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Dotta a3e7e63330 Guard Native recovery with process-space proof and explicit containment (#19813)
## Thinking Path

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

## Linked Issues or Issue Description

Refs: #19713

Refs: #19591

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

## What Changed

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

## Verification

Current publication head: `71ea76b568de09d6313d8992e803131d9d5c54f3`.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

## Risks

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

## Model Used

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

## Checklist

- [x] I have included a thinking path that traces from project context
to this change
- [x] I have specified the model used (with version and capability
details)
- [x] I have checked ROADMAP.md and confirmed this PR does not duplicate
planned core work
- [x] I have searched GitHub for duplicate or related PRs and linked
them above
- [x] I have either (a) linked existing issues with `Fixes: #` /
`Closes: #` / `Refs: #` OR (b) described the issue in-PR following the
relevant issue template
- [x] I have not referenced internal/instance-local Paperclip issues or
links (only public GitHub `#NNN` / `github.com/paperclipai/paperclip`
URLs)
- [x] My branch name describes the change and contains no internal
Paperclip ticket id or instance-derived details
- [x] I have run tests locally and they pass
- [x] I have added or updated tests where applicable
- [x] I have updated relevant documentation to reflect my changes
- [x] I have considered and documented any risks above
- [x] All Paperclip CI gates are green
- [x] Greptile is 5/5 with no open P2s, recommendations, or follow-ups
- [x] I will address all Greptile and reviewer comments before
requesting merge
2026-11-09 12:06:11 -06:00
DottaandClaude Opus 5.5 e8a3f1f6f2 feat(recovery): prove a replaced container's records gone through a fenced controller epoch (#20054)
## Thinking Path

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

## Linked Issues or Issue Description

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

**What happened?**

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

**Expected behavior**

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

**Steps to reproduce**

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

**Paperclip version or commit**

`master` before this PR.

## What Changed

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

## Verification

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

## Risks

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

## Model Used

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

## Checklist

- [x] I have included a thinking path that traces from project context
to this change
- [x] I have specified the model used (with version and capability
details)
- [x] I have checked ROADMAP.md and confirmed this PR does not duplicate
planned core work
- [x] I have searched GitHub for duplicate or related PRs and linked
them above
- [x] I have either (a) linked existing issues with `Fixes: #` / `Closes
#` / `Refs #` OR (b) described the issue in-PR following the relevant
issue template
- [x] I have not referenced internal/instance-local Paperclip issues or
links (only public GitHub `#NNN` / `github.com/paperclipai/paperclip`
URLs)
- [x] My branch name describes the change (e.g. `docs/...`, `fix/...`)
and contains no internal Paperclip ticket id or instance-derived details
- [x] I have run tests locally and they pass
- [x] I have added or updated tests where applicable
- [x] I have updated relevant documentation to reflect my changes
- [x] I have considered and documented any risks above
- [ ] All Paperclip CI gates are green
- [ ] Greptile is 5/5 with no open P2s, recommendations, or follow-ups
- [x] I will address all Greptile and reviewer comments before
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2026-11-08 11:06:32 -06:00
DottaandClaude Opus 5.5 c966334ec3 fix(recovery): settle a run-less lease once its stamped holder is proven gone (#20026)
## Thinking Path

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

## Linked Issues or Issue Description

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

**What happened?**

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

**Expected behavior**

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

**Steps to reproduce**

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

**Paperclip version or commit**

`master` at `8475826d2d`.

