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cad26c6bfb fix(tool-gateway): bound MCP discovery memory and concurrency (#14864)
## Thinking Path

> - Paperclip is the open source app people use to manage AI agents for
work.
> - Agents discover governed tools through the MCP gateway.
> - A listing repeated policy and full run-row reads for each catalog
tool.
> - Parallel listings multiplied those allocations during run startup.
> - One 900-tool baseline listing used 11,489 queries and about 1.7 GiB
of extra heap in a fixture.
> - This pull request shares reads within a listing and bounds whole
listings across the process.
> - The benefit is lower discovery memory use while execution still
checks current policy.

## Linked Issues or Issue Description

Refs #13115. Its on-demand target change affects the same listing loop.

**What happened?**

MCP discovery repeated roughly 13 reads per tool. Full run snapshots and
repeated connection configurations caused large allocations. Per-listing
bounds alone did not limit concurrent listings across gateways.

**Expected behavior**

Discovery reads shared inputs once per listing. The process bounds
active and queued listings. Catalog payload size and policy evaluation
still grow with the catalog. Tool execution checks current access rules.

**Steps to reproduce**

Create a company with a remote MCP connection, 900 catalog tools, large
schemas, and a large run snapshot. Send concurrent tools/list requests
using a run-bound gateway token. Run the committed benchmark for a
deterministic reproduction.

**Paperclip version or commit**

Baseline: f2e0f19630. Measured on Node
26.4.0 on macOS.

## What Changed

- Keep Michael Nguyen's per-listing policy cache, scalar policy reads,
16-decision bound, and catalog/connection split under repeatable read.
- Admit two whole listings per process and queue at most 32. Return 503
with tool_discovery_busy when full.
- Propagate disconnects to discovery. Stop scheduling new reads and
drain started reads before freeing the slot.
- Project context IDs in gateway authentication and GitHub runtime
discovery. Avoid loading task descriptions and results.
- Keep discovery audit counts and a SHA-256 digest instead of the full
name list. Retain access and activity audit records.
- Sweep expired named gateway tokens at startup and on the existing
scheduler. Delete at most 500 per pass. Add an idempotent expiry-index
migration. Resolve audit token references atomically so cleanup cannot
break admitted requests.
- Return GET 405 with Allow: POST on stateless MCP gateway and
runtime-tools endpoints. Keep runtime-tools authentication.
- Add red-green regressions, HTTP concurrency and policy-revocation
coverage, and browser approval assertions.
- Commit the benchmark harness, raw results, and resource-bound
documentation.

## Verification

- Baseline listing regressions failed with 722 queries for 50 tools and
6,422 for 500. The connection-row duplication regression also failed.
- Follow-up regressions failed before the fixes for full snapshot reads,
abandoned listings, full name-list audits, and expired tokens.
- Listing and scheduler tests: 14 pass. Existing gateway/policy suites
passed after preserving the cleanup return contract.
- Two HTTP journeys pass: initialize, GET/SSE rejection, 16 concurrent
500-tool listings, provider call, policy revocation, and denied retry.
Token cleanup during provider dispatch also completes successfully and
blocks subsequent requests.
- pnpm test:e2e tests/e2e/mcp-user-stories.spec.ts --grep
'@mcp-runnable': 8 pass. The approval journey clicks Allow once in the
browser. Review screenshots wait for loaded content.
- pnpm -r typecheck: passes. pnpm build: passes.
- The general server group completed with 14,755 passes and 18 failures.
The 17 startup mock failures were fixed; all 21 startup tests pass on
rerun. The one Discord timing failure passed on the unchanged baseline
and on rerun (74 tests). UI and CLI groups pass 7,632 tests. Shared and
skill groups pass 853 tests. The remaining database and adapter groups
pass 3,010 tests with one worker after a macOS shared-memory limit
interrupted a parallel run. All 149 serialized route files pass (2,762
tests).
- At 900 tools, one listing falls from 11,489 to 36 queries and from
about 1.7 GiB to 37 MiB of extra heap. Sixteen concurrent listings used
169–187 MiB of extra heap. Four connections used 39 queries per listing.
- Latest-head verification: 54 successful checks and two expected skips
on 5c0793090c. Fresh Greptile review: 5/5
with no unresolved threads.
- Reproduce with server/scripts/benchmark-tool-gateway-listing.ts. See
doc/mcp-discovery-performance.md and
doc/benchmarks/2026-10-01-mcp-discovery.json.

