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DottaandPaperclip 2cd747d1b6 perf(server): batch connection install capability checks (#17945)
## Thinking Path

> - Paperclip manages AI agents and their access to external
connections.
> - The connection grants screen describes which agents can receive an
installation.
> - Each candidate currently repeats authorization for every retained
installation.
> - A company installation makes this work grow with the square of the
roster size.
> - This pull request checks retained targets once inside the existing
service owner.
> - The benefit is fewer authorization calls with the same scoped
capability results.

## Linked Issues or Issue Description

**What happened?**

The grants GET repeats connection preparation and retained-target checks
for each candidate agent. A local 100-agent company-install fixture made
50,300 SQL calls and 10,000 target lookups in one capability-description
operation. Open PR searches found no matching capability fan-out fix.

**Expected behavior**

The description must preserve retained-installation obligations and each
candidate's permission. It should evaluate retained targets once per
description. Writes must still authorize fresh.

**Steps to reproduce**

Run the committed benchmark with
`--baseline-ref=f6bc653f7f745adaafa26393852fb2f5a99256a4`. It creates
disposable synthetic PostgreSQL fixtures and loads the actual pre-fix
service from Git. It compares every positional capability, reason, and
operation.

**Paperclip version or commit**

Baseline `f6bc653f7f745adaafa26393852fb2f5a99256a4`.

**Deployment mode**

Built from source. Local real PostgreSQL proof. No hosted rollout.

## What Changed

- Add `describeAgentInstallCapabilities` to connection management.
Ordinary authorization and the batch share preparation, target checks,
and fallback completion.
- Use the batch only for direct saved non-AI connections and board
actors. Complex resources, delegated actors, and unusual saved target
IDs keep the ordinary evaluator. Fallback consumes the first preparation
once.
- Replace only the grants route's editable-agent loop. Keep
configure/use checks, identity filtering, audience disclosure, and write
authority on their existing paths.
- Add scoped-grant, retained-target, error-order, freshness, fallback,
full HTTP response, and real mutation regression coverage. Add a
reproducible benchmark and evidence notes.

## Verification

Real PostgreSQL 18.6 Linux Docker, Node 26.4.0. Two warmups and five
measured samples per arm, in alternating order. These are
service-component measurements with the same SQL-count instrumentation
in both arms. They do not measure the whole hosted endpoint.

| Fixture | Old median | Batch median | SQL calls old → batch | Target
lookups old → batch |
| --- | ---: | ---: | ---: | ---: |
| 100 agents, company install | 24.753 s | 246.39 ms | 50,300 → 503 |
10,000 → 100 |
| 100 agents, partial install | 6.339 s | 236.37 ms | 13,075 → 502 |
2,575 → 100 |
| 1 agent, company install | 5.13 ms | 4.82 ms | 8 → 8 | 1 → 1 |

All eight fixture shapes and every measured iteration had complete
positional equality. One-agent timing ranges overlap. Full ranges,
database settings, and limits are in
`doc/plans/2026-10-27-connection-grants-batch-verification.md`.

- **Passed:** `pnpm -r typecheck` and `pnpm build`, using pinned pnpm
9.15.4.
- **Passed:** 116 focused tests: all 83 connection-management
integration cases use real PostgreSQL and HTTP; 33 batch regressions
execute real policy over synthetic query transport. The integration
cases keep existing database creation, migrations, clients, services,
and assembled HTTP server, with disposable Docker PostgreSQL.
- **Passed:** complete grants GET parity across six human-role fixtures;
real install PUT succeeds before revocation, then fresh GET and actual
PUT deny after revocation without changing saved installs.
- **Passed:** a real PostgreSQL red/green regression for empty saved
target selectors, including candidate-specific decisions and later
reached infrastructure faults.
- **Passed:** independent old/new evaluator comparisons, including
recursive and delegated fallback, run-context reuse, continuation,
failure order, and principal/company isolation.
- **Local full-suite limit:** `pnpm test:run` was attempted and stopped
after native PostgreSQL fixtures could not initialize. An isolated
failed native case reproduced that startup error. The host cannot
allocate PostgreSQL SysV semaphores, including outside the sandbox. The
focused suites use an existing constructor seam to start disposable
Docker PostgreSQL. This is not a complete local full-suite pass.
- **Passed:** all 16 native-runtime cases that failed to start
PostgreSQL on the host, rerun with the disposable Docker provider. The
full local workflow remains incomplete.
- `git diff --check` passes. Greptile is 5/5 with no actionable findings
on final head `41dcf3ae029b6c60999ca6208136399b0af663d0`. All final-head
CI gates passed, including the full PR workflow. The two Storybook
checks are expected skips because this change has no UI changes.

