked preview only when no complete text exists
(`bounded_final_agent_message_without_complete_source`). This also fixes
replies from runners that are already deployed.

## Verification

- `cd server && npx vitest run
src/__tests__/heartbeat-run-summary.test.ts`: 86 passed. Six new tests:
a complete final message longer than 4,000 characters is posted in full;
the old exact-prefix case posts the complete accepted answer; a preview
whose prose differs from the summary posts the complete summary (also
with chat precedence); a marked adapter final response wins over a
preview; the marked preview is posted only when nothing complete exists;
a stored preview candidate is marked `bounded`. Five of the six fail
against the `master` resolver.
- `cargo test -p paperclip-runner-core --lib -- final_answer
complete_final`: 3 passed. Both new runner tests fail when the fix is
reverted.
- `cargo test -p paperclip-runner-core --lib`: 581 passed, 3 failed. The
failures are `task_memory::tests::monitor_*` (OOM-kill monitor timing
tests). They do not touch the changed code.
- `cargo test -p paperclip-runner-core --test acpx_event_projection
--test acpx_rich_events --test local_integrity_boundary_golden --test
acpx_provider_events`: all passed. `cargo fmt --check` passes.
- Evidence from the failed eval run: the `item.completed` final
`agentMessage` text was exactly 4,000 characters (3,988 retained plus
the marker). The `run.result.proposed` summary was complete at 4,985
characters.

## Risks

- Larger durable events: a final answer can now be up to 32,000
characters (at most about 128 KB). The outbox keeps the preview when the
text exceeds half of the frame size, so the frame check does not fail.
- Redaction stays the same. The complete text goes through
`redact_sensitive_text_values`, which the preview also used.
- The server treats any final message that ends with "…[truncated]" as a
preview. If an agent writes that text itself, the server posts the
complete accepted summary instead. That summary is also the agent's own
complete answer.
- The runner part reaches users only after a runner release. The server
part fixes replies at once when an accepted summary exists.

> 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`), agentic coding with
tool use (shell, file edits, 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
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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 f755361ffe fix(recovery): deliver a steered message the restart lost before the model read it (#19962)
## Thinking Path

> - Paperclip is the open source app people use to manage AI agents for
work
> - A user can steer a running Codex or Pi turn: a comment goes into the
live turn instead of waiting for the next run
> - The provider acknowledges the steer at once, but the model reads it
only at its next step, after the in-flight tool call
> - A control-plane restart in that window kills the provider with the
message in memory. Restart recovery starts a continuation turn that does
not carry the message. The message is lost and no error shows
> - The restart chaos harness showed this in 6 of 6 steered runs (Codex,
K1, K2 and K6, 2 samples each): steer acknowledged, run succeeded, no
reply to the steered message
> - This pull request makes restart recovery deliver every acknowledged
steer that the model did not read, exactly once
> - The benefit is that manual Steer no longer loses messages on
restart, and the planned automatic steering can ship on top of it

## Linked Issues or Issue Description

**What happened?**
A comment steered into a running Codex turn got no reply when a
control-plane restart (SIGKILL, SIGTERM or crash loop) happened during
the agent's tool call. The run succeeded, and the steered comment had no
effect.

**Steps to reproduce**
1. Start a Codex task that runs a 40-second command.
2. During the command, post a comment and click Steer. The provider
acknowledges it.
3. Restart the control plane before the command ends.
4. Recovery resumes the turn with a continuation. The agent finishes the
task and ignores the comment.

**Expected behavior**
The agent reads and handles the steered comment once, after recovery.

**Root cause**
The provider keeps acknowledged steering input in memory until its next
model step. The restart continuation
(`paperclip.native-continuation.v1`) only told the model to continue the
current request, so the acknowledged input was gone.

## What Changed

- `unreadSteeredMessageIds` (runner package): derives
acknowledged-but-unread steers from run-log events in order. A
`steering_acknowledgement` item adds the message id (once per id). A
`userMessage` item in the same turn reads the oldest unread steer. Codex
records each steered input as one `userMessage` item when it enters the
conversation. A `userMessage` item in a later turn reads all earlier
steers, because the continuation carries them. `turn.completed` reads
all steers.
- `readUnreadSteeredMessages` (server): reads those facts from
`heartbeat_run_events` (only transport-validated events with a
`sourceEventId`). It also reads the comment or interaction text for the
same company and issue. The run log is the durable record of both
"acknowledged" and "read", so no new column is needed.
- The restart continuation now includes `steeredMessages` and one
instruction to handle them, oldest first. The runtime reads them through
a lazy `getUnreadSteeredMessages` option, only when a restart
continuation starts. Native recovery wires it for every run.
- `queuedInteractionSteeringBody` is extracted, so recovery rebuilds a
steered interaction response with the same text the steer sent.
- Fake Codex gets `--consume-steer`, which emits the `userMessage` item
for an accepted steer, like real Codex.

## Verification

- Red/green live test with real runnerd and fake Codex
(`runnerd-restart-continuation.test.ts`, "delivers a steered message the
restart lost exactly once"): start a held turn, steer it, SIGKILL runner
and provider, restore and recover.
- "unread": the continuation carries the message exactly once. Without
the runtime change this test fails.
- "read" (`--consume-steer`): the continuation does not carry it again.
- Both: after the continuation completes, a later restart has nothing to
deliver.
- `steering-delivery.test.ts`: ordering, dedupe, initial-input,
later-turn and completed-turn rules.
- `unread-steered-messages.test.ts` (embedded Postgres): ignores events
without a source id and messages from other issues. It reads interaction
text, ignores model-output items as read evidence, and returns nothing
after the continuation input.
- `pnpm vitest run src/steering-delivery.test.ts
src/live/runnerd-restart-continuation.test.ts` (runner) and `pnpm vitest
run src/services/native-runtime/unread-steered-messages.test.ts`
(server): pass on the rebased revision.
- `issue-queued-comments-routes.test.ts` and
`native-session-runtime.test.ts -t restart`: pass.
`native-session-resume.test.ts` "archives a damaged prior epoch…" fails
locally on plain `origin/master` too (local runnerd binary); CI runs it
with a fresh build.
- Restart chaos (Codex steer mode, K1/K2/K6) runs after this lands in
the harness slot. Before: 0 of 6 steered messages answered.

## Risks

- Duplicate delivery: a provider that records steered input without a
`userMessage` item, or a `userMessage` event lost in the crash window
before persistence, makes recovery send the message again. The model
then sees it twice. That is safer than losing it, and the instruction
asks the model to handle each one once.
- Pi (ACPX) steering has no `userMessage` read evidence today, so a Pi
steer that the model already read before a restart may arrive again in
the continuation.
- Only the restart continuation carries the messages. Other recovery
paths start after a completed turn, which already read every steer.
- No schema or migration change. A session saved by an earlier release
resumes normally; its run log already holds the acknowledgement events.

## Model Used

- Claude Opus 5.5 (`claude-opus-5-5`), Anthropic, via Claude Code with
tool use (shell, file editing, 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
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DottaandClaude Opus 5.5 bf3a067076 feat(recovery): settle the finalizer and cleanup leases on the shared ownership path (#19950)
## Thinking Path

> - Paperclip is the open source app people use to manage AI agents for
work
> - Native runs keep their ownership in `native_run_finalizations`, and
the shared ownership reconciler now settles proven-gone owners (Phase 2
of the durable ownership plan)
> - The finalizer lease (`native-finalizer:*`, 5 min) and the
retained-session cleanup lease (`native-cleanup:*`, 60 s) recorded only
a random token. They named no holder process
> - A server killed while it finalized or cleaned up kept the run
waiting for the whole lease. The lease was released by age alone. A
graceful shutdown also keeps an in-progress finalizer lease for the next
boot to wait out
> - This pull request records the holder process with each claim and
moves both kinds onto the shared prover and a compare-and-swap settle
> - The benefit is that a dead holder's run continues in the first pass
after boot, and a live or unprovable holder is never released

## Linked Issues or Issue Description

Refs #19933 (the settle hook and the first moved kind, merged).

**What happened?**
A finalizer or cleanup lease whose server process died stayed held until
the lease expired (5 min or 60 s). The run stayed `running` and its
follow-up work waited.

**What did you expect?**
The next boot proves the dead holder gone and frees the lease at once. A
live holder, or one that cannot be proven gone, keeps its lease.

**Steps to reproduce**
1. Accept a native result and let the finalizer claim it.
2. Kill the server (SIGKILL) before the finalizer commits.
3. Start the server. The run stays `running` for up to 5 minutes.

## What Changed

- `native_run_finalizations.lease_holder` (jsonb, migration 0446):
`{token, bootId, pid, hostHash, processStartedAt}` of the process that
took a token-only lease. It names the holder only while `token` equals
`lease_owner`, so renewals keep it and a later lease never inherits it.
The executor's `controller_*` columns are not changed.
- The finalizer claim (`native-run-finalizer.ts`) and the cleanup claim
(`native-session-executor.ts`) write it in the same UPDATE as the lease,
from `currentControllerProcessStamp()` (no I/O).
- New `native-token-lease-settlement.ts`: compare-and-swap settle that
expires exactly the proven-gone holder's outstanding lease, after it
notifies the finalization or cleanup work that the expiry frees.
- Both claims also wake the ownership worker queue in their transaction,
so a quiet worker watches the new holder (Greptile round 1).
- `ownership-registry.ts`: `native_finalizer_lease` and
`native_cleanup_lease` register `settle`. Their owner is the holder
process; rows without a holder keep the token fence. Listings cover
outstanding leases only.
- `heartbeat/recovery.ts`: restart recovery settles both kinds before it
finalizes and schedules cleanup. A failure is logged and the reconciler
pass retries it.
- Two sparse partial indexes on `lease_expires_at` for the two listings,
so the settle watch re-check stays indexed.

Bespoke code deleted: none. These kinds had no liveness check; their
only release was lease age (the takeover in the claim), which stays as
the fence for unprovable holders.

## Verification

- `cd server && npx vitest run
src/__tests__/heartbeat-native-restart-suspension.test.ts -t
"finalizer|cleanup|holder|exact lease"`: 12 passed (rerun after the
rebase on master). The crash-point test also asserts the ownership wake
for its run; it fails without the signal.
- `cd server && npx vitest run
src/__tests__/ownership-reconciliation-report.test.ts`: 17 passed.
- Red on the base branch (server code at `bea3bfb20b`, tests and schema
from this branch): 7 new tests fail, 5 pass (the 5 are existing tests).
Red: the crash-point restart test, the two reconciler settle tests, the
three live/unprovable counter-cases (owner was a token fence), and the
exact-lease CAS test. The tests were written after the code.
- New tests:
- crash point: a finalizer claim was written and its holder killed
before commit; the next restart finalizes the run, and this boot's claim
stamps itself as holder;
- a dead finalizer or cleanup holder is settled by a recording pass,
never by a read-only pass (`record: false`); the accepted result and
phase are untouched;
- live counter-cases: a live earlier-boot PID (`pid_alive`), the current
boot (`current_process`), a dead PID in another PID space
(`different_process_space`, unprovable) keep the lease through a pass
and a restart;
- a holder written for another token, and a holderless row of the
previous release, stay token fences, also with
`PAPERCLIP_EPHEMERAL_SERVER=true`;
- settle refuses a lease taken over after the proof
(`owner_changed_since_proof`).
- Not run locally: typecheck (CI runs it) and the wide suites.

## Risks

- Previous-release story (rules/upgrade-safe-run-state.mdc): rows saved
by the previous release have no `lease_holder`. They stay token fences
and the existing claim takes them over at expiry. Neither lease outlives
5 min, so this covers at most 5 min after the upgrade. A rollback
ignores the new column.
- Unprovable holders (other host or PID space, unknown space): no
operator action. The lease is short and self-expiring; at expiry the
next claim takes it over and the old holder's next token
compare-and-swap fails. That fence is the handoff. A different host is
never proof.
- The settle only expires a lease. Finalization and cleanup still run
under their own checks (cleanup keeps its maintenance-history proofs).
Settling ownership does not settle the accepted result, workspace
preservation, or accounting.
- Migration adds a nullable column and two partial indexes on a sparse
predicate. Low risk.

## Model Used

- Claude Opus 5.5 (`claude-opus-5-5`), Anthropic, via Claude Code with
tool use (shell, file edits, local 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
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DottaandClaude Opus 5.5 779913333a fix(documents): say whether an exact revision read is still current (#19939)
## Thinking Path

> - Paperclip is the open source app people use to manage AI agents for
work
> - Task documents keep a revision history, and agents read and restore
revisions through the API
> - The exact-revision read returns one revision, but it does not say if
that revision is still current
> - An agent read the revision that it restored earlier by its ID and
reported it as "latest", but another person had saved a newer edit
> - This pull request adds the document's current revision to the
exact-revision read
> - The benefit is that a pinned read cannot pass as a read of the
current document

## Linked Issues or Issue Description

**What happened**

In a chat eval, the agent restored a plan revision. Then another person
saved a new revision. The user asked the agent to read the current plan.
The agent called `GET
/api/issues/{id}/documents/plan/revisions/{revisionId}` with the ID of
its own restored revision. The response did not show that a newer
revision existed. The agent reported the old revision as the latest and
said that the read confirmed this.

**Expected behavior**

A read of one exact revision must show if that revision is still
current, and which revision is current. Then the reader can see a newer
edit and read the current document.

**Steps to reproduce**

1. Save two revisions of a task plan.
2. Call `GET
/api/issues/{id}/documents/plan/revisions/{firstRevisionId}`.
3. See that the response gives no sign that revision 2 is the current
revision.

## What Changed

- `getIssueDocumentRevision` now also returns `latestRevisionId`,
`latestRevisionNumber` and `isLatest`.
- Shared type `ExactDocumentRevision` describes this response. The UI
client uses it.
- The OpenAPI description of the exact-revision read names these fields
and points to `GET /api/issues/{id}/documents/{key}` for the current
text.
- The service test checks `isLatest` for an older and a current
revision.

## Verification

- `cd server && pnpm exec vitest run
src/__tests__/documents-service.test.ts
src/__tests__/openapi-routes.test.ts` (42 passed).
- `npx tsc --noEmit -p packages/shared` passes.

## Risks

- Low risk. The change only adds fields to a read response. No caller
removes or renames a field. No migration.

## Model Used

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

## Checklist

- [x] I have included a thinking path that traces from project context
to this change
- [x] I have specified the model used (with version and capability
details)
- [x] I have checked ROADMAP.md and confirmed this PR does not duplicate
planned core work
- [x] I have searched GitHub for duplicate or related PRs and linked
them above
- [x] I have either (a) linked existing issues with `Fixes: #` / `Closes
#` / `Refs #` OR (b) described the issue in-PR following the relevant
issue template
- [x] I have not referenced internal/instance-local Paperclip issues or
links (only public GitHub `#NNN` / `github.com/paperclipai/paperclip`
URLs)
- [x] My branch name describes the change (e.g. `docs/...`, `fix/...`)
and contains no internal Paperclip ticket id or instance-derived details
- [x] I have run tests locally and they pass
- [x] I have added or updated tests where applicable
- [x] I have updated relevant documentation to reflect my changes
- [x] I have considered and documented any risks above
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DottaandClaude Opus 5.5 f5400e2594 feat(recovery): settle the accepted-result lease on the shared ownership path (#19933)
## Thinking Path

> - Paperclip is the open source app people use to manage AI agents for
work.
> - A control-plane restart can kill the controller after an agent's
result is accepted. The result then stays leased to a dead process.
> - Today a private sweep (`native-dead-controller-result-lease.ts`,
#19713) proves that controller dead with its own liveness rules.
> - The durable-ownership plan (#19831) replaces private proofs with one
prover (`proveOwnerGone`, #19853) and one registry (#19861).
> - This pull request moves the accepted-result executor lease to that
shared path and deletes the private sweep. It is Phase 2's first kind.
> - The benefit is one tested rule for when a dead owner's result lease
is released, and the reconciler now repairs a lease that restart
recovery missed.

## Linked Issues or Issue Description

Refs #19831 (plan), #19853 (prover), #19861 (registry), #19713 (old
sweep), #19883 (legacy host fallback), #19927 (Phase 2 data).

**What happened?**
The accepted-result lease had its own liveness proof, separate from the
shared prover. The reconciler could only report a dead owner, not settle
it. When restart recovery missed a lease, it waited out the 20-minute
lease.

**What did you expect?**
One prover decides, and both restart recovery and the periodic
reconciler pass settle a lease whose controller is proven gone.

**Steps to reproduce**
1. Accept a native run result.
2. Kill the controller (SIGKILL) and start a new server.
3. If the restart sweep does not see the row, the result stays leased
until the lease expires.

## What Changed

- `ownership-registry.ts`: a kind may register `settle` and
`onUnprovable`. `native_accepted_result_lease` registers both. Other
kinds stay report-only.
- New `native-accepted-result-lease-settlement.ts`: a compare-and-swap
settle that expires exactly the proven owner's lease. It keeps the old
guards: the run must still be `running`, remote copyback stays fenced,
and a lease taken over since the proof is left alone.
- `ownership-invariant-report.ts`: the pass calls `settle` on `gone` and
`onUnprovable` on `unprovable`. A read-only pass (`record: false`) never
settles. New `settleOwnableKind()` for restart recovery.
- `heartbeat/recovery.ts`: restart recovery calls
`settleOwnableKind("native_accepted_result_lease")` instead of the old
sweep.
- Deleted `native-dead-controller-result-lease.ts`.
- `owner-proof.ts`: accepts a board attestation (`operator_attested`).
It also keeps the one-release local fallback for rows saved before their
PID space was recorded, on single-host servers only, and flags each use
so it is logged (`legacy_host_unknown_dead_pid_proof`, #19883). An
ephemeral server returns `unprovable` (`process_space_unrecorded`) and
the existing "confirm the previous server stopped" board action is
raised.

## Verification

- `cd server && npx vitest run
src/__tests__/heartbeat-native-restart-suspension.test.ts`: 27 pass, 7
of them new.
- `npx vitest run src/services/owner-proof.test.ts
src/__tests__/ownership-reconciliation-report.test.ts`: pass.
- Red/green (tests written after the code): 5 new behaviour tests fail
on master and pass here. They cover the ephemeral board action, the
reconciler-pass settle, the live-owner counter-case in that pass, the
legacy marker, and operator attestation. The stamped-dead-controller and
foreign-PID-space cases pass on both, as the old path behaved the same.
- Server typecheck passes (`npx tsc --noEmit -p server/tsconfig.json`).
- Not run locally: the full server suite (`pnpm verify` asks for broad
coverage because a file was deleted). Required CI covers it.

## Risks

- Previous-release story (rules/upgrade-safe-run-state.mdc): NRF rows
saved before #19868 have no `controller_host_hash`. They keep the same
one-release local proof as before on single-host servers, and each use
is logged. On ephemeral servers they stay unprovable and ask the board,
as before. Rows on another PID space keep their lease (the fence), as
before.
- Fail-open risk: settle is compare-and-swap on the lease token, boot,
PID, host hash and start time of the proven owner. An `unprovable` owner
is never released. Live-owner and foreign-space cases are tested.
- No change adds work before `turn.start`.

## Model Used

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

## Checklist

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details)
- [x] I have checked ROADMAP.md and confirmed this PR does not duplicate
planned core work
- [x] I have searched GitHub for duplicate or related PRs and linked
them above
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#` / `Refs #` OR (b) described the issue in-PR following the relevant
issue template
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links (only public GitHub `#NNN` / `github.com/paperclipai/paperclip`
URLs)
- [x] My branch name describes the change (e.g. `docs/...`, `fix/...`)
and contains no internal Paperclip ticket id or instance-derived details
- [x] I have run tests locally and they pass
- [x] I have added or updated tests where applicable
- [x] I have updated relevant documentation to reflect my changes
- [x] I have considered and documented any risks above
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DottaandClaude Opus 5.5 18644a3263 feat(recovery): instrument 20 durable write boundaries with crash points (#19938)
## 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
> - #19937 added `crashPoint(name)` and a registry of 20 named
boundaries from the Phase 0 inventory
> - A name without a call site cannot fire, so the crash-point suite
cannot test it
> - This pull request puts one call at each registered boundary and adds
a test that keeps the registry and the call sites in step
> - The benefit is that the on-demand suite (next pull request) can kill
the control plane at every known write-ahead gap

## Linked Issues or Issue Description

Refs #19831 (plan, Phase 5). Refs #19846 (inventory, "Write-ahead
coverage"). Stacked on #19937 (helper and registry). Refs #19861
(ownable kind ids).

**Problem**
The registered crash points have no call sites.

**Expected behavior**
Each registered point is called at its gap: after the first durable
write or outside effect returns, before the next one starts. Disarmed
(always in production) each call is one comparison.

**Scope**
Call sites and a coverage test only. The suite runner and CI workflow
follow.

## What Changed

- Server call sites (`@paperclipai/shared/crash-points`):
- `sandbox-creation-operations.ts`: around the provider `create` call
(intent → provider → lease).
- `native-session-executor.ts`: after `native.process_start_requested`,
before spawn.
- `paperclip-control-plane-port.ts`: after the result-accept
transaction, before finalization starts (only when a result was
inserted).
- `native-run-finalizer.ts`: after `commitNativeStatusDecision`, before
the run projection.
- `workspace-operations.ts`: `workspace_finalize` only — after the
running row, and after `settle()` before the done row.
- `environment-runtime.ts`: provider release → lease row; teardown claim
→ destroy; reusable destroy → lease release; stop-and-retain claim →
stop.
- `heartbeat.ts`: lease release → runtime services; budget reservation
hold → dispatch.
- `heartbeat/queue.ts`: run claimed `running` → wake request `claimed`.
- `run-cost-accounting.ts`, `usage-receipts.ts`: accounting commit →
spool unlink; receipt spool → DB row → unlink.
- `packages/paperclip-runner/src/crash-point.ts`: a small copy of the
helper for controller code in this package, which does not depend on
`@paperclipai/shared` (adding that dependency would change the runner
content ID). It arms only `runner.*` names. runnerd never sees the
variable: its environment is an allowlist.
- Runner call sites: after the runnerd spawn, before its identity is
published (both spawn paths); `turn.start` result received → controller
journal saved → next send.
- `server/src/__tests__/crash-point-call-sites.test.ts`: every
registered point has a call site, every call names a registered point,
and every `kinds` entry is an ownable kind id of the Phase 1 registry.

## Verification

- `cd server && npx vitest run
src/__tests__/crash-point-call-sites.test.ts` → 3 passed.
- `pnpm --filter @paperclipai/server typecheck` → clean. `pnpm --filter
@paperclipai/paperclip-runner exec tsc --noEmit -p .` → clean.
- Behavior with nothing armed is unchanged: each call returns at its
first comparison (measured in #19937: about 3.7 ns).

## Risks

- Low risk. No call changes control flow unless `PAPERCLIP_CRASH_POINT`
names it and `NODE_ENV` is not `production`.
- Points on the path before `turn.start` (process start, runner spawn)
cost nanoseconds, within plan invariant 8.
- `usage-receipts.ts`: the persist-then-unlink one-liner became a block
with the same statements in the same order.
- The runner package change gives the runner a new content ID, as any
runner source change does. No persisted run state changes
(rules/upgrade-safe-run-state.mdc).

## Model Used

- Claude Opus 5.5 (`claude-opus-5-5`), Anthropic, via Claude Code with
tool use (shell, file edits) and a read-only exploration subagent that
mapped the boundaries.

## Checklist

- [x] I have included a thinking path that traces from project context
to this change
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details)
- [x] I have checked ROADMAP.md and confirmed this PR does not duplicate
planned core work
- [x] I have searched GitHub for duplicate or related PRs and linked
them above
- [x] I have either (a) linked existing issues with `Fixes: #` / `Closes
#` / `Refs #` OR (b) described the issue in-PR following the relevant
issue template
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links (only public GitHub `#NNN` / `github.com/paperclipai/paperclip`
URLs)
- [x] My branch name describes the change (e.g. `docs/...`, `fix/...`)
and contains no internal Paperclip ticket id or instance-derived details
- [x] I have run tests locally and they pass
- [x] I have added or updated tests where applicable
- [x] I have updated relevant documentation to reflect my changes
- [x] I have considered and documented any risks above
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DottaandClaude Opus 5.5 2a2d3f6e23 fix(ui): stop refetching the @task mention pool on every task event (#19931)
## Thinking Path

> - Paperclip is the open source app people use to manage AI agents for
work
> - The board UI keeps its caches fresh from live events in
`LiveUpdatesProvider`
> - Each task activity event invalidates the whole `["issues",
companyId]` query prefix
> - That prefix also holds the `@task` mention pool: the 100 most
recently updated tasks, about 315 KB per response
> - A chat turn emits many comment, status and run events, so an open
task page downloads that list again for almost every event
> - This pull request keeps the pool fresh from push events without a
refetch per event: a closed server flag marks real membership or title
changes, progress on pooled tasks reorders the cache in place, and other
progress refetches at most once per 30 seconds
> - The benefit is less bandwidth and CPU for users with an open task or
chat, and smaller eval traces

## Linked Issues or Issue Description

**What happened**
While a task chat page is open, the browser repeats `GET
/api/companies/:id/issues?limit=100&sortField=updated&sortDir=desc`
(about 315 KB each). One 10-minute chat-eval attempt recorded about 194
of these requests. The trigger is `invalidateActivityQueries` in
`ui/src/context/LiveUpdatesProvider.tsx`. For every `entityType:
"issue"` activity event, it invalidates
`queryKeys.issues.list(companyId)`. That prefix matches
`queryKeys.issues.mentionPool(companyId)`, which `IssueDetail` (and
`NewIssueDialog`) keep active for the `@task` picker. Invalidation
refetches active queries and ignores `staleTime`.

**Expected behavior**
Comments, run progress and status changes on any task do not download
the full mention pool again. The pool still updates when a task that the
picker can show is created, deleted or renamed.

**Steps to reproduce**
1. Run `pnpm dev` and create a company with about 140 tasks.
2. Open a task page, for example `/REF/issues/REF-1`.
3. Every 4 seconds for 15 rounds, post comments on the open task, on a
task in the top 100, and on a task outside the top 100, and change the
open task's priority (60 events).
4. Count requests to `issues?limit=100&sortField=updated`. Before this
change there are 15 (about 3.3 MB). After this change there are 2 (about
480 KB).

## What Changed

- New shared helper `issueActivityChangesTaskIdentity`
(`packages/shared/src/issue-activity-identity.ts`). It is true for a
created, deleted, hidden, unhidden or renamed task.
- `server/src/realtime/live-events-ws.ts`: task `activity.logged` events
now carry the closed boolean `taskIdentityChanged`. Authenticated
sockets still get no `details`; the flag carries no task content.
- `ui/src/context/LiveUpdatesProvider.tsx` refreshes the mention pool
this way:
- The task identity flag is true (or full details show a create, delete,
hide, unhide or rename): the pool refetches at once.
- Other events on a task already in the pool: the task moves to the
front of the cached list. There is no request. The freshness clock does
not change, and a pending invalidation is never overwritten.
- Other events on a task outside the pool: one trailing refetch at most
every 30 seconds, because the task can now be in the top 100.
  - The picker is closed: the pool is only marked stale.
- `ui/src/lib/query-invalidation-batcher.ts`: new `excludingQueryKeys()`
keyed exclusion predicate. The batcher coalesces it and uses it for
prefix coverage. The broad `["issues", companyId]` invalidation uses it
to skip the pool, so a burst is again one broad refresh per batch.
- Tests: `ui/src/context/LiveUpdatesProvider.mention-pool.test.ts`
(authenticated event shape, hide and unhide, the 30-second window,
reorder safety, a burst through the batcher), new batcher tests,
`packages/shared/src/issue-activity-identity.test.ts`, and socket
assertions in `server/src/__tests__/live-events-toast.test.ts`.

