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DottaandPaperclip ac22b1b1f9 fix: preserve recovered input and task directory continuity (#17878)
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## Thinking Path

> - Paperclip lets people manage AI agents and their work.
> - Recovery must preserve files and the authority of each human
request.
> - Some failed native runs preserve a snapshot without completing
native copyback.
> - The saved input could remain blocked after recovery settled.
> - A later turn could also treat the new task directory as a Git base
because it inherited the agent default.
> - This change continues the same authorized input once and keeps its
saved directory usable on later turns and Retry after a pre-provider
preparation failure.

## Linked Issues or Issue Description

Refs #14905. Related: #17724 covers cleanup handoff after native
copyback. This change covers snapshot-only preservation and later turns
in its directory. #17814 covers a separate same-run checkpoint restore
defect. The open legacy-adapter change in #13291 does not cover this
native saved-input path.

## What Changed

- Forward the trusted deferred inbound request to native continuation
admission. Verify the exact unconsumed receipt and its source, actor,
company, agent, and task.
- Let historical holds for the same failed run use its settled recovery
strategy. Keep each controller and termination check.
- Keep the old native sync proof unchanged. Attach recovered files
through the verified snapshot path in a fresh attempt.
- Recognize only the current same-task, active local directory in the
canonical task or attempt namespace. Keep it on later turns instead of
applying inherited Git defaults.
- Keep the current healthy directory when canonical Retry follows the
exact pre-allocation Git-base failure. Require the committed source
link, strict server-produced failure events, no execution evidence or
unfinished owner, and the current canonical binding. Recognize the known
configuration warning without accepting arbitrary or provider-origin
warnings.
- Keep owned-directory readiness separate from repository-free strategy
selection. A repaired real Git checkout with explicit
task/project/assignee Git policy uses normal Git validation and
preparation. Preserve explicit fresh, new sources, immutable native
bindings, and locked path/binding checks.
- Add real PostgreSQL and filesystem regressions for admission, file
preservation, and the complete later-turn heartbeat policy chain.

## Verification

- Real PostgreSQL callback/queue regressions are RED on unchanged
production and GREEN with this repair: one successor from the same
authenticated saved request, with filesystem snapshot preservation. The
24-case source/Retry matrix passes and retains termination, allocation,
generation and revocation negatives.
- Actual browser use exposed both later-turn Git-base failure and
canonical Retry selecting an empty sibling. The real heartbeat
selection/configuration/preparation/Retry regressions reproduce each.
All 81 workspace-preparation cases passed before the final repaired-Git
edge; all 17 final affected phase-chain/safety cases pass, including
that new case. Its finalized oracle checks effective Git policy, an
actual Git checkout and saved-file bytes. Known preparation warnings
pass; unknown/provider warnings and execution contradictions do not
certify reuse.
- Full workspace typecheck, full build with matching `5342bd52da` stamp,
maps and diff checks pass. Runtime commit `5342bd52da` passed CI with 53
successful checks and 2 conditional Storybook skips, and Greptile 5/5
with zero unresolved threads. The follow-up `9096fe8f62` removes only
the feature/access map additions as requested; runtime and test files
are byte-identical. Map structural and diff checks pass. Greptile
reviewed this exact final commit at 5/5 with no unresolved threads. All
test and build jobs passed. The final required `ci / verify` and `ci /
e2e` aggregate gates are queued without runners; one bounded gate-only
requeue retained every successful job. GitHub auto-merge is enabled and
waits for those gates.
- Normal UI acceptance on exact final source with actual OpenCode,
configured DeepSeek model and Daytona passes both turns: snapshot
continuation writes a useful review/report; reload and a second ordinary
message retain the same workspace and logical native/provider session.
All six files remain byte-identical, the report's computed SHA and
unpredictable marker are confirmed, the concrete result is actual 250
versus correct 350, native finalization/copyback commit, and normal
lease cleanup succeeds. A separate normal UI canonical Retry on
preceding `9ac1d29147` preserves the current directory/report/marker and
writes a continuity note; the final Git-policy split leaves that
exercised non-Git path unchanged.
- Boundaries: local app/server source with real remote native execution;
seeded historical failure/stop receipts and actual stored snapshot, not
a replay of the original staging allocation or external review
publication. Prior local verification rewrote installed dependency
metadata; its generated lock diff was retained and reverted. Final
launch/end source and dependency metadata hashes match; no installed
dependency byte-identity claim beyond that observed freeze.
- Required full local suite was attempted but remains incomplete:
embedded PostgreSQL bootstrap failures prevented assertions in several
suites, so only its owned test tree was stopped. A prior
workspace-recovery test timed out and the following seed collided with
an active hold; both unchanged tests passed in isolation. Runtime-head
`5342bd52da` hosted CI passed the full gate; the documentation-only
follow-up waits for the aggregate jobs noted above. Its [first Rust
attempt](https://github.com/paperclipai/paperclip/actions/runs/40528918372/job/122276159874)
failed an unchanged ACPX shutdown cleanup assertion; the preceding
same-Rust head passed. [One bounded Rust-only
retry](https://github.com/paperclipai/paperclip/actions/runs/40528918372/job/122281990961)
passed. No test assertion or production guard was weakened.

