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DottaandPaperclip f513f0efd9 fix(recovery): admit certified process-loss preparation retries (#19552)
## Thinking Path

> - Paperclip keeps task work durable across server restarts.
> - Restart recovery records a certificate when a Runner preparation
ended before provider work started.
> - Automatic recovery already verifies that certificate together with
saved files and stopped leases.
> - Explicit Retry called a preparation helper that only reached this
proof for status `interrupted`.
> - A certified `failed/process_lost` source therefore stayed blocked
after its files were recovered.
> - This pull request makes the helper reuse the same existing proof.
> - A queued user Retry can then admit one new turn while all current
safety and policy gates remain effective.

## Linked Issues or Issue Description

**What happened?**

A task had a certified process-lost preparation, verified
saved-workspace receipts, a destroyed source sandbox, and one or two
later attempts refused before dispatch. Its accepted Retry request
stayed deferred with `execution_recovery` and created no successor.

The explicit admission helper excluded this source before it could use
the preparation proof added in #19464. This also prevented the
refused-attempt continuation path from #19466 from advancing.

**Expected behavior**

Explicit Retry must use the same positive pre-provider proof as restart
recovery. It must preserve source history, refuse contradictory
execution evidence, honor current policy gates, and admit at most one
successor for the existing request.

**Steps to reproduce**

Persist a legacy preparing run as failed with `process_lost` and the
host bootstrap certificate that provider work did not start. Record its
canonical committed snapshot, recovery/finalization operations, clean
workspace authority, and exact destroyed-lease receipt. Add one or two
unstarted cancelled descendants with the dispatcher's execution-wait
receipt. Accept one Retry request and resume it concurrently twice.
Before this fix, no successor exists and the same request remains
deferred.

**Paperclip version or commit**

Reproduced on master `a6c22806308e8a3c7b21145f80fb471756bb443d`. Related
repairs: #19464 and #19466.

## What Changed

- Reuse `isInterruptedNativePreparation` before the existing
failed-preparation checks. The existing no-coordinator and
historical-ancestor restrictions remain.
- Add real-database regressions for one and two refused descendants,
duplicate clicks, concurrent resume, continuation dispatch, preserved
history, and unchanged recovery attempt counts.
- Add late-gate checks for provider work, provider events, a newer
native checkpoint, missing bootstrap proof, missing stop proof, a
changed snapshot, formal approval, user Stop, agent/company pause, and a
spent budget.
- Clarify that explicit admission uses the existing certified
preparation proof.

## Verification

- Red: both real-database cases passed the saved-file,
interrupted-preparation, and refused-dispatch proof checks, but the
original successor-count assertion found zero queued runs instead of
one. The accepted requests retained `execution_recovery`.
- Green: the same cases admit one successor after two concurrent resume
calls. Continuation dispatch resolves to the latest refused attempt.
Source and cancelled-attempt history stay intact.
- Complete relevant local suites: **456/456 passed** before rebase.
Command from `server`: `../node_modules/.bin/vitest run --config
vitest.config.ts --fsModuleCache src/services/task-retry.test.ts
src/services/explicit-native-continuation.test.ts`.
- Final head `9788382c019df57899af06e81211e7c5165e7f0d`: the thirteen
new cases passed **13/13** again after rebase. Required CI and review
remain pending.
- Environment: macOS ARM64, Node 26, Vitest 5.0.3, disposable real
PostgreSQL. Tests exercise production request, admission, and
continuation services. No provider executes and no hosted task is
changed.
- Hosted recovery still requires rollout and verification through the
original queued requests.

Final reviewed head: `9788382c019df57899af06e81211e7c5165e7f0d`.
[Required
CI](https://github.com/paperclipai/paperclip/actions/runs/42273663624)
passed (56 successful checks, four expected skips, none pending or
failed). Greptile and Paperclip Review both rated this head 5/5 with no
findings; all review threads are resolved.

## Risks

The change accepts only the existing verified preparation contract. An
error label alone is insufficient. Provider-started or contradictory
state remains blocked. Saved-file, lease, approval, Stop, pause, and
budget checks remain effective. No schema, retry limit, provider
setting, account selection, or production scheduler changes.

## Model Used

OpenAI GPT-6 family via Codex, with coding and tool use. The exact model
ID and context window are unavailable in this session's metadata.

## Checklist

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

Co-authored-by: Paperclip <noreply@paperclip.ing>
2026-11-06 13:03:21 -06:00
DottaandPaperclip 06c0566a08 fix: make task Retry work after a refused automatic attempt (#19466)
## Thinking Path

> - Paperclip is the open source app people use to manage AI agents for
work.
> - Task Retry stores a durable request before it starts a new run.
> - An automatic attempt can stop at the execution gate before a
provider starts.
> - That cancelled attempt becomes the source of the next Retry click.
> - Admission rejected that source, or chose an older run that did not
match the stored Retry authority.
> - This pull request verifies the refused attempt and keeps it as the
exact authority source.
> - The user can start one new turn after the older execution holds pass
their existing checks.

## Linked Issues or Issue Description

**What happened?**

Retry can remain deferred when the latest run was cancelled with
`execution_reconciliation_required` before dispatch. An older failed
preparation has an execution recovery hold. The Retry receipt names the
cancelled child, but admission only accepts a failed preparation as an
extra source. It can also choose the older run as `previousRunId`, which
fails the exact source check at dispatch.

**Expected behavior**

Retry starts one new turn when the latest attempt has a verified
pre-dispatch refusal and every older execution hold is ready. Provider
activity, retained execution resources, missing receipts, or a live
earlier process keep the hold.

**Steps to reproduce**

1. Seed a failed native preparation and its recovery hold.
2. Let a later automatic attempt be cancelled by the stale queued
execution gate before dispatch.
3. Click Retry against that latest cancelled attempt.
4. Before this change, continuation admission returns no receipt. After
this change, one successor starts with authority bound to the clicked
attempt.

**Paperclip version or commit**

Reproduced on `2f35eb1080`. Rebased onto `6cafcaf89b` for submission.

**Deployment mode**

Local source checkout with embedded PostgreSQL and the native Runner on
macOS arm64.

Refs #15383 and #16939. Those changes cover legacy conversation
cancellation and queue promotion. This change covers the exact source of
a task Retry receipt after a gate refused its automatic child.

## What Changed

- Reuse the existing database-backed pre-dispatch refusal proof when
admitting the exact Retry source.
- Keep the clicked source as `previousRunId`. Continue to check every
older execution hold.
- Add database regressions for safe refusal, unsafe evidence, concurrent
dispatch, and duplicate clicks.
- Add an opt-in acceptance test that drives the authenticated Retry
route through a real Codex turn and task finalization.
- Document the admission contract.

## Verification

- TDD: the new database regression returned `null` on the original code.
It passes with the repair.
- Final head `c43a84b1bf`: 487 tests pass across task Retry, explicit
native continuation, and execution continuation. Server TypeScript and
module boundary checks pass.
- Live acceptance: `PAPERCLIP_LIVE_REFUSED_RETRY=true
PAPERCLIP_RUNNER_BINARY=<current-source-runnerd> pnpm --dir server exec
vitest run --config vitest.config.ts
src/services/native-runtime/refused-task-retry.live.test.ts`.
- The real HTTP request returned 202 on the final rebased head
`c43a84b1bf`. Codex `gpt-6.1-sol` with high effort produced the
requested file. The task became done, both task locks cleared, and
finalization committed. A repeated click reused the same receipt and did
not create another run. The source file stayed unchanged.
- Server TypeScript check and module boundary check.
- `pnpm verify --explain` returned 2 because the execution contract doc
requires broad CI coverage. The required CI checks supply that coverage.