## What Changed

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

## Verification

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

## Risks

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

## Model Used

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

## Checklist

- [x] I have included a thinking path that traces from project context
to this change
- [x] I have specified the model used (with version and capability
details)
- [x] I have checked ROADMAP.md and confirmed this PR does not duplicate
planned core work
- [x] I have searched GitHub for duplicate or related PRs and linked
them above
- [x] I have either (a) linked existing issues with `Fixes: #` / `Closes
#` / `Refs #` OR (b) described the issue in-PR following the relevant
issue template
- [x] I have not referenced internal/instance-local Paperclip issues or
links (only public GitHub `#NNN` / `github.com/paperclipai/paperclip`
URLs)
- [x] My branch name describes the change (e.g. `docs/...`, `fix/...`)
and contains no internal Paperclip ticket id or instance-derived details
- [x] I have run tests locally and they pass
- [x] I have added or updated tests where applicable
- [x] I have updated relevant documentation to reflect my changes
- [x] I have considered and documented any risks above
- [ ] All Paperclip CI gates are green
- [ ] Greptile is 5/5 with no open P2s, recommendations, or follow-ups
- [x] I will address all Greptile and reviewer comments before
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DottaandClaude Opus 5.5 ff53eb84db feat(recovery): add OwnerStamp and proveOwnerGone (gone | alive | unprovable) (#19853)
## Thinking Path

> - Paperclip is the open source app people use to manage AI agents for
work
> - Restart recovery must decide when a dead process's in-progress
record may be released
> - About 31 sites decide "owner gone" today, with different rules for
EPERM, PID reuse and other hosts (Phase 0 inventory, finding 1)
> - The durable ownership plan (section A) asks for one owner stamp and
one prover that returns `gone | alive | unprovable`
> - This pull request adds that stamp and prover. Nothing calls it yet;
the next PR uses it in a report-only reconciler
> - The benefit is one tested definition of "owner gone" that later
phases move each record kind onto

## Linked Issues or Issue Description

Refs #19831 (plan, section A and Phase 1). Refs #19846 (Phase 0
inventory). Refs #19848 (Track 1: 1 s start-time gap and EPERM as
alive). Stacked on #19851.

**Problem**
Each subsystem proves "owner gone" with its own rules. Some accept a
dead PID on another host as proof. None returns "unprovable".

**Expected behavior**
One prover with one set of rules. A different host and an expired fence
alone are never proof. "Unprovable" never releases a record.

**Impact**
This is the primitive that Phase 1's report-only reconciler and Phase
2's migrations use.

## What Changed

- New `server/src/services/owner-proof.ts`:
- `OwnerStamp`: a local stamp (`host`, `processSpace`, `bootId`, `pid`,
`processStartedAt`, `processGroupId`, `generation`, `scope`) or a remote
stamp (`fenceToken`, `generation`, `scope`, `provider`).
- `proveOwnerGone(stamp, …)` returns `{ verdict: "gone" | "alive" |
"unprovable", reason }`.
- Local rules: this boot is alive; the stamp must name this host and PID
space (host, kernel boot, PID namespace); the PID must be dead or reused
(start-time gap of at least 1 s, via Track 1's
`processStartsDefinitelyDiffer`); EPERM is alive; the process group must
be empty or led by a newer process.
- Remote rules: a superseded fence token or generation is gone; a
provider stop proof is gone; a held fence is alive; a matching fence
that only expired is unprovable. Process liveness is never consulted for
a remote owner.
- `currentLocalOwnerStamp()` reads only cached identity, so writing a
stamp adds no OS call to the turn path.
- `controller-process-identity.ts` exports `observedProcessStartedAt`
and `UNKNOWN_PROCESS_SPACE` for the prover.
- New `owner-proof.test.ts`: the proof matrix (EPERM, ESRCH, PID reuse
inside and at 1 s, unreadable start time, a different host, a different
or unknown PID space, process groups, a held, superseded, expired or
provider-proved remote fence).

## Verification

- `npx vitest run src/services/owner-proof.test.ts` (in `server/`): 20
tests pass.
- `npx tsc --noEmit -p server`: no errors.

## Risks

- Low risk. No caller uses the prover yet, so no behavior changes.
- Previous-release story (`rules/upgrade-safe-run-state.mdc`): no
persisted shape changes. Stamps from older rows that lack fields return
`unprovable` (`missing_identity`), which never releases a record.
- Track 1 is still fixing proofs in place. The prover reuses Track 1's
helpers (`processExists`, `processStartsDefinitelyDiffer`), so a later
Track 1 rule change applies here too.