## Risks

- Incorrect input authority could repeat work. The existing owner
reauthorizes the same durable source; admission verifies its receipt
under the task lock.
- Directory recognition could select unrelated files. It requires the
current scoped binding and canonical namespace, then preparation
rechecks the stored binding and path under the source lock. Missing or
symlinked retained roots are not recreated.
- Snapshot preservation does not certify native copyback or old external
outcomes. The old run and its unknown outcomes stay unchanged.
Unconfirmed controllers or termination remain blocked.
- There is no schema migration or new public API.

## Model Used

OpenAI `gpt-6.1-sol` through Codex, with reasoning, code execution, and
tool use. The host does not expose the 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 — targeted suites; the full
local attempt limitation and final CI proof are 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
- [ ] All Paperclip CI gates are green
- [x] Greptile is 5/5 with no open P2s, recommendations, or follow-ups
- [x] I will address all Greptile and reviewer comments before
requesting merge

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Co-authored-by: Paperclip <noreply@paperclip.ing>
2026-10-27 16:02:43 +00:00
DottaandPaperclip f0877a9c7c fix: recover native work and requalify saved computers (#17724)
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## Thinking Path

> - Paperclip manages AI agents and preserves their work after an
interruption.
> - Native Stop must confirm termination and save the workspace.
> - Task and run views must show the current recovery receipt.
> - A new external reply can arrive while that cleanup is pending.
> - The reply must return to its original chat owner after cleanup.
> - A successful fresh retry also becomes the task’s bound workspace for
its next ordinary turn.
> - Managed computer updates can invalidate a saved snapshot
qualification.
> - This pull request fixes those instructions, acknowledgements,
handoffs and the existing native-agent Test path.
> - The operator can continue with new input while the stopped turn
remains preserved.

## Linked Issues or Issue Description

**What happened?**

Stopped native runs could keep the initial workspace-repair instruction
after files were recovered. Native Stop could also leave the shared
cancellation state at requested after remote termination was confirmed.
A new GitHub reply saved during cleanup could then remain queued because
cleanup did not ask its original inbound owner to reconsider the
receipt. After a managed snapshot update, an existing native agent could
also need qualification while the generic environment Test required
instance-admin access.

**Expected behavior**

Show the current saved-work state. Acknowledge Stop only after exact
termination proof. Let an authorized operator use the existing
saved-agent Run test to qualify its current computer. After cleanup,
recheck the saved reply's current authority and admit it once as new
input. Preserve the stopped run and uncertain external effects.

**Steps to reproduce**

1. Stop an active native turn before it returns a semantic result.
2. Send a new authorized external reply while cleanup is pending.
3. Let workspace recovery and provider cleanup finish. Inspect the run
instruction, Stop acknowledgement and queued reply.