## Risks

This changes execution admission. The existing proof requires the stored
refusal receipt and no provider work or retained execution resources.
Earlier recovery holds, process stop checks, decisions, actor authority,
and task ownership still apply. No schema change or migration.

## Model Used

OpenAI Codex, GPT-6 family, with reasoning, tool use, and code
execution. The host does not expose an exact author model ID or context
window. The live acceptance provider was `gpt-6.1-sol` with high
reasoning effort.

## 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 — all GitHub Actions checks pass
on `c43a84b1bf`; Paperclip Review completed at 5/5 with no findings
(neutral check conclusion).
- [x] Greptile is 5/5 with no open P2s, recommendations, or follow-ups —
reviewed `c43a84b1bf` with no actionable findings
- [x] I will address all Greptile and reviewer comments before
requesting merge

Co-authored-by: Paperclip <noreply@paperclip.ing>
2026-11-06 07:03:54 -08:00
Devin FoleyandClaude Opus 5.5 4033f7f17f fix(recovery): let a task Retry run keep its bounded transient retry (#19384)
## Thinking Path

> - Paperclip is the open source app people use to manage AI agents for
work
> - A user can click Retry on a blocked task. Paperclip then admits one
new run that continues in the saved workspace
> - That run can fail before the provider starts, for example when the
download of the saved workspace snapshot gets a transient `ECONNRESET`
> - The scheduler classifies this failure as transient and tries to
schedule the normal bounded retry
> - The automatic-retry admission accepts only continuations that a user
comment started. It refuses a Retry continuation (`commentId: null`,
`taskRetryRequestId` set) with `continuation_user_authorization_missing`
> - So the task does not retry. Paperclip escalates the restore failure,
and the task becomes blocked again after one network reset
> - This pull request lets a plain task Retry renew its authority for
the bounded transient retry, with its own receipt for each new run
> - The benefit is that a transient setup failure after Retry uses the
normal retry budget and does not block the task

## Linked Issues or Issue Description

**What happened?**
A run started by the task Retry button failed during setup:
`remote_workspace_restore_failed: step=snapshot_download;
storage=transport_closed code=ECONNRESET`. The run event said "The
automatic retry could not revalidate the original user continuation."
(retry reason `transient_failure`, attempt 1 of 2). No retry was
scheduled, and the task became blocked.

**Expected behavior**
A transient setup failure of a Retry-admitted run gets the same bounded
automatic retry as a run that a user comment started.

**Root cause**
`admitExplicitContinuationRetry` in
`server/src/services/explicit-native-continuation.ts` required
`explicitUserContinuation.commentId` to be a GUID. A Retry continuation
has `commentId: null`. Also, dispatch in
`server/src/services/execution-continuation.ts` bound a Retry receipt to
exactly the run that it admitted, so a successor run could not prove its
authority.

Refs #19207 (it named remote restore failures and left a board recovery
action)
Refs #19340 (it retries quarantined tasks in their saved workspace)
Refs #19326 (same bounded retry path for an out-of-date Runner)

## What Changed

- `admitExplicitContinuationRetry` now accepts two kinds of authority.
The comment path is unchanged and moved into
`readCommentRetryAuthority`. The new `readTaskRetryRetryAuthority`
accepts a plain task Retry only. The Retry request must be coalesced,
from a user, with the same generation and actor, strategy `continue`,
and no chat, queued-message, canonical-intent or fresh-workspace
readiness. Interrupt and failed-run retries stay one-run.
- The successor run gets its own `explicit_user_continuation_retry`
receipt with the same `taskRetryRequestId` and actor and
`automaticRetry.sourceRunId` set to the parent. The Retry request stays
bound to the run that it admitted.
- Dispatch (`buildExecutionContinuation`) accepts a Retry successor only
from its own receipt, its exact `retryOfRunId` parent, the current
`executionRunId` and the unchanged Retry intent. The direct path for the
admitted run is unchanged.
- Tests in `server/src/services/task-retry.test.ts`: one regression for
the full retry chain, and eight refusal cases.

## Verification

- Red: before the fix, the new test failed with `{ outcome:
"not_scheduled", errorCode: "continuation_user_authorization_missing"
}`. This is the same refusal as the incident.
- Green: `pnpm --filter @paperclipai/server exec vitest run
src/services/task-retry.test.ts` gives 58/58.
- The regression test proves these points: the first retry is scheduled
with `{ previousRunId: parent, commentId: null, taskRetryRequestId }`;
the Retry request stays bound to the admitted run; dispatch accepts the
successor; a repeated schedule call adopts the same successor without a
second receipt; a second transient failure retries from its immediate
parent; the budget then stops with `retry_exhausted`; dispatch refuses
the successor when its own receipt is removed.
- The refusal cases prove that no successor and no receipt are created
after: wrong actor, unadmitted request, wrong generation, request bound
to another run, chat Retry, fresh-workspace readiness, reassignment,
superseding work.
- Nearby suites pass (601/601): `execution-continuation`,
`legacy-explicit-continuation-recovery`, `explicit-native-continuation`,
`execution-continuation-provenance`, `quarantined-task-retry`,
`issue-queued-comments-routes`, `task-retry`.
- I did not run the layered server typecheck locally because of a disk
limit in the sandbox. CI must confirm it.

## Risks

- Behavior change: a plain task Retry run that fails transiently now
retries automatically within the existing bounded budget (2 attempts).
The scheduler still decides which failures are transient. The same rule
already applies to runs that a user comment started.
- Chat, queued-message and fresh-workspace Retries, failed-run retries
and Interrupt keep their one-run contracts.
- No schema or migration change.
- Documentation gap: `doc/execution-semantics.md` (line 1210) says
"One-run Retry and Interrupt intents retain their separate admission
contracts; they are not renewable user-message authority." That sentence
must change to describe this rule. The author's publication path cannot
carry the full 320 KB file, so that one-sentence edit is still pending.
The proposed text: "A plain task Retry that continues in the saved
workspace renews the same way: the successor's receipt names the same
Retry request and actor, while the Retry request itself stays bound to
the run it admitted. Dispatch accepts that successor only from its own
receipt, its exact retry parent, and the unchanged admitted Retry
request, so a transient failure before or during that run, such as a
reset saved-workspace download, uses the normal bounded retry budget
instead of blocking the task. Chat, queued-message and fresh-workspace
Retries, failed-run retries, and Interrupt intents retain their separate
one-run admission contracts; they are not renewable authority."

> 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 as a Paperclip agent, with tool use and code execution (shell,
Vitest on embedded PostgreSQL).

## 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
- [ ] I have updated relevant documentation to reflect my changes (the
`doc/execution-semantics.md` sentence above is pending)
- [x] I have considered and documented any risks above
- [ ] All Paperclip CI gates are green
- [ ] Greptile is 5/5 with no open P2s, recommendations, or follow-ups
- [x] I will address all Greptile and reviewer comments before
requesting merge

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Co-authored-by: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-11-05 17:54:00 -08:00
f2593b7905 feat: make Coordinator and Agent Chat standard and speed up navigation (#19360)
## Thinking Path

> - Paperclip is the open source app people use to manage AI agents for
work.
> - People enter that work through the workspace, agent conversations,
and tasks.
> - Coordinator and Agent Chat still require experimental enrollment.
> - Task link prefetches do not warm the compact queries used by the
default task view. Chat also waits for a request when its navigation
list already holds the conversation.
> - This pull request makes Coordinator and Agent Chat standard and
reuses the reads needed for navigation.
> - People can choose Classic workspace in Experimental settings. Cached
work can appear while fresh data loads.

## Linked Issues or Issue Description

**What existing behavior does this improve?**

Workspace selection, Agent Chat availability, and navigation between
Chat, Tasks, and task details.

**Subsystem affected**

Cross-cutting: UI, workspace preferences, instance settings, and the
database migration.