Normal reproduction:

```sh
node --import ./server/node_modules/tsx/dist/esm/index.mjs scripts/benchmark-connection-install-capabilities.ts --baseline-ref=f6bc653f7f745adaafa26393852fb2f5a99256a4
cd server
pnpm exec vitest run src/__tests__/connection-install-capabilities.test.ts src/__tests__/connection-management.integration.test.ts
```

## Risks

Retained facts are observed once during one descriptive call. A mid-call
revoke or deletion can leave a stale displayed choice. The next
description and every mutation or human continuation read fresh
authority. The batch returns no reusable authorization context.

The bound applies to target evaluations in the eligible shape. Scoped
grant payloads and hierarchy reads can still grow inside each policy
decision. Complex resources and agent callers keep existing costs.
Hosted latency improvement remains unverified. There is no migration,
provider protocol change, new worker, persistent cache, or UI contract
change.

## Model Used

OpenAI Codex with code editing, execution, and test tools. Design, test,
and independent review agents used exact model IDs `gpt-6.1-sol` and
`gpt-6-astra` with xhigh reasoning. The host did not expose the primary
session's exact model ID or context-window size.

## Checklist

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

---------

Co-authored-by: Paperclip <noreply@paperclip.ing>
2026-10-27 20:59:01 -05:00
DottaandPaperclip 77295faebc fix(server): recover approved tool actions from committed changes (#17454)
## Thinking Path

> - Paperclip manages agent work and its governed tool calls.
> - A human approval can persist before the approving process dispatches
the tool.
> - Recovery currently scans approved requests on every maintenance
tick.
> - Completed and deliberately inert approvals do not owe another
execution.
> - Test-tab approval also needs a shared execution claim before
recovery can safely race the foreground path.
> - This PR wakes recovery from committed changes and retries only
unresolved approvals.
> - Idle history becomes quiet while existing approval and execution
checks remain with the gateway.

## Linked Issues or Issue Description

Refs #17453. This is the fifth slice of the recurring-server sleep
migration, stacked on `codex/sleep-04-tool-review-expiry`.

**Problem**
Approved tool requests are scanned periodically even when no executable
work remains. The Test-tab foreground path lacks the request claim
needed to admit concurrent recovery safely.

**Proposed Solution**
Use the existing transaction-aware review notification boundary and
shared deadline worker. Keep signed-payload interpretation, current
policy and target checks, and provider dispatch in the gateway. Share a
claim between Test-tab foreground and recovery, then persist both
authoritative outcome rows atomically.

**Alternatives Considered**
A longer interval still scans idle history. A new durable queue would
duplicate existing request/invocation state. Dispatching Test-tab
approvals without a claim risks duplicate external calls.

## What Changed

- Recheck both principals for delegated Test-tab approvals. Save their
rate receipts in the same claim transaction, share only the same bucket,
and roll back new charges on denial.

- Preserve delegated gateway authorization and both issuer/target rate
receipts inside the existing claimed-invocation transaction; retain the
durable actor during approved replay.

- Expire stale managed connector payloads before consuming approved-tool
admission.

- Persist current rate-policy charges and their invocation receipts
atomically before dispatch, preserving exact approval claim fencing and
read-only preflight.

- Recover approved requests at startup and after committed review
changes; retry only unresolved approvals.
- Leave legacy agent approvals without execute-on-approve intent inert.
Repair completed Test-tab history without another provider call.
- Fence Test-tab execution and outcome settlement with an atomic claim
shared by both callers. Revalidate the approved target and current
policy before dispatch.
- Keep provider calls outside database transactions. Retain quarantine
for interrupted execution and unknown outcomes.
- Add a concurrent, idempotent partial index for approved-request
pagination. Reuse the parent's company-scoped review signals and shared
scoped deadline worker.
- Remove approved scanning from the aggregate tick. Preserve the public
combined sweep and scheduler-disabled startup behavior.
- Document producer ownership, quiet states, lifecycle behavior, and
remaining recovery duties.

## Verification

Latest published head: `23868c1751c100a27f58087f7ce16b93c52d4eba`,
targeting master. The review-found delegated gateway pool deadlock is
repaired by passing the admission transaction through token and
issuer-authority reads. Foreground and recovery each reproduced the
deadlock with a one-connection pool; all three constrained-pool cases,
including revoked authority, now pass. All 81 HTTP integration cases
pass. The historical foreground rate-slot regression also reproduced
before its repair; verified preview hashes are accepted only by
read-only preflight, while consuming admission still requires the
complete identity under the exact claim. Five full suites passed 329
cases; the gateway service then passed all 141 cases after two
additional mixed historical hash controls. Production types/build passed
before the final normal integration of master `35820cf398` (including
independent Grok/Runner changes); integration validation is running.
Initial fixture/assertion errors and the prior E2E
restoration/cancellation deadlock remain recorded in [the owning
audit](doc/idle-approved-tool-recovery.md#gateway-admission-uses-its-transaction-connection).
Fresh-head CI, Greptile 5/5, and passing Ponytail are still required
before merge.