## Model Used

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

## Checklist

- [x] I have included a thinking path that traces from project context
to this change
- [x] I have specified the model used (with version and capability
details)
- [x] I have checked ROADMAP.md and confirmed this PR does not duplicate
planned core work
- [x] I have searched GitHub for duplicate or related PRs and linked
them above
- [x] I have either (a) linked existing issues with `Fixes: #` / `Closes
#` / `Refs #` OR (b) described the issue in-PR following the relevant
issue template
- [x] I have not referenced internal/instance-local Paperclip issues or
links (only public GitHub `#NNN` / `github.com/paperclipai/paperclip`
URLs)
- [x] My branch name describes the change (e.g. `docs/...`, `fix/...`)
and contains no internal Paperclip ticket id or instance-derived details
- [x] I have run tests locally and they pass
- [x] I have added or updated tests where applicable
- [x] I have updated relevant documentation to reflect my changes
- [x] I have considered and documented any risks above
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DottaandClaude Opus 5.5 51c352ec2e fix(skills): release a runtime skill-cache lock whose holder provably exited (#19849)
## Thinking Path

> - Paperclip is the open source app people use to manage AI agents for
work
> - Before a run starts, the server builds a read-only cache of each
company skill under a cross-process file lock
> - The lock records only a pid and a hostname, so a crash leaves a lock
that nothing can release
> - If the holder pid is dead on the same host, the next run fails and
asks for manual cleanup. If the host name differs, the next run waits 60
s and then fails
> - This is on the turn path, so one crash during a skill build breaks
later runs that use that skill
> - This pull request records the shared controller process identity in
the lock and releases the lock at once when `controllerProcessExited`
proves the holder is gone
> - The benefit is that a crash during a skill build no longer blocks
later runs, and the release never relies on lock age or another host

## Linked Issues or Issue Description

**Bug description**
The Phase 0 ownership inventory (finding 4) lists the runtime
skill-cache lock (`runtime-skill-cache.ts`) as a record that nothing
releases automatically. When a publisher crashes while it holds
`<skillId>.lock`, every later preparation of that skill fails.

**Steps to reproduce**
1. Start a skill cache build, then kill the server process while it
holds the lock.
2. Restart and start a run that uses the same skill.
3. Preparation fails with "Runtime skill cache publisher exited; remove
its stale publication lock before retrying". For a holder whose host
name differs, it fails after 60 s with "publisher is busy".

**Expected behavior**
A lock whose holder has provably exited is released, and the build
continues without waiting. A holder that cannot be proven gone is still
waited for.

Refs #19846

## What Changed

- `controller-process-identity.ts`: add
`currentControllerProcessStamp()`. It returns this process's identity
with no I/O, so the turn path gets no new wait.
- `runtime-skill-cache.ts`: the lock owner file now also stores
`controller` (boot id, pid, PID-space hash, start time if already
known). `pid` and `host` stay so older readers still work.
- New `runtimeSkillCacheLockHolderExited`: true only when
`controllerProcessExited` proves the holder gone. Another host or PID
namespace, an unknown space, a legacy lock without `controller`, a live
pid, and this process all return false.
- On proof, waiters race for one exclusive claim named by the stale
holder's unique token (`<lock>.released-<token>`). Only the winner
unlinks the lock, and only while it still has the stale inode. The claim
is kept, so a late waiter does nothing. The waiter then retries the link
right away instead of after the 20 ms poll.
- A live holder is re-proved at most once a second.
`controllerProcessExited` skips the start-time probe (`ps` on macOS)
when no start time was recorded.
- The busy error now names the lock path. The same-host "publisher
exited" hard failure is removed.

## Verification

- `npx vitest run src/__tests__/runtime-skill-cache.test.ts
src/services/controller-process-identity.test.ts`: 28 passed, rebased on
master after #19848.
- New case "takes over a release claim whose claimer exited before
removing the stale lock" covers the second Greptile finding.
- New case "never removes a newer lock for a waiter that read a stale
one late" covers the Greptile P1.
- New case "releases a publication lock at once when its holder provably
exited". On the old code it fails with "Runtime skill cache publisher
exited; remove its stale publication lock before retrying". On the new
code it builds in well under 5 s and leaves no lock.
- New case "never treats age, another host, or a legacy holder as
proof": a different host hash, a legacy `{pid, host}` lock, a live pid,
this process, and malformed content all stay held.
- Server `tsc --noEmit` shows no errors in the changed files.

