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DottaandPaperclip 5f0da562db fix(server): wake chat lifecycle milestones from committed changes (#17606)
## Thinking Path

> - Paperclip is the open source app people use to manage AI agents for
work.
> - Connected chats show safe notices when a run starts, waits,
finishes, or fails.
> - A recurring scan projected these notices even when no eligible work
existed.
> - Eligibility depends on committed run state, conversation lineage,
and current authority.
> - Existing database rows can reconstruct that work after restart.
> - This PR wakes a scoped worker from those writes and removes
lifecycle polling.
> - Native progress events keep their separate existing owner until the
next migration.

## Linked Issues or Issue Description

**What happened?**

The chat maintenance timer repeatedly scanned run lifecycle state. Empty
and settled instances still queried the database. A run-status event
alone cannot replace the scan: prompt receipts, continuation receipts,
identity changes, and restored authority can make a run eligible later.

**What did you expect?**

Committed changes wake projection. Startup reconstructs eligible work. A
completed pass stops until another relevant change arrives. Failed work
retains recovery without scanning settled history forever.

**Steps to reproduce**

Configure an automatic chat endpoint. Finish its work, or leave it
unused. Observe recurring lifecycle projection queries from the chat
maintenance callback.

Stacked on #17592. Related foundation: #15625. This PR owns lifecycle
milestones only.

## What Changed

- Preserve upstream coalesced Cloud membership writes together with
locked membership restoration and its committed chat notification.

- Signal milestone eligibility from the real Slack account-link
transaction.

- Register the lifecycle worker with the existing delivery coordinator.
Remove lifecycle projection from the periodic chat callback. Keep native
progress in a separately named lane and preserve the explicit combined
API.
- Reconstruct company/issue scopes from the existing selector. Drain
bounded batches with company fairness. Retry failures, retain writes
through drain/resume, and disarm settled work.
- Signal from supported run, presentation, interaction, receipt,
lineage, conversation, recovery, and authority writers. Preserve their
transaction ownership, including nested savepoints and uncertain
settlement. No new table is added.
- Preserve provider authorization, authored-final suppression,
responsible-user continuity, deduplication, the 24-hour selection
window, and raw-output restrictions. Keep provider interpretation in its
owner.
- Preserve PostgreSQL timestamp precision in lifecycle pagination.
Rejected submillisecond candidates must not repeat the same page and
starve later notices.
- Document producer coverage and alternate-writer dispositions in
`doc/plans/2026-10-25-chat-run-milestone-sleep-audit.md`.

## Verification

Published head: `1d056f68c5b1005933b9e12de8745bf1c4cbeeca`, targeting
master after #17592 merged at
`7d75ae0569e41786640cf09647ae8849411d2f22`. A normal merge integrates
the actual landed parent. The entire 77-path milestone patch is
binary-identical to the locally verified preparation across that
ancestry reconciliation; both unrelated master paths are preserved. The
four earlier producer/test integration conflicts retain scoped milestone
and voice notices, current onboarding completion admission, and expanded
identity query/read-scope coverage.

