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Nicky Leach 17ad23aafe fix(workspaces): back off failed terminal cleanup and retire abandoned reservations through remove (#20020) 2026-11-08 07:12:48 -08:00
DottaandClaude Opus 5.5 c966334ec3 fix(recovery): settle a run-less lease once its stamped holder is proven gone (#20026)
## Thinking Path

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

## Linked Issues or Issue Description

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

**What happened?**

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

**Expected behavior**

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

**Steps to reproduce**

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

**Paperclip version or commit**

`master` at `8475826d2d`.

## What Changed

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

## Verification

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

## Risks

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

## Model Used

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

## Checklist

- [x] I have included a thinking path that traces from project context
to this change
- [x] I have specified the model used (with version and capability
details)
- [x] I have checked ROADMAP.md and confirmed this PR does not duplicate
planned core work
- [x] I have searched GitHub for duplicate or related PRs and linked
them above
- [x] I have either (a) linked existing issues with `Fixes: #` / `Closes
#` / `Refs #` OR (b) described the issue in-PR following the relevant
issue template
- [x] I have not referenced internal/instance-local Paperclip issues or
links (only public GitHub `#NNN` / `github.com/paperclipai/paperclip`
URLs)
- [x] My branch name describes the change (e.g. `docs/...`, `fix/...`)
and contains no internal Paperclip ticket id or instance-derived details
- [x] I have run tests locally and they pass
- [x] I have added or updated tests where applicable
- [x] I have updated relevant documentation to reflect my changes
- [x] I have considered and documented any risks above
- [ ] All Paperclip CI gates are green
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DottaandClaude Opus 5.5 68d5fb5a6e feat(chaos): check I6 and I8 per crash point; ready the Daytona points (#19984)
## Thinking Path

> - Paperclip is the open source app people use to manage AI agents for
work
> - The on-demand crash-point suite (#19946) kills the control plane at
named durable write boundaries and checks the plan's invariants
> - Its first full run measured I1–I4 and I7, but I5, I6 and I8 were
reported as not measured
> - #19960 (generation stamping) and #19863 (speed budgets) now record
what I6 and I8 need in the run log
> - The six Daytona-only points have not run yet, and three of them
cannot be reached by a plain task
> - This pull request checks I6 and I8 per point, names the I5 gap, and
readies the Daytona points for the coming Daytona wave
> - The benefit is that every invariant is either asserted or a named
gap, and a Daytona run explains any point it cannot reach

## Linked Issues or Issue Description

Refs #19831 (plan, Phase 5). Follows #19946 (the suite). Uses #19960
(event generations) and #19863 (speed budgets).

**Problem**
- The suite reported I5, I6 and I8 as "not measured".
- A Daytona run would report three points as `not_reached` with no
reason.
- A Daytona run without its key or image failed only after a 3-minute
boot.

**Expected behavior**
- I6 and I8 are checked at each point.
- I5 is a named gap with its reason.
- Daytona points say what they need, and a Daytona run checks its inputs
before it boots.

## What Changed

- `tests/restart-chaos/invariants.ts`: `runLogViolations` checks two
invariants from the run log, scoped to the wave's company:
- I6: a run that failed with an error that names a stale or
earlier-generation event;
- I8: each `run.performance.budget_exceeded` event, with the budget
evidence (metric, measured, p95, adapter, start kind).
Both are keyed by run or event id, so the per-point baseline diff
charges each one to the point that produced it. I5 is reported as
`notMeasured` with a reason (`I5_GAP`).
- `packages/shared/src/crash-point-registry.ts`: an optional
`prerequisite` on the three Daytona points a plain task cannot reach.
These are the teardown claim (needs a failed release), the reusable
destroy (needs a `reuse_by_environment` lease), and stop-and-retain.
- `tests/restart-chaos/crash-points.ts`:
- `--list` prints each point's `needs:`, and a `not_reached` result
names it too;
- `--env daytona` refuses to start without `DAYTONA_API_KEY` and an
image.
- Docs: the README and the plan describe the I5/I6/I8 coverage and the
Daytona points.

## Verification

- `pnpm exec vitest run --config tests/restart-chaos/vitest.config.ts
tests/restart-chaos/crash-points.test.ts`: 12 passed.
- `cd packages/shared && npx vitest run src/crash-points.test.ts`: 15
passed.
- `node scripts/typecheck-test-projects.mjs tests/restart-chaos` and
`npx tsc --noEmit -p packages/shared` both pass.
- I ran `runLogViolations` against a throwaway Postgres 18 with seeded
rows, then stopped and deleted it. It returned:
  - I8 for the budget breach, with its evidence;
- I6 for the run of this company that failed on
`stale_generation_event`.
It excluded the other company's stale run, the `process_lost` run and a
non-budget event.
- `node scripts/crash-points.mjs --list --env daytona` lists 19 points,
with `needs:` on the three. `--env daytona` with no key or image fails
at once with the missing names.
- No harness run: the harness slot is held for other work. The next
suite run exercises the new checks.

## Risks

- Test harness only; no product code.
- I6 is a proxy: it matches the run's error text and code. A failure
that names a generation for another reason would be reported, with its
evidence, for a person to judge.
- I8 can flag breaches on a loaded host. Each breach carries its
measured and budget values, so a load-caused breach is visible as one.

## Model Used

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

## Checklist

- [x] I have included a thinking path that traces from project context
to this change
- [x] I have specified the model used (with version and capability
details)
- [x] I have checked ROADMAP.md and confirmed this PR does not duplicate
planned core work
- [x] I have searched GitHub for duplicate or related PRs and linked
them above
- [x] I have either (a) linked existing issues with `Fixes: #` / `Closes
#` / `Refs #` OR (b) described the issue in-PR following the relevant
issue template
- [x] I have not referenced internal/instance-local Paperclip issues or
links (only public GitHub `#NNN` / `github.com/paperclipai/paperclip`
URLs)
- [x] My branch name describes the change (e.g. `docs/...`, `fix/...`)
and contains no internal Paperclip ticket id or instance-derived details
- [x] I have run tests locally and they pass
- [x] I have added or updated tests where applicable
- [x] I have updated relevant documentation to reflect my changes
- [x] I have considered and documented any risks above
- [ ] All Paperclip CI gates are green
- [ ] Greptile is 5/5 with no open P2s, recommendations, or follow-ups
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DottaandClaude Opus 5.5 46bf913fb9 docs(plans): record the Pi steer duplicate after a restart and its follow-up (#19982)
## Thinking Path

> - Paperclip is the open source app people use to manage AI agents for
work
> - A person can steer a running Codex or Pi turn, and since #19970 a
queued follow-up steers automatically
> - Restart recovery (#19962) delivers a steered message that the model
did not read before the restart, exactly once for Codex
> - Pi gives the run log no read evidence for a steer, so after a
restart a Pi steer that the model already read can arrive again
> - The fix needs changes to the closure-pinned Pi distribution, which
waits for the next Pi re-qualification
> - This pull request records the limit and the follow-up plan so they
are not lost
> - The benefit is that the next Pi re-qualification can include the
definitive fix

## Linked Issues or Issue Description

**What is the documentation problem?**
The Pi steering limit after a restart, and its planned fix, were only in
pull request text and session notes.

**Where?**
`doc/plans/2026-11-07-pi-steer-restart-limit.md` (new).

**What should it say?**
Codex delivers an unread steered message exactly once after a restart.
Pi can duplicate a message it already read, and never loses one. The
note also gives the reasons, the follow-up plan (option A), its costs,
and the rejected options.

Refs #19962, Refs #19970

## What Changed

- New `doc/plans/2026-11-07-pi-steer-restart-limit.md`. It covers the
limit, why Pi has no read evidence, the follow-up (forward Pi's native
user `message_start` through pi-acp, acpx, the sidecar and Rust into a
`userMessage` item), its re-qualification costs, and the rejected
options.

## Verification

- Documentation only. Read the note. The facts match
`packages/paperclip-runner/src/steering-delivery.ts`,
`patches/pi-acp@0.0.33.patch`, `pi-closure-pins.ts` and
`rules/acpx-profile-identity.mdc`.

## Risks

- None. Documentation only.

## Model Used

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

## Checklist

- [x] I have included a thinking path that traces from project context
to this change
- [x] I have specified the model used (with version and capability
details)
- [x] I have checked ROADMAP.md and confirmed this PR does not duplicate
planned core work
- [x] I have searched GitHub for duplicate or related PRs and linked
them above
- [x] I have either (a) linked existing issues with `Fixes: #` / `Closes
#` / `Refs #` OR (b) described the issue in-PR following the relevant
issue template
- [x] I have not referenced internal/instance-local Paperclip issues or
links (only public GitHub `#NNN` / `github.com/paperclipai/paperclip`
URLs)
- [x] My branch name describes the change (e.g. `docs/...`, `fix/...`)
and contains no internal Paperclip ticket id or instance-derived details
- [x] I have run tests locally and they pass
- [x] I have added or updated tests where applicable
- [x] I have updated relevant documentation to reflect my changes
- [x] I have considered and documented any risks above
- [ ] All Paperclip CI gates are green
- [ ] Greptile is 5/5 with no open P2s, recommendations, or follow-ups
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DottaandClaude Opus 5.5 d33b3ac263 fix(wake-queue): save temporarily refused work intents and promote them through one path (#19956)
## Thinking Path

> - Paperclip is the open source app people use to manage AI agents for
work
> - Users send work to agents as assignments, comments and Retries. The
wake queue delivers each one as a run
> - When an admission check refused a wake for a temporary reason, the
wake often ended as a terminal skip, so the work was lost
> - Restart-chaos waves found dropped comments and Retries (RC-37,
s7532) and double delivery (RC-53). Each fix covered one hold type
> - The durable ownership plan (section E) asks for one outbox rule: a
closed set of terminal outcomes, a saved deferral for every temporary
refusal, and one promotion path
> - This pull request adds that rule. It saves messages refused by a
pause, promotes deferred intents from every hold-release event through
one function, and adds a reconciler backstop
> - The benefit is that an accepted message is delivered exactly once
after a pause lifts, and the reconciler reports any intent that is stuck
or dropped

## Linked Issues or Issue Description

Refs #19831 (plan, section E), #19838 (inventory, wake-queue rows and
section 1b), #19927 (Phase 2 data: the I4 false positive), #19702,
#19741, #19829, #19826. Builds on #19944 (section D, merged).

**What happened?**
- A user commented while the agent was paused, or while the company was
paused. Admission refused the wake. Nothing saved the message as
pending, so when the pause lifted, nothing delivered it.
- Hold-release events woke different subsets of workers. A saved intent
then waited out a 30-second refusal backoff after its hold cleared.
- The I4 reconciler check matched free text with a regular expression.
Phase 2 found a false positive: a delivered retry whose error said
"retrying once".

**Expected behavior**
An accepted work intent ends only as delivered, consumed by a later run,
task cancelled, or hard stop. Every temporary refusal saves the intent
as `deferred` with its reason and its release trigger. Every
hold-release event promotes deferred intents through one function
(invariant 4).

**Steps to reproduce**
Pause an agent. Post a user comment on its task. Resume the agent. On
`master` the comment is never delivered as a wake.

## What Changed

- New `server/src/services/work-intent-outbox.ts`:
- `WORK_INTENT_TERMINAL_OUTCOMES`: the closed set of terminal outcomes.
- `TEMPORARY_REFUSAL_TRIGGERS`: maps each temporary refusal code to its
release trigger.
- `promoteDeferredWorkIntents`: the one promotion function. It removes
the 30-second refusal backoff from the matching deferred intents. It
then wakes run dispatch, the saved-receipt worker and stranded-work
recovery, and hints each saved intent of the issue.
- `heartbeat/queue.ts`: the #19829 save-as-deferred block is now a
shared helper. A user's message refused by a paused agent, a paused
company, or a budget pause that is not a reached hard stop is saved with
`executionWait: { reason, trigger, message }`. The caller still gets a
409. The message is saved only when the task's latest run is terminal,
because the release drain promotes a saved message behind that run. A
task that never ran keeps the message in the task, and stranded-work
recovery starts the task once the pause lifts. A `pending_approval`
agent and a task-tree hold are not changed here: the release drain still
fails a promoted wake for a pending approval, and tree holds have their
own resume path.
- Hold-release events call `promoteDeferredWorkIntents`:
  - accounting settled (`run-cost-accounting.ts`);
  - environment lease released (`environments.ts`, two sites);
  - native run projected terminal (`native-run-projection.ts`);
  - budget pause lifted (`budgets.ts`);
  - company reactivated (`companies.ts`);
  - task-tree hold released (`issue-tree-control.ts`);
  - agent lifecycle ready (`agent-lifecycle-driver.ts`).
- Reconciler (`recovery/ownership-registry.ts`,
`ownership-invariant-report.ts`, `native-finalization-reconciler.ts`):
- registers three new kinds: `wake_request_deferred`, `queued_run` and
`scheduled_retry_run`;
- I4 now reads the closed refusal code (the wake `reason`) of accepted
intents, not free text;
- a new I4 check reports a deferred pause refusal whose pause has lifted
for more than 5 minutes. The worker then promotes it as a backstop;
- a lifted pause inside its 5-minute grace window returns its deadline
through `nextDueAt`, and the worker also wakes on agent-lifecycle
signals (company and agent pause changes). So a missed release event is
still checked.
- `doc/SPEC-implementation.md`: adds the rule "Accepted work intents are
delivered exactly once".

## Verification

Each focused file ran alone in one vitest process (`--maxWorkers=1`) on
embedded Postgres. Results at `2875c85fd2`:

| Question | Loop | Elapsed | Result |
|---|---|---|---|
| Is a comment refused by a pause saved, then delivered once after the
pause lifts? | `heartbeat-held-comment-wake.test.ts -t "pause lifts"` |
8 s | 2 pass. With `queue.ts` from `master`, both fail: no intent is
saved |
| Does I4 use the closed code, and does it catch a stuck deferral? |
`ownership-reconciliation-report.test.ts` | 45 s | 20 pass. This
includes the Phase 2 "retrying once" false positive and the case
"paused, then lifted" |
| No regression on the paths that changed | held-comment (15),
archived-company guard (8), undispatched execution wait (32), deferred
receipt work (45), recovery pause durability (16), native run projection
work (55), tree-control routes and services (19, 1, 7) | 8–334 s each |
All pass |

- Exactly-once: each pause test runs two promotions (a release event,
then the reconciler backstop) and many dispatch passes. It asserts one
delivery. The existing consumption tests (RC-53) still pass.
- Server package typecheck passes.
- Speed: nothing new runs before `turn.start`. The new admission work
happens only on a refusal. Promotion runs in the release transaction and
in the background reconciler.
- Not run here: chaos waves. The coordinating session schedules them on
the shared harness.

## Risks

- `promoteDeferredWorkIntents` moves `updated_at` back for deferred
intents that were refused in the last 30 seconds. A busy company with
many release events can retry refused intents more often. Each retry
re-runs normal admission, and the refusal resets the backoff.
- More release sites now wake run dispatch and stranded-work recovery.
These notifications are coalesced per company.
- Lifting a pause is now the operator's explicit authorization to send
what the pause refused, as Send is after a Stop. When the pause stopped
the task's run, the lifted pause issues the task's next explicit wake,
which adopts the saved message once. Other messages queued behind an
acknowledged Stop keep the existing rule. If Stop recovery still holds
the task, the message waits for that recovery.
- An agent pause's stop sweep keeps the messages that the pause deferred
(`preservePauseDeferred`). Terminate and cleanup stops still end them.
- The backstop check reads only pause refusals (`company.inactive`,
`agent.not_invokable`), because those holds can be checked exactly.
Other deferred kinds keep their existing promotion paths.

## Model Used

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

## Checklist

- [x] I have included a thinking path that traces from project context
to this change
- [x] I have specified the model used (with version and capability
details)
- [x] I have checked ROADMAP.md and confirmed this PR does not duplicate
planned core work
- [x] I have searched GitHub for duplicate or related PRs and linked
them above
- [x] I have either (a) linked existing issues with `Fixes: #` / `Closes
#` / `Refs #` OR (b) described the issue in-PR following the relevant
issue template
- [x] I have not referenced internal/instance-local Paperclip issues or
links (only public GitHub `#NNN` / `github.com/paperclipai/paperclip`
URLs)
- [x] My branch name describes the change (e.g. `docs/...`, `fix/...`)
and contains no internal Paperclip ticket id or instance-derived details
- [x] I have run tests locally and they pass
- [x] I have added or updated tests where applicable
- [x] I have updated relevant documentation to reflect my changes
- [x] I have considered and documented any risks above
- [ ] All Paperclip CI gates are green
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DottaandClaude Opus 5.5 051834bdc8 feat(chaos): add the on-demand crash-point suite and its manual CI workflow (#19946)
## Thinking Path

> - Paperclip is the open source app people use to manage AI agents for
work
> - A control-plane restart between two durable writes leaves an
in-progress record owned by a dead process
> - Random restart-chaos waves found these 20 ms–1 s windows only by
luck
> - #19937 added `crashPoint(name)`, and #19938 put it at 20 durable
write boundaries
> - Nothing yet runs a task, kills the server at a chosen point,
restarts it, and checks the plan's invariants
> - This pull request adds that on-demand suite, as a local command and
as a manual CI workflow (not a required check, per Decision 2)
> - The benefit is a repeatable work list: which boundary breaks which
invariant, for Phases 2–4

## Linked Issues or Issue Description

Refs #19831 (plan, Phase 5 and Decision 2). Refs #19861 (report-only
reconciler used for I1–I7). Stacked on #19938 (call sites), which is
stacked on #19937 (helper).

**Problem**
The named crash points cannot be exercised end to end. No command arms
one point, runs real agent tasks across it, restarts, and grades the
result.

**Expected behavior**
`node scripts/crash-points.mjs --points <glob> --kinds <id> --adapters
<list>` runs one wave per selected point and reports each point as pass,
fail (with failing R rules and violated invariants), not reached, or
harness error. A `workflow_dispatch` workflow runs the same thing on
demand.

## What Changed

- **Runtime arming.** `PAPERCLIP_CRASH_POINT_CONTROL=<file>`, in the
shared helper and the runner mirror. Each hit reads `<token>
<name>[:<nth>]`, and a new token resets the count. It is test mode only:
`NODE_ENV=production` ignores it, and the disarmed path is still one
comparison.
- **`tests/restart-chaos/main.ts --crash-point
<a>:<nth>,<b>:<nth>,...`** (config, types, ledger):
  - one booted server and no Vite UI;
- per point: take an invariant baseline, launch the point's batch, arm
the point, then on rest disarm it and check invariants as violations
that are new since the baseline;
  - every task is graded R1–R6 and T;
  - `crash-point.json` (v2) holds one entry per point.
- **`tests/restart-chaos/supervisor.ts`:**
  - every spawn gets the control file;
- a SIGKILL whose receipt names the child's pid is restarted like K1:
the control file is emptied first, the owned tree is killed, and a
replacement starts. A failed tree cleanup fails the fault;
- the isolated instance pins `PAPERCLIP_IN_WORKTREE=false` (a
`.paperclip/.env` above the checkout otherwise suppressed all
scheduling);
  - `RESTART_CHAOS_HEALTH_TIMEOUT_MS`.
- **`tests/restart-chaos/invariants.ts`:**
- the Phase 1 report-only pass with `record: false`: two real-clock
passes for I1 and I2, and one pass 15 minutes ahead for I3, I4 and I7;
  - spool kinds are read from the wave's instance;
  - an unfinished pass is a harness error;
  - each violation carries its wake and run state as evidence.
- **`tests/restart-chaos/crash-points.ts` and
`scripts/crash-points.mjs`:**
- select points by glob, kind and environment, and run them in one wave;
  - a per-point outcome: pass, fail, not_reached or harness_error;
  - `SUMMARY.md` with a violation evidence column.
- **`.github/workflows/crash-points.yml`**, manual only, under the
paid-workflow contract:
  - a credential-free `authorize` job;
  - a `suite` job in `runner-e2e-paid` whose first step reauthorizes;
  - a frozen install with `--ignore-scripts` and no shared cache;
  - only the selected adapters' keys;
  - the workflow is added to both security-test allowlists.
- **Docs:** "Crash-point suite" in `tests/restart-chaos/README.md`, and
"Built (Phase 5)" plus the first work list in the plan.

## Verification

- Focused tests:
- `pnpm exec vitest run --config tests/restart-chaos/vitest.config.ts
tests/restart-chaos/crash-points.test.ts`;
- `cd packages/shared && npx vitest run src/crash-points.test.ts`: 15
tests, including runtime arming in a real child process;
- `node --test scripts/__tests__/release-verify-workflow.test.mjs`: 72
tests;
  - `tests/runner-e2e/workflow-security.test.ts`: 19 tests.
- Typecheck: `node scripts/typecheck-test-projects.mjs
tests/restart-chaos` passes.
- Loop line: question "how long is one crash-point loop?" | loop: `node
scripts/crash-points.mjs --points <one>` (codex A1) | elapsed 2.7 min
end to end: boot 9 s, crash 9 s after arming, replacement ready in 6 s,
rest about 2 min | result: one point alone takes about 3 min. Before
this change it took about 15 min (one cold boot per point, Vite UI, host
at load 77).
- Full local run, 14 points, codex A1, 11.8 min in all:
- every point was reached (the server killed itself at each one, and the
replacement came back);
  - 11 pass;
- `workspace.finalize.after_start_before_copyback` and
`workspace.finalize.after_copyback_before_done` fail I2 and R6: a
`workspace_finalize` operation stays running after the run succeeded;
- `wake.claim.after_run_running_before_wakeup_claimed` reports I4. Its
evidence shows the wake failed with "…retrying once", and the retry
delivered the work, so this is the known refusal-regex false positive.
- The 6 Daytona-only points were not run.

## Risks

- Test harness and an on-demand workflow only. No product code changes.
- `.github/**` needs a CODEOWNER review. The workflow uses provider
keys, so it refuses non-default branches and actors that are not on the
allowlist, like `runner-full-stack-e2e.yml`.
- `PAPERCLIP_IN_WORKTREE=false` is pinned in every chaos wave, not only
crash-point waves. A chaos instance is never a worktree dev instance, so
scheduling must not be suppressed.

## Model Used

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

## Checklist

- [x] I have included a thinking path that traces from project context
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planned core work
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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
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Devin FoleyandPaperclip ab82ac0191 fix(workspaces): retire recovered workspace copies after a successful turn (#19979)
## Thinking Path

> - Paperclip is the open source app people use to manage AI agents for
work.
> - With remote (sandbox) execution, every turn ends by saving the whole
working folder, so the next turn can continue on any sandbox.
> - When a run is cut off mid-turn and its task continues in a new
workspace, preparation attaches the dead run's saved workspace under
`.paperclip-recovered/<operationId>`, so the agent can recover
unfinished work.
> - Nothing ever removes that attachment. Every later save archives and
uploads it again, and a new sandbox restores it again.
> - The attachment is a full workspace, `.git` included, so every save
for that task is roughly twice as big. The extra size lasts until the
task ends.
> - This pull request removes an attachment after a run that was shown
it succeeds, and keeps a retired record so it is never attached or shown
again.
> - The benefit is that affected tasks go back to normal save sizes
after their first successful turn, without changing how recovered work
reaches the agent.

## Linked Issues or Issue Description

**What existing behavior does this improve?**
Recovery attachments in remote workspaces
(`.paperclip-recovered/<operationId>`).

**Subsystem affected**
Server: remote workspace preparation and recovery attachments.

**Current behavior**
`retainRemoteRecoveryAttachments` keeps every recorded attachment on
every later preparation, and no code path removes one. On one hosted
instance, 10 active workspaces carried 18 attachments. One task's saves
went from 746 MB to 1,472 MB at a single save and stayed there. The
largest grew from 709 MB to 3.3 GB. A 3.3 GB workspace needs most of a
10 GB sandbox disk during each save. When a task moves again, the new
attachment contains the older one, so the copies nest.

**Proposed behavior**
Each live attachment records the run it was shown to. When that run has
succeeded, the next preparation removes the attachment from the sandbox,
after checking its exact provenance. It keeps a `retired` record, so:
- a sandbox restored from an older save is cleaned up too;
- the attachment is never attached or shown to an agent again.

**Reason and benefit**
A run that saw the attachment and succeeded had a full turn to use it.
Removing it then returns the task's saves to normal size and frees
sandbox disk.

**Breaking changes**
None. Records written before this change have no `presentedToRunId`.
They are stamped on their next preparation and retired after the
following successful run.

Related: none found.

## What Changed

- `remote-workspace-recovery-attachments.ts`:
- New `retiredRecoveryAttachments`. It returns attachments already
retired, and attachments shown to a different run that has since
succeeded.
- `retainRemoteRecoveryAttachments` removes those attachments from the
sandbox and keeps a `retired: true` record for each.
- `attachPreservedRemoteWorkspaceSnapshots` skips retired operation IDs.
- `workspace-recovery-snapshot.ts`: `attachPreservedWorkspaceSnapshots`
also skips retired operation IDs.
- `remote-workspace-transport.ts`: new `removeRemoteRecoveryAttachment`.
- It reuses the attachment probe's checks: a real directory under the
workspace root, and an exact `provenance.json`.
  - It makes read-only directories writable before removing them.
  - It removes `.paperclip-recovered` once it is empty.
- Anything else at that path fails the preparation instead of being
deleted.
- `remote-workspaces.ts`: computes the retired set before attaching. It
writes `presentedToRunId` on each live record, and keeps retired records
unchanged.
- `heartbeat/workspace-preparation.ts`: never shows retired records to
an agent.
- `doc/execution-semantics.md`: describes retirement.

## Verification

- `pnpm --filter @paperclipai/server typecheck`: exit 0.
- New tests:
- `remote-workspace-transport.test.ts`: removal against real sandbox
commands. It removes an attachment with exact provenance, including a
read-only directory, and leaves sibling attachments. It refuses a
foreign proof or a symlinked directory without deleting anything. It
reports a missing attachment, and removes the empty parent folder.
- `workspace-recovery-preparation.test.ts`, new `retired_followup` case.
The run shown the attachment succeeds. The next preparation, on a fresh
sandbox restored from that run's save, removes the attachment and
records it as retired. A later preparation after a failed run still
neither attaches nor shows it.
- `ordinary_followup` (the agent deleted the attachment itself) now also
ends with a retired record instead of an empty list.
- A retired operation ID is not attached again, even to an empty
destination.
- 13 recovery and remote-workspace suites: 836 passed. With the source
change reverted, the 3 new or changed preparation cases and the 5 new
transport cases fail.

## Risks

- **An agent can lose access to recovered work after one successful
turn.** That happens if a successful run never looked at the attachment.
The source run's saved snapshot in storage is not touched, so an
operator can still recover it.
- **Retired records stay in workspace metadata.** There is one small
record per attachment, and each later preparation sends one sandbox
probe per record.
- **Nested attachments are unchanged.** If no turn succeeds between two
moves, the newer attachment still contains the older one. That older
copy may hold work nobody has recovered yet, so this change does not
drop it.
- Low risk overall: the change is limited to remote workspace
preparation and is fail-closed on provenance.

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

## Model Used

- Claude Opus 5.5 (`claude-opus-5-5`) in Claude Code, with tool use
(shell, file edits, test runs, read-only database queries). AI-assisted
investigation, change and tests, with human direction.