## Verification

- `cd ui && npx vitest run src/context/LiveUpdatesProvider
src/lib/query-invalidation-batcher`: 231 tests pass.
- `cd server && npx vitest run src/__tests__/live-events-toast.test.ts`:
11 tests pass. In authenticated mode the socket keeps `details` off and
sends `taskIdentityChanged` (false for routine updates, true for a
create, rename or hide).
- `cd packages/shared && npx vitest run
src/issue-activity-identity.test.ts`: 14 tests pass.
- The new UI tests fail against the first commit of this PR: the
authenticated burst, hide, unhide, the 30-second window and the batcher
burst.
- `tsc --noEmit` for ui, server and shared: no new errors.
- Browser measurement: a local `pnpm dev` instance (local trusted),
headless Chromium on a task page, 141 tasks, 60 events over about 63
seconds (the reproduction steps above):
  - Before (master UI): **15** mention-pool requests, about 3.3 MB.
  - After: **2** requests, about 480 KB (one per 30-second window).
- Freshness after the fix: one rename, hide, unhide or create each
caused **1** refetch. A priority change caused **0**.
- I did not run a browser session in authenticated mode. The
authenticated event shape is covered by the socket test and the UI unit
tests.

## Risks

- A task that moves into the top 100 can be missing from the `@task`
picker for up to 30 seconds.
- The cached order is approximate between refetches: a moved task goes
to the front, but its `updatedAt` value is not changed.
- Other queries under `["issues", companyId]` (descendants,
created-from, summaries, onboarding first task) still refresh for each
event batch. They are small, but they can get the same treatment later.

## Model Used

- Anthropic Claude Opus 5.5 (`claude-opus-5-5`), 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
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 4a8c8003fd feat(recovery): add the crashPoint helper and crash-point registry (#19937)
## Thinking Path

> - Paperclip is the open source app people use to manage AI agents for
work
> - A control-plane restart can land between two durable writes and
leave an in-progress record owned by a dead process
> - The restart-chaos campaign found these windows (20 ms–1 s) by luck,
with random kill timing
> - The durable ownership plan (Phase 5, "Testing: enumerate crash
points") asks for named crash points at each durable write boundary, so
a suite can kill the process at each one on purpose
> - Phases 2–4 run in parallel and need the helper early for their
per-kind tests
> - This pull request adds only the `crashPoint` helper and the registry
of named points
> - The benefit is one shared, zero-cost way to mark a boundary and to
arm it in a test

## Linked Issues or Issue Description

Refs #19831 (plan, "Testing: enumerate crash points", Phase 5). Refs
#19846 (Phase 0 inventory). Refs #19861 (Phase 1 registry; the
crash-point `kinds` use its kind ids).

**Problem**
No code marks the durable write boundaries. A test cannot stop the
control plane at a chosen boundary, so restart bugs are found only when
random chaos timing hits a window.

**Expected behavior**
A call `crashPoint("<name>")` at each boundary. In test mode an
environment variable makes the process SIGKILL itself at the nth hit of
one name. In production the call does nothing and costs nothing
measurable.

**Scope**
Helper and registry only. The call sites, the suite runner and the CI
workflow follow in separate pull requests.

## What Changed

- `packages/shared/src/crash-points.ts` (subpath export
`@paperclipai/shared/crash-points`, server-side only):
- `crashPoint(name)`. Disarmed, it is one comparison against a module
constant.
- `PAPERCLIP_CRASH_POINT=<name>[:<nth>]` arms one point when the module
loads. The nth hit appends a JSON receipt to
`PAPERCLIP_CRASH_POINT_RECEIPT` (optional), writes a `[crash-point]`
line to stderr, and sends SIGKILL to the process.
- `PAPERCLIP_CRASH_POINT_GATE=<file>` (optional): hits before the file
exists do not count, so setup work cannot fire the point.
- The variable is ignored when `NODE_ENV=production`. An unknown name
throws at import, so a typo cannot arm nothing.
- `armCrashPointForTest(spec)` throws `CrashPointReached` at the nth hit
instead, for in-process per-kind tests (Phases 2–4). It returns a disarm
function.
- `packages/shared/src/crash-point-registry.ts` (browser-safe data): 20
named points from the inventory's write-ahead table. Each has a
description, the environments that reach it (local, Daytona), the
ownable kind ids it affects, and the invariants (I1–I8) at risk. Names
follow `<subsystem>.<record>.<before|after>_<step>`.
- `packages/shared/src/crash-points.test.ts`: registry shape, spec
parsing, throw mode, real SIGKILL of a child process with a receipt, the
gate, production disarm, unknown-name refusal, and a disarmed-cost
check.

## Verification

- `cd packages/shared && npx vitest run src/crash-points.test.ts` → 11
passed.
- Disarmed cost on an M-series Mac: `crashPoint disarmed: 3.66 ns/call
(empty call 0.61 ns)`. A turn passes a handful of points, so the added
time before `turn.start` is in nanoseconds (plan invariant 8). The test
fails if the cost exceeds an empty call by more than 10 ns.
- `cd packages/shared && npx tsc --noEmit -p .` → clean.

## Risks

- Low risk. Nothing calls `crashPoint` yet, and nothing reads the
variable in production.
- An operator who sets `PAPERCLIP_CRASH_POINT` on a non-production
server makes it kill itself. The variable name and the `[crash-point]
armed` stderr line make this visible.
- No persisted run state changes (rules/upgrade-safe-run-state.mdc: no
previous-release story is needed).

## Model Used

- Claude Opus 5.5 (`claude-opus-5-5`), Anthropic, via Claude Code with
tool use (shell, file edits) and a read-only exploration subagent.

## Checklist

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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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links (only public GitHub `#NNN` / `github.com/paperclipai/paperclip`
URLs)
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and contains no internal Paperclip ticket id or instance-derived details
- [x] I have run tests locally and they pass
- [x] I have added or updated tests where applicable
- [x] I have updated relevant documentation to reflect my changes
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DottaandClaude Opus 5.5 7fd98682ca fix(workspaces): give every subtask its own execution workspace (#19860)
## Thinking Path

> - Paperclip is the open source app people use to manage AI agents for
work
> - Agents split work into child tasks, and each task runs in an
execution workspace (a checkout, branch, or sandbox folder)
> - Since early 2026, a new child task used its parent's realized
workspace by default: the same checkout, branch and sandbox
> - A parent and its child often run at the same time. Two writers in
one folder lose each other's files, the waking parent is cancelled with
`workspace_busy`, and sandbox lease ownership crosses from the parent
into the child, so retained-file recovery refuses the workspace as
ambiguous
> - The product rule is simple: a subtask gets its own workspace,
independent of the parent's saved files. Paperclip never needs to carry
a parent's unmerged changes into a child
> - This pull request makes that the only behaviour on every creation
path, and moves existing shared children to their own workspace on their
next run, with no user or admin action
> - The benefit is that parents and children never block or overwrite
each other, and recovery ownership stays with one task

## Linked Issues or Issue Description

**What happened?**
A child task inherited its parent's realized execution workspace by
default (`createChild` defaulted to `executionWorkspaceInheritanceMode:
"linkage"`, and `issueService.create` fell back from
`inheritExecutionWorkspaceFromIssueId` to `parentId`). When the parent
woke while the child wrote to the shared workspace, the parent run was
cancelled with `workspace_busy`. In sandbox environments, the lease
ownership chain crossed from the parent into the child, and
retained-file recovery refused the workspace with
`allocation_ownership_ambiguous`.

**Expected behavior**
Every new child task gets its own execution workspace, realized from the
project base exactly as a top-level task in that project. It never uses
the parent's checkout, branch, saved snapshot or unmerged changes. A
parent and its descendant never share a workspace by any route.

**Steps to reproduce**
1. Run a parent task in a project with isolated (git worktree) or
sandbox workspaces, so the parent has a realized execution workspace.
2. From the parent run, create a child task with only `parentId` (or
through the runner `create_task` tool, chat suggestions, decision
effects, plugins, or the New sub-task dialog).
3. See that the child's `executionWorkspaceId` is the parent's, with
`executionWorkspacePreference: "reuse_existing"`.
4. Wake the parent while the child runs in a sandbox environment. The
parent run is cancelled with `workspace_busy`.

**Additional context**
Refs #9233 (the existing `strategy_only` opt-out).
The opt-out `executionWorkspaceInheritanceMode: "strategy_only"` already
existed for accepted-plan decomposition. This change makes that
behaviour (tightened to drop a pinned existing branch) the only
behaviour.

## What Changed

- **One rule for every creation path
(`server/src/services/issues.ts`).** `issueService.create` still uses
the parent (or `inheritExecutionWorkspaceFromIssueId`) as a source for
the project, project workspace and workspace *strategy*, but it never
copies the source's `executionWorkspaceId`, `reuse_existing` preference,
or pinned existing branch. All server paths that create a task go
through `create()`/`createChild()`: issue routes (`POST /issues`, `POST
/issues/:id/children`, the run-bound default parent and run workspace
source), runner `create_task`, chat suggestion acceptance, native status
decisions, accepted-plan decomposition, decision effects, plugins
(`ctx.issues.create`), external agents, watchdog follow-ups, monitor
recovery issues, case handoffs and email channels.
- **Explicit ancestor workspaces are dropped.** If a create names an
`executionWorkspaceId` (or an `existing` workspace selection) that an
ancestor of the new task created or is bound to, `create()` drops it and
keeps only the strategy. Older clients and skills that copied the
parent's id keep working and get an independent workspace.
- **`createChild` no longer has a "linkage" mode.**
`executionWorkspaceInheritanceMode` is still accepted from internal
callers and is ignored.
- **`inheritExecutionWorkspaceFromIssueId` decision.** I kept the field
for API compatibility, but it now copies only the source issue's project
and workspace strategy. I removed its workspace-sharing behaviour for
every pair, not only parent/child: the source task and its follow-up can
run at the same time (the runner, watchdog and status-decision callers
all create the follow-up while the source run is live), so sharing would
again let two tasks write one folder. Explicit sharing between unrelated
tasks stays available through an explicit `existing` workspace
selection.
- **New `server/src/services/task-workspace-lineage.ts`.**
`buildIndependentTaskWorkspaceSettings` (strategy only: mode,
environment, runtime, network egress, shared-workspace concurrency, base
ref, branch template, commands; no `reuse_existing`, no
`operator_branch`, no `existingBranch`), `loadTaskLineageIssueIds` (the
parent chain plus, for a task that depth placement put beside its
requester, the requester's chain via `privacyParentIssueId`) and
`isAncestorExecutionWorkspace` (the workspace's `sourceIssueId` is in
that lineage, or a lineage issue is bound to it). A child in another
project does not take the parent's strategy.
- **Upgrade-safe rebind at admission.**
`executionWorkspaceService.releaseAncestorWorkspaceBindingAtAdmission`
runs at the same admission point as the pending workspace selection
(`heartbeat.ts`). For a child (or a flattened task beside its requester)
that an older release bound to an ancestor's workspace, it clears the
child's binding (keeps the project workspace and strategy, bumps the
binding revision) so the run realizes the child's own workspace. It does
nothing while another run of the child is running, while the child's
earlier run still owns workspace finalization or recovery, for native
restart/lease-owner recovery, for a process-loss retry, or for a Retry
that keeps the current workspace. The parent and its workspace are never
changed.
- **Projects without a project workspace (per-task repository
acquisition).** A parent with no project workspace worked in its own
task files, so its settings (for example `isolated_workspace`) do not
describe the project base. A child of such a parent, and an older child
released from one, takes the project's defaults exactly like a top-level
task, instead of an isolated mode that would resolve to a git worktree
with no git base ("needs a project / project workspace"). When the
child's new workspace is created at admission,
`executionWorkspaceRepositoryService.prepareForAdmission` repeats the
parent's (or requester's) repository requests as the child's own pending
requests (identity, URL, catalog id and requested ref only; no pinned
commit, branch or files). The normal acquisition path then clones a
fresh copy into the child's task files with the child's own access
checks. This runs only for a workspace created by that admission, so
existing tasks never gain repositories.
- **UI.** The New sub-task dialog no longer pre-selects the parent's
workspace. `buildSubIssueDefaults` drops `executionWorkspaceId` and
`reuse_existing`, and derives the parent's independent mode
(`shared_workspace`, `isolated_workspace` or `agent_default`) from its
preference, saved settings or current workspace. The "This sub-task will
no longer use the parent task workspace" warning is removed.
- **Contracts and docs.** Shared validator and plugin SDK comments
describe the new meaning of `inheritExecutionWorkspaceFromIssueId`.
Updated `doc/execution-semantics.md` (new rule in §6 and a wording fix
in the retained-sandbox paragraph), `doc/SPEC-implementation.md` (child
workspace rule, requester keeps *strategy* inheritance, watchdog
follow-ups), `doc/SPEC.md` (task workspace ownership),
`docs/specs/external-task-protocol.md`, `skills/paperclip/SKILL.md`
(step 9 and the workspace bullet),
`skills/paperclip/references/issue-workspaces.md`, the CEO onboarding
`HEARTBEAT.md`, and the plugin SDK README.

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

- **Migrated on next admission.** A child that the previous release
bound to its parent's (or any ancestor's) execution workspace keeps that
binding until its next normal admission. Then the server clears the
binding and the run realizes the child's own workspace from the project
base. No schema migration is needed. No user or admin action is needed.
- **In-flight writers finish first.** A running child is not
interrupted. Its current run, its native restart recovery (admitted
native input or lease owner), a process-loss retry, and a Retry that
keeps the current workspace all finish in the shared workspace. While a
child's earlier run is still running or its workspace finalization or
recovery is unsettled, the binding stays and a later admission releases
it.
- **No files are dropped.** The release changes only the child's binding
row. The parent keeps its binding, and the shared workspace row, folder,
branch and saved snapshots are not touched. Anything the child left
there stays in the parent's workspace.
- **No new refusal codes.** Saved run identity (native execution input,
leases, checkpoints) is not changed or refused; the rebind only affects
new admissions.

## Verification

- New `server/src/__tests__/subtask-workspace-independence.test.ts`
(embedded Postgres): `create` with `parentId`, `createChild` with no
mode / `"linkage"` / `"strategy_only"`,
`inheritExecutionWorkspaceFromIssueId` pointing at the parent, explicit
parent and grandparent `executionWorkspaceId`, a non-child follow-up,
and unchanged top-level defaults and explicit top-level reuse. 7
creation cases fail on `master` and pass with this change. Admission
cases: an old-release child is rebound while its parent is running and
the parent keeps its workspace; a running child is not rebound (deploy
lands mid-run); an unrelated explicit share is kept; the parent is never
rebound.
- New heartbeat case in
`server/src/__tests__/heartbeat-workspace-busy.test.ts`: an old-release
child bound to its running parent's workspace in a sandbox environment
runs to `succeeded` with no `workspace_busy`, gets a new workspace, and
the parent run and binding stay unchanged. It fails on `master` (the
child waits with `workspace_busy`).
- Updated tests that asserted the old inheritance in
`issues-service.test.ts`, `task-workspace-binding.test.ts`,
`chat-project-tools.test.ts`, `task-workspace-child-trust.test.ts`,
`heartbeat-git-restore-point-resume.test.ts` (a child bound to a closed
parent's expired workspace now starts from the project base and leaves
the parent's restore point alone), and
`ui/src/lib/subIssueDefaults.test.ts`. Remote-workspace reservation,
continuation and writer-wait suites now seed the older-release shared
shape directly (or an unrelated explicit share), so those safety paths
stay covered.
- `npx vitest run` on the changed suites and about 45 related server
suites (heartbeat workspace, recovery admission, issue routes, routines,
plugins), `ui` `subIssueDefaults` and `NewIssueDialog` tests, `pnpm
check:token-gates`, `pnpm -r typecheck`.

- New
`server/src/__tests__/heartbeat-subtask-acquired-repository.test.ts`: a
project with no project workspace, a parent whose task files hold an
acquired repository with an unmerged change, and a child (new, and the
older-release shape bound to the parent's workspace) that runs to
`succeeded` in its own task files with a fresh clone at the project base
and its own ready repository receipt. The parent's checkout keeps its
change. Both cases fail on the previous head with "needs a project /
project workspace".

## Risks

- **Project-level configuration still applies to children exactly as to
top-level tasks.** In a project configured for `shared_workspace`, every
task (top-level or child) uses the project's one folder under the
existing shared-workspace concurrency policy. A branch that the project
itself pins applies to every task in the project. This PR removes only
the parent-to-child carry-over of the realized workspace; it does not
change those project defaults.
- **Standalone follow-ups that an older release bound through
`inheritExecutionWorkspaceFromIssueId`** are migrated only when the
source is in their recorded lineage (parent or privacy parent). Others
keep their explicit share and the existing writer-wait serialization.

- **Behaviour change for agents that relied on a shared checkout.** A
child or follow-up no longer sees the parent's unpushed or uncommitted
changes. Agents must push or merge code they want a subtask to build on.
The skill and onboarding text now say this.
- **Explicit ancestor workspace ids are silently dropped** instead of
rejected, so older clients do not break. The task gets an independent
workspace.
- **First run of a migrated child starts from the project base.** If an
older child had uncommitted work in the parent's workspace, that work
stays in the parent's workspace and is not copied into the child's new
workspace.
- **Admission adds one indexed read** for tasks with a parent and a
bound workspace; the locking transaction and ancestor query run only
when the bound workspace was created by another issue.

## Model Used

- Claude Opus 5.5 (Anthropic), model ID `claude-opus-5-5`, used through
Claude Code with tool use (file edits, shell, test execution) 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
- [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 5f1b1bb81d fix(recovery): continue from the last save when a retained source cannot be verified (#19867)
## Thinking Path

> - Paperclip is the open source app people use to manage AI agents for
work.
> - When a native run cannot save its files, a retained-file recovery
hold blocks the task until the worker saves them from the retained
sandbox.
> - The worker verifies the recorded source strictly. This includes the
reusable-lease chain of the sandbox.
> - A reusable sandbox chain can cross from a parent task into a child
task. The check then refuses the source with
`allocation_ownership_ambiguous` on every attempt.
> - Retry repeats the same refusal. The task stays blocked by three
gates: the saved-work wait, the repair flag and the remote writer hold.
The only text left tells a person to inspect the run and its
environment.
> - The source check must stay strict. Recovery must still work without
a person.
> - This pull request adds an automatic fallback: the task continues
from its last committed workspace save, the unverified files are
attached to the task but never applied, and the unverified workspace
epoch is abandoned so its root is never reused.
> - The benefit is that tasks with an unverifiable retained source
continue by themselves, with no lost saved work and no admin action.

## Linked Issues or Issue Description

Refs #19840 (removes the "inspect the run and its environment" text and
keeps Retry; this change removes the need for that Retry).

**What happened?**

A child task ran in a reusable sandbox that it inherited from its parent
task. The run saved a checkpoint, wrote more files, and then failed to
save them. Retained-file recovery refused the source with
`allocation_ownership_ambiguous`, because the lease history of the
sandbox crosses into the parent task. The hold was exhausted after one
attempt. Retry made a new generation that failed the same way. The task
stayed blocked with `saved_work_recovery_failed`,
`workspaceRepairRequired: true`, and the failed run still the dirty
writer of the workspace. A second task had a stale exhausted hold for a
run whose files a sibling recovery action had already saved. That hold
also kept the task from continuing.

**Expected behavior**

Recovery works without a person. When the source cannot be verified, the
task continues from its last saved version. The unverified files are not
applied, but they stay available. A stale hold whose files were already
saved settles as recovered.

**Steps to reproduce**

1. Use a native run with a remote workspace whose reusable sandbox lease
history includes a lease of another task.
2. Let the run save a checkpoint, write more files, and fail its final
save.
3. Let retained-file recovery run, or press Retry.
4. Before this change, the hold is exhausted with
`allocation_ownership_ambiguous` and the task stays blocked.

**Paperclip version or commit**

Observed on deployed builds that include `630411af53`. Holds saved by
the Nov 3–6 releases have this shape.

## What Changed

- New `server/src/services/workspace-recovery-fallback.ts`:
- `continueFromLastSavedWorkspace` runs when a hold is exhausted by a
permanent source refusal: `allocation_ownership_ambiguous`,
`source_binding_invalid`, `source_unavailable` or
`historical_source_missing` with retry class `service_required` or
`use_alternative_strategy`. It applies only to remote workspace sources
in the `prepared` state.
- Quarantine (secrets omitted under the workspace file policy: `.env`,
keys, repository metadata, dependency directories): if the retained root
is readable, the worker copies it with the existing read-only capture
(no write to the sandbox), converts it to a `.tar`, stores it, and
attaches it to the task as `unverified-files-run-<runId>.tar`. A
`workspace_recovery_quarantine` operation records it as `verified:
false, applied: false`. If the root is not readable, the worker records
a closed reason label.
- Stop proof: every allocation of the source run must carry a provider
stop receipt. A missing receipt is obtained through the same stop-only
cleanup as normal recovery (`prepareSandboxStopAndRetain` /
`prepareHistoricalSandboxStopVerification`,
`retryPendingSandboxTeardown`, `settleStopOnlyCleanup`). A sandbox that
another lease holds (`active` / `pending_cleanup`) is never read or
stopped from here; the hold waits.
- One transaction (lock order: task, coordinator, run, recovery action,
workspace) re-checks all facts including the stop receipts, abandons the
epoch, resolves the hold with the named outcome
`retained_source_unverifiable_continued_from_last_saved`, records an
`executionReconciliation` decision with `retainedSourceFallback`, and
denies native replacement. A Blocked task belongs to the hold only while
the hold's own `workspaceFinalizationBlock` receipt still owns that
status version, or, for receipt-less holds saved by older releases,
while the block was set by the run's terminal failure (within its
finalization window) and no status decision followed. Only then is the
task restored to `todo` and a continuation scheduled; a newer block is
kept and no continuation starts. The decision carries machine
`workspaceRepairEvidence`, which the reconciled admission requires for
runs with a restore failure.
- Continuation: with no waiting user input, the hold uses
`continuationDelivery: "pending"`, so the existing reconciled delivery
starts one continuation. Waiting user input continues the task itself
(`not_requested`), so there is never a second continuation.
- Agent note: the decision's `outcomeEvidence` (part of the
continuation's recovery outcomes) says that the run's unsaved changes
could not be verified and were not applied, where the attached copy is,
that the agent should check what to redo, and that completed external
actions must not be repeated.
- `settleSiblingRecoveredHold`: an exhausted hold whose run has a
verified repair receipt from a different recovery action settles as
recovered. It runs for every exhausted hold, including adoptable native
sources. A sibling marked recovered whose receipt no longer verifies
records a permanent deferral, so discovery does not reselect it.
- Deferral: when the fallback cannot settle yet, the hold records
`retainedSourceFallbackCheck` (reason, generation, count). Transient
reasons (live writer, running operation, missing stop, sandbox in use,
pending status effect, lock busy, storage failure) are checked again
after 5 minutes, at most 12 times. Permanent reasons (uncertain external
action, non-remote source) wait for new input, Retry or a new
generation. Storage or database failures after a successful read are
retryable and never recorded as "unreadable".
- New `server/src/services/workspace-recovery-fallback-discovery.ts`:
SQL for pending and due fallbacks. `retainedWorkspaceCandidates` (the
production worker's obligations sweep) and `nextWorkspaceRecoveryAt`
(its scheduler) include them, so the worker reaches old holds without
saved input.
- New `server/src/services/remote-workspace-epoch-abandonment.ts` (kept
out of `remote-workspaces.ts`, which is near 1,000 lines): authority
transition `abandonUnverifiedRemoteWorkspaceEpoch`. It clears the writer
and the dirty flag, keeps `snapshotId`, drops `location`, advances the
epoch, clears `providerRef` and the migration root, and records the
abandoned epoch. The next preparation restores the last save into a new
`<workspace>-<epoch>-<lease>` root.
- `server/src/services/workspace-recovery.ts`: hooks. An exhausted hold
first tries the sibling settlement, then the fallback (under the
existing workspace ownership lock). A fresh permanent refusal in an
attempt runs the fallback in the same pass, under the same ownership.
- `remote-workspace-transport.ts`: export the existing read-only
capture.
- `packages/shared`: optional `retainedSourceFallback` on
`ExecutionReconciliation`.
- `doc/execution-semantics.md`: document the fallback.
- No new polling or worker: the fallback runs inside the existing
retained-workspace recovery pass
(`rules/sleep-aware-background-work.mdc`).

Safety:

- The cross-task lease check (`retiredReusableLeasePredecessors`) is
unchanged and stays strict. Unverified files are never applied.
- No second executor: the source run, its controller and its finalizer
must be stopped. A live writer of the task or workspace, or a running
workspace operation, keeps the hold.
- No repeated external side effects: pending status effects,
non-completed or unknown API receipts, and uncertain tool invocations
keep the existing reconciliation path. The continuation keeps the
existing API receipt fences.
- Never overwrite another run's files: only the exact epoch that the
failed run wrote is abandoned, and the old root is never reused.
- Bounded and idempotent: a settled hold is never revisited. The
quarantine record is reused. A changed generation or revision leaves the
hold unchanged.

Previous-release story (`rules/upgrade-safe-run-state.mdc`): holds saved
by earlier releases carry forward. A hold saved by the Nov 3–6 releases
(`systemRecovery` exhausted with `allocation_ownership_ambiguous` /
`service_required`, board owner, old admin text) takes the fallback on
the next worker pass after deploy (restart sweep, Retry, or a new
message). No migration is needed. Refusals that do not qualify keep
today's behavior. The only new persisted shapes are additive:
`retainedSourceFallback` and `siblingWorkspaceRecovery` on the hold,
`remoteWorkspaceAbandonedEpochs` on the workspace, and a
`workspace_recovery_quarantine` operation. Earlier releases ignore them.