Related work: #17594 preserves native processes through controller
outages. #17401 addresses a separate bootstrap failure. This pull
request does not replace those fixes.

## What Changed

- Use the exact run's workspace recovery receipt for task and run
guidance, including the Activity ledger.
- Retire an obsolete exact-session notice through the existing bounded
reconciler. Preserve the separate no-replay hold.
- Write the shared native Stop acknowledgement only after the audited
Stop intent and every exact remote lease receipt match.
- Delegate saved external input to the live inbound owner. Recheck its
source, actor, endpoint, principal and conversation generation. Promote
the same receipt in the transaction that creates its new run.
- Use that owner from the cleanup callback and existing stranded-queue
catch-up after a lost callback or restart. A denied source cannot abort
other items.
- Reuse the current private task directory after a successful fresh
retry. Re-read the company/task/workspace binding and validate the
canonical stable or attempt namespace without recreating missing files;
keep a later fresh retry separate.
- Extend the existing agent-scoped qualification owner to native agents.
The clean saved-agent Test qualifies its exact computer before runtime
testing. Reuse a current proof; require a real probe and verified
cleanup for a stale proof. Preserve draft tests and metadata-only
external/pool previews.
- Update execution semantics, capability maps and the recovery
verification recipe. Add a production-page Storybook interaction for the
normal native Test.

## Verification

- **Red:** persisted recovery states returned stale instructions; an
exact terminated native lease left shared Stop requested; the real
GitHub subscribed-message fixture left zero successors after cleanup.
The controlled baseline restored the previous production source,
reproduced the failure, then restored the fixed bytes with matching
SHA-256 hashes.
- **Green:** 382 durable-chat, native-continuation, Stop and recovery
tests pass. The real GitHub/PostgreSQL handoff matrix passes 12/12. It
covers callback, application restart, callback/sweep race, valid input
behind a deleted source, and denial for unknown stop, wrong allocation,
paused endpoint, revoked principal, deleted or changed source, changed
conversation generation and foreign scope. Repeated callbacks preserve
one receipt, its actor, one successor and the unchanged stopped
predecessor.
- **Workspace continuation red/green:** the real PostgreSQL preparation
flow created a fresh attempt and saved a marker, then rejected the next
ordinary turn with the same binding mismatch observed in deployed use.
The repaired preparation and filesystem suites pass 86/86: stable and
attempt-root reuse, saved-marker preservation, a later clean sibling,
changed current bindings, foreign company/task, closed workspace,
traversal, missing path and symlink refusal. No task row reset or
old-turn replay is used.
- **Qualification red/green:** a native saved-agent qualification
returned 422, and its normal Test skipped qualification. The repaired
path passes 224 qualification/immutable-snapshot/environment tests and
176 UI/upgrade tests. It covers revoked authority, foreign or changed
computer, current-proof reuse, failed/missing proof, draft settings,
settings changed during the probe, and external/pool previews. On exact
current source, the real local Harness / Runtime UI also qualified a
newly saved disposable Computer with missing proof through actual
Daytona, then completed the actual OpenCode/OpenRouter hello probe using
`openrouter/deepseek/deepseek-v4.1-flash-1017`. Supported availability
changed from Legacy-only to Paperclip Runner after proof persistence.
Qualification and runtime leases both completed normal release/cleanup.
The five prior task run IDs were unchanged; no task wake was created.
This is macOS source-server/UI with real Linux Daytona and provider
services, not a hosted UI claim. Test probes are archived by the
existing inspection contract; release does not claim physical deletion.
- Full workspace `pnpm -r typecheck`, `pnpm build`, token, map and diff
checks pass at `f6450f4739fc8141815b8b7c35fde22a655c5f90`. The broad
local `pnpm test:run` passed 24,899 tests and reported one existing
nested-clone test timeout at 15 seconds. The complete failing file then
passed 21/21 with the normal timeout; the exact case also passed on the
pinned earlier baseline. The broad runner stopped before its later
groups. No timeout or production workaround was added. Prior head
`f6450f4` has 53 successful checks, two conditional Storybook skips and
Greptile 5/5 with no inline threads. New workspace-reuse head
`fcb13399ec70f92f71bd8250081251dca3f48962` passes workspace typecheck,
full build, 86 scoped tests, maps and diff checks; Current-head CI has
53 successful checks and two conditional Storybook skips; Greptile is
5/5 with no inline findings. Deployed ordinary-turn reuse acceptance
passed as described below.