## Checklist

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- [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
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links (only public GitHub `#NNN` / `github.com/paperclipai/paperclip`
URLs)
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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
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DottaandClaude Opus 5.5 f6cb3e43f4 fix(admission): admit new work independent of other runs' cleanup and accounting (#19944)
## Thinking Path

> - Paperclip is the open source app people use to manage AI agents for
work
> - Budget admission decides if new agent work can start in a company
> - Five admission gates waited on the cleanup or accounting of other
runs
> - The restart-chaos campaign found that these gates froze companies
for up to 10 minutes, caused false budget pauses, denied in-run writes,
and dropped wakes, comments and Retries
> - The durable ownership plan (Decision 1) removes the company-wide
accounting gate. It does not narrow it again
> - This pull request removes the five gates. Unfinished accounting now
adds its bounded estimate to exposure
> - The benefit is that one run's unsettled accounting never stops the
other work in its company

## Linked Issues or Issue Description

Refs #19831 (plan, section D), #19838 (inventory, finding 3), #19927
(Phase 2 reconciler data), #19497, #19724, #19826.

**What happened?**
Admission refused new work in these cases, with no reached hard stop and
no pause:
- a terminal run awaited accounting (`waitingRunCount`);
- a native run recovered its accounting (`recoveringRunCount`);
- a budget-owned scope hold awaited reconciliation, after the hard stop
no longer applied;
- a budget input was older than 15 s (`budget_evaluation_work`);
- the predecessor run row of a task was missing (`hasPendingRunCleanup`
failed closed).

**Expected behavior**
Admission never waits on the cleanup or accounting of another run. Only
a reached hard stop, an explicit pause or an inactive company refuses
new work (invariant 3).

**Steps to reproduce**
Make a company with an active budget policy. Leave one failed run with
`cost_accounting_pending = true`. Request work for another agent. On
`master` admission refuses with "Company cannot start work while
completed runs await accounting."

## What Changed

- `budgets.ts`: admission refuses only for a reached hard stop or an
explicit pause. The code removes `observedBlocks`, the
`recoveringRunCount` check, the stale `budgetHeld` refusal and the 15 s
input-age gate. It also removes the unused
`inspectInvocationEligibility`. `reconcileScope` no longer returns
accounting holds.
- `budget-exposure.ts`: removes the `waiting` and `recovering`
aggregates and the own-task subquery. The admission query is smaller.
Unfinished accounting stays exposure: the larger of the held reservation
and the observed cost.
- `budget-evaluation-work.ts`: removes `oldestBudgetInputAt`, which
nothing reads now.
- `execution-blocker.ts`: `hasPendingRunCleanup` returns false for a
missing run row. A run row that is deleted removes its finalization
coordinator and nulls its lease references, so the row owns nothing. A
predecessor that owns a lease or a coordinator still holds the successor
of its own task.
- `recovery/ownership-invariant-report.ts`: the I3 check no longer
mirrors the removed gate. It reports a wake request or a run that was
refused with an accounting-hold reason. Any such report is a regression.
- `doc/SPEC-implementation.md`: adds the product rule "Admission is
independent of cleanup and accounting". `doc/execution-semantics.md` is
aligned.

## Verification

- New `server/src/__tests__/admission-independent-of-cleanup.test.ts`,
on embedded Postgres. It has one case per gate. All six cases fail on
`master` and pass here. A seventh case (an explicit pause still refuses)
passes on both. One case also asserts invariant 3 together with
exposure: two failed runs that each hold a 400-cent reservation fill a
1000-cent budget, and a hard stop still refuses.
- Existing tests that asserted the old gates now assert admission
(invariants 3 and 4): `closed-native-receipt-accounting`,
`budgets-service`, `budget-evaluation-work`,
`heartbeat-held-comment-wake`, `ownership-reconciliation-report`. In
`heartbeat-held-comment-wake`, each saved comment, Retry, assignment and
continuation is delivered exactly once while another run's accounting is
pending. Settling accounting later does not deliver it again.
- All six files pass locally, one file per process. The server package
typecheck passes.
- Speed: admission is on the turn path. This change only removes work
from it: two correlated aggregates, one own-task subquery and one
`budget_evaluation_work` read per policy. No wait or I/O is added before
`turn.start`.
- Not run here: the chaos waves (K13 storm, K6 crash loop, K4 long
holds). The coordinating session schedules them on the shared harness.

## Risks

- Behavior change: work starts while accounting for other runs settles.
Spend stays bounded by the reservation capacity check and the hard stop,
which read the ledger plus observed cost. A run that has no reservation
and no observed cost adds zero exposure until its charge commits. This
is the gap that Decision 1 accepts. Budget enforcement was already best
effort (SPEC 11.6).
- A budget-owned pause with no reached hard stop no longer refuses work
in budget admission. The paused company or agent is still refused by the
existing pause checks until the budget worker lifts the pause.

## Model Used

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

## Checklist

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DottaandClaude Opus 5.5 a4a3e342ec fix(recovery): charge a restart attempt only when the provider accepted a turn and made no progress (#19948)
## Thinking Path

> - Paperclip is the open source app people use to manage AI agents for
work
> - A run has an execution recovery budget: three provider attempts for
native runs, and two failure retries for legacy runs
> - In the restart chaos campaign, control-plane restarts used up that
budget for runs that were healthy (RC-22, 22b, 22c, 40 and 60)
> - #19720 and #19747 fixed two variants with watermark heuristics, and
legacy interrupted preparation still spent the failure budget
> - The durable-ownership plan (section F, invariant 5) asks for one
rule: charge an attempt only when a recorded outcome proves that
provider work started and no progress followed
> - This pull request adds that rule and moves the native restart charge
and the legacy preparation retry onto it
> - The benefit is that a restart never spends budget for work the
provider never started, while real failure loops and crash loops stay
bounded

## Linked Issues or Issue Description

Refs #19720, #19747, #19856

**What happened?**
A control-plane restart charges a provider attempt by heuristics. The
first crash restart always charges. A later restart charges unless the
previous resume had no start evidence (#19747) or completed work
(#19720). A runner that spawned but whose provider never accepted a turn
counted as started, so a K6 crash loop could still spend the budget.
Legacy runs whose preparation a restart interrupted
(`providerWorkStarted: false`) spent `failureRetries`, the same counter
as real failures (`execution-recovery-attempt.ts`).

**Expected behavior**
An attempt is charged only when the provider accepted a turn
(`turn.accepted` or `turn.started`) and no accepted turn then completed
work. A startup before spawn, a runner that spawned but was never
admitted, and a `turn.start` the provider did not accept are not
charged. The generation-12 cap still bounds uncharged restarts.

**Steps to reproduce**
Start a native run at its last attempt. Kill the controller after the
runner spawns but before the provider accepts a turn. Before this
change, the next restart claim blocks the run with
`execution_recovery_budget_exhausted`.

## What Changed

- New `server/src/services/native-runtime/provider-attempt-outcome.ts`:
the one rule. `readProviderAttemptOutcome()` returns
`provider_not_started`, `provider_started_without_progress` or
`provider_progressed` from run events. `providerAttemptChargesBudget()`
charges only the second. `providerAttemptWindowStart()` starts the
attempt window at the latest `native.process_start_requested`, so
earlier work never counts for a later attempt.
`PROVIDER_ATTEMPT_CREDIT_GENERATION_LIMIT` (12) is the shared cap.
- `restartResumeKeepsAttempt()` (`native-restart-recovery.ts`) now
applies that rule to the attempt the restart interrupted, including the
first restart. It keeps the unstarted-resume carry from #19747, the
reattachment rule (an adopted provider counts as started), the drain
exemption from #19625, and the generation-12 cap. A history entry from
an older release without a recorded position still charges.
- Legacy runs: `interrupted_preparation` is now an uncharged retry lane
(`execution-recovery-attempt.ts`). It keeps its own counter, bounded at
the same cap (12), and never changes `failureRetries`. `retries.ts` uses
the longest transient delay after the second lane attempt.
- `doc/execution-semantics.md` states the rule.
- Accounting has its own "provider work started" readers (inventory
Summary finding 5). Phase 3 owns those; this PR exposes the rule for
them to adopt and does not change them.

## Verification

- `native-runner-restart-recovery.integration.test.ts` (embedded
Postgres, real `claimNativeRestartRecoveries`): 129 passed. New cases,
red on master:
- not charged at the last attempt for a claimed remote bootstrap, a
remote bootstrap retry, and a claimed unlaunched remote run;
- not charged when the runner spawned but was never admitted, and when
the provider did not accept `turn.start`;
- not charged on the first restart when the original attempt already
made progress;
- a normal retry that spawned but was never admitted is not charged, and
earlier work still does not count for it.
- Counter-cases, green on master and with the change: an accepted
`turn.accepted` or `turn.started` with no progress is charged; the
generation cap blocks at the last attempt; crash loops with and without
progress stay bounded; the #19720 and #19747 cases still pass.
- `execution-recovery-attempt.test.ts`: new lane tests (red on master).
- `workspace-recovery-preparation-dispatch.test.ts` (25 passed),
`heartbeat-process-recovery.test.ts` (interrupted-run cases),
`run-dispatch/adapters/postgres.test.ts` (interrupted cases).
- `server` typecheck (`scripts/typecheck-layers.mjs`, low-memory mode):
no errors.
- Not run: chaos waves (the coordinator schedules them on this host),
and the full server suite (CI covers it).

## Risks

- Behavior change: the first crash restart no longer charges when no
accepted turn is recorded. If a crash lands before the controller
projects the provider's `turn.accepted`, that attempt is not charged.
This fails toward more retries, and the generation-12 cap bounds it.
- A legacy preparation crash loop now gets up to 12 retries instead of
2. Each retry still passes the normal issue gates and keeps the
transient delay.
- The new queries use the `(run_id, seq)` index, once per restart claim.
Nothing new runs before `turn.start`.

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

## Model Used

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enabled.

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DottaandClaude Opus 5.5 b4842df1e4 docs(plans): Phase 2 Daytona wave results (#19947)
## Thinking Path

> - Paperclip is the open source app people use to manage AI agents for
work.
> - Phase 2 of the durable-ownership plan moves in-progress record kinds
to one shared ownership path, guided by chaos data.
> - The first data doc (#19927) covered local waves only. Remote
runners, leases and sandboxes need a Daytona wave.
> - This pull request adds the results of one Daytona wave to the data
doc.
> - The benefit is that Phase 2 and Phase 3 prioritize remote kinds from
measured data.

## Linked Issues or Issue Description

Refs #19927 (data doc), #19934 (claimed-wake settle), #19863 (speed
budgets).

**What is the problem?**
The Phase 2 data doc had no remote data.

**Where is it documented?**
`doc/plans/2026-11-07-phase2-reconciler-data.md`.

**What should change?**
Add the Daytona wave's per-kind violations, settle latency, failures and
speed numbers.

## What Changed

- Added a "Daytona wave" section: 6 tasks with K1, K2 and two K4 outages
of about 575 s. 5 of 6 passed, and R6 was clean.
- Recorded the t03 failure: a Retry was cancelled by the company-wide
accounting gate (Phase 3 scope).
- Recorded the claimed-wake leak again (#19934 fixes it) and remote
settle times of 76–107 s.
- Corrected the earlier note about the image content-ID mismatch.

## Verification

- Wave `w-20261108T012041-s9301`; the numbers come from a copy of the
kept database and the read-only ownership sampler.
- This is a docs-only change.

## Risks

- Low. Docs only. The samples are small and the doc says so.

## Model Used

- Claude Opus 5.5 (`claude-opus-5-5`), Anthropic, in Claude Code with
tool use (shell, file edits).

## Checklist

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DottaandClaude Opus 5.5 f35eb1e5ef fix(observability): judge the TTFT budget from run creation; report the wait behind a live turn (#19941)
## Thinking Path

> - Paperclip is the open source app people use to manage AI agents for
work.
> - Invariant 8 of the durable-ownership plan says turns must start
fast. #19863 added per-run speed budgets that write
`run.performance.budget_exceeded` to the run log.
> - The Phase 2 chaos data (#19927) showed follow-up TTFT about 3x over
the claude budget.
> - The cause is measurement scope. A follow-up comment posted during a
live turn waits for that turn to end, and TTFT is anchored at the
comment. The budgets came from idle follow-ups.
> - This pull request judges the TTFT budget from run creation and
reports the wait separately.
> - The benefit is that budget breaches point at real start-up slowness,
not at time spent behind a turn the user is already watching.

## Linked Issues or Issue Description

Refs #19863 (speed budgets), #19927 (Phase 2 data), #19852 (startup
sub-spans), #19888 (warm default).

**What happened?**
In two local storm waves, C1 follow-up runs breached the claude warm
TTFT budget (p50 27.6–29.9 s against 9.5 s). Their spans show
`comment.to_run_created` at 6–62 s (waiting for the live turn), then
session resume at 1.4–3.8 s and submit-to-first-event at 2–5 s. Codex
without the wait was about 4.8 s, the same as the warm-follow-up
baseline.

**What did you expect?**
The budget should judge start-up latency, which is what its baseline
measured. The wait behind a live turn should be visible but not judged.

**Steps to reproduce**
1. Run a local chaos storm with C1 tasks.
2. Read `run.performance.budget_exceeded` rows with metric `ttft` for
`issue_commented` runs, and compare them with each run's
`comment.to_run_created` span.

## What Changed

- `native-run-trace.ts`: the TTFT budget check measures from run
creation (start of `heartbeat.queue`, or end of the ingress span). The
TTFT span itself does not change.
- `native-speed-budgets.ts`: breaches can carry `inputWaitMs` (TTFT
only).
- `tests/restart-chaos/ttft-baseline-stats.ts` and `ttft-baseline.ts`:
the wait behind a live turn is its own measured step (`inputWait`), next
to the full TTFT and the TTFT from run creation. The TTFT table gains a
"Wait behind live turn" column. The full comment-to-first-token time
stays the user-visible metric.
- `doc/run-log-events.md` and the plan's speed-budget section describe
the rule.

## Verification

- `cd server && npx vitest run
src/services/native-runtime/native-speed-budgets.test.ts
src/services/native-runtime/native-run-trace.test.ts`: 43 pass, 2 new.
`pnpm exec vitest run --config tests/restart-chaos/vitest.config.ts
tests/restart-chaos/ttft-baseline-stats.test.ts`: 12 pass, 1 new. They
cover a follow-up under budget after a 60 s wait (no breach), a
follow-up over budget (breach with `inputWaitMs`), and queueing after
run creation still judged.
- Server typecheck passes.

## Risks

- Low. This is a run-log-only change (AGENTS.md §5.7): no Telemetry and
no span attributes change.
- A slow wait before run creation is no longer a TTFT budget breach. The
TTFT span still records it, and the breach payload names it. Admission
holds after run creation are still judged.

## Model Used

- Claude Opus 5.5 (`claude-opus-5-5`), Anthropic, in Claude Code with
tool use (shell, file edits).

## Checklist

- [x] I have included a thinking path that traces from project context
to this change
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details)
- [x] I have checked ROADMAP.md and confirmed this PR does not duplicate
planned core work
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them above
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links (only public GitHub `#NNN` / `github.com/paperclipai/paperclip`
URLs)
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and contains no internal Paperclip ticket id or instance-derived details
- [x] I have run tests locally and they pass
- [x] I have added or updated tests where applicable
- [x] I have updated relevant documentation to reflect my changes
- [x] I have considered and documented any risks above
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DottaandClaude Opus 5.5 17b9e10252 docs(plans): Phase 2 reconciler data; let chaos K4 holds reach 600 s (#19927)
## Thinking Path

> - Paperclip is the open source app people use to manage AI agents for
work.
> - Control-plane restarts leave in-progress records that each subsystem
releases in its own way. The durable-ownership plan replaces those paths
with one shared path.
> - Phase 1 added a report-only reconciler. Its light local waves showed
zero violations, and that proves little.
> - Phase 2 moves kinds to the shared path. It needs data that shows
which kinds really leak, and the speed numbers to protect.
> - This pull request records that data from harsher waves. It also
fixes the harness so that K4 outages past the reconnect grace qualify.
> - The benefit is that Phase 2 moves kinds in order of measured risk,
against a known speed baseline.

## Linked Issues or Issue Description

Refs #19831 (durable-ownership plan), #19861 (report-only reconciler),
#19863 (speed budgets), #19797 (K4 hold cap).

**What is the problem?**
Phase 2 needs per-kind invariant data and speed data from harsh restart
waves. Only light local waves existed. In addition, a K4 hold over about
405 s always failed its fault receipt, so the 600 s cap from #19797
could not be used.

**Where is it documented?**
`doc/plans/2026-11-07-durable-ownership-and-reconciliation.md` (Phase 2
rows) and `tests/restart-chaos/README.md`.

**What should change?**
Record the data in a dated plan doc. Let chaos K4 holds run up to 600 s
and still qualify.

## What Changed

- Added `doc/plans/2026-11-07-phase2-reconciler-data.md`. It covers 5
unmasked local waves (two storms, a crash loop, two K4 runs). It gives
per-kind violation counts with example rows, owner verdicts, TTFT, boot
and restart recovery against the budgets, Phase 3 gate notes, and what
is not covered (Daytona).
- Added a short pointer to that doc in the durable-ownership plan.
- `tests/restart-chaos`: new flag `--k4-hold-max-seconds` (120–600). It
raises the upper end of the seeded K4 hold. The default range (120–300
s) does not change.
- `tests/runner-e2e/controller-outage.ts`: the receipt's ready bound is
now a parameter (`CONTROLLER_READY_BY_MS`, default 420 s). Runner suites
keep 420 s. The chaos supervisor passes hold + 420 s, so a hold past the
Runner's reconnect grace qualifies.

## Verification

- `pnpm exec vitest run --config tests/restart-chaos/vitest.config.ts`:
12 files, 135 tests pass, including the new flag test.
- `pnpm exec vitest run --config tests/runner-e2e/vitest.config.ts
tests/runner-e2e/controller-outage.test.ts`: 36 pass, including the new
long-hold receipt test.
- `node scripts/typecheck-test-projects.mjs tests/restart-chaos` and
`tests/runner-e2e`: pass.
- Live: the K4 wave at seed 9203 failed 3 of 6 tasks with the old bound
(fault error "did not produce a qualifying replacement receipt"). It
passed 6 of 6 with this fix, with holds of 294–579 s.

## Risks

- Low risk. The changes are test harness code and docs only. The runner
suites keep the 420 s ready bound by default.
- The data is local only. The doc says which kinds the waves do not
reach.

## Model Used

- Claude Opus 5.5 (`claude-opus-5-5`), Anthropic, in Claude Code with
tool use (shell, file edits). The model ran the chaos waves and wrote
the analysis and code.

## Checklist

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planned core work
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and contains no internal Paperclip ticket id or instance-derived details
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- [x] I have updated relevant documentation to reflect my changes
- [x] I have considered and documented any risks above
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DottaandClaude Opus 5.5 7fd98682ca fix(workspaces): give every subtask its own execution workspace (#19860)
## Thinking Path

> - Paperclip is the open source app people use to manage AI agents for
work
> - Agents split work into child tasks, and each task runs in an
execution workspace (a checkout, branch, or sandbox folder)
> - Since early 2026, a new child task used its parent's realized
workspace by default: the same checkout, branch and sandbox
> - A parent and its child often run at the same time. Two writers in
one folder lose each other's files, the waking parent is cancelled with
`workspace_busy`, and sandbox lease ownership crosses from the parent
into the child, so retained-file recovery refuses the workspace as
ambiguous
> - The product rule is simple: a subtask gets its own workspace,
independent of the parent's saved files. Paperclip never needs to carry
a parent's unmerged changes into a child
> - This pull request makes that the only behaviour on every creation
path, and moves existing shared children to their own workspace on their
next run, with no user or admin action
> - The benefit is that parents and children never block or overwrite
each other, and recovery ownership stays with one task

## Linked Issues or Issue Description

**What happened?**
A child task inherited its parent's realized execution workspace by
default (`createChild` defaulted to `executionWorkspaceInheritanceMode:
"linkage"`, and `issueService.create` fell back from
`inheritExecutionWorkspaceFromIssueId` to `parentId`). When the parent
woke while the child wrote to the shared workspace, the parent run was
cancelled with `workspace_busy`. In sandbox environments, the lease
ownership chain crossed from the parent into the child, and
retained-file recovery refused the workspace with
`allocation_ownership_ambiguous`.

**Expected behavior**
Every new child task gets its own execution workspace, realized from the
project base exactly as a top-level task in that project. It never uses
the parent's checkout, branch, saved snapshot or unmerged changes. A
parent and its descendant never share a workspace by any route.

**Steps to reproduce**
1. Run a parent task in a project with isolated (git worktree) or
sandbox workspaces, so the parent has a realized execution workspace.
2. From the parent run, create a child task with only `parentId` (or
through the runner `create_task` tool, chat suggestions, decision
effects, plugins, or the New sub-task dialog).
3. See that the child's `executionWorkspaceId` is the parent's, with
`executionWorkspacePreference: "reuse_existing"`.
4. Wake the parent while the child runs in a sandbox environment. The
parent run is cancelled with `workspace_busy`.

**Additional context**
Refs #9233 (the existing `strategy_only` opt-out).
The opt-out `executionWorkspaceInheritanceMode: "strategy_only"` already
existed for accepted-plan decomposition. This change makes that
behaviour (tightened to drop a pinned existing branch) the only
behaviour.

## What Changed

- **One rule for every creation path
(`server/src/services/issues.ts`).** `issueService.create` still uses
the parent (or `inheritExecutionWorkspaceFromIssueId`) as a source for
the project, project workspace and workspace *strategy*, but it never
copies the source's `executionWorkspaceId`, `reuse_existing` preference,
or pinned existing branch. All server paths that create a task go
through `create()`/`createChild()`: issue routes (`POST /issues`, `POST
/issues/:id/children`, the run-bound default parent and run workspace
source), runner `create_task`, chat suggestion acceptance, native status
decisions, accepted-plan decomposition, decision effects, plugins
(`ctx.issues.create`), external agents, watchdog follow-ups, monitor
recovery issues, case handoffs and email channels.
- **Explicit ancestor workspaces are dropped.** If a create names an
`executionWorkspaceId` (or an `existing` workspace selection) that an
ancestor of the new task created or is bound to, `create()` drops it and
keeps only the strategy. Older clients and skills that copied the
parent's id keep working and get an independent workspace.
- **`createChild` no longer has a "linkage" mode.**
`executionWorkspaceInheritanceMode` is still accepted from internal
callers and is ignored.
- **`inheritExecutionWorkspaceFromIssueId` decision.** I kept the field
for API compatibility, but it now copies only the source issue's project
and workspace strategy. I removed its workspace-sharing behaviour for
every pair, not only parent/child: the source task and its follow-up can
run at the same time (the runner, watchdog and status-decision callers
all create the follow-up while the source run is live), so sharing would
again let two tasks write one folder. Explicit sharing between unrelated
tasks stays available through an explicit `existing` workspace
selection.
- **New `server/src/services/task-workspace-lineage.ts`.**
`buildIndependentTaskWorkspaceSettings` (strategy only: mode,
environment, runtime, network egress, shared-workspace concurrency, base
ref, branch template, commands; no `reuse_existing`, no
`operator_branch`, no `existingBranch`), `loadTaskLineageIssueIds` (the
parent chain plus, for a task that depth placement put beside its
requester, the requester's chain via `privacyParentIssueId`) and
`isAncestorExecutionWorkspace` (the workspace's `sourceIssueId` is in
that lineage, or a lineage issue is bound to it). A child in another
project does not take the parent's strategy.
- **Upgrade-safe rebind at admission.**
`executionWorkspaceService.releaseAncestorWorkspaceBindingAtAdmission`
runs at the same admission point as the pending workspace selection
(`heartbeat.ts`). For a child (or a flattened task beside its requester)
that an older release bound to an ancestor's workspace, it clears the
child's binding (keeps the project workspace and strategy, bumps the
binding revision) so the run realizes the child's own workspace. It does
nothing while another run of the child is running, while the child's
earlier run still owns workspace finalization or recovery, for native
restart/lease-owner recovery, for a process-loss retry, or for a Retry
that keeps the current workspace. The parent and its workspace are never
changed.
- **Projects without a project workspace (per-task repository
acquisition).** A parent with no project workspace worked in its own
task files, so its settings (for example `isolated_workspace`) do not
describe the project base. A child of such a parent, and an older child
released from one, takes the project's defaults exactly like a top-level
task, instead of an isolated mode that would resolve to a git worktree
with no git base ("needs a project / project workspace"). When the
child's new workspace is created at admission,
`executionWorkspaceRepositoryService.prepareForAdmission` repeats the
parent's (or requester's) repository requests as the child's own pending
requests (identity, URL, catalog id and requested ref only; no pinned
commit, branch or files). The normal acquisition path then clones a
fresh copy into the child's task files with the child's own access
checks. This runs only for a workspace created by that admission, so
existing tasks never gain repositories.
- **UI.** The New sub-task dialog no longer pre-selects the parent's
workspace. `buildSubIssueDefaults` drops `executionWorkspaceId` and
`reuse_existing`, and derives the parent's independent mode
(`shared_workspace`, `isolated_workspace` or `agent_default`) from its
preference, saved settings or current workspace. The "This sub-task will
no longer use the parent task workspace" warning is removed.
- **Contracts and docs.** Shared validator and plugin SDK comments
describe the new meaning of `inheritExecutionWorkspaceFromIssueId`.
Updated `doc/execution-semantics.md` (new rule in §6 and a wording fix
in the retained-sandbox paragraph), `doc/SPEC-implementation.md` (child
workspace rule, requester keeps *strategy* inheritance, watchdog
follow-ups), `doc/SPEC.md` (task workspace ownership),
`docs/specs/external-task-protocol.md`, `skills/paperclip/SKILL.md`
(step 9 and the workspace bullet),
`skills/paperclip/references/issue-workspaces.md`, the CEO onboarding
`HEARTBEAT.md`, and the plugin SDK README.

### Previous-release story (`rules/upgrade-safe-run-state.mdc`)

- **Migrated on next admission.** A child that the previous release
bound to its parent's (or any ancestor's) execution workspace keeps that
binding until its next normal admission. Then the server clears the
binding and the run realizes the child's own workspace from the project
base. No schema migration is needed. No user or admin action is needed.
- **In-flight writers finish first.** A running child is not
interrupted. Its current run, its native restart recovery (admitted
native input or lease owner), a process-loss retry, and a Retry that
keeps the current workspace all finish in the shared workspace. While a
child's earlier run is still running or its workspace finalization or
recovery is unsettled, the binding stays and a later admission releases
it.
- **No files are dropped.** The release changes only the child's binding
row. The parent keeps its binding, and the shared workspace row, folder,
branch and saved snapshots are not touched. Anything the child left
there stays in the parent's workspace.
- **No new refusal codes.** Saved run identity (native execution input,
leases, checkpoints) is not changed or refused; the rebind only affects
new admissions.

