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3790ca2f13 fix(runner): repair approval and Stop races and eval infrastructure (#13750)
## Thinking Path

> - Paperclip is the open source app people use to manage AI agents for
work.
> - Runner tasks must continue after approval and stop when the user
presses Stop.
> - Live evals found races at approval delivery and provider startup.
> - Browser readiness and CI setup errors also hid the actual task
results.
> - This pull request fixes those races and the related test
infrastructure.
> - Regression tests and saved live reports show which cases now pass.

## Linked Issues or Issue Description

Companion eval definitions PR:
https://github.com/paperclipai/paperclip-evals/pull/25 (AgentCore paused
and provider/environment infrastructure).

Related: #13741 now supplies the late-startup Stop fence and
warm-attachment recovery; this PR retains that fence and extends startup
tracking and regression coverage to both native backend paths. #13539
introduced queued approvals during active runs. #13738 fixes child
assignment, task replies, and warm process continuity and is already in
the base. #13291 concerns automatic continuation of interrupted legacy
sandbox runs; this PR fixes native startup cancellation and does not
change that recovery policy.

**What happened?**
An accepted service approval could wait after its source run stopped.
Stop could return success before the provider handle existed. Work could
then start after Stop, or a cancelled run could be recorded as failed.
Some E2E tests also failed on unloaded browser content or irrelevant
reply wording. Runner CI could fail before model work because of
dependency or sandbox setup.

**Expected behavior**
Deliver each settled approval once after its source run stops. Do not
start work after an acknowledged Stop. Preserve the audited
cancellation. Test the intended product behavior with a ready browser
and verified runtime dependencies.

**Steps to reproduce**
1. Approve a service request while its source run is active. Let the run
finish. Check that its result starts one continuation.
2. Delay provider startup. Press Stop before its handle is available.
Check cancellation, then submit `/new`.
3. Run the browser, warm-workspace, and Stop-and-redirect cases from the
linked report.

**Paperclip version or commit**
The branch includes master at `9d19f98b5`. The report records the
original source for each focused attempt.

**Deployment mode**
Isolated local development instances and disposable Daytona sandboxes.

## What Changed

- Deliver settled tool-action results for the exact company and source
run during final cleanup. Keep the existing idempotent receipt and
periodic recovery sweep.
- Wait for startup to hand off its provider handle before acknowledging
Stop. Reject first-turn admission after cancellation. Preserve a
matching audited pending or acknowledged cancellation.
- Wait for mounted task history and connector controls in browser tests.
Record failure evidence. Grade workspace contents and process continuity
separately from exact reply wording. Require each warm-turn marker once
and in order, allowing surrounding prose.
- Stop-and-redirect now checks that the source file exists and work is
active before Stop.
- Resolve target dependency locks in an uncredentialed CI job. Verify
the lock artifact hash. Keep orchestration and publication on the
trusted workflow revision.
- Materialize the pinned OpenCode executable and configure the exact
Codex executable's user-namespace profile before provider credentials
are available.
- Compress Daytona directory uploads with gzip. Preserve files,
executable modes, symlinks, empty directories, and confinement checks.
- Classify file-transfer RPC deadlines as infrastructure. Keep unrelated
runner RPC failures visible.