- Master landing reconciliation at
`8dfe3958db6e4e8a0b7499f3f5be0a396ca77361` after #17453 merged:
production and server test files are byte-identical to the accepted
320-case repair. The landed migration journal prefix is unchanged, and
#17928's independent eval reporting changes are preserved. Fresh CI and
reviews on this exact head are required before merge.

- Historical-identity repair published at
`096b7c7198c3ca864aca9377e261cbaa0a8aad6f` (production/test source
identical to integrated acceptance
`81231824d773a79fc50c835eccf7d9b3977e79fc`): all 320 accepted gateway,
policy, startup, preparation-timing and authenticated HTTP management
cases pass. Server types and the production server build pass. Four real
historical sensitive-argument regressions failed before repair;
invalid-signature, foreign-hash and stale-claim controls remain denied
without dispatch or identity changes. Both agent and Test-tab calls
deliver the original signed arguments once, and new rate policies still
apply.
- The first integrated combined run passed 319 cases and hit a Slack bot
ownership collision left in a reused HTTP test database. The guard
correctly returned 409. The full 78-case HTTP suite passed on a fresh
dedicated fixture without product or assertion changes. Earlier
fixture-construction errors are distinguished from the four real
regressions in the audit document. Fresh remote CI and reviews remain
required.

- Parent reconciliation at `736e7f56097055e21ce13b4e45d9033391483af8`:
299 cases pass (221 full gateway/policy/startup cases and 78
assembled-server connection management cases), with no skipped cases.
Server types pass. This includes real delegated Test-tab approval
admission for newly added shared and caller rate rules. Fresh remote CI
and Greptile review remain required.

Approved delegated Test-tab calls now evaluate caller and target
policies in the existing claim transaction. Real HTTP regressions first
showed a missing caller charge and shared-limit self-rejection. All 78
connection-management cases and 92 gateway cases now pass on the owning
branch, along with server production typechecking. All 78
connection-management cases also pass at combined tip
`d25f830db89c1623bff3547bfc68015c1c66e0cf`. The three new cases cover
shared charges, separate charges, rollback on denial, duplicate
approval, and rejection of a later authorized call. Intermediate
counter/identity fixture failures and a reused-database Slack collision
are recorded in [the owning
audit](https://github.com/paperclipai/paperclip/blob/bcca5b006976a471f4afd1f70c4031aa40a2b3f7/doc/idle-approved-tool-recovery.md#delegated-test-tab-admission-after-policy-changes).
The earlier combined checks below remain evidence for their stated
revisions. Current-head CI and review remain required.

Current head: `bcca5b006976a471f4afd1f70c4031aa40a2b3f7`. This remains a
single-duty PR stacked on #17453.

- Integrated pinned master `8548173fc9efdc0fa07644fb92dcc0b6851a95e5`
with normal merges. Every branch passed generated-schema checks and its
target-branch migration-order gate. Existing SQL is unchanged; the 25
stack migrations follow master’s new migration.
- Duty-specific producer coverage, lifecycle tests, and earlier failure
records:
[2026-10-24-recurring-server-sleep-stack.md](https://github.com/paperclipai/paperclip/blob/a021467f04d22be42ee5b0c87b6583b2300a62a9/doc/plans/2026-10-24-recurring-server-sleep-stack.md).
- Combined tip `51e6cbe67979b55b340ea9f0f434c5b5c682ccd6`: **355
startup/cancellation/recovery/dispatch/preservation tests**, **75
connection-management tests**, and production server typechecking pass.
These combined checks do not mean every intermediate PR independently
ran the full repository suite.
- Real master-to-stack database upgrade passes: **379 unchanged prior
migration receipts plus 25 new migrations**, with the gateway
responsibility fixture preserved.
- Owning-branch checks: 84 runner installation/settlement cases plus
runner typechecking and generated TypeScript/Rust profile agreement; 253
GitHub review workflow cases. Stop-attribution and held-worker readiness
regressions failed before their fixes.
- Failure accounting: the initial combined run passed 349 cases and
failed six idle assertions in a reused preservation database containing
old cancelled runs. Repeating the combined command with a fresh
preservation database passed. Earlier invalid project selection, merge
import/type errors, and the interrupted full local suite are not counted
as passing checks.
- **Latest-head CI and review remain required.** Prior CI findings
include GitHub idle observation, route teardown, attention cleanup,
touch-picker E2E, workspace health, and voice-cleanup timing; local
passes do not erase those failures. No full local repository-suite,
deployed sleep, fleet cost, or live Copilot qualification claim is made.