## Verification

- New `server/src/__tests__/subtask-workspace-independence.test.ts`
(embedded Postgres): `create` with `parentId`, `createChild` with no
mode / `"linkage"` / `"strategy_only"`,
`inheritExecutionWorkspaceFromIssueId` pointing at the parent, explicit
parent and grandparent `executionWorkspaceId`, a non-child follow-up,
and unchanged top-level defaults and explicit top-level reuse. 7
creation cases fail on `master` and pass with this change. Admission
cases: an old-release child is rebound while its parent is running and
the parent keeps its workspace; a running child is not rebound (deploy
lands mid-run); an unrelated explicit share is kept; the parent is never
rebound.
- New heartbeat case in
`server/src/__tests__/heartbeat-workspace-busy.test.ts`: an old-release
child bound to its running parent's workspace in a sandbox environment
runs to `succeeded` with no `workspace_busy`, gets a new workspace, and
the parent run and binding stay unchanged. It fails on `master` (the
child waits with `workspace_busy`).
- Updated tests that asserted the old inheritance in
`issues-service.test.ts`, `task-workspace-binding.test.ts`,
`chat-project-tools.test.ts`, `task-workspace-child-trust.test.ts`,
`heartbeat-git-restore-point-resume.test.ts` (a child bound to a closed
parent's expired workspace now starts from the project base and leaves
the parent's restore point alone), and
`ui/src/lib/subIssueDefaults.test.ts`. Remote-workspace reservation,
continuation and writer-wait suites now seed the older-release shared
shape directly (or an unrelated explicit share), so those safety paths
stay covered.
- `npx vitest run` on the changed suites and about 45 related server
suites (heartbeat workspace, recovery admission, issue routes, routines,
plugins), `ui` `subIssueDefaults` and `NewIssueDialog` tests, `pnpm
check:token-gates`, `pnpm -r typecheck`.

- New
`server/src/__tests__/heartbeat-subtask-acquired-repository.test.ts`: a
project with no project workspace, a parent whose task files hold an
acquired repository with an unmerged change, and a child (new, and the
older-release shape bound to the parent's workspace) that runs to
`succeeded` in its own task files with a fresh clone at the project base
and its own ready repository receipt. The parent's checkout keeps its
change. Both cases fail on the previous head with "needs a project /
project workspace".

## Risks

- **Project-level configuration still applies to children exactly as to
top-level tasks.** In a project configured for `shared_workspace`, every
task (top-level or child) uses the project's one folder under the
existing shared-workspace concurrency policy. A branch that the project
itself pins applies to every task in the project. This PR removes only
the parent-to-child carry-over of the realized workspace; it does not
change those project defaults.
- **Standalone follow-ups that an older release bound through
`inheritExecutionWorkspaceFromIssueId`** are migrated only when the
source is in their recorded lineage (parent or privacy parent). Others
keep their explicit share and the existing writer-wait serialization.

- **Behaviour change for agents that relied on a shared checkout.** A
child or follow-up no longer sees the parent's unpushed or uncommitted
changes. Agents must push or merge code they want a subtask to build on.
The skill and onboarding text now say this.
- **Explicit ancestor workspace ids are silently dropped** instead of
rejected, so older clients do not break. The task gets an independent
workspace.
- **First run of a migrated child starts from the project base.** If an
older child had uncommitted work in the parent's workspace, that work
stays in the parent's workspace and is not copied into the child's new
workspace.
- **Admission adds one indexed read** for tasks with a parent and a
bound workspace; the locking transaction and ancestor query run only
when the bound workspace was created by another issue.

## Model Used

- Claude Opus 5.5 (Anthropic), model ID `claude-opus-5-5`, used through
Claude Code with tool use (file edits, shell, test execution) and
extended reasoning.

## 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
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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
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DottaandClaude Opus 5.5 5f1b1bb81d fix(recovery): continue from the last save when a retained source cannot be verified (#19867)
## Thinking Path

> - Paperclip is the open source app people use to manage AI agents for
work.
> - When a native run cannot save its files, a retained-file recovery
hold blocks the task until the worker saves them from the retained
sandbox.
> - The worker verifies the recorded source strictly. This includes the
reusable-lease chain of the sandbox.
> - A reusable sandbox chain can cross from a parent task into a child
task. The check then refuses the source with
`allocation_ownership_ambiguous` on every attempt.
> - Retry repeats the same refusal. The task stays blocked by three
gates: the saved-work wait, the repair flag and the remote writer hold.
The only text left tells a person to inspect the run and its
environment.
> - The source check must stay strict. Recovery must still work without
a person.
> - This pull request adds an automatic fallback: the task continues
from its last committed workspace save, the unverified files are
attached to the task but never applied, and the unverified workspace
epoch is abandoned so its root is never reused.
> - The benefit is that tasks with an unverifiable retained source
continue by themselves, with no lost saved work and no admin action.

## Linked Issues or Issue Description

Refs #19840 (removes the "inspect the run and its environment" text and
keeps Retry; this change removes the need for that Retry).

**What happened?**

A child task ran in a reusable sandbox that it inherited from its parent
task. The run saved a checkpoint, wrote more files, and then failed to
save them. Retained-file recovery refused the source with
`allocation_ownership_ambiguous`, because the lease history of the
sandbox crosses into the parent task. The hold was exhausted after one
attempt. Retry made a new generation that failed the same way. The task
stayed blocked with `saved_work_recovery_failed`,
`workspaceRepairRequired: true`, and the failed run still the dirty
writer of the workspace. A second task had a stale exhausted hold for a
run whose files a sibling recovery action had already saved. That hold
also kept the task from continuing.

**Expected behavior**

Recovery works without a person. When the source cannot be verified, the
task continues from its last saved version. The unverified files are not
applied, but they stay available. A stale hold whose files were already
saved settles as recovered.

**Steps to reproduce**

1. Use a native run with a remote workspace whose reusable sandbox lease
history includes a lease of another task.
2. Let the run save a checkpoint, write more files, and fail its final
save.
3. Let retained-file recovery run, or press Retry.
4. Before this change, the hold is exhausted with
`allocation_ownership_ambiguous` and the task stays blocked.

**Paperclip version or commit**

Observed on deployed builds that include `630411af53`. Holds saved by
the Nov 3–6 releases have this shape.

## What Changed

- New `server/src/services/workspace-recovery-fallback.ts`:
- `continueFromLastSavedWorkspace` runs when a hold is exhausted by a
permanent source refusal: `allocation_ownership_ambiguous`,
`source_binding_invalid`, `source_unavailable` or
`historical_source_missing` with retry class `service_required` or
`use_alternative_strategy`. It applies only to remote workspace sources
in the `prepared` state.
- Quarantine (secrets omitted under the workspace file policy: `.env`,
keys, repository metadata, dependency directories): if the retained root
is readable, the worker copies it with the existing read-only capture
(no write to the sandbox), converts it to a `.tar`, stores it, and
attaches it to the task as `unverified-files-run-<runId>.tar`. A
`workspace_recovery_quarantine` operation records it as `verified:
false, applied: false`. If the root is not readable, the worker records
a closed reason label.
- Stop proof: every allocation of the source run must carry a provider
stop receipt. A missing receipt is obtained through the same stop-only
cleanup as normal recovery (`prepareSandboxStopAndRetain` /
`prepareHistoricalSandboxStopVerification`,
`retryPendingSandboxTeardown`, `settleStopOnlyCleanup`). A sandbox that
another lease holds (`active` / `pending_cleanup`) is never read or
stopped from here; the hold waits.
- One transaction (lock order: task, coordinator, run, recovery action,
workspace) re-checks all facts including the stop receipts, abandons the
epoch, resolves the hold with the named outcome
`retained_source_unverifiable_continued_from_last_saved`, records an
`executionReconciliation` decision with `retainedSourceFallback`, and
denies native replacement. A Blocked task belongs to the hold only while
the hold's own `workspaceFinalizationBlock` receipt still owns that
status version, or, for receipt-less holds saved by older releases,
while the block was set by the run's terminal failure (within its
finalization window) and no status decision followed. Only then is the
task restored to `todo` and a continuation scheduled; a newer block is
kept and no continuation starts. The decision carries machine
`workspaceRepairEvidence`, which the reconciled admission requires for
runs with a restore failure.
- Continuation: with no waiting user input, the hold uses
`continuationDelivery: "pending"`, so the existing reconciled delivery
starts one continuation. Waiting user input continues the task itself
(`not_requested`), so there is never a second continuation.
- Agent note: the decision's `outcomeEvidence` (part of the
continuation's recovery outcomes) says that the run's unsaved changes
could not be verified and were not applied, where the attached copy is,
that the agent should check what to redo, and that completed external
actions must not be repeated.
- `settleSiblingRecoveredHold`: an exhausted hold whose run has a
verified repair receipt from a different recovery action settles as
recovered. It runs for every exhausted hold, including adoptable native
sources. A sibling marked recovered whose receipt no longer verifies
records a permanent deferral, so discovery does not reselect it.
- Deferral: when the fallback cannot settle yet, the hold records
`retainedSourceFallbackCheck` (reason, generation, count). Transient
reasons (live writer, running operation, missing stop, sandbox in use,
pending status effect, lock busy, storage failure) are checked again
after 5 minutes, at most 12 times. Permanent reasons (uncertain external
action, non-remote source) wait for new input, Retry or a new
generation. Storage or database failures after a successful read are
retryable and never recorded as "unreadable".
- New `server/src/services/workspace-recovery-fallback-discovery.ts`:
SQL for pending and due fallbacks. `retainedWorkspaceCandidates` (the
production worker's obligations sweep) and `nextWorkspaceRecoveryAt`
(its scheduler) include them, so the worker reaches old holds without
saved input.
- New `server/src/services/remote-workspace-epoch-abandonment.ts` (kept
out of `remote-workspaces.ts`, which is near 1,000 lines): authority
transition `abandonUnverifiedRemoteWorkspaceEpoch`. It clears the writer
and the dirty flag, keeps `snapshotId`, drops `location`, advances the
epoch, clears `providerRef` and the migration root, and records the
abandoned epoch. The next preparation restores the last save into a new
`<workspace>-<epoch>-<lease>` root.
- `server/src/services/workspace-recovery.ts`: hooks. An exhausted hold
first tries the sibling settlement, then the fallback (under the
existing workspace ownership lock). A fresh permanent refusal in an
attempt runs the fallback in the same pass, under the same ownership.
- `remote-workspace-transport.ts`: export the existing read-only
capture.
- `packages/shared`: optional `retainedSourceFallback` on
`ExecutionReconciliation`.
- `doc/execution-semantics.md`: document the fallback.
- No new polling or worker: the fallback runs inside the existing
retained-workspace recovery pass
(`rules/sleep-aware-background-work.mdc`).

Safety:

- The cross-task lease check (`retiredReusableLeasePredecessors`) is
unchanged and stays strict. Unverified files are never applied.
- No second executor: the source run, its controller and its finalizer
must be stopped. A live writer of the task or workspace, or a running
workspace operation, keeps the hold.
- No repeated external side effects: pending status effects,
non-completed or unknown API receipts, and uncertain tool invocations
keep the existing reconciliation path. The continuation keeps the
existing API receipt fences.
- Never overwrite another run's files: only the exact epoch that the
failed run wrote is abandoned, and the old root is never reused.
- Bounded and idempotent: a settled hold is never revisited. The
quarantine record is reused. A changed generation or revision leaves the
hold unchanged.

Previous-release story (`rules/upgrade-safe-run-state.mdc`): holds saved
by earlier releases carry forward. A hold saved by the Nov 3–6 releases
(`systemRecovery` exhausted with `allocation_ownership_ambiguous` /
`service_required`, board owner, old admin text) takes the fallback on
the next worker pass after deploy (restart sweep, Retry, or a new
message). No migration is needed. Refusals that do not qualify keep
today's behavior. The only new persisted shapes are additive:
`retainedSourceFallback` and `siblingWorkspaceRecovery` on the hold,
`remoteWorkspaceAbandonedEpochs` on the workspace, and a
`workspace_recovery_quarantine` operation. Earlier releases ignore them.

## Verification

- `cd server && npx vitest run
src/services/workspace-recovery-fallback.test.ts` — 15 tests:
- cross-task hold, saved by the previous release and refused fresh:
continues from the checkpoint snapshot, the quarantine `.tar` holds the
unverified file, the epoch is abandoned, `getExecutionBlocker` is
`null`, the task is `todo`, explicit continuation is not blocked by
`saved_work_recovery_failed` or `workspace_repair_required`, one
reconciled continuation is delivered, and the next writer restores into
a new root while the old root keeps its files;
  - unreadable root: continues and records the reason;
- idempotency: a second pass changes nothing and delivers no second
continuation;
  - waiting user input: no second continuation;
- negatives (live writer, pending side effect, uncertain external
action, sandbox held by another lease): the hold stays, the authority is
unchanged, nothing is attached or delivered, the deferral reason and
recheck time are recorded;
- an allocation without a stop receipt is stopped (stop-only) before the
hold settles;
- the production worker (`reconcileRetainedWorkspaces` with
`obligationsOnly`) and `nextWorkspaceRecoveryAt` discover and settle an
old hold with no saved input; a transient deferral is not revisited
until due, then settles;
- an old-release hold without a Blocked receipt keeps its status; a
current hold with the receipt is restored to `todo`;
- stale exhausted hold with a sibling-saved receipt settles as
recovered; one whose sibling receipt no longer verifies is recorded and
no longer discovered;
- a newer Blocked decision is kept and no continuation is delivered,
while the file hold settles;
  - the attached copy omits `.env` and key files.
- RED: with `workspace-recovery.ts` and `system-recovery.ts` reverted to
master, all tests fail.
- Regression suites pass: `workspace-recovery-warm-handoff`,
`workspace-recovery-retry-copyback`,
`workspace-recovery-preparation-gates`, `workspace-recovery-source`,
`task-retry`, `execution-blocker-read` (288 tests), and
`workspace-recovery-admission`, `workspace-recovery-preparation*`,
`remote-workspaces.integration`, `native-failed-workspace-recovery`,
`remote-workspace-transport`, `workspace-restore-repair-route` (683
tests).
- `server` typecheck passes.

## Risks

- A task now continues without the unverified changes of its failed run.
The agent receives a note and the attached copy, so it can redo or
re-apply the work. This replaces an indefinite block.
- Abandoning an epoch on a workspace shared with a parent task also
moves the parent to the last save. This is correct: the unverified
changes are not part of the saved lineage.
- Clearing the migration root means sessions bound to the old root start
fresh. The fallback continuation already forces a fresh session.
- The quarantine capture reads a sandbox that can be shared with another
task. It writes nothing there, and it verifies the copy against
inventories taken before and after.

## Model Used

- Provider: Anthropic. Model: Claude Opus 5.5 (`claude-opus-5-5`), with
tool use (shell, file edits, read-only browser for API inspection) in
Claude Code.

## Checklist

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

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2026-11-07 18:34:05 -06:00
Dotta eb7c7b083a Recover Muse verification after contact, restart and access restoration (#19909)
## Thinking Path

> - Paperclip manages AI agents and their work under company access
rules.
> - Muse readiness uses a saved connection, receiver contact and an
authenticated challenge reply.
> - A failed challenge write could leave a saved contact with no later
recovery trigger.
> - A server restart or restored access must recover that contact under
current authority.
> - This pull request uses the existing delivery coordinator and saved
Muse state for recovery.
> - It keeps the normal receiver schedule, authorization checks and real
deadlines.
> - It lets eligible verification recover and lets idle verification
stop work.

## Linked Issues or Issue Description

**What happened?**

The first Muse receiver contact could persist while readiness challenge
creation failed. The contact then had no durable retry or startup
recovery path. Later membership, lifecycle or feature restoration could
also leave pending verification without a notice.

**Expected behavior**

Retry a temporary failure through the existing worker. Recover pending
contact after restart. Recheck the current company, agent, operator,
credential and binding generation before issuing a challenge. Stop
verification work while it is ineligible or complete. Do not revive
revoked credentials.

**Steps to reproduce**

1. Use the normal invitation and OAuth registration, PKCE and token
flow.
2. Send one receiver contact and let its normal persistence schedule
run.
3. Fail the first readiness challenge operation before it commits.
4. Observe whether the existing worker retries without another contact
or a manual Verify action.
5. Restart the App with a new database owner. Check that it creates one
usable challenge from the saved contact.

**Paperclip version or commit**

The causal baseline test used the unchanged production implementation at
`90148317b2a447794ff29a4acae5648ad11a9770` plus its normal fixture. The
accepted positive test used `9d383041028776ad8469ac4af3fe14ba6c369425`.
The initial published head was
`fe518c9b72504daf6374225987f24d45bc7bcf75`. The lease/auth correction
was locally qualified at `cfd515a207416097fe8b586277d70c4fd4a679fa`. The
current candidate is `6efe722e7eb1e22acd466125c7b4a627611d0273`; its
added Cloud actor fixture correction passed the full normal owning
program and all 35 tests. Its current normal build, lifecycle owner
controls, healthy-wait and restoration measurements are described below.
Earlier results below are bound to their stated revisions.

Related public changes: Refs #19819 for original-principal
authentication. Refs #19750 for the transaction-owned external feature
read. These are related foundations, not duplicate fixes. The current
Muse title and head-branch searches found no duplicate
contact-verification recovery PR. Related maintenance work is #17000 and
terminal assignment settlement is #17793.

## What Changed

- Add a typed, exact-binding verification notice through the existing
Muse delivery queue.
- Register the first-contact notice before its durable write in the same
transaction.
- Recover pending contact from saved state at startup. Retry temporary
failures through the existing scheduler.
- Recheck current feature, lifecycle, credential and access state after
commit. Park unavailable authority without recurring verification scans.
- Add narrowly scoped notices to the existing access, lifecycle,
configuration, company, budget and settings write owners.
- Save a healthy lifecycle verification wait in the existing operation
JSONB. Keep generic unresolved-work and error retries unchanged.
- Commit authenticated confirmation and its lifecycle recheck in one
transaction. Retain a raced recheck under the active lease, and recover
saved waits once at startup.
- Retain a committed lifecycle recheck while an expired attempt still
owns the row, so its late wait cannot park accepted confirmation.
Replacement claims keep their existing owner fence and fresh fact read.
- Keep the receiver gap, persistence and per-segment contact limits
unchanged.
- Add real App OAuth, failure, retry, restart, challenge and quiet
evidence. Add two normal-route restoration tests.
- Document recovery, reconnect requirements and the existing
connected-receiver sleep restriction.

## Verification

- Causal baseline: the real invitation and OAuth flow saved one contact.
The first challenge operation failed. The normal test failed because it
observed one verification attempt instead of a retry. No setup or
cleanup failure was counted as this regression.
- At `9d383041`: normal own Shared/SDK, DB with migration 0441 assets,
Runner TypeScript core and surfaces, module boundaries, and all seven
normal App programs passed. One new redundant role comparison first
failed typecheck; that diagnostic remains recorded and the corrected
full App gate passed.
- At `9d383041`: all 17 maintenance component tests passed with zero
skips. All original deadline, rollback, drain, terminal settlement and
startup controls remain.
- At `9d383041`: the one normal App case passed. Real OAuth authorized
one receiver signal. A retry occurred about 5.01 seconds after the first
failure. A new Db/App owner created one challenge, advanced revision 2
to 3, and accepted authenticated confirmation and mailbox ACK. Query
instrumentation had an active positive control. All measured query,
callback, session and verifier counters stayed equal across the
unchanged scheduled 15-second quiet window. Token revocation and
old-token/signal rejection passed.
- Known App, worker, HTTP and database owners closed without cleanup
errors. The tests used bounded local PostgreSQL and HTTP fixtures. They
did not call a live Muse model.
- Current integrated semantics: the full normal App driver completed all
programs. Only a new test callback had two undefined-value diagnostics.
An explicit defined-value guard corrected that test. The full 416-root
owning program then passed with empty diagnostics. A separate collector
incorrectly required an explicit child `noEmit` field; the normal
inherited setting was verified without repeating the compiler. The
original failures remain recorded.
- The first restoration run failed both cases. Permission parking
recorded 120 main-pool queries without more verifier calls. The
lifecycle counter recorded two denials without their exact scope. These
observations remain unexplained at the individual-query/call level.
Source separately shows a lifecycle readiness retry every two seconds
while the real external reply is absent.
- At `fe518c9b`: normal Shared/SDK and DB producers, module policy, all
seven full App programs, and all 33 pure diagnostic controls passed. The
lifecycle owner file passed all 19 cases, including both
confirmation/park orders, rollback, duplicate notices, startup recovery
and authority controls.
- At `fe518c9b`: the normal OAuth failure/retry/new-Db reconstruction
case passed. Its new healthy-wait window measured 15,002 ms with
unchanged total activity before genuine confirmation; the existing ready
quiet and revocation checks also passed.
- At `fe518c9b`: both normal restoration tests passed in Vitest.
Ordinary viewer-to-operator restoration and Pause/Resume recovered the
same binding, grant and single contact; each committed one challenge and
advanced revision 2 to 3. All six parked, restored and revoked/disabled
quiet windows measured at least 15 seconds with active positive read
controls and unchanged total queries, callbacks, sessions and verifier
calls. Both cleanups passed.
- The restoration wrapper still recorded failure: it required lifetime
lifecycle denial count zero, whereas the measured count was one before
the parked quiet window. The reviewed fixture explicitly permits a
current-authority denial from an earlier observation and requires no
committed challenge before restoration. Precise denial timing relative
to Pause was not serialized. The original wrapper failure is retained;
no rerun or retrospective explanation of the earlier failures is
claimed.
- Review exposed an expired-lease race. The added real-store baseline
test failed after the late defer restored `waitingForSignal`; no setup
or timeout was counted as the regression. On `cfd515a`, the whole
lifecycle owner file passed all 20 tests, including that case. The full
normal production declaration program (1067 roots), verification program
(662), and auth owning program (405) passed; all 1942 declarations
remained byte-identical.
- The original remote auth-session shard failed three tests because
their partial query adapters lacked the new binding query's
join/order/limit chain. A fixture-only correction preserved the real
notifier and existing authorization assertions. All 12 auth-session
tests passed locally.
- Complete remote inspection also found 33 failures in the 35-test Cloud
actor fixture with the same missing `innerJoin` method and downstream
incomplete-auth assertions. Its original full log and exact synthetic
Source comparison are retained. At `6efe722e`, the three-line fixture
adapter repair passed the complete normal 662-root test program and the
whole 35-test file with zero failures or skips. All existing lock,
authorization, settings, debounce and unfinished-auth assertions remain.
- The earlier healthy/restoration quiet measurements remain bound to
`fe518c9b`. Those steady 15-second windows did not exercise a
still-owned attempt passing its 120-second lease. The targeted
expired-owner regression qualifies that new boundary; it is not a fresh
measurement of the earlier windows.
- The initial `fe518c9b` remote gates failed the auth fixtures and
reported a Greptile 4/5 P1. The aggregate failure reported the
underlying shard. Those actual causes were fixed and qualified above.
- Current `6efe722e` remote gates completed with **57 successful checks
and three explicit skips**. The full latest edited Greptile summary is
**5/5**, explicitly reviews this exact head, and has no new finding. The
original P1 thread is resolved. All general, inline and nested review
pages were read.
- One current-head CI attempt timed out after 30 seconds in the Runner
evidence/privacy file, with 6,864 passes and one failure. That file and
its transitive inputs are byte-identical to the CI base. A separate
local diagnostic preserved every assertion and the original timeout, ran
the full normal Runner test project and the entire 41-case file, and
passed all 41 with zero skips. Its private bounded timing records
measured the target body at 74 ms. The diagnostic was then removed,
restoring the exact original test. This is local recovery evidence; the
original CI stalled await was not recorded and its cause remains
**unproven**.
- One retry of only the failed jobs on the unchanged head passed the
Runner support suite and dependent aggregate verification. The complete
second attempt and original failure logs are preserved. No test,
timeout, privacy guard or product code was weakened. This result does
not turn the original timeout into an explained failure or a diagnosed
flake.
- Full recursive typecheck, full `test:run` and a full release build
were not repeated locally. The normal full App programs, focused
producers and tests above passed, and the required current-head remote
gates passed. Final review is against the exact unchanged head; local
quiet remains separate from deployed suspension.

Reviewer commands use the normal project entry points: `node
server/scripts/typecheck-layers.mjs`, the whole
`server/src/services/muse-maintenance.test.ts` file, and both normal App
PostgreSQL files. PostgreSQL fixtures require explicit owned
fixture/admin URLs and normal migrations before imports. Run the files
serially with one worker. The private controller retains exact Source,
output, worker and owner-closure receipts.

## Risks

- Missing or early producer notices could lose a restoration trigger.
Notices stay in the transaction that commits the write. The worker
checks current authority after commit.
- A stale notice must not grant access. Binding generation, current
membership, company, agent and credential checks remain authoritative.
Revoked credentials require reconnecting.
- The change adds no table, migration, alternate task queue or periodic
verification scan. It adds two optional fields to existing lifecycle
operation JSONB. Generic pending/error deadlines, setup holds and manual
repair remain obligations.
- Confirmation can race with an active verification attempt. The park
compare-and-set must retain the durable recheck. Startup recovery uses a
fixed cutoff and keyset pages; it must not become another recurring
scan. Wrong company, stale version, pause and revoked credentials must
stay fenced.
- The connected receiver still has its documented tenant-sleep
restriction. Worker quiet is not proof of deployed suspension or
external wake.
- The normal challenge reply is sent by an authenticated protocol
fixture. Live Muse background replies, cost/usage, full Muse lifecycle
and full hosted Dot behavior remain unqualified. Partial Dot profile ACK
and unsigned-device cutover stay withheld.
- Restoration coverage for the additional company, budget, configuration
and feature producers remains a separate qualification obligation. This
pull request does not mark the whole hosted area complete.

## Model Used

OpenAI `gpt-6.1-sol` authored the implementation and tests with local
code and tool use. A GPT-6-based Codex coordinator reviewed the changes
and owns integration. Its exact underlying model ID is not exposed.
Context window sizes are unavailable. No context size is inferred.

## 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
2026-11-07 16:41:15 -06:00
DottaandClaude Opus 5.5 cbf811cd3b fix(recovery): prove a replaced deployment's copyback owner gone automatically (#19913)
## Thinking Path

> - Paperclip is the open source app people use to manage AI agents for
work
> - Native runs save their workspace after the result is accepted, under
a copyback owner receipt
> - A deploy can restart the server while that save is in progress
> - The new server runs in a new container, so it cannot see the old
process and fails closed
> - The run then waits on a board action that asks a person to verify
the previous controller
> - Recoveries must continue without a human step, and copy must not ask
anyone to inspect a server
> - This pull request adds a deployment-level rule to the shared
owner-liveness primitive and uses it in workspace finalization
> - The benefit is that a save interrupted by a deploy resumes on its
own, with no second writer

## Linked Issues or Issue Description

**What happened?**
A deploy restarted the server while three runs were saving their
accepted results. Each run kept a copyback owner receipt that names the
old Railway deployment on another container. The restarted server
reported `native_workspace_finalization_owner_unverified`, owned by the
board, with the next action "Verify the previous controller and its
workspace-copyback processes have stopped...". The cloud harness stop
receipt did not arrive, so the runs stayed in "Recovery needed" for
about an hour, until a person confirmed the stop by hand.

**Expected behavior**
The restarted server proves that the previous controller is gone,
resumes the save, and settles the run with no human step. No user-facing
text asks a person to verify a server or controller.

**Steps to reproduce**
1. Start a native run on a Railway service with a volume.
2. Let the result be accepted and the workspace save start.
3. Deploy, so that the server restarts during the save.
4. See that the run waits for a board confirmation.

**Paperclip version or commit**
Observed on e2d490c61. Reproduced on master before this change. The
owner-proof work in #19848, #19851, #19853, #19868, #19871 and #19883
does not cover this shape: `proveOwnerGone` returns `unprovable`
(`different_host`) for an owner on another container.