- **330 distinct selected cases pass on the verified unchanged patch:**
305 across 14 complete suites (all five milestone worker suites, run
identity, board claim, Cloud provisioning, auth session routes, Cloud
actor authentication, stale-lock recovery, GitHub credentials, project
Git authorization, and app admission wiring), plus 25 selected real chat
producer cases. The remaining 1,590 chat integration cases were skipped,
not passed.
- The real producer cases cover saved milestone discovery, GitHub and
Slack identity changes, account-link rollback/reconfirmation, ordinary
ingress reactivation, post-close action/delivery receipt settlement, all
ten authority-restoration paths including Cloud synchronization, and
changed native review metadata.
- Worker coverage verifies outer commit, rollback, uncertain-write
recovery, restart, bounded batching/fairness, timestamp precision,
retries, drain/resume, and settled SQL quiet. Authorization and existing
publication deduplication remain with their owning services.
- Server production typechecking, build, and module-boundary checks
pass. The tests above were executed separately. Production typechecking
excludes `src/__tests__` and does not replace those runs. Each database
owner uses its own newly created and app-migrated PostgreSQL fixture.
- [Current-parent acceptance and preserved failure
ledger](https://github.com/paperclipai/paperclip/blob/1d056f68c5b1005933b9e12de8745bf1c4cbeeca/doc/plans/2026-10-25-chat-run-milestone-sleep-audit.md#current-parent-integration-and-acceptance-october-28)
records commands, counts, producer scope, conflict dispositions, and
limits. Earlier combined-stack counts and failures keep their original
revision scope; local acceptance does not erase old CI failures.
- No new migration, queue table, dependency, workflow, or shared
scheduler contract is introduced. Parent migration 0397, bounded consent
recovery, voice cleanup/retention repairs, and runner checkpoint
restoration remain present.
- **Exact-head Greptile is 5/5 and all 55 current checks are clean.** No
Ponytail review is present, which is an explicitly authorized
nonblocker; no failing review is waived. Older reviews and parent checks
are not current passes. Actual failing Ponytail findings must be fixed;
an absent/stopped/paused turn without a verdict is an authorized
nonblocker. Active unfinished Ponytail uses its original request/start
timer, with a 25-minute monitor cutoff respecting the user's 30-minute
maximum.
- No complete local repository matrix, live provider tenant, external
alarm, physical host/database suspension, or fleet savings claim is
made. Native progress remains a separate following slice.

## Risks

- A future eligibility writer must notify the existing projection
boundary. Independent SQL writers or another active server process are
outside this process-local signal contract.
- Authority and lineage remain sensitive. The worker uses the existing
selectors and publication policy; it does not grant execution or
disclosure authority.
- Native progress and other publication maintenance still have recurring
work. This PR removes one reason, not the entire chat maintenance timer.
- Worker quiet does not prove database suspension, host sleep, or
external alarm coverage. Cloud sleep blockers remain unchanged.
- Merge eligibility requires passing current-head CI and Greptile 5/5
after this actual-master reconciliation. Subsequent stack slices retain
their own gates.

## Model Used

OpenAI Codex, GPT-6 family. The exact serving model ID and
context-window size are not exposed. Used repository inspection,
reasoning, shell execution, PostgreSQL tests, browser E2Es and GitHub
tools.

## 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 available in this session)
- [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 the documented focused 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>
2026-10-28 11:07:54 -05:00
DottaandPaperclip c3a9a8e92a perf(server): scope run identity reads to operation needs (#17931)
## Thinking Path

> - Paperclip is the open source app people use to manage AI agents for
work.
> - Tool and connection operations capture the current accepted
requester.
> - Capture locks the task and run, then reconciles pending steering.
> - Most callers use identity or task fields from the returned run.
> - The default query also transfers saved prompts, runner
configuration, results, and logs.
> - This pull request gives each production caller an explicit read
scope.
> - Narrow scopes keep their authority checks and return only selected
columns.
> - The Muse project path still reads its complete saved execution
input.

## Linked Issues or Issue Description

**What existing behavior does this improve?**

Operation-time run identity capture for native tools, gateway sessions,
project and workspace access, Slack, voice, connection management, and
connection token admission.

**Current behavior**

These callers use the default full run read. Large saved execution
documents cross the database connection even when the caller only needs
the current accepted requester or task binding.

**Proposed behavior**

Use typed identity, task, broker, and project-execution scopes. Keep
task-before-run locks, company and agent predicates, active status
validation, and pending-steering reconciliation. Return the complete
saved native input only where project admission uses it.

**Reason and benefit**

A synthetic PostgreSQL 17.11 fixture matches a wide run with a 142 KB
context and a 77 KB runner profile. Its locked run DataRow falls from
225,101 bytes to 190–605 bytes for authority reads. The project scope
returns 66,004 bytes because it must retain a complete 64 KB execution
input. These are local DataRow measurements, not a forecast of
production billing or latency.