## Risks

- Notifications cover the existing database-owner, single-active-writer
contract. Independent SQL writers and other replicas need an explicit
wake path.
- Unknown provider outcomes cannot be replayed safely. Failed result
persistence retains an executing claim and the existing stale-execution
quarantine.
- Interrupted execution and terminal interaction projection repair
remain periodic until their separate slices. This PR changes only
approved recovery.
- A pending-only review write can trigger one empty approved-recovery
pass. Settled idle work schedules no further scan.
- The partial index uses the existing top-level concurrent migration
executor. Snapshot pruning follows repository policy.
- Cloud sleep eligibility and external alarm coverage remain unchanged.
Worker quiet is not proof of deployed instance suspension.

## Model Used

OpenAI Codex, GPT-6 family, with reasoning and code execution. The exact
serving model identifier and context window were not exposed.

## Checklist

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

---------

Co-authored-by: Paperclip <noreply@paperclip.ing>
2026-10-27 16:10:44 -05:00
3cd3af5d75 Trace native preparation and OpenCode execution phases (#17918)
## Thinking Path

> - Paperclip is the open source app people use to manage AI agents for
work.
> - Each native run prepares its workspace and skills, then starts its
provider.
> - A long preparation span does not show whether inventory refresh, a
cache lock, repository reads, or file checks caused the delay.
> - One hosted run spent 81 seconds in this phase. The same deployed
service and pinned files took 2.55 seconds in a separate diagnostic
process.
> - Another hosted turn spent 69 seconds before its first output. A
matched public-workspace local model replay took 7.64 seconds.
> - We need skill preparation and provider-internal measurements before
choosing another fix.
> - This pull request adds skill spans, a real-service benchmark, and
opt-in filtered provider timing.
> - The benefit is a faster and more precise diagnosis loop.

## Linked Issues or Issue Description

Refs #17620. That PR owns the batched read optimization. This PR adds
diagnostics and does not change its read policy.
Refs #17907. That PR protects long cache lock transactions from the
database idle timeout.

**What happened?**

Native skill configuration can take much longer than matched standalone
resolution. Provider execution also has long gaps with no internal
timings. Existing spans cannot separate inventory refresh, cache
acquisition, repository reads, context loading, Git snapshots, or model
streaming.

**Expected behavior**

An operator-configured trace shows these phases under the existing run
context. Without an OTLP endpoint, the new spans stay off. A local
benchmark can reproduce the service path with real PostgreSQL, files, an
agent actor, and a responsible user.

**Steps to reproduce**

1. Run `pnpm --filter @paperclipai/server exec tsx
scripts/benchmark-native-skill-preparation.ts --actor=agent
--staging-shape=true`.
2. Inspect cold and warm phase timings, SQL counts, and file
verification results.
3. Set the existing operator OTLP configuration and add
`--export-otlp=true` to inspect the same hierarchy in the collector.

## What Changed

- Add bounded skill inventory, refresh wait, cache acquisition, row,
version, repository, file check, and consumer spans.
- Keep the existing endpoint gate, attribute allowlist, cache locks,
authorization, file validation, and durable pin boundary.
- Add a standalone benchmark with a full repository fixture, immutable
snapshot input, calibrated local transport delay, and optional OTLP
export.
- Verify every delivered file and executable bit outside the timed
section. Create its fixture agent through the lifecycle API.
- Add an opt-in authenticated loopback sink for OpenCode. Discard raw
attributes, logs and content. Retain only closed phase names and
timestamps.
- Carry one bounded diagnostic batch through the real proxy, Rust
normalization, durable journal and server trace projection. Group
provider phases under their execution parent.
- Freeze the Date clock in an existing delegated Slack rate-limit test.
This fixes a CI failure when consecutive requests cross a rate-window
boundary. It does not change rate-limit behavior.
- Document phase boundaries and the difference between SDK startup and
confirmed ingestion.

## Verification

- Skill service, runtime selection, concurrency, cache and timing
suites: 122 tests passed with real PostgreSQL and migrations.
Enabled-span integration tests also passed. They verify parent
relationships and a real advisory-lock timeout.
- A captured 208-file repository produced 209 verified runtime files.
The benchmark uses real agent and responsible-user authorization. The
lifecycle fixture correction passed with the staging-shaped inventory.
- Affected OpenCode driver, collector and transport tests: 72 passed.
The tests cover authentication, content removal, size/count bounds,
disabled behavior and the rebuilt native Runner boundary. One Rust
projection test and 18 server trace tests also passed. A held run-log
sink proves that a full 128-span diagnostic batch adds no duplicate
database writes before terminal consumption.
- The two CI-failing delegated Slack rate-limit cases passed against
real PostgreSQL with only the Date clock frozen.
- Runner TypeScript and server TypeScript checks passed. Rust formatting
and module-boundary checks passed.
- Real Honeycomb readback confirmed the 14-span skill waterfall and a
40-span provider waterfall. Provider phases have the correct execution
parent. The provider export uses synthetic model replies and is
instrumentation proof only.
- Earlier full local checks failed on missing package-local executables,
then on the default Node heap and a missing generated service worker.
The dependency links were repaired. The server check passed with a
larger heap. The full local test attempt could not start embedded
PostgreSQL on this host and was stopped after retaining its failures;
real database coverage uses an isolated database on an existing local
server. These attempts do not count as a full local pass.
- CI on the prior revision passed typecheck, build, Runner and all E2E
shards. It failed the benchmark lifecycle boundary and one existing
rate-window test. Those fixes passed CI. A later Runner assertion
exposed the Copilot source identity pin on the shared transport file.
The diagnostic flag now uses the existing configured-environment
projection, preserving that file byte-for-byte. All 66 selected
installation and native transport tests passed. New-head CI and review
remain required.
- The under-15-second hosted response target remains unmet. This PR adds
diagnostics and does not claim a hosted latency fix.