## Verification

- `cd server && npx vitest run
src/services/workspace-recovery-fallback.test.ts` — 15 tests:
- cross-task hold, saved by the previous release and refused fresh:
continues from the checkpoint snapshot, the quarantine `.tar` holds the
unverified file, the epoch is abandoned, `getExecutionBlocker` is
`null`, the task is `todo`, explicit continuation is not blocked by
`saved_work_recovery_failed` or `workspace_repair_required`, one
reconciled continuation is delivered, and the next writer restores into
a new root while the old root keeps its files;
  - unreadable root: continues and records the reason;
- idempotency: a second pass changes nothing and delivers no second
continuation;
  - waiting user input: no second continuation;
- negatives (live writer, pending side effect, uncertain external
action, sandbox held by another lease): the hold stays, the authority is
unchanged, nothing is attached or delivered, the deferral reason and
recheck time are recorded;
- an allocation without a stop receipt is stopped (stop-only) before the
hold settles;
- the production worker (`reconcileRetainedWorkspaces` with
`obligationsOnly`) and `nextWorkspaceRecoveryAt` discover and settle an
old hold with no saved input; a transient deferral is not revisited
until due, then settles;
- an old-release hold without a Blocked receipt keeps its status; a
current hold with the receipt is restored to `todo`;
- stale exhausted hold with a sibling-saved receipt settles as
recovered; one whose sibling receipt no longer verifies is recorded and
no longer discovered;
- a newer Blocked decision is kept and no continuation is delivered,
while the file hold settles;
  - the attached copy omits `.env` and key files.
- RED: with `workspace-recovery.ts` and `system-recovery.ts` reverted to
master, all tests fail.
- Regression suites pass: `workspace-recovery-warm-handoff`,
`workspace-recovery-retry-copyback`,
`workspace-recovery-preparation-gates`, `workspace-recovery-source`,
`task-retry`, `execution-blocker-read` (288 tests), and
`workspace-recovery-admission`, `workspace-recovery-preparation*`,
`remote-workspaces.integration`, `native-failed-workspace-recovery`,
`remote-workspace-transport`, `workspace-restore-repair-route` (683
tests).
- `server` typecheck passes.

## Risks

- A task now continues without the unverified changes of its failed run.
The agent receives a note and the attached copy, so it can redo or
re-apply the work. This replaces an indefinite block.
- Abandoning an epoch on a workspace shared with a parent task also
moves the parent to the last save. This is correct: the unverified
changes are not part of the saved lineage.
- Clearing the migration root means sessions bound to the old root start
fresh. The fallback continuation already forces a fresh session.
- The quarantine capture reads a sandbox that can be shared with another
task. It writes nothing there, and it verifies the copy against
inventories taken before and after.

## Model Used

- Provider: Anthropic. Model: Claude Opus 5.5 (`claude-opus-5-5`), with
tool use (shell, file edits, read-only browser for API inspection) 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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Nicky Leach 0363ebec70 fix(connectors): stop GitHub access refreshes from advancing agent runtimes (#19902) 2026-11-07 14:43:39 -08:00
Dotta eb7c7b083a Recover Muse verification after contact, restart and access restoration (#19909)
## Thinking Path

> - Paperclip manages AI agents and their work under company access
rules.
> - Muse readiness uses a saved connection, receiver contact and an
authenticated challenge reply.
> - A failed challenge write could leave a saved contact with no later
recovery trigger.
> - A server restart or restored access must recover that contact under
current authority.
> - This pull request uses the existing delivery coordinator and saved
Muse state for recovery.
> - It keeps the normal receiver schedule, authorization checks and real
deadlines.
> - It lets eligible verification recover and lets idle verification
stop work.

## Linked Issues or Issue Description

**What happened?**

The first Muse receiver contact could persist while readiness challenge
creation failed. The contact then had no durable retry or startup
recovery path. Later membership, lifecycle or feature restoration could
also leave pending verification without a notice.

**Expected behavior**

Retry a temporary failure through the existing worker. Recover pending
contact after restart. Recheck the current company, agent, operator,
credential and binding generation before issuing a challenge. Stop
verification work while it is ineligible or complete. Do not revive
revoked credentials.

**Steps to reproduce**

1. Use the normal invitation and OAuth registration, PKCE and token
flow.
2. Send one receiver contact and let its normal persistence schedule
run.
3. Fail the first readiness challenge operation before it commits.
4. Observe whether the existing worker retries without another contact
or a manual Verify action.
5. Restart the App with a new database owner. Check that it creates one
usable challenge from the saved contact.

**Paperclip version or commit**

The causal baseline test used the unchanged production implementation at
`90148317b2a447794ff29a4acae5648ad11a9770` plus its normal fixture. The
accepted positive test used `9d383041028776ad8469ac4af3fe14ba6c369425`.
The initial published head was
`fe518c9b72504daf6374225987f24d45bc7bcf75`. The lease/auth correction
was locally qualified at `cfd515a207416097fe8b586277d70c4fd4a679fa`. The
current candidate is `6efe722e7eb1e22acd466125c7b4a627611d0273`; its
added Cloud actor fixture correction passed the full normal owning
program and all 35 tests. Its current normal build, lifecycle owner
controls, healthy-wait and restoration measurements are described below.
Earlier results below are bound to their stated revisions.

Related public changes: Refs #19819 for original-principal
authentication. Refs #19750 for the transaction-owned external feature
read. These are related foundations, not duplicate fixes. The current
Muse title and head-branch searches found no duplicate
contact-verification recovery PR. Related maintenance work is #17000 and
terminal assignment settlement is #17793.

## What Changed

- Add a typed, exact-binding verification notice through the existing
Muse delivery queue.
- Register the first-contact notice before its durable write in the same
transaction.
- Recover pending contact from saved state at startup. Retry temporary
failures through the existing scheduler.
- Recheck current feature, lifecycle, credential and access state after
commit. Park unavailable authority without recurring verification scans.
- Add narrowly scoped notices to the existing access, lifecycle,
configuration, company, budget and settings write owners.
- Save a healthy lifecycle verification wait in the existing operation
JSONB. Keep generic unresolved-work and error retries unchanged.
- Commit authenticated confirmation and its lifecycle recheck in one
transaction. Retain a raced recheck under the active lease, and recover
saved waits once at startup.
- Retain a committed lifecycle recheck while an expired attempt still
owns the row, so its late wait cannot park accepted confirmation.
Replacement claims keep their existing owner fence and fresh fact read.
- Keep the receiver gap, persistence and per-segment contact limits
unchanged.
- Add real App OAuth, failure, retry, restart, challenge and quiet
evidence. Add two normal-route restoration tests.
- Document recovery, reconnect requirements and the existing
connected-receiver sleep restriction.

## Verification

- Causal baseline: the real invitation and OAuth flow saved one contact.
The first challenge operation failed. The normal test failed because it
observed one verification attempt instead of a retry. No setup or
cleanup failure was counted as this regression.
- At `9d383041`: normal own Shared/SDK, DB with migration 0441 assets,
Runner TypeScript core and surfaces, module boundaries, and all seven
normal App programs passed. One new redundant role comparison first
failed typecheck; that diagnostic remains recorded and the corrected
full App gate passed.
- At `9d383041`: all 17 maintenance component tests passed with zero
skips. All original deadline, rollback, drain, terminal settlement and
startup controls remain.
- At `9d383041`: the one normal App case passed. Real OAuth authorized
one receiver signal. A retry occurred about 5.01 seconds after the first
failure. A new Db/App owner created one challenge, advanced revision 2
to 3, and accepted authenticated confirmation and mailbox ACK. Query
instrumentation had an active positive control. All measured query,
callback, session and verifier counters stayed equal across the
unchanged scheduled 15-second quiet window. Token revocation and
old-token/signal rejection passed.
- Known App, worker, HTTP and database owners closed without cleanup
errors. The tests used bounded local PostgreSQL and HTTP fixtures. They
did not call a live Muse model.
- Current integrated semantics: the full normal App driver completed all
programs. Only a new test callback had two undefined-value diagnostics.
An explicit defined-value guard corrected that test. The full 416-root
owning program then passed with empty diagnostics. A separate collector
incorrectly required an explicit child `noEmit` field; the normal
inherited setting was verified without repeating the compiler. The
original failures remain recorded.
- The first restoration run failed both cases. Permission parking
recorded 120 main-pool queries without more verifier calls. The
lifecycle counter recorded two denials without their exact scope. These
observations remain unexplained at the individual-query/call level.
Source separately shows a lifecycle readiness retry every two seconds
while the real external reply is absent.
- At `fe518c9b`: normal Shared/SDK and DB producers, module policy, all
seven full App programs, and all 33 pure diagnostic controls passed. The
lifecycle owner file passed all 19 cases, including both
confirmation/park orders, rollback, duplicate notices, startup recovery
and authority controls.
- At `fe518c9b`: the normal OAuth failure/retry/new-Db reconstruction
case passed. Its new healthy-wait window measured 15,002 ms with
unchanged total activity before genuine confirmation; the existing ready
quiet and revocation checks also passed.
- At `fe518c9b`: both normal restoration tests passed in Vitest.
Ordinary viewer-to-operator restoration and Pause/Resume recovered the
same binding, grant and single contact; each committed one challenge and
advanced revision 2 to 3. All six parked, restored and revoked/disabled
quiet windows measured at least 15 seconds with active positive read
controls and unchanged total queries, callbacks, sessions and verifier
calls. Both cleanups passed.
- The restoration wrapper still recorded failure: it required lifetime
lifecycle denial count zero, whereas the measured count was one before
the parked quiet window. The reviewed fixture explicitly permits a
current-authority denial from an earlier observation and requires no
committed challenge before restoration. Precise denial timing relative
to Pause was not serialized. The original wrapper failure is retained;
no rerun or retrospective explanation of the earlier failures is
claimed.
- Review exposed an expired-lease race. The added real-store baseline
test failed after the late defer restored `waitingForSignal`; no setup
or timeout was counted as the regression. On `cfd515a`, the whole
lifecycle owner file passed all 20 tests, including that case. The full
normal production declaration program (1067 roots), verification program
(662), and auth owning program (405) passed; all 1942 declarations
remained byte-identical.
- The original remote auth-session shard failed three tests because
their partial query adapters lacked the new binding query's
join/order/limit chain. A fixture-only correction preserved the real
notifier and existing authorization assertions. All 12 auth-session
tests passed locally.
- Complete remote inspection also found 33 failures in the 35-test Cloud
actor fixture with the same missing `innerJoin` method and downstream
incomplete-auth assertions. Its original full log and exact synthetic
Source comparison are retained. At `6efe722e`, the three-line fixture
adapter repair passed the complete normal 662-root test program and the
whole 35-test file with zero failures or skips. All existing lock,
authorization, settings, debounce and unfinished-auth assertions remain.
- The earlier healthy/restoration quiet measurements remain bound to
`fe518c9b`. Those steady 15-second windows did not exercise a
still-owned attempt passing its 120-second lease. The targeted
expired-owner regression qualifies that new boundary; it is not a fresh
measurement of the earlier windows.
- The initial `fe518c9b` remote gates failed the auth fixtures and
reported a Greptile 4/5 P1. The aggregate failure reported the
underlying shard. Those actual causes were fixed and qualified above.
- Current `6efe722e` remote gates completed with **57 successful checks
and three explicit skips**. The full latest edited Greptile summary is
**5/5**, explicitly reviews this exact head, and has no new finding. The
original P1 thread is resolved. All general, inline and nested review
pages were read.
- One current-head CI attempt timed out after 30 seconds in the Runner
evidence/privacy file, with 6,864 passes and one failure. That file and
its transitive inputs are byte-identical to the CI base. A separate
local diagnostic preserved every assertion and the original timeout, ran
the full normal Runner test project and the entire 41-case file, and
passed all 41 with zero skips. Its private bounded timing records
measured the target body at 74 ms. The diagnostic was then removed,
restoring the exact original test. This is local recovery evidence; the
original CI stalled await was not recorded and its cause remains
**unproven**.
- One retry of only the failed jobs on the unchanged head passed the
Runner support suite and dependent aggregate verification. The complete
second attempt and original failure logs are preserved. No test,
timeout, privacy guard or product code was weakened. This result does
not turn the original timeout into an explained failure or a diagnosed
flake.
- Full recursive typecheck, full `test:run` and a full release build
were not repeated locally. The normal full App programs, focused
producers and tests above passed, and the required current-head remote
gates passed. Final review is against the exact unchanged head; local
quiet remains separate from deployed suspension.

Reviewer commands use the normal project entry points: `node
server/scripts/typecheck-layers.mjs`, the whole
`server/src/services/muse-maintenance.test.ts` file, and both normal App
PostgreSQL files. PostgreSQL fixtures require explicit owned
fixture/admin URLs and normal migrations before imports. Run the files
serially with one worker. The private controller retains exact Source,
output, worker and owner-closure receipts.

## Risks

- Missing or early producer notices could lose a restoration trigger.
Notices stay in the transaction that commits the write. The worker
checks current authority after commit.
- A stale notice must not grant access. Binding generation, current
membership, company, agent and credential checks remain authoritative.
Revoked credentials require reconnecting.
- The change adds no table, migration, alternate task queue or periodic
verification scan. It adds two optional fields to existing lifecycle
operation JSONB. Generic pending/error deadlines, setup holds and manual
repair remain obligations.
- Confirmation can race with an active verification attempt. The park
compare-and-set must retain the durable recheck. Startup recovery uses a
fixed cutoff and keyset pages; it must not become another recurring
scan. Wrong company, stale version, pause and revoked credentials must
stay fenced.
- The connected receiver still has its documented tenant-sleep
restriction. Worker quiet is not proof of deployed suspension or
external wake.
- The normal challenge reply is sent by an authenticated protocol
fixture. Live Muse background replies, cost/usage, full Muse lifecycle
and full hosted Dot behavior remain unqualified. Partial Dot profile ACK
and unsigned-device cutover stay withheld.
- Restoration coverage for the additional company, budget, configuration
and feature producers remains a separate qualification obligation. This
pull request does not mark the whole hosted area complete.

## Model Used

OpenAI `gpt-6.1-sol` authored the implementation and tests with local
code and tool use. A GPT-6-based Codex coordinator reviewed the changes
and owns integration. Its exact underlying model ID is not exposed.
Context window sizes are unavailable. No context size is inferred.

## 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
2026-11-07 16:41:15 -06:00
DottaandClaude Opus 5.5 adb7633d7b fix(status-cards): give agents the person's restore route when archiving a card (#19903)
## Thinking Path

> - Paperclip is the open source app people use to manage AI agents for
work
> - Status cards are saved summaries of company work. People and agents
can archive and restore them.
> - A person asked a chat agent to archive a card "to reuse it next
quarter". The agent archived it correctly.
> - The archive response had no board route, and the PATCH operation had
no description. The completion guidance tells agents not to guess
routes.
> - So the agent told the person to restore the card "by clearing
`archived`". That is an API instruction, not a route a person can use.
> - This pull request gives single-card responses an `href` to the
Status page and documents archive and restore on the PATCH operation.
> - The benefit is that an agent can give the person a usable link and a
true account of restore, which starts a fresh summary.

## Linked Issues or Issue Description

**What happened**
A chat agent archived a status card. Its reply told the person to
restore the card by clearing `archived` on the card. It gave no link to
the place where a person restores it.

**Expected behavior**
The reply links the card on the Status page, where a person can show
archived cards and click Restore. It also says that restore starts a
fresh summary.

**Steps to reproduce**
1. Enable status cards and create a card as an agent.
2. Ask the CEO agent in chat to archive the card for later reuse.
3. Read the reply. It has no usable restore route, because `PATCH
/api/status-cards/{id}` returns no `href` and has no description.

## What Changed

- `POST /api/companies/{companyId}/status-cards`, `GET
/api/status-cards/{id}` and `PATCH /api/status-cards/{id}` now return
`href`, the company-scoped Status page route for the card.
- The shared `statusCardSchema` has an optional `href` field.
- The `PATCH /api/status-cards/{id}` OpenAPI operation has a
description. It says that archive keeps the card and its history, that a
person restores it on the Status page with the returned `href`, and that
restore starts a fresh full summary.
- The create route reads the company issue prefix before it creates the
card. A failed link lookup can not delete a card whose compile task is
queued.
- Regression tests cover the `href` on the archive and get responses,
the new PATCH description, and a failed prefix read on create (no card
and no task are left).

## Verification

- `pnpm exec vitest run server/src/__tests__/status-cards.test.ts
server/src/__tests__/openapi-routes.test.ts` (71 tests pass). The new
create-route test fails on the first commit and passes on the fix.
- End to end: the chat eval `status-cards.archive-card` runs with this
change on an eval branch. The result is in the eval report for that
case.

## Risks

- Low risk. The change adds one optional response field and one
description. List responses do not change. The UI ignores the new field.
- Each single-card response does one more small company read for the
issue prefix. On create, this read occurs before the card exists, so its
failure leaves nothing behind.

## Model Used

- Anthropic Claude Opus 5.5 (`claude-opus-5-5`), used in 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
- [ ] I will address all Greptile and reviewer comments before
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DottaandClaude Opus 5.5 fc6e1b0346 perf(native): keep local Codex and OpenCode runners warm by default (#19888)
## Thinking Path

> - Paperclip is the open source app people use to manage AI agents for
work.
> - When someone messages an agent, the turn must start fast. Time to
first token (TTFT) is a first-class metric.
> - The Phase 0 baseline (#19846) found that every local turn launches a
new runner and loads the provider session again, because `per_turn` is
the default lifecycle. That made a follow-up message slower than a new
task.
> - Warm runners keep the runner and provider session alive between
runs. #19874 fixed the defect that broke warm OpenCode follow-ups, and
#19879 bounds an idle warm runner whose controller dies.
> - This pull request makes warm the default for local Codex and
OpenCode agents, and migrates existing agents that only carried the old
creation default.
> - The benefit: follow-up TTFT p50 drops from 12.0 s to 4.7 s (Codex)
and from 21.7 s to 4.2 s (OpenCode), with no new restart-chaos failures.

## Linked Issues or Issue Description

Refs #19846 (TTFT baseline), #19852 (startup sub-spans), #19874 (warm
completion contract), #19879 (warm reconnect grace).

**What existing behavior does this improve?**
The default runner lifecycle for native agents, and how a follow-up
message starts.

**Current behavior**
Agent creation writes `lifecycleMode: "per_turn"` into every native
agent. Every follow-up launches a new runner and restores the provider
session: 4.2 s (Codex) and 16.3 s (OpenCode) at p50 before the turn
starts.

**Proposed behavior**
New native agents store no lifecycle. On a local target, an unset
lifecycle resolves to `warm` with the default 5-minute idle window for
Codex and OpenCode. Other harnesses, remote targets and managed
providers without warm support stay `per_turn`. An explicit choice
always wins. Migration 0443 clears the stored creation default from
existing agents, except where an edit set "Turn by turn" explicitly.

**Reason and benefit**
Measured locally (`doc/plans/2026-11-07-warm-follow-up-ttft.md`). Warm
follow-ups are 2.6–5× faster for Codex and OpenCode, and restart
recovery latency is equal or lower.

## What Changed

- `native-lifecycle.ts`: an unset `agentMode` resolves to warm (5-minute
idle window) for local `codex_app_server` and `opencode_server` agents.
`runtime-selection.ts` passes `localTarget`. Explicit `per_turn` or
`warm` wins. An admitted session keeps its persisted policy. ACPX Claude
stays `per_turn`: it relaunches its provider process on every follow-up
by design, so warm did not shorten its follow-up (10.7 s warm vs 10.5 s
per_turn).
- Creation and configuration writes no longer store `lifecycleMode:
"per_turn"` for Codex, Claude or OpenCode. This covers
`normalizePaperclipRunnerAdapterConfig` (runs on every create and
update), `paperclipRunnerTransitionConfig` (switching to the native
runner), `agent-runner-selection.ts`, `codex-local` `build-config.ts`,
and the simplified new-agent setup (`paperclipRunnerCreationLifecycle`
in `@paperclipai/shared`). Grok, Pi and Cursor keep their explicit
value.
- Agent form: the Runner lifecycle field shows the unset state as
"Automatic". "Turn by turn" and "Warm session" remain.
- Migration `0443_native_warm_follow_up_default.sql`: clears
`lifecycleMode = 'per_turn'` from native Codex, OpenCode and Claude
agents unless `agent_config_revisions` shows an edit that set it to
`per_turn`. Each migrated agent gets an `agent.updated` activity entry
with the old value (`actor_id =
migration:native-warm-follow-up-default`). Creation records no revision,
so a "Turn by turn" pick made at creation cannot be told apart from the
old default. The product owner approved migrating those agents. Claude
agents follow the default, which is `per_turn` today.
- Restart chaos harness and TTFT driver: `--lifecycle
per_turn|warm|default` (saved in the wave plan). `default` removes the
catalog's pinned lifecycle, so a wave exercises the real default path.
- Docs: `doc/DEVELOPING.md` "Runner lifecycle default", and the results
in `doc/plans/2026-11-07-warm-follow-up-ttft.md`, which also documents
baseline finding 4 (Claude's resumed turn-start gap is ACPX's per-turn
process generation, not the provider).

## Verification

- `server`: `native-lifecycle.test.ts` (new default cases: local Codex
and OpenCode warm, Claude, remote, unknown target, unmeasured harness,
managed Claude, admitted per-turn session, explicit choices, non-native
adapter), `agent-runner-selection.test.ts`, `runtime-selection.test.ts`
(335 pass).
- `packages/db`: `native-warm-follow-up-default-migration.test.ts` on
embedded Postgres. Default agents are cleared, the explicit edit is
kept, other harnesses and legacy adapters are untouched, audit rows are
written once, and a rerun is a no-op. Without the explicit-edit filter
the test fails. `check:migrations` passes.
- `codex-local` `build-config.test.ts` (65), `ui`
`config-fields.test.tsx` (40), restart-chaos unit tests (134), `tsc
--noEmit` for `server`.
- `adapter-utils` `paperclip-runner-lifecycle-default.test.ts`:
configuration writes and adapter conversion store no lifecycle for
Codex, OpenCode and Claude, keep `per_turn` for the others, and preserve
explicit choices. It fails without the fix.
- End-to-end default check on this branch (`ttft-baseline.ts --lifecycle
default`, codex and opencode, 2 samples): the agents read back with no
stored lifecycle, and every follow-up reused the runner and provider
session (no `runner.process.launch`). Follow-up TTFT was 3.6–4.8 s. This
check found the per-write `per_turn` injection fixed here.
- Restart chaos (codex and opencode, A1/B1/B5, K1/K2/K6, seed 4242), 8/8
PASS each with no open signatures: forced warm, forced per_turn, and
`--lifecycle default` on this branch (agents created without a
lifecycle).
- `pnpm verify` selects broader CI (harness config is a global input),
so required CI supplies the broad coverage.

## Risks

- Behavior change: local Codex and OpenCode agents keep a runner and
provider process for up to 5 minutes after a run. Instance sleep waits
for that idle window. The process is reaped by the idle timer, by
graceful shutdown, or by the #19879 reconnect grace if its controller
dies.
- Migration: agents whose "Turn by turn" was chosen at creation become
Automatic. The activity entry records the old value; choosing "Turn by
turn" restores it.
- Previous-release story (`rules/upgrade-safe-run-state.mdc`): a task
session keeps the lifecycle policy it was admitted with, so sessions
saved before this change stay `per_turn`. New sessions get the default.
No run, checkpoint or launch state changes shape.

> 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`) in Claude Code, with
tool use (shell, file edit, 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
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2026-11-07 14:37:36 -06:00
DottaandClaude Opus 5.5 f439150cb3 fix(recovery): limit the null-host owner fallback to single-host servers and record each use (#19883)
## Thinking Path

> - Paperclip is the open source app people use to manage AI agents for
work
> - #19868 and #19871 made restart recovery judge a recorded pid only in
the PID space that recorded it
> - Rows saved before those host columns existed have no recorded host.
They kept the previous local dead-pid proof, so in-flight native runs
would not be stranded at upgrade
> - On an ephemeral (multi-host) server that fallback is unsafe: the row
may have been written on another host
> - This pull request limits the fallback to single-host servers,
records every use, and gives ephemeral servers a working board action
> - The benefit is that single-host upgrades still recover on their own,
multi-host servers never accept a cross-host proof, and the next release
can remove the fallback with evidence

## Linked Issues or Issue Description

**Bug description**
After #19868 and #19871, a `native_run_finalizations` row with
`controller_host_hash = null`, or a run with `process_host_hash = null`,
still accepted "the pid is dead here" as proof on every server. That
includes an ephemeral server, where the row may come from another host.
Nothing recorded how often the fallback was used, so it had no safe
removal path.

**Expected behavior**
- Single-host server: the fallback applies for one release, and each use
writes a `legacy_host_unknown_dead_pid_proof` activity-log entry.
- Ephemeral server (`PAPERCLIP_EPHEMERAL_SERVER=true`): the row is
unprovable, and the board has an action to confirm the previous server
stopped.
- A mismatched host is always unprovable.

Refs #19868, #19871, #19846

## What Changed

- `native-restart-recovery.ts` `evaluateNativeControllerTakeover`:
- A coordinator row with `controllerHostHash: null` returns
`controller_host_unrecorded` when `ephemeralServerEnabled()` is true.
- Otherwise a pid proof from that row carries `legacyHostFallback:
true`.
- `operator_attested` is accepted as proof
(`operator_attested_controller_stopped`).
  - Receipt-built owners, which have no host key, are unchanged.
- New `recordLegacyHostFallbackProof` writes the activity-log entry. It
is not a run-log event: run events are progress evidence for restart
recovery's crash-loop credit, and the record must not change any
recovery decision. It is called from restart recovery, the
dead-controller result-lease release, native retirement, and remote
warm-session recovery.
- New `native-controller-host-recovery.ts`:
- `requestNativeControllerStopConfirmation` (board-owned
`native_controller_host_unverified` recovery action, idempotent, never
displaces another active action).
- `confirmNativeControllerStopped`. It verifies the exact recorded
controller and stamps `operator_attested` with compare-and-set. It then
resolves the action, wakes live-run recovery, and logs
`issue.native_controller_stop_confirmed`.
- Route `POST /issues/:id/recovery-actions/confirm-controller-stopped`.
It is board-only and requires `runtime:confirm_owner_stop`. Generic
`restored`/`false_positive` resolution of this cause is refused. A
shared `confirmNativeControllerStoppedSchema` validates the body.
- UI: `WorkspaceExportRecovery` reuses the "Confirm the previous server
stopped" control for this cause, and the generic recovery card hides it.
Adds the `issuesApi.confirmControllerStopped` client call.
- `recovery/service.ts` orphan reaper: a null `process_host_hash` is
judged only when not ephemeral. A successful use records the entry
best-effort, after the terminal write. On an ephemeral server the run is
left to its existing Stop control.
- `ephemeralServerEnabled` moves to a leaf `ephemeral-server-mode.ts`
(re-exported by `ephemeral-server-contract.ts`). Importing the contract
module from recovery code created an import cycle in the runner child
process.
- The new route is registered in OpenAPI.
- `doc/execution-semantics.md`: documents the host rule and the
one-release sunset.

## Verification

- `native-restart-recovery.test.ts`: null host on a single-host server
is released with the flag. Null host on an ephemeral server is
unprovable. A mismatched host is unprovable in both modes. An attested
controller is accepted. Receipt owners are unchanged.
- New `native-controller-host-recovery.test.ts` (embedded Postgres):
  - The fallback writes the activity-log entry and no run event.
  - Ephemeral mode creates exactly one board action.
  - A wrong run id is refused.
- Confirmation stamps the attestation, after which takeover is allowed.
The action resolves and the activity is logged. A second confirmation is
refused.
- `recovery-stale-issue-lock-sweep.test.ts`: on a single-host server a
null host is terminalized and records one event. On an ephemeral server
it is left alone with no event. The existing audit-failure case still
clears the lock.
- `WorkspaceExportRecovery.control.test.tsx`: the controller
confirmation posts to `confirmControllerStopped` and never to the
copyback endpoint.
- Locally: these suites plus `remote-warm-session-recovery`,
`native-controller-recovery.integration` and
`native-startup-cleanup-recovery` (136 passed), and after the CI fixes
`native-runner-restart-preparation` and `native-runner-restart-recovery`
integration, `openapi-routes` and the suites above (256 passed); the UI
recovery suites (52 passed); `node scripts/typecheck-layers.mjs` with no
errors in the touched files; `pnpm check:token-gates` clean.