## What Changed

- `owner-proof.ts`: `LocalOwnerStamp` can carry the platform `worker`
(deployment identity). `ProcessProbe` can carry this process's
deployment and whether the platform gives it an exclusive volume. New
verdict reason `deployment_replaced`.
- New rule in `proveOwnerGone`, after the current-boot check: the owner
is gone when this server runs with a Railway volume
(`RAILWAY_VOLUME_ID`, `RAILWAY_VOLUME_MOUNT_PATH`) and the stamp names
the same project, environment and service with a different deployment
ID. Railway stops the previous deployment before it mounts the volume
into the new one, and a service with a volume has no replicas. So every
process of the old deployment, including orphaned copyback children, has
exited.
- `native-workspace-finalization-ownership.ts`: evaluate that proof
before the cloud harness request. On `deployment_replaced`, claim the
exact owner receipt under the existing advisory lock and row-lock
revalidation, log `issue.workspace_owner_stop_verified` with
`deploymentProof`, mark the recovery `resuming`, and continue the save
with no provider turn. Other cases keep the harness request and the
existing fences.
- New owner receipts also record the mounted volume ID (`volumeId`).
When a receipt has it, the proof requires this server to mount the same
volume. Both `RAILWAY_VOLUME_ID` and `RAILWAY_VOLUME_MOUNT_PATH` must be
set. The finalizer reaches this check only while it holds the run's
copyback advisory lock, so the old owner's lock session has also ended.
- Copy: the hold's next action, the route conflict and the two Retry
wait messages now describe the wait. They no longer ask a person to
verify a server or controller. The hold's text still names the Resume
saved result action for platforms where neither this rule nor the
harness can confirm the stop.
- `doc/native-workspace-finalization-recovery.md`: describe the rule.

Previous-release story: receipts written by earlier releases already
record `worker.deploymentId`, so they carry forward and take this path
after the upgrade. No schema change.

## Verification

- `cd server && npx vitest run
src/services/native-runtime/native-workspace-owner-restart-recovery.test.ts
src/services/owner-proof.test.ts`
- Before the fix: "resumes the interrupted save automatically, with no
board action" fails (`acquired: false`).
  - After the fix: all pass.
- The restart test seeds the staging receipt shape (old deployment,
other hostname, PID 3, existing `operator_required` hold). It checks
that the save resumes once, the hold becomes `resuming`, the task
presentation no longer waits for a user, the receipt clears, and no
agent wake is created.
- Negative cases stay fenced: same deployment, a service without a
volume, a half-configured volume, another service, another environment,
and a receipt that names a different volume. Unit tests cover the same
rule in `proveOwnerGone`, including that the current boot stays alive.
- Related suites pass: finalizer, queued-wake recovery, route ownership,
workspace recovery gates and dispatch, explicit continuation, recovery
services (1005 tests).
- `pnpm --filter @paperclipai/server typecheck` passes.

## Risks

- The rule depends on Railway volume exclusivity. It applies only when
this server has a volume mounted and the receipt names the same service
and environment. Without a volume, the existing harness and board paths
still apply.
- A receipt from a deployment that ran before the volume was attached
could, in theory, overlap during that one redeploy. Volumes are attached
at stack creation, so this is not a practical case.
- Copy changes are text only. Error codes are unchanged.

## Model Used

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

## Checklist

- [x] I have included a thinking path that traces from project context
to this change
- [x] I have specified the model used (with version and capability
details)
- [x] I have checked ROADMAP.md and confirmed this PR does not duplicate
planned core work
- [x] I have searched GitHub for duplicate or related PRs and linked
them above
- [x] I have either (a) linked existing issues with `Fixes: #` / `Closes
#` / `Refs #` OR (b) described the issue in-PR following the relevant
issue template
- [x] I have not referenced internal/instance-local Paperclip issues or
links (only public GitHub `#NNN` / `github.com/paperclipai/paperclip`
URLs)
- [x] My branch name describes the change (e.g. `docs/...`, `fix/...`)
and contains no internal Paperclip ticket id or instance-derived details
- [x] I have run tests locally and they pass
- [x] I have added or updated tests where applicable
- [x] I have updated relevant documentation to reflect my changes
- [x] I have considered and documented any risks above
- [x] All Paperclip CI gates are green
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DottaandClaude Opus 5.5 99529f9d71 feat(observability): local speed budgets and a run-log budget check (#19863)
## Thinking Path

> - Paperclip is the open source app people use to manage AI agents for
work
> - When someone messages an agent, the reply must start as fast as
possible, and restart-safety work must not slow it
> - The durable ownership plan makes this invariant 8 ("fast turns") and
asks Phase 1 to turn the Phase 0 baseline into p50/p95 budgets per
adapter
> - Without budgets, a regression in time to first token, agent boot or
restart recovery shows up only when someone reruns the baseline by hand
> - This pull request records the budgets and adds a per-run check that
writes a run-log row when a run exceeds its p95 budget
> - The benefit is that every later phase can show "no regression
against the budgets" from the run log, without new waits on the turn
path

## Linked Issues or Issue Description

Refs #19831 (plan, "Performance constraint", rule 4, and invariant 8).
Refs #19846 (the Phase 0 baseline these budgets come from). Stacked on
#19861.

**Problem**
The plan requires p50/p95 budgets per adapter for TTFT, agent boot and
restart recovery latency, and a check against them. Neither exists.

**Expected behavior**
Budgets are recorded in the plan and in code. A run that exceeds a p95
budget gets one run-log row that names the metric, the measurement and
the budget.

**Impact**
Phase 2–5 exit criteria can cite budget breaches from chaos waves and
staging. The check adds no wait before `turn.start`.

## What Changed

- New `server/src/services/native-runtime/native-speed-budgets.ts`: the
local budget table (codex, claude, opencode) for TTFT and agent boot
(cold and warm) and restart recovery latency. Each budget is 1.2× the
baseline, rounded up to 0.5 s. `evaluateSpeedBudget` judges one run
against p95. An unknown start kind uses the looser budget. Remote runs
and adapters without a baseline are not judged.
- `native-run-trace.ts`: the trace takes an optional `budget` subject.
It checks `task.time_to_first_token`, agent boot (end of
`heartbeat.queue` to the end of the first `runner.turn.submit` or
`runner.session.resume`) and restart recovery once each. It writes
`run.performance.budget_exceeded` through `defer`, so the write is
detached from the event path. `finish` now drains diagnostics that defer
more work.
- `native-session-executor.ts`: passes the adapter and environment to
the trace, labels cold or warm at the existing `provider_session` reuse
receipts, and checks restart recovery at a recovered run's first
provider event, measured from the startup recovery `ready` time.
- Docs: budget tables in
`doc/plans/2026-11-07-durable-ownership-and-reconciliation.md` ("Speed
budgets (Phase 1)"), and the new event in `doc/run-log-events.md`.

## Verification

- `npx vitest run
src/services/native-runtime/native-speed-budgets.test.ts
src/services/native-runtime/native-run-trace.test.ts` (in `server/`): 34
tests pass. They cover:
  - every budget has p50 ≤ p95;
  - the provider-to-adapter mapping;
  - p95 judgement, and the looser budget when the start kind is unknown;
- one breach for a slow boot, and none for a second submit or a fast
TTFT;
  - a deferred TTFT breach is written before the trace closes;
  - restart recovery is checked once;
  - remote runs and runs with no budget subject write nothing.
- `npx tsc --noEmit -p server`: no errors.

## Risks

- Low risk. This is a run-log change only (AGENTS.md §5.7, no extra
review). The OTLP and Telemetry paths are unchanged.
- The baseline samples are small (2–12 per cell) on a shared host.
Budgets carry 20% headroom, and the codex restart budget (8.0 s p95) is
tight. Expect some breach rows on a loaded machine. They are diagnostics
and change no behavior.
- Restart-recovery budgets use run 4 of the baseline, as merged in
#19846.
- Restart recovery is measured from the startup recovery `ready` time to
the first provider event, which matches the baseline definition.
- Previous-release story: no persisted run state changes. The new event
is additive.

## Model Used

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

## Checklist

- [x] I have included a thinking path that traces from project context
to this change
- [x] I have specified the model used (with version and capability
details)
- [x] I have checked ROADMAP.md and confirmed this PR does not duplicate
planned core work
- [x] I have searched GitHub for duplicate or related PRs and linked
them above
- [x] I have either (a) linked existing issues with `Fixes: #` / `Closes
#` / `Refs #` OR (b) described the issue in-PR following the relevant
issue template
- [x] I have not referenced internal/instance-local Paperclip issues or
links (only public GitHub `#NNN` / `github.com/paperclipai/paperclip`
URLs)
- [x] My branch name describes the change (e.g. `docs/...`, `fix/...`)
and contains no internal Paperclip ticket id or instance-derived details
- [x] I have run tests locally and they pass
- [x] I have added or updated tests where applicable
- [x] I have updated relevant documentation to reflect my changes
- [x] I have considered and documented any risks above
- [ ] All Paperclip CI gates are green
- [ ] Greptile is 5/5 with no open P2s, recommendations, or follow-ups
- [x] I will address all Greptile and reviewer comments before
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DottaandClaude Opus 5.5 d5dd09c966 docs(plans): design turn-scoped ACPX MCP authority; correct the Claude baseline (#19912)
## Thinking Path

> - Paperclip is the open source app people use to manage AI agents for
work.
> - Follow-up messages must start fast. #19888 made Codex and OpenCode
follow-ups 2.6–5× faster by keeping their runners warm.
> - Claude (ACPX) did not gain, because ACPX relaunches the Claude
process and reloads its session on every follow-up (3.2–4.2 s).
> - That relaunch is a safety boundary: the ACPX MCP endpoint lives as
long as the process and cannot attribute a tool call to a turn, so
reaping the process is the proof against late calls.
> - Removing it needs a new authority model, which needs a reviewed
design before any code.
> - This pull request adds that design and corrects the Claude baseline.

## Linked Issues or Issue Description

Refs #19888 (warm default), #19846 (TTFT baseline, finding 4).

**Docs issue**
The TTFT docs did not explain why Claude follow-ups relaunch, what
removing that would require, or the corrected Claude numbers.

**What is wrong or missing**
`doc/plans/2026-11-07-warm-follow-up-ttft.md` reported a Claude
follow-up at 10.5 s, measured under heavy host load. A quieter
re-measurement gives 6.3 s per-turn against 7.1 s warm. There was no
design for removing the per-turn relaunch.

**Proposed fix**
A design document for turn-scoped ACPX MCP authority, and a
corrected-baseline section in the warm follow-up doc.

## What Changed

- New `doc/plans/2026-11-07-turn-scoped-acpx-mcp-authority.md`, which
covers:
  - the measured cost breakdown;
- how the current boundary works (tool bridge bearer, call-ID
tombstones, `restart_idle_provider`, `run.attach`);
- a threat model (late tool calls from a settled turn, replay,
credential replay, cross-turn and cross-run confusion, restart replay);
- three candidate designs with their safety arguments: turn-scoped
credentials in a live session, a proof that no calls are in flight, and
an in-process session reload with per-generation credentials, which is
recommended for a spike;
- restart and chaos implications, the expected TTFT gain, and next
steps.
- `doc/plans/2026-11-07-warm-follow-up-ttft.md`: corrected Claude
baseline. Per_turn stays the default; the earlier 10.5 s was host noise.
Finding 4 now points to the design and drops the idle-retirement idea,
which would only bring warm level with per-turn.
- Docs only. No code changes until Dotta has reviewed the design and a
security review is done.

## Verification

- The Claude numbers come from `ttft-baseline.ts --adapters claude
--samples 6 --phases coldwarm --lifecycle <per_turn|warm>` on master
`fc6e1b0346` (load average about 9).
- The step breakdown comes from temporary timing in runnerd's ACPX
backend. It was not committed.
- `node scripts/check-maps.mjs` passes.

## Risks

- Docs only. The design proposes no behavior change until it has been
reviewed.

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

## Model Used

- Anthropic Claude Opus 5.5 (`claude-opus-5-5`) in Claude Code, with
tool use (shell, file edit, test execution).

## Checklist

- [x] I have included a thinking path that traces from project context
to this change
- [x] I have specified the model used (with version and capability
details)
- [x] I have checked ROADMAP.md and confirmed this PR does not duplicate
planned core work
- [x] I have searched GitHub for duplicate or related PRs and linked
them above
- [x] I have either (a) linked existing issues with `Fixes: #` / `Closes
#` / `Refs #` OR (b) described the issue in-PR following the relevant
issue template
- [x] I have not referenced internal/instance-local Paperclip issues or
links (only public GitHub `#NNN` / `github.com/paperclipai/paperclip`
URLs)
- [x] My branch name describes the change (e.g. `docs/...`, `fix/...`)
and contains no internal Paperclip ticket id or instance-derived details
- [x] I have run tests locally and they pass
- [x] I have added or updated tests where applicable
- [x] I have updated relevant documentation to reflect my changes
- [x] I have considered and documented any risks above
- [ ] All Paperclip CI gates are green
- [ ] Greptile is 5/5 with no open P2s, recommendations, or follow-ups
- [x] I will address all Greptile and reviewer comments before
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DottaandClaude Opus 5.5 177f642da7 fix(recovery): continue native runs that failed before their first claim (#19911)
## Thinking Path

> - Paperclip is the open source app people use to manage AI agents for
work
> - Native runs go through a coordinator claim before any provider work
starts
> - A run can fail before that claim, for example while it restores the
previous harness backup
> - The failure path then records a no-replay hold, as if the run had
acted
> - Workspace recovery saves the files, but the task stays blocked and
asks a person to send a message
> - Recoveries must continue without a human step when no side effect is
possible
> - This pull request lets the existing safe-replacement worker continue
such runs once, after their files are saved
> - The benefit is that these tasks resume automatically, and runs that
may have acted keep today's reconciliation

## Linked Issues or Issue Description

**What happened?**
Native runs that failed before their first coordinator claim were never
continued automatically. They had no claim, no provider process and no
provider or tool events. Their result recorded `executionRecovery: {
kind: "bootstrap", providerWorkStarted: false }`. The failure path still
moved the coordinator to `terminal_failure` with
`native_continuation_requires_reconciliation` and recorded a resolved
`preserve_without_replay_v1` hold (replay blocked, board owner).
Workspace recovery then saved the files, but the next action stayed
"Saved work recovered. Send a message to continue."
`nativeReplacementPending` accepted only a few failure codes, and the
interrupted-preparation path covers only legacy runs.

**Expected behavior**
When a native run provably failed before its first claim, Paperclip
continues it once, automatically, after its files are saved (or when it
had no workspace to save). Runs with a claim, a process, a provider or
tool event, or recorded provider work keep the existing reconciliation.

**Steps to reproduce**
1. Start a native run with a remote workspace.
2. Make it fail before `native.coordinator.claim` (for example, abort
the harness-backup restore).
3. Let workspace recovery save the files.
4. See that the task stays blocked and asks for a message.

**Paperclip version or commit**
Observed on e2d490c61. Reproduced on master before this change.

Refs #19906 (fixes the restore deadline that caused the observed
failures).

## What Changed

- `native-safe-replacement.ts`: add one class-level candidate, "failed
before its first claim". It requires the
`native_continuation_requires_reconciliation` coordinator at attempt 0
and controller generation 0, with no lease, assessment, decision or
result.
- The candidate also requires no process identity, no `sessionIdAfter`,
no provider/turn/item/tool/`run.result` events, no tool invocations,
`providerWorkStarted` not `true`, no Stop or cancellation, no explicit
user continuation, and no later run for the task.
- A no-replay hold must have completed file recovery (the existing
`completedWorkspaceRecoveryCondition`). A blocked task must carry this
failure's block receipt at the current status version.
- Discovery checks saved-file evidence (snapshot, stopped sandbox) or a
workspace-less run before it selects the candidate.
- The reconciler skips the stopped-session probe for this class. It
feeds the decision with known failure meaning and a complete effect
inventory, since no provider ran. It rechecks the candidate under the
task and coordinator locks before it inserts the successor.
- The successor is the existing fresh-session `native_safe_replacement`.
Its context carries `nativePreClaimContinuationOf`, so a failed
successor is not continued again. The existing transaction resolves the
hold (`replay: verified_safe_replacement`) and restores the task block.
- `doc/execution-semantics.md`: describe the rule.

Previous-release story: holds recorded by earlier releases (resolved,
`replay: blocked`) carry forward. The test seeds that exact shape. No
schema or persisted identity changes.

## Verification

- `cd server && npx vitest run
src/services/native-preclaim-continuation.test.ts`
- Before the fix: "continues automatically exactly once after its saved
work is recovered" fails (no successor).
  - After the fix: all 9 tests pass.
- The tests cover: the staging shape with an old-release hold continues
exactly once under concurrent and repeated sweeps; it waits for saved
files; it does not chain from its own successor; and it keeps
reconciliation when the coordinator claimed, a provider event exists, a
tool call started, provider work is recorded, a process started, or a
later run owns the task.
- `npx vitest run
src/services/native-runtime/native-safe-replacement.test.ts` passes (62
tests).
- `pnpm --filter @paperclipai/server typecheck` passes.

## Risks

- The successor uses a fresh provider session, like the other safe
replacements. History comes from `retryOfRunId`.
- The new predicate adds one indexed `not exists` on `heartbeat_runs
(company_id, context_snapshot->>'issueId', created_at)` per candidate.
It runs only for the narrow pre-claim failure code.
- A run whose prepared workspace uses the older `nativeWorkspaceSync`
descriptor without remote-workspace evidence stays held, as today.

## Model Used

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

## Checklist

- [x] I have included a thinking path that traces from project context
to this change
- [x] I have specified the model used (with version and capability
details)
- [x] I have checked ROADMAP.md and confirmed this PR does not duplicate
planned core work
- [x] I have searched GitHub for duplicate or related PRs and linked
them above
- [x] I have either (a) linked existing issues with `Fixes: #` / `Closes
#` / `Refs #` OR (b) described the issue in-PR following the relevant
issue template
- [x] I have not referenced internal/instance-local Paperclip issues or
links (only public GitHub `#NNN` / `github.com/paperclipai/paperclip`
URLs)
- [x] My branch name describes the change (e.g. `docs/...`, `fix/...`)
and contains no internal Paperclip ticket id or instance-derived details
- [x] I have run tests locally and they pass
- [x] I have added or updated tests where applicable
- [x] I have updated relevant documentation to reflect my changes
- [x] I have considered and documented any risks above
- [x] All Paperclip CI gates are green
- [x] Greptile is 5/5 with no open P2s, recommendations, or follow-ups
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DottaandClaude Opus 5.5 fc6e1b0346 perf(native): keep local Codex and OpenCode runners warm by default (#19888)
## Thinking Path

> - Paperclip is the open source app people use to manage AI agents for
work.
> - When someone messages an agent, the turn must start fast. Time to
first token (TTFT) is a first-class metric.
> - The Phase 0 baseline (#19846) found that every local turn launches a
new runner and loads the provider session again, because `per_turn` is
the default lifecycle. That made a follow-up message slower than a new
task.
> - Warm runners keep the runner and provider session alive between
runs. #19874 fixed the defect that broke warm OpenCode follow-ups, and
#19879 bounds an idle warm runner whose controller dies.
> - This pull request makes warm the default for local Codex and
OpenCode agents, and migrates existing agents that only carried the old
creation default.
> - The benefit: follow-up TTFT p50 drops from 12.0 s to 4.7 s (Codex)
and from 21.7 s to 4.2 s (OpenCode), with no new restart-chaos failures.

## Linked Issues or Issue Description

Refs #19846 (TTFT baseline), #19852 (startup sub-spans), #19874 (warm
completion contract), #19879 (warm reconnect grace).

**What existing behavior does this improve?**
The default runner lifecycle for native agents, and how a follow-up
message starts.

**Current behavior**
Agent creation writes `lifecycleMode: "per_turn"` into every native
agent. Every follow-up launches a new runner and restores the provider
session: 4.2 s (Codex) and 16.3 s (OpenCode) at p50 before the turn
starts.

**Proposed behavior**
New native agents store no lifecycle. On a local target, an unset
lifecycle resolves to `warm` with the default 5-minute idle window for
Codex and OpenCode. Other harnesses, remote targets and managed
providers without warm support stay `per_turn`. An explicit choice
always wins. Migration 0443 clears the stored creation default from
existing agents, except where an edit set "Turn by turn" explicitly.

**Reason and benefit**
Measured locally (`doc/plans/2026-11-07-warm-follow-up-ttft.md`). Warm
follow-ups are 2.6–5× faster for Codex and OpenCode, and restart
recovery latency is equal or lower.

## What Changed

- `native-lifecycle.ts`: an unset `agentMode` resolves to warm (5-minute
idle window) for local `codex_app_server` and `opencode_server` agents.
`runtime-selection.ts` passes `localTarget`. Explicit `per_turn` or
`warm` wins. An admitted session keeps its persisted policy. ACPX Claude
stays `per_turn`: it relaunches its provider process on every follow-up
by design, so warm did not shorten its follow-up (10.7 s warm vs 10.5 s
per_turn).
- Creation and configuration writes no longer store `lifecycleMode:
"per_turn"` for Codex, Claude or OpenCode. This covers
`normalizePaperclipRunnerAdapterConfig` (runs on every create and
update), `paperclipRunnerTransitionConfig` (switching to the native
runner), `agent-runner-selection.ts`, `codex-local` `build-config.ts`,
and the simplified new-agent setup (`paperclipRunnerCreationLifecycle`
in `@paperclipai/shared`). Grok, Pi and Cursor keep their explicit
value.
- Agent form: the Runner lifecycle field shows the unset state as
"Automatic". "Turn by turn" and "Warm session" remain.
- Migration `0443_native_warm_follow_up_default.sql`: clears
`lifecycleMode = 'per_turn'` from native Codex, OpenCode and Claude
agents unless `agent_config_revisions` shows an edit that set it to
`per_turn`. Each migrated agent gets an `agent.updated` activity entry
with the old value (`actor_id =
migration:native-warm-follow-up-default`). Creation records no revision,
so a "Turn by turn" pick made at creation cannot be told apart from the
old default. The product owner approved migrating those agents. Claude
agents follow the default, which is `per_turn` today.
- Restart chaos harness and TTFT driver: `--lifecycle
per_turn|warm|default` (saved in the wave plan). `default` removes the
catalog's pinned lifecycle, so a wave exercises the real default path.
- Docs: `doc/DEVELOPING.md` "Runner lifecycle default", and the results
in `doc/plans/2026-11-07-warm-follow-up-ttft.md`, which also documents
baseline finding 4 (Claude's resumed turn-start gap is ACPX's per-turn
process generation, not the provider).

## Verification

- `server`: `native-lifecycle.test.ts` (new default cases: local Codex
and OpenCode warm, Claude, remote, unknown target, unmeasured harness,
managed Claude, admitted per-turn session, explicit choices, non-native
adapter), `agent-runner-selection.test.ts`, `runtime-selection.test.ts`
(335 pass).
- `packages/db`: `native-warm-follow-up-default-migration.test.ts` on
embedded Postgres. Default agents are cleared, the explicit edit is
kept, other harnesses and legacy adapters are untouched, audit rows are
written once, and a rerun is a no-op. Without the explicit-edit filter
the test fails. `check:migrations` passes.
- `codex-local` `build-config.test.ts` (65), `ui`
`config-fields.test.tsx` (40), restart-chaos unit tests (134), `tsc
--noEmit` for `server`.
- `adapter-utils` `paperclip-runner-lifecycle-default.test.ts`:
configuration writes and adapter conversion store no lifecycle for
Codex, OpenCode and Claude, keep `per_turn` for the others, and preserve
explicit choices. It fails without the fix.
- End-to-end default check on this branch (`ttft-baseline.ts --lifecycle
default`, codex and opencode, 2 samples): the agents read back with no
stored lifecycle, and every follow-up reused the runner and provider
session (no `runner.process.launch`). Follow-up TTFT was 3.6–4.8 s. This
check found the per-write `per_turn` injection fixed here.
- Restart chaos (codex and opencode, A1/B1/B5, K1/K2/K6, seed 4242), 8/8
PASS each with no open signatures: forced warm, forced per_turn, and
`--lifecycle default` on this branch (agents created without a
lifecycle).
- `pnpm verify` selects broader CI (harness config is a global input),
so required CI supplies the broad coverage.

## Risks

- Behavior change: local Codex and OpenCode agents keep a runner and
provider process for up to 5 minutes after a run. Instance sleep waits
for that idle window. The process is reaped by the idle timer, by
graceful shutdown, or by the #19879 reconnect grace if its controller
dies.
- Migration: agents whose "Turn by turn" was chosen at creation become
Automatic. The activity entry records the old value; choosing "Turn by
turn" restores it.
- Previous-release story (`rules/upgrade-safe-run-state.mdc`): a task
session keeps the lifecycle policy it was admitted with, so sessions
saved before this change stay `per_turn`. New sessions get the default.
No run, checkpoint or launch state changes shape.

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

## Model Used

- Anthropic Claude Opus 5.5 (`claude-opus-5-5`) in Claude Code, with
tool use (shell, file edit, test execution).

## Checklist

- [x] I have included a thinking path that traces from project context
to this change
- [x] I have specified the model used (with version and capability
details)
- [x] I have checked ROADMAP.md and confirmed this PR does not duplicate
planned core work
- [x] I have searched GitHub for duplicate or related PRs and linked
them above
- [x] I have either (a) linked existing issues with `Fixes: #` / `Closes
#` / `Refs #` OR (b) described the issue in-PR following the relevant
issue template
- [x] I have not referenced internal/instance-local Paperclip issues or
links (only public GitHub `#NNN` / `github.com/paperclipai/paperclip`
URLs)
- [x] My branch name describes the change (e.g. `docs/...`, `fix/...`)
and contains no internal Paperclip ticket id or instance-derived details
- [x] I have run tests locally and they pass
- [x] I have added or updated tests where applicable
- [x] I have updated relevant documentation to reflect my changes
- [x] I have considered and documented any risks above
- [ ] All Paperclip CI gates are green
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DottaandClaude Opus 5.5 76994c5027 fix(native): bound failover backup restores by inactivity, not total time (#19906)
## Thinking Path

> - Paperclip is the open source app people use to manage AI agents for
work.
> - A native per-turn session that continues an earlier conversation
first restores its failover backup from durable storage. This happens
before the coordinator claim, so no provider has started.
> - That restore ran under a fixed 300 s total deadline
(`AbortSignal.timeout(300_000)`). The deadline covers the download and
the local decrypt, digest, extraction and provider-artifact steps.
> - On staging, restore time for resumed sessions grew during the day.
It reached 300 s, and then every resumed run of one review agent failed
with the generic "The operation was aborted". Fresh sessions were not
affected.
> - A failure at this point also enters the saved-work reconciliation
path, so the user request stopped.
> - This pull request bounds each durable read by inactivity instead of
total time. A slow transfer continues while bytes arrive. A read that
stops sending bytes fails with a named code.
> - The benefit is that resumed sessions no longer fail only because
their backup is large or the store is slow.

## Linked Issues or Issue Description

Refs #19894 (adds the same idle-deadline rule for workspace snapshot
reads; this PR covers the separate native failover-backup reads).