## Risks

- Skill spans and Honeycomb export retain the operator endpoint gate.
OpenCode phase collection requires a separate explicit diagnostic flag.
Without an endpoint, its closed measurements stay in the instance run
log.
- Raw OpenCode OTLP can contain prompts and authorization attributes.
The new sink rejects unauthenticated requests and discards all
attributes before any measurement reaches PRP or the operator collector.
Request, event and per-phase limits bound memory and journal growth.
- Collection does not wait for a provider flush. Late or oversized
exports can be absent; these measurements are not a complete profiling
guarantee.
- The benchmark's inventory contents and transport delay are explicit
fixtures. They do not reproduce server contention or prove hosted
response time.
- The one durable diagnostic batch remains the local evidence. Its child
span export does not add per-phase run-log rows.
- No database migration, authorization policy, model selection or
inference transport changes. The Rust Runner and OpenCode proxy must be
shipped together for the new opt-in diagnostic.

## Model Used

OpenAI GPT-6 through Codex, with repository inspection, shell execution,
browser tools, and Honeycomb queries. The session does not expose a
verifiable backend deployment ID or context-window size.

## Checklist

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

---------

Co-authored-by: Paperclip <noreply@paperclip.ing>
Co-authored-by: Paperclip <paperclip@paperclip.ing>
2026-10-27 14:53:32 -05:00
DottaandPaperclip 13709b4c7a feat(connections): let agents configure connections within delegated authority (#17737)
## Thinking Path

> - Paperclip is the open source app people use to manage AI agents for
work.
> - Connections provide governed tools, chat channels, model accounts,
and gateways.
> - Several management routes require a human board actor even when an
agent has the required grant.
> - Default agents must configure these resources within the responsible
user's authority.
> - This pull request adds a shared authorization path to the existing
REST and native API surface.
> - Human authentication, execution approvals, and local host boundaries
remain enforced.
> - The benefit is that a standard agent can complete authorized setup
with a bounded human handoff.

## Linked Issues or Issue Description

**Subsystem affected**

Server authorization, connection services, shared contracts, native API
discovery, database schema.

**Problem or motivation**

Connection administration is available in the web app but often
unavailable to agents. Agent grants, responsible-user authority,
credential ownership, and actor attribution need separate checks.
Opening gateway-token creation also requires preserving the issuing
agent's delegated authority during token use.

**Proposed solution**

Use the existing authorization evaluator for every connection family.
Enforce current responsible-user authority, effective trust, grant
scope, resource visibility, and target-agent access. Keep existing agent
grants unchanged. Expose authorized configuration through default
`search_api` and `call_api`. Save human authentication steps and let
agents continue after completion.

**Roadmap alignment**

This change completes the API access path for the existing Connected
Apps, Personal & Shared AI Accounts, and governed MCP Gateway
capabilities in `ROADMAP.md`. It follows the maintainer's requested
design. Related work: #11899 enforces connection execution access and
creator/manager rules; this PR extends agent management across
connection families. It does not replace that execution-policy work.

## What Changed

- Add shared connection management context and mandatory
responsible-user, trust, scope, and target checks.
- Allow authorized agents to configure tool, chat/email, GitHub/Slack,
AI, profile, and gateway resources through existing routes.
- Preserve human credential ownership and record the actual agent,
responsible user, and run or key in audit data.
- Preserve saved browser authentication handoffs and callback session
checks.
- Bind agent-issued durable gateway tokens to their responsible user and
recheck delegated authority at use.
- Add explicit REST transport and management capability metadata,
built-in guidance, and sensitive-response handling.
- Intersect caller and endpoint-agent Slack test/invitation policies,
including independent and shared rates. Require the addressed human’s
current endpoint identity link before completing identity handoffs.
- Add production-authenticated integration scenarios. Companion #17739
contains the saved setup UI (including the required human
import/rotation step), product and permission documentation,
catalog/Vercel credential and callback ownership, and operation maps to
keep each review below 100 files. Both PRs must ship together; merge
this implementation first, then its companion.