## Risks

- Previous-release story: no schema change. Null-host rows saved by
earlier releases recover as before on single-host servers, now with an
event, and wait for the board on ephemeral servers. The next release
removes the fallback; the event count shows whether any rows remain.
- On an ephemeral server, a null-host orphaned run process is not reaped
automatically. The operator uses Stop. That is the intended "unprovable"
outcome.
- A board confirmation is an attestation. It applies only to the exact
recorded controller (boot id + pid) and only while the host is still
unrecorded.

## Model Used

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

## Checklist

- [x] I have included a thinking path that traces from project context
to this change
- [x] I have specified the model used (with version and capability
details)
- [x] I have checked ROADMAP.md and confirmed this PR does not duplicate
planned core work
- [x] I have searched GitHub for duplicate or related PRs and linked
them above
- [x] I have either (a) linked existing issues with `Fixes: #` / `Closes
#` / `Refs #` OR (b) described the issue in-PR following the relevant
issue template
- [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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2026-11-07 13:25:47 -06:00
Héctor Villarreal Ortega 576d6f6430 fix(ssh-restore): reset the local index to HEAD after importing remote git history (#16644)
## Thinking Path

> - Paperclip is the open source app people use to manage AI agents for
work
> - Agents can run on a remote SSH environment. After the run, Paperclip
restores the workspace and imports the remote git history.
> - The import moves the checked-out branch with `git update-ref`.
`update-ref` does not change the index.
> - The index then still matches the old tip. `git status` in the
workspace shows the new files of the run as staged deletions.
> - An operator who commits in that workspace can remove the work of the
agent by mistake.
> - The sandbox restore already resets the index after the import
(#8595). The SSH restore does not.
> - This pull request calls the same `resetLocalGitIndexToHead` after
the SSH restore.
> - The benefit is a clean `git status` after each SSH run, the same as
after a sandbox run.

## Linked Issues or Issue Description

Refs #8595 (the same fix for the sandbox restore). Refs #15662, Refs
#16440 (other open changes to the same SSH restore code).

**What happened?**
After a remote SSH run imported a commit, `git status` in the local
workspace showed every new file of that commit as a staged deletion, and
every changed file as a staged modification. The files on disk were
correct.

**Expected behavior**
`git status` is clean after the import, because the working tree and
HEAD are the commit of the run.

**Steps to reproduce**
1. Use an opencode_local agent on an SSH environment with a git_worktree
project workspace.
2. Let the agent add a file and commit on the remote copy.
3. After the run, run `git status` in the local worktree. The new file
shows as `D` in the index.

**Paperclip version or commit**
paperclipai 2026.916.1 (also present on master 272316808)

## What Changed

- `packages/adapter-utils/src/ssh.ts`: the SSH restore merge gets an
`afterApply` that calls `resetLocalGitIndexToHead`, when remote git
history was imported. The sandbox restore does the same since #8595.
- `packages/adapter-utils/src/ssh-fixture.test.ts`: "round-trips remote
git commits through the managed runtime restore path" now also checks
that nothing is staged after the restore.

## Verification

- I ran the SSH fixture tests in a container with `sshd` (they skip on a
host without it): `ssh-fixture.test.ts` and
`git-workspace-sync.test.ts`, 87 tests pass.
- Without the change, the managed runtime restore test leaves `M
tracked.txt` staged (`git diff --cached`) and `git status` shows `MM
tracked.txt`. With the change, nothing is staged and `git status` shows
` M tracked.txt`, which is the uncommitted remote edit.
- `npx tsc --noEmit -p packages/adapter-utils` passes.
- I found the bug on a real SSH environment (opencode_local in a runner
container, paperclipai 2026.916.1).

## Risks

Low risk. It reuses the index reset that the sandbox restore already
uses. It runs only when remote git history was imported. Work staged on
the host before the run is reset to HEAD, the same as in the sandbox
path.

## Model Used

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

## Checklist

- [x] I have included a thinking path that traces from project context
to this change
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details)
- [x] I have checked ROADMAP.md and confirmed this PR does not duplicate
planned core work
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them above
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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
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2026-11-07 13:15:16 -06:00
DottaandClaude Opus 5.5 0189fedffc fix(native): bound an idle warm local runner whose controller died (#19879)
## Thinking Path

> - Paperclip is the open source app people use to manage AI agents for
work.
> - A warm runner (`lifecycleMode: warm`) keeps runnerd alive between
runs so a follow-up turn starts fast. The follow-up default flip (next
PR) makes warm the default for local Codex and OpenCode agents.
> - The controller owns a warm runner's idle window. Runnerd ignores the
idle timeout itself.
> - A graceful controller shutdown suspends idle warm sessions. A
controller that dies (SIGKILL, crash) does not. Local runners launch
with no process reconnect grace, so the idle runner kept running until
its 1-hour connection lease ran out, owned by nobody.
> - This pull request gives warm local runners the 7-minute reconnect
grace that remote runners already use.
> - The benefit: idle runners are reaped by proof within a bounded time,
never left orphaned, before warm becomes the default.

## Linked Issues or Issue Description

Refs #19874 (warm completion contract), #19846 (TTFT baseline), #19852.

**What existing behavior does this improve?**
Ownership of an idle warm local runner after its controller dies.

**Current behavior**
`runnerProcessReconnectGraceMs` is `undefined` for local targets, so
runnerd launches without `--reconnect-grace-ms`. An idle warm runner
whose controller was killed stays alive until its connection lease (one
hour) expires. The restart-chaos harness cannot show this: its K1 kills
the controller's whole process tree, runner included.

**Proposed behavior**
`localRunnerProcessReconnectGraceMs(policy)` returns the remote grace (7
minutes) for a warm policy and `undefined` for per-turn. After the
grace, runnerd records `transport_reconnect_grace_exceeded`, stops its
provider, keeps durable state and exits. The next run resumes cold.

**Reason and benefit**
The restart plan requires idle runners to be reaped by proof, never
orphaned. Seven minutes is far longer than a controller restart (13–20 s
locally) and the long-outage fault holds (3–5 minutes), so a live turn
still reattaches.

## What Changed

- `native-runner-recovery-contract.ts`:
`localRunnerProcessReconnectGraceMs`.
- `native-session-executor.ts`: the local runnerd transport passes it as
`runnerProcessReconnectGraceMs`. Remote targets keep `null`
(lease-owned).
- `runnerd-warm-idle-orphan.test.ts` (new): real runnerd and fake Codex.
An idle warm runner, after its turn completed, whose controller
detaches.
- `doc/DEVELOPING.md`: the grace and its bound.

## Verification

- `pnpm --filter @paperclipai/paperclip-runner exec vitest run
src/live/runnerd-warm-idle-orphan.test.ts`: with a process grace, the
idle runner exits with `transport_reconnect_grace_exceeded` and the next
transport resumes the same provider session cold. With no grace (`null`,
today's local launch), the runner is still alive after the controller
left.
- `cd server && npx vitest run
src/services/native-runtime/native-runner-recovery-contract.test.ts`:
warm gets the remote grace; per-turn keeps none; the grace outlasts a
controller restart and a long outage.
- `tsc --noEmit` passes for `server` and `packages/paperclip-runner`.
- Local restart measurement with warm runners (K1/K2, codex, claude,
opencode, n = 3 each): every interrupted run recovered, with recovery
latency equal or lower than per-turn. The chaos waves with this change
are in the default-flip PR.

## Risks

- A warm local runner whose controller stays down for more than 7
minutes exits. A turn in progress then resumes through
`resume_dead_runner`, the same path as a controller crash that kills the
runner. Remote runners already behave this way.
- Previous-release story (`rules/upgrade-safe-run-state.mdc`): no
persisted state changes. A warm runner launched by the previous release
keeps the launch arguments it started with (no grace) until it exits.

> 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`) in Claude Code, with
tool use (shell, file edit, test execution).

## Checklist

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planned core work
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them above
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URLs)
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and contains no internal Paperclip ticket id or instance-derived details
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Can H. Tartanoglu 410aa6d1b4 test(runner): resolve provider fixture signals through PATH (#14476)
## Thinking Path

> - Paperclip is the open source app people use to manage AI agents for
work.
> - Its native runner tests verify exact provider shutdown and recovery.
> - Four fixture call sites invoke `/bin/kill` directly.
> - NixOS supplies `kill` through PATH, so those tests fail before
checking process state.
> - This pull request resolves `kill` through PATH, as the neighboring
runner tests already do.
> - The same stop, probe, and resume assertions can run on non-FHS
hosts.

## Linked Issues or Issue Description

**What happened?**

Four Codex provider tests fail with `No such file or directory` on
NixOS. Each failure comes from a test-owned `/bin/kill` invocation. The
executable is installed on PATH.

**Expected behavior**

Tests should probe and signal their disposable provider processes with
the installed `kill` command.

**Steps to reproduce**

On a NixOS host with `kill` on PATH and no `/bin/kill`, run the
`codex_provider` Rust integration target. Three `durable_stop_*` cases
and `structured_question_round_trips_through_the_normalized_backend`
fail. All four failures were reproduced separately on unmodified
`e9debd3eac328e6abe87ab89e9ff40ee2bb56b73`.

Related: these failures also blocked the broader local qualification of
#14474. This fixture fix has no dependency on that runtime change.

## What Changed

- Replace four test-only `/bin/kill` executable paths with `kill`.
- Retain every signal, PID/process-group operand, assertion, and unwind
cleanup.
- Match existing PATH lookup in this file and
`tests/process_supervisor.rs`.

## Verification

Rebased onto master `820c458465` (single commit `ad1fb1043`).

- `cd packages/paperclip-runner/runner && cargo test -p
paperclip-runner-core --test codex_provider --locked -j4 --
--test-threads=2`: 94 passed, 0 failed, 2 ignored (subprocess helper
entries that their parent tests run). The four tests that used
`/bin/kill` pass on a host without `/bin/kill`.
- No production code or documentation changes.
- Hosted CI: `General tests (workspaces-b)` timed out in
`packages/db/src/backup-lib.test.ts` and `e2e shard (1/8)` hit
`ERR_STREAM_UNABLE_TO_PIPE`. Neither area is touched by this test-only
diff. Master pushes currently run the "CI profile skipped" workflow, so
there is no master run of those jobs to compare against.

## Risks

Low risk. Tests require a working `kill` on their test PATH. Fixture
PIDs and arguments stay unchanged.

## Model Used

- Anthropic Claude Sonnet 5.5 (`claude-sonnet-5-5`) through Claude Code
with tool use and code execution, for the rebase and verification.
Original change: OpenAI `gpt-6-astra` through OpenCode.

## Checklist

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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
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2026-11-07 13:02:29 -06:00
DottaandClaude Opus 5.5 dcaada5f59 fix(native): carry each warm run's own completion contract (#19874)
## Thinking Path

> - Paperclip is the open source app people use to manage AI agents for
work.
> - A warm runner (`lifecycleMode: warm`) keeps runnerd and the provider
process alive between runs, so a follow-up message can start fast.
> - Each run has its own completion contract. The revision changes with
each follow-up, and the agent must name that revision when it finishes.
> - On a warm attachment the transport rebuilt the `run.attach` payload
from its constructor options. Those options belong to the first run.
Every later run kept the first run's contract.
> - The OpenCode proxy checks the finish claim locally against that
stale contract. Every warm OpenCode follow-up was refused ("Semantic
result completion contract revision does not match"), and the agent
looped until the run timed out.
> - This pull request carries each run's own contract into the warm
attachment, and lets runnerd adopt it without a cold provider resume.
> - The benefit: warm follow-ups finish correctly, and they keep the
live provider process, which is the reason to be warm.

## Linked Issues or Issue Description

Refs #19852 (startup sub-spans), #19846 (TTFT baseline).

**What existing behavior does this improve?**
Warm cross-run attachment for native Codex and OpenCode agents.

**Current behavior**
In a local measurement wave with `lifecycleMode: warm`, 4 of 4 OpenCode
follow-ups looped for 8+ minutes. Each finish call was refused with
"Semantic result completion contract revision does not match". The saved
`runAttachTemplate` after the attachment still had revision `1`, while
the follow-up turn named revision `2`. Codex hid the defect because its
finish claim goes through the controller's tool path, which uses the
current input.

**Proposed behavior**
The attachment carries the attaching run's contract. Runnerd updates the
contract in place for Codex and OpenCode and keeps the provider process.
The OpenCode proxy receives the current contract with the run identity
on `turn/start`.

**Reason and benefit**
Warm follow-ups are the largest TTFT lever in the baseline. A
correctness-only fix (cold-resume the provider when the contract
changes) would make every warm follow-up relaunch Codex or OpenCode,
because the revision changes on every follow-up.

## What Changed

- `attachRun` carries `completionContract` through `NativeSession`, the
harness backend, the Codex harness session and the runnerd transport.
`executeNativeSession` passes the current input's contract. The
transport uses it instead of its first-run `resumeCompletionContract`.
- Runnerd (`codex_provider.rs`, `attach_run_in_place`): a changed
contract no longer forces a cold resume for `codex` and `opencode`.
Codex app-server never receives the contract, and the OpenCode proxy now
receives it per turn. Other providers keep the cold-resume boundary. A
changed tool set still forces it.
- Runnerd sends `paperclipCompletionContract` with each OpenCode
`turn/start`, next to the existing `paperclipRunId`.
- The OpenCode proxy passes that contract to `attachRun` when the run
changes. `OpenCodeHarnessSession.attachRun` replaces its envelope's
contract and validates it.

## Verification

- `src/live/runnerd-codex-transport-warm-attachment.test.ts` (new case):
real runnerd and fake Codex. After a warm attachment with a new
contract, the saved `runAttachTemplate` has the new revision and the
Codex pid is unchanged.
- `src/cli/opencode-proxy-input.test.ts`: the real proxy bundle serves a
warm second run with revision `proxy-v2`. The second
`paperclip/runResult` is produced and names `proxy-v2`. Without the fix
the finish call is refused.
- Each test fails without its part of the fix: the proxy test without
the proxy change; the transport test without the transport change (stale
saved revision); and, with `PAPERCLIP_ATTACH_TRANSITION_RUNNER` pointed
at a runnerd built without the `codex_provider.rs` change, the Codex pid
changes.
- `cargo test -p paperclip-runner-core --lib warm` (11 tests),
`native-session-runtime.test.ts` (232), the OpenCode driver, backend and
warm-attachment suites, and `tsc --noEmit` for the runner package pass.

## Risks

- Previous-release story (`rules/upgrade-safe-run-state.mdc`): no
persisted shape changes. Saved `runAttachTemplate` values carry forward,
and the next attachment writes the current contract. A new runnerd with
an old OpenCode proxy behaves as today: the proxy ignores the new
parameter and keeps the stale contract. An old runnerd sends no
parameter, so a new proxy keeps its launch contract.
- In-place adoption widens the warm-retention path for Codex and
OpenCode to changed contracts. The idle, accounting and pending-work
checks still apply first.

> 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`) in Claude Code, with
tool use (shell, file edit, test execution).

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DottaandClaude Opus 5.5 5a20fca9f7 fix(recovery): judge an orphaned run's pid only in the PID space that recorded it (#19871)
## Thinking Path

> - Paperclip is the open source app people use to manage AI agents for
work
> - The orphan reaper (`terminalizeOrphanedRunningRun`) ends a `running`
run whose recorded process is gone
> - It judged "gone" with `kill(pid, 0)` on the local host, wherever the
process actually ran: another host, another PID namespace, or a sandbox
> - So a run whose process is alive elsewhere could be terminalized
while it still works
> - #19868 fixed the same gap for native coordinator takeover and the
runtime-control sweep. This pull request finishes finding 2 for the
reaper
> - The benefit is that a dead local pid never proves an owner on
another host is gone

## Linked Issues or Issue Description

**Bug description**
The Phase 0 ownership inventory (finding 2) names the orphan reaper
`terminalizeOrphanedRunningRun` (`recovery/service.ts`) as a proof that
accepts "the pid is dead here" for a process anywhere. `heartbeat_runs`
recorded `process_pid` with no PID space, and a sandbox pid could
collide with a local one.

**Steps to reproduce**
1. A run records `process_pid` on host A, or in a sandbox.
2. On host B, that pid number is not alive.
3. B's stale-lock sweep terminalizes the run as `orphaned_running_run`.

**Expected behavior**
The process-death authority applies only in the PID space that recorded
the pid. Issue-terminal authority is unchanged.

Refs #19846, follows #19868

## What Changed

- Migration `0442`: add nullable `heartbeat_runs.process_host_hash`.
- `heartbeat/run-lifecycle.ts` `persistHeartbeatRunProcessMetadata`, the
one writer of `process_pid`, stores `currentProcessSpaceHash()` for a
local pid and `"remote"` for a sandbox pid.
- `recovery/service.ts`: the process-death authority runs only when
`process_host_hash` is null (rows saved before this column, for one
release) or `sameProcessSpace` matches.
- Tests: the reaper leaves a dead pid alone for another host, a sandbox,
and an unreadable space, and terminalizes it in this space. The writer
stamps local and remote pids.

## Verification

- `npx vitest run
src/__tests__/recovery-stale-issue-lock-sweep.test.ts`: 46 passed.
- Red before the fix: with the old `recovery/service.ts`, the three
cross-space cases fail (the run is terminalized). Green after.
- `pnpm db:generate` produced `0442_low_salo.sql` (one `ADD COLUMN`),
and the snapshot set was pruned to five. `pnpm --filter @paperclipai/db
check:migrations` passed. Server `tsc --noEmit` shows no errors in the
changed files.

## Risks

- Previous-release story: runs saved with `process_host_hash = null`
keep the previous local proof for this release. That matches #19868,
because stranding in-flight runs at upgrade would be a restart failure.
New rows are strict.
- A run whose process really lived on another host now stays `running`
until issue-terminal authority, its controller lease, or another owner
settles it.
- No new I/O before `turn.start`. The hash is computed at module load,
and the stamp rides the existing process-metadata update.

## Model Used

- Claude Opus 5.5 (`claude-opus-5-5`), Anthropic, used with tool use and
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and contains no internal Paperclip ticket id or instance-derived details
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DottaandClaude Opus 5.5 68db7ed9e3 fix(recovery): never accept a dead local pid as proof for an owner on another host (#19868)
## Thinking Path

> - Paperclip is the open source app people use to manage AI agents for
work
> - After a restart, recovery decides that an in-progress record's owner
is gone and takes it over
> - Two of those proofs use `kill(pid, 0)` on the local host. A pid that
is dead here says nothing about a process on another host or in another
PID namespace
> - So a controller or runtime-control owner that is still alive
elsewhere can be taken over while it still runs
> - This pull request records the owner's PID space (the existing
`controller-process-identity` host hash) and judges a pid only in that
same space
> - The benefit is that a different host is never proof. Those records
follow their existing lease or TTL instead

## Linked Issues or Issue Description

**Bug description**
The Phase 0 ownership inventory (finding 2) found three proofs that
accept "the pid is dead here" as proof for an owner on another host:
`evaluateNativeControllerTakeover` (`native_run_finalizations` has no
host column), the runtime-control sweep (`workspace-operations.ts`), and
the orphan reaper `terminalizeOrphanedRunningRun`. Only
`controllerProcessExited` checked the host.

**Steps to reproduce**
1. Run two control-plane processes on different hosts, or in different
PID namespaces, against one database.
2. Let host A own a native finalization lease or a runtime-control
operation.
3. On host B, run restart recovery. If A's pid number is not alive on B,
B takes over the live owner.

**Expected behavior**
An owner whose PID space differs from this process's, or cannot be read,
is unprovable. Its record waits for its lease, fence, or TTL.

Refs #19846

## What Changed

- Migration `0441`: add nullable
`native_run_finalizations.controller_host_hash`.
- `controller-process-identity.ts`: export `currentProcessSpaceHash()`
and `sameProcessSpace()`. An unreadable space is stored as `"unknown"`,
which never matches.
- `native-restart-recovery.ts`: `currentNativeControllerIdentity`
carries `hostHash`, which both coordinator claim writes
(`native-restart-recovery.ts`, `native-session-executor.ts`) store.
`evaluateNativeControllerTakeover` returns `controller_host_unprovable`
before any pid probe when the recorded space is not this one.
`native-dead-controller-result-lease.ts` selects the column.
- `workspace-operations.ts`: runtime-control owner stamps record
`hostHash`. `ownerProcessProvenGone` requires the same PID space (EPERM
= alive), otherwise the existing staleness TTL applies.
- Not in this PR: the orphan reaper `terminalizeOrphanedRunningRun`.
`heartbeat_runs` has no host for `process_pid`, and its writers are
spread across legacy and native paths. It follows as a separate PR with
its own column.

## Verification

- `npx vitest run
src/services/native-runtime/native-restart-recovery.test.ts
src/__tests__/workspace-runtime-control-recovery.test.ts`: 55 passed.
New cases cover another host and an unreadable space (dead and recycled
pid) for takeover, plus another host, unreadable space, and legacy stamp
for the sweep. The sweep cases also confirm that the TTL still reclaims
after the heartbeat lapses.
- Red before the fix: the 5 new cases fail on the old code. Green after.
- `native-controller-recovery.integration.test.ts`,
`native-failed-run-owner-release.test.ts`,
`native-startup-cleanup-recovery.test.ts`: 71 passed.
- `pnpm db:generate` produced `0441_lucky_chameleon.sql` (one `ADD
COLUMN`) and pruned to five snapshots. `pnpm --filter @paperclipai/db
check:migrations` passed. Server `tsc --noEmit` shows no errors in the
changed files.

## Risks

- Previous-release story: `native_run_finalizations` rows saved before
this column have `controller_host_hash = null`. They keep the previous
local dead-pid proof for this release. Making them unprovable would
leave every native run in flight at the upgrade in `awaiting_evidence`
with no TTL, because local takeovers have no lease fallback. Rows
written by this release onward are strict. Runtime-control stamps
without `hostHash` are strict now, because that path has a staleness
TTL.
- Owners built from other receipts (workspace finalization owner,
workspace stop proof) pass no host and keep the previous behavior. Track
2's shared `OwnerStamp` should absorb them.
- A new row on a host that really moved (redeploy onto a new machine)
waits for its lease or an operator instead of being taken over by pid.
That is the intended "different host is never proof" rule.
- No new I/O before `turn.start`. The hash is computed once at module
load.

## Model Used

- Claude Opus 5.5 (`claude-opus-5-5`), Anthropic, used with tool use and
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URLs)
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and contains no internal Paperclip ticket id or instance-derived details
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DottaandClaude Opus 5.5 a9ac2e2039 feat(native): split local runner startup into stage, launch and session-load spans (#19852)
## Thinking Path

> - Paperclip is the open source app people use to manage AI agents for
work.
> - When a person messages an agent, the agent must start its turn fast.
Time to first token (TTFT) and agent boot are first-class metrics.
> - The Phase 0 baseline (#19846) found that local runner startup costs
1.6–17 s at p50 and up to 50 s at p95. It is the largest part of TTFT.
> - The run log records that startup as one span
(`runner.session.bootstrap` or `runner.session.resume`). We cannot see
if the time goes to staging, to the `paperclip-runnerd` process launch,
or to the provider session load.
> - This pull request splits local runner startup into three sub-spans
in the run log.
> - The benefit: the follow-up work to cut follow-up-turn TTFT can
measure each step before and after.

## Linked Issues or Issue Description

Refs #19846 (TTFT baseline, finding 1 and gap "No sub-spans exist inside
local runner startup"). Refs #19838.

**What existing behavior does this improve?**
The run-log performance spans for local native runner startup.

**Current behavior**
The local path records one `runner.session.bootstrap` or
`runner.session.resume` span that covers runtime staging, the runner
process launch and the provider handshake together. The remote path
already records `runner.runtime.stage` and `runner.process.launch`; the
local path does not.

**Proposed behavior**
The local path records three sequential child spans of
`runner.session.startup`: `runner.runtime.stage`,
`runner.process.launch` and `provider.session.load`.

**Reason and benefit**
The TTFT work needs to know which step dominates before it changes the
runner lifecycle. Without these spans, a change to warm runner reuse
cannot show which cost it removes.

## What Changed

- `RunnerdCodexTransport` has a new optional `onStartupStep` callback.
`#start` and `#resume` time three milestones and call it synchronously.
A failing callback never changes startup. A nested startup (exact
adoption from `thread/start`) keeps the outer clock.
- `runner.runtime.stage`: launch preparation before the runner process
exists.
- `runner.process.launch`: spawn until runnerd accepts the run
(`run.prepare`, or the recovery attachment on resume). An adopted live
runner records no launch. This keeps the existing meaning in
`summarizeStartupReuse`: a launch span means a fresh runner.
- `provider.session.load`: `session.open` (or the recovery probe) until
the provider identity is confirmed.
- `recordNativeRunnerStartupStep` (`native-run-trace.ts`) records each
step as a `run.performance.span` row with `mode` and `target: "local"`.
It uses `trace.defer`, so the run-log write never delays `turn.start`.
- The native executor passes the callback only for a local target.
Remote launchers keep their own spans, so there are no duplicates.
- `redaction.ts`: allowlist `runner.process.launch` and
`provider.session.load` as native span names.
- `doc/run-log-events.md`: new section "Local runner startup sub-steps".

Data path (AGENTS.md §5.7): run log only, plus Observability spans when
an operator sets an OTLP endpoint. The attributes (`mode`, `target`,
`outcome`) are already in the closed span-attribute allowlist. No
Telemetry change.

## Verification

- `pnpm --filter @paperclipai/paperclip-runner exec vitest run
src/live/runnerd-codex-transport-startup-steps.test.ts`: a real runnerd
and the fake Codex fixture. Bootstrap and a cold resume each report
stage, launch and session load in order, with `ok` outcomes and no
overlap. A throwing sink does not change startup.
- `cd server && npx vitest run
src/services/native-runtime/native-run-trace.test.ts
src/__tests__/redaction.test.ts`: the rows have the correct parent,
offsets, durations and failed level. A stalled run-log sink does not
block the caller. The rows settle before
`task.provider_session.measured`. The names survive redaction.
- The existing `runnerd-codex-transport*` suites pass (412 tests). Under
host load (load average 16–27), the first full run had 7 timing failures
in suites that do not set the callback. Each failing file passed when I
ran it again alone. `runnerd-codex-transport-settlement` passed 3/3 for
the failing case alone.
- `tsc --noEmit` passes for `packages/paperclip-runner` and `server`.

## Risks

- Low risk. Without `onStartupStep`, the transport behaves as before:
the clock is not created and each milestone call is an optional-chain
no-op.
- More run-log rows: three per local runner startup.
- The step boundaries are controller-side observations.
`runner.process.launch` includes the runnerd authentication and the
`run.prepare` acknowledgement, not only the OS spawn.

> 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`) in Claude Code, with
tool use (shell, file edit, test execution).