**What happened?**

On staging, a PR-review agent had 17 runs fail in about 80 minutes. Each
failure had the message "The operation was aborted" and the code
`native_continuation_requires_reconciliation`. Every failing run resumed
an existing session (`sessionIdBefore` set, per-turn lifecycle). Every
fresh-session run in the same window succeeded. In each failing run, the
error came 304–309 s after the `environment.startup` span, and no
`native.coordinator.claim` span was recorded. The run result had
`executionRecovery: { kind: "bootstrap", providerWorkStarted: false }`.
Earlier resumed runs of the same agent show the time from
`environment.startup` to `native.coordinator.claim` growing from about
30 s to about 200 s before the failures started. The only fixed 300 s
deadline on that path is the failover-backup restore in
`restoreDurableHarnessForExecution`.

**Expected behavior**

A resumed session restores its backup when the store keeps sending
bytes, even when the total time is more than five minutes. A read that
stalls fails with a named, diagnosable code. A failed restore publishes
no partial backup and keeps the saved backup.

**Steps to reproduce**

1. Persist a native failover backup with provider artifacts.
2. Restore it through a storage reader that sends bytes slowly, so the
full restore takes longer than the deadline.
3. Before this change, the restore fails with "The operation was
aborted". A reader that stops sending bytes, with no caller deadline,
waits indefinitely.

## What Changed

- `native-harness-backup-storage.ts`: add `downloadIdleTimeoutMs` to
`restoreDurableNativeHarnessBackup` and
`verifyDurableNativeHarnessBackup`. When set, each durable `getObject`
(the backup object and the provider artifacts) runs under an idle timer.
Each received chunk renews the timer. The timer is active only while a
read is in flight, so local decrypt, digest, extraction and copy are
never timed. On expiry the whole restore aborts and throws
`native_harness_storage_download_stalled`. Caller cancellation keeps its
own error.
- `verifyRecoverableNativeHarnessBackup` and the executor's
`restoreDurableHarnessForExecution` use the five-minute idle limit
(`NATIVE_HARNESS_DOWNLOAD_IDLE_TIMEOUT_MS`) instead of
`AbortSignal.timeout(300_000)`.
- The whole restore or verification keeps a 30-minute outer limit. It
fails with `native_harness_storage_restore_deadline_exceeded`, so a hung
local step stays bounded and named.
- The executor passes the startup Stop signal
(`providerPackSourceAbort`) into the restore, so Stop (also a Stop that
came before the restore began) ends it. Only a startup that already
completed does not reuse its signal. The restore checks the signal after
the local copy and before it publishes `current`.
- The wrapped storage is a `Proxy` that replaces only `getObject` and
forwards every other member to the real service.
- `doc/DEVELOPING.md`: document the idle limit and the named code.

Previous-release story (`rules/upgrade-safe-run-state.mdc`): no
persisted shape changes. Backups, artifact rows, receipts and
checkpoints saved by the previous release restore unchanged. A deploy
that lands during a restore stops the process. The new process starts
the restore again from the saved durable backup under the new limit. The
existing hash, size, encryption and atomic publication checks are
unchanged.

## Verification

Run from `server/`:

- `pnpm exec vitest run
src/services/native-runtime/native-harness-backup-download-deadline.integration.test.ts`
— 4 tests passed (embedded PostgreSQL, local-disk storage, an OpenCode
backup with provider artifacts). The tests are in a focused suite, so
the existing 990-line storage suite does not grow.
- `pnpm exec vitest run
src/services/native-runtime/native-harness-backup-storage.integration.test.ts`
— 68 existing tests passed.
- New: "keeps restoring a backup whose download outlasts the idle window
while bytes keep arriving". With the former total-deadline policy, the
same slow transfer fails with "The operation was aborted" and publishes
nothing (the staging message). With the idle limit, the restore
completes after more than twice the window, restores the session and the
OpenCode launch artifacts, and verification also completes.
- New: "names a download that stops sending bytes and publishes no
partial backup". It checks restore and verify, checks that no `current`
backup is published, and then restores the same saved backup
successfully.
- New: "stops at the outer bound during local copy and publishes
nothing".
- New: "lets Stop end a progressing download with its own reason,
including a Stop before it starts".
- RED: with the production files reverted to `origin/master`, the stall
test does not finish and times out after 10 s, because no stall is
detected. The other two tests pass on the old code, because the total
deadline was the executor's caller policy. The first test reproduces
that policy directly.
- `pnpm exec vitest run` on `native-harness-online-preservation`,
`native-harness-filesystem-independence` and
`native-controller-migration` integration suites passed.
`native-warm-checkpoint-ownership.integration.test.ts` fails locally on
master as well, because the local Rust `paperclip-runnerd` binary is not
built.
- `node scripts/typecheck-layers.mjs` passed for all layers.

Not verified: a live resumed run on staging with this build. The staging
evidence shows where the time goes (before the coordinator claim, on
resumed sessions only) but does not show which restore step was slowest.
The fix removes the total deadline for every step on that path.

## Risks

- A restore that progresses very slowly can now take longer than five
minutes. Before, it failed. The run still stops on caller cancellation.
- A local step that hangs (for example a stalled disk) is now cut off by
the 30-minute outer limit instead of 5 minutes. A stalled local writer
also pauses the read through backpressure, so it can be reported as
`native_harness_storage_download_stalled`.
- A failure before the coordinator claim still enters the existing
saved-work reconciliation path. This PR does not change that
classification. It removes the cause of these failures.

## Model Used

- Provider: Anthropic. Model: Claude Opus 5.5 (`claude-opus-5-5`), with
tool use (shell, file edits, read-only browser for API inspection) in
Claude Code.

## Checklist

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

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2026-11-07 14:34:57 -06:00
DottaandPaperclip 57ae2fc309 perf(workspaces): reduce snapshot stream scheduling overhead (#19900)
Use bounded 1 MiB filesystem buffers during workspace archive hashing, encryption, and restore. Preserve integrity, ownership, cancellation, and snapshot format guarantees.

Co-Authored-By: Paperclip <noreply@paperclip.ing>
2026-11-07 14:24:42 -06:00
DottaandPaperclip d7f02c51b4 fix(skills): scope file protection to admitted selections (#19904)
Allow unused skill deletion when unstarted admission entries have no retained execution. Limit unknown legacy selections to skills that could have existed when the validated immutable run finished.

Co-Authored-By: Paperclip <noreply@paperclip.ing>
2026-11-07 14:14:59 -06:00
Devin FoleyandPaperclip c9959814ba fix(workspaces): cancel stalled snapshot reads and preserve restore refusals (#19894)
Cancel encrypted snapshot reads after five minutes without incoming bytes.
Renew the deadline on progress, preserve caller cancellation, settle the
physical request and private scratch, and retain saved snapshots for normal
retry admission. Keep Node warnings out of server-owned helper refusal labels.

Verified both complete owner suites (145 tests), the prior unchanged storage
and transport coverage, server typechecks, final-head CI and Greptile 5/5.
The earlier CI cancellation-signal assertion failure was reproduced locally
and corrected with checks for abort state, reason, stream closure and cleanup.

Co-Authored-By: Paperclip <noreply@paperclip.ing>
2026-11-07 12:06:18 -08:00
12681d1611 fix(sentry): stop resending retained task interruption failures (#19041)
Keep task-state Sentry reports within the recent saved-change window while
retaining reports for newly failed recovery and delayed Retry preparation.
Include the safe run error code without changing event grouping.

Verified 402 relevant local tests, every server typecheck layer, all final-head
CI checks, and Greptile 5/5 with no unresolved review threads.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Co-Authored-By: Paperclip <noreply@paperclip.ing>
2026-11-07 11:31:46 -08:00
DottaandClaude Opus 5.5 f439150cb3 fix(recovery): limit the null-host owner fallback to single-host servers and record each use (#19883)
## Thinking Path

> - Paperclip is the open source app people use to manage AI agents for
work
> - #19868 and #19871 made restart recovery judge a recorded pid only in
the PID space that recorded it
> - Rows saved before those host columns existed have no recorded host.
They kept the previous local dead-pid proof, so in-flight native runs
would not be stranded at upgrade
> - On an ephemeral (multi-host) server that fallback is unsafe: the row
may have been written on another host
> - This pull request limits the fallback to single-host servers,
records every use, and gives ephemeral servers a working board action
> - The benefit is that single-host upgrades still recover on their own,
multi-host servers never accept a cross-host proof, and the next release
can remove the fallback with evidence

## Linked Issues or Issue Description

**Bug description**
After #19868 and #19871, a `native_run_finalizations` row with
`controller_host_hash = null`, or a run with `process_host_hash = null`,
still accepted "the pid is dead here" as proof on every server. That
includes an ephemeral server, where the row may come from another host.
Nothing recorded how often the fallback was used, so it had no safe
removal path.

**Expected behavior**
- Single-host server: the fallback applies for one release, and each use
writes a `legacy_host_unknown_dead_pid_proof` activity-log entry.
- Ephemeral server (`PAPERCLIP_EPHEMERAL_SERVER=true`): the row is
unprovable, and the board has an action to confirm the previous server
stopped.
- A mismatched host is always unprovable.

Refs #19868, #19871, #19846

## What Changed

- `native-restart-recovery.ts` `evaluateNativeControllerTakeover`:
- A coordinator row with `controllerHostHash: null` returns
`controller_host_unrecorded` when `ephemeralServerEnabled()` is true.
- Otherwise a pid proof from that row carries `legacyHostFallback:
true`.
- `operator_attested` is accepted as proof
(`operator_attested_controller_stopped`).
  - Receipt-built owners, which have no host key, are unchanged.
- New `recordLegacyHostFallbackProof` writes the activity-log entry. It
is not a run-log event: run events are progress evidence for restart
recovery's crash-loop credit, and the record must not change any
recovery decision. It is called from restart recovery, the
dead-controller result-lease release, native retirement, and remote
warm-session recovery.
- New `native-controller-host-recovery.ts`:
- `requestNativeControllerStopConfirmation` (board-owned
`native_controller_host_unverified` recovery action, idempotent, never
displaces another active action).
- `confirmNativeControllerStopped`. It verifies the exact recorded
controller and stamps `operator_attested` with compare-and-set. It then
resolves the action, wakes live-run recovery, and logs
`issue.native_controller_stop_confirmed`.
- Route `POST /issues/:id/recovery-actions/confirm-controller-stopped`.
It is board-only and requires `runtime:confirm_owner_stop`. Generic
`restored`/`false_positive` resolution of this cause is refused. A
shared `confirmNativeControllerStoppedSchema` validates the body.
- UI: `WorkspaceExportRecovery` reuses the "Confirm the previous server
stopped" control for this cause, and the generic recovery card hides it.
Adds the `issuesApi.confirmControllerStopped` client call.
- `recovery/service.ts` orphan reaper: a null `process_host_hash` is
judged only when not ephemeral. A successful use records the entry
best-effort, after the terminal write. On an ephemeral server the run is
left to its existing Stop control.
- `ephemeralServerEnabled` moves to a leaf `ephemeral-server-mode.ts`
(re-exported by `ephemeral-server-contract.ts`). Importing the contract
module from recovery code created an import cycle in the runner child
process.
- The new route is registered in OpenAPI.
- `doc/execution-semantics.md`: documents the host rule and the
one-release sunset.

## Verification

- `native-restart-recovery.test.ts`: null host on a single-host server
is released with the flag. Null host on an ephemeral server is
unprovable. A mismatched host is unprovable in both modes. An attested
controller is accepted. Receipt owners are unchanged.
- New `native-controller-host-recovery.test.ts` (embedded Postgres):
  - The fallback writes the activity-log entry and no run event.
  - Ephemeral mode creates exactly one board action.
  - A wrong run id is refused.
- Confirmation stamps the attestation, after which takeover is allowed.
The action resolves and the activity is logged. A second confirmation is
refused.
- `recovery-stale-issue-lock-sweep.test.ts`: on a single-host server a
null host is terminalized and records one event. On an ephemeral server
it is left alone with no event. The existing audit-failure case still
clears the lock.
- `WorkspaceExportRecovery.control.test.tsx`: the controller
confirmation posts to `confirmControllerStopped` and never to the
copyback endpoint.
- Locally: these suites plus `remote-warm-session-recovery`,
`native-controller-recovery.integration` and
`native-startup-cleanup-recovery` (136 passed), and after the CI fixes
`native-runner-restart-preparation` and `native-runner-restart-recovery`
integration, `openapi-routes` and the suites above (256 passed); the UI
recovery suites (52 passed); `node scripts/typecheck-layers.mjs` with no
errors in the touched files; `pnpm check:token-gates` clean.

## Risks

- Previous-release story: no schema change. Null-host rows saved by
earlier releases recover as before on single-host servers, now with an
event, and wait for the board on ephemeral servers. The next release
removes the fallback; the event count shows whether any rows remain.
- On an ephemeral server, a null-host orphaned run process is not reaped
automatically. The operator uses Stop. That is the intended "unprovable"
outcome.
- A board confirmation is an attestation. It applies only to the exact
recorded controller (boot id + pid) and only while the host is still
unrecorded.

## Model Used

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

## Checklist

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

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2026-11-07 13:25:47 -06:00
DottaandPaperclip 5a70999306 Add a versioned online workspace migration command (#19882)
## Thinking Path

> - Paperclip preserves the files and recovery state produced by its
agents.
> - Canonical online migration can preserve selected local workspaces
while unrelated work continues.
> - Operators sometimes need a newer migration owner before the serving
web process can take that release.
> - The existing packaged maintenance entry requires stopped writers.
> - This pull request adds a finite online entry from one coherent
reviewed release tree.
> - The entry delegates capture and publication to the existing owners
and keeps tool and serving identities separate.

## Linked Issues or Issue Description

Refs #19854, #19855 and #19872. The duplicate search found related owner
fixes and no separate versioned online entry.

**What happened?**

The finite online workspace importer was available as a library in the
serving image. The packaged all-phase migration entry required
maintenance mode.

**Expected behavior**

Run the reviewed online owner from a separate complete release tree
without replacing the web process, stopping unrelated work or changing
its release policy.

**Deployment mode**

A managed instance with its original local volume, database, existing
encryption key and shared S3 storage.

## What Changed

- Add strict inspect, single, cohort and exact single-journal resume
requests with explicit company, workspace, deadline and concurrency
bounds.
- Verify the private tool root and its own build stamp separately from
the serving source commit and deployment.
- Reuse the nonmutating full migration-manifest inspector and require
the additive controller host-identity column before publication.
- Hydrate existing configuration and key bindings, then use the original
ESM database pool and canonical storage, source locks and migration
owners.
- Keep multi-member inspection with the optional canonical cohort
preflight in a read-only transaction with denied storage. Releases
without that owner refuse cohort operations; single import and resume
remain available.
- Register the optional runtime bundle entry and document the supported
full-tree source mode, resource admission and reconciliation.
- Add hash-bound old-writer/reader compatibility and encrypted restore
tests.

## Verification

Final local revision: `c9345b72f27aee1158047dccd0b1060f9a0be6df`, on
master `fbe689938c3bf8c5849d2cd56b9da90029db9389`, macOS arm64 with Node
24.22.2.

- Entry and runtime packaging: **34/34 PASS**.
- Real PostgreSQL/filesystem compatibility: **6/6 PASS**, disposable
database wrapper exit 0 and cleanup complete. The frozen old source lock
owner contends with the new entry; unrelated work proceeds. The old
authority and snapshot readers decrypt and restore newly published
bytes.
- Pending and uploaded journal cases use the unchanged old persisted
format and preserve operation/snapshot IDs through resume.
- Full layered server source and test typecheck: **PASS**.
- Module boundaries and `git diff --check`: **PASS**.
- Actual source-mode module import under Node 24 succeeds without
starting the application.
- A separate temporary full-old-producer fixture did not get past module
setup: 90 seconds under Vitest and a 15-second direct Node control.
Neither is counted as an executed old-producer test or a product
failure. The smaller frozen old-writer/reader proof and old-format
journal cases are the local evidence.
- Hosted resume of the actual saved operation and Linux artifact
qualification remain operational acceptance gates. This PR does not
claim those ran.
- Review regression: a real successful import returned a null operation
ID (genuine RED). The repaired entry binds the exact returned snapshot
to its succeeded migration journal after commit (GREEN). Committed or
superseded snapshots are accepted; a missing readback requires
reconciliation rather than a blind retry.
- Final affected check: **40/40 PASS** across the entry, packaging and
actual PostgreSQL compatibility suites; wrapper exit 0 and cleanup
complete. Full layered typecheck and boundaries pass after the
user-requested rebase and current Runner rebuild.
- A second real postcommit database-read fault also has genuine
RED/GREEN proof. The succeeded journal, saved authority and original
bytes remain intact, and every readback error now preserves the
reconcile-required warning.
- Final-head [CI run
42404116001](https://github.com/paperclipai/paperclip/actions/runs/42404116001):
**PASS**, with all 59 check contexts terminal (55 success and 4
intentional skips). Fresh Greptile review is **5/5** on
`c9345b72f27aee1158047dccd0b1060f9a0be6df`, with no unresolved threads;
check and thread pagination are complete.

## Risks

- The tool must come from one authenticated complete release tree with
its own dependencies. A copied bundle chunk can retain old absolute
paths and is not a portable release.
- Concurrency is not resource admission. The operator must check memory,
CPU and scratch headroom and start with one import or two cohort
members.
- Schema must be prepared by the existing schema owner. This entry never
applies DDL.
- Cancellation awaits the canonical owner. An SSH interruption does not
prove the process stopped; durable journals must be reconciled before
retry.
- The entry preserves remote obligations and source files. It does not
prove enrollment readiness or zero-downtime operation.

## Model Used

OpenAI GPT-6 through Codex, with reasoning, repository tools and code
execution. The exact serving snapshot and context-window size are not
exposed to this agent.

## 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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2026-11-07 13:20:35 -06:00
DottaandClaude Opus 5.5 0189fedffc fix(native): bound an idle warm local runner whose controller died (#19879)
## Thinking Path

> - Paperclip is the open source app people use to manage AI agents for
work.
> - A warm runner (`lifecycleMode: warm`) keeps runnerd alive between
runs so a follow-up turn starts fast. The follow-up default flip (next
PR) makes warm the default for local Codex and OpenCode agents.
> - The controller owns a warm runner's idle window. Runnerd ignores the
idle timeout itself.
> - A graceful controller shutdown suspends idle warm sessions. A
controller that dies (SIGKILL, crash) does not. Local runners launch
with no process reconnect grace, so the idle runner kept running until
its 1-hour connection lease ran out, owned by nobody.
> - This pull request gives warm local runners the 7-minute reconnect
grace that remote runners already use.
> - The benefit: idle runners are reaped by proof within a bounded time,
never left orphaned, before warm becomes the default.

## Linked Issues or Issue Description

Refs #19874 (warm completion contract), #19846 (TTFT baseline), #19852.

**What existing behavior does this improve?**
Ownership of an idle warm local runner after its controller dies.

**Current behavior**
`runnerProcessReconnectGraceMs` is `undefined` for local targets, so
runnerd launches without `--reconnect-grace-ms`. An idle warm runner
whose controller was killed stays alive until its connection lease (one
hour) expires. The restart-chaos harness cannot show this: its K1 kills
the controller's whole process tree, runner included.

**Proposed behavior**
`localRunnerProcessReconnectGraceMs(policy)` returns the remote grace (7
minutes) for a warm policy and `undefined` for per-turn. After the
grace, runnerd records `transport_reconnect_grace_exceeded`, stops its
provider, keeps durable state and exits. The next run resumes cold.

**Reason and benefit**
The restart plan requires idle runners to be reaped by proof, never
orphaned. Seven minutes is far longer than a controller restart (13–20 s
locally) and the long-outage fault holds (3–5 minutes), so a live turn
still reattaches.

## What Changed

- `native-runner-recovery-contract.ts`:
`localRunnerProcessReconnectGraceMs`.
- `native-session-executor.ts`: the local runnerd transport passes it as
`runnerProcessReconnectGraceMs`. Remote targets keep `null`
(lease-owned).
- `runnerd-warm-idle-orphan.test.ts` (new): real runnerd and fake Codex.
An idle warm runner, after its turn completed, whose controller
detaches.
- `doc/DEVELOPING.md`: the grace and its bound.

## Verification

- `pnpm --filter @paperclipai/paperclip-runner exec vitest run
src/live/runnerd-warm-idle-orphan.test.ts`: with a process grace, the
idle runner exits with `transport_reconnect_grace_exceeded` and the next
transport resumes the same provider session cold. With no grace (`null`,
today's local launch), the runner is still alive after the controller
left.
- `cd server && npx vitest run
src/services/native-runtime/native-runner-recovery-contract.test.ts`:
warm gets the remote grace; per-turn keeps none; the grace outlasts a
controller restart and a long outage.
- `tsc --noEmit` passes for `server` and `packages/paperclip-runner`.
- Local restart measurement with warm runners (K1/K2, codex, claude,
opencode, n = 3 each): every interrupted run recovered, with recovery
latency equal or lower than per-turn. The chaos waves with this change
are in the default-flip PR.

## Risks

- A warm local runner whose controller stays down for more than 7
minutes exits. A turn in progress then resumes through
`resume_dead_runner`, the same path as a controller crash that kills the
runner. Remote runners already behave this way.
- Previous-release story (`rules/upgrade-safe-run-state.mdc`): no
persisted state changes. A warm runner launched by the previous release
keeps the launch arguments it started with (no grace) until it exits.

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

## Model Used

- Anthropic Claude Opus 5.5 (`claude-opus-5-5`) in Claude Code, with
tool use (shell, file edit, test execution).

## Checklist

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

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2026-11-07 13:11:18 -06:00
DottaandPaperclip 965ca91dd0 Capture legacy workspace cohorts under one source fence (#19873)
## Thinking Path

> - Paperclip is the open source app people use to manage AI agents for
work.
> - Workspace migration preserves local files as authenticated portable
snapshots.
> - Workspaces that share Git storage require one complete source fence.
> - Independent imports contend on that fence and cannot safely run as a
batch.
> - This change adds an opt-in cohort owner that captures members
concurrently and publishes them atomically.
> - Existing source, recovery, snapshot and publication checks remain
authoritative.

## Linked Issues or Issue Description

**What existing behavior does this improve?**

The administrative remote-workspace migration owner for workspaces in
one shared physical source component. Related changes: #19688, #19854
and #19855.

**Current behavior**

Each independent import acquires the complete source fence. Parallel
independent calls therefore contend instead of overlapping archive work.
A caller cannot use a surrounding transaction and assume that a
successful savepoint confirms the outer commit.

**Proposed behavior**

An explicit `migrateRemoteWorkspaceCohort` call selects one to eight
leaves from one proven component. It owns the full
source/lifecycle/copyback fence, uses the original pool for bounded
archive work, validates every member, publishes serially, and returns
success only after the outer commit.

**Reason and benefit**

This supplies a correctness-gated path for a controlled two-member
hosted qualification. It makes no wall-clock speedup claim. No running
app call site or scheduler selects cohorts automatically.

**Breaking changes**

The existing single-import API retains its guards and rejects a journal
owned by a cohort. New cohort journals require the same complete member
set on resume.

## What Changed

- Extract the existing reservation, capture, validation and publication
stages for reuse by both owners.
- Add an opt-in cohort API with default concurrency two and a maximum of
eight. Every member must share the same complete physical/Git/alias
component; selected roots must be leaves relative to each other.
- Persist exact cohort and operation membership in the existing journal.
Compare all selected fingerprints with the aggregate proof before the
first reservation under the complete fence, and recheck each member when
reserving its journal. Refuse foreign journals, incomplete or mixed
replay sets, lost fences and changed sources. Keep all authorities and
activity events unpublished if the outer commit fails.
- Share the merged nested-child verifier inside one complete fence.
Queue its prepare calls, retain its two-child bound and authenticated
immutable proof, and recheck local bytes and database bindings on every
pass.
- Document the API, exact-membership resume protocol, resource bounds
and required hosted qualification.

## Verification

- Integration head `fce1896010`: 32/32 PostgreSQL/filesystem cases
across the cohort owner, the complete merged nested-verifier suite, and
five existing parent-import cases.
- Final source-proof repair: 19/19 cohort-owner cases pass, including
real first- and last-member metadata changes before reservation,
changed-source partial-resume refusal, mixed local/imported refusal with
storage forbidden, cancelled/failed/finished admission, a late finished
timestamp, complete fences, queued child-proof reuse, cold restore,
cancellation, commit failure and exact replay. All local database checks
use the canonical owned wrapper, one Vitest worker and Node 24.22.2 on
macOS arm64/PostgreSQL 18.1.
- Final rebased head is based on
`fbe689938c3bf8c5849d2cd56b9da90029db9389`, including current
source-owner, database-schema and Runner contract changes. The 19-case
owner suite, full server layered source/tests/test-tree typechecks,
module boundaries and diff checks are rerun on that base; required CI
supplies the native Runner qualification.
- Selection-only `node scripts/local-verify.mjs --base
68db7ed9e3 --explain` exceeded its
60-second observation bound before producing a plan. It supplies no test
pass; required CI must supply broad coverage.
- Genuine replay RED: a committed two-member cohort accepted a
one-member replay. The repaired owner requires its full
succeeded-journal/snapshot membership.
- Genuine terminal-journal RED: read-only preflight accepted a
cancelled, finished saved member, and apply created two pending
snapshots and the missing peer journal before refusing later. The repair
rejects that state before preflight eligibility or snapshot work and
rechecks unfinished state before publication.
- Genuine source-proof race REDs: early workspace metadata drift could
strand a partial journal. A first repair checked each member only when
reserving it; an additional last-member regression showed that an
earlier journal could still be written before noticing the changed
member. The final owner compares the complete preimage in the existing
fenced preflight before the first reservation and retains
per-reservation checks. Both first- and last-member cases now leave zero
journals/snapshots and permit a fresh attempt. Changed sources after a
genuine partial reservation still refuse.
- Coverage includes parallel uploads, cold restore with originals
removed, complete source/copyback fences, exact partial-reservation
resume, actual read-only preflight with storage forbidden,
foreign/changed journals, peer failure and cancellation, fence
connection loss, and a real deferred outer-commit failure.
- Prior head `70bc2740d0` passed all CI after one explicitly bounded
same-head retry of server shard 4. Its first attempt observed an
unrelated heartbeat/plugin test still running at a five-second wait;
automatic test retry then hit the fixed-name environment uniqueness
constraint. The test and 1,100 relevant owner files matched the nearest
successful base gate. The one job retry passed the target test in
3,491ms and all 3,045 shard tests. Original failures remain recorded;
their initial cause is unknown. This does not supply CI acceptance for
the later repair head.
- Earlier prototype evidence remains historical: 286 PostgreSQL controls
and twelve cold restores passed on its prior base. Six macOS timing runs
were inconclusive under contention, including slower cohort runs. They
are not speedup or hosted acceptance evidence.
- Hosted acceptance remains a two-member same-component leaf canary with
no imported children, followed by same-host timing, peak-memory and
scratch-headroom observations before considering a larger batch.

Run the focused owner file from `server/` with the canonical temporary
PostgreSQL owner:

```sh
node ../cli/node_modules/tsx/dist/cli.mjs ../packages/db/src/test-postgres-command.ts -- node ../node_modules/vitest/vitest.mjs run src/services/remote-workspace-cohort-migration.test.ts --fsModuleCache --maxWorkers 1 --hookTimeout 90000
```

Final head `112ffeb20c272c6ef5e1e0956be889c85511f0d0` passed [required
CI](https://github.com/paperclipai/paperclip/actions/runs/42402942287)
with 56 successful checks and four skips; the aggregate is green.
[Greptile reviewed this exact head at
5/5](https://github.com/paperclipai/paperclip/pull/19873#issuecomment-6710780943),
and a fresh paginated review-thread read has zero unresolved findings.