**Current behavior**

People must enable Coordinator and Agent Chat in Experimental settings.
Opening a task can repeat requests because prefetch warms the full
detail and comment queries, while the default view reads compact task
data and a recent comment window. Opening Chat waits for a detail
request even when the current person's conversation list contains it.

**Proposed behavior**

Coordinator is the standard workspace for everyone. Experimental
settings offer Classic workspace, off by default. Old Coordinator
experiment values do not select Classic. Agent Chat is available to
everyone, including instances with an old saved or managed off value.
Task link intent warms the queries used by the mounted view. Chat can
use the current person's company-scoped conversation list during
refresh.

**Reason and benefit**

People can use the standard workspace without setup. Repeat navigation
can show cached content while the server refreshes it.

**Breaking changes**

Existing Coordinator experiment and Agent Chat off values no longer
disable these surfaces. Classic requires an explicit new opt-in. The
workspace API keeps its existing response shape and audit checks. The
migration retains legacy values and adds a separate Classic preference.
Execution permissions, company access, and chat privacy checks still
apply.

**Additional context**

Roadmap check: this graduates existing surfaces and improves their
navigation. It does not add a new agent execution capability. Duplicate
searches found no open Coordinator workspace PR. Related server cache
work, Refs: #17828, addresses compact issue-list invalidation; this PR
addresses client navigation queries.

## What Changed

- Add a default-off Classic workspace preference. Derive the existing
workspace API response from that choice. Keep personal persistence,
account isolation, and audited writes in the workspace preference
service.
- Replace the Coordinator experiment control with Classic workspace. Use
Coordinator while preferences load. Update the existing settings
examples and navigation recipe.
- Retire the Agent Chat experiment control. Ignore old stored and
managed off values. Retain the compatibility key and the existing
execution and access checks.
- Reuse account- and company-scoped chat list data with its original
freshness timestamp.
- Share compact task and recent-comment query options between prefetch
and the task view. Keep full-history prefetch for Classic tasks and
expanded history.
- Add upgrade, replay, cache, account isolation, and browser switching
regressions. Update product, database, development, and roadmap
documentation.

## Verification

- Targeted preference, settings, migration, cache, and UI regression
tests passed during implementation. The cache tests hold refresh
requests pending and check that content still renders. They also check
account isolation and stale refresh behavior.
- A real browser test verified fresh Coordinator defaults, Classic
opt-in persistence, and return to Coordinator. It used an isolated
source checkout with fresh data on macOS.
- Token, migration numbering and safety, map, and Storybook catalog
checks pass after the rebase.
- Repository typecheck and build pass. Typecheck and token gates also
pass after review repairs. The broad local run passed all six chat
integration shards (1,931 tests). It then found the host-CLI-dependent
recovery fixture described below. Its remaining duplicate work was
stopped after the full current-head CI matrix passed; this is not a
claim that the broad local command completed green.
- Review repairs passed 419 UI/migration fixture tests, 19 Coordinator
navigation tests, and all 214 tests in the five affected server suites.
The 24 Chat/workspace browser tests pass, including standard Coordinator
switching and explicit Classic persistence.
- The broader browser repair run passed 85 tests. It retained two failed
assertions and skipped five later serial cases. The affected files then
passed all 11 tests after the fixes: reopen the desktop panel after
reload and open More for Audit and Connectors. This includes the five
serial cases that had not run.
- The broad local suite exposed a recovery fixture that executed the
host Codex CLI during a simulated remote probe. On a host with Codex
0.154.0, model fallback broke its fixed-model assertion. The fake
sandbox now reports Codex 0.160.0. All 20 selected recovery/provider
compatibility cases pass after the repair.
- A CLI company import/export suite timed out during server startup in
the second CI run. The port fallback is intentional in that fixture. No
root cause was established. That suite passes on the final commit in CI.
This records recovery, not a claimed product fix for the earlier
timeout.
- The first CI run exposed remaining assumptions about the retired flags
and Classic UI. The repair commit updates those fixtures and navigation
steps. It also restores the missing enabled Cases destination in
Coordinator. Earlier local recovery attempts used the wrong fixture
notification and advanced fake time during live execution; the corrected
tests use the subscribed recovery queue and wall time during execution.
- Greptile reviewed commit `98972b030d4505d838427a2fca6b196b8cad6d47` at
**5/5** with no new comments. The original finding is resolved.
- Current-head CI is green: **56 successful checks**, with three checks
skipped by workflow filters. This includes typecheck, build, the
complete Vitest matrix, all eight browser shards, Runner verification,
release checks, and security checks. [Final CI
run](https://github.com/paperclipai/paperclip/actions/runs/42132651414).
- Typecheck caught missing `pid` and `startedAt` fields in the simulated
command result. The fixture now returns the complete process contract,
and the server test-layer typecheck passes.
- Storybook catalog alignment was checked. Storybook play tests were not
run. Hosted latency and cold bundle loading were not measured.

## Risks

- The new default changes the workspace for people who previously left
the Coordinator experiment off. They can opt into Classic in
Experimental settings.
- The additive migration must run before the new server code. It is safe
to replay and preserves explicit Classic choices.
- Cached content can be stale during background refresh. Existing query
invalidation and source timestamps still control freshness.
- These changes reduce avoidable loading waits. They do not establish a
measured improvement in hosted request latency or initial bundle
download time.

## Model Used

OpenAI Codex, based on GPT-6, with reasoning, repository tools, code
execution, and browser automation. The exact serving revision and
context-window size are not exposed in this session.

## Checklist

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

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Co-authored-by: Scott Tong <scott@scottsmbpm5max.lan>
Co-authored-by: Paperclip <noreply@paperclip.ing>
2026-11-05 16:28:25 -08:00
53735db7de fix(retry): resume verified preparation failures (#19004)
## Thinking Path

> - Paperclip must preserve saved agent work while proving earlier
execution stopped.
> - A deliberate task Retry can observe a newer failure while an older
preparation still holds execution.
> - That older preparation can also have a finalized empty object log
despite never reaching the provider.
> - Binding only the latest run and requiring every log field to be
absent keeps valid recovery deferred.
> - This change follows the exact persisted predecessor chain and binds
current Retry authority to eligible holds.
> - It recognizes only an exact finalized empty-log receipt within the
existing strict preparation proof.
> - One fresh user turn can then start with saved work and the existing
ownership, stop and accounting checks.

## Linked Issues or Issue Description

Refs #18989, #18860 and #18997. The first waits for predecessor cleanup
during automatic dispatch. The second selects the committed native
session owner. The third retains admitted Retry authority when no source
recovery action exists. None passes current board Retry intent to a held
failed predecessor. A search of open repairs found no duplicate.
ROADMAP.md was checked; this is a recovery bug fix.

**What happened?**

A failed native preparation retains a legacy run row and an inherited
session. Its remote workspace is later saved and verified. An automatic
successor also fails during preparation. Board Retry observes that newer
run, but the effective hold belongs to its predecessor. The Retry does
not bind the predecessor's recovery generation. The native
historical-source guard then keeps the request deferred.

**Expected behavior**

Carry the deliberate Retry through its verified same-company, same-task
and same-agent persisted predecessor chain. Start one fresh user turn
after every source passes current execution, stop and saved-work checks.
Keep incomplete or unrelated proof held. Preserve prior work and
recorded action outcomes.

**Steps to reproduce**

1. Fail native preparation with an inherited session and a remote
workspace.
2. Finish its real workspace recovery and stop receipts.
3. Save a newer failed automatic successor with `retryOfRunId` bound to
that source.
4. Submit ordinary task Retry for the newer run.
5. Before the change, no successor is admitted. The request remains
deferred behind the older hold.

**Paperclip version or commit**

The regression fails on master
`039e0dad2c51c80251e1302a19c5566e039c357a`, which includes #18989.