**Breaking changes**

None to public APIs, saved data, or authority policy. Internal narrow
return types omit columns that were not selected. The default full
compatibility read and the existing GitHub-credential and authentication
scopes keep their current contracts.

**Additional context**

The public issue and PR duplicate searches found no matching open
change. This is one independent query optimization. It does not require
other performance PRs.

## What Changed

- Add typed scopes for accepted identity metadata, task authorization,
token attribution, and saved project execution input.
- Assign explicit scopes at all production `captureRunIdentity` call
sites.
- Keep the full native execution input for Muse project admission while
omitting unrelated profile, context, result, and log data.
- Narrow the broker's initial read and the existing Slack and
connection-management historical reads to the same required fields.
- Extend steering and acknowledgement regressions to all new scopes. Add
real PostgreSQL projection, malformed JSON, tenant and agent,
session-generation, and saved-input coverage.
- Add a service-generated SQL benchmark with exact raw DataRow
accounting, retained-field equality, plans, and alternating transaction
timings.
- Document the scope contracts and reproducible benchmark.

## Verification

- Baseline: `623f1dc289a14a699ebbe3f09b94179d38fc2ae2`.
- `vitest run server/src/__tests__/run-identity-projections.test.ts
server/src/__tests__/run-identity.test.ts`: 54 tests passed on an owned
disposable PostgreSQL 17.11 database.
- The tests retain task-before-run and audit foreign-key lock behavior.
Every scope rejects uncertain steering, accepts its durable
acknowledgement, and preserves requester replay ordering.
- A full-row mutation makes the narrow identity regression fail. The
restored treatment passes.
- `pnpm --filter @paperclipai/server exec tsx
../scripts/benchmark-run-identity-projections.ts
--baseline-ref=623f1dc289a14a699ebbe3f09b94179d38fc2ae2` captures the
real locked SQL for both versions.
- Every retained column and selected JSON field matches the baseline.
Identity contexts match. The complete stored run remains unchanged.
Capture keeps the same five queries.

| Scope | Before DataRow bytes | After DataRow bytes | Reduction |
| --- | ---: | ---: | ---: |
| Identity | 225,101 | 190 | 99.92% |
| Task authorization | 225,101 | 410 | 99.82% |
| Token broker | 225,101 | 605 | 99.73% |
| Project execution input | 225,101 | 66,004 | 70.68% |

- DataRow bytes include row framing and raw text-format column values.
They exclude response metadata, TLS, and TCP.
- Two warmups and seven alternating samples measure the complete capture
transaction. Several timing ranges overlap. The primary claim is byte
reduction; production latency is not verified.
- Initial fixture runs exposed an empty external schema and an
incomplete synthetic conversation binding. The test setup now applies
migrations and supplies the required user/state fields. The final 54
tests passed.
- `pnpm -r typecheck` and `pnpm build` passed locally.
- Four existing skill-setup tests passed. Four assembled
connection-management/native-tool consumer cases passed with real
JWT/API-key authentication. These include per-request identity freshness
and task-scoped activity authority.
- A CI-only stale mock assertion expected two capture arguments; it now
verifies the explicit identity scope. A repository-wide capture mock
audit found no other stale argument assertions.
- Review follow-up: the projection suite uses the existing
embedded-support guard while always enabling an explicitly supplied
external database. The audit-lock regression merges URL query parameters
and retains existing PostgreSQL options.
- `vitest run server/src/__tests__/run-identity-projections.test.ts
server/src/__tests__/run-identity.test.ts
server/src/__tests__/company-skills-routes.test.ts
server/src/__tests__/project-skill-setup-identity.test.ts`: 123 tests
passed. The external PostgreSQL URL included both `application_name` and
`options`; lock tests verified `lock_timeout=1s` and retained
`statement_timeout=5s`.
- Full local tests are not run because the host's embedded PostgreSQL
setup is unavailable. Greptile reviewed
`06e1dd53a3fb24df74d5fbfb2ad397f291f1e30f` at 5/5 with zero unresolved
threads. The full final-head CI matrix passes. All 58 checks are
terminal: 55 success, one neutral, and two optional Storybook skips.
- No migration, lockfile, workflow, new polling, or cache change.