## Risks

- Concurrent archive work increases CPU, memory, scratch space, database
and storage load. Admission must count logical member workers and up to
two nested-child workers, not Node processes. Eight-member use remains
unqualified.
- The complete cohort fence lasts until all started work joins. Slow
callbacks can delay cancellation and associated source writers.
- The exact journal exception is internal and binds company, cohort,
workspace and operation IDs. Wrong or changed membership fails closed;
operators must inspect unknown outcomes before resuming the same full
set.
- Existing remote recovery holds, provider obligations, source files and
history remain preserved. A successful import does not settle those
independent obligations.

## Model Used

OpenAI GPT-6 (Codex), with reasoning, code execution and repository
tools. This runtime does not expose a more specific backend 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

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2026-11-07 13:02:54 -06:00
DottaandPaperclip 4d5265fe7e Preserve fully covered historical workspace sources (#19872)
## Thinking Path

> - Paperclip is the open source app people use to manage AI agents for
work.
> - Workspace migration must preserve local files while retaining
unfinished recovery obligations.
> - A shared Git source needs proof for its companion workspaces before
import can publish.
> - Recovery backfill can add a historical-source marker to an exhausted
prepared-export hold.
> - The hold owner rejected that marker even when every recorded
allocation already belonged to its proven prepared source.
> - This pull request accepts only that fully validated form through the
existing source owners and publication fences.
> - Unrelated work can continue while import saves the local files and
keeps the remote recovery hold intact.

## Linked Issues or Issue Description

Refs #19830. No separate public issue was found. A search for the marker
found no open duplicate PR.

**What happened?**

A companion workspace with an exhausted prepared-export hold blocked the
whole shared Git cohort after canonical recovery backfill added its
historical-source marker. The prepared and historical source readers
both accepted the same allocation.

**Expected behavior**

Local file preservation can proceed when all historical references are
already covered by the proven prepared source. The recovery hold and
remote obligations remain unchanged. Unknown or uncovered sources stay
blocked.

**Steps to reproduce**

1. Create a shared Git repository with a selected leaf and a companion
workspace.
2. Give the companion a settled failed export, accepted result,
exhausted recovery and blocked task.
3. Run canonical historical recovery backfill for its retained
allocation.
4. Import the selected leaf through the normal online migration owner.

**Paperclip version or commit**

Reproduced on `4185e308659abf0887930e20049ca6e7cbfc0e81`.

**Deployment mode**

A source installation with legacy local Git workspaces and object
storage.

## What Changed

- Validate the exact historical marker schema, run and unique lease
references against the already proven prepared source and declared
allocations.
- Reuse the canonical historical-source inspector and compare the same
provider allocation and remote working directory.
- Reject unknown fields, malformed markers and foreign, duplicate or
uncovered references.
- Keep the full marker in the existing hold fingerprint and retain the
existing source, task, lifecycle, finalizer and publication checks.
- Add real PostgreSQL/Git tests through shared-cohort inspection and the
encrypted import/restore owners.

## Verification

- The unchanged owner failed the actual selected-leaf importer
regression with `online_workspace_source_scope_unproven`. The canonical
prepared/historical reader controls passed before that refusal.
- Production head `3e678e10fa` passed 41 focused PostgreSQL/Git cases
across three files in 18.93 seconds after rebasing onto the new
finalizer schema migration. This includes 14 new cases; 80 unrelated
cases were filtered out. The final test-only review update passed both
additional multi-allocation controls plus the original selected-leaf
cold restore (3/3, 11.29 seconds); TypeScript passed again.
- The positive uses the actual historical backfill producer. It
cold-restores an encrypted selected-leaf snapshot with the original Git
tree unavailable and keeps the peer's task, finalizer, result,
allocation and recovery action unchanged.
- The tests retain an unrelated active object-backed run, prove the peer
finalizer lock is held, refuse bad bindings and reject late marker
changes without discarding the uploaded snapshot.
- Server TypeScript, module-boundary checks and `git diff --check`
passed. The canonical PostgreSQL wrapper exited and cleaned up.
- Final-head CI passed: 56 successful checks and four intentional skips,
with no failures or pending jobs
([run](https://github.com/paperclipai/paperclip/actions/runs/42397090541)).
Greptile reviewed `0cbf0a0255` at 5/5 with no open findings; GitHub
reports CLEAN/MERGEABLE.

## Risks

- The allowance applies only to the existing exhausted prepared-export
hold. Other recovery forms and unknown or uncovered references remain
blockers.
- A marked hold adds database reads proportional to its already declared
allocations during maintenance inspection. It adds no provider calls,
payload download or recurring background work.
- Import saves the current local files. It does not claim that unsaved
remote files were recovered, that a provider stopped or that execution
may resume. Existing holds and warnings remain authoritative.
- Local tests use the real encryption and restore owners with a local
object backend. Hosted backfill and normal-delivery qualification remain
separate.

## Model Used

OpenAI Codex, based on GPT-6, with reasoning, repository tools and code
execution. The exact serving snapshot and context-window limit 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
#` 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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2026-11-07 11:53:00 -06:00
DottaandClaude Opus 5.5 738058553f fix(recovery): resume a continuation that never launched its runner in its own sandbox (#19850)
## Thinking Path

> - Paperclip is the open source app people use to manage AI agents for
work
> - A chat follow-up on a remote native task runs as a continuation: it
starts from its predecessor's saved provider session and, for a warm
session, copies the predecessor's runner process identity onto the new
run
> - When the continuation fails before it asks for a runner of its own,
its due same-run retry sees a recorded process identity and reattaches
to "this run's" runner. That runner never existed, so reattachment
always fails with `native_remote_recovery_lease_mismatch` and the task
is blocked
> - On staging, 34 OpenCode runs on 31 tasks failed this way in one
evening. Each first attempt failed while staging its provider pack,
recorded no runner start, and kept its own sandbox lease active
> - This pull request proves that shape from durable state, retires the
inherited identity, and resumes the run the way its failed attempt ran,
in its own retained sandbox
> - The benefit is that these retries recover automatically, without a
second sandbox and without the unsaved-work hold, while every run that
may hold its own provider work keeps verified reattachment

## Linked Issues or Issue Description

Refs #19839, Refs #19399, Refs #19755, Refs #19779, Refs #19827

**What happened?**
A remote OpenCode chat continuation failed during provider-pack staging.
The run had no runner start event, no process identity event, no
controller checkpoint, and no provider event of its own. Its saved
session (no active turn, no pending request) and its process identity
were inherited from the previous run. Its failure detail recorded
`providerEventsExist: false`, and its own sandbox lease stayed active.
The due same-run retry chose `reattach_remote_runner` because a process
identity was recorded. Reattachment failed with
`native_remote_recovery_lease_mismatch`, and the run ended in
`native_continuation_requires_reconciliation`.

**Steps to reproduce**
1. Continue a warm remote native session so the new run inherits the
predecessor's runner process identity and saved session.
2. Fail the new run with a retryable error before it requests a runner
(for example during provider-pack staging).
3. Let the same-run retry become due. Recovery requests
`reattach_remote_runner`, and reattachment fails.

**Expected behavior**
The retry resumes the run the way its failed attempt ran, in the same
sandbox, and continues the inherited provider session. A run with any
provider work, runner start, or controller checkpoint of its own keeps
verified reattachment.

## What Changed

- New
`server/src/services/native-runtime/native-inherited-runner-retry.ts`:
- `retireInheritedRemoteRunnerIdentity` locks the issue, the
coordinator, then the run (the same order as same-run resumption). It
retires the recorded process identity only when all of these hold: the
coordinator is a result-less, unowned `exact_checkpoint_resume` retry
with `providerEventsExist: false`; the run has no runner start, process
identity, adapter invocation, tool start, runner event, controller
checkpoint, provider event or provider session of its own; the saved
session has no active turn and no pending runtime request; and a settled
predecessor of the same native session recorded the exact same process
identity (PID, group, start time).
- It records `nativeInheritedRunnerRetirement` on the run profile, with
the run's own sandbox location when that lease is still active, and an
`inherited_runner_never_launched` lifecycle event.
- `readInheritedRunnerRetainedSandbox` returns that sandbox only while
it still matches the run's saved remote location.
- `heartbeat/recovery.ts`: a due remote retry calls the retirement
first. It returns `retired`, `not_applicable` or `transient`. A retired
run (including one a concurrent sweep already retired) goes to the
ordinary same-run resume (`claimNativeSessionResumptions`), with every
existing admission gate. A lock timeout or database error is
`transient`: the sweep defers the run and checks again, and never falls
back to reattachment. Any other run keeps verified reattachment.
- `heartbeat/workspace-preparation.ts`: an ordinary same-run resume with
a retired inherited runner acquires its retained sandbox through the
existing exact-lease path (`reattachRemoteLease`), which validates and
resumes that lease and never acquires a replacement. It acquires as an
ordinary resume does only when the exact-lease failure proves the
sandbox is unusable (`stage=environment_acquire|environment_resume`,
`field=lease|lease_status|lease_expired|provider_lease_id`). Any other
failure, such as a scope mismatch on a live lease, is kept and acquires
nothing.
- New `server/src/services/retained-sandbox-absent-error.ts`: a sandbox
provider's resume reply with no provider lease and `expired: true` (the
reply Daytona and other providers send when the sandbox is gone) now
throws `RetainedSandboxAbsentError`. Every other mismatched reply keeps
the existing error. The exact-lease reattachment in
`environment-run-orchestrator.ts` maps it to
`native_remote_recovery_lease_mismatch: stage=environment_resume
field=lease_expired`, so the same-run resume above acquires as an
ordinary resume when the provider has removed the retained sandbox. A
transient resume failure is not treated as absence and never acquires
another sandbox.
- `native-restart-recovery.ts` exports the existing
`hasNativeExecutionStartEvidence` so both paths use one definition of
"execution reached a runner".
- `doc/execution-semantics.md` documents the rule.

## Previous-release state

- No schema change. The new profile field is additive.
- A run saved by an older release without `providerEventsExist`, without
a native session ID, or without a matching predecessor keeps verified
reattachment. That path is unchanged. When it loses its runner, it still
requests the user's Retry once (#19399).
- A run that an older release left with its own runner start, controller
checkpoint or provider event keeps verified reattachment, because its
outcome may be ambiguous.
- A profile without the new marker never changes acquisition.

## Verification

- `npx vitest run server/src/services/heartbeat/recovery.test.ts -t
"never launched its own runner|keeps verified reattachment"` (embedded
PostgreSQL):
- Staging shape (inherited session and process identity, no runner start
of its own, saved remote workspace, active own lease, recorded PID).
Before the fix: fails, because recovery requested reattachment. After
the fix: passes. The PID fields are cleared, the marker names the
predecessor and the retained lease, `executeRun` is called once with a
plain `nativeLeaseOwner` claim, the run still has exactly one (active)
lease, and no process is signalled.
- Negatives, passing before and after: a provider turn of its own, a
runner start of its own, a controller checkpoint of its own, no matching
predecessor, a pending runtime request in the saved session, and a
failure detail without `providerEventsExist`. Each keeps verified
reattachment and gets no marker.
- `npx vitest run
server/src/services/heartbeat/workspace-preparation.test.ts -t "retained
sandbox|retired inherited"`:
- A retired inherited runner acquires its retained sandbox with
`reattachRemoteLease`. Before: fails. After: passes.
- When the retained sandbox is gone, it acquires as an ordinary resume.
Before: fails. After: passes.
- Without the marker, acquisition is unchanged (passes before and
after).
- A `nativeWorkspaceSync` reference also resumes its retained sandbox. A
live lease's `lease_scope` failure is kept and acquires nothing.
- `recovery.test.ts` also covers a second retirement call (returns
`retired`, one event) and a held issue lock (defers; no reattachment, no
dispatch, PID kept).
- `environment-runtime.test.ts`: on exact resume, only a provider reply
with no lease and `expired: true` (with or without a workspace sentinel
mismatch) is `RetainedSandboxAbsentError`; a different lease or a reply
without `expired` keeps the existing error.
`environment-run-orchestrator.test.ts`: confirmed absence becomes
`stage=environment_resume field=lease_expired` and acquires nothing.
- Affected suites pass locally: `recovery.test.ts`,
`workspace-preparation.test.ts`,
`heartbeat-native-remote-failure-retention.test.ts`,
`workspace-recovery-retry-copyback.test.ts`,
`native-runner-restart-recovery.integration.test.ts`. `pnpm --filter
@paperclipai/server typecheck` passes.

## Risks

- **No second executor.** The rule applies only when this run never
requested a runner, so no runner of this run exists. The predecessor
must be settled, and its identity is matched exactly. The resume then
takes the normal same-run claim, which holds the issue lock and
admission gates.
- **No repeated side effects.** The run has no provider event, turn or
tool start of its own. A saved session with a pending runtime request or
an active turn keeps verified reattachment. The resumed provider session
goes through the existing provider recovery, which refuses a pending
side-effecting call with a permanent, named code.
- **Bounded.** The retirement takes effect once per run, because
afterwards the run has no recorded identity. A contended retirement
waits for the next sweep. Further failures use the existing
three-attempt provider budget.
- I did not run a live Daytona sandbox, or a full preparation through a
real sandbox plugin, through this path. The orchestrator's exact-lease
checks are covered by its own unit tests. The evidence is recovery and
preparation tests on a real database with the staging run shape.

## Model Used

- Claude Opus 5.5 (Anthropic), model ID `claude-opus-5-5`, run in Claude
Code with tool use (shell, file editing, read-only browser access to
staging).

## Checklist

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

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2026-11-07 11:35:23 -06:00
DottaandPaperclip 4185e30865 Recover archived commits from original bare sources (#19855)
## Thinking Path

> - Paperclip is the open source app people use to manage AI agents for
work.
> - Workspace migration must preserve saved files before the web server
releases its local volume.
> - An archived Git checkout can retain a trusted branch-deletion
receipt after its private clone and generated project cache are removed.
> - The original repository can still exist at its recorded file URL,
but the archive owner did not check that source.
> - This pull request permits a narrow, verified original
bare-repository source for the exact recorded commit.
> - The existing encrypted snapshot and publication owners then preserve
the workspace through their normal migration path.

## Linked Issues or Issue Description

No public issue exists. Searches for the archived-source error and
original bare Git source found no duplicate change.

**What happened?**

Migration reported `archived_git_source_unavailable` for an archived
checkout even though its original bare repository still contained the
exact saved commit. The private clone and generated cache were absent.

**Expected behavior**

The canonical owner can use the recorded original local repository when
its full commit identity and source ownership are proven. Uncertain or
changed sources remain blocked.

**Steps to reproduce**

1. Create an isolated checkout from a local bare repository.
2. Close it through the normal cleanup owner and retain the successful
branch-deletion receipt.
3. Remove the private clone and generated cache, while retaining the
recorded original repository and full base revision.
4. Inspect the archived workspace for migration.

**Paperclip version or commit**

Reproduced on `84908d176b2800f4c792c4249c610ec0baebdd28`.

**Deployment mode**

A source installation with existing local Git workspaces and shared
object storage.

## What Changed

- Consider the exact configured file-URL repository only after the
canonical primary source is definitively absent.
- Require a matching source record and successful cleanup receipt, the
exact full base/deleted commit, a contained bare SHA-1 repository,
bounded standard configuration and alias-free metadata.
- Restrict this source path to local Git transport and a minimal
environment. Reconstruct the tree only in private migration scratch.
- Retain existing source fingerprints, journal identity, encrypted
upload/readback and final publication checks. Lock and recheck the
configured source and cleanup record before publication.
- Add real PostgreSQL/Git coverage for encrypted cold restore,
lost-reply retry and refused source or publication changes.

## Verification

- The unchanged owner failed the real four-object original-source
regression with an ineligible inventory.
- The review regressions failed before each repair: four
returned-primary retry/publication cases and two actual production
metadata/reaper cases.
- Final head `8925519310` passed all 40 focused PostgreSQL/Git tests in
56.38 seconds. Four positive formats use canonical/legacy metadata and
ordinary/verified-tip cleanup. Each imports an encrypted snapshot,
removes the original file URI from reach, then authenticates and
cold-restores exact files, executable mode and Git history.
- The same file covers source/receipt/writer guards, changed sources
before publication, authenticated lost-reply reuse and 18
returned-primary directory/alias/unreadable cases. Refused publication
retains returned edits and uploaded ciphertext.
- Server TypeScript, module-boundary checks and `git diff --check`
passed on this revision. Canonical test wrappers exited and cleaned up.
- An earlier focused run also passed 22 existing
archived-Git/restore-point controls. `pnpm verify --explain` completed
without executing extra suites. Required CI supplies final broad
coverage.
- Final head passed all 60 CI/review contexts: 56 successful checks and
four expected skips. Greptile reviewed this exact head at 5/5, with no
open review threads.
- One unchanged archive segment-boundary test timed out on both
framework attempts in the initial server shard. The one job-only retry
passed with unchanged code and timeout. The test and its resolved local
import graph match a green control revision. The original failures
remain retained; the cause is unresolved.

## Risks

- The fallback is intentionally narrow. Original repositories with a
different full tip, unsupported configuration, aliases (including an
aliased instance root), external object storage or more than 10,000
metadata entries remain blocked.
- The first source check and final publication check add bounded local
filesystem and Git work to this maintenance path. They add no recurring
worker or network Git access.
- Original repository files remain intact. Importing a retained
workspace does not make its configured local file URL portable for
future fresh project work. That separate configuration dependency still
requires preservation and qualification before volume removal.
- The local regression uses the real encryption and restore owners with
a local object-storage backend. It does not claim a hosted backfill or a
deployed migration.

## Model Used

OpenAI Codex, based on GPT-6, with reasoning, repository tools and code
execution. The exact serving snapshot and context-window limit 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
#` 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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2026-11-07 11:05:25 -06:00
DottaandClaude Opus 5.5 a9ac2e2039 feat(native): split local runner startup into stage, launch and session-load spans (#19852)
## Thinking Path

> - Paperclip is the open source app people use to manage AI agents for
work.
> - When a person messages an agent, the agent must start its turn fast.
Time to first token (TTFT) and agent boot are first-class metrics.
> - The Phase 0 baseline (#19846) found that local runner startup costs
1.6–17 s at p50 and up to 50 s at p95. It is the largest part of TTFT.
> - The run log records that startup as one span
(`runner.session.bootstrap` or `runner.session.resume`). We cannot see
if the time goes to staging, to the `paperclip-runnerd` process launch,
or to the provider session load.
> - This pull request splits local runner startup into three sub-spans
in the run log.
> - The benefit: the follow-up work to cut follow-up-turn TTFT can
measure each step before and after.

## Linked Issues or Issue Description

Refs #19846 (TTFT baseline, finding 1 and gap "No sub-spans exist inside
local runner startup"). Refs #19838.

**What existing behavior does this improve?**
The run-log performance spans for local native runner startup.

**Current behavior**
The local path records one `runner.session.bootstrap` or
`runner.session.resume` span that covers runtime staging, the runner
process launch and the provider handshake together. The remote path
already records `runner.runtime.stage` and `runner.process.launch`; the
local path does not.

**Proposed behavior**
The local path records three sequential child spans of
`runner.session.startup`: `runner.runtime.stage`,
`runner.process.launch` and `provider.session.load`.

**Reason and benefit**
The TTFT work needs to know which step dominates before it changes the
runner lifecycle. Without these spans, a change to warm runner reuse
cannot show which cost it removes.

## What Changed

- `RunnerdCodexTransport` has a new optional `onStartupStep` callback.
`#start` and `#resume` time three milestones and call it synchronously.
A failing callback never changes startup. A nested startup (exact
adoption from `thread/start`) keeps the outer clock.
- `runner.runtime.stage`: launch preparation before the runner process
exists.
- `runner.process.launch`: spawn until runnerd accepts the run
(`run.prepare`, or the recovery attachment on resume). An adopted live
runner records no launch. This keeps the existing meaning in
`summarizeStartupReuse`: a launch span means a fresh runner.
- `provider.session.load`: `session.open` (or the recovery probe) until
the provider identity is confirmed.
- `recordNativeRunnerStartupStep` (`native-run-trace.ts`) records each
step as a `run.performance.span` row with `mode` and `target: "local"`.
It uses `trace.defer`, so the run-log write never delays `turn.start`.
- The native executor passes the callback only for a local target.
Remote launchers keep their own spans, so there are no duplicates.
- `redaction.ts`: allowlist `runner.process.launch` and
`provider.session.load` as native span names.
- `doc/run-log-events.md`: new section "Local runner startup sub-steps".

Data path (AGENTS.md §5.7): run log only, plus Observability spans when
an operator sets an OTLP endpoint. The attributes (`mode`, `target`,
`outcome`) are already in the closed span-attribute allowlist. No
Telemetry change.

## Verification

- `pnpm --filter @paperclipai/paperclip-runner exec vitest run
src/live/runnerd-codex-transport-startup-steps.test.ts`: a real runnerd
and the fake Codex fixture. Bootstrap and a cold resume each report
stage, launch and session load in order, with `ok` outcomes and no
overlap. A throwing sink does not change startup.
- `cd server && npx vitest run
src/services/native-runtime/native-run-trace.test.ts
src/__tests__/redaction.test.ts`: the rows have the correct parent,
offsets, durations and failed level. A stalled run-log sink does not
block the caller. The rows settle before
`task.provider_session.measured`. The names survive redaction.
- The existing `runnerd-codex-transport*` suites pass (412 tests). Under
host load (load average 16–27), the first full run had 7 timing failures
in suites that do not set the callback. Each failing file passed when I
ran it again alone. `runnerd-codex-transport-settlement` passed 3/3 for
the failing case alone.
- `tsc --noEmit` passes for `packages/paperclip-runner` and `server`.

## Risks

- Low risk. Without `onStartupStep`, the transport behaves as before:
the clock is not created and each milestone call is an optional-chain
no-op.
- More run-log rows: three per local runner startup.
- The step boundaries are controller-side observations.
`runner.process.launch` includes the runnerd authentication and the
`run.prepare` acknowledgement, not only the OS spawn.

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

## Model Used

- Anthropic Claude Opus 5.5 (`claude-opus-5-5`) in Claude Code, with
tool use (shell, file edit, test execution).

## Checklist

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

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2026-11-07 10:57:31 -06:00
DottaandClaude Opus 5.5 6cfb69b4b0 docs(plans): Phase 0 ownership inventory and TTFT baseline (#19846)
## Thinking Path

> - Paperclip is the open source app people use to manage AI agents for
work
> - A control-plane restart can land between two durable writes. It
leaves an in-progress record owned by a dead process. About 69
restart-chaos PRs fixed that shape one subsystem at a time.
> - The durable ownership plan (#19831) replaces those fixes with one
owner stamp, one prover, write-ahead intents and one reconciler. Phase 0
must first list every in-progress record kind and measure how fast turns
start today.
> - Without the inventory, Phase 1 cannot choose one stamp or one proof.
Without the baseline, no later phase can show that it kept turns fast
(invariant 8).
> - This pull request adds the Phase 0 inventory, the TTFT, boot and
restart-recovery baseline, and the run-log-only driver that produced the
baseline.
> - The benefit is one reviewed map of 83 record kinds to plan sections
A–G, and measured p50/p95 budgets per adapter.

## Linked Issues or Issue Description

Refs #19831. Refs #19838 (the TTFT anchor that the baseline uses).

**What is the problem?**
Phase 0 of the durable ownership plan has no inventory of in-progress
record kinds and no speed baseline.

**What is the expected outcome?**
Two reviewed documents in `doc/plans/`, plus a repeatable way to measure
the baseline again in later phases.

**Why does it matter?**
Phase 1 cannot start without them, and every later phase's exit criteria
compare against the baseline.

## What Changed

- `doc/plans/2026-11-07-ownership-inventory.md`:
- 83 durable in-progress record kinds (94 reader rows) across native
runtime, environments, workspaces, accounting and the wake queue;
- each kind with its table and column, writer, states, owner, release
rule, proof, obligation, invariants and plan sections A–G;
- the overlaps, the merge decisions and the zero-downtime upgrade record
kinds.
- `doc/plans/2026-11-07-ttft-baseline.md`:
- TTFT, agent boot, pre-turn steps and restart recovery per adapter
(codex, claude, opencode), local, cold and warm, p50/p95;
- restart recovery from the overnight chaos evidence, the slowest steps
ranked, and the gaps.
- `tests/restart-chaos/ttft-baseline.ts`: an on-demand driver on the
chaos supervisor. It reads the run log only, never Telemetry, and always
stops its embedded Postgres.
- `tests/restart-chaos/ttft-baseline-stats.ts` and its unit tests: pure
percentile, boot, pre-turn ranking and recovery statistics.

No runtime behavior changes.

## Verification

- `pnpm exec vitest run --config tests/restart-chaos/vitest.config.ts
tests/restart-chaos/ttft-baseline-stats.test.ts`
- `node scripts/typecheck-test-projects.mjs tests/restart-chaos`
- The baseline numbers come from the driver run named in the report. To
reproduce them, follow the report's "Method" section.
- The owner spot-checked the inventory's file:line claims at
`f2d8a51027`. One example: `processLossRetryCount` has no writer, and
`heartbeat/recovery.ts:2675` is its only reader.

## Risks

- Low risk. This adds documentation and an opt-in test driver. Nothing
runs in CI except the pure stats unit tests.
- The driver spends a small amount of provider credit when someone runs
it by hand.
- The baseline sample is small (6 per cell). The local host was shared
with other worktrees, so the p95 tails include load. The report states
both.

## Model Used

- Claude Opus 5.5 (`claude-opus-5-5`), via Claude Code with tool use,
code execution and five parallel read-only subagents for the inventory.

## 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
- [ ] I will address all Greptile and reviewer comments before
requesting merge

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2026-11-07 10:47:31 -06:00
DottaandPaperclip 54b83b15a3 Reuse authenticated nested workspace verification (#19854)
## Thinking Path

> - Paperclip preserves the work that its agents produce.
> - Portable workspace migration can save nested workspaces before their
parent.
> - The parent must prove that a committed child snapshot covers any
files it omits.
> - The existing owner downloads and restores the same immutable child
archive before and after parent capture.
> - The fresh local-file checks are required, but the repeated immutable
archive check is avoidable within one live source fence.
> - This pull request reuses only an authenticated archive proof with an
unchanged reference and provider identity.
> - It also bounds independent child branches at two workers while
retaining every fresh local and Git check.

## Linked Issues or Issue Description

Refs #19805 and #19688. A duplicate search found no separate fix for
repeated child archive verification.

**What existing behavior does this improve?**

Online Git parent migration after nested workspaces have committed
portable snapshots.

**Subsystem affected**

server/ — workspace migration and nested snapshot coverage.

**Current behavior**

Each parent verification pass downloads, authenticates and restores
every child archive, then captures the child's current local tree. The
second pass repeats the immutable download and restore. Independent
child branches also run in sequence. A large parent can exhaust its
existing budget before parent capture begins.

**Proposed behavior**

One private verifier belongs to the existing live source-owner
transaction. It can reuse a completed archive proof only when the full
snapshot reference, operation, child closure, ETag and byte length still
match. Missing or weak ETags and non-cancellation HEAD errors keep full
verification. Caller cancellation still stops work. A changed identity
forces fresh authenticated readback. The owner still captures current
local bytes and Git state in both passes.