**Deployment mode**

Source checkout on macOS arm64 with real PostgreSQL, HTTP task Retry and
the assembled heartbeat service. The remote filesystem boundary uses
temporary files. Hosted rollout and an original-task Retry are not yet
verified.

This PR incorporates the reviewed empty-log follow-up #19021, preserving
its commits and regression controls. Both parts are required for hosted
preparation recovery, so the combined revision is qualified and deployed
together.

## What Changed

- Accept a finalized zero-byte `s3_segments` log only when its reference
binds the exact company, agent and run, its digest matches empty
content, compression is false, and no output progress or nonempty
excerpt exists. Add a real-recorder HTTP regression and 14 negative
controls. Unknown or nonempty logs stay held.

- Read a complete persisted Retry chain in one recursive query, limited
to 32 runs. Reject missing, cyclic, newer, unfinished, cross-company,
cross-task and cross-agent sources. Transcript hints grant no authority.
- Bind eligible historical recovery records to the current Retry intent.
Keep complete or running recovery budgets. Leave successful ancestors
and mismatched recovery-source records unchanged.
- Recheck that same chain when selecting an ancestor's fresh-user
strategy.
- Admit only a held ancestor through the shared native preparation
proof. Keep the closed preparation failure codes, no-provider state,
profile, input, result, output and accounting checks. Treat inherited
session input as prior context and accept the exact bounded host start
marker. Verify current ownership, saved work and stop receipts before
forcing a fresh session.
- Add HTTP and PostgreSQL regressions and document the rule.
- Give the HTTP Retry nudge and explicit test worker the same real
heartbeat facade and provider boundary. Establish the revoked catalog
receipt before either can dispatch.

## Verification

- Combined integration head `91f021f233151192f69dd7a035d083abcc67c47c`
requires fresh complete CI and review; qualification is in progress.

- Repair validation: all **six** recovered preparation provider-boundary
cases pass. The catalog cases still require the exact access refusal,
zero provider inputs and zero provider turns. The success case still
checks preserved file bytes and one native turn.
- [Previous exact-head
CI](https://github.com/paperclipai/paperclip/actions/runs/41883421120/job/126785508136)
failed the catalog case with `remote_workspace_transport_unsupported`.
The route created a default heartbeat that could race the injected
worker and allocate outside the controlled transport. The repaired test
shares its real heartbeat across both dispatchers and holds the agent
start lock until the revoked catalog receipt is committed. It tracks and
drains both Retry nudges during teardown. It changes no production
access check or expected refusal.
- The first broad local reproduction hit a full local disk. It passed
201 cases and failed 86, including explicit manifest free-space errors.
Generated build caches were removed from these isolated checkouts. The
owning run passed 670/671 cases. Its one failure was the saved-Files
loader refusing insufficient temporary disk space. After cleanup, that
unchanged test passes in isolation. The final shared-facade and
start-lock version passes all six dispatch cases. Both legacy
continuation suites pass all 29 cases. The final fixture teardown also
retires deferred input before removing recovery proof, so global queue
sweeps cannot revisit earlier cases. All seven dispatch and saved-Files
controls pass together after that change. No disk reserve, assertion or
timeout changed. The initial local typecheck also stopped on `ENOSPC`
while materializing provider assets. Server typecheck now passes after
cleanup. No test timeout or reserve was lowered.
- Current-head CI is complete: 52 successful checks, three expected
skips, and a successful security status. Both required gates (`ci / e2e`
and `ci / verify`) passed on `0adc2e38103533dd45bcc56f957ac019642c57b1`.
[Full CI
evidence](https://github.com/paperclipai/paperclip/actions/runs/41898305521).
Greptile scored final head `0adc2e38103533dd45bcc56f957ac019642c57b1`
5/5 with no blocking findings or unresolved threads. The earlier
verification below describes the previous head.

- RED on unchanged master `039e0dad2c`: the certified-preparation
sibling passes, while the inherited-session case admits zero successors
instead of one. A second isolated RED on latest base `8f06bd4e17`,
including #18997, uses the exact final three-node test fixture. The HTTP
route returns 202, then the test observes zero successors instead of
one. All baseline production files remain unchanged. The initial
dependency/setup failures are separate from these behavioral failures.
- The positive cases cover the failed-failed-successful chain. They keep
the completed result unchanged, verify the original saved file and
validate fresh-session continuation authority. Repeated HTTP input and
concurrent resume calls keep one successor.
- PostgreSQL controls accept a complete 32-run chain. A 33-run chain and
a newer-created predecessor return no usable ancestry and do not bind
the older recovery record.
- Safety controls cover company, task and agent scope, conflicting
canonical bindings, missing and cyclic edges, transcript hints, live
execution and controllers, unknown stop, failed saving, unsafe writer
state, Stop, actor and generation changes, independent holds and
mismatched recovery records.
- Ancestor controls retain provider-event, native-input,
session-checkpoint, controller-recovery, result, process, runtime,
accounting and unknown-result guards. Host start and warning prefixes
use exact origins, sequence and payloads. A fifth extra event is
rejected.
- The first complete owning run found 22 introduced admission failures.
The initial historical-native allowance also applied to exact-source
Retry. It admitted contradictory preparation evidence. The fix now
requires a canonical ancestor and the shared strict startup proof. The
original direct-source assertions remain unchanged.
- The next focused run passed 82 cases, including both catalogue-warning
controls. One new result fixture lacked the database's required owner
tuple. Two existing controls reached their original 30-second limit. The
fixture now uses the real native task and completion-contract owner
tuple. A controlled nine-case run passes the result case, both unchanged
timed-out controls, three failure-code controls and all three positives.
The earlier timeout causes remain undetermined. All failed-run logs are
retained.
- Complete owning suites passed on previous head
`137a8eb3febf41052e112fc3c4ffe1abb92bcab7`: all 675 tests across
workspace recovery, task Retry, explicit continuation and legacy
continuation. The command exits successfully with normal teardown. This
includes every earlier introduced admission failure and the two
unchanged timeout controls. Its base includes the merged #18997
authority repair and #18982 rolling-copy packaging repair. The rebase
retained both test imports at their one adjacent-import conflict.
- Node 24.19.0 and pnpm 9.15.4. Module boundaries and `git diff --check`
pass. The initial PostgreSQL start lacked package library links after
install with scripts disabled. The documented hydration restored the
isolated dependency; that setup failure was not a behavioral red.
- Previous-head [full
typecheck](https://github.com/paperclipai/paperclip/actions/runs/41883421120/job/126785506215)
and [full
build](https://github.com/paperclipai/paperclip/actions/runs/41883421120/job/126785506094)
passed. Earlier attempts received synchronized runner shutdown signals
and a lost-runner annotation. The shutdown initiator remains unknown. A
CI owner used the documented hosted-runner failover for attempt three
and restored the original routing value after capture. That attempt
exposed the catalog failure above. Source workflows and check
requirements remain unchanged. The current head now has green CI,
Greptile 5/5, no unresolved review threads, and no merge conflicts.
Hosted rollout and the original task are not yet verified.