## 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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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 e7936fb1ad fix(heartbeat): gate process-loss retries on the shared failure budget (#19856)
## Thinking Path

> - Paperclip is the open source app people use to manage AI agents for
work
> - When a server restart loses a run's process, the orphan reaper
decides whether to retry the run
> - `doc/execution-semantics.md` says process loss uses the shared
durable failure retry counter, and `enqueueProcessLossRetry` already
schedules against that budget
> - The reaper still guards on `processLossRetryCount < 1`, but nothing
has written that column since the move to the shared budget, so the
guard does nothing
> - So an exhausted chain still says "retrying once" and skips the
interaction continuation path, and a legacy row with a non-zero counter
is refused a retry it is owed
> - This pull request replaces the dead guard with
`failedRunRetryBudgetSpent`, the budget that the retry actually spends
> - The benefit is one restart budget, read and written in one place,
with honest run messages

## Linked Issues or Issue Description

**Bug description**
The Phase 0 ownership inventory (finding 5) found that
`processLossRetryCount` has no writer and that its only reader is the
reaper guard at `heartbeat/recovery.ts:2675`. The guard always passes
for new rows. For rows written by earlier releases, it refuses a retry
even when the shared failure budget has room.

**Steps to reproduce**
1. Seed a legacy run that a restart stopped before adapter dispatch.
Spend its whole failure retry budget
(`executionRetryAccounting.failureRetries = max`).
2. Run `reapOrphanedRuns()`.
3. The run fails with "Process lost -- server may have restarted;
retrying once", but no retry is scheduled.

**Expected behavior**
An exhausted budget gives no promise of a retry. A legacy counter value
does not block a retry that the shared budget allows.

Refs #19846

## What Changed

- `heartbeat/recovery.ts`: `shouldRetry` now checks
`!failedRunRetryBudgetSpent(run)` instead of `processLossRetryCount <
1`. When the budget is spent, the reaper falls through to
`scheduleInteractionContinuationInfrastructureRetryIfEligible`, which is
what the old guard intended.
- `packages/db/src/schema/heartbeat_runs.ts`: a comment marks
`process_loss_retry_count` as legacy. There is no schema or migration
change.
- Tests: the three cases that used `processLossRetryCount: 1` to mean
"retry already spent" now spend the real failure budget. Two new cases
cover a legacy counter (a retry is still scheduled) and a spent budget
(no "retrying once", `retryEligible: false`, no retry run).

## Verification

- `npx vitest run src/__tests__/heartbeat-process-recovery.test.ts -t
"process-loss|failure budget|bypass unknown process outcomes|immediate
terminal-run cleanup|paused-tree work|restart stopped before adapter
dispatch|reached adapter dispatch"`: 7 passed.
- Red before the fix: with the old `recovery.ts`, both new cases fail.
Green after.
- Server `tsc --noEmit` shows no errors in the changed files.
- The full `heartbeat-process-recovery.test.ts` file (419 cases) stalled
locally at 0% CPU after about 15 minutes. That run was on a worktree
whose package builds were stale at first. I ran the focused subset
instead, and required CI runs the full file.

## Risks

- Low risk. The retry decision now follows the same budget that
`enqueueProcessLossRetry` already enforced. A run with budget left
behaves as before.
- Previous-release story: rows saved with `process_loss_retry_count > 0`
are no longer refused for that reason alone. The shared failure budget,
which earlier releases also wrote, bounds them. The column stays, so
earlier-release readers (`queue.ts` startup resume) keep working.

## Model Used

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

## Checklist

- [x] I have included a thinking path that traces from project context
to this change
- [x] I have specified the model used (with version and capability
details)
- [x] I have checked ROADMAP.md and confirmed this PR does not duplicate
planned core work
- [x] I have searched GitHub for duplicate or related PRs and linked
them above
- [x] I have either (a) linked existing issues with `Fixes: #` / `Closes
#` / `Refs #` OR (b) described the issue in-PR following the relevant
issue template
- [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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377bc87df1 feat(connectors): show and select personal AI account defaults (#19845)
Show a crown on each saved personal AI provider default. Add a provider-specific menu action to other eligible accounts. Share saved-state queries, block duplicate writes, and keep the saved crown until a write succeeds.

Keep account details available for accessible grants. Show session lookup errors with Retry. Resolve list permissions once per request and index account lookups. Add UI and API regression coverage and account documentation.

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2026-11-07 10:26:08 -06:00
DottaandClaude Opus 5.5 b5b972ceb1 fix(runner): stop provider tool processes that leave the owned process group (#19727)
## Thinking Path

> - Paperclip is the open source app people use to manage AI agents for
work
> - The local runner (`paperclip-runnerd`) supervises each provider
process, such as the ACPX sidecar for Claude, in its own process group
> - Run teardown stops that process group, and nothing else
> - Claude Code starts each Bash tool command in a new session
(`setsid`). A command such as `nohup ./bench.sh & echo $!` leaves a job
in that session, and the wrapper exits at once. The job is then a child
of init and outside the owned group
> - In a restart chaos storm, a run failed after a restart resume. Its
tool job kept running beside the task's next run, in the same workspace,
for more than four minutes
> - This pull request makes the supervisor record every process that its
provider starts, including processes that leave the group, and stop them
all before teardown reports success
> - The benefit is that a run's tools cannot outlive the run and cause
duplicate side effects in the next run

## Linked Issues or Issue Description

**What happened?**
A restart chaos storm ran a local ACPX Claude task. After a restart
resume, the agent ran `nohup ./bench.sh <nonce> > log 2>&1 & echo
"started pid $!"` and then ended its turn without a result. The run
failed with `native_finalization_missing`. The runner tore down the
sidecar group, and the guardian killed the provider group. `bench.sh`
was in the session that Claude Code made for the tool (pgid and sid =
the exited wrapper, ppid = 1). It was never signalled. It kept forking
`sleep 1` while the task's next run started and finished in the same
workspace.

**Steps to reproduce**
1. Run a local ACPX Claude task whose agent runs a Bash tool command
such as `nohup ./bench.sh x > log 2>&1 & echo $!`.
2. End the run (any outcome, including failure after a restart resume).
3. Run `ps -axo pid,ppid,pgid,command | grep bench.sh`. The job is still
running with ppid 1.

**Agent adapter(s) involved**
Claude Code (local ACPX). The gap is in the shared supervisor, so any
provider whose tools leave the group is affected.

**Root cause**
`SupervisedProcess`
(`packages/paperclip-runner/runner/crates/runner-core/src/process_supervisor.rs`)
spawns with `process_group(0)` and stops only that group in
`terminate_group`, `terminate_group_immediately`, `wait` and `Drop`. Its
own comment said that a caller that must exclude escaped or re-parented
descendants needs a separate lifetime fence. No caller had one. The ACPX
sidecar transport (`acpx_sidecar_transport.rs`, `shutdown` and `poison`)
and the ACPX provider guardian (`installation-integrity.ts`, which kills
only its own group) therefore left every `setsid` tool job behind. The
failure path after the resume was not special: the same gap applies to
every teardown.

**Expected behavior**
When a run ends for any reason, every process that its provider or tools
started stops, and teardown proves that they are gone. Identity comes
from PID, group, session and start time, never from a command name.

## What Changed

- Add the `paperclip-process-table` crate. It reads PID, parent, process
group and start time for every process (libproc on macOS, `/proc` on
Linux). `runner-core` forbids unsafe code, so the two checked libproc
calls live in this small crate.
- Add `process_lineage.rs` to `runner-core`. A sampler thread (every 50
ms) records each descendant of the supervised process by PID and start
time. It also records each group and session that a descendant leads,
with the leader's start time. A process belongs to the lineage when its
parent belongs, or when it is in a recorded group or session and started
no earlier than its leader. Groups and sessions that the supervised
process only inherited (runnerd's session) are never recorded. A
recorded ID whose PID now names a different process is dropped.
- `SupervisedProcess` samples the lineage just before it signals, and
after the leader is reaped it stops every live member: TERM, then KILL
after the shutdown grace. It fails with an error until it proves that no
member is alive (grace plus 5 s). This applies to `terminate_group`,
`terminate_group_immediately`, `wait` and `Drop`.
- If the lineage sampler cannot start, the supervisor stops the process
it just started and reports the failure, so a provider never runs
without tool cleanup.
- Table reads and state updates happen under one lock, so an older read
cannot erase members that a newer read recorded.
- The process table reports processes that exist but cannot be read. A
recorded member that cannot be read stays unresolved, and teardown fails
until its exit is proven.
- The Runner workspace now has two members.
`scripts/runner-release-crate-cache.mjs` and
`scripts/runner-debug-crate-cache.mjs` cache and mark current the
process-table lib unit with the Runner crate (otherwise Cargo rebuilds
the Runner crate after every restore). The debug contract accepts only
this library-only member and still refuses any other workspace change.
The workflow cache path lists and the debug clean step are updated to
match.
- `terminate_group_immediately` now accepts `EPERM` from the group
signal when the leader has already exited. macOS returns `EPERM` for a
group whose only member is the unreaped leader. The lineage pass then
proves that no other member remains.

## Verification

- `cargo test -p paperclip-runner-core --lib -- process_lineage tool_job
immediate_group_fence` (macOS, local).
- New real-process tests in `process_supervisor.rs`: a supervised shell
starts a wrapper with `setsid` (Perl `POSIX::setsid`), the wrapper runs
`nohup <loop> &`, writes the job PID and exits. The test asserts that
the job is outside the owned group and re-parented, then calls
`terminate_group`, `terminate_group_immediately` or drops the process,
and asserts that the job is gone when the call returns.
- Red: with the tracker disabled, all three fail with `tool job <pid>
outlived its provider`.
  - Green: all three pass.
- Unit tests in `process_lineage.rs` cover a re-parented job, a job that
left its group but stayed in the recorded session, a session made after
the first sighting, PID reuse, and no claim through the supervisor's
inherited session.
- `node --test scripts/__tests__/runner-release-crate-cache.test.mjs
scripts/__tests__/runner-debug-crate-cache.test.mjs` (new case: the
process-table library is cached with the crate, and any other member
still needs review).
- `cargo test -p paperclip-process-table` (includes an exited process
reported as gone), and `cargo test -p paperclip-runner-core --lib` (570
passed).
`acpx_provider_backend::tests::unconfirmed_suspension_state_becomes_recoverable_only_after_cleanup_and_suspend`
fails sometimes under full-suite load. It fails at the same rate with
the tracker disabled, so it is a flake that already existed.
- Sampler cost: one table read takes about 0.4 ms for 1,200 processes on
macOS (about 0.8% of one core for each supervised process).
- The restart-chaos replay (`--replay w-20261107T023921-s7106/t67`) did
not run. The local session was not permitted to load provider
credentials. It is not proven against a live Claude run.

## Risks

- Teardown now stops all the processes that a provider started, also
intentional background jobs. This is the intended contract: nothing
outlives the run.
- A wrapper that lives less than one sample (50 ms) and orphans a job
before the sampler sees it is not recorded. Claude Code's wrapper
sources a shell snapshot and lives for seconds. On Linux, a
child-subreaper would close this gap. That is not in this change.
- When `runnerd` itself is killed with SIGKILL, this code does not run.
The provider guardian still kills its own group, but escaped tool
sessions are not stopped in that case.
- Teardown can return a new error when it cannot prove the lineage
stopped. Callers already handle `terminate_group` errors as provider
shutdown failures.
- The server does not yet gate the next run on the tool lineage of the
prior run directly. It relies on the runner finishing its teardown
before the runner exits.

## 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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to this change
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details)
- [x] I have checked ROADMAP.md and confirmed this PR does not duplicate
planned core work
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them above
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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
- [x] I have updated relevant documentation to reflect my changes
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DottaandClaude Opus 5.5 b2af45f0f1 fix(runner): let OpenAI API-key Codex agents generate images with their existing key (#19654)
## Thinking Path

> - Paperclip is the open source app people use to manage AI agents for
work.
> - New users often connect a Codex agent with an OpenAI API key during
onboarding.
> - A user asked such an agent for a logo. The agent said that the
built-in image generator was not available and that its fallback needed
a separate API key. It then drew an SVG by hand.
> - #19516 removed `--disable image_generation`. That change is correct,
but it does not reach this path. The pinned Codex 0.160.0 shows its
`image_gen` tool only when Codex signs in with ChatGPT. The check is
`image_generation_available` in `codex-rs/core/src/tools/spec_plan.rs`.
An API key never gets the tool.
> - The runner keeps the provider key out of the agent's shell on
purpose, so the skill's `scripts/image_gen.py` fallback cannot run.
> - This pull request adds a Paperclip `generate_image` tool. The server
makes the image with the agent's existing OpenAI key. The key never goes
to the agent process or the shell.
> - The benefit is that API-key Codex agents can make images with no
second key. The spend goes to the agent's budget and the budget can stop
it.

## Linked Issues or Issue Description

Refs #19516

**What happened?**
An agent connected through onboarding with an OpenAI API key (Codex
harness, `gpt-5.6-sol`) could not generate images. The agent said: "The
image skill's built-in generator isn't available in this run, and its
fallback would require a separate API key." It then drew an SVG instead.

**Steps to reproduce**
1. Create a company with a Codex agent that uses an OpenAI API key.
2. Ask the agent for a raster image, for example a logo PNG.
3. The agent reports that image generation is not available. It does not
make the image.

**Expected behavior**
The agent makes the image with the OpenAI key that already powers it.

**Root cause**
The agent ran on the native runner's Codex app-server path, with
`auth.json = {"OPENAI_API_KEY": ...}`. Codex 0.160.0 removes
`image_gen.imagegen` from the model's tools unless
`current_auth_uses_codex_backend()` is true. That function is true only
for a ChatGPT sign-in.

I proved this with the real pinned binary. I gave it the runner's
isolated launch arguments and the API-key auth file, and pointed it at a
local Responses endpoint. The first model request offers only `exec`,
`wait`, `request_user_input` and the collaboration tools. #19516's test
checked only `codex features list`, so it could not see this gate.

## What Changed

- **New `server/src/services/native-runtime/generate-image-tool.ts`:**
  - The tool schema and definition.
- `imageGenerationBindingForRun`. It applies only to native Codex runs
on a direct OpenAI `api_key` connection with no router selection.
- The OpenAI Images API call (`gpt-image-2`, `b64_json`, PNG check, 180
s timeout). The reply is read as a stream with a byte cap before it is
parsed. A decoded image larger than 20 MiB is refused.
- A reviewed rate card for `gpt-image-2`: text input $5, image input $8
and image output $30 per 1M tokens, from
developers.openai.com/api/docs/pricing, retrieved 2026-11-06.
  - A create-only, symlink-confined local write.
- **`paperclip-runner-tool-authority.ts`:**
  - Adds the `imageGeneration` binding.
- Advertises the tool only for standard mode with a workspace. A remote
target must also have an installer. Dot, Muse, Grok and native review do
not get the tool.
- Adds the `#generateImage` handler. Before any spend, it checks again:
the run and task, budget authority, `issue:mutate`, case handoff, and
the connection.
- Stores a claim-before-spend per-call receipt in
`resultJson.imageToolReceipts`. A retry or recovery replays the receipt
and does not pay again.
- Saves a `charged` receipt (usage, price, request ID and charge time)
as soon as OpenAI returns. A failed save, failed accounting write or
crash can then still settle the spend. A retry or recovery records the
cost once and never buys again.
- Records one `cost_events` row through `createCostEventInTransaction`.
The row is `metered_api` with `costStatus: "estimated"`, and the budget
is evaluated. The row is recorded even if saving fails.
- Checks the task's project budget, as well as the company and agent
budgets, before spending.
- Writes content-free `runner.image_generate` activity entries: started,
completed, failed and unconfirmed.
- **`ai-connections.ts`:** adds `selectImageGeneration`. It checks again
that the connection is an active, healthy OpenAI `api_key` connection
with no custom routing. It also checks the responsible user's
membership, the grant audience and the agent or company installation.
These are the same rules that runtime selection uses.
- **`native-session-executor.ts`:** gets the binding from the run's
admitted `contextSnapshot.aiConnection`. The value comes only from the
server, never from tool input.
- **`native-session-resume.ts`:** the native tool contract changes from
`v18` to `v19` and now lists `generate_image`. A persisted provider
thread cannot add tools when it resumes, so older threads must rotate.
- **`doc/runner-api-tools.md`:** a new section about image generation
for OpenAI API-key Codex agents.
- **#19516: kept, not reverted.** Its changes have no effect on the
API-key path. They are still correct for Codex agents that sign in with
ChatGPT, because `image_gen` works there and saves to
`CODEX_HOME/generated_images`. Those agents need the read grant that
#19516 added. On the API-key path, the new tool replaces the built-in
tool. The tool's description tells the agent to use it instead of
`image_gen` or `scripts/image_gen.py`.

## Verification

**Red on `master` (e482f0f632).** Behavioural red with the first version
of the new test:

```
 FAIL  src/services/native-runtime/generate-image-tool.test.ts > generate_image for OpenAI API-key Codex agents (N-12) > lets an API-key Codex agent make an image with its existing OpenAI key, saved in its workspace and billed
AssertionError: expected [ 'connections_search', …(51) ] to include 'generate_image'
 ❯ src/services/native-runtime/generate-image-tool.test.ts:78:60
      Tests  1 failed | 3 passed (4)
```

The final test file on master's source also fails. The reason is that
the module does not exist: `Cannot find module
'./generate-image-tool.js'`.

**Real pinned Codex binary.** The new test is
`packages/paperclip-runner/src/drivers/codex/codex-api-key-image-tools.test.ts`.
It uses the runner's isolated launch, the API-key `auth.json` and a
local Responses endpoint. It shows that the model gets no `image_gen`,
`imagegen` or `image_generation` tool, and that a server-advertised
`generate_image` tool does reach the model:

```
 Test Files  1 passed (1)
      Tests  1 passed (1)
```

**Green after the fix:**
`server/src/services/native-runtime/generate-image-tool.test.ts` uses
embedded PostgreSQL and a stubbed OpenAI fetch.

```
 Test Files  1 passed (1)
      Tests  11 passed (11)
```

The 11 tests cover these behaviours:

- **Main path.** The tool is advertised. The request goes to
`api.openai.com/v1/images/generations` with the existing key. The PNG is
written to the workspace. The key does not appear in the result or in
activity. One `cost_events` row is written: 50 text tokens and 1000
output tokens, which is $0.03025, estimated, from the rate card. A retry
and `recover()` replay the receipt with no second fetch and no second
cost row.
- **No binding:** the tool is not offered and `execute` refuses.
- **Budget hard-stop.** The stop pauses the agent, so the call is
refused before any fetch and no file is written.
- **Bad grant:** the call is refused before any fetch.
- **Project budget stop.** The task's project is paused by its budget,
so the call is refused before any fetch.
- **Charge settlement.** A crash left a `charged` receipt. The retry and
`recover()` record the cost once, report the image path and do not buy
another image.
- **Oversized reply.** The read stops before the body is parsed.
- **Save failure.** The spend is still recorded. A same-call retry does
not pay again and reports the failure.
- **Binding gate.** Only Codex on a direct OpenAI API key gets the
binding. A subscription, ACPX, OpenRouter or a routed connection does
not.
- **Rate card math.**
- **Provider errors.** The error text does not contain the key, and
non-PNG data is rejected.

**Neighbouring suites:**

- `src/drivers/codex` in the runner package: 24 files, 350 tests passed.
- Server: `paperclip-runner-tool-authority.test.ts`,
`native-session-resume.test.ts`, `fast-responses.test.ts`,
`ai-connection-session.test.ts` and the new suite. 157 of 158 passed.
- The one failure is `native-session-resume.test.ts › archives a damaged
prior epoch … with real runnerd` (ENOENT on `authority-epochs`). It
fails the same way on unmodified `master` in this local environment, so
this change did not cause it.
- `tsc --noEmit -p server/tsconfig.json`: clean.
- `pnpm verify` exits 2 (broad). Required CI supplies the broad
coverage.

## Risks

- **New security surface: this needs maintainer sign-off.** The server
now sends the agent's OpenAI API key to `api.openai.com` on the agent's
request. The tool is limited in these ways:
  - The key stays in the server.
- Each call checks run, task, budget, mutation and connection authority
again.
- The destination name comes from the server and must match
`^[a-z0-9-]+-[0-9a-f]{8}\.png$`. The write is create-only and confined
to the workspace root. On macOS it uses `O_NOFOLLOW_ANY`. On Linux it
uses a `/proc` descriptor walk.
- **Spend.** Each call costs money. The tool description tells the agent
to make only what the task needs. The cost is an estimate from a rate
card (`costStatus: "estimated"`), not an invoice. The rate card applies
the image-output rate to all output tokens, so the estimate errs on the
high side.
- **Checkpoint rotation.** The tool-contract bump from v18 to v19 makes
existing native provider threads start fresh once at their next turn.
This is what the contract requires when the tool surface changes.
- **Pricing drift.** If OpenAI changes `gpt-image-2` prices, the rate
card must be updated.

## Model Used

- Claude Opus 5.5 (`claude-opus-5-5`), Anthropic, used through Claude
Code with tool use (shell, file edits, sub-agents) 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
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2026-11-07 07:48:39 -06:00
DottaandClaude Opus 5.5 5eac099fbb fix(agents): batch independent follow-up questions into one card (#19634)
## Thinking Path

> - Paperclip is the open source app people use to manage AI agents for
work.
> - Agents ask users for input with the `request_human_input` tool or
the `ask_user_questions` interaction. Paperclip shows each call as one
question card.
> - In an onboarding walk, a Codex execution agent asked five
independent questions (name, menu and prices, contact, style, output).
It posted five cards, one after the other. Each card came 20-60 s after
the previous answer.
> - The tool description said: "For one question at a time, ask only the
next unanswered question and wait for its real answer." Agents read this
as a rule. The paperclip skill showed only a one-question example and
did not tell agents to batch.
> - No server cap exists. A question set accepts up to 64 questions.
> - This pull request changes the guidance. Agents now ask independent
inputs together in one card. They use a follow-up card only when a
question depends on an earlier answer. One-at-a-time stays available
when the user asks for it.
> - The benefit is fewer waits for the user: one card and one agent turn
instead of five.

## Linked Issues or Issue Description

**What happened?**
An execution agent asked a user five independent follow-up questions in
five separate question cards. Each card appeared only after the user
answered the previous card and the agent finished another turn (20-60 s
each).

**Expected behavior**
When an agent needs several independent inputs, it asks them together in
one multi-question card. The onboarding interview already does this ("1
of 4" pager).

**Steps to reproduce**
1. Complete onboarding on the Codex API path and hand off a task such as
"Create printable cake menu and logo".
2. Watch the execution agent's first turns.
3. See five sequential single-question cards.

**Paperclip version or commit**
master at 4938a930d6 (local dev server).

**Agent adapter(s) involved**
Codex (gpt-5.6-sol). The guidance is shared by all adapters that use the
Runner `request_human_input` tool or the `paperclip` skill.

## What Changed

-
`packages/paperclip-runner/src/protocol-actions/request-human-input.ts`:
replace the ambiguous "For one question at a time…" sentence. The new
text tells agents to ask independent inputs together in one questions
card. They use a follow-up card only when it depends on an earlier
answer. It keeps one-at-a-time for when the user asks for it.
- `skills/paperclip/SKILL.md` and
`skills/paperclip/references/api-reference.md`: add the same batching
rule to the human-input sections.
- `packages/mcp-server/src/tools.ts`: add the batching hint to the
`paperclipAskUserQuestions` tool description.
- Regenerated runner contracts (`semantic-tool-contracts.json`,
`protocol/manifest.json`, `native-execution-seeded.json`) and updated
the legacy MCP alias semantics in `spec/capability/mcp-tool-map.yaml`.
- New tests: `core-contracts.test.ts` (tool description) and
`paperclip-skill-utils.test.ts` (skill and API reference).

## Verification

Red on master (tests added, source unchanged):

```
packages/paperclip-runner: npx vitest run src/protocol-actions/core-contracts.test.ts -t batch
 × tells agents to batch independent questions into one card instead of asking them one by one
AssertionError: expected 'Create a durable human question or ap…' not to contain 'For one question at a time'
 Tests  1 failed | 20 skipped (21)

npx vitest run server/src/__tests__/paperclip-skill-utils.test.ts -t batch
 × tells agents to batch independent human-input questions into one card
AssertionError: expected ' For an open answer, use a text field…' to contain 'ask them together in one card'
 Tests  1 failed | 21 skipped (22)
```

Green after the fix:

```
packages/paperclip-runner: npx vitest run src/protocol-actions src/drivers/runner-tool-bridge.claude-schema.test.ts
 Test Files  4 passed (4)   Tests  46 passed (46)
npx vitest run server/src/__tests__/paperclip-skill-utils.test.ts            Tests 22 passed (22)
npx vitest run server/src/services/native-runtime/paperclip-runner-tool-authority.test.ts   Tests 41 passed (41)
node scripts/generate-semantic-contracts.mjs --check / generate-capability-contract --check / generate-semantic-action-catalog --check / generate-replay-goldens --check: current
```

`packages/mcp-server` has one failure ("allows create issue requests to
omit status…"). It also fails on master without this change, so it is
not related.

This is a guidance change. The automated check proves that the guidance
the agent receives tells it to batch. I did not run a live-model eval.

## Risks

- Low risk. The change is text only: tool descriptions and skill docs.
No schema, API, or storage change.
- An agent could put a dependent question into the same card. The text
tells agents to use a follow-up card for dependent questions.

## Model Used

- Claude Opus 5.5 (`claude-opus-5-5`) in 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
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2026-11-07 07:48:28 -06:00
5a92d53f7d fix(adapter-utils): handle closed child stdin safely (#14057)
Handle closed child stdin without losing the child result.

Keep each child stdin error handler scoped to that child. Expected EPIPE
and stream-destroyed failures no longer crash the host. The child close
event remains the source of its exit result.

Verification: 2,024 tests passed and 12 live/platform cases skipped across
87 complete adapter-utils suites. The final 140-test server-utils suite
passed. The regression reproduces the EPIPE crash on unchanged master.

Final qualification: all applicable CI passed and exact-head Greptile Apex
scored 5/5 with no unresolved findings.

Co-Authored-By: Grzegorz Golaś <193330749+greegorij@users.noreply.github.com>
Co-Authored-By: Devin Foley <devinfoley@users.noreply.github.com>
Co-Authored-By: Paperclip <noreply@paperclip.ing>
2026-11-07 03:01:03 -08:00
DottaandClaude Opus 5.5 2468b3f907 fix(native): tell a restart continuation that earlier processes may be gone (#19804)
## Thinking Path

> - Paperclip is the open source app people use to manage AI agents for
work
> - After a control-plane restart loses a turn, the native runtime sends
a same-conversation continuation (#19501, #19699, #19771)
> - A restart can also kill shell or background processes that earlier
turns started
> - In three restart storms, the continuation agent could not inspect
its killed `bench.sh` and set the task to blocked
> - The continuation prompt told the agent not to "blindly rerun an
action whose outcome is unknown", so the agent did not re-run the
command
> - This pull request tells the agent that earlier processes may be
gone, and to check the workspace outputs and re-run a command whose
expected output is missing
> - The benefit is that a task can finish after a restart instead of
blocking on a process that no longer exists

## Linked Issues or Issue Description

Refs #19501, #19699, #19771

**What happened?**

Restart chaos workload B5 (Codex and Claude) failed this way three
times: storm 6b t14, s7111 t16 and storm 10 t12. The agent started
`bench.sh` in the background. A restart killed it. The restart
continuation agent tried to find its tool session and got "process
inspection is denied". It then blocked the task. The comment read:
"Blocked by the Paperclip runtime restart: the benchmark session is
unavailable…". It added that it "cannot verify whether the original run
is still active or recover its output, so I have not rerun it".