## Risks

- Previous-release story: a lock written by the previous release has no
`controller` field. It is unprovable. The waiter waits 60 s and fails as
before, and the error now names the path to remove. A new lock still
carries `pid` and `host`, so a previous-release reader behaves as
before.
- Lock release race: while a stale lock exists, only the single claim
winner can remove it, and the inode check cannot match a newer lock
because the stale holder's owner file stays and pins that inode. A claim
whose claimer crashed is itself released by the same proof (depth
bounded at 2).
- Each released lock leaves one small claim file and the dead holder's
owner file next to it.
- No new I/O before `turn.start`. The stamp is synchronous. The proof
runs only when the lock is contended.

## Model Used

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

## Checklist

- [x] I have included a thinking path that traces from project context
to this change
- [x] I have specified the model used (with version and capability
details)
- [x] I have checked ROADMAP.md and confirmed this PR does not duplicate
planned core work
- [x] I have searched GitHub for duplicate or related PRs and linked
them above
- [x] I have either (a) linked existing issues with `Fixes: #` / `Closes
#` / `Refs #` OR (b) described the issue in-PR following the relevant
issue template
- [x] I have not referenced internal/instance-local Paperclip issues or
links (only public GitHub `#NNN` / `github.com/paperclipai/paperclip`
URLs)
- [x] My branch name describes the change (e.g. `docs/...`, `fix/...`)
and contains no internal Paperclip ticket id or instance-derived details
- [x] I have run tests locally and they pass
- [x] I have added or updated tests where applicable
- [x] I have updated relevant documentation to reflect my changes
- [x] I have considered and documented any risks above
- [ ] All Paperclip CI gates are green
- [ ] Greptile is 5/5 with no open P2s, recommendations, or follow-ups
- [x] I will address all Greptile and reviewer comments before
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DottaandClaude Opus 5.5 68db7ed9e3 fix(recovery): never accept a dead local pid as proof for an owner on another host (#19868)
## Thinking Path

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

## Linked Issues or Issue Description

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

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

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

Refs #19846

## What Changed

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

## Verification

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

## Risks

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

## Model Used

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

## Checklist

- [x] I have included a thinking path that traces from project context
to this change
- [x] I have specified the model used (with version and capability
details)
- [x] I have checked ROADMAP.md and confirmed this PR does not duplicate
planned core work
- [x] I have searched GitHub for duplicate or related PRs and linked
them above
- [x] I have either (a) linked existing issues with `Fixes: #` / `Closes
#` / `Refs #` OR (b) described the issue in-PR following the relevant
issue template
- [x] I have not referenced internal/instance-local Paperclip issues or
links (only public GitHub `#NNN` / `github.com/paperclipai/paperclip`
URLs)
- [x] My branch name describes the change (e.g. `docs/...`, `fix/...`)
and contains no internal Paperclip ticket id or instance-derived details
- [x] I have run tests locally and they pass
- [x] I have added or updated tests where applicable
- [x] I have updated relevant documentation to reflect my changes
- [x] I have considered and documented any risks above
- [ ] All Paperclip CI gates are green
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DottaandClaude Opus 5.5 fa86162790 refactor(recovery): one process boot id and a cached controller identity (#19851)
## Thinking Path

> - Paperclip is the open source app people use to manage AI agents for
work
> - Restart recovery decides when a record owned by a dead server
process may be released
> - One server process minted three different boot UUIDs, one per module
(`controller-process-identity.ts:13`, `native-restart-recovery.ts:284`,
`legacy-controller-lease.ts:8`)
> - The controller identity also ran `ps -o lstart` on macOS at every
native claim, preparation check and lease renewal, which is on the path
before `turn.start`
> - The durable ownership plan (Phase 1, step 1) needs one process
identity before it can add one owner stamp and one prover
> - This pull request makes the three modules stamp one boot id and
reads the process start time from the OS once
> - The benefit is one meaning of "owned by this process" across tables,
and no `ps` spawn on the turn path

## Linked Issues or Issue Description

Refs #19831 (plan:
`doc/plans/2026-11-07-durable-ownership-and-reconciliation.md`, Phase
1). Refs #19846 (Phase 0 inventory, finding 1, and the TTFT baseline row
"Controller identity").