- Combined recovery proof: 24 of 24 cases passed on this exact head in
43.13 seconds, with normal teardown and unchanged assertions and limits.
They cover the real recorder, all 14 empty-output rejection controls,
ancestor and direct Retry, saved messages, the configured native
provider, and verified stop. The targeted TypeScript graph also passed;
the preceding integration step passed 95 safety/provider/message cases
and all 49 task Retry cases.
- The incorporated #19021 was independently red/green with the real
recorder: unchanged predecessor code returned HTTP 202 but admitted zero
successors. Its 18 focused cases, all 690 owning recovery cases, full
typecheck/build, 1,904 local chat cases, complete CI and Greptile 5/5
passed before integration. The unchanged CLI startup lane passed one
justified retry; no hosted acceptance is inferred from those results.
- Additional local qualification of the unchanged workspace fixture
alongside the native bootstrap fixture passed 288 of 289 cases. One
manual-admission HTTP case ended with `socket hang up` after 451 ms,
without an assertion or HTTP status. That unchanged case passed once in
isolation at the original 40-second limit, with normal teardown, and
passed in exact `0adc` CI in 17.2 seconds. The earlier disconnect cause
remains unknown; no assertion or timeout changed.
- An earlier CI attempt failed the newly merged native ingress fixture
because its shared Node command failed strict permission qualification.
The current base includes #19020's owned executable fixture repair; no
production permission check was relaxed.
- Integration with current master had one documentation conflict. An
automatic test merge also duplicated an app declaration; that syntax
failure was retained and fixed by reusing the configured real HTTP app.
Both new message-state assertions remain intact. Workflows and lockfile
retain master's contents.

## Risks

- A damaged or overlong chain remains held. The helper does not truncate
it and grant partial authority.
- The new query runs only for a deliberate Retry or its ancestor
strategy check. It adds no background polling, table, credential or
provider policy.
- A fresh intent is not stop or file-recovery proof. The existing owners
retain those checks. Prior effects remain fenced, and no old result is
replayed.
- Local tests do not prove hosted rollout. Live acceptance must use the
served fixed revision and the task's original saved work.

## Model Used

OpenAI GPT-6 through Codex for the original change. OpenAI GPT-6.1 Sol
(`gpt-6.1-sol`), xhigh reasoning, for the merge and CI repair. Both used
repository tools and PostgreSQL verification. Context-window limits were
not exposed by the harness.

## Checklist

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

---------

Co-authored-by: Paperclip <noreply@paperclip.ing>
Co-authored-by: Devin Foley <devin@paperclip.ing>
2026-11-04 14:12:58 -06:00
Devin FoleyandPaperclip edb9d29942 fix(recovery): preserve Retry authority and reopen cross-task cases (#18997)
## Thinking Path

> - Paperclip is the open source app people use to manage AI agents for
work.
> - Tasks keep execution identity and saved workspace files separate
from control-plane updates.
> - A scanner can have permission to reopen a case while its run cannot
restore that case's files.
> - Retry can also follow a preparation failure that has no
recovery-action record.
> - Both paths can accept valid work but leave the target unable to run.
> - This change restores files under the target executor and saves
admitted Retry authority on the canonical receipt.
> - Existing workspace, user, source and successor checks still apply.

## Linked Issues or Issue Description

**What happened?**

An authorized agent updates another closed task. The route tries to
restore the target workspace under the caller's run identity and returns
`403 Task workspace run identity is unavailable`.

A separate failure occurs when a normal board Retry follows a
pre-provider preparation failure. Admission has no recovery-action row
on which to save continuation authority. Dispatch then fails with
`continuation_user_authorization_missing`.

**Expected behavior**

Accept the authorized task update. Restore its terminal workspace when
the target's admitted executor starts. An admitted Retry must retain its
exact dispatch authority even when the predecessor has no
recovery-action record.

**Steps to reproduce**

1. Complete a task with an isolated workspace. From a different running
task, use an authorized comment or PATCH with `resume: true` on that
closed task.
2. Separately, fail native preparation before provider work starts, with
no recovery-action row. Submit board Retry, admit its successor, and
build the execution continuation.
3. Before this change, the first path returns 403 and the second rejects
its admitted authority.

**Paperclip version or commit**

Reproduced against `e968131efa7e63d321f3bcca8d47a62513c2efb4`. Rebased
onto `afbc5a885b5`.

**Deployment mode**

Server-managed native task execution. Tests use real PostgreSQL and
temporary workspace files.

Related PRs: #16927 covers terminal workspace races. #17916 retains
exact native export sources. Neither covers these route and Retry
receipt failures. A GitHub search found no duplicate. ROADMAP.md was
checked; this is a recovery bug fix.

## What Changed

- Defer workspace restoration only for authorized cross-task comments
and updates from a live run. Checkout keeps its existing workspace
identity checks.
- Restore the target's selected terminal workspace under its own
admitted run. Preserve its saved files and existing source checks. Leave
manually archived workspaces unchanged.
- Store server-created continuation authority on the canonical admitted
Retry receipt when no source recovery-action record exists. Existing
action records remain authoritative. Read the fallback only after
matching the company, task, agent, user, source, generation and
successor.
- Add route and PostgreSQL regression tests. Document both paths.

## Verification

- Red: both cross-task route tests returned the observed 403 before the
route fix.
- Red: the target executor could not reuse its archived terminal
workspace before the restoration fix.
- Red: an admitted preparation Retry with no recovery-action row failed
with `continuation_user_authorization_missing` before the receipt fix.
- Green: 419 recovery and continuation tests pass, plus 183 focused
route, environment and Retry tests. The assembled heartbeat test starts
the agent in the same terminal worktree and verifies both its unpushed
commit and uncommitted file bytes. It fails before the restoration fix.
- Negative cases reject wrong Retry runs, users, source runs,
generations, unadmitted receipts and missing authority. The original
failed run stays unchanged. Workspace tests verify saved file bytes.
- Full `pnpm build`, `pnpm -r typecheck`, `pnpm check:module-boundaries`
and `git diff --check` pass.
- The full suite found an existing assembled chat authority regression:
clearing a recovery-action record could be bypassed by the new fallback.
The fix now writes the fallback only when that source has no action
record. That assembled regression passes with the original test
unchanged.
- Full `pnpm test:run` is running again. Its first attempt also hit an
unrelated ancestor skill-root lookup for a missing Slack skill. The
rerun uses a temporary untracked link to the repository's own bundled
skills. This link is excluded from the PR. Full-suite completion and
hosted CI are pending.
- Hosted CI has multiple runner interruptions. E2e shard 1/8, server
shards 3/12, 8/12 and 12/12, and workspaces-a shard 1/2 show runner
shutdown signals. E2e shard 5/8 and server shards 1/12 and 2/12 have
GitHub annotations reporting lost runner communication; their logs
return 404. The `ci / verify` assertion failed because the general-test
matrix was cancelled. GitHub rejected job and failed-workflow reruns
while this workflow is still running. Rerun the interrupted checks after
it settles.
- Greptile reviewed exact head
`a1e3929aedb1ee3bfcd001f4ebb1510106bf4070` at 2026-11-04 17:37 UTC: 5/5,
with no new blocking findings and no unresolved review threads.

## Risks

- A deferred workspace restore can still fail at target admission. The
run keeps the existing workspace failure path; this change does not
bypass file recovery or provider stop checks.
- Retry receipts now store server-created authority. Existing action
receipts remain valid. No schema migration is required.
- Local regression tests establish the software behavior. The new
revision has not been deployed to a hosted instance.

## Model Used

OpenAI `gpt-6.1-sol` through the Codex harness in T3 Code, with xhigh
reasoning, repository inspection, tool use and code execution. The
context-window size is not exposed by the runtime.

## Checklist

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

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2026-11-04 11:55:16 -06:00
Devin FoleyandClaude Opus 5.5 925965a09b fix(task-retry): wait out brief chat authorization contention (#18895)
## Thinking Path

> - Paperclip is the open source app people use to manage AI agents for
work.
> - A user can click Retry on a task that is connected to an external
chat conversation.
> - That Retry prepares the chat retry inside one admission transaction.
The chat step takes a per-principal authorization lock with
`pg_try_advisory_xact_lock`.
> - When another chat transaction holds that lock for a short time, the
chat step throws `NativeChatReviewPresentationContentionError`. This
error is not an `HttpError`. The route returns HTTP 500, and the error
handler reports a server crash.
> - The contention is routine and short. The admission transaction does
not contact a provider, and it rolls back completely. The owning service
can safely try it again.
> - This pull request retries the admission a bounded number of times.
If the lock stays busy, the service returns a retryable 409 instead of a
500.
> - The benefit: the user's click usually succeeds without an error, and
Paperclip stops reporting expected lock contention as a crash.