- **Hosted Stop proof:** the real GitHub issue-mention path used native
OpenCode, `openrouter/deepseek/deepseek-v4.1-flash-1017`, Daytona and an
exact low-trust task boundary. Normal UI Stop interrupted an active Bash
call. Native and shared acknowledgements matched the exact lease.
Automatic recovery saved exactly `STARTED\n` (8 bytes), with no finish
marker. Reload showed Stopped and saved work recovered. Only the
original cancelled run remained. Normal five-minute cleanup completed
its exact provider-destruction transition.
- **Limits:** the provider buffered command output, so the marker was
read after recovery. The approved local provider credential could not
inspect the hosted sandbox; its 404 is not deletion proof. Cleanup
success comes from the exact lease's platform destruction transition. An
earlier hosted stale instruction disappeared after rollout with
unchanged raw run/action data; that historical cause remains
unexplained. Original incident holds and publication receipts were
untouched.
- **Hosted handoff proof:** after QA deployed the combined candidate
containing `46b2e99`, startup admitted the previously saved GitHub
author reply without another comment, Retry or manual action. The new
native run used the exact original wake receipt and saved comment. It
completed once, committed an external-response wait, preserved the
stopped predecessor, emptied the queue and left the task In review. The
answer appeared in the original GitHub conversation. Workspace
finalization and the exact lease's normal destruction transition
succeeded.
- **Hosted workspace proof:** on the combined candidate containing
`fcb13399`, normal Retry preserved the original authenticated GitHub
request and completed a fresh native attempt. One later ordinary
same-head author reply then completed in the exact same workspace ID and
attempt directory, with no Retry/fresh directive. Its input tree digest
matched the Retry's finalized digest; final copyback preserved that
digest. The persisted assessment row and all five prior run records were
unchanged, exactly one new reply run completed, and the task returned to
In review with an empty queue and no live run. Both exact leases
completed normal verified destruction. This used real native OpenCode,
the exact DeepSeek/OpenRouter model and Daytona, without workspace-row
repair or a new remote marker.
- **Publication limit:** the workspace audit compares the persisted
assessment and run history. The ordinary reply exposed a separate
destination-summary fallback that changed the visible GitHub summary
despite the preserved assessment row. The publication track is repairing
that behavior; this proof does not claim the visible summary was
preserved.
- **Deployment boundary:** current-head CI/review and hosted same-source
Retry/ordinary-workspace reuse acceptance passed. The separate
visible-summary publication failure remains owned by the publication
track. Combined hosted UI confirmation of the native-agent Test path is
coordinated separately. Actual missing-proof UI/provider qualification
has passed in the isolated local instance above; prior hosted Stop and
same-input handoff proof remains separate. No merge or deployment is
performed by this pull request.

## Risks

Recovery state and termination receipts must match the exact source run
and allocation. Missing or foreign proof keeps the hold. The chat owner
must retain the original receipt and actor and recheck current
authority. Cleanup cannot grant authority or replay the stopped turn.
Existing native ownership, Stop, budget, permission and uncertain-effect
guards remain in place.