## Risks

- The process-wide FIFO queue can increase discovery latency. Excess
callers must retry 503 responses.
- Cancellation applies to discovery. Started database reads finish
before their slot is released.
- Audit consumers must use visibleToolCount and visibleToolsHash instead
of visibleTools.
- The expiry index can briefly lock the token table during migration.
Sweeps preserve unexpired and non-expiring tokens.
- Measurements use isolated fixtures and deterministic providers. They
do not establish a production heap limit or affected installation count.
Rate-limit reads remain uncached.

## Model Used

- Original listing optimization: Anthropic Claude Opus 5.5
(claude-opus-5-5), Claude Code, extended thinking and tool use, as
recorded by the original author.
- Follow-up fixes and verification: OpenAI Codex, GPT-6, with shell
execution, file edits, database fixtures, and browser tests. The exact
serving model ID 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
- [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

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Co-authored-by: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Co-authored-by: Dotta <bippadotta@protonmail.com>
Co-authored-by: Paperclip <noreply@paperclip.ing>
2026-10-02 07:45:27 -05:00
DottaandPaperclip 8813a50105 feat: run GitHub review bots through Paperclip agents (#13717)
## Thinking Path

> - Paperclip manages agent work as tasks and runs.
> - GitHub chat brings repository conversations into those tasks.
> - A review bot needs the assigned agent, its authority, and governed
provider tools.
> - The existing channel connection did not supply that review workflow
or a complete setup journey.
> - This pull request adds GitHub App setup, account access, event
prompts, task-bound review tools, and exact-commit checks.
> - Operators can inspect each review through the same task, run, and
activity systems.

## Linked Issues or Issue Description

**Subsystem affected**

GitHub chat, governed connection tools, task execution, shared/database
contracts, and connector setup UI.

**Problem or motivation**

Operators need a GitHub review bot that runs their assigned Paperclip
agent. Mentions and PR events must preserve task ownership and requester
authority. Provider publication must use the bot App identity and
enforce the configured permissions.

**Proposed solution**

Extend the existing GitHub chat connector with resumable App onboarding,
linked-member and sponsored-guest access, editable event prompts, and
governed review operations. Validate structured assessments on the
server and compute a stable Paperclip Review check for the exact head
commit.

**Alternatives considered**

A separate review scheduler would duplicate Paperclip execution and
permissions. Reusing personal GitHub credentials would change the bot
identity and credential boundary.

**Roadmap alignment**

This extends the existing Connected Apps and governed-tool
infrastructure. The project owner requested and approved this design.
Related PR #8645 imports external Codex review feedback; this change
runs an assigned Paperclip agent and publishes its results through the
existing chat connector.

## What Changed

- Include the current Paperclip instance origin in the copied setup
prompt. Storybook uses its configured Paperclip origin; callback
parameters and URL credentials are excluded.

- Add a Claude/Codex copy button in the real setup and Storybook opening
step. Its detailed prompt asks four setup questions and guides
embedded-browser setup, verification, and optional required checks.
Clipboard failure exposes selectable instructions.
- Add a tutorial that explains why App installation, review scheduling,
and required checks are separate choices.

- Add manifest registration, an existing-App path, separate installation
and repository selection, repository refresh, and explicit account
confirmation.
- Add low-trust agent guidance, effective capability verification,
member selection, and explicit restricted guests with a sponsor.
- Add configurable PR events, prompts, repository overrides, rating
thresholds, and separate formal-review permissions.
- Give the assigned agent governed App tools to read PRs, comment, begin
an assessment, submit findings, and optionally submit a formal review.
- Bind review history, root PR events, and inline replies to ordinary
tasks. Deduplicate deliveries/findings and reject stale publication.
- Link check Details to the underlying task on the current trusted
hostname, or to Reviews before task creation.
- Add schema migration 0283, API contracts, production UI, and 49
interactive Storybook states.
- Repair local lease recovery. Keep the Cloud Dockerfile identical to
master; no provider-pack layer or runtime-default environment variable
is added.
- Retry only rolled-back wake-admission transactions after transient
endpoint-lock contention. A deterministic held-lock regression proves
one accepted wake.