**Expected behavior**

The agent knows it is in a resumed session after a restart. It checks
the workspace for the command's outputs. If the expected output is
missing, it re-runs the command and finishes the task.

**Root cause**

`packages/paperclip-runner/src/native-session-runtime.ts`,
`restartContinuation`: the prompt did not say that processes from
earlier turns may be gone. It told the agent to inspect each unfinished
command's "current state" and not to "blindly rerun an action whose
outcome is unknown". With the process gone, the agent could not inspect
it, so it blocked.

## What Changed

- The restart continuation prompt now says:
  - This is a resumed session after a Paperclip control-plane restart.
- Shell commands and background processes from earlier turns may no
longer be running, and their tool sessions may be gone. Do not block
only because one cannot be found or inspected.
- Check the workspace for the outputs or artifacts the command should
have produced. If the expected output is present, use it. If the
expected output is missing, re-run the command.
- Do not repeat completed work. Before repeating an action with external
effects (a push, a message, a deployment), check whether it already took
effect. If you cannot tell, report the blocker.
- The prompt does not say that re-running is always safe. Process
teardown (#19727) has not merged.
- `doc/execution-semantics.md`: one additive sentence.

## Verification

- `native-session-runtime.test.ts`: the three restart continuation tests
(Codex, ACPX, OpenCode) now check the new guidance. They were red before
the prompt change and are green after it.
- Guard: "uses the admitted session cwd in the task envelope" now checks
that fresh turns and ordinary resumed turns do not contain the restart
guidance.
- `npx vitest run src/native-session-runtime.test.ts src/drivers/codex/
src/live/runnerd-restart-continuation.test.ts` in
`packages/paperclip-runner`: 603 passed.
- `tsc -p tsconfig.json` and `tsc -p tsconfig.test.json` for
`packages/paperclip-runner` are clean.
- Not run: a live restart-chaos replay with a real model.

## Risks

- Low. This changes only the prompt text of the restart continuation.
Ordinary turns do not change.
- An agent may now re-run a command whose earlier run had partial side
effects. The prompt asks it to check external effects first, and to
re-run only when the expected output is missing.

## Model Used

- Claude Opus 5.5 (`claude-opus-5-5`), Anthropic, through Claude Code
with tool use (shell, file edits, 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
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DottaandClaude Opus 5.5 ef83d566ca fix(native): ask for the result once after a restart continuation ends without one (#19771)
## Thinking Path

> - Paperclip is the open source app people use to manage AI agents for
work
> - Native runs continue a turn that a control-plane restart lost, in
the same conversation (#19501, #19699)
> - In restart storms 5, 6b and 8, ACPX Claude runs crossed restarts,
ran the continuation, and then failed with
`native_session_retry_exhausted`
> - The continuation completed, but Claude ended it with "I'll wait for
the notification when it completes" for a background command, and did
not call `paperclip_finish`
> - The next same-run attempt then sent no turn at all and failed with
"session returned no semantic result"
> - This pull request makes the continuation ask for the result, and
asks once more in the same attempt if the continuation still ends
without one
> - The benefit is that a restart-interrupted task settles without a
Retry, and the restarts that the run survived cannot block the request

## Linked Issues or Issue Description

Refs #19501, #19699, #19720

**What happened?**

Storm 8, run 84c532f7 and its Retry 0faead66 (ACPX Claude, task CHA-5).
The steps are the same in both runs:

1. `resume_dead_runner`, then `session.resumed`, then `turn.failed` with
`provider_turn_lost_on_restore` (recoverable).
2. The restart continuation runs. Claude starts the bench in the
background and ends the turn with "I'll wait for the notification when
it completes". The turn completes with no `paperclip_finish`.
3. Lifecycle: "provider turn completed without a semantic result;
same-run disposition recovery persisted" (attempt 2).
4. 30 s later, attempt 3 restores the session. It sends no turn. After
about 2 s it fails with `native_finalization_missing: session returned
no semantic result`, and the attempt count makes it
`native_session_retry_exhausted`.

**Expected behavior**

The continuation tells the agent to finish and report its result. If the
continuation still completes without a result, Paperclip asks for the
disposition one time. Restarts that the run already survived do not
block that request. An agent that never reports a result still fails
closed.

**Root cause**

- `packages/paperclip-runner/src/drivers/codex/codex-harness-session.ts`
`startTurn` (lines 224 and 248): the restart continuation uses the
driver's one-shot disposition marker
(`dispositionOnlyRecoveryAvailable`). #19699 uses the marker on purpose,
so that a crash can adopt the accepted continuation turn. The marker
then stays consumed with the continuation turn id.
-
`packages/paperclip-runner/src/drivers/codex/codex-session-terminal.ts`
(line 226): only a *lost* continuation gives the marker back. A
*completed* continuation with no result does not.
- `packages/paperclip-runner/src/native-session-runtime.ts`
(`dispositionRecoveryWasSubmitted`, about line 2761): on the next
attempt, the consumed marker looks like a disposition request that
already ran. Recovery replays the continuation's terminal and starts no
turn. So the disposition request never happens.
- `server/src/services/native-runtime/native-session-executor.ts` (lines
9755-9761 and `nativeSessionFailureDisposition` at 7768): the
`semantic_result_missing` same-run retry charges a provider attempt on
the same counter as restart resumes. In this run, attempt 3 was the last
allowed attempt.
- The continuation prompt (`restartContinuation`) did not tell the agent
to report a result, or not to stop and wait for a background
notification.

## What Changed

- Codex-protocol driver (used by Codex and by ACPX through runnerd):
when a restart continuation completes without a semantic result, the
driver gives back the one-shot disposition marker. The disposition
request is not a continuation, so it consumes the marker for good.
- Native session runtime: after that, the same attempt sends one
disposition request (`Paperclip semantic-result recovery after a restart
continuation ... invoke exactly one paperclip_finish or
paperclip_block`). It does this only when the driver shows that the
continuation borrowed the marker and gave it back. Other drivers keep
the current behavior.
- Restart continuation prompt: it now says to finish in this turn, not
to end the turn to wait for a background command or a notification, and
to report one `paperclip_finish` or `paperclip_block`.
- `doc/execution-semantics.md`: one additive paragraph.
- No server change. The disposition request runs in the same attempt, so
it uses no provider attempt. This avoids `native-restart-recovery.ts`
(#19747).

## Verification

Red before the fix, green after:

- `codex-app-server-driver.recovery.test.ts` "keeps one disposition
request after a restart continuation completes without a result". Red:
marker stays consumed on `turn-2`. Green: the marker is given back, one
disposition turn starts, and a resultless disposition turn does not
re-arm.
- `native-session-runtime.test.ts` "settles a restart continuation that
ended without a result through one disposition turn (Codex driver)".
Real Codex-protocol driver with a fake transport. Red: only one
`turn/start`, then `native_finalization_missing`. Green: the disposition
turn `turn-3` reports the result and the run completes.
- `native-session-runtime.test.ts` "asks once for the disposition when a
restart continuation ends without a result" and "fails closed when the
driver keeps the continuation's disposition marker".

Also run:

- `npx vitest run src/native-session-runtime.test.ts src/drivers/codex/`
in `packages/paperclip-runner`: 593 passed.
- `src/live/runnerd-restart-continuation.test.ts` (real runnerd and fake
Codex, killed runner): 5 passed.
- `tsc --noEmit` for `packages/paperclip-runner`.
- `pnpm verify` exits 2 because the doc change is a global CI input.
Required CI supplies the broad coverage.

Not run: a live replay of storm 8 t05 with Claude. The chaos harness
needs provider keys from the operator's shell.

## Risks

- Low to medium. A run whose continuation ends without a result now gets
one more provider turn in the same attempt. The bound is one disposition
request per continuation. Each continuation still needs an admitted
restart, and the provider-attempt budget bounds those.
- If the controller crashes after the continuation completes but before
its checkpoint, the checkpoint keeps the stricter consumed marker. That
case fails closed as before.
- The prompt text changes for restart continuations. It does not change
a protocol schema or a profile digest.

## Model Used

- Claude Opus 5.5 (`claude-opus-5-5`), Anthropic, through Claude Code
with tool use (shell, file edits, 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
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DottaandClaude Opus 5.5 fff70fe49e fix(runner): relaunch a provider whose runner died before admitting it (#19784)
## Thinking Path

> - Paperclip is the open source app people use to manage AI agents for
work
> - Native runs execute through `paperclip-runnerd`. When the control
plane restarts, recovery starts a new runnerd process, and that process
restores the provider (for example the Codex app server) from durable
state.
> - Each provider launch writes a durable startup fence before it spawns
the process. Admission clears the fence. The fence stops a second runner
from launching a provider while an unadmitted one may still run.
> - A restart chaos wave sent SIGTERM and then SIGKILL to the control
plane in quick succession. The second kill landed after the restored
Codex provider was spawned and before it was admitted.
> - The fence stayed in state with phase `spawned`. Every later runner
refused to restore. The recovery probe's `runner.drain` failed with
"provider startup ownership remains unadmitted", and the task needed a
manual Retry.
> - This pull request lets a new runner retire that fence when the
recorded provider process and its process group have provably exited. It
keeps every other fence closed.
> - The benefit is that a double restart during provider relaunch
continues automatically.

## Linked Issues or Issue Description

**What happened?**
A Codex run was active. A graceful restart (K2) suspended it, and
recovery started a new runnerd that began restoring the provider. That
runnerd spawned the Codex app server (pid recorded, phase `spawned`). A
hard restart (K1) 9 s later killed it before admission. At the next
boot, recovery chose `resume_dead_runner` and queued its `runner.drain`
probe. The new runnerd failed the probe with `command_execution_failed:
provider startup ownership remains unadmitted`. The run ended
`native_session_recovery_failed`, and the task needed a Retry. The kept
provider state had `lifecycle: "turn_active"` and a `startupAttempt`
with `phase: "spawned"`, `trigger: "restore"`, `processId` =
`processGroupId`, and no recorded exit. That process no longer existed.

**Steps to reproduce**
1. Start a Codex task on a local runner.
2. Restart the control plane gracefully during the turn.
3. Kill the control plane again while recovery relaunches the provider,
before the provider is admitted.

**Expected behavior**
Recovery relaunches the provider and continues the run.

**Actual behavior**
Every later runner refuses to restore, and the run fails.

## What Changed

- `provider_backend.rs`: after a runner loads durable provider state,
`retire_orphaned_startup_attempt` clears the startup fence only when all
of these hold:
  - the attempt is in phase `spawned` (neither admitted nor failed);
- the session is still restorable (`session_open`, `turn_active` or
`provider_exited`);
- signal 0 returns `ESRCH` for both the recorded process and its process
group.

It records a `provider_startup_retired` diagnostic event with the
attempt, persists the state, and lets the normal restore path relaunch
the provider.
- Intent-phase fences (OpenCode). Three OpenCode runs after a K6 crash
loop, and other runs on master, stopped at phase `intent` with no
recorded process. Under load, the runner spends seconds verifying launch
artifacts after it records intent. An intent alone could not show
whether a process was started.
  - A new intent now carries `beforeSpawn: true`.
- A new `SpawnStarting` observation clears the mark immediately before
every provider spawn site in `start_with_tools_observed`. That clear is
fsynced, but it emits no extra diagnostic event.
- An intent still marked `beforeSpawn` (in a restorable session) proves
that no process was started, so the fence is retired.
- An intent that reached the spawn, or one written before this mark
existed, stays fenced.
- A runner that predates the field rejects the state as unknown
(`deny_unknown_fields`), which fails closed.
- `validate()` only allows the mark on an intent or on a spawn-stage
failure.
- The fence stays closed for:
- an intent that reached the spawn, or one without the before-spawn
mark;
  - a failed startup (initialization or spawn);
  - a session that recovery closed;
  - a process or group that may still run;
  - a permission error or an invalid id.
- The existing test
`failed_authenticated_identity_commit_keeps_the_durable_startup_fence`
now uses a live process group instead of the fixed pid 123. That pid
might not exist on a CI host, so the test would no longer prove a
running provider keeps the fence.

## Verification

- Red before the fix: the new integration test
`restart_relaunches_a_provider_whose_runner_died_before_admitting_it`
(fake Codex app server; turn active; a `spawned` restore fence with an
exited process group; then the recovery `runner.drain` probe) failed
with `provider startup ownership remains unadmitted`, the incident
error. After the fix it passes. It shows one more `thread/resume`, the
retired diagnostic, and a cleared fence.
- Unit tests (unix-only module): retirement for each restorable
lifecycle, and for an intent still before the spawn. A `SpawnStarting`
outside its intent is rejected. The fence stays closed for:
  - an intent that reached the spawn;
  - an intent without the before-spawn mark;
- a real child that survives its killed leader (process-group probe, no
stubs);
  - a failed spawn;
  - a failed admission;
  - a closed session;
  - a live provider;
  - a surviving process group.
- `cargo test -p paperclip-runner-core --test codex_provider`: 119
passed. The startup event counts are unchanged, because the spawn-start
mark emits no event. The existing fence tests
(`failed_provider_startup_is_persistently_fenced_before_another_process_can_resume`,
`durable_recovery_closes_a_provider_that_reopens_a_settled_turn`) still
pass.
- `cargo test -p paperclip-runner-core --lib`: 570 passed. `cargo check
--workspace --tests` passes.
- `cargo fmt --check` passes.

## Risks

- Process ids can be reused. A reused id only makes a gone process look
alive, so the fence stays closed. Retirement needs `ESRCH` for both the
pid and the group.
- A provider process that moved to a new process group is outside this
check. Before admission the runner has sent it no turn, so it cannot
repeat provider work.
- Intent fences written by older runners, including the kept incident
states, have no before-spawn mark. They stay fenced and still need the
Retry. New launches carry the mark.
- A runner-side change takes effect on local runners after the runner
build. Daytona needs a new image.

> For core feature work, check [`ROADMAP.md`](ROADMAP.md) first and
discuss it in `#dev` before opening the PR. Feature PRs that overlap
with planned core work may need to be redirected — check the roadmap
first. See `CONTRIBUTING.md`.

## Model Used

- Anthropic Claude Opus 5.5 (`claude-opus-5-5`), used through Claude
Code with tool use (shell, file edits, test execution). Default context
window. Extended reasoning was available.

## 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 35d41f11bb fix(runner): keep Codex thread usage reported before a run's first turn as history (#19783)
## Thinking Path

> - Paperclip is the open source app people use to manage AI agents for
work
> - A new Codex run can attach to a Codex thread that earlier runs used
> - In restart storm 9, a comment-wake run attached to that thread after
a restart. Before its first turn, it received the thread's usage from
the earlier run
> - The runnerd transport gave that usage an empty turn owner. The
driver rejected it as an unowned authoritative notification and failed
the run
> - The task then stopped with `native_event_replay_conflict` and needed
the next run to finish
> - This pull request keeps usage that arrives before a run's first turn
as history
> - The benefit is that a run is not lost to earlier work's usage, and
it is not billed for that usage

## Linked Issues or Issue Description

Refs #19718, #19722

**What happened?**

Restart storm 9 (seed 7111), task CHA-5 (Codex). Run A succeeded. A K2
restart fired. The comment-wake run B then started on a fresh runnerd
and attached to the same durable Codex session. Before run B started a
turn, runnerd committed a `usage.reported` event for the thread's
earlier usage. The transport rehydrated it as
`thread/tokenUsage/updated` with `turnId: ""`, because no turn was bound
yet. `classifyCodexNotification` classifies an empty id as
`invalid_authority`. The driver failed the run with "Provider
authoritative notification thread/tokenUsage/updated did not name its
execution owner." Recovery then stopped with
`native_event_replay_conflict`.

**Expected behavior**

Usage that arrives before a run's first turn does not fail the run. If
the session has no usage baseline yet, that usage is history, so the run
is not billed for it.

**Steps to reproduce**

1. Use fake Codex with `--usage-before-first-turn`. It reports thread
usage right after `thread/start`.
2. Open a driver session over the real runnerd transport. Wait until
runnerd commits the usage, then start a turn.
3. Before this change, the run fails with "did not name its execution
owner".

## What Changed

- `runnerd-codex-transport.ts` (`rehydrateRunnerdUsageNotification`):
the transport omits `turnId` when no turn is bound. It no longer sends
an empty owner.
- `codex-session-notifications.ts`: usage reported before the session's
first turn, with no baseline yet, sets the baseline (history). Usage
during or after a turn keeps its existing accounting.
- Fake Codex: new `--usage-before-first-turn` flag.
- New test `src/live/runnerd-codex-pre-turn-usage.test.ts` with real
runnerd, the real Codex driver and fake Codex.

## Verification

- Red, run twice before the fix: the test failed with
`NativeProviderTerminalFailure: Provider authoritative notification
thread/tokenUsage/updated did not name its execution owner.` This is the
live message.
- Green, run three times after the fix: the turn completes. The run's
usage `runDelta` is 7/2 (thread total 12/3 minus the 5/1 reported before
the turn).
- `npx vitest run src/drivers/codex src/live/runnerd-codex-transport
src/native-session-runtime`: 991 of 992 tests pass. One settlement test
timed out under parallel load. It passes alone (19/19), and this change
does not touch it.
- `pnpm run typecheck` in `packages/paperclip-runner` passes. `cargo
fmt` is clean.
- Not run: the live restart-chaos replay. It needs provider credentials,
which this session does not load.

## Risks

- Low risk. The accounting change applies only when no turn is active,
no turn is pending, the session has no settled turns and there is no
baseline. In that state, the usage cannot belong to this run's work.
- The test reproduces the failing shape (usage committed before the
first turn) with a fresh session. It does not reproduce the exact
restart and run-attach sequence from the storm.

## Model Used

- Claude Opus 5.5 (`claude-opus-5-5`), Anthropic, used through Claude
Code with tool use (shell, file editing). Default context window and
reasoning mode.

## 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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2026-11-07 02:19:42 -06:00
af0fe8fe81 Keep personal MCP connections functional while idle tenants sleep (#19427)
## Thinking Path

> - Paperclip manages work for AI agents.
> - Personal MCP connections should remain enabled while an idle tenant
sleeps.
> - Unfinished OAuth, transfer and delivery work must retain its owner
and deadline.
> - Cloud can receive bounded metadata and incoming work while the
tenant remains the company-scoped authorizer.
> - Current identity, revision and delivery acknowledgments establish
when ownership has transferred.
> - This change preserves useful wake, retries and revocation while
making settled ownership inspectable without writes.

## Linked Issues or Issue Description

Refs: #19377 and #19750. Hosted companion:
[paperclip-cloud#1217](https://github.com/paperclipai/paperclip-cloud/pull/1217).

**What happened?** Enabled personal MCP grants and subscriptions could
keep an otherwise idle tenant awake. Ignoring those records would lose
discovery, authorization, delivery and revocation obligations.

**Expected behavior** Unconsumed authorization codes, device requests,
file handoffs and delivery work retain their original deadlines. Settled
connections remain enabled and become quiet after the current external
owner acknowledges responsibility. Incoming useful work resumes normal
authorization and delivery; revocation still takes effect for the
current company.

**Steps to reproduce** Complete normal PKCE/device consent and company
selection, synchronize client/device and revocation state, retain the
connection while idle, then exercise useful tools/events and revocation.
Sleep eligibility requires current incoming/deadline ownership
throughout.

## What Changed

- Add bounded signed client/device metadata and revocation
synchronization with exact revision, identity and ACK checks, startup
recovery and finite legacy-device cutover.
- Preserve company selection, authorization and operation identity.
Register grant work before its INSERT in the same transaction; retain
rollback, expiry and retry behavior.
- Require current managed identity/resource before hosted publication.
Receipt-cleared re-enable must obtain a fresh source ACK before device
creation.
- Reuse read-only settings and inspection budgets; connect MCP owners to
normal startup, drain and shutdown.
- Bound metadata pages and the actual signed request body while
preserving the default limits of other operations.
- Generate migration 0440 after the merged Legacy migration. Preserve
all 438 existing executable migrations and the journal prefix; retain
the normal five newest snapshots.
- Preserve the merged transaction-owner forwarding and regression
coverage from #19750 through normal ancestry integration.

## Verification

- Current own Shared/SDK, database, eval-kernel and Runner builds
passed, together with all seven normal application TypeScript programs.
Missing generated package exports/workspace links were restored through
normal setup; the original setup failures were retained. No source,
compiler option, test assertion or timeout was weakened.
- Normal migration generation changed only the five intended MCP tables;
its SQL is byte-identical to the reviewed MCP delta. Fresh reference
databases and both retained master/Muse histories upgraded through 0440,
preserving historical hashes, row fields, schema and idempotence. Direct
assertions cover the Legacy null default and MCP null/zero defaults. Two
selected history cases passed; the other 21 database cases were
unselected.
- All six current MCP lifecycle cases passed with zero skips: normal
PKCE approval intent, ACK recovery after outage, mutation during
publication, disable/re-enable with original expiry, company-deletion
rollback/commit and key rotation.
- All 81 checks in five current whole files passed with zero skips:
OpenAPI 34, read-only settings 2, diagnostic catalog 25, PostgreSQL
diagnostics 7 and dependency scheduling 13. PostgreSQL fixtures ran
normal migrations before test imports.
- Earlier canonical proof at App `cd1c8c6` / Cloud `9f67531` includes
real 60-second rate and three 15-second quiet windows, useful work and
three revokes. Later paired proof at App `43af514` / Cloud `914eb0f`
plus its reviewed candidate includes normal DCR, PostgreSQL metadata, a
144,017-byte signed publication, actual ACK, cap/default-413 controls
and a real 15-second quiet window. The relevant producer/signing/wire
inputs remain byte-identical in this integration; shared changes are
qualified above. These remain source-scoped observations, not a fresh
full canonical run on the integrated tree.
- All known test owners, process groups and OS sockets closed; an
independent final PostgreSQL audit found no remaining test sessions. One
dependency-test trace recorded 46 opens and 45 close events. Its cause
is unknown; this is not claimed as proof of graceful closure.
- Fresh exact-head remote checks passed: 59 successful and 4 skipped
contexts, with a complete current 5/5 Greptile review and all seven
review threads resolved. Targeted local checks do not constitute a new
whole-repository test run.

## Risks

App and Cloud must agree on identity, revision, namespace, deadlines and
revocation. Partial rollout, unavailable authority or missing ACK must
retain awake debt. Shared startup/shutdown and settings changed since
the earlier canonical profile, so historical observations carry only
within their stated source scope. No deployed Railway/Neon suspension,
Cloud alarm, savings or complete hosted Dot/Muse acceptance is claimed.

## Model Used

OpenAI `gpt-6.1-sol` produced code and verification, with a Codex
coordinator reviewing and integrating the changes. The coordinator's
exact runtime model ID and context-window sizes were not exposed.

## Checklist

- [x] I have included a thinking path that traces from project context
to this change
- [x] I have specified the model used (with version and capability
details)
- [x] I have checked ROADMAP.md and confirmed this PR does not duplicate
planned core work
- [x] I have searched GitHub for duplicate or related PRs and linked
them above
- [x] I have either (a) linked existing issues with `Fixes: #` / `Closes
#` / `Refs #` OR (b) described the issue in-PR following the relevant
issue template
- [x] I have not referenced internal/instance-local Paperclip issues or
links (only public GitHub `#NNN` / `github.com/paperclipai/paperclip`
URLs)
- [x] My branch name describes the change (e.g. `docs/...`, `fix/...`)
and contains no internal Paperclip ticket id or instance-derived details
- [x] I have run tests locally and they pass
- [x] I have added or updated tests where applicable
- [x] I have updated relevant documentation to reflect my changes
- [x] I have considered and documented any risks above
- [x] All Paperclip CI gates are green
- [x] Greptile is 5/5 with no open P2s, recommendations, or follow-ups
- [x] I will address all Greptile and reviewer comments before
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2026-11-07 02:12:48 -06:00
DottaandClaude Opus 5.5 ee1e1a3994 fix(runner): adopt the turn a dying controller's turn.start already started (#19772)
## Thinking Path

> - Paperclip is the open source app people use to manage AI agents for
work
> - A remote Runner hosts the provider (here Claude through ACPX) and
keeps working while the control plane restarts
> - A controller can die after the Runner accepts its `turn.start` but
before the controller checkpoints the accepted turn or emits
`turn.accepted`
> - The provider keeps running that turn. On reattach, recovery saw no
checkpointed active turn, and the Runner's replayed `turn/started`
failed the session with "Provider started an unexpected turn"
> - The run then failed with `native_event_replay_conflict`, replay was
blocked, and a finished issue moved from done to blocked
> - This pull request lets recovery adopt that turn when the Runner's
authenticated command result proves it is the controller's own turn
> - The benefit is that a controller crash loop no longer fails a run
that the provider is still doing correctly, and a foreign turn still
fails closed

## Linked Issues or Issue Description

**What happened?**
In a restart chaos run (Claude through ACPX on a remote Runner, crash
loop fault), a follow-up comment woke a new run. The controller sent
`turn.start` and the crash loop began about one second later. After the
restarts, the controller reattached to the same Runner and failed with
"Provider started an unexpected turn". The run failed with
`native_event_replay_conflict` and recovery required workspace repair.

**What did you expect?**
The new controller generation adopts the turn that the old generation
started, waits for its terminal, and finishes the run.

**Evidence**
The durable controller journal for the run shows command 4, `turn.start`
with `turnId: turn_lab_18ac…`, completed with `{ providerTurnId:
turn_lab_18ac…, status: accepted }`. The Runner emitted `turn.started`
for that turn 1.4 s after the command, after the old controller died.
The replacement's `session.snapshot` returned `activeProviderTurnId:
turn_lab_18ac…`. The controller's own checkpoint had no active turn and
the run had no `turn.accepted` event.

Related: #19711, #19691, #19718

## What Changed

- `codex-app-server-driver-impl.ts` `recoverSession`: when the
checkpoint has no active turn, no semantic result, and no autonomous
goal or disposition turn applies, adopt the single in-progress provider
turn if the transport proves that this run's latest completed
`turn.start` accepted that exact turn id. Any other active turn is not
adopted and still fails closed.
- `codex-session-state.ts`: a recovered session with an adopted turn
emits the missing `turn.accepted` before any of that turn's
notifications.
- `app-server-transport.ts`: new optional transport method
`controllerAcceptedTurnId()`.
- `runnerd-codex-transport.ts`: implement it from the durable command
journal (`controllerAcceptedTurnStartId`). The latest `turn.start` must
be completed and accepted, its result must name the requested turn id,
and no run attachment may come after it.
- `DURABLE_TRANSPORT.md`: document the adoption rule.