## Linked Issues or Issue Description

**What happened?**

A hosted staging server reported
`NativeChatReviewPresentationContentionError: Chat response
authorization is temporarily busy; no provider delivery was attempted`
from `POST /api/issues/:id/retry`. The stack is `requestTaskRetry` →
`writeExecutionControl` → `prepareFailedChatRunRetry` →
`failedChatRetrySource`. The error came from the
`chat-identity:<company>:<principal>` advisory try-lock. The route
returned HTTP 500 for each occurrence.

**Expected behavior**

Short lock contention must not fail a deliberate Retry click. The
service must wait it out. If the lock stays busy, the service must
return a clear, retryable client error and must not report a server
crash.

**Steps to reproduce**

1. Bind a task to a restricted chat endpoint and conversation. Make the
latest task run a failed run.
2. In a different database transaction, hold
`pg_try_advisory_xact_lock(hashtextextended('chat-identity:<company>:<principal>',
0))`.
3. Call `POST /api/issues/:id/retry`. Before this change, the chat retry
step throws `NativeChatReviewPresentationContentionError` and the route
returns 500.

**Paperclip version or commit**

Reproduced on master `8771606fd87f69ed4057779e3dce3a9bca8088e6`. The
server release that reported it was
`d59791828482f213713ca55000c40e6c9c6c03e5`.

**Deployment mode**

Hosted staging, Node 24, PostgreSQL.

Related: #18845 and #18621 changed nearby Retry admission. They do not
handle this contention.

## What Changed

- `server/src/services/task-retry.ts`: `requestTaskRetry` now calls the
unchanged admission transaction (`admitTaskRetry`) in a bounded loop: 10
attempts, 100 ms apart. It retries only
`NativeChatReviewPresentationContentionError` and lock-not-available
contention (`isExternalChatWaitAuthorizationContention`, which matches
`55P03`). Every other error, including 403/404/409 decisions, propagates
unchanged on the first attempt.
- If the lock stays busy for all attempts, the service throws
`conflict(..., { code: "task_retry_busy", retryable: true })`. The UI's
existing 4xx handling resets the Retry button, and the error handler
does not report a 4xx as a crash.
- `server/src/services/task-retry.test.ts`: three PostgreSQL cases:
- Real advisory-lock contention. A second transaction holds the same
`chat-identity` lock that production checks, then releases it. Retry
succeeds and persists exactly one wake request. A replay with the same
idempotency key returns the same request.
- Persistent contention returns 409 `task_retry_busy` after exactly 10
attempts and persists no wake request.
  - A 403 from the chat step does not retry.

The transaction body is unchanged. It was moved into `admitTaskRetry`
without edits.

## Verification

- RED: with the old `task-retry.ts` and the new tests, the contention
case fails with the exact production error
(`NativeChatReviewPresentationContentionError: Chat response
authorization is temporarily busy…`). The persistent case fails because
the error is not an `HttpError`.
- GREEN: `pnpm exec vitest run src/services/task-retry.test.ts` passes
all 39 cases against embedded PostgreSQL.
- `pnpm --filter @paperclipai/server typecheck` passes (all layers,
including tests).
- `src/services/heartbeat/workspace-preparation.test.ts` (another
`requestTaskRetry` caller): 165 of 167 cases pass. The 2 failures
(`remote_workspace_migration_source_changed` in "resumes an imported
path/file-url Git source…") also fail on unchanged master in the same
environment, so this change does not cause them.
- Runtime assumption (rule `runtime-dependency-boundaries`): the retry
is safe only if a failed attempt leaves no persisted state. The
contention test uses a real PostgreSQL advisory lock held by a separate
connection and checks that only one wake row exists after the failed
attempts. Each attempt is a separate transaction, so the loop holds no
row lock or advisory lock while it waits.
- The full repository `pnpm test:run` and `pnpm build` were not run
locally. I rely on CI for those.

## Risks

- Low risk. The worst case adds about 1 second of request time when the
lock stays busy, and then returns 409 instead of 500.
- An attempt can fail after an earlier step in the same transaction (for
example, workspace preservation registration). The whole transaction
rolls back, so the next attempt repeats those steps from a clean state.
Those steps run in the same transaction and do not contact a provider.
- If `requestTaskRetry` is called inside an outer transaction, each
attempt rolls back only to its savepoint. Locks that the outer
transaction holds stay held. In that case the loop ends with the same
409 after its bounded budget.
- No schema, API shape, or UI change.

## Model Used

Claude Opus 5.5 (`claude-opus-5-5`, Anthropic), through Claude Code with
tool use (shell, file editing, 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 (focused suites; see
Verification for the two pre-existing failures)
- [x] I have added or updated tests where applicable
- [ ] I have updated relevant documentation to reflect my changes (no
behavior or command documentation changes are needed)
- [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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2026-11-03 18:05:40 -08:00
DottaandPaperclip 367f29478d fix(recovery): preserve the bound remote writer before continuation (#18803)
## Thinking Path

> - Paperclip manages agent work and preserves task files.
> - A remote workspace records the exact run that owns its unsaved
files.
> - A later setup failure can become the latest task run without owning
those files.
> - Retry only inspected that latest run, so the original writer had no
file-recovery owner.
> - A released reusable source also failed the legacy retention rule.
> - This change registers the bound writer, saves its files, and then
admits the saved user request once.
> - Existing stop, ownership, approval and execution-evidence checks
remain effective.

## Linked Issues or Issue Description

**What happened?**

A native run prepared a remote workspace and failed before finalization.
Its sandbox stopped with a dedicated stop receipt. The workspace stayed
dirty and retained that run as its writer. A later setup failure became
the latest task run. Retry inspected the newer run and left the original
file obligation unregistered. New attempts failed at the writer fence.

Registration alone was insufficient. After file recovery, continuation
still required the Retry source to be one of the older recovery sources.
A newer pre-provider failure did not satisfy that check. Workspace
selection could also choose a fresh directory instead of the recovered
files.

**Expected behavior**

Find the writer through the task's current workspace binding. Register
only its exact prepared source. Preserve the released lease and its stop
receipts. Save the files before continuation. Independently prove that a
newer setup failure never dispatched work. Select the verified saved
workspace and admit the Retry once.

**Steps to reproduce**

1. Fail a native run with a prepared remote workspace and a released
reusable sandbox.
2. Keep matching dedicated stop receipts and the workspace's dirty
writer authority.
3. Record a newer pre-provider setup failure for the same task.
4. Request Retry. Before the fix, no file-maintenance record owns the
actual writer.

**Paperclip version or commit**

Reproduced before production edits on master `f7ad1dc7ca`. The branch
was rebased on master `adb49a44346849e751548b2fb640693dbfad4b6f`.

**Deployment mode**

Authenticated hosted execution with Paperclip Runner and remote
workspace storage.

Companion: #18798 (now merged upstream) fixes a pre-existing inbox test
synchronization race. Its test-only commit
`110aa88489cad926a451c972ad731ede469347c1` is cherry-picked here with
attribution so this PR can run the complete CI matrix.

Related: #17800 registers missing preservation for the selected source
run. #18678 holds unfinished remote exports. #18718 repairs a prior
warm-controller projection failure. #17916 addresses a separate legacy
warm-copyback policy case.