## Risks

A narrow read must retain each caller's actual fields. The caller audit
includes Slack's wake-request fallback, conversation generation, legacy
broker attribution, and the Muse parser's complete native input. JSON
selection retains value types, including malformed legacy values. The
saved-input scope preserves missing-key behavior. The default full read
still returns the complete stored row for compatibility. Locks and live
authority checks are unchanged.

## Model Used

OpenAI GPT-6, accessed through Codex. The exact runtime model ID and
context-window size were not exposed in this session. Used repository
inspection, code execution, and PostgreSQL validation.

## 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 16:31:21 -05:00
Devin FoleyandPaperclip 9f3a5456ac perf(server): bound run reads in authentication and conversation recovery (#17663)
Read compact run identity during authentication and compact turn state during conversation recovery. Preserve fresh checks, durable steering and reply evidence, locking, and complete stored payloads.

Validate 184 targeted PostgreSQL and lifecycle tests, workspace typecheck, server build, full CI, and Apex 5/5.

Co-Authored-By: Paperclip <noreply@paperclip.ing>
2026-10-25 15:53:18 -07:00
Devin FoleyandPaperclip 0d73505098 perf(git): narrow operation identity snapshot reads (#17567)
Select only the run context used by GitHub operation credential checks. Preserve the default complete identity capture for Muse and other consumers, current trust checks, grants, and saved run evidence.

Validation: 72 focused GitHub, identity, Slack, chat-project, and project-route tests; full build and typecheck; exact-head Greptile 5/5 (medium), all CI checks green, and zero unresolved comments. Real PostgreSQL tests prove current revocation and response-size bounds. No live external GitHub push was performed.

Co-Authored-By: Paperclip <noreply@paperclip.ing>
2026-10-25 00:31:41 -07:00
Devin FoleyandPaperclip 4f6cf5b3ff fix: prevent run identity locks from blocking audit checks (#14478)
Use NO KEY UPDATE for identity locks so audit foreign-key checks can proceed while identity writers remain serialized. Preserve task-before-run ordering, company scoping, and foreign keys.

Verified with PostgreSQL concurrency regressions, focused tests, typecheck, build, and full CI.

Co-Authored-By: Paperclip <noreply@paperclip.ing>
2026-09-28 16:16:05 -07:00
DottaandPaperclip df984cbc2c fix: dispatch queued legacy messages with operator identity and task permissions (#13315)
## Thinking Path

> - Paperclip is the open source app people use to manage AI agents for
work.
> - Task conversations save messages that arrive during an active turn.
> - Legacy adapters deliver these messages in a later turn.
> - A run can stop before the saved queue is delivered.
> - The Interrupt button previously required an active run, so it could
not release this queue.
> - This pull request lets a board operator send the saved queue after
the run stops and retries queues missed during finalization.
> - Manual dispatch must use the clicking operator and must not require
permission to create agents.
> - The task can continue without a duplicate message or a second
execution owner.

## Linked Issues or Issue Description

**What happened?**

A legacy task retained a queued message after its run stopped. Interrupt
was disabled because the queue had no active target. Finalization and
deferred message admission can also leave a queue without a successor.

**Expected behavior**

Interrupt sends the saved messages when no runner is active. Messages
that arrive during normal completion are delivered automatically. An
uncertain previous execution still requires proof that its process or
sandbox stopped.

**Steps to reproduce**

1. Queue a user message during a legacy conversation turn.
2. Let the turn stop or simulate a server restart before queue
promotion.
3. Open the task with a deferred queue and no active run.
4. Try Interrupt. Before this change, the button is disabled.

**Paperclip version or commit**

Reproduced against `8f40b4ad4`.

**Deployment mode**

Legacy conversation adapter. The same persisted queue state is covered
with an isolated PostgreSQL fixture.

Related public work: #13275 adds active legacy interruption. #13291
addresses automatic sandbox conversation recovery. This change handles
explicit saved-queue delivery and late queue promotion.