## Verification

- Current implementation head:
`2ecd6451d0d0c8d82121a4e3fa4ce94c5befbbd6`, including master
`ea727dc3c2`, 99 files. The latest follow-up fixes the two valid
findings from the preceding f9 review. Exact-head Greptile has completed
at5/5 with no findings and Superagent passed. Full exact-head Linux CI
workflow40446606056 completed SUCCESS; only the queued external
Paperclip Review remains pending; earlier Linux passes do not qualify
this successor.
- Latest preserved-stack verification passed **2,165 tests** in fresh
PostgreSQL: **70 actual-auth scenarios**, 27 OpenAPI contracts, 2,022
native API tests and 46 saved GitHub wizard cases. **141 existing
gateway/policy acceptance tests** also passed. Workspace
typecheck/build, maps and token gates passed. The first workspace
typecheck was blocked by sandbox tsx IPC permissions; its authorized
rerun passed. This is focused local evidence; the full Linux CI matrix
is still required.
- Issuer/target gateway policy regressions were red before the fix. Both
decisions now intersect, including Block/Ask first/rates, same
credential identity and current token/user/agent authority after
approval. Invocations retain their token and actual requesting agent;
deleted tokens fail closed. Thirteen actual-auth cases cover revocation,
narrowed scope, approvals, shared rates and board compatibility.
Intermediate missing-token attribution, review-context and
implicit-session actor failures remain in the qualification record; all
final cases pass.
- Activity pagination now retains a bounded cursor across private-only
windows. The actual-JWT regression reaches three older readable events
after 27 private ones without exposing private details. A native
device-login regression was red for plaintext receipts; local check and
test-call results now use existing protected-response handling. The
passing actual-auth case proves encrypted persistence, exact replay,
redacted history and no response asset.

- Previous-head `5b55195593` Linux CI initially failed e2e shard 4/8 in
the existing connection-intent continuation test: periodic recovery
queued a repair at 01:21:47, the scripted journey completed the task at
01:21:48, and the extra queued run was cancelled at 01:21:49 because the
task was terminal. The assertion selected that latest cancelled run.
GitHub refused the first attempt while the workflow was nonterminal.
After completion, the single evidence-supported failed-job rerun was
accepted as **attempt 2** on the same head (workflow 40431202466). The
failed shard and final E2E aggregate passed on attempt 2, and the
complete Linux workflow for that head is successful. The original
failure remains part of qualification. No additional unchanged-code
rerun will be used for this failure.

- Companion CI also has an unchanged login-cleanup idleness timeout,
retained in its qualification record. That same 16-case suite passed in
this parent Linux run and a fresh local database. Both preceding
workflows passed after their single failed-job reruns as attempt 2; the
original failures remain recorded. No additional unchanged-code rerun
was used.