**Problem**
One process has three boot ids, so the same fact ("this record is owned
by this process") has three encodings. The uncached controller identity
spawns `ps` on macOS on every claim and renewal.

**Expected behavior**
One boot id per process. The OS start-time read runs once per process.

**Impact**
Phase 1 needs one identity to build `OwnerStamp` and `proveOwnerGone`
on. The turn path loses one subprocess spawn per claim and renewal.

## What Changed

- `controller-process-identity.ts` owns the single process boot id. It
adds `currentProcessStartedAtMs()`, which caches a successful OS
start-time read for the life of the process and retries a failed read.
It also exports `currentProcessSpaceHash()` for the coming prover.
- `native-restart-recovery.ts`: `currentNativeControllerIdentity()` and
`isCurrentNativeControllerProcess()` use the shared boot id and the
cached start time. Its own `randomUUID()` boot id is removed. The
fallback to the server-info start time is kept.
- `legacy-controller-lease.ts`: `legacyControllerBootId` is now the
shared boot id.
- Tests in `native-controller-identity.test.ts`: one boot id across
native claims, legacy leases and creation intents; one OS read across
many claims and renewals; a failed read is retried, not cached.

## Verification

- `npx vitest run
src/services/native-runtime/native-controller-identity.test.ts
src/services/legacy-controller-lease.test.ts
src/__tests__/heartbeat-pending-cleanup-sweep.test.ts
src/__tests__/sandbox-creation-operations.test.ts
src/services/heartbeat/upgrade-readiness-post-result.test.ts
src/services/heartbeat/recovery.test.ts` (in `server/`): 6 files pass.
- `npx tsc --noEmit -p server`: no errors.
- I checked every reader of the three ids. Each one compares a stored
column only with the id of the module that writes that column
(`heartbeat_runs.controller_boot_id` with the legacy id,
`native_run_finalizations.controller_boot_id` with the native id,
metadata `bootId` with the creation id). No reader compares the ids of
two modules, so making them equal changes no decision inside one
process.

## Risks

- Low risk. No schema change and no persisted shape change.
- Previous-release story (`rules/upgrade-safe-run-state.mdc`): rows
saved by an older release carry that release's random per-module ids.
They never equal the new process's id, exactly as a row from any earlier
boot never did. They carry forward with no migration.
- The start-time cache is correct because a process's own start time
never changes. A failed read is not cached, so a transient `ps` failure
does not pin the fallback value.

## Model Used

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

## Checklist

- [x] I have included a thinking path that traces from project context
to this change
- [x] I have specified the model used (with version and capability
details)
- [x] I have checked ROADMAP.md and confirmed this PR does not duplicate
planned core work
- [x] I have searched GitHub for duplicate or related PRs and linked
them above
- [x] I have either (a) linked existing issues with `Fixes: #` / `Closes
#` / `Refs #` OR (b) described the issue in-PR following the relevant
issue template
- [x] I have not referenced internal/instance-local Paperclip issues or
links (only public GitHub `#NNN` / `github.com/paperclipai/paperclip`
URLs)
- [x] My branch name describes the change (e.g. `docs/...`, `fix/...`)
and contains no internal Paperclip ticket id or instance-derived details
- [x] I have run tests locally and they pass
- [x] I have added or updated tests where applicable
- [x] I have updated relevant documentation to reflect my changes
- [x] I have considered and documented any risks above
- [ ] All Paperclip CI gates are green
- [ ] Greptile is 5/5 with no open P2s, recommendations, or follow-ups
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DottaandClaude Opus 5.5 630411af53 fix(recovery): require a 1 s start-time gap and treat EPERM as alive in owner proofs (#19848)
## Thinking Path