## What Changed

- Accept a null Interrupt target while retaining queue identity,
revision, company, and assignee checks.
- Save the operator's request on the existing queue. Reuse normal
admission after verified stop, including older messages, different
authors, and queues whose original wake came from the system.
- Strip interruption authority from caller-supplied wake payloads. Only
the board queue route can persist that authority.
- Retry durable interruption requests after restart and deferred queues
after legacy cleanup.
- Let an explicit Interrupt retry cleanup for its stopped run, including
old ephemeral leases that recorded success without a provider stop
receipt. Preserve retained resources, other lease owners, and the
automatic retry limit.
- Preserve the server's waiting explanation when normalizing and
combining queue entries.
- Revalidate the consumed board queue receipt at dispatch so a different
message author does not cause setup failure.
- Use the Interrupt user's execution identity for the new run. Preserve
original message authors. Validate the receipt independently at startup
and inherit the resulting identity on retry.
- Persist authenticated board authority for ordinary manual wakes too.
Adopting someone else's queued messages cannot switch a manual run to
that author's permissions. Strip caller-supplied authority markers and
retain private conversation ownership checks.
- Keep the clicking user when a manual wake is merged into an older
deferred receipt. Update its requester and payload in the same
transaction.
- Use the same current-queue/revision API on task details and pipeline
conversations; show Interrupt after a legacy target stops.
- Keep manual wakes out of active runs, including unscoped agent wakes.
They receive their own execution identity; a matching receipt requester
is not sufficient because an exact retry can retain a different
originating identity.
- Authorize both existing-agent wake endpoints with `agent:wake`,
available to active non-viewer company members. Keep `agents:create` for
hiring. Validate the stored task and current assignee before an exact
task retry.
- Reject viewer Interrupt requests before saving intent or stopping
execution. Keep external chat retry authorization and per-action
agent/user permission checks.
- Preserve edits and discards until dispatch. Prevent another queue
promotion when the same agent already has a successor. Keep independent
reviewer recovery available.
- Suppress cancelled/failed run toasts for intentional operator
interruption. Keep ordinary runtime error notices.
- Add UI, route, admission, restart, successor ownership, and toast
regression tests. Document the behavior.
- Reuse the existing socket reservation helper for both
credential-quorum test cases after CI exposed an ambient-port collision.
This changes test preparation only; production credential staging is
still called exactly once.

## Verification

- Failing regression tests reproduced the message-author identity bug
and an operator's `agents:create` rejection before the fixes.
- All 316 focused tests pass across eight route, queue, identity,
authorization, continuation, and responsible-user suites, including the
44-test rerun of queue admission and actual startup after the final
manual-wake restriction. Regressions reproduce cross-user merging both
with and without a task, and same-requester receipt ambiguity. The
cross-company existence guard also passes both tests.
- Startup integration tests reach adapter execution under the clicking
operator and retain that identity through follow-up. Coverage includes
mixed authors, adopted queues, system-origin queues, restarts, forged or
stale receipts, viewers, suspended memberships, changed assignees,
private conversations, and caller-supplied authority markers.
- The earlier queue/cleanup/UI regression suite passed 402 tests. The
final review corrections pass another 180 tests across queue
admission/persistence, real heartbeat startup, UI API, conversation
rendering, and pipeline suites. Regression tests reproduced both review
findings before correction. The final head has a 5/5 review with no
unresolved threads. Full CI passes on `c2002979c`, including every
general and serialized server shard, all browser shards, Paperclip
Runner verification, typecheck, build, canary dry run, and the aggregate
gates.
- Full `pnpm -r typecheck`, `pnpm build`, and UI token gates pass after
the final application changes. CI identified an outdated task-page API
mock after the shared helper extraction; the fixture now exercises the
real helper, and all 131 task-page/API tests pass. The final application
build passes with the additional manual-wake restriction.
- CI exposed a pre-existing port collision in the Codex
credential-quorum fixture. It reproduced locally; both listener cases
now use the existing bounded reservation helper. All 41 credential tests
pass on rerun. One intervening local run hit a separate ambient bind
collision in the two-occupied-port case.
- The full local `pnpm test:run` attempt was stopped after host
contention caused focused-suite timeouts. The affected focused tests
passed on rerun. An expiring trace fixture and a missing
private-conversation state were corrected. The successful full CI run is
the complete-suite verification.
- Hosted Interrupt previously cleared the original queue and produced
exactly one successor with neutral interruption feedback. It exposed the
dispatch authorization defect. Retry on that earlier build was rejected
for missing `agents:create` before creating another run.
- Deployed the final application build (`38257f391`) to the scoped
hosted instance and verified readiness. The latest PR commit changes
only the credential test fixture; application code matches that
deployment. A live Retry by the same operator without `agents:create`
created one successor attributed to that operator, passing the former
dispatch permission gate. Startup then stopped at
`configuration_incomplete` because that operator has not configured
their required personal Claude Code OAuth secret; the post-deployment
run page confirms the operator identity and no provider work started,
and the My secrets UI still shows the token as not set. Provider
execution remains unverified pending that credential. No permission
grants or credentials were changed.