## Verification

- [Focused live report with screenshots and original
attempts](https://pages.paperclip.ing/runner-reliability-20260921/): 14
of 15 selected Product E2E cases pass across the recorded revisions.
Claude and Codex Stop → `/new`, Claude service approval, delegation,
both hiring/reuse cases, and native Daytona warm continuity pass.
- Two credentialed Runner smoke cases pass. These are not full protocol
coverage.
- E2E harness after the master merge: 429 tests pass. E2E and server
TypeScript checks pass.
- Daytona plugin: 239 tests pass, 6 skipped. Plugin TypeScript build
passes. The compression test fails against the old code and passes with
the change.
- Runner backend/runtime regression group: 161 tests pass.
Cancellation/startup selection: 26 tests pass. Approval delivery: 34
real-database tests pass.
- Workflow security: 7 tests pass. Both edited workflows pass
actionlint. Runner TypeScript and Rust builds pass.
- After merging master, all 389 native executor tests pass, including
both native backend paths and late startup after the Stop deadline.
- Post-merge `pnpm -r typecheck` and `pnpm build` pass. The monolithic
local `pnpm test:run` was interrupted to integrate master and is
inconclusive. The [hosted CI test
partitions](https://github.com/paperclipai/paperclip/actions/runs/35620461738)
pass on `50a3e43822bcba1e0d07b1b45b0be91cbf9312da`. An unchanged sandbox
callback schema test initially received HTTP 503. It passed five
isolated local runs, its full local test file, and one failed-job CI
retry. No assertion was weakened.

## Risks

- Stop can wait for the bounded startup handoff. If it cannot settle,
the existing pending-recovery state remains instead of a false
acknowledgement.
- Immediate approval delivery must remain idempotent across cleanup and
recovery sweeps. Tests cover duplicate delivery and company/run
boundaries.
- The workflow changes still need hosted Linux verification. They retain
the trusted workflow and credential boundaries.
- Gzip reduces the observed provider upload from about 1.8 GB to 663 MB.
It does not yet fix the remaining Claude Daytona transfer timeout. That
recovery test never reached Claude, so recovery remains unverified. Use
a matching image with the verified provider package preinstalled for the
next recovery test; retain cold-upload coverage separately.
- The report preserves diagnostic runs with missing source metadata and
marks them as such. It does not claim a new full-suite pass.
- This PR adds no new prompt policy or historical status reconciliation.

## Model Used

OpenAI GPT-6 through Codex performed the primary implementation and
review. The exact primary backend model ID is not exposed in this
session. OpenAI `gpt-5.6-luna` assisted with bounded infrastructure work
and verification. The agents used repository tools, code execution, and
browser tests. The exact backend 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

---------

Co-authored-by: Paperclip <noreply@paperclip.ing>
Co-authored-by: OpenAI GPT-6 <noreply@openai.com>
2026-09-21 12:50:50 -05:00
DottaandPaperclip e26d787928 Shorten continuation prompts and verify question tool guidance (#13574)
## Thinking Path

> - Paperclip is the open source app people use to manage AI agents for
work.
> - Agents must continue tasks using user answers without losing earlier
requirements or approval gates.
> - The wake prompt mixed human decisions with prior tool evidence and
repeated detailed question instructions.
> - Those instructions belong with the question tool, with a short
routing hint in the wake.
> - The Runner evals need to prove that answers, approvals, and
completed work survive later turns.
> - This PR shortens the prompts, separates authenticated answers, and
adds continuation tests with useful screenshots.

## Linked Issues or Issue Description

Refs #13517. This is a follow-up to the merged onboarding skill and
Runner E2E work. Related #13539 covers responses received while a run is
active; this PR preserves its cases and adds continuation coverage.
Existing continuation/recovery and question PRs were searched; none
covers this prompt/documentation and eval change.

**What existing behavior does this improve?**

The instructions sent when an agent continues a task, the native
human-input tool documentation, and the evidence captured by Runner
full-stack E2E.

**Current behavior**

The wake repeats a long question-tool guide. Human answers appear
alongside untrusted prior results. Screenshot capture can finish at DOM
load while the task still shows a spinner, even when backend behavior
checks pass.

**Proposed behavior**

Keep earlier requirements unless the user changes them. Treat
clarification as distinct from approval. Give authenticated human
responses a scoped field. Keep tool and agent results as evidence. Put
detailed question behavior in the tool descriptor and retain one routing
sentence in the native wake. Wait for the correct task and loaded
conversation before taking screenshots.

**Reason and benefit**

Reduce repeated prompt text and make authority boundaries clear. Test
that real question cards, later answers, approval gates, and completed
child tasks still work. Make screenshots useful for human review.