**Reason and benefit**

Remove duplicate immutable work without treating an old local-file check
as current authority. Two independent topmost branches can overlap.
Recursive descendants stay serial within those branches, so the bound
does not grow with depth.

## What Changed

- Add a private per-fence verifier to the existing tree owner. It clears
its proof map at the end of the import and refuses a different owner
transaction.
- Reuse only completed ciphertext, GCM, plaintext, and canonical restore
verification with a matching fresh provider identity.
- Retain all current database, operation, recursive coverage,
local-file, Git and manifest checks on each pass.
- Bound independent branches at two. Abort queued work on failure and
await active peers before scratch cleanup or fence release.
- Use the verifier only in the existing online Git importer. Keep the
offline full-verification path and all capture deadlines unchanged.
- Document resource admission, fallback behavior and the hosted
acceptance limit.

## Verification

- Genuine baseline RED through the real parent importer: child GET
counts 2 + 2, canonical restores 4, maximum overlapping readbacks 1. The
four fresh local child captures already pass.
- Exact positive GREEN: child GET counts 1 + 1, canonical restores 2,
maximum overlapping readbacks 2. All four fresh local child captures
remain.
- The fixture uses real encrypted archives and the canonical S3
provider's local HTTP HEAD parsing with actual payload-derived ETags. It
uses fake fixture credentials only.
- Final focused suite: **13/13 PASS**, 148.36 seconds, at `eaf17d3340`.
This includes recursive max-two completion, failure/cancellation
joining, identity/ref/content changes, same-fence alias reuse and
stale-owner refusal.
- Both affected existing migration suites: **256/256 PASS**, 201.84
seconds, at initial head `eaf17d3340`.
- The HEAD-failure review repair has genuine two-case RED evidence and
three passing failure/cancellation controls. Full layered
source/test-tree typecheck and module boundaries pass at repaired head
`763648adad`. Final exact-head controls: **21/21 PASS**, 86.63 seconds
(all 16 new controls plus five existing parent cases).
- The first extended recursive fixture correctly failed because it
created a Git branch after taking an earlier snapshot. The fixture now
creates all branches before any import; the source-change guard remains
intact.
- Exact-head CI: 56 success, four expected skips, and one neutral
Paperclip Review. Required gates pass; Greptile is fresh 5/5. Its
optional aggregate-handler cleanup recommendation is resolved with the
intentional fail-closed rationale.
- Local verification is macOS arm64 / Node26.4.0. The observed hosted
parent still needs to complete within its unchanged budget after normal
delivery. No hosted timing improvement is claimed here.

## Risks

- Two simultaneous child verifications can use more I/O, memory and
scratch space. Operators must count logical verifications, even in one
process.
- HEAD availability and provider identity are required for proof reuse.
Providers without a usable ETag perform the full check.
- Reuse lasts only for one live transaction. A retry, changed reference,
changed provider identity, process exit or owner change requires fresh
verification.
- Faster verification does not waive changed child bytes or guarantee a
specific hosted completion time. No provider turn, authority marker,
source deletion or larger timeout is introduced.

## Model Used

OpenAI GPT-6 through Codex, with repository and code-execution tools.
The exact serving model revision and context-window size are not exposed
to this agent.

## 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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2026-11-07 10:45:17 -06:00
377bc87df1 feat(connectors): show and select personal AI account defaults (#19845)
Show a crown on each saved personal AI provider default. Add a provider-specific menu action to other eligible accounts. Share saved-state queries, block duplicate writes, and keep the saved crown until a write succeeds.

Keep account details available for accessible grants. Show session lookup errors with Retry. Resolve list permissions once per request and index account lookups. Add UI and API regression coverage and account documentation.

Co-Authored-By: Paperclip <noreply@paperclip.ing>
Co-Authored-By: Paperclip <Paperclip-Paperclip@users.noreply.github.com>
2026-11-07 10:26:08 -06:00
DottaandClaude Opus 5.5 e2d490c61b feat(observability): anchor native time to first token at the accepted wake (#19838)
## Thinking Path

> - Paperclip is the open source app people use to manage AI agents for
work
> - When someone messages an agent, the reply must start fast. The
durable ownership plan (#19831) makes time to first token (TTFT) a hard
invariant.
> - Phase 0 of that plan records a TTFT baseline per adapter and
environment, measured from the moment the message or wake is accepted.
> - Today `task.time_to_first_token` starts at the wake comment, the
answered question, or the run row's creation. A wake request that was
accepted earlier (deferred, coalesced or retried) is not part of the
measurement, and the span does not say which start it used.
> - This pull request moves the start back to the earliest accepted
input and names it on the span.
> - The benefit is that the baseline and later budgets measure what the
user waits for, with no new work before `turn.start`.

## Linked Issues or Issue Description

Refs #19831

**What is the problem?**
`task.time_to_first_token` does not include the time between an accepted
wake request and the creation of its run row. It also does not record
which input it started from.

**What is the expected outcome?**
The span starts at the earliest accepted input and carries an `anchor`
attribute: `comment`, `question_response`, `wake_request` or
`run_created`.

**Why does it matter?**
Phase 0 of the durable ownership plan sets TTFT budgets from this
baseline. A start that skips queue time hides the latency that deferred
wakes add.

## What Changed

- `resolveNativeTimeToFirstTokenStart` (pure) in `native-run-trace.ts`
picks the start and the anchor. `anchor` joins the closed span-attribute
allowlist.
- `readNativeRunWakeRequestedAtMs` reads
`agent_wakeup_requests.requested_at` for the run. It never throws.
- `native-session-executor.ts` calls it only after the first deliverable
text, so it adds no wait before `turn.start`. The span now ends at the
text commit time, not after the trace write.
- Updated `doc/run-log-events.md` and `doc/observability.md`.

## Verification

- `cd server && npx vitest run
src/services/native-runtime/native-run-trace.test.ts
src/services/native-runtime/native-run-wake-anchor.test.ts` (26 pass).
- `cd server && npx vitest run
src/services/native-runtime/native-session-executor.test.ts -t first`
(41 pass). The existing TTFT test now asserts the anchor for each
ingress.

## Risks

- Low risk. This changes only the run-log and OTLP span. It is not
Telemetry (AGENTS.md §5.7), and it does not change runtime behavior.
- One indexed primary-key read per native dispatch, after the first
text. A read failure drops the anchor and keeps the old start.
- TTFT values can grow for deferred wakes. That is the intended
correction. `startOffsetMs` can be negative when the wake request comes
before the trace start.

## Model Used

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

## Checklist

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

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2026-11-07 09:57:30 -06:00
DottaandClaude Opus 5.5 84908d176b fix(recovery): name the failed check in native_remote_recovery_lease_mismatch (#19839)
## Thinking Path

> - Paperclip is the open source app people use to manage AI agents for
work
> - Remote native runs execute in a sandbox, and recovery can reattach a
run to its original sandbox runner
> - Reattachment checks the saved lease, workspace, and runner identity
in five places. Each failed check throws the same bare
`native_remote_recovery_lease_mismatch`
> - On staging, 34 OpenCode runs on 31 tasks failed with this bare error
in one evening. The run records could not show which check failed, so
the cause could not be confirmed from the run alone
> - This pull request makes every producer name the failed step and
field with closed values
> - The benefit is that an operator and the next investigation can see
which reattachment check failed, without new logging or identifiers in
the error

## Linked Issues or Issue Description

Refs #19399, Refs #19733, Refs #19755, Refs #19779

**What happened?**
Remote same-run retries failed with
`native_remote_recovery_lease_mismatch` and the task was blocked for
reconciliation. The error is thrown by environment acquire, environment
resume, workspace preparation, workspace sync, and remote runner
verification. All of them used the same bare string. The run's `error`
field and its run events did not show which check failed.

**Steps to reproduce**
1. Start reattachment for a remote native run whose saved lease,
workspace reference, or runner identity no longer matches.
2. Read the run's `error`.
3. It shows only `native_remote_recovery_lease_mismatch`.

**Expected behavior**
The error names the step and the field that differed, with no
identifiers, and existing consumers of the code keep working.

## What Changed

- New
`server/src/services/native-runtime/remote-recovery-lease-mismatch.ts`:
the code constant, a closed `stage` and `field` vocabulary, and
`remoteRecoveryLeaseMismatch(stage, field)`. It builds
`native_remote_recovery_lease_mismatch: stage=<stage> field=<field>`.
- `environment-run-orchestrator.ts` (stages `environment_acquire` and
`environment_resume`), `heartbeat/workspace-preparation.ts`
(`workspace_preparation`), `native-workspace-sync.ts`
(`workspace_sync`), and `verifyRemoteRunnerReattachment` in
`native-session-executor.ts` (`runner_verification`) now throw the
detailed form. Each check keeps the same condition and order. Only the
message changes.
- `restart-interrupted-turn.ts` uses the shared constant. It already
matches the code exactly or as the `code: ` prefix, so automatic
continuation after a reattachment loss is unchanged. No other consumer
matches the code.
- `doc/execution-semantics.md` documents the detail format.

## Previous-release state

This change adds no persisted state and changes no saved identity. Runs
that a previous release failed keep the bare
`native_remote_recovery_lease_mismatch` in `error`. Runs failed by this
release store the detailed form. The only consumer (`isReattachmentLoss`
in `restart-interrupted-turn.ts`) accepts both forms, and
`workspace-recovery-retry-copyback.test.ts` covers both.

## Verification

- Exact-detail assertions in the producer tests:
- `server/src/__tests__/environment-run-orchestrator.test.ts`: every
scope, status, expiry, provider, lease-ID, cwd, plugin-task, and resume
case asserts its stage and field. Against the previous producer, 21 of
these cases fail (the message was the bare code). With this change, all
57 tests pass.
- `native-session-executor.test.ts`: a replaced sandbox reports
`runner_verification`/`provider_lease_id`. A missing durable runner
identity reports `identity_run_id` before any sandbox read.
- `native-workspace-sync.test.ts`,
`heartbeat/workspace-preparation.test.ts`,
`native-controller-recovery.integration.test.ts` assert their exact
detail.
- End to end on embedded PostgreSQL:
`heartbeat-native-remote-failure-retention.test.ts` records
`native_remote_recovery_lease_mismatch: stage=environment_resume
field=lease` on the run when the provider no longer resumes the lease,
and it still requests the user's Retry once.
`workspace-recovery-retry-copyback.test.ts` adds a detailed-form row
that still continues once.
- The affected server test files pass locally. `pnpm --filter
@paperclipai/server typecheck` passes.

## Risks

- Low risk. Only the error text changes. Conditions, ordering, and
fail-closed behavior are unchanged.
- Logs and run errors show a longer message. The detail has closed
values only, so it adds no identifiers or secrets.
- A first version of this PR also changed remote retry selection. Review
showed that a plain resume in a new sandbox hits the remote workspace's
unsaved-work hold, and that a `destroy` disposition does not prove the
old sandbox is gone. That change is removed. It needs a separate design.

## Model Used

- Claude Opus 5.5 (Anthropic), model ID `claude-opus-5-5`, run in Claude
Code with tool use (shell, file editing, read-only browser access to
staging).

## Checklist

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

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2026-11-07 09:27:14 -06:00
Dotta 86bc3db693 feat(runner): search and load unassigned company skills (#19676)
## Thinking Path

> - Paperclip is the open source app people use to manage AI agents for
work.
> - Native agents use tools to read reusable company skills.
> - The existing native skill tools read only skills assigned to the
agent.
> - An agent can stop when a task needs another skill that is already in
the company library.
> - This pull request adds tools to search and read accessible company
skills on demand.
> - Agents can use the saved instructions without a persistent
assignment change.

## Linked Issues or Issue Description

**Problem or motivation**

An agent cannot use an unassigned company skill through the standard
native skill tools. A generic API workaround needs extra discovery and
can return the full library.

**Proposed solution**

Add `search_skills` and `load_skill` to the native tool catalog. Search
returns small pages of stored metadata. Load returns text from a saved
version and lists its files. Both tools use the current run identity and
existing company and project access checks.

**Alternatives considered**

Assign each skill before a read, or use generic API discovery. Both add
work to a read that the company already permits.

**Roadmap alignment**

This extends the existing skills discovery path. It does not add a
store, permission model or installation flow. Related: #15409 adds an
assigned-skill loader to a different adapter.

## What Changed

- Add bounded company skill search. Search does not synchronize sources
or fetch repositories.
- Add versioned text reads for SKILL.md and supporting files. Page text
and file lists. Reject unsafe paths and binary files.
- Recheck access after storage reads. Keep the existing closed Muse,
skill-test and completion-review tool scopes.
- Add integration tests with isolated PostgreSQL and real local package
storage. Update the native tool count assertion and skill documentation.
- Limit text files to 16 MiB before body reads. Accept saved file paths
up to 4,096 characters plus the repository prefix. Return the response
digest only on the first page.
- Add optional byte limits to the package readers. Select only the
requested legacy file in PostgreSQL. Cast the size comparison to
`bigint` so existing callers can omit the limit.
- Cache decoded text and its digest for one run. Limit the cache to 64
MiB and 64 files. Check access on each page and clear the cache when the
run closes.
- Read repository source files and wrapper inputs through verified warm
reads or isolated recovery. These reads do not hold the company startup
lock.

## Verification

- Local verification tested tree
`7ba5828387ca0a9c2ee99655818a28de1235a854`, published as commit
`c9d04cba601541cca506f5b72aa6f7272a25379f`. The published tree matches
that tested checkout. Current head
`33fa3d3d4c7988288685ce7c6499d064e0cb9079` (tree
`8daaa2f3264d1cd65a9b6d85dbb9d3729ac4a29d`) removes six comment lines
from three source files; its executable code is unchanged from the
locally tested revision.
- Four native skill and authority Vitest suites: 72 passed and 7
existing sandbox checks skipped. All 20 skill-library integration tests
passed.
- Skill-library and package-store suites: 65 passed. This includes the
45 package-store cases and the same 20 integration cases. Ran with umask
`022` for executable-file tests.
- Server source and test typecheck layers passed in low-memory mode. The
affected source cycle also passed a final separate check.
- `git diff --check` and `node scripts/check-module-boundaries.mjs`
passed.
- Red/green evidence: the new default inline-read case reproduced
PostgreSQL error `22003`. Two max-size paging cases reproduced extra
body reads. Warm and cold repository reads timed out while another
connection held the company startup lock. All five cases pass after the
fixes.
- Both 16 MiB paging cases check that the second page performs no
additional body read. They also check that source-access revocation
blocks a cached page. Warm and cold lock cases load both the generated
wrapper and a supporting file while the startup lock remains held.
- The first cold-read test attempt had an incorrect helper import.
Corrected the test import, reproduced the lock timeout, then verified
the fix.
- [CI on the previous
revision](https://github.com/paperclipai/paperclip/actions/runs/42319652795)
passed typecheck, build and policy. Serialized shard 2 failed in the
unchanged test `schedules bounded retries for failed accepted
interaction continuation wakes`. The same case passed locally: 1 passed;
416 cases were excluded by the filter. The cause of the earlier CI
failure remains unknown. [CI for
c9d04cba](https://github.com/paperclipai/paperclip/actions/runs/42323260426)
passed: 52 successful jobs and one skipped selector, including
typecheck, build, all serialized server shards, native server tests,
Runner/Rust, and e2e. This establishes a later pass; the earlier
heartbeat failure's cause remains unknown. [CI for current head
33fa3d3d](https://github.com/paperclipai/paperclip/actions/runs/42325148224)
passed: all 52 applicable workflow jobs succeeded, with one skipped
selector. The head has 58 successful check runs and three skipped
checks; Snyk also passed.
- Earlier failures remain recorded. Preflight cannot build Rust because
Cargo is absent. The first catalog assertion expected 51 tools instead
of 53. Test startup needed the plugin SDK build. An earlier typecheck
hit the 8 GiB memory limit; low-memory checks passed. The previous
package test failed under umask `077`; it passed under `022`, and this
run's complete package suite passes with `022`.
- Greptile reviewed current head `33fa3d3d` at 2026-11-07 01:40 UTC: 5/5
with no outstanding findings. The three older Ponytail threads are
resolved after checking the size/cache, long-path, and bigint fixes and
regression tests. Ponytail's supplemental refreshed assessment stopped
before completing and posted no new findings. Its earlier findings are
fixed and all seven review threads are resolved. The completed Greptile
assessment covers current head.
- No hosted deployment or live provider run was performed.

## Risks

- Package reads can recover stored packages through the existing storage
layer. Search reads only stored database metadata.
- Load is a read. It does not install files into the provider workspace
or change runtime bundles. It does not grant tool access or authorize
actions in the skill text.
- Callers must retain the returned version ID for later pages. A missing
version returns an error.
- Files above 16 MiB return a size-limit error. The run cache retains at
most 64 MiB of decoded text and 64 entries. A cache miss or eviction
requires a full verified file read. Each page still checks current
access. The SHA-256 response field is null after the first text or
file-list page.
- No database migration or UI change is required.

## Model Used

- OpenAI Codex, GPT-6 family, with reasoning, repository tools and code
execution. The exact model ID and context window are not exposed to this
agent.

## 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
2026-11-07 09:23:14 -06:00
DottaandPaperclip b8e02fc2b4 fix(native): preserve bounded larger web inventories (#19832)
## Thinking Path

> - Paperclip manages AI agents and preserves their work across server
changes.
> - Native harness preservation stores retained web-server files in
authenticated archives.
> - A retained skill can contain hundreds of valid local files.
> - The WEB evidence owner rejected any directory or inventory above 128
entries.
> - This blocked preservation of two 462-file skills even though their
payload fit the existing byte limits.
> - This pull request shares finite inventory bounds between capture and
archive validation.
> - It preserves every file and keeps the execution, identity, writer,
and publication guards.

## Linked Issues or Issue Description

Refs: #19814

**What happened?**

WEB evidence preservation rejected a retained source with 927 local
skill files. The source had settled execution ownership. The files fit
the existing payload limits. The directory enumeration failed before
archive publication because its entry limit was 128.

**Expected behavior**

Preserve a valid finite inventory within explicit file, payload, path,
and metadata limits. Keep remote recovery obligations unchanged.

**Steps to reproduce**

1. Retain two 462-file skills and one three-file skill under a settled
native source.
2. Request canonical WEB evidence preservation.
3. The old owner rejects directory enumeration. The added integration
test reproduces this refusal with real files and PostgreSQL.

## What Changed

- Share the WEB limit through the existing controller archive owner:
10,000 total entries, 4 MiB of manifest metadata, and 4,096 bytes per
path.
- Apply the limits to filesystem capture, published binding validation,
and archive descriptor validation.
- Keep the existing 16 MiB per-file and 64 MiB payload bounds. Keep
authority history at 128 entries and 32 epochs.
- Add real archive and cold-restore coverage for 927 files, legacy
manifest compatibility, and bound refusals. Document the limits.

## Verification

- Genuine baseline RED: the new 927-file integration case reaches the
original `captureWebEvidence.directoryNames` limit and fails before
publication.
- The initial setup attempt failed before test collection because the
generated plugin SDK was absent. The required SDK build fixed setup; it
was not counted as a regression result.
- The first affected three-suite run passed 93 cases. The large
roundtrip exceeded the generic 15-second case deadline. That failure is
retained. The isolated large case passed with a 60-second case limit,
but full CI later exceeded that limit while the other 4,577 tests in its
shard passed. Both timeout failures are retained. The final fixture
keeps all 927 files and 18.5 MB, uses bounded 16-way independent
comparisons, and has a 120-second whole-case limit. The canonical
preservation signal remains 60 seconds. No production deadline or
assertion changed.
- The 927-file case then passed: encrypted archive, authenticated cold
restore, all bytes/hashes/modes, unchanged remote leases, and
database-only validation with source volume absent and storage reads
forbidden.
- The final metadata repair adds a genuine RED case: an entry list below
4 MiB previously emitted a larger complete manifest without rejection.
The owner now checks the complete serialized manifest. All ten focused
cases passed after that repair. The final bounded-I/O fixture passed the
same ten cases in 37.26 seconds, including the full 927-file roundtrip.
All 93 other affected cases passed in the preceding three-suite run.
Fresh required CI supplies broad final-head coverage.
- Server TypeScript, module boundaries, and whitespace checks pass.

Run the focused PostgreSQL checks from `server/` with the repository
wrapper:

```sh
node ../cli/node_modules/tsx/dist/cli.mjs ../packages/db/src/test-postgres-command.ts -- node ../node_modules/vitest/vitest.mjs run src/services/native-runtime/native-harness-filesystem-independence.integration.test.ts --testNamePattern 'preserves all 927|existing 128-entry WEB|WEB manifest beyond|oversized WEB filesystem' --hookTimeout 90000 --maxWorkers 1 --fsModuleCache
```

## Risks

The owner can hold more entries in memory. The fixed 64 MiB payload, 4
MiB metadata, path, and entry bounds constrain that cost. The archive
format and old receipt bytes do not change. Older builds still have the
128-entry limit and cannot qualify a larger new receipt. This change
does not settle remote recovery, grant execution authority, alter
finalizer locks, or change publication CAS rules. No hosted preservation
or deployment was performed for this PR.

## Model Used

OpenAI `gpt-6.1-sol`, with code execution and repository tools. The
context window size is 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
- [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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2026-11-07 09:11:00 -06:00
DottaandPaperclip 061c84d280 fix: preserve local copies behind settled remote recovery holds (#19830)
## Thinking Path

> - Paperclip manages AI agents and the work they save.
> - Online migration must save legacy local files while other remote
work continues.
> - A failed native run can retain a remote recovery hold after its
local writer has settled.
> - The current source proof recognizes only some of those recovery
producers.
> - This blocks stable local files and their shared Git aliases behind
an interrupted session or exhausted export recovery.
> - This change admits two exact producer shapes under the existing
physical and task locks.
> - It preserves the failed run, accepted result, remote hold, retained
allocations, and recovery history.

## Linked Issues or Issue Description

Refs #19642, #19688, #19810. A public search found these related
changes. This is a narrow correction to their local preservation proof.

**What happened?**

Online workspace import rejects a stable local source with
`online_workspace_source_scope_unproven` when its prepared native source
has an ambiguous session interruption hold or an exhausted file recovery
hold. Shared Git aliases inherit the refusal.

**Expected behavior**

Save the stable local copy under the existing source locks. Keep remote
recovery blocked until its own recovery owner supplies the required
evidence.

**Steps to reproduce**

1. Create a failed native run with an unowned terminal finalizer and an
exact prepared allocation.
2. Keep either its board-owned interrupted-session failure block or its
exhausted system recovery and blocked file recovery with an accepted
result.
3. Import the local Git source or a shared alias through
`migrateRemoteWorkspace`.
4. Before this change, both actual importer tests reject the source.
With this change, both save and restore its files while retaining the
hold.

**Paperclip version or commit**

Reproduced on master at `b2af45f0f1` with local PostgreSQL 18.1 on macOS
arm64 and Node 26.4.0.

## What Changed

- Reuse the exact prepared-source failure proof for ambiguous native
session interruptions.
- Admit an exhausted export hold only with its exact run, blocked task,
unowned finalizer, accepted result, original allocation, and current
recovery receipts.
- Bind the complete accepted result into the publication fingerprint.
Keep the existing source, alias, Git, finalizer, and task locks.
- Add real importer, authenticated restore, refusal, and
publication-race controls. Document the separate local and remote
obligations.

## Verification

- Baseline: the exhausted-export importer case failed at
`remote_workspace_migration_blocked:online_workspace_source_scope_unproven`.
- Review found that the first interruption fixture used the
artifact-failure resume mode. The corrected fixture reads
`nativeProviderRecoveryEvidence` and `nativeSessionFailureDisposition`.
Its canonical ambiguous interruption case failed at the source guard
before the cause-specific mode repair.
- Fresh recorded metadata then showed that an interrupted source can
have a boolean `providerSessionEstablished: false`. The final fixture
derives that exact false+ambiguous state from a checkpoint without a
provider identity or provider events. It failed against the intermediate
shared-true guard. The final cause-specific proof passes it. The
artifact-failure case still requires true+exact mode.
- Both importer cases remove the originals and restore saved files
through the real encrypted snapshot owner. They keep the failed run
status, native source reference, result bytes, tasks, recovery actions,
retained allocations, and unrelated active remote work unchanged. The
existing migration owner adds only its local source recipe.
- Final affected PostgreSQL suites: **107/107 passed**, 74.44 seconds,
canonical shared PostgreSQL wrapper with one worker and cleanup
complete. Controls reject the wrong interruption mode, a string session
flag, unreleased owners, active controllers, stale fingerprints, changed
allocations, changed recovery state, and changes during upload. Command
from `server`: `node ../cli/node_modules/tsx/dist/cli.mjs
../packages/db/src/test-postgres-command.ts -- node
../node_modules/vitest/vitest.mjs run
src/services/remote-workspace-online-source.test.ts
src/services/online-legacy-workspace-recovery.test.ts --fsModuleCache
--maxWorkers=1 --hookTimeout=90000`.
- Final server source and all test typecheck layers passed. Module
boundary check and `git diff --check` passed.
- A first setup attempt could not load the unbuilt plugin SDK and ran
zero tests. Building the SDK corrected the setup. An unchanged-baseline
run repeated source refusals after a local edit used the wrong path. The
first 105-case and 106-case passes predate the final producer correction
and are superseded by the 107-case pass. Earlier failures and passes are
retained separately.
- A read-only probe loaded the exact committed proposed inspection code
against three current stored holds in one repeatable-read snapshot. All
three passed the actual function. It verified the owned accepted result
and both interruption fields without changing source or provider state.
This is applicability proof; an import must still acquire its locks and
recheck after deployment.
- The first final-head CI run failed browser shard 5 at
`cloud-auth.spec.ts:34` with an APIResponse disposed during route
teardown. After the workflow completed, one scoped failed-job retry
passed that shard and its browser aggregate on the same head. The
initial failure is retained. No code, test, timeout or assertion changed
for that retry.
- `verify --explain` returned 2 because the documentation path requires
broad CI. Required CI passed on
`2050fa058cabe75e3d8f64f1f6bdb4b9b2fd0873`. Fresh Greptile review is 5/5
with zero open threads. No hosted workspace, provider, task, or recovery
state was changed for this PR.

## Risks

The new proof could accept an inconsistent recovery producer. Exact
company, run, task, allocation, action, result, and receipt checks keep
uncertain sources blocked. Changed evidence during capture prevents
publication. A saved local snapshot is not proof that remote files were
recovered, and this change never creates such a receipt.

## Model Used

OpenAI GPT-6 (Codex), with reasoning, tool use, and code execution. The
runtime does not expose a more specific model ID or context window.

## 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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2026-11-07 08:57:39 -06:00
DottaandClaude Opus 5.5 0f5ce5050e docs(plans): plan durable ownership and reconciliation for restart safety (#19831)
## Thinking Path

> - Paperclip is the open source app people use to manage AI agents for
work
> - Agent runs must survive a control-plane restart: they must continue
on their own, keep their work, and offer a Retry that works
> - The 2026-11-06/07 restart chaos campaign found about 40 restart
failures and merged about 69 fixes (#19469 through #19807)
> - Most of these failures have one shape: a restart stops a process
between two durable writes, and each subsystem then decides on its own
whether the leftover record is safe to release
> - Each fix closed one crash window, and about 12 fixes rebuilt the
same "this owner is dead" proof
> - This pull request adds a plan for one shared ownership record,
write-ahead intents, one reconciler, and an on-demand crash-point suite
> - The plan also makes time to first token and agent boot hard
requirements, so restart safety never makes turns slow
> - The benefit is that we fix the whole class of failure once, and we
stop fixing one window at a time

## Linked Issues or Issue Description

Refs #19696, #19713, #19717, #19724, #19741, #19747, #19784, #19807

**What existing behavior does this improve?**
Recovery after a control-plane restart. Today each subsystem keeps its
own in-progress records and its own release rules.