## Verification

- Current head: `7ba761fe007bb798400d3e62346fa964f607f0f8`, rebased on
master `d9b3a5653e41f2ee5a1345b97c86a238f7a5c8e9`. Dockerfile has zero
diff against master. Final workspace typecheck and build passed. The new
PostgreSQL migration regression passed and preserves existing relation
and constraint identities after replay.
- Greptile reviewed this exact head at 5/5. There are zero unresolved
review threads and no merge conflicts.
- All current-head checks are green: 54 passed and two conditional
Storybook jobs skipped. This includes complete server/workspace test
suites, build, typechecks, policy checks, Runner suites, browser suites,
and security status. One timing-sensitive callback-ordering test passed
in isolation and its CI shard passed one retry. The duplicate local
full-suite run was stopped after CI completed; it is not counted as a
local full-suite pass.
- Before the final Slack rebase and migration renumbering, 186 focused
GitHub tests, 14 native bootstrap cases, token gates, and Storybook
build passed. The final rebase retained the new Slack communication
guidance.
- The embedded-browser setup test copied the full detailed prompt,
including the configured Paperclip instance URL. Desktop and narrow
layouts were checked. Component tests cover successful copying and
clipboard failure with selectable text and retry.
- Live local and hosted GitHub acceptance evidence refers to application
revision `cb703ac959876a07ebf3d7a295847f9f351eb6fc`. Real agent tasks
exercised issue mentions, automatic PR reviews, inline findings,
repeated mentions, task continuation, and failing-to-passing checks
after a push. The Storybook agent generated, built, and browser-rendered
pages; missing acceptance text failed, matching text passed, and broken
JSX produced an incomplete result.
- Live cases also covered independently disabled push events, prompt
injection, duplicate signed deliveries, rapid pushes, stale-result
rejection, finding deduplication, and restart recovery. Formal reviews
were denied while disabled and published only after explicit enablement.
Check Details links pointed to the underlying task on the trusted
hostname.
- Those hosted native Claude runs used the provider-pack layer now
removed from this PR. They do not prove native Claude works on the
standard Cloud image. A replacement hosted native Codex run is not yet
verified: the disposable QA tenant has only an Anthropic AI connection.
No new staging or production deployment was made for the packaging
removal.
- Required-check merge enforcement could not be tested because the
private disposable repository's GitHub plan rejected the rules
configuration. Published success/failure/incomplete check states were
verified directly.

## Risks

- Latest master allocated migration 0282 to Slack. The GitHub migration
is regenerated as 0283 with replay-safe table/index/constraint creation;
a PostgreSQL regression verifies existing relations and constraints are
preserved. Existing preview tenants remain subject to the fleet
migration-history compatibility preflight; no bypass is introduced.

- Migration 0283 adds company-scoped configuration, registration,
review, and publication records. Existing connections retain their
behavior until reviews/tools are enabled.
- Signed webhooks and expiring registration state remain required.
Hosted installations also need the companion narrow Cloud gateway
exemptions.
- Agent assessments can be incomplete or wrong. The server enforces
coverage/result structure, current-head publication, rating policy, and
separate formal-review permission; it does not replace code-review
judgment.
- No Cloud image packaging changes are included. Remote native
ACPX/Claude and OpenCode retain their existing operator-supplied
provider-pack prerequisite. Native Codex and Codex with managed MCP
tools do not require that pack. Earlier staging deployment evidence
refers to its stated revision, not this packaging-removal head.
Production rollout and merging remain outside this change.

## Model Used

OpenAI GPT-6 through Codex, with repository, code execution, API, and
embedded-browser tools. The exact serving model ID and context-window
size were not exposed by the environment.

## 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>
2026-09-21 14:41:19 -05:00