## Verification

- Red/green with the real `paperclip-runnerd` and the scripted ACPX
Claude sidecar: `npx vitest run
src/control-plane/acpx-controller-recovery.test.ts -t RC-59`. The old
controller sends `turn.start` and stops before the provider accepts it.
The provider accepts and starts the turn while no controller is
attached. A replacement controller adopts the live Runner through the
production transport and `CodexAppServerDriver.recoverSession`. Before
the fix: `activeTurnId` is null (the session then fails on
`turn/started`). After the fix: events are `turn.accepted`,
`turn.started`, `turn.completed` for the same turn, with one
`turn.start` to the provider.
- Driver tests: `npx vitest run
src/drivers/codex/codex-app-server-driver.recovery.test.ts -t
"controller that died"`. Adoption passes. With no accepted result, or a
result for a different turn, `startTurn` still fails with "Provider
started an unexpected turn."
- Journal unit tests: `npx vitest run
src/live/runnerd-codex-transport.test.ts -t
controllerAcceptedTurnStartId` (pending, failed, rejected, mismatched
turn, later attachment, later pending start all return null).
- Regression: `src/drivers/codex` (all files),
`src/live/runnerd-restart-continuation.test.ts`,
`src/live/runnerd-codex-transport-adoption.test.ts`,
`src/live/runnerd-codex-transport-release-resume.test.ts`,
`src/control-plane/acpx-controller-recovery.test.ts` pass. `pnpm run
typecheck:typescript` passes in `packages/paperclip-runner`.
- `pnpm verify` asks for broader coverage (exit 2). Required CI supplies
it.

## Risks

- Low to medium. The change only acts when the checkpoint has no active
turn and the Runner reports exactly one active turn. Adoption needs the
Runner's authenticated, run-scoped `turn.start` result for that exact
id. Without that proof, behavior does not change.
- If a `turn.start` result is still pending when the replacement reads
the thread, recovery does not adopt and fails closed as before.
- Not proven on Daytona. I did not run the paid replay.

> 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 (Anthropic), model ID `claude-opus-5-5`, used through
Claude Code with tool use (shell, file edits, 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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2026-11-07 01:50:32 -06:00
Devin FoleyandPaperclip 2d4f80504e fix(runner): retain exact ACPX checkpoints after rejected turn starts (#19762)
Preserve the exact idle ACPX conversation when a matching turn.start
response rejects work with retryable SESSION_RESUME_REQUIRED. Require
verified identity, no pending work, confirmed process cleanup and the
provider lifetime fence before normal drain and suspension can publish a
reusable checkpoint. Unknown acceptance and arbitrary closed states remain
closed.

The real Runner regression completes the next turn on attempts 2 and 3,
requires successful terminal status for the exact submitted turn, and
checks expectedIdentity on both resume requests. Controlled wire faults
reject failed, cancelled and missing-identity recovery.

Validation: 193 affected Rust tests on unchanged Rust source/fixtures;
134 recovery integration tests, 14 environment-gated skips; 21 Claude effort
tests; all server typecheck layers. Exact-head CI: 59 successful checks and
statuses, 6 intentional skips. Greptile Apex 5/5, no unresolved findings.
Hosted deployment and task acceptance remain separate.

Fixes: #19751
Refs: #19366
Refs: #19745

Co-Authored-By: Paperclip <noreply@paperclip.ing>
2026-11-06 23:45:35 -08:00
DottaandClaude Opus 5.5 7475577cdb fix(daytona): keep a runner sandbox alive through the controller reconnect grace (#19754)
## Thinking Path

> - Paperclip is the open source app people use to manage AI agents for
work
> - A remote agent run executes in a Daytona sandbox and keeps working
while the Paperclip server restarts
> - The server reattaches that runner within a 7-minute reconnect grace
> - Daytona stops an idle sandbox after its `autoStopInterval`, and it
counts only SDK and lifecycle calls as activity
> - With the server down, nothing touches the sandbox, so a 5-minute
auto-stop kills the runner before the server returns
> - This pull request makes the host tell the provider its reconnect
grace, so Daytona never auto-stops a runner sandbox inside that grace
> - The benefit is that a controller outage of up to 7 minutes no longer
turns a healthy remote run into a blocked task

## Linked Issues or Issue Description

Refs #19199 (the same floor for the warm runner idle window). Refs
#19741 (follow-up delivery through restarts; no overlap).

**What happened?**
A restart-chaos wave on Daytona killed the server for 4m51s while a
per-turn remote run was active. The environment used `autoStopInterval:
5`. The last sandbox activity was at 06:09:16. The server came back at
06:14:19 and then crashed again. At 06:15:21 recovery called the
sandbox. The plugin found it not started and started it again. The
runner identity marker was still on disk, but its process was gone:
`native.remote_runner_recovery_failed {stage: process_verification,
reason: process_not_running}`, then
`runner_remote_process_identity_unavailable`. The task went from done to
blocked. An earlier wave showed the same failure after a 4m45s outage.

**Expected behavior**
A sandbox that holds a live remote runner survives any controller outage
up to the reconnect grace. The server reattaches the runner and the run
continues.

**Steps to reproduce**
1. Create a Daytona environment with `autoStopInterval: 5` and a
`paperclip_runner` agent.
2. Start a remote run and kill the server for more than 5 minutes (less
than 7).
3. Restart the server. Recovery reports `process_not_running` and the
task becomes blocked.

## What Changed

- `server`: add `resolveRunnerReconnectGraceMsForRun`. It returns
`REMOTE_RUNNER_RECONNECT_GRACE_MS` for `paperclip_runner` on a sandbox
environment.
- `server`: forward `runnerReconnectGraceMs` to the provider worker on
lease acquisition and on the recovery reattach resume. It uses the same
provider-only path as `warmRunnerIdleTimeoutMs`. It is not lease
identity, lease metadata, or saved environment config.
- Daytona plugin: the effective auto-stop is at least the largest host
floor (warm idle window or reconnect grace) plus 5 minutes. With the
current grace this is 12 minutes. The plugin applies it at creation and
raises an older sandbox's shorter interval on resume (bounded, best
effort).
- Daytona plugin: keep the forwarded grace out of the normalized config.
Update the `autoStopInterval` manifest description.
- `doc/execution-semantics.md`: document the reconnect-grace floor next
to the warm floor.

## Verification

- Red/green Daytona plugin tests: `cd
packages/plugins/sandbox-providers/daytona && npx vitest run --config
vitest.config.ts`. The new cases failed before the fix (for example
`expected 120000 to be >= 720000`, and no `setAutostopInterval` call on
resume). All 605 tests pass after the fix.
- Server tests: `cd server && npx vitest run
src/__tests__/environment-run-orchestrator.test.ts
src/__tests__/environment-runtime.test.ts`. 247 pass. They prove
acquisition forwards the grace only for `paperclip_runner` on a sandbox,
that the reattach resume forwards it, and that it does not reach lease
metadata or saved config.
- `pnpm typecheck` for the plugin and `tsc --noEmit` for the server are
clean.
- `pnpm verify` asks for broad CI coverage because a doc changed.
Required CI supplies it.
- Evidence from the kept wave database: lease metadata shows
`autoStopInterval: 5`, `reuseLease: false`, `runnerLifecycleMode:
per_turn`. The run had no events between 06:09:16 and 06:14:19.

## Risks

- Cost: a runner sandbox that leaks (no cleanup) now auto-stops after 12
minutes instead of a shorter configured value. Cleanup still stops or
destroys released sandboxes. Explicit `0` and longer values are
unchanged. Auto-archive and auto-delete are unchanged.
- I did not inspect the sandbox state in Daytona directly. Cleanup
destroyed it before this investigation. The proof is the timing, the
lease config, and the `process_not_running` result after a restart that
kept the disk.
- No live Daytona replay ran.

## Model Used

- Claude Opus 5.5 (`claude-opus-5-5`), Anthropic, with tool use (shell,
file edit, 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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Nicky Leach 8be6d70538 fix(runner): select Claude effort again after a cold session resume (#19708) 2026-11-06 23:10:51 -08:00
Nicky Leach 167e39c4ef fix(runner): keep warm run.attach events on ordinary accounting (#19707) 2026-11-06 23:09:57 -08:00
96bc021edb fix(server): certify settled legacy processes for future retries (#19377)
## Thinking Path

> - Paperclip is the open source app people use to manage AI agents for
work.
> - Bounded retries must preserve current authority, budgets and
deadlines.
> - The tenant can wait for supported future work after the source
process and its cleanup stop.
> - Retained process identity alone cannot prove that cleanup finished.
> - This change records host-owned settlement and checks its exact
identity before a retry can cover its wait.
> - Uncertain process state, changed authority, live claims and cleanup
debt keep the tenant awake.

## Linked Issues or Issue Description

Refs #19001. Related dependencies: #19019 and #18988. Related #19340
covers explicit Native task Retry; this change covers future Legacy
process retries.

Current integrated source: `1645970a9322d1213ba25fc7b52366c285682977`,
normally merged with actual master
`131b566ca4fa866c4348739c75cfe48c805b3398`. The prerequisites above are
merged. This PR targets `master`.

**What happened?**

A future issue, company or review retry can retain its failed source
process identity. The deadline reader could not prove that host cleanup
finished. Supported waits stayed blocked. Ordinary issue retries also
needed an exact source-settlement check, and represented coalesced
requests needed exact input coverage.

**Expected behavior**

A supported future retry covers only its existing wait, under current
company and actor authority, after exact host settlement. Missing,
malformed, stale, cancelled, Native or unfinished source state stays
blocked. No retry gains new execution authority.

**Steps to reproduce**

Fail an ordinary process or fail environment preparation before adapter
entry. Let normal cleanup schedule the existing retry. Inspect its
settlement and deadline, stop and reconstruct the owner, and admit one
useful successor at the saved deadline. Hold cleanup or change authority
to verify that the reader refuses coverage.

## What Changed

- Add nullable internal `legacyProcessSettlement` state through normally
generated migration `0439_cultured_impossible_man`. No backfill or
adapter result creates the record.
- Write exact host settlement after stopped-process and cleanup checks.
Compare the current run and reject live claims or cleanup debt. Optional
persistence failure preserves normal cleanup and keeps sleep coverage
blocked.
- Add a separate preparation receipt for a claimed Legacy run that
failed before any adapter or Native dispatch. Require the same boot, run
times, preparing stage, released claim and completed cleanup. A null PID
alone proves nothing.
- Clear settlement on a new claim, process metadata or Native selection.
Omit the internal record from public serialized data.
- Check exact source lineage and current authority for ordinary issue,
company and taskless retries. Cover completed coalesced requests only
when the admitted retry represents their exact inputs.
- Add the closed `current_review_retry` wait with current reviewer,
stage and existing issue authority checks. Require a nonempty current
stage ID.
- Add actual producer, cold reconstruction, SQL negative, redaction and
optional-persistence controls.
- Repair CI fixture expectations for the additive column, startup mock,
budget owner and popup return URL. Bind the controlled Native comment
server explicitly to loopback.
- Replace temporary Slack clock logging with an exact persisted-deadline
assertion. Wait until that real deadline before the existing single
default poll. Keep both forced polls, business assertions and timing
limits.

## Verification

- On final integrated source `1645970a`, normal Shared/SDK
prerequisites, Runner TypeScript and the entire normal App layered
typecheck pass. Tracked source and lockfile remain unchanged.
- All 26 whole-file settlement, recovery-reader and bootstrap controls
pass. Seven separate real PostgreSQL producer/negative cases pass at
`cf16c6a`; each has one selected passing case and 18 filtered
registrations. Filtered registrations are not acceptance.
- Master then changed the preparation source-lock scope. Its three
intersecting cases were rerun on final `1645970a`: an actual failed
company process, an actual failed ordinary issue process, and held
preparation cleanup. Each preserves its source identity and original
deadline and admits one useful successor. Issue and preparation cases
exercise normal automatic retry; the company case uses the normal
explicit bounded-retry producer.
- The unchanged 26 controls and four other PostgreSQL cases retain their
`cf16c6a` proof after a scoped source comparison. Optional
settlement/preparation persistence failures keep certification blocked
while normal cleanup completes. An entered adapter without process
identity stays uncertified. This is scoped carry, not a claim that every
earlier case ran again on the final head.
- All recorded test owners and controlled groups closed. Final read-only
SQL audits returned no test sessions. One earlier postcase resource
barrier observed a transient unattributed database backend; that
database and original evidence remain preserved. Its later disappearance
is recovery, not an explained cause. No assertion, deadline or test body
was relaxed.
- Migration0439 was generated normally after master history. All
executable SQL and journal history are preserved; the five retained
snapshots are0435–0439. Every Legacy-owned patch and unrelated
actual-master blob/mode is preserved.
- Published exact head `1645970a9322d1213ba25fc7b52366c285682977` passes
all current required checks: 68 successful contexts and eight expected
skips after exhaustive pagination and superseded-run accounting. The
fresh complete Greptile review scores this exact head 5/5. All four
inline review threads are resolved. The latest Ponytail turn stopped
without a verdict; one normal retry was requested, with no active turn
or new finding observed. No old-head score is used. The original
old-base policy failure, its dependent aggregate failure, and the
corrected description-gate failure remain recorded. No full local
repository suite is claimed; remote typecheck, test and build gates
pass.

To repeat the real database coverage, set both
`PAPERCLIP_RECOVERY_DEADLINES_TEST_DATABASE_URL` and
`PAPERCLIP_RECOVERY_DEADLINES_TEST_ADMIN_DATABASE_URL` to the same fresh
dedicated test database and run the selected
`recovery-deadline-acceptance.test.ts` cases with one worker. An unset
URL, skipped case or filtered registration is not acceptance.

The fixtures use controlled local processes and real PostgreSQL.
Reconstruction creates new service owners inside the same test process.
They do not prove deployed Cloud alarms, physical host/database
suspension, new-host recovery or Native capacity settlement. The
original30-second retry remains below the Cloud270-second minimum wake
lead.

The merge projection also includes actual master
`c3180398faca815fed7a62674bd4b0c4e88884ae`, whose common completion path
now sends deferred/recovery notifications. Its unpublished normal merge
tree is `16b028d57150f8caa576e913f38343a365b542dd`. Normal Shared/SDK,
Runner TypeScript and the full App graph pass on that combined source.
One unchanged ordinary-issue acceptance case was rerun there: an actual
failed process retains the original automatic retry deadline, admits one
useful successor, and passes the settlement, authority and no-duplicate
assertions. It passed in 45.055 s; 18 filtered registrations are not
acceptance. All known owners and groups closed, and the independent
final database audit found zero remaining test sessions. The successful
database was removed normally. Recorded worker socket peak is
unavailable for this run; parent-process zero values are not used as
worker measurements. All 29 Legacy-owned paths and every unrelated
master blob and mode are preserved.

Two outside-diff review observations concern existing waiting-chat
compaction and cross-host Native result-lease recovery. Their files are
byte-identical to current master. This focused Legacy change does not
fix or qualify those separate paths.

## Risks

Settlement proves exact local closure. It does not cover live provider
work, Native ownership, cancellation, costs, claims, cleanup debt or
changed authority. Independent checks remain.

Ship normal migration0439 with the reader and writer. Preserve
executable history and the newest five snapshots0435–0439. Generate the
MCP child's next migration normally after this parent.

The prerequisites are merged; the final remote checks must use this
integrated exact head. This proof uses controlled local processes and
external PostgreSQL. It does not establish deployed Cloud alarm
acceptance, physical host or database suspension, cold host recovery, or
R5 Native capacity settlement. The30-second retry is below the Cloud
minimum wake lead.

This focused repair follows the roadmap's bounded recovery and Cloud
deployment work. It adds no new provider policy.

## Model Used

OpenAI `gpt-6.1-sol` assisted with readers, fixtures, source review and
verification through Codex. A coordinating GPT-6-family agent
implemented and reviewed shared lifecycle wiring and integration. Tools
included Git, native TypeScript checks and controlled tests. Exact
served revisions and context limits were not exposed.

## Checklist

- [x] I have included a thinking path that traces from project context
to this change
- [x] I have specified the model used and its available capability
details
- [x] I have checked ROADMAP.md and related work
- [x] I have searched GitHub for duplicate or related PRs and linked
them above
- [x] I have linked existing public work and described the issue
- [x] I have not included internal issue IDs or private links
- [x] My branch name describes the change
- [x] Required focused checks pass at their explicitly recorded
source/carry scopes above
- [x] I have added or updated meaningful tests
- [x] I have recorded the internal contract and migration requirements
- [x] I have documented risks and evidence limits
- [x] All required published exact-head Paperclip CI gates are green
- [x] Published exact-head Greptile is 5/5 with no open findings in this
focused diff; separate unchanged master observations are identified
above
- [x] I will address reviewer findings before requesting merge

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2026-11-07 00:56:04 -06:00
Nicky LeachandClaude Opus 5.5 bf45f66619 docs(runner): separate the legacy-adapter paragraph in the Runner README (#19753)
## Thinking Path

> - Paperclip is the open source app people use to manage AI agents for
work
> - The native Runner package has a README that explains its contracts
> - One section explains how a resumed run gets a fresh-conversation
handoff
> - The next text, about legacy adapters, has no blank line before it
> - Markdown renders the two texts as one paragraph, so the
legacy-adapter text looks like part of the native handoff text
> - This pull request adds the missing blank line
> - The benefit is a README that separates native and legacy behavior
clearly

## Linked Issues or Issue Description

**Issue type**
Formatting error in package documentation.

**Where is the issue?**
`packages/paperclip-runner/README.md`, the paragraph that starts "Legacy
adapters advertise `supportsToolRefreshOnResume`".

**What's wrong?**
The paragraph has no blank line before it. Markdown joins it to the
previous paragraph about the native fresh-conversation handoff.

**Suggested fix**
Add a blank line before "Legacy adapters advertise".

## What Changed

- Add one blank line in `packages/paperclip-runner/README.md` before the
legacy-adapter paragraph.

## Verification

- `git diff --stat`: one file, one line added.
- I read the changed section. The legacy-adapter text now starts its own
paragraph.
- No code changed, so no tests are necessary.

## Risks

- Low risk. This is a documentation-only change.
- The Runner build-input digest includes every file in
`packages/paperclip-runner`. This change therefore changes that digest,
and the next release builds a new Runner image. The Runner behavior does
not change.

## Model Used

- Claude Opus 5.5 (`claude-opus-5-5`) in Claude Code, with tool use
(shell, 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
- [x] All Paperclip CI gates are green
- [x] Greptile is 5/5 with no open P2s, recommendations, or follow-ups
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DottaandClaude Opus 5.5 464e6e16e0 fix(native): resume copyback after a restart kills its same-host owner; one board action otherwise (#19717)
## Thinking Path

> - Paperclip is the open source app people use to manage AI agents for
work
> - Native runs save the agent's workspace files after the provider turn
finishes (copyback)
> - One controller owns copyback at a time. The run records that owner
in `runnerProfileJson.nativeWorkspaceFinalizationOwner` (host, PID,
token)
> - A control-plane restart can kill the controller during copyback. The
dead controller can never confirm its own stop
> - Recovery then waited for a board confirmation. No surface offered
that confirmation, so the run stayed `running` and the task stayed
`in_progress` with no visible action
> - This pull request lets the next controller on the same host prove
the stop by itself. It also gives the board one clear action when that
proof is not possible
> - The benefit is that a restart during copyback resumes by itself, and
a task never waits silently for a person

## Linked Issues or Issue Description

**What happened?**
In a Daytona restart-chaos wave, a kill during workspace copyback left
the run `running` and its task `in_progress`. Recovery reported
`native_workspace_finalization_owner_unverified`. The run was still
`running` when the wave timed out.

**Steps to reproduce**
1. Start a native remote (sandbox) run.
2. Kill the control-plane process (SIGKILL) after the provider result is
accepted, during copyback.
3. Restart the control plane on the same host.

**Expected behavior**
If the previous controller and its copyback children are proven stopped
on this host, recovery resumes copyback without a new agent turn.
Otherwise, the task shows one board action to confirm that the previous
server stopped.

**Actual behavior**
The recorded owner was cleared only by
`resumeNativeWorkspaceAfterOwnerStop`. Same-host recovery also required
a completed-copyback barrier, which an interrupted copyback never has.
The task presentation showed `working`, and the UI had no control for
the confirmation.

Refs #19578 (boot-ID fencing for unstarted runs; same proof style).

## What Changed

- Root cause:
`server/src/services/native-runtime/native-workspace-finalization-ownership.ts`
sent a dead same-host owner to `requireStopVerification` when no
`workspace_finalize` operation had succeeded. That case is exactly a
restart during copyback.
- New `native-workspace-owner-stop-proof.ts`. The owner receipt now
records the controller's process group (`processGroupId`). Copyback
children (tar, Git) are not detached, so they keep that group. A
successor on the same host releases the receipt only when the receipt
names another controller boot, the PID is dead or recycled (process
start time), and the group is empty or has no member outside the
successor's own process tree that started after the old controller. Age
alone never proves a stop.
- A still-live group member returns `local_stop_pending`. The
finalization worker rechecks it on its existing ownership recheck
interval. The board action stays visible meanwhile.
- A successful local proof writes `issue.workspace_owner_stop_verified`
with the proof and marks the recovery `resuming`, like the existing
platform proof.
- A receipt from another host, a receipt without a process group, or a
host without `ps` keeps the fence. The task interruption is now
`waiting_for_user` with `userAction: "confirm_owner_stop"` (new shared
enum value), not `working`.
- UI: the task chat shows one **Confirm the previous server stopped**
action. It asks for stop evidence and calls the existing
`resume-workspace-finalization` API. It is shown only to roles that hold
`runtime:confirm_owner_stop` (company owner or administrator, local
board, instance administrator). The inbox names the same action.
- The copyback advisory lock, the coordinator finalization lease, and
remote save fencing are unchanged.
- Docs: `doc/native-workspace-finalization-recovery.md`.

## Verification

- Red then green on embedded Postgres
(`server/src/services/native-runtime/native-workspace-finalizer.test.ts`):
- same-host controller killed with SIGKILL, its process group empty:
before `owner_unverified`, after `acquired` with the proof logged and no
agent wake
- a non-detached orphan child of the dead controller still runs:
`local_stop_pending`, no copyback; after the child exits, `acquired`
  - a receipt without a process group: still `owner_unverified`
- a foreign-host owner: the task presentation was `working` (red), now
`waiting_for_user` / `confirm_owner_stop`; after the board confirmation
it is `working` again
- The existing orphan test (a detached child) and all other finalizer
tests pass: `npx vitest run
src/services/native-runtime/native-workspace-finalizer.test.ts
src/__tests__/native-workspace-finalization-work.test.ts
src/services/task-interruption-presentation.test.ts` (135 passed).
- UI: `npx vitest run src/components/WorkspaceExportRecovery` (34
passed), including the action call body and the non-administrator case.
- `pnpm check:token-gates` clean. Server and UI typecheck clean for the
changed files.
- Live Daytona restart-chaos wave: results are added in a comment below.

## Risks

- A process-table check that reports a member wrongly as live only keeps
the existing fence. The board action is still available.
- A subreaper that adopts orphans does not change their process group,
so the proof does not depend on the parent PID.
- A child that a future change spawns with `detached: true` would leave
the group. Copyback paths do not do that today. The existing
detached-orphan test still fails closed, because a receipt without a
process group is not released.
- Old receipts have no process group. They keep the board action.

## Model Used

- Claude Opus 5.5 (`claude-opus-5-5`), Anthropic, used through Claude
Code with tool use (shell, file edits, 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
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DottaandClaude Opus 5.5 fc7e3a6503 fix(recovery): never replace a native session after a deterministic refusal (#19733)
## Thinking Path

> - Paperclip is the open source app people use to manage AI agents for
work
> - Native agent runs keep a saved provider session, and same-run
recovery resumes it after a failure
> - When resume fails and the checkpoint allows it, recovery archives
the saved continuity state and opens a fresh replacement session
> - Recovery used that path for every resume failure, including
deterministic refusals that left the saved state unchanged and repeat on
every retry
> - In five staging tasks a refusal (a protected launch argument, or a
predecessor tool call with no result) escalated into a replacement. The
remote archive move failed part way, the next attempt found no runner
state, and each task was blocked for workspace repair
> - This pull request stops before replacement after a closed-class
refusal, keeps the saved state, and hands the run to an operator with a
named reason
> - The benefit is that a deterministic refusal can no longer damage
saved state or open a replacement over an unsettled external action

## Linked Issues or Issue Description

Refs #19659, Refs #19516, Refs #19334

**What happened?**
Five Codex tasks on Daytona sandboxes failed on staging. The first
attempt failed with a deterministic refusal:
- `run.attach cannot change protected launch arguments` (four tasks,
fixed separately in #19659), or
- `native_runner_source_semantic_reconciliation_required` with a
predecessor `paperclip_call_assigned_tool` call still pending (one
task).

The same-run retry then opened a replacement session.
`archiveContinuityState` failed with
`runner_continuity_break_archive_failed` and no detail. The third
attempt failed with `runner_remote_state_unavailable: exit=1`, and the
task was blocked with "Workspace repair required".

**Steps to reproduce**
1. Save a native session whose checkpoint policy is
`allow_replacement_after_resume_failure`.
2. Make the resume fail with a refusal that does not change state (an
attach refusal, or a pending tool call).
3. Same-run recovery opens a replacement session and archives the saved
continuity state.

**Expected behavior**
A deterministic refusal stops the run for an operator. The saved state
stays intact. A run with a pending side-effecting call never reaches
replacement. Transport drops keep the existing retry behavior.

**Root cause**
`executeNativeSession` checked only the checkpoint's replacement policy.
The closed failure class (#19334) only had an effect when replacement
was forbidden. Attach refusals and pending tool calls had no class at
all, and the source-reconciliation refusal was a plain `Error`.

## What Changed

- Runner (`provider_backend.rs`, `durable/mod.rs`): `run.attach`
refusals that would change the durable Codex profile or a protected
launch argument carry the closed classification
`provider_attach_refused`. An attach blocked by
`durable_pending_tool_calls` carries `provider_side_effect_pending`.
These refusals already leave the saved state unchanged.
- Contracts (`harness-driver.ts`): new closed classes
`PROVIDER_ATTACH_REFUSED` and `PROVIDER_SIDE_EFFECT_PENDING`. A typed
`NativeRunnerSourceReconciliationRequiredError` replaces the plain
`Error` at the five `native_runner_source_*_reconciliation_required`
throw sites. `runnerRecoveryFailureClass` reads the authenticated
command-result classification or the typed error, never message text.
- Runtime (`native-session-runtime.ts`): after either class, recovery
never opens a replacement session, whatever the checkpoint policy.
- An attach refusal ends with the existing
`NativeProviderStateIncompatibleError`, which maps to the existing
operator path `native_provider_state_incompatible`.
- A pending side effect ends with the new
`NativeProviderSideEffectPendingError`.
- Server (`native-session-executor.ts`, `native-session-resume.ts`,
shared `EXECUTION_RECONCILIATION_CAUSES`):
`native_provider_side_effect_pending` is a permanent failure and an
execution-reconciliation cause, so the board gets a reconciliation
(record whether the action ran) instead of a generic Retry. The
reconciled continuation does not rebind the saved session, which still
refuses attachment. It starts a fresh provider session in the same
workspace. The saved session and workspace are unchanged.
- Archive (`archiveContinuityState`): a failed remote move now records
the bounded (512 characters), redacted exit status and output in
`runner_continuity_break_archive_failed: exit=… timedOut=… <output>`.
The remote move already ran before the local move on `master`, so a
failed remote move leaves the local state in place.
`restart-interrupted-turn.ts` accepts the detailed message for its
reattachment-loss retry.
- Docs: `doc/execution-semantics.md` and
`packages/paperclip-runner/docs/durable-recovery.md` describe the new
rule.