> - Paperclip is the open source app people use to manage AI agents for
work
> - After a restart, recovery code decides whether the process that owns
an in-progress run is gone
> - Two proofs compare process start times to the millisecond, but `ps
-o lstart` on macOS and BSD reports whole seconds
> - So a live owner can look like a reused PID, and recovery can release
it while it still runs
> - Signal-0 handling also disagrees: one check treats EPERM as dead,
while all others treat it as alive
> - This pull request puts one start-time rule and one EPERM rule in
`controller-process-identity.ts` and uses them at every site the Phase 0
ownership inventory named
> - The benefit is that no proof releases a live owner because of clock
precision or a permission error

## Linked Issues or Issue Description

**Bug description**
The Phase 0 ownership inventory (finding 1) found inconsistent "owner
gone" proofs. `native-failed-run-owner-release.ts`
(`recordedProcessMayBeLive`, `runProcessMayBeLive`) and
`native-session-executor.ts` (`verifiedRecoveryProcessIsAlive`) treat
any start-time difference of 1 ms or more as a reused PID.
`native-restart-recovery.ts` and `controllerProcessExited` require a gap
of at least 1 s. `local-service-supervisor.ts` (`isPidAlive`,
`isProcessGroupAlive`) treats EPERM as dead.

**Steps to reproduce**
1. On macOS, record a live process start time with millisecond
precision.
2. Run the abandoned-owner release pass, or the recovered-runner
liveness check, against that live PID.
3. The pass releases the owner, or the check reports the runner as gone.

**Expected behavior**
A sub-second start-time gap is ambiguous and keeps the owner. EPERM
means the process exists.

Refs #19846

## What Changed

- `controller-process-identity.ts`: export `processExists` (EPERM =
alive) and `processStartsDefinitelyDiffer` (gap >= 1 s; a missing time
proves nothing). `controllerProcessExited` uses the new helper.
- `native-failed-run-owner-release.ts`: the controller and run-process
checks use the shared helpers instead of exact millisecond equality.
- `native-session-executor.ts`: `verifiedRecoveryProcessIsAlive` accepts
a start time within 1 s as the same runner. Its signal path uses the
same check.
- `native-restart-recovery.ts`: `definitivelyDifferentProcessStart`
delegates to the shared helper. No behavior change.
- `local-service-supervisor.ts`: `isPidAlive` and `isProcessGroupAlive`
treat EPERM as alive.

## Verification

- New `controller-process-identity.test.ts`: the 1 s boundary, EPERM and
ESRCH for every signal-0 check, and a live spawned runner whose recorded
start is 500 ms off.
- `native-failed-run-owner-release.test.ts`: two new cases (controller
and run process) with a live child and a recorded start 500 ms off. The
owner stays `observed`.
- Red before the fix: with the old call sites, all 4 new cases fail
(`releaseAbandonedNativeOwners` returns 1 and releases the live owner;
EPERM returns false; the live runner reads as gone). Green after the
fix.
- `npx vitest run src/services/controller-process-identity.test.ts
src/services/native-runtime/native-failed-run-owner-release.test.ts
src/services/native-runtime/native-restart-recovery.test.ts
src/__tests__/local-service-supervisor.test.ts`: 59 passed.

## Risks

- Low risk. The change only makes proofs stricter: a sub-second gap or
EPERM now keeps an owner that the old code released. Such a row waits
for the existing lease, TTL, or real process exit.
- A recycled PID whose new process started within 1 s of the recorded
one now stays held until it exits. That is the same rule the takeover
path already used.
- Previous-release story: no persisted shape changes. Rows saved by the
previous release are evaluated with the stricter rule.