## Model Used

OpenAI GPT-6.1 Sol (`gpt-6.1-sol`) through Codex, with reasoning,
repository tools, source editing and test execution. The context-window
size is 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 (affected suites and
isolated failing file pass; broad timeout retained 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 (current fcb has 53 successful
checks/two conditional Storybook skips)
- [x] Greptile is 5/5 with no open P2s, recommendations, or follow-ups
- [x] I will address all Greptile and reviewer comments before
requesting merge

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Co-authored-by: Paperclip <noreply@paperclip.ing>
2026-10-26 22:21:58 -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

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Co-authored-by: Paperclip <noreply@paperclip.ing>
2026-10-20 19:58:53 -05:00
DottaandPaperclip f7e36ba3e2 fix: isolate repository-free low-trust tasks in private directories (#14766)
## Thinking Path

> - Paperclip manages work by agents within company boundaries.
> - Email tasks can run under the low-trust review preset.
> - These tasks must use an isolated workspace and a sandbox.
> - The default workspace strategy assumed that the project had a Git
repository.
> - A project without a configured workspace failed before the agent
could start.
> - This change gives each such task a private directory and keeps the
sandbox requirement.

## Linked Issues or Issue Description

**What happened?**
An inbound email assigned to a low-trust agent failed with
`git_worktree_base_not_git_checkout` when its boundary project had no
configured workspace. Setup had accepted the project and sandbox.

**Expected behavior**
The agent can process email without a repository. Its workspace stays
isolated from other tasks and the shared agent home.

**Steps to reproduce**
1. Select a low-trust agent with an active sandbox and a project
boundary.
2. Leave the project without a configured workspace.
3. Receive an email through AgentMail.
4. Observe that startup fails before provider work starts.

**Paperclip version or commit**
Reproduced against `5edf55d73`.

**Deployment mode**
Hosted staging with sandbox execution.

Related: #13256 added email tasks. #13636 fixed default isolation for
projects without workspaces; the explicit isolation used by low-trust
tasks still needed this path.

## What Changed

- Select private task directories for low-trust sandbox tasks with no
configured workspace or explicit workspace strategy.
- Keep each directory scoped to its company and task. Retain files
across turns and reassignment and reject symlink paths and mismatched
workspace reuse.
- Preserve Git validation for configured workspaces and explicit
strategies, plus the existing authorization and remote gates for
referenced projects.
- Add a startup regression and directory isolation tests. Document the
supported repository-free path.

## Verification

- The startup regression failed before the fix with the same Git
validation error.
- 260 targeted email, workspace policy, heartbeat, referenced-project
and directory tests pass.
- Full `pnpm -r typecheck` and `pnpm build` pass on the latest commit.
- All CI checks, including the complete sharded test suite and canary
dry run, pass on `b4ccd9802b09b2e95499df72d48b4a3906b8c328`.
- The final commit also passes the same server shard locally: 60 files,
1,024 passed / 6 skipped tests. The earlier all-groups local run was
interrupted during follow-up edits; complete-suite verification comes
from CI on the final commit.
- Deployed the reviewed commit to staging and independently verified the
full serving SHA. Two real Codex runs in Daytona succeeded and finalized
the same private company/task workspace. The first wrote a 35-byte
marker; the second read the existing file without modifying it and
returned the independently verified SHA-256
`ce3bbeb44d07ca6822826d3a5945752a38d30b356d10829f3159a191e5aa92a6`.
- Live runtime caveat: Codex reported a nested `bwrap` loopback
permission error and used its configured escalated execution inside
Daytona. The outer Daytona sandbox remained active for both runs.
- The startup regression uses a real database, production trust checks,
workspace persistence, sandbox lease acquisition and realization, and a
fake provider. It checks reassignment and allows only an authorized
referenced project.
- The transfer regression runs production archive/sync-back/merge code
against distinct filesystem roots: create output in one sandbox, restore
it, then read and update it in a fresh sandbox. The provider I/O is
emulated; live staging verification is separate.

## Risks

- The new default applies only to low-trust sandbox tasks without
workspace configuration. Standard agents and explicit Git strategies
keep their existing behavior.
- Task directories retain work across turns and consume instance
storage. The change does not migrate or copy existing shared files.
- No database migration or credential changes are required.

## Model Used

OpenAI GPT-6 through Codex, with reasoning, repository inspection, code
execution, and browser tools. The exact runtime model revision and
context window 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: Paperclip <noreply@paperclip.ing>
2026-09-30 18:06:07 -05:00