## Risks

Queue admission and finalization can race. The task lock, durable queue
receipt, current comment IDs, and successor guard prevent duplicate
dispatch. Process and lease stop checks, task pauses, approvals,
ownership, and budgets remain in force. The API change only allows null
on legacy Interrupt; native steering still requires an active run. No
schema migration is required. Active non-viewer board members can now
invoke existing agents without agent-creation permission. Agent
self-invocation rules, raw provider-trace admin access, task retry
scope, external chat authorization, and action-specific user/agent
permissions remain enforced.

## Model Used

OpenAI GPT-6 through Codex. The session does not expose an exact backend
model ID or context-window size. Used reasoning, repository search, code
execution, tests, and browser tools.

## 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
#` 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>
2026-09-12 17:11:30 -05:00
DottaandPaperclip 1cc45086d3 feat: use the responsible person's GitHub for shared agent operations (#13005)
## Thinking Path

> - Paperclip is the open source app people use to manage AI agents for
work.
> - Several people can send instructions to the same agent and task.
> - A fixed GitHub token in the provider process can keep the first
person's access after another person's message is accepted.
> - Task ownership cannot select credentials for each accepted
instruction or preserve the identity of an operation already in
progress.
> - This pull request records ordered execution identity contexts and
resolves credentials when managed Git, gh, or GitHub tools start.
> - The benefit is automatic personal GitHub access for shared agents,
with durable continuation rules and no teammate credential fallback.

## Linked Issues or Issue Description

**Subsystem affected**

Cross-cutting: orchestration, connection grants, database, runtime
adapters, native runners, and run details.

**Problem or motivation**

A shared agent must use the person whose instructions it has accepted. A
queued message must retain its author. A retry or approval without new
instructions must retain the originating identity. GitHub must remain
optional for ordinary work.

**Proposed solution**

Persist execution identity separately from task ownership. Give new
processes a run-scoped broker capability and token-free managed
launchers. Capture identity at operation start. Keep an explicit
dedicated-agent grant as an override. Show redacted diagnostics in run
details.

**Alternatives considered**

Per-task ownership, fixed provider tokens, and mutable repository author
configuration do not handle accepted steering or concurrent operations.
A manual account-selection action would add unnecessary setup to each
turn.

**Roadmap alignment**

This completes the existing Multiple Human Users, MCP Tool Gateway &
Apps, Secrets Manager, and Self-healing Runs capabilities. The
implementation follows the maintainer-approved plan.

Related work: Refs #12843, Refs #12907. Existing proposals #4618 and
#8945 cover per-agent or per-worktree author configuration. This change
instead follows the accepted human instruction across runtime types.
Refs #11831 for governed personal connection delegation; this change
preserves connection audience checks and does not use standing
delegation as a personal credential fallback.