## Model Used

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

## Checklist

- [x] I have included a thinking path that traces from project context
to this change
- [x] I have specified the model used (with version and capability
details)
- [x] I have checked ROADMAP.md and confirmed this PR does not duplicate
planned core work
- [x] I have searched GitHub for duplicate or related PRs and linked
them above
- [x] I have either (a) linked existing issues with `Fixes: #` / `Closes
#` / `Refs #` OR (b) described the issue in-PR following the relevant
issue template
- [x] I have not referenced internal/instance-local Paperclip issues or
links (only public GitHub `#NNN` / `github.com/paperclipai/paperclip`
URLs)
- [x] My branch name describes the change (e.g. `docs/...`, `fix/...`)
and contains no internal Paperclip ticket id or instance-derived details
- [x] I have run tests locally and they pass
- [x] I have added or updated tests where applicable
- [x] I have updated relevant documentation to reflect my changes
- [x] I have considered and documented any risks above
- [ ] All Paperclip CI gates are green
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DottaandClaude Opus 5.5 a5fe5deebe fix(environments): reclaim sandboxes left by a restart during acquire or teardown (#19696)
## Thinking Path

> - Paperclip is the open source app people use to manage AI agents for
work
> - Remote agent runs execute in provider sandboxes (for example
Daytona) that Paperclip creates and must clean up
> - Before each provider create, Paperclip saves a durable creation
intent (`sandbox_creation_operations`). Recovery uses it to find and
destroy a sandbox whose lease was never committed
> - Recovery waited 30 minutes after creation before it checked an
intent, because a live server could still be waiting for the provider
> - After a restart, the creating server is gone, but the intent still
waited the full 30 minutes. A short-lived or redeployed instance never
reclaimed those sandboxes
> - The teardown that follows has the same problem: a teardown claim
fences other sweeps for 15 minutes, and a restart during the claim kept
the sandbox alive until the fence expired
> - This pull request saves the server process identity with each intent
and each teardown claim, and ends the wait when same-host proof shows
that process exited
> - The benefit is that a restart during sandbox acquire or teardown no
longer leaves paid provider sandboxes behind

## Linked Issues or Issue Description

**What happened?**
A control-plane restart during Daytona sandbox acquire left the created
sandbox without an `environment_leases` row. In one restart chaos wave,
6 creation intents stayed `pending` with `next_attempt_at` = creation +
30 minutes. The wave ended (and its environment was deleted) before that
time, so 4 sandboxes stayed `stopped` in Daytona. Only Daytona's own
auto-delete would remove them. Two of the runs did not exist in
`heartbeat_runs` because they were non-run acquires; their intents still
had the run id.

**Expected behavior**
After a restart, each sandbox that this instance and company created,
with no committed lease and no live creator, is found by its exact
creation name and labels and destroyed through the plugin, after the
existing ownership checks. Sandboxes from another instance, another
host, or a live server stay untouched. Nothing acts org-wide.

**Steps to reproduce**
1. Start a Daytona-backed run.
2. Kill the server (SIGKILL) after the creation intent commits and
before the lease commits.
3. Restart the server. On master, the intent stays `pending` for 30
minutes and the sandbox stays in Daytona.
4. The regression tests in
`server/src/__tests__/sandbox-creation-operations.test.ts` reproduce
this with the controlled provider fixture.

Refs #18357 (added the durable creation intent this change completes).

**Paperclip version or commit**
master 07a548073a (live proof at 8d525dba7d + this change,
content-matched to the runner image)

## What Changed

- New `server/src/services/controller-process-identity.ts`: records the
server boot id, PID, a PID-space hash and the process start time. The
PID-space hash covers the hostname, the kernel boot id and the PID
namespace on Linux (the hostname and boot time elsewhere), so containers
that share a hostname but not a PID namespace never judge each other. It
proves that a recorded process exited only in the same PID space: the
PID is gone, or the PID is live with a definitely different start time.
Another PID space, an unreadable identity, an unidentified record, or
this server never counts as exited.
- `sandbox-creation-operations.ts`: each creation intent stores the
creating process and its settle deadline. Each recovery pass first moves
intents whose creator exited to "due now". If the early lookup finds no
sandbox before the settle deadline, the intent stays `pending` and
retries. It does not become manual reconciliation, because the provider
can still materialize an aborted request.
- `heartbeat/recovery.ts`: each pending-cleanup teardown claim stores
the claiming process, bound to its claim attempt id. Before the sweep
reads due leases, it ends the 15-minute fence of a claim whose claimer
exited. A newer claim from another path (workspace repair, export retry)
that kept an older record has a different attempt id, so it is never
released.
- Both recovery passes page through candidates with a stable id cursor.
Live, foreign or unidentified owners therefore cannot hide an abandoned
record behind one page.
- This covers every `createOwnedSandbox` caller, including non-task
probe and qualification acquires. Their intents have no issue and a
generated run id, which is why their run ids are missing from
`heartbeat_runs`.
- Recovery uses only the existing paths: exact
`paperclip-create-<operation id>` name and label inspection in the
plugin, `pending_cleanup` lease, and plugin teardown. No org-wide
listing or deletion was added.