## What Changed

- Shorten shared continuation instructions for legacy and native
runners. Separate authenticated user responses from tool results and
agent summaries.
- Remove the detailed question guide from native wake prompts. Keep its
behavior in the canonical `request_human_input` descriptor and existing
payload schema. Regenerate semantic contracts and fixture hashes.
- Add five continuation cases across four local profiles. Add a
dedicated choice-then-text case for native Codex and native Claude. All
22 cells join the shared full E2E campaign.
- Cover revised scope, clarification without approval, hostile
instructions in a handoff file, and reuse of a completed child after
restart. Keep production instructions and fixed user facts.
- Capture continuation screenshots only when the intended task and
conversation have rendered. Add provider-free browser regressions for
loaders and wrong-task capture.
- Preserve current master’s extra tool and onboarding cases. The default
campaign now contains 166 cells; 35 manual everyday cells remain
separate.

## Verification

- `pnpm -r typecheck`: passed after replay on current master.
- `pnpm test:e2e:runner:unit`: 340 passed. Harness typecheck passed.
- `PAPERCLIP_PLAYWRIGHT_CHANNEL=chrome pnpm
test:e2e:runner:browser-support`: 4 passed. These tests failed against
immediate screenshot capture and passed after the fix.
- Focused continuation and native-input tests: 36 passed locally. The
tool-authority suite could not initialize embedded PostgreSQL locally,
including one isolated retry; its 17 assertions did not run locally. The
full remote server shards passed on this PR commit.
- `pnpm build`: passed after replay on current master. `pnpm test:run`
was attempted locally but hit the same embedded PostgreSQL
initialization failure; the remaining local run was stopped after
complete remote CI passed. This is not claimed as a full local test
pass.
- [Full PR
CI](https://github.com/paperclipai/paperclip/actions/runs/35232755685):
passed on `6a22128c14f4552d0613a6d9a25955db4a1ed02f`. All
server/chat/workspace/serialized shards, browser shards, Runner checks,
typecheck, build, canary and policy checks passed. The isolated native
Runner build and security checks also passed: 57 successful checks, with
two expected Storybook skips.
- Greptile reviewed the exact PR head at 5/5, with no findings or
unresolved review threads. The PR has no merge conflicts.
- [Live question-docs
report](https://pages.paperclip.ing/runner-e2e-question-docs-35227647794/):
3/3 passed at source `83dd132f2` before replay on master. Native Codex
and Claude each asked a choice, waited, asked a text question, and saved
both answers. Claude also passed a completed-child restart case. All
three native turns are checked for absence of the old question block.
- [Earlier continuation
report](https://pages.paperclip.ing/runner-e2e-continuation-35154943615/):
all five continuation cases passed on native Claude. The report retains
campaign and revision provenance and separately shows two unresolved
onboarding behavior failures.
- [Before/after prompt
report](https://pages.paperclip.ing/runner-prompt-comparison-20260917/):
full text, current recorded Claude inputs, and reproducible
reference-token counts. The controlled wake comparison removes 401
reference tokens; the net counted input reduction is 339 after charging
the larger tool description. These are text-size estimates, not measured
billing savings.

## Risks

- Prompt wording affects model behavior. Live results cover the stated
cases, not every provider or conversation. Legacy profiles are
registered but were not rerun for this change.
- The optional continuation field changes prompt data only; there is no
database migration or new production API.
- Authenticated answer projection excludes generated summaries and
agent-resolved interactions. It preserves the answer’s question or
approval scope.
- The screenshot guard can expose UI loading failures that earlier runs
hid. Backend grading alone no longer makes those captures valid.
- The two prior onboarding failures remain separate product issues: work
before acceptance and a missing saved plan. This PR does not claim the
entire onboarding suite passes.

## Model Used

OpenAI Codex, GPT-6, with reasoning, repository tools, code execution,
and browser verification. The exact deployed 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 — targeted tests above; the
full local database-startup limit is documented
- [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>
2026-09-17 09:32:54 -05:00