- Migration `0380_broken_aqueduct.sql` was regenerated through the
repository workflow after master took 0379 for project Git
authorization. It adds the responsible-user column with `IF NOT EXISTS`,
preserves upstream migrations, and satisfies snapshot retention and
migration safety checks.
- Upstream published Copilot v62 and v63 identities remain byte-for-byte
unchanged. The combined guidance is now v64, digest
`sha256:22e31f95ef972bcead98a4a707c9f33433558fd111e390e027a2bbb4346e112a`.
The normal shared TypeScript/Rust identity check and **61 Copilot
installation tests passed**. The old source-identity assertion first
failed against unchanged published v63; regenerating a new v64 preserves
the published release.
- Workspace `pnpm -r typecheck` and `pnpm build`, map validation, and UI
token gates passed on the final combined stack after the upstream merge.
Node 24.22.1 / pnpm 9.15.4 were used.
- **Earlier 82 API/OpenAPI tests passed** in fresh PostgreSQL 18: 55
assembled-server scenarios and 27 contracts. They use real persistent
agent keys, run JWTs, human sessions, production defaults, and
deterministic provider fixtures. No actor injection establishes access.
- The new email regression was red before per-account scope filtering.
The Arcade regression was red before human ownership and inventory-key
fixes; it also verifies actual-agent audit identity and a human-session
inventory read. The activity regression measured **200 authorization
checks before the fix and one afterward** for the same one-item page.
- **82 GitHub UI tests passed**, including all three new
failed-replacement regressions that were red before their fix. The UI
preserves an earlier copy only after confirming its committed
generation. Changed or unreadable results block copying and reconnecting
until reconciled. Human-only secret responses now include their
nonsecret committed generation.
- Private test status now rechecks the originating principal and linked
task, including mandatory agent/responsible-user privacy. Cross-agent
tests require the full caller tool access decision and the same
credential identity, regardless of auth label; caller and target
policies/approvals and rate limits apply before execution and after
human approval. A profile-only precondition was found to reject valid
allow-policy and scoped-grant access and has been removed. Both
permitted-access cases and a no-auth-label identity regression were red
before the correction; caller-specific Block still prevents provider
execution. The private-status regression was also red before its fix.
- The tool-activity regression measured 100 capability decisions and 102
run captures on a 100-event page before the fix. It now uses two task
decisions and at most two captures while retaining the same 50 visible
events, private-event filtering, and 403 after audit-grant revocation.
The regression was red before request-context reuse and task-decision
sharing; final server typecheck/build also pass.
- Generic chat configure/reconnect now hands agent-supplied verification
credentials to the addressed human before provider work or vault
changes. Actual key/JWT regressions were red for Slack signing-key
replacement and generic channel secret-reference rebinding. They now
prove unchanged refs and vaulted signing value, human setup, permitted
agent bot-token repair, and governed test messages. All 82 API/OpenAPI
cases pass in fresh PostgreSQL. Eight native receipt protections and
final server typecheck/build also pass.
- The preceding review found that old healthy state could retire a
credential-entry card before a human changed anything. The actual-JWT
regression was red. Saved field generations now change only with
protected values and commit with refs plus a verification fence; retries
retain the baseline. Old health, bot-token repair and unchanged entry
stay pending. New signing verification and current authority permit
continuation. A separate red race proved that user revocation during
provider authentication could return 403 after refs changed; authority
is now checked before persistence and inside the credential transaction.
The final 82 API/OpenAPI cases, four neighboring real-database
Slack/GitHub lifecycle cases, and final server typecheck/build pass.
- A preceding full run crossed a rate-window boundary. Database rows
prove one consumed slot at 23:35 and another at 23:36 for the same
policy/bucket. Only Date is frozen in the rate test cases; transport and
asynchronous timers remain real. Production rate behavior is unchanged,
and the final full run passes. An intermediate fixture failure that
overwrote hidden generation metadata with an API projection is retained
in the qualification record.
- Linux CI on an earlier head found two rate-admission assertions that
omitted the newly persisted bucket key. The failures were reproduced
locally; both assertions now verify the exact actor/tool bucket and all
49 policy-service tests pass. The companion qualification record retains
the initial and intermediate failures. Catalog creator attribution is
preserved in the companion to keep this implementation review at 99
files.
- The latest review reproduced three regressions before repair: complete
human replacements failed on unavailable old signing secrets, fresh
GitHub links incorrectly selected reconnect, and different
credential-entry requests shared an idempotency key. Each old protected
ref now has a narrow known-unavailable fallback; unexpected resolver
failures and company/scope violations still abort. Fresh imports keep
their credential form, configured endpoints keep reconnect, and
canonical field sets/completion modes distinguish handoffs while
matching retries retain their baseline. All 55 actual-auth scenarios and
27 separately run OpenAPI contracts pass, as do server typecheck/build.
Companion #17739 also passes all 41 wizard tests including actual
fresh-form submission, UI typecheck, maps and token gates. Earlier red
results and a mistyped OpenAPI filename are retained in qualification.
- The configured GitHub handoff regression was red in the
browser-component tests and actual-auth link/persistence tests. Saved
links now name requested fields and all/any completion mode; the
companion form submits those supplied fields through reconnect and
retains other saved credentials. Webhook/client-secret reconnect remains
human-only; first-setup secret restrictions remain. All 46 wizard tests
pass, including combined modes and legacy links. A duplicate review
referenced the older companion bf760912; the current form is already
fixed, linked in the reply, and its thread is resolved.
- Linux CI on bf760912 failed automatic Slack provisioning because vault
persistence cleared an already verified manifest-update challenge. The
same regression was reproduced locally. The provider-owned helper now
preserves proof only for the current signing fingerprint and callback
URL. Eight existing compatibility cases pass, including this case and
initial GitHub secret rejection. The first uncommitted GitHub-field
variant also failed that initial boundary and was narrowed to reconnect;
both failures remain in qualification.
- The upstream merge conflicted only in generated migration metadata.
Upstream 0379 is preserved, normal generation/pruning produced 0380, and
two repeated applications of the idempotent additive SQL passed. The
final combined stack passed **128 tests** (55 actual-auth, 27 OpenAPI
and 46 wizard cases) in fresh PostgreSQL. Eight Google UI cases also
pass; the two protocol cases could not initialize embedded PostgreSQL in
this fresh local attempt. Their earlier passing evidence remains
historical; fresh Linux CI must execute them. Vercel personal credential
attribution is preserved in companion #17739 with its other
ownership/consent follow-ups, keeping this PR at 99 files.
- The suite covers fresh defaults, restricted users/agents, scopes,
personal isolation, token revocation, human handoffs, callback replay,
execution approvals, authorized self-targeted policy changes,
self-approval denial, and current authority before commit. Reproduce API
checks with `pnpm exec vitest run
server/src/__tests__/connection-management.integration.test.ts
server/src/__tests__/openapi-routes.test.ts`, using a fresh database
through `PAPERCLIP_CONNECTION_MANAGEMENT_TEST_DATABASE_URL` or the
default embedded test database.
- Companion #17739 also records consent separately from token refresh so
saved Google choices survive refresh. Its eight service-picker and two
local-HTTP OAuth tests pass; both new UI cases were red before the fix.
Normal migration generation confirms no SQL change is needed for the
additive JSON metadata.
- The integration module shares one assembled server, authentication
factory, and provider lifecycle to preserve the
HTTP-to-vault-to-task-continuation proof. A reused external database
caused a Slack fixture identity conflict; the fresh final run passed.
Earlier fixture/transport and contract-update failures remain in the
companion qualification record.
- The broad local `pnpm test:run` attempt remains blocked by macOS
embedded PostgreSQL's host semaphore limit. It is not a clean pass. The
fresh Linux CI matrix must complete. Provider fixtures do not prove live
setup or an empirical LLM success rate.
- A current-head completed Paperclip assessment is not yet recorded. Its
earlier external recovery boundary has not been bypassed, and no
incomplete assessment is reported as passing. The user authorized both
merges when checks pass; merge this implementation first, then replay,
retarget, and requalify companion #17739 against the squash-merged
master.