## What Changed

- Add durable, ordered identity contexts and active run references.
Preserve message authors through consolidation, steering, retries,
delegation, approvals, routines, and restart.
- Add an authenticated operation-time GitHub credential broker and
local/remote managed git and gh launchers. Keep personal tokens out of
the long-lived provider process.
- Resolve GitHub gateway and server-side Git operations through the same
responsible-person or dedicated-grant selection rules.
- Make absent and unavailable GitHub credentials non-blocking at generic
startup. Clear host and prior-person credentials. Keep anonymous Git
access where supported.
- Add run-detail identity history and the dedicated-account warning.
Keep task ownership and queue-versus-steer decisions unchanged.
- Preserve personal OAuth declarations through connection edits. Retain
exact selected grants in the gateway.
- Fix continuation races found during real acceptance: verify a warm
owner before credential rotation, and wait for bounded durable runner
suspension before the next run starts.
- Make migrations replay-safe. Retain identity through agent/run
deletion, remove it with its company, and clean terminal launcher
directories before releasing execution environments. Document
coordinated release and rollback.

## Verification

- Full workspace typecheck, build, and token gates passed. The complete
local suite passed in its normal test groups: 17,120 passing tests,
including all 143 serialized server suites. After integrating the newly
merged runner API work, full local typecheck and build passed again,
along with 890 focused integration tests. All 31 checks on the
integrated revision passed, including build, browser E2E, release
registry, canary dry run, typecheck, security and all test suites.
Greptile is 5/5 with all review threads resolved.
- Current focused checks passed: 142 native executor tests, 67 runtime
lifecycle tests, 9 durable identity tests, 75 credential/routine tests,
19 low-trust/resumption tests, and the executable migration replay test.
- Authenticated browser acceptance with two Paperclip users and two
GitHub accounts on one shared native agent passed. Real commits and
pushes followed A → B accepted steering → queued A continuation in the
same saved conversation. GitHub commit author and committer identities
matched all three operations. Both runs succeeded and task ownership
stayed unchanged.
- Real GitHub MCP calls switched from A to B after accepted steering. A
delegated subtask retained its originating identity across a server
restart.
- Disabling B's GitHub connection left ordinary work successful. Managed
gh was unauthenticated and the provider had no inherited GH_TOKEN or
GITHUB_TOKEN.
- The browser displayed run-detail diagnostics and the exact
dedicated-account warning. A final controller-restart check followed by
another-person continuation retained the conversation, selected the
correct GitHub login and Git author, and removed each terminal launcher
directory.
- Company-lifetime migration and all five previously failing CI suites
passed locally (167 tests). Same-token gateway A → B → A and six
broker/launcher boundary tests passed.
- Remote callback, launcher, sandbox, and runtime contract tests passed.
Both native and legacy Codex completed actual Daytona executions on the
integrated revision ([campaign
results](https://github.com/paperclipai/paperclip/actions/runs/34155056509)).
The remote package-manager shim staging regression also passed locally.

## Risks

- Deploy the migrations, server broker, launchers, and runner artifacts
together. Existing processes finish with their original contract. New
managed processes need the broker endpoint for GitHub operations.
- Finish or stop new managed executions before rolling application code
back. Keep the additive schema and identity history during rollback.
- Scripts that require a persistent raw GH_TOKEN must use managed git,
gh, or GitHub gateway tools. Run capabilities authorize code executing
within that run to acquire its current identity; this is not
hostile-code isolation within one execution principal. Managed commands
prevent automatic credential carryover; arbitrary code deliberately
copying a credential is outside that boundary.
- Uncertain steering acknowledgement deliberately holds new credential
acquisition until reconciliation. Already-started operations retain
their captured identity.
- GitHub private access and provider outages can still fail the specific
operation that needs them. Dedicated grant failure does not fall back to
personal access.

## Model Used

OpenAI GPT-6 through Codex assisted implementation, review, shell
execution, and browser acceptance. The exact model variant and
context-window size are not exposed in this session. Tool use included
TypeScript and Rust tests, database integration tests, GitHub CLI, and
authenticated browser control.

## 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>
2026-09-07 14:32:20 -05:00