## What Changed

- Discover the failed writer through the company-scoped task/workspace
binding during Retry and authenticated message admission.
- Reuse the exact prepared-source validator for released remote
workspaces. Registration changes neither the lease policy nor its stop
receipts. Physical recovery retains its full allocation checks.
- Check a newer failed preparation separately before allowing an older,
repaired source to release continuation. Provider events, leases,
results and execution ownership remain disqualifying evidence.
- Select the bound saved workspace through the continuation's verified
repair receipt.
- Add PostgreSQL safety cases and an HTTP Retry workflow with real file
capture and saved-copy reads. Document the execution contract.
- Reuse #18798's completion barrier for the existing inbox cancellation
test; preserve its eight-slot limit, rejection and coalescing
assertions.

## Verification

- RED before production edits: the exact stopped writer has no
`workspaceRestoreRecovery` after Retry. Six unsafe-source controls pass
on the baseline.
- GREEN: the expanded Retry/message/preview selection passes 17 cases.
All 627 tests in the five affected recovery suites pass on recovery
commit `b572304f772d236b8a8bdf095e13e651d808f41c`, including Stop,
ownership, saved messages and duplicate Retry.
- The HTTP workflow registers maintenance, keeps execution held before
save, reads back the saved file bytes, and admits exactly one
continuation with `resume_preserved_workspace`. A registration-only
repair first failed after save because it did not reconcile the newer
Retry source. The incident-shaped pair passes with an independent active
stranded-task action present.
- Greptile identified the path where the newer setup failure already
owns a reconciliation hold. Its new regression failed before the
correction (saved files, zero queued continuations); the
contradictory-dispatch control passed. All four HTTP variants pass after
the correction, covering both hold shapes and both dispatch-evidence
controls.
- Repository typecheck and build passed. Server typecheck and build also
passed after the recovery changes. Module-boundary and whitespace checks
pass.
- The full local Vitest command failed in the GitHub fast-response
acknowledgement test (`delivery_unknown`: one response write instead of
zero). That isolated case passes on this branch and unchanged master;
the original full-run cause remains unestablished. A sibling run passed
199 test cases but timed out in workspace-suite database cleanup.
Unchanged master also passed all 126 workspace cases and timed out in
the same cleanup hook; all five acknowledgement outcomes passed in that
baseline comparison. These local failures remain recorded rather than
being reported as suite passes.
- The first hosted matrix failed the pre-existing inbox cancellation
assertion (expected nine computes, saw eight). The same assertion failed
in [master
CI](https://github.com/paperclipai/paperclip/actions/runs/41664339150/job/126015526840)
and reproduced locally before applying #18798's existing repair. All six
inbox HTTP/database cases pass after that repair. Final head
`7f2fafcbace74cb1ad8ea68c8375a69b42ed30d9` adds only that attributed
test change to the verified recovery code.
- [Final hosted
CI](https://github.com/paperclipai/paperclip/actions/runs/41677310377)
passes on head `7f2fafcbace74cb1ad8ea68c8375a69b42ed30d9`, including `ci
/ verify`, `ci / e2e`, typecheck, build, every server/chat/workspace
group, Runner checks and all eight browser shards. There are 54
successful check results, two informational neutral results and three
skipped results, with no pending or failing results.
- Greptile and the Paperclip reviewer both report 5/5 for that final
head; no review threads remain open. The Paperclip review check is
informational (`neutral`) and records its local-testing limitations.
- The file workflow uses real PostgreSQL, subprocess file capture,
encrypted saved objects and production recovery code. Provider
resume/stop calls are simulated at the environment driver boundary. This
does not prove a live Daytona or Codex recovery. No deployment or
original-task retry is claimed.

## Risks

- File-maintenance discovery must not authorize another executor.
Existing writer, coordinator and physical allocation checks still own
that decision.
- A false bootstrap summary cannot prove that a newer run never
executed. The new path also requires its immutable native-adapter claim,
unresolved preparation state, absent
coordinator/process/session/lease/result evidence, and no dispatch
events.
- Additional database reads run only during explicit task admission or
Retry strategy selection. They are company/task scoped and add no
polling loop. The saved-writer query returns one matching snapshot and
omits prompt bodies.
- No schema, credential, provider profile or deployment setting changes.

## Model Used

OpenAI Codex, GPT-6 family, with reasoning, repository inspection, code
execution and test tools. The runtime does not expose the exact serving
model ID or context-window size.

## Checklist

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

---------

Co-authored-by: Paperclip <noreply@paperclip.ing>
2026-11-03 11:25:24 -06:00
DottaandPaperclip 8373d78679 fix(recovery): register missing native preservation on Retry (#17800)
## Thinking Path

> - Paperclip lets people manage agents and their saved work.
> - Native runs can leave a prepared remote workspace after a control
deadline.
> - The deadline repair in #17788 records preservation for future
failures.
> - Older failed runs can still have an active lease without a
preservation owner.
> - Retry correctly refuses another executor, but nothing can finish the
missing preservation.
> - This pull request registers the exact prepared source through the
existing recovery services when the user retries.
> - The bounded maintenance worker can then stop the provider and save
its files before normal admission continues.

## Linked Issues or Issue Description

**What happened?**

A historical failed native run has a prepared workspace and an active
retained allocation. It has no workspace preservation record. Ordinary
Retry cannot prove that the old executor stopped and has no maintenance
owner to produce that proof.

**Expected behavior**

A deliberate Retry registers missing preservation for the exact unowned
source. Existing recovery proves termination and saves the files.
Existing admission then checks current user authority, effects, pause
and budget gates before one successor can enter the queue.

**Steps to reproduce**

1. Persist a failed native run with a prepared workspace, an active
lease and a terminal, unowned finalization.
2. Omit the workspace preservation record, as an older deadline handler
did.
3. Call the normal task Retry route. Before this fix, preservation
remains absent and Retry cannot continue.

**Paperclip version or commit**

The regression fails on `46de15ff4b99bbee59c38f32f4f30b80ad5bbd24`,
which already includes #17788.

Related: Refs #17788 (future deadline failures), #17741 (committed
recovery wakes), #17733 (connected Retry authority). #17773 adds source
diagnostics and does not repair this missing registration.

## What Changed

- Use native workspace preservation inside the existing issue-locked
Retry transaction. A live finalization owner remains held.
- Adopt a valid unowned preservation obligation through the existing
bounded maintenance service. Bind it to the deliberate Retry intent
without resetting an active generation.
- Add real PostgreSQL regressions for exact, mismatched and owned
sources. Verify that registration cannot create a termination receipt or
a successor.
- Exercise the HTTP route, worker, real temporary file merge and queue
admission with the stop reply held. Duplicate requests admit one queued
turn after preservation.
- Extend connected GitHub and Telegram Retry coverage for missing
historical preservation. Document the contract and access boundaries.

## Verification

- Red: the new historical-state regression fails on the base commit
because `workspaceRestoreRecovery` remains absent. The mismatched and
owned negative controls pass.
- Green: the three focused historical-state cases pass with the fix
against isolated local PostgreSQL 17.
- The local HTTP journey restores saved files and retains newer host
edits. It admits no successor while the provider stop reply is held. It
admits one successor after verified preservation. The real GitHub and
Telegram admission paths wait behind that recovery.
- `pnpm -r typecheck`, `pnpm build`, `node scripts/check-maps.mjs` and
`git diff --check` pass.
- Green: 152 tests across four relevant suites, including all connected
Retry safety cases. The six new cases pass again on final head
`b8900801a3181fa673ea45f1129f968bbb08d1fd`.
- Final-head GitHub checks: 55 successful, two intentionally skipped
Storybook checks, and one neutral Paperclip bot review. Greptile is 5/5
with no unresolved threads. The Paperclip bot stopped before finishing
and supplied no approval.
- The full local command imported an earlier fixture revision before its
assertions were corrected. It reported those two stale connected-fixture
assertions and later hit the host PostgreSQL semaphore limit again. It
was stopped after final-head CI completed. It is not counted as a full
local pass; the complete CI test lanes passed on the final head.
- The first local rerun hit the Mac PostgreSQL semaphore limit before
assertions. Verification moved to an isolated disposable PostgreSQL
container. Early assembled fixtures also exposed the existing
destruction-cleanup gate; the retained-workspace fixture now uses its
actual `keep_running` disposition. This fix does not weaken cleanup.