## Verification

Red before the fix, green after (each test first run against unchanged
source from `origin/master` 644ee66f5d):

- `native-session-runtime.test.ts`, test "never replaces a session after
a deterministic, non-destructive recovery refusal". Red: replacement was
attempted (`TypeError: Invalid value used as weak map key` from the stub
replacement). Green: typed error, and `openReplacementSession`,
`openSession` and `openRun` are not called.
- `harness-driver-backend.test.ts`, test "keeps the runner's closed
class of a failed recovery". Red: the typed error did not exist. Green:
both new classes are read from the command result and from the typed
error. The same message text without the type stays unclassified.
- `tests/codex_provider.rs` (real durable executor and fake Codex
app-server):
-
`attach_with_a_pending_tool_call_is_classified_as_a_pending_side_effect`.
Red: `left: None, right: Some("provider_side_effect_pending")`.
-
`saved_codex_thread_attaches_after_a_release_changes_its_feature_toggles`
(protected sandbox change). Red: `left: None, right:
Some("provider_attach_refused")`.
- `native-session-executor.test.ts`:
- Test "stops same-run retries for an operator while a saved
side-effecting call has no result". Red: `expected
'native_session_interrupted' to be
'native_provider_side_effect_pending'`.
- Test "retains the local controller checkpoint until remote continuity
archiving succeeds: failed/timeout". Red: the message had no detail.
Green: the message has the exit status and output, a token in the output
is redacted, and the local runner and control-plane files are intact.

Safety and regression checks:
- New test "still replaces a session after an unclassified resume
failure when the checkpoint allows it". It passes before and after: a
transport drop still reaches replacement.
- Existing test "types a runner-proven incompatible session when
same-session recovery is required" still passes.
- `native-session-resume.test.ts`: a source stopped with
`native_provider_side_effect_pending` is not rebound.
- `run-completion.test.ts` "replays saved user intent through normal
Retry …" passes with the detailed archive message.
- Runner Vitest: `native-session-runtime.test.ts` and
`harness-driver-backend.test.ts` (266 passed);
`runnerd-codex-transport-warm-attachment.test.ts` and
`codex-app-server-driver.recovery.test.ts` (74 passed).
- Rust: `--lib` (560 passed, plus one ACPX timing test that failed under
load and passed when rerun alone), `codex_provider` (118 passed),
`native_provider_backend` (45 passed), `durable_recovery` (3 passed).

Not run: a live staging recovery at this revision. The local server
typecheck could not resolve the unbuilt runner package, so required CI
provides typecheck.

## Risks

- A run that a replacement session would have continued after an attach
refusal now stops for an operator. The refusal repeats on every retry,
so the replacement was the only way past it. It also destroyed saved
state, which is what blocked the staging tasks. A board Retry still
continues the task in a fresh session in the same workspace. This is the
existing `native_provider_state_incompatible` behavior.
- A new failure code `native_provider_side_effect_pending` appears in
run records and recovery actions. It joins
`EXECUTION_RECONCILIATION_CAUSES`, so the UI shows the reconciliation
flow, not Retry.
- An attach refusal used to reach an automatic replacement; it now needs
one board Retry. This is intended: the replacement archived saved state
and failed part way on staging.
- The pending-side-effect class means "no result delivered to the
runner". The controller replays a recorded tool outcome only after
attach. A call whose outcome the server already recorded therefore also
stops for an operator. That is conservative; the reconciliation shows
the recorded outcome.
- Only a pending tool call classifies an attach blocker. Other blockers
(active turn, ambiguous turn start, active goal) keep their current
behavior.
- The archive error message is longer. The one exact-match consumer now
accepts the `code: detail` form.

## Model Used

- Claude Opus 5.5 (`claude-opus-5-5`), Anthropic, used through Claude
Code with tool use (shell, file edit, browser reads 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
- [x] All Paperclip CI gates are green
- [x] Greptile is 5/5 with no open P2s, recommendations, or follow-ups
- [x] I will address all Greptile and reviewer comments before
requesting merge

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2026-11-06 23:25:54 -06:00
839d41aabb fix(server): retire owned plugin listeners before idle sleep (#19358)
## Thinking Path

> - Paperclip is the open source app people use to manage AI agents for
work.
> - Plugins receive durable agent lifecycle events through a registered
host.
> - The host uses a PostgreSQL LISTEN connection to wake delivery.
> - An idle report could return `none` while that host-owned connection
stayed open.
> - This change gives that listener an exclusive owner and closes it
during the current idle hold.
> - Release or expiry restores listening before journal replay.
> - Failed close and pending work continue to block sleep.

## Linked Issues or Issue Description

Refs #18988, which is now merged. This focused ten-file change now
targets master. Current integrated candidate:
`0f83005122ef1bdb1f1e08f8f58424c9a840ebb1`, with actual master
`644ee66f5d4ae8365fe8b9eca57df2be7405b5ab` preserved through normal
merges. No history was rewritten.

**What happened?**

A normal local App with an installed lifecycle plugin could return an
idle `none` report while its lifecycle LISTEN backend and socket stayed
open.

**Expected behavior**

The host must close its own listener before it reports idle safety. It
must retain other subscriptions, durable events, company scope, retry
deadlines and useful reactivation.

**Steps to reproduce**

Start the normal server with a lifecycle plugin. Create an agent and
wait for its durable acknowledgment. Stop the server, create another
agent while it is stopped, and restart with the same files. Request an
owned idle hold after ordinary replay. Check the exact listener backend
and matched Node socket before shutdown. Let the valid hold expire
naturally, then make an ordinary authorized agent update and check its
durable plugin acknowledgment.

Live executing or persistent preview services remain active. The
separate hosted preview dependency
[paperclip-cloud#478](https://github.com/paperclipai/paperclip-cloud/pull/478)
retains its own App and operator prerequisites. This PR does not claim
deployed preview or suspension acceptance.

## What Changed

- Add a private, exclusive database listener owner that inherits the
normal client policy.
- Prepare plugin lifecycle retirement after native retirement under the
same current idle hold.
- Use one delivery-eligibility helper for dispatch and idle journal
inspection. It preserves the same manifest, capability, company-disable
query, and skip rules.
- Close only the owned listener. Keep failed close ownership and
inspection failures visible.
- Resume listening on normal release or expiry, before journal replay.
- Preserve disabled-feature retry history and the original deadline on
re-enable.
- Await lifecycle disposal during normal shutdown and consumer teardown.
- Add owner regressions and document the lifecycle contract.

## Verification

**Current integrated source:**
`0f83005122ef1bdb1f1e08f8f58424c9a840ebb1`. Fresh normal Runner
TypeScript passed in 0.785 seconds. The complete normal App layered
semantic check passed in 28.284 seconds. All tracked source, the
lockfile and the 18 separate private witness inputs stayed unchanged.
Known compiler owners closed and the isolated temporary home was
removed.

**Current product qualification:** at measured integration
`896cc9b62993e6ed10418d7a7417e1ddbf8dc89c`, all three whole files passed
with no failures or skips: lifecycle delivery 40, runtime hooks 20, and
runtime assignments 24. The actual physical LISTEN and natural-expiry
controls passed. All owned clients and captured processes closed.
Independent final session checks were zero before normal deletion of
each successful test database.

**Normal full-App physical retirement:** the original case passed in
47.574 seconds. It exercised real startup, readiness, SDK callbacks,
durable ACK, foreign-company exclusion, physical stop, offline input and
cold replay. The initial unknown hold and its ordinary release remain in
the evidence. After the original 30.5-second cadence, a new valid hold
returned quiescent. The exact current cold-App LISTEN backend and its
matched Node socket closed before server stop.

**Normal full-App natural expiry:** the separate original case passed in
77.391 seconds under its original 90-second body cap. The final valid
30-second hold expired naturally. A new listener backend and matched
current App socket appeared before fresh input. An ordinary authorized
agent-name PATCH produced journal event 20, the actual SDK callback and
durable ACK. Foreign exclusion and readiness assertions passed. The
final measured hold had no manual release, replacement hold or shortened
TTL. The original preparatory unknown hold, ordinary release and
30.5-second cadence remain explicit.

Both App cases used the normal current server helpers and actual SDK
bundling/worker entry. A private compatibility change supplied the same
owned HOME at the exact existing child-fork boundary. It did not change
the product helpers, business assertions or timing limits. These
separate acceptance fixtures remain outside the focused product diff.

**Source carry to the current candidate:** all nine other owned files,
listener mechanics, actual producer paths, SDK paths and measured hold
behavior are unchanged. The sole owned intersection from newer master is
an independent environment-delete cleanup callback in `app.ts`. The
plugin witnesses do not call that route. Normal merges preserve every
unrelated master blob and file mode. The fresh current semantic checks
above qualify the integrated source. New master Native crash-recovery
and saved-copyback Retry capabilities are not claimed by these plugin
cases.

**Actual master merge target:** newer master contains retained plugin
Runner release/resume and other Native recovery fixes. The projected
combined target passed fresh normal Runner TypeScript in 0.799 seconds
and the full App semantic check in 29.715 seconds. All ten plugin-owned
blobs and modes remain exact to the published head; every unrelated
master change is preserved. The measured plugin cases create no Native
provider turn or warm Native session. The unchanged
native-first/plugin-second ordering still checks the native result
before listener retirement. Later sparse-checkpoint and Native
response-publication changes do not enter those paths. This is a scoped
source carry, not new hosted Runner acceptance.

**Failures retained:** an earlier reactivation fixture's real timer
returned one millisecond before its original wall-clock expiry. Its
private fixture now waits any positive remainder and retains the same
expiry assertion and limits. The earlier partial-composition `unknown`
result remains distinct from normal-startup proof. Current qualification
also exposed missing normal workspace dependencies and a private guard
that assumed loose Git refs. Normal owned dependency setup and an exact
loose-or-packed reader fixed those setup failures. No business
assertion, timeout, permission boundary or product sleep gate was
relaxed.

Repeat focused product coverage with a fresh external fixture database
and the normal server Vitest command, one worker:

```sh
pnpm --filter @paperclipai/server exec vitest run src/__tests__/plugin-lifecycle-delivery.test.ts --maxWorkers=1 --no-file-parallelism
pnpm --filter @paperclipai/server exec vitest run src/__tests__/agent-runtime-hooks.test.ts --maxWorkers=1 --no-file-parallelism
pnpm --filter @paperclipai/server exec vitest run src/__tests__/agent-runtime-assignments.test.ts --maxWorkers=1 --no-file-parallelism
```

Exact current head `0f83005122ef1bdb1f1e08f8f58424c9a840ebb1` has 60
successful checks, three skips and one neutral result, with no pending
or failing contexts. Greptile completed its full review at 5/5 with no
actionable issue. All root and nested review pages were read; the
earlier eligibility finding is resolved. Ponytail's latest turn stopped
before a verdict. A normal retry was requested; no current Ponytail
verdict or score is claimed. Previous `3ca86ec` CI and scores are
historical. A full local repository typecheck/test/build or browser run
is not claimed. Controlled local App/SDK/PostgreSQL proof does not
establish live provider, deployed Railway/Neon suspension, signed Cloud
alarms or global exactly-once delivery.

## Risks

- A listener close failure or uncertain inspection must continue to
block sleep.
- Release, expiry, configuration changes, and journal arrival can race
with retirement. Epoch and current-hold checks retain conservative
results.
- Delivery remains at least once across uncertain ACK boundaries. This
change does not add global exactly-once delivery.
- The database helper closes only its exclusive listener client. Other
owners and subscriptions keep their resources.

## Model Used

OpenAI `gpt-6.1-sol`, reasoning and code/tool use. The managing Codex
agent implemented shared database/composition seams and reviewed the
change; its exact model ID was not exposed. The runtime does not expose
a verified 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: Codex <noreply@openai.com>
2026-11-06 22:56:47 -06:00
DottaandClaude Opus 5.5 c45c7cb854 fix(workspaces): ignore killed-transfer scratch in sparse checkpoints (#19730)
## Thinking Path

> - Paperclip is the open source app people use to manage AI agents for
work
> - A native run in a remote sandbox copies its workspace back to the
host after the turn. A sparse checkpoint copies only changed entries,
and the host validates each entry against the sandbox's own manifest
> - Every Daytona transfer stages a `.paperclip-upload-<uuid>` scratch
file at the sandbox workspace root and removes it only in the same
process
> - A control-plane kill during any transfer leaves that scratch behind.
The sparse checkpoint then recorded it as a workspace file, but
providers never export it. Every later copyback and every saved-work
recovery attempt failed with "Workspace checkpoint payload mismatch"
> - The failed recovery then left an accepted Retry showing "Paperclip
is finishing the saved result" with no run
> - This pull request stops recording transfer scratch, makes the
checkpoint export an exact copy, names the failing entry, and gives a
Retry behind a spent recovery an honest reason and a working action
> - The benefit is that a restart during a transfer no longer makes a
task's saved work permanently unrecoverable

## Linked Issues or Issue Description

Refs #19721 (RC-50: the killed copyback owner; this PR covers the
separate RC-50b cause)

**What happened?**

Restart-chaos waves s12/t01 and s14/t05 (Claude on Daytona). After a
SIGKILL of the control plane, the native result was accepted, and then
workspace copyback failed with "Workspace checkpoint payload mismatch".
In s14 all 6 saved-work recovery attempts failed the same way. A Retry
accepted during recovery kept `retryWait.reason =
finalizing_saved_result` after the recovery budget was spent. No run was
created.

**Steps to reproduce**

1. Start a native Claude run in a Daytona sandbox.
2. SIGKILL the control plane while any provider transfer is in flight.
3. Let the run finish its turn and copy its workspace back.

**Expected behavior**

Copyback succeeds. Provider scratch is not workspace content. A Retry
behind a spent recovery names the failure and can start a new recovery.

**Actual behavior**

The s14 sandbox (6f4a0b6a) still held
`/home/daytona/paperclip-workspace/.paperclip-upload-d99fe36b-5acc-437b-96ad-85d5ff9e79c4.tar`.
Its mtime was 03:29:23, the second of the K4 SIGKILL. The Daytona
provider stages transfer scratch at `remoteDir`, which is the lease
`remoteCwd` (the workspace root). The runtime workspace wipe
deliberately preserves `.paperclip-upload-*`. The checkpoint helper
(`workspace-checkpoint.ts`, `checkpointMain`) recorded the stale tar.
The ordinary export excludes `.paperclip-upload*`, so the host received
nothing for that entry. `validateCheckpointPayload` then threw "payload
mismatch" on every attempt. The file-mode hypothesis was disproved: the
sandbox umask is 022 and the scratch is mode 644.

## What Changed

- `packages/adapter-utils/src/exclude-patterns.ts`: new
`isSandboxTransferScratchPath`, which matches a root-level
`.paperclip-upload-*` entry. This agrees with the wipe's preserve rule
in `buildWorkspaceTarExtractCommand`.
- `packages/adapter-utils/src/workspace-checkpoint.ts`: the sandbox
checkpoint helper skips that scratch. A mismatch error now names the
entry and its recorded, baseline and received forms (kind, octal mode,
short hash; never contents).
- `packages/adapter-utils/src/sandbox-managed-runtime.ts`: the
checkpoint export requests `preserveSourceEntries: true`. The checkpoint
output is an exact copy that the host validates entry by entry. An
ordinary export applies the host umask and drops `._*` and
`.paperclip-upload*` names at any depth. That gives the same permanent
mismatch for a legitimate user file such as `._summary`,
`notes/.paperclip-upload-plan.md`, or a `0775` script.
- `server/src/services/explicit-native-continuation.ts` and
`task-interruption-presentation.ts`: when the run's saved-work recovery
is exhausted, a waiting Retry reports `saved_work_recovery_failed` with
Retry available, instead of `finalizing_saved_result`. The existing task
Retry path starts one new recovery generation.
- `doc/execution-semantics.md`: a short additive note.

## Verification

- `packages/adapter-utils/src/workspace-checkpoint-capture.test.ts` uses
the real checkpoint helper and an export that behaves like Daytona's
ordinary export:
- Before the fix: `Workspace checkpoint payload mismatch at
".paperclip-upload-d99fe36b-….tar": sandbox recorded file mode=644 …;
baseline absent; received absent`. That is the wave error.
  - After the fix: the scratch is not recorded, and validation passes.
- A second case shows that reserved-looking user names and `0775` modes
need the exact export.
- `packages/adapter-utils/src/workspace-checkpoint.test.ts` is an
end-to-end `prepareSandboxManagedRuntime` restore through a provider
model. In that model, ordinary exports drop reserved names and apply the
umask, and preserve exports copy exactly. Two red checks:
- Without `preserveSourceEntries`, it fails with the mismatch on
`._summary`.
- Without the scratch skip, the stale tar leaks into the host workspace.
- Green: the agent file, the `._summary` file and the `0775` mode
arrive, and no scratch arrives.
- `server/src/services/workspace-recovery-preparation-gates.test.ts`,
"names a spent saved-work recovery behind an accepted Retry, and the
next Retry finishes it" (s14 shape):
  - Red: `finalizing_saved_result` after 6 failed attempts.
- Green: `saved_work_recovery_failed` with `canRetry: true`. The next
Retry starts a new generation, recovery completes, and the Retry
continues in exactly one new run.
- Suites: adapter-utils checkpoint, capture, sandbox-managed-runtime,
seed-reuse and managed-seed (168 passed). Server preparation-gates (47),
explicit-native-continuation and task-interruption-presentation (455),
workspace-recovery admission and retry-copyback, and
native-workspace-finalizer. `tsc --noEmit` is clean for adapter-utils
and server.
- Live evidence: I started the stopped s14 sandbox read-only, listed its
workspace, and stopped it again. No Daytona replay was run. The runner
content ID of this checkout matches no built image.

## Risks

- A user file named `.paperclip-upload-*` directly at the workspace root
is no longer captured by a sparse checkpoint. Providers already drop
that name from every ordinary export, and the runtime already reserves
it at the root.
- The checkpoint export now uses the provider's exact-copy mode. A
workspace file with setuid, setgid or sticky bits is refused by that
mode, as it is for the existing exact-copy transfers. The ordinary
export would have stripped those bits and failed validation anyway.
- The stale scratch tar stays in the sandbox. It is ignored, not
deleted, because a concurrent transfer can own a file with the same
prefix.

## Model Used

- Claude Opus 5.5 (`claude-opus-5-5`), Anthropic, through Claude Code
with tool use (shell, file edits, test runs, embedded Postgres, a
read-only Daytona sandbox listing).

## 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
requesting merge

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2026-11-06 22:46:16 -06:00
DottaandClaude Opus 5.5 d1ee25d0f7 fix(runner): fail a pending Codex turn start at once with the runner's own terminal failure (#19722)
## Thinking Path

> - Paperclip is the open source app people use to manage AI agents for
work
> - The control plane starts each Codex turn through runnerd and waits
for the turn's start event (`#startTurnWork` in
`runnerd-codex-transport.ts`)
> - In restart storm 5, runnerd failed an accepted continuation turn
before it started (`turn_binding_mismatch`, fixed at its source in
#19718)
> - The transport held that terminal for the pending start and waited
the full 30 s bound
> - It then reported "runnerd did not report the provider turn
identity", which hid the real cause
> - This pull request makes a pending start fail at once with the
runner's own terminal failure
> - The benefit is a faster failure that names its real cause, so
recovery and operators act on the correct fact

## Linked Issues or Issue Description

Refs #19718, #19699, #19608

**What happened?**

Restart storm 5 (seed 7106), task t01 (Codex). Runnerd accepted the
restart continuation turn. About 0.5 s later it committed a
`harness.diagnostic`, a non-recoverable `turn.failed`
(`turn_binding_mismatch`) and a failed `run.terminal`. The transport's
event pump holds a turn terminal while a turn start is pending, so the
start loop never saw it. The start waited 30 s, the #19608 adoption
check found no active turn, and the run failed with "runnerd did not
report the provider turn identity".

**Expected behavior**

When runnerd reports a final failure of the pending turn (a
non-recoverable `turn.failed` or a failed `run.terminal`) before the
turn starts, the start fails at once. The error names the runner's code
and message.

**Steps to reproduce**

1. Use fake Codex with `--foreign-usage-before-turn-started
--turn-started-delay-ms 20000`.
2. Start a turn through the runnerd Codex transport.
3. Before this change, `turn/start` rejects after the full bound with
"runnerd did not report the provider turn identity".

## What Changed

- `runnerd-codex-transport.ts`: new `runnerdPendingTurnStartFailure()`.
It finds a non-recoverable `turn.failed` or a failed `run.terminal`
among the terminals held for the pending start and the committed events
after the cursor.
- `#startTurnWork` checks it while it waits for `turn/started`, before
the adoption snapshot, and in the post-adoption wait. It throws `runnerd
failed the provider turn before it started: <code>: <message>`.
- The check runs only when the turn has not started. A recoverable
terminal does not trigger it. The #19608 late-start adoption path is
unchanged.
- Fake Codex: new `--foreign-usage-before-turn-started` flag. It sends
usage for a turn the runner does not own right after it accepts a turn.
This makes runnerd fail the turn with `turn_binding_mismatch` before it
starts.
- New test in `runnerd-codex-transport-deadlines.test.ts` with real
runnerd and fake Codex.

## Verification

- Red before the fix: `npx vitest run
src/live/runnerd-codex-transport-deadlines.test.ts` → the new test
failed after 16.4 s with "runnerd did not report the provider turn
identity".
- Green after the fix: the start rejects in under 5 s with
`turn_binding_mismatch`, and fake Codex saw exactly one `turn/start`.
- The #19608 tests ("adopts a durably accepted turn whose start
notification outlives the turn-start bound" and "does not adopt an
accepted turn the runner no longer reports active") still pass.
- `npx vitest run src/live/runnerd-codex-transport`: 9 files, 399 tests
pass.
- `pnpm run typecheck` in `packages/paperclip-runner` passes. `cargo
test --bin fake-codex-app-server` passes. `cargo fmt` is clean.
- `pnpm verify` exits 2 (broad input: the fake Codex binary). Required
CI supplies the broad coverage.

## Risks

- Low risk. The new failure fires only when runnerd itself already
reported a final failure and no turn start was observed. In that state
the start could not succeed, and before this change it failed after the
bound anyway.
- If a provider sends a non-recoverable terminal before its own turn
start for a turn that later starts, the start now fails earlier. Codex
sends `turn/started` before its terminal, and runnerd's terminal for a
protocol failure is final, so I do not expect this.

## Model Used

- Claude Opus 5.5 (`claude-opus-5-5`), Anthropic, used through Claude
Code with tool use (shell, file editing). Default context window and
reasoning mode.

## 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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- [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
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DottaandClaude Opus 5.5 42f6b3a870 fix(runner): keep a restart-lost Codex turn's late usage from failing its continuation (#19718)
## Thinking Path

> - Paperclip is the open source app people use to manage AI agents for
work
> - Native Codex runs continue a turn lost to a control-plane restart
once, in the same conversation (#19699)
> - In restart storm 5, a Codex run crossed one graceful restart. The
continuation started, but the task stopped and needed a Retry
> - The runner log shows the cause. The resumed Codex thread sent the
usage of the lost turn after it accepted the continuation turn. The
runner rejected that usage as `turn_binding_mismatch` and failed the run
> - Recovery marks the lost turn as settled in the durable ledger. It
does not tell the live Codex provider, so the provider treats the old
turn's usage as a foreign event
> - This pull request records the lost turn as settled in the live
provider too
> - The benefit is that a restart-lost Codex turn continues without a
Retry

## Linked Issues or Issue Description

Refs #19699, #19608, #19501, #15297

**What happened?**

Restart storm 5 (seed 7106). Task t01 (Codex, B5) crossed one K2 SIGTERM
restart. Recovery resumed the dead runner. Runnerd restored the
conversation and recorded `turn.failed` with
`provider_turn_lost_on_restore` (recoverable). The control plane started
the continuation (#19699). Runnerd accepted it as a new provider turn.
About 0.5 s later, Codex sent `thread/tokenUsage/updated` for the lost
turn id. The runner's durable state records these events:

- `turn.accepted` for the new turn `01a1b3e2-…`
- `harness.diagnostic` `turn_binding_mismatch`, method
`thread/tokenUsage/updated`, `expectedTurnId` = new turn,
`receivedTurnId` = lost turn `01a1b3e0-…`
- `turn.failed` (`recoverable: false`) and `run.terminal` failed

The control plane did not see `turn/started` and failed after 30 s with
"runnerd did not report the provider turn identity". The task needed a
manual Retry.

**Expected behavior**

Usage for the lost turn is history. The runner keeps it as a resume
usage snapshot. The continuation runs, and the task continues without a
Retry.

**Steps to reproduce**

1. Start a Codex turn through the durable runner.
2. Kill the runner while the turn is active. Restore so that the
provider reports no active turn (`provider_turn_lost_on_restore`).
3. Start the continuation turn. Let the provider send
`thread/tokenUsage/updated` for the lost turn after it accepts the new
turn.
4. Before this change, the runner fails the continuation with
`turn_binding_mismatch`.

## What Changed

- `provider_backend.rs`: when recovery finds that the previous active
turn ended while the runner was offline, it now also restores that turn
id into the live provider's settled-turn set. The durable ledger already
settled it. The existing settled-turn path then turns its late usage
into `paperclip/resumeUsageSnapshot` and does not bill its `last` usage
to the run.
- The code skips this step when the settled-turn epoch needs a rollover,
the same as the durable ledger.
- Fake Codex: new `--stale-usage-after-turn-start` flag. With durable
turn ids, it sends usage for the previous turn right after it accepts
the next turn, before `turn/started`. This matches the live Codex order.
- New test
`restart_continuation_ignores_late_usage_for_the_turn_lost_on_restore`
in `tests/codex_provider.rs`. It uses the real durable Codex executor
with fake Codex.

## Verification

- Red before the fix: `cargo test -p paperclip-runner-core --test
codex_provider restart_continuation_ignores_late_usage` failed with the
same diagnostic as the live run (`turn_binding_mismatch`, method
`thread/tokenUsage/updated`, `receivedTurnId: provider-turn-1`,
`expectedTurnId: provider-turn-2`).
- Green after the fix: the same test passes. The continuation emits
`turn.started` for `provider-turn-2`, there is no `turn.failed` or
`run.terminal`, and fake Codex saw exactly two `turn/start` calls (the
original and one continuation).
- `cargo test -p paperclip-runner-core`: all suites pass.
`acpx_park_readiness::hosted_park_acpx_preserves_late_goals_and_rejects_foreign_or_busy_observations`
failed once and passed on rerun. This change does not touch ACPX.
- `cargo fmt --check` is clean.
- Not run: the live restart-chaos replay of
`w-20261107T023921-s7106/t01`. The local harness needs provider
credentials that were not available to this session.

## Risks

- Low risk. The change adds one already-ended turn id to the live
provider's settled set. That set is only used to ignore stale events and
to reject reuse of a settled id. So a provider that later reports the
lost turn id as a new active turn is now rejected, as the durable ledger
already does.
- The change does not address a second, separate problem: after the
runner failed the continuation, the control-plane transport waited the
full 30 s turn-start bound and reported "runnerd did not report the
provider turn identity" instead of the runner's `turn_binding_mismatch`.
That message only applies when such a failure occurs. This PR removes
this specific trigger.

## Model Used

- Claude Opus 5.5 (`claude-opus-5-5`), Anthropic, used through Claude
Code with tool use (shell, file editing). Default context window and
reasoning mode.

## 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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