## Verification

- Red, then green (controlled provider fixture, real embedded
PostgreSQL):
- `sandbox-creation-operations.test.ts` → "after the creating server
exits mid-acquire". Before the fix, the exited-creator case left no
cleanup lease. After the fix, the next sweep creates the
`pending_cleanup` lease and the teardown destroys the sandbox.
Counter-tests: a creation owned by this live server, another live
process, another host, or a committed lease is not inspected or
destroyed. An early "not found" keeps the intent pending, and a later
sweep still finds a late allocation.
- `heartbeat-pending-cleanup-sweep.test.ts` → "a teardown claim whose
server stopped mid-attempt". Before the fix, a lost claim blocked the
teardown. After the fix, it retries now. Counter-tests: claims from this
live server, another host, or without an identity keep their fence.
- Review regressions: "keeps the fence of a newer claim that kept an
earlier attempt's server record" and "pages past more fenced claims than
one sweep page" fail on the previous commit and pass now. "pages past
more unprovable creations than one page" guards the creation-side
cursor; the old unordered page happened to include the row, so it was
not red.
- After the review changes, `sandbox-creation-operations`,
`heartbeat-pending-cleanup-sweep`, `live-recovery-work` and
`environment-cleanup-work` pass (155 tests), and `tsc --noEmit` for
`server` passes.
- Related suites pass: sandbox-creation-operations (28),
environment-cleanup-work, task-creation-recovery,
native-startup-cleanup-recovery, sandbox-orphan-cleanup-spool,
plugin-warm-tasks, idle-completed-history (187 total), and the
pending-cleanup sweep suite. `tsc --noEmit` for `server` passes.
- Live Daytona restart chaos wave `w-20261107T001609-s11` (codex, A1,
K2+K4, concurrency 2, RC-06 masked, image `sha256:2767e91c…`, first fix
only): 4/4 tasks pass, all restart-crossing, R6 pass for every task,
`orphanSandboxes: []`. The server log and database show two creation
intents killed by K4 being reconciled right after restart and destroyed
through Paperclip. A third reclaimed sandbox lost its teardown claim to
the next K4 kill in the same second, so its 15-minute fence blocked the
environment delete. The second commit fixes that.
- Live Daytona wave `w-20261107T012048-s11`, same plan, both commits:
**4/4 pass, all restart-crossing, R6 pass for every task,
`orphanSandboxes: []`, no held leases.** The environment delete through
Paperclip succeeded with `remainingSandboxes: []`. One restart-time
sweep destroyed one sandbox through the plugin.

## Risks

- Same-host proof relies on PID liveness and process start time, as
native controller takeover already does. A false "exited" result is
limited to recovery running early. The plugin still checks exact name
and labels before any delete. An early not-found result stays pending.
- Multi-host deployments sharing one database keep the old deadlines,
because a different PID space is never judged. A redeploy into a new
host or PID namespace also keeps the old deadlines (fail closed).
- The live waves ran before the review commits. The review commits only
narrow when a record is judged, and they add paging.
- Intents and claims written before this change have no process
identity, so they keep the old deadlines.
- No schema change. The new fields live in existing JSON metadata.

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

## Model Used

- Claude Opus 5.5 (`claude-opus-5-5`), Anthropic, via Claude Code with
tool use (shell, file editing, test execution). Extended reasoning
enabled.

## Checklist

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

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Co-authored-by: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-11-06 20:39:34 -06:00