- After the master refresh, local workspace typecheck/build, **97
actual-auth/OpenAPI cases** and **141 gateway/policy cases** pass. The
original fixed database port was occupied; Docker assigned a free
localhost port. The first neighbor setup command could not resolve root
`tsx`, leaving its schema uninitialized; the built database package
migrated the separate fixture and all unchanged cases passed. Both setup
failures are retained in qualification. Fresh Linux CI remains required;
no full local test-sweep pass is claimed.

- The f9 Greptile review scored **2/5** for two reproduced findings:
Slack test sends skipped the caller’s tool policy, and healthy App
credentials completed an unconfirmed identity handoff. Both are fixed in
this head and have resolved evidence threads
([Slack](https://github.com/paperclipai/paperclip/pull/17737#discussion_r4384927765),
[identity](https://github.com/paperclipai/paperclip/pull/17737#discussion_r4384927895)).
Actual key/JWT cases cover twelve Slack caller/target/recipient
combinations; the human-session GitHub OAuth callback alone remains
pending until explicit confirmation. All **99 API/OpenAPI tests** (72
actual-auth + 27 contracts), workspace typecheck and build pass. On the
combined companion, all four focused cases (including the twelve Slack
combinations), typecheck/build and maps also pass. The continuation
suite’s 50 embedded-PG cases were skipped because its database could not
start locally; fresh Linux CI must run them. Initial fixture
credential-collision and audit-projection assertion failures are
retained with the red reproductions in the companion qualification
record. No full local sweep or live consent is claimed.

## Risks

- The maintainer explicitly confirmed authorized policy administration,
including self-targeted changes that loosen controls. These writes
require management grants and the responsible user’s current authority.
Agents cannot approve their own governed action requests or edit their
own principal permission grants. The actual-auth regression exercises
both permitted administration and those denials.
- This is a broad authorization change. Incorrect scope or owner
resolution could deny permitted setup or expose another user's
resources. Integration cases cover both permitted and denied requests
with actual authentication.
- The additive nullable gateway-token column does not infer identities
for legacy clients or backfill agent grants. Legacy agent tokens without
a responsible user fail closed.
- Provider fixtures test supported setup and callback contracts. They do
not prove live provider availability.

## Model Used

- OpenAI Codex, GPT-6 family, with reasoning, repository tools, and code
execution. The runtime does not expose a more specific deployment ID or
context-window size.

## Checklist

- [x] I have included a thinking path that traces from project context
to this change
- [x] I have specified the model used (with version and capability
details)
- [x] I have checked ROADMAP.md and confirmed this PR does not duplicate
planned core work
- [x] I have searched GitHub for duplicate or related PRs and linked
them above
- [x] I have either (a) linked existing issues with `Fixes: #` / `Closes
#` / `Refs #` OR (b) described the issue in-PR following the relevant
issue template
- [x] I have not referenced internal/instance-local Paperclip issues or
links (only public GitHub `#NNN` / `github.com/paperclipai/paperclip`
URLs)
- [x] My branch name describes the change (e.g. `docs/...`, `fix/...`)
and contains no internal Paperclip ticket id or instance-derived details
- [x] I have run tests locally and they pass — focused suites above;
full local sweep remains blocked as documented
- [x] I have added or updated tests where applicable
- [x] I have updated relevant documentation to reflect my changes
- [x] I have considered and documented any risks above
- [ ] All Paperclip CI gates are green — exact `2ecd6451d0` Linux CI
completed SUCCESS; external Paperclip Review is still queued
- [x] Greptile is 5/5 with no open P2s, recommendations, or follow-ups —
exact `2ecd6451d0` review completed; both f9 findings have resolved
evidence replies
- [x] I will address all Greptile and reviewer comments before
requesting merge

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2026-10-27 08:20:24 -05:00