## Risks

- Retry now registers maintenance for historical native failures. Exact
descriptor, allocation and coordinator checks remain owned by the
existing preservation service. Physical recovery still requires its
existing exclusive owner and provider stop receipt. Registration alone
grants no execution authority.
- No database migration or provider protocol changes. No model, trust,
assignment, retry-budget or external identity changes.
- Local recovery uses real database, filesystem, HTTP, worker and
admission code. Only the provider lifecycle boundary is simulated. No
hosted allocation or live model turn has been verified for this new
change.
- The workspace recovery test file crosses 1,000 lines because this case
shares its real database, filesystem and assembled route fixture.
Keeping it there avoids duplicating that fixture or extracting unrelated
production behavior.

## Model Used

OpenAI Codex, GPT-6 family, with reasoning, repository tools and code
execution. The exact model identifier and context-window size are not
exposed in this session.

## Checklist

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

Co-authored-by: Paperclip <noreply@paperclip.ing>
2026-10-26 16:22:36 -05:00
DottaandPaperclip d33b40a5c3 fix: recover saved work and provide reliable task Retry (#16965)
## Thinking Path

> - Paperclip is the open source app people use to manage AI agents for
work.
> - The control plane must retain work when an execution or workspace
export fails.
> - Retained-workspace holds can leave saved input waiting with no
usable Retry action.
> - Users cannot verify process ownership or repair provider
allocations.
> - This pull request gives system recovery a durable budget and gives
each deliberate Retry a durable intent.
> - Safe recovery can preserve files, settle an accepted result, or
prepare an independent workspace.
> - One task state keeps infrastructure diagnostics out of the ordinary
conversation while preserving real permission and approval gates.

## Linked Issues or Issue Description

**What happened?**

A task with a retained workspace can show recovery, failed-run and
saved-message warnings at the same time. Historical runs without native
workspace descriptors cannot use the native restore path. Old recovery
metadata can prevent a new attempt even when an independent workspace
would be safe.

**Expected behavior**

Paperclip owns bounded infrastructure retries and file preservation. A
user can request another attempt with ordinary Retry. Thinking appears
immediately. The service preserves completed effects and current user
controls. It does not claim that starting fresh recovered the old files.

**Steps to reproduce**

1. Retain a failed run and its workspace after export or process-stop
failure.
2. Save a follow-up while the recovery hold is active.
3. Open the task and try to continue without infrastructure credentials
or operator certification.

Refs #16906, #16835, #16883. This extends their recovery and receipt
contracts. Related work: #16962 and #16963.

## What Changed

- Add task-level Retry with company-scoped authorization, all-status
idempotency and durable admission before physical work. Keep exact-run
Retry compatible.
- Add typed recovery phases, finite persisted backoff, historical
adoption and durable local failure diagnostics.
- Preserve native workspaces or verified historical snapshots. Admit an
independent fresh workspace only after execution containment. Keep
old-source preservation and cleanup obligations separate.
- Carry completed publication and API receipts forward. Fence uncertain
mutation retries across replacement runs. Preserve connected-chat
identity and authorization.
- Re-enter normal dispatch for saved input. Reuse accepted results
through the existing finalizer.
- Use one task interruption projection across the thread, composer and
task list. Show optimistic Thinking, ordinary Retry and genuine user
gates.
- Add PostgreSQL, filesystem, API, browser-fixture and controlled
provider coverage. Document the behavior and update the feature/access
maps.

## Verification

- All GitHub Actions CI jobs pass on
`6d8c6d27d50586d8548b31d03b47f6d73a0ee11d`: typecheck, all
server/chat/workspace and serialized suites, Runner checks, eight
browser shards, canary and build. The required merge gate passes.
- Greptile reviewed the final commit at 5/5, with no actionable findings
or unresolved review threads. Its two earlier P1 findings are fixed.
- Full recursive typecheck and build pass locally on the final commit.
All 16 task Retry cases pass against isolated real PostgreSQL. The
unrelated-success case and both stale Retry cases fail on the previous
code and pass after the fix.
- The corrected gateway fixture passes its uncertain-mutation and
independent-read case. Four real HTTP API cases pass for definite
403/422 rejection, completed-effect reuse, and uncertain-effect fences
across deliberate and automatic retries. These focused gateway/API
checks used a temporary database lifecycle harness on an existing
healthy local PostgreSQL process. The standard repository helper is
unchanged.
- Earlier qualification covers 291 task UI cases, saved-file copyback
and ancestry, current Agent Chat ownership races, nine chat Retry API
browser cases, and six assembled browser recovery fixtures. A real
API/PostgreSQL/native-runner journey showed Thinking in 25 ms despite a
delayed response, admitted one successor in a separate workspace,
retained original files, and survived reload.
- The controlled Daytona test interrupts export, joins the controller,
restarts it in a separate process, and verifies one agent start, one
external sentinel operation, retained file contents and no premature
cleanup. It does not establish abrupt-kill or live LLM/GitHub
acceptance.
- The full local `pnpm test:run` was attempted and was not green: an
OAuth row-lock timing assertion failed, and a later suite exhausted
macOS PostgreSQL semaphores. The ten OAuth timing cases passed on rerun
against a separate database. Later embedded database initialization
failures remain recorded; the final CI matrix passes.
- Security scanning passed on production-code commit
`63953edf069b111c6becc3144dffa6deb52f68b5`. Its only successor changes
one test-fixture identity line. The final scan is neutral/inconclusive
because its pinned merge-base checkout failed or timed out. Both rerun
API requests returned 404, so no fresh successful scan is claimed.
Socket and Snyk checks pass on the final head.
- The optional Paperclip Review remains queued behind an earlier run in
workspace finalization. Its prior completed assessment was incomplete
because a comparison tool was blocked by the platform filter. It is not
counted as a completed code review. GitHub does not require this check
for merge.
- Hosted acceptance remains pending deployment. Local and CI results do
not establish recovery of a hosted task or its retained files.

## Risks

- Recovery changes span admission, physical ownership and dispatch.
Incorrect evidence could permit overlapping work. Existing physical
locks and authoritative stop requirements remain in place.
- The migration adds concurrent indexes. It requires the existing
top-level migration runner and retries incomplete index creation safely.
- A fresh attempt can complete while old-source preservation remains
unresolved. The service retains that obligation and does not report
those files as recovered.
- Unknown tool mutations remain blocked until their authoritative
receipt owner resolves them. Generic upstream tools have no universal
result-query protocol.
- Recovery and diagnostics stay inside the stack. No Cloud incident
endpoint, notification worker or new outbound reporting channel is
included.

## Model Used

OpenAI Codex, GPT-6 family. The runtime does not expose a more specific
model version or context-window size. The model used reasoning, shell
execution, source editing and browser tools. No model subagents were
used for this implementation.

## 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 (focused suites; the full
local run limitation is documented above)
- [x] I have added or updated tests where applicable
- [x] I have updated relevant documentation to reflect my changes
- [x] I have considered and documented any risks above
- [x] All Paperclip CI gates are green
- [x] Greptile is 5/5 with no open P2s, recommendations, or follow-ups
- [x] I will address all Greptile and reviewer comments before
requesting merge

---------

Co-authored-by: Paperclip <noreply@paperclip.ing>
2026-10-20 19:58:53 -05:00