**Subsystem affected**
Native runtime, runner, environments and sandboxes, workspaces,
accounting and budgets, and the wake queue.

**Current behavior**
A restart can leave a lease, a fence, a claim, a workspace operation, a
receipt, or a deferred wake that belongs to a dead process. If no
subsystem can prove that the owner is dead, the system fails closed. The
task then needs a Retry, the company holds new work, or a run stays
`running`. About 40 server files read a controller boot id, and about 25
files check process liveness in different ways.

**Proposed behavior**
One owner stamp and one liveness proof for every in-progress record.
Intents are written before outside effects. One reconciler brings every
record to a terminal state. Admission never waits on cleanup. Accepted
work is delivered exactly once. Time to first token and agent boot are
measured and stay within budgets.

**Reason and benefit**
Fewer restart failures, less duplicate code, and a fast first response
after a restart.

## What Changed

- Added `doc/plans/2026-11-07-durable-ownership-and-reconciliation.md`.
The plan contains:
- the five failure classes from the campaign, with example IDs and PR
counts
  - eight invariants
- a performance section with time-to-first-token, boot, and
restart-latency metrics and rules
  - the design (sections A–G)
  - an on-demand crash-point suite
  - six phases
  - risks
  - the decisions that Dotta made on 2026-11-07

## Verification

- This change adds documentation only. No code changes.
- Read the plan. Check that each failure class cites real merged PRs.
- Check the code claims:
- `git grep controller-process-identity -- server/src` shows three
users.
- `git grep task.time_to_first_token -- server/src` shows the existing
metric.

## Risks

- Low risk. The change adds one plan document and changes no code.
- The plan proposes later behavior changes. The largest is the removal
of the company-wide accounting gate. Each later phase will come as its
own pull request with tests.

## Model Used

- Claude Opus 5.5 (`claude-opus-5-5`), Anthropic, used in Claude Code
with tool use (shell, git, GitHub CLI). The model coordinated the chaos
campaign and wrote the plan from its evidence.

## Checklist

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

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2026-11-07 08:36:05 -06:00
DottaandPaperclip 2e52dfa864 fix(slack): retain DM thread tasks after completion (#19486)
## Thinking Path

> - Paperclip manages AI agents and their work.
> - Slack conversations store that work in tasks and comments.
> - A native thread must keep its task when work finishes.
> - The server treated all DMs as linear conversations.
> - A reply in a completed DM thread therefore started a new task
without its earlier comments.
> - This pull request uses the native thread identity for task
continuity.
> - People can continue the same work with its saved context.

## Linked Issues or Issue Description

**What happened?**

A reply in a Slack DM thread created a new task after the preceding task
was Done or Cancelled. It also created a new task when the saved
conversation was completed. The new task lacked earlier comments.

**Expected behavior**

A native Slack thread keeps one task in channels and DMs. Later replies
retain earlier user and agent comments. Top-level DMs keep their
existing task generation rules.

**Steps to reproduce**

1. Start work in a Slack DM thread.
2. Mark its task Done.
3. Reply in the same thread.
4. Before this fix, the reply creates another task.

**Paperclip version or commit**

Reproduced from master at eb5c24b61c.

**Deployment mode**

Built from source. Tests use local PostgreSQL and provider fixtures.

Related PR: #16151 covers the DM mention exemption. This fix preserves
that behavior. GitHub searches found no duplicate fix for completion
routing.

## What Changed

- Detect Slack native thread roots in the Slack module.
- Classify native DM threads as persistent threads for task routing.
- Select the resource type from the actual DM destination. Keep DM
access checks.
- Preserve DM task controls. Select the latest DM task even after
completion. Require a delivered control receipt before an explicit new
task generation.
- Add completion, duplicate, saved-history, separate-root, Idle, and
explicit-control regressions.
- Document the task boundary. Correct only the inaccurate DM-thread
statement in the existing feature recipe.

## Verification

- Before the production edit, the new PostgreSQL regression failed in
all three threaded-DM completion cases: two conversations existed
instead of one. The channel-thread and top-level-DM controls passed.
- The initial eight routing cases passed. CI then found five existing
slash-control failures. All five reproduced locally. Greptile reported
the same regression at 4/5.
- The first correction passed all 16 focused PostgreSQL cases. Secondary
review then found that slash commands skipped Done, Cancelled, and
completed DM tasks. Four new cases failed before the lookup change.
Commit 23ff4f04f passed all 20 focused cases, including status, explicit
new/close, delivered receipts, and a new task generation. The original
same-thread continuity cases still pass.
- Command: `pnpm exec vitest run
server/src/__tests__/chat-channels.integration.test.ts -t 'preserves
Slack thread history across completion|keeps separate Slack DM thread
roots|returns two answered Slack turns to Idle|binds Slack DM slash
controls|treats D-prefixed Slack status|serializes duplicate Slack
admission with an owned provider-reply settlement|suppresses a queued
provider reply when destination reach|continues to accept authenticated
Slack slash close/new'`.
- Map validation and `git diff --check` passed. Map validation proves
structure only.
- All 107 neighboring Slack adapter, SDK runtime, and receipt tests
passed across three files.
- The initial complete server typecheck passed with
`PAPERCLIP_TYPECHECK_LOW_MEMORY=1 pnpm --filter @paperclipai/server
typecheck`, including all three test-tree shards.
- Full local recursive typecheck and build stopped because this
workspace has no `cargo`. A separate default server typecheck was killed
under concurrent memory load; its lower-memory rerun passed. The broad
local test run was interrupted to free memory, so no full-local-suite
pass is claimed. The complete server typecheck passed again for
correction 367b6f9b3, including all three test-tree shards. The [full CI
pipeline](https://github.com/paperclipai/paperclip/actions/runs/42250458200)
passed for exact head 367b6f9b3f. This
includes typecheck, build, all chat and other test lanes, browser E2E,
Runner, and aggregate verify. The first CI run passed broad typecheck,
build, E2E, Runner, and other test groups, but its chat failures remain
recorded above.
- The initial regression launch could not load the unbuilt plugin SDK.
It ran after building the required workspace dependencies. A test-only
resource assertion was corrected to read persisted DM resources, which
the settings list omits. The completed-conversation case preserves an
existing review status.
- The initial correction test used a follow-up timestamp older than the
delivered control. The chronology gate correctly rejected it. A current
provider timestamp now verifies the new generation without weakening
that gate.
- Greptile's map finding was addressed by removing recipe expansions and
all agent-access map changes. Both review threads have replies and are
resolved. Greptile reviewed exact head
367b6f9b3f at [5/5 with zero new
findings](https://github.com/paperclipai/paperclip/pull/19486#issuecomment-6689117840).
The secondary Paperclip Review rated that head 4/5 and found the
completed-task slash lookup error. Commit 23ff4f04f fixes this finding.
Greptile and Paperclip Review both rate head
23ff4f04f6 at 5/5. All three review
threads are resolved. The [full CI
pipeline](https://github.com/paperclipai/paperclip/actions/runs/42255926149)
now passes on this exact head. This includes typecheck, build, all test
lanes, browser E2E, Runner checks, Canary Dry Run, and aggregate verify.
All checks are terminal: 54 success, 1 neutral, and 3 skipped. Snyk also
passes. The PR has no merge conflict.
- The complete server typecheck passed again on 23ff4f04f, including all
three test-tree shards.
- The new test first asserted the conversation-list state. That API
displays terminal tasks as completed before the control is sent. The
test now reads stored binding state to check that completion waits for
the delivered receipt.
- No live Slack send or deployment was performed.

## Risks

- Native DM threads now reopen the existing task after Done or
Cancelled. Explicit new/close controls still release the binding after
their response is delivered. Top-level DMs still start new generations
after completion.
- Existing split tasks stay separate. Future replies use the latest
saved binding. This change does not merge old tasks or copy surrounding
DM history into a newly created thread.
- No schema, credential, provider scope, or permission changes are
required.

## Model Used

OpenAI Codex, based on GPT-6, with reasoning, tool use, repository
editing, and code execution. The runtime does not expose a more precise
serving 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

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2026-11-07 08:35:29 -06:00
DottaandPaperclip c740cb9ded fix(ui): dismiss skipped confirmations when sending a message (#19496)
## Thinking Path

> - Paperclip is the open source app people use to manage AI agents for
work.
> - Tasks and Agent Chat show saved requests above the message composer.
> - A person can send a separate message while a confirmation is open.
> - The old code closed only question forms, after the message save
finished.
> - A confirmation could stay open or open again after a refresh.
> - This change closes the form when sending starts and keeps the
request in the feed.
> - People can open the request later and make the original decision.

## Linked Issues or Issue Description

**What happened?**

A confirmation stayed open when a person sent a separate message.

**Expected behavior**

The form closes immediately. The request stays in the feed. A person can
open it later. Sending a message does not record an approval.

**Steps to reproduce**

1. Open a task with a pending confirmation.
2. Send a separate message below the form.
3. Observe the form while the message save is pending.
4. Reload the task and open the request from the feed.

**Paperclip version or commit**

Reproduced at a434edf991.

**Deployment mode**

Source checkout and isolated Storybook fixtures.

## What Changed

- Close the composer request before the message save finishes.
- Keep earlier saved requests in history after a newer human message.
- Save browser dismissal IDs in one batch after a successful send.
- Restore the previous form after a failed send, including a reopened
request after an optimistic comment changes automatic selection.
- Track deliberate selection changes separately from automatic
filtering. Keep a newer request open when an earlier send fails.
- Allow a new request to open while an earlier message is being saved.
- Add tests for confirmation and checkbox forms in task and Agent Chat
modes.
- Add Send Instead Of Confirming and Reopen Skipped Confirmation
stories.
- Update the existing answer-later story to check the current answer
receipt.
- Update the behavior and Storybook documentation.

## Verification

- TDD: Six new cases failed before the main fix. Four more cases
reproduced the review finding before the recovery fix. They cover failed
sends with an optimistic comment and its rollback in both task and Agent
Chat modes.
- Component checks: 518 passed, one existing test skipped. Run `pnpm
--filter @paperclipai/ui exec vitest run
src/components/TaskChatThread.test.tsx
src/components/task-chat/TaskChatComposer.test.tsx`.
- UI typecheck passed after preparing the local plugin SDK dependency.
- Token gates passed.
- Catalog structure checks passed. The three catalog test files passed
all 30 tests.
- Six Playwright cases passed in an owned Storybook server. They cover
the initial form, sending, manual reopening, light theme, mobile, and
answering later. Play assertions passed. Accessibility reports had zero
violations.
- The stories use the production thread with simulated saves and
decisions. Existing optional fixture endpoints return 404. These do not
prevent the selected journeys.
- No visual baseline comparison was possible. The baseline manifest has
no published snapshots.
- `pnpm verify --explain` requested broader CI coverage. [Required
CI](https://github.com/paperclipai/paperclip/actions/runs/42253585800)
passed on fda44f2648.
- Greptile and Paperclip Review both report 5/5 with no findings on the
final head.
- The remote commit tree matches the tested local tree:
7e22201513.

## Risks

- Older pending requests now stay in history after a newer human
message. People must select the feed entry to open them.
- Dismissal changes presentation. Server approval checks and request
decisions keep their existing behavior.
- Browser fixtures do not prove live provider continuation or staging
behavior.

## Model Used

OpenAI GPT-6 Codex. The exact backend model identifier and context
window were not exposed to this run. Used reasoning, repository
inspection, edits, shell tools, component 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
#` / `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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2026-11-07 08:34:14 -06:00
DottaandClaude Opus 5.5 a4050187ec docs(rules): make upgrade safety part of run and recovery design (#19827)
## Thinking Path

> - Paperclip is the open source app people use to manage AI agents for
work
> - Native runs save session, checkpoint, lease, and launch state, and
recovery resumes that state later
> - Deploys and restarts often land between the save and the resume, so
one release resumes state that another release saved
> - On 2026-11-06/07, staging deployed four times. Most of 182 failed
runs were saved by one release and resumed by another (#19462, #19659,
#19755)
> - These refusals showed as the generic retryable
`native_session_interrupted`. Retries repeated them, and recovery
replaced a thread (now prevented by #19733). Remote-only code also
shipped without a test that applied Daytona confinement (#19743)
> - This pull request makes upgrade safety a required part of how we
design, fix, and review run and recovery code
> - The benefit is that authors, agents, and Greptile check the release
cutover before a change ships, not after a deploy breaks saved runs

## Linked Issues or Issue Description

Refs #19462, Refs #19516, Refs #19622, Refs #19659, Refs #19733, Refs
#19743, Refs #19755

**Issue type**
Missing contributor guidance for run and recovery code.

**Where is the issue?**
`.agents/skills/fix-failed-paperclip-run/`, `rules/`, `AGENTS.md`, and
`doc/execution-semantics.md`.

**What's wrong?**
No rule or skill step asks how state saved by the previous release is
handled. Fixes added one error code at a time. Saved-identity refusals
used a generic retryable code.

**Suggested fix**
Add a scoped repository rule and additive skill and contract text that
require a previous-release story, permanent named refusal codes, and
cutover tests.

## What Changed

- Add `rules/upgrade-safe-run-state.mdc`. It covers native runtime,
recovery, session preparation, runner, ACPX engine, and sandbox image
paths, and the `packages/db` schema for native run, checkpoint, session,
and run identity state. It requires authors to state how
previous-release state is handled. It requires a permanent, named code
for unknown or changed saved identity, a class-level fix, an
old-saved/new-resumed regression, a deploy-lands-mid-run case where
relevant, and a remote-confinement test for sandbox paths.
- Register the rule in `.greptile/files.json` with the same scope as its
`globs`.
- Link the rule from the "Scoped repository rules" section of
`AGENTS.md`.
- `fix-failed-paperclip-run` skill: step 1 asks if a deploy or restart
separated save from resume, by comparing served revisions. Step 2 asks
this early. Step 4 adds a "Persisted run identity across releases"
safety row and an upgrade-safety paragraph.
- `references/failure-patterns.md`: add "Saved run state meets a
different release".
- `doc/execution-semantics.md`: add §9.4 "Release compatibility of saved
run state".

## Verification

- Docs, skills, and rules only. No product code changes.
- Confirm that each rule glob matches real paths, for example
`server/src/services/native-runtime/`, `server/src/services/recovery/`,
`server/src/services/heartbeat/session-preparation.ts`, and
`packages/adapter-utils/src/acpx-engine/`.
- Confirm that `.greptile/files.json` parses and that its new `scope`
array equals the rule's `globs`.
- `rules/README.md` names no lint check for rules. I did not edit maps,
so `node scripts/check-maps.mjs` does not apply.

## Risks

- Low risk. The change adds guidance only.
- The rule scope includes all of `packages/paperclip-runner/**`.
Greptile can apply the rule to runner docs or UI files. The rule's
exception section says that changes with no persisted shape or identity
need no cutover test.

## Model Used

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

## Checklist

- [x] I have included a thinking path that traces from project context
to this change
- [x] I have specified the model used (with version and capability
details)
- [x] I have checked ROADMAP.md and confirmed this PR does not duplicate
planned core work
- [x] I have searched GitHub for duplicate or related PRs and linked
them above
- [x] I have either (a) linked existing issues with `Fixes: #` / `Closes
#` / `Refs #` OR (b) described the issue in-PR following the relevant
issue template
- [x] I have not referenced internal/instance-local Paperclip issues or
links (only public GitHub `#NNN` / `github.com/paperclipai/paperclip`
URLs)
- [x] My branch name describes the change (e.g. `docs/...`, `fix/...`)
and contains no internal Paperclip ticket id or instance-derived details
- [x] I have run tests locally and they pass
- [x] I have added or updated tests where applicable
- [x] I have updated relevant documentation to reflect my changes
- [x] I have considered and documented any risks above
- [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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2026-11-07 08:28:42 -06:00
DottaandClaude Opus 5.5 2e7c66aac9 fix(ci): stop the PR merge review notifier from flooding the Actions queue (#19630)
## Thinking Path

> - Paperclip is the open source app people use to manage AI agents for
work
> - Its GitHub Actions CI shares the `ubuntu-latest` runner pool across
all workflows
> - #19480 added the `PR merge review notification` workflow. It
triggers on `workflow_run`, on every completed `check_run`, and on every
commit `status`
> - One PR push completes about 60 checks, so it queues about 60
notifier jobs. Each job takes a runner
> - The Actions queue now holds about 340 queued runs. About 260 of them
are this notifier. Other `ubuntu-latest` jobs wait more than one hour
(for example, the `authorize` job of Runner Full-Stack E2E image builds)
> - This pull request skips events that cannot complete a green PR state
before a runner is allocated, and it collapses the remaining events to
the newest one per PR head
> - The benefit is that this unjams the Actions queue and keeps the
advisory review notification

## Linked Issues or Issue Description

Refs #19480

**What happened?**
The `PR merge review notification` workflow from #19480 schedules one
runner job for each `workflow_run`, `check_run`, and `status` event. One
PR push makes about 60+ jobs. The repository Actions queue has about 340
queued runs (about 260 from this notifier at the time of writing). Other
`ubuntu-latest` jobs wait more than one hour.

**What did you expect?**
The notifier requests one advisory merge review when PR verification is
complete. It must not use a runner for each intermediate check.

**Steps to reproduce**
1. Push to any PR.
2. Run `gh run list --workflow pr-merge-review.yml -L 200 --json
event,status`.
3. See tens of queued `check_run`, `status`, and `workflow_run` runs for
the same push.

## What Changed

- `.github/workflows/pr-merge-review.yml`: the job `if:` now schedules
the job only for events that can complete a green PR state:
- `workflow_run` from `pull_request` or `pull_request_target` with
conclusion `success`, `skipped`, or `neutral`.
- `check_run` from a non-Actions app (app id is not `15368`) with
conclusion `success`, `skipped`, or `neutral`. GitHub Actions check runs
are already covered by the `workflow_run` list.
  - `status` with state `success`.
- GitHub cannot filter `check_run` or `status` at the trigger level. A
skipped job makes a run record but does not take a runner.
- The job has a concurrency group `pr-merge-review-<PR head SHA>` with
`cancel-in-progress: true`. The notifier reads the current PR state, so
the newest event subsumes older ones. The group is on the job, not the
workflow, so a skipped event cannot cancel a scheduled notifier.
- The environment, permissions, trusted default-branch checkout, and
secret handling do not change.
- `.github/scripts/tests/notify-pr-merge-review.test.mjs`: a new test
pins the trigger kinds, the job condition, and the job-level concurrency
group.
- `doc/PR-MERGE-REVIEW-WEBHOOK.md`: describes the event filter and the
concurrency group.

**Expected runner jobs per PR push** (typical PR: `PR`, `Storybook
Visual`, `commitperclip PR Review` workflows; Greptile, Paperclip
Review, Socket (2), Superagent (2) external checks; one Snyk status):

| | Before | After |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Eligible events that take a runner | about 60–70 (every check run + 2
statuses + 3 workflow runs) | at most about 10 (3 workflow runs + 6
external checks + 1 status, only when green) |
| Jobs that run to completion | about 60–70 | usually 1–4: events that
arrive while a job is pending or running cancel it, so a burst collapses
to the newest event. In a backed-up queue, all events for one head
collapse to one job |

## Verification

- `node --test .github/scripts/tests/notify-pr-merge-review.test.mjs`:
22 tests pass.
- The new workflow test fails on the old workflow (red) and passes on
the new workflow (green).
- `actionlint .github/workflows/pr-merge-review.yml`: no findings.
- I confirmed with `gh run list` that `workflow_run.head_sha` for the
`pull_request_target` workflow (`commitperclip PR Review`) is the PR
head SHA. So one SHA key groups all event kinds for one PR head.
- I confirmed that all workflows that make PR checks are in the
`workflow_run` list (`CI routing` and `Trusted PR CI` are reusable
workflows called by `PR`).
- After merge: check that `gh run list --workflow pr-merge-review.yml`
shows mostly `skipped` runs for each push, and a small number of runs
that execute.

## Risks

- A check provider that reports a final green state through a GitHub
Actions check run from a workflow that is not in the `workflow_run` list
does not trigger the notifier. All current PR workflows are in the list.
The doc already tells authors to add new PR workflows to the list.
- A failed or cancelled check that later succeeds on re-run still
triggers the notifier, because the re-run completes with `success`.
- `cancel-in-progress` can cancel a notifier during delivery. The newer
job evaluates the same or a more complete state, and the Paperclip
idempotency key deduplicates deliveries for the same PR, head, and base.
- Each event still makes a workflow run record. Skipped runs do not take
a runner.
- Low risk otherwise: the notifier is advisory and `continue-on-error`.
It does not affect PR verification results.

## Model Used

- Claude Opus 5.5 (`claude-opus-5-5`), Anthropic, used through Claude
Code with tool use (shell, file edits, GitHub CLI).

## 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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2026-11-07 08:24:45 -06:00
Nicky Leach 45c2bd94c6 fix(native): name the interrupted attempt when an exact resume is refused (#19709) 2026-11-07 06:21:46 -08:00
DottaandClaude Opus 5.5 8373ae905a fix(accounting): settle a never-started run whose recorder bound an empty fence map (#19826)
## Thinking Path

> - Paperclip is the open source app people use to manage AI agents for
work
> - Budgets hold new work while a native run's final usage receipt is
outstanding
> - A run that never started a provider has nothing to account. #19700
added a rule that settles such a run at once.
> - In restart chaos waves, Retry runs that failed before any provider
start still held company admission for up to 10 minutes
> - This pull request fixes the condition that stopped the rule from
matching
> - The benefit: a failed run that provably never started a provider
settles at once and never holds other work

## Linked Issues or Issue Description

Refs #19700, #19724.

**What happened?**
An OpenCode Retry run failed at once with
`native_session_cleanup_quarantined`. It had no model, no usage
receipts, no process start and no provider events, yet it held company
admission for the full 600-second closure bound. Two more waves had the
same shape, with holds of 309 and 324 seconds.

**Root cause**
`nativeProviderWorkNeverStarted` (`run-cost-accounting.ts`) required
`usage_json.accountingReceiptSourceFences` to be absent.
`createRunUsageRecorder` binds every run with that key, as an empty map
`{}`, even when no earlier receipt source exists. So the rule never
matched a run that had a usage recorder. The run then waited for the
closure bound as a run whose receipt was still closing.

The restart-evidence check for the unpriced-usage exemption
(`budget-exposure.ts`, from #19724) had the same flaw: it treated the
presence of the key as restart evidence.

**Expected behavior**
A failed native run with no receipts, no replaced receipt source and a
process that never launched (or was verified stopped) settles at once
with no charge. A run whose provider might still be spending keeps
holding.

## What Changed

- `run-cost-accounting.ts`: the never-started rule treats an empty fence
map as "no replaced source". Only a non-empty map shows that provider
work began.
- `budget-exposure.ts`: restart evidence also requires a non-empty fence
map.
- `doc/SPEC-implementation.md`: documents the rule.

## Verification

- Red then green, `closed-native-receipt-accounting.test.ts`:
- "settles a quarantined Retry whose recorder bound an empty fence map
at once". This is the exact chaos row: failed,
`native_session_cleanup_quarantined`, terminal_failure finalization,
receipt sequence 0, empty fence map, no receipts, no process events.
- "does not count an empty fence map as restart evidence for a timed-out
closure".
- Existing tests still pass. A run with a recorded but unverified
process still waits for the bound. The restart-derived exemptions still
apply to runs with a non-empty fence map or a recovery transition.
- Local: `closed-native-receipt-accounting` (51), the budget suites,
`heartbeat-cost-accounting`, `adapter-cost-failure-paths`,
`native-stop-accounting` and `native-session-executor` all pass. Server
`tsc --noEmit` is clean.

## Risks

- Low. The change only narrows what counts as a replaced receipt source.
A run whose source was really replaced has a non-empty map and behaves
as before.

## Model Used

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

## Checklist

- [x] I have included a thinking path that traces from project context
to this change
- [x] I have specified the model used (with version and capability
details)
- [x] I have checked ROADMAP.md and confirmed this PR does not duplicate
planned core work
- [x] I have searched GitHub for duplicate or related PRs and linked
them above
- [x] I have either (a) linked existing issues with `Fixes: #` / `Closes
#` / `Refs #` OR (b) described the issue in-PR following the relevant
issue template
- [x] I have not referenced internal/instance-local Paperclip issues or
links (only public GitHub `#NNN` / `github.com/paperclipai/paperclip`
URLs)
- [x] My branch name describes the change (e.g. `docs/...`, `fix/...`)
and contains no internal Paperclip ticket id or instance-derived details
- [x] I have run tests locally and they pass
- [x] I have added or updated tests where applicable
- [x] I have updated relevant documentation to reflect my changes
- [x] I have considered and documented any risks above
- [ ] All Paperclip CI gates are green
- [ ] Greptile is 5/5 with no open P2s, recommendations, or follow-ups
- [x] I will address all Greptile and reviewer comments before
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Dotta 3112e4c955 Verify original Dot OAuth authority for signed Cloud requests (#19819)
## Thinking Path

> - Paperclip manages AI agents and their work.
> - Dot uses a user OAuth grant to act in one company.
> - Cloud must use that original grant when it resolves a selected
user's identity.
> - A Cloud signature alone must not create user or board authority.
> - The tenant's OAuth owner must check the token and its current
restrictions.
> - This pull request adds a signed private HTTP boundary for that
check.
> - The result contains only the checked identity fields. It grants no
task or board access.

## Linked Issues or Issue Description

**Subsystem affected**

Server external-agent identity, public MCP OAuth, Cloud control
verification, and HTTP logging.

**Problem or motivation**

Cloud needs a private way to resolve the original Dot token for the
selected user, client, company and resource. The existing generic Cloud
control route creates an operator actor. That route is not the right
owner for this identity check.

**Proposed solution**

Add `POST /mcp/runner/oauth/cloud-principal`. Require the existing Cloud
signature and replay verifier. Bind the whole request to a new, closed
`mcp-dot:principal` action with a maximum 60-second lifetime.
Authenticate the original token once through the normal Dot OAuth owner.
Check current namespace authority before and after that call.

**Alternatives considered**

A Cloud-created grant or a board actor would change the authority owner.
Neither is used. The private route reuses the existing OAuth and Cloud
identity owners.

**Roadmap alignment**

This is a narrow boundary for the existing MCP and Cloud areas in
`ROADMAP.md`. It adds no work queue, public hosted profile, or provider
enablement.

Related public work: Refs #14846, #19427, #19750 and #19776. Searches
for the exact private path and action found no duplicate PR. The
matching private Cloud caller has merged. The current App head passed
its required checks and review.

## What Changed

- Add an original-token principal reader. Keep the original client,
selected user, company, resource, purpose, scope, membership and feature
restrictions.
- Add a 16 KiB raw JSON private route. Reject compressed, invalid UTF-8,
malformed and unknown-field bodies. Bind an ordered whole-body digest to
the signature and existing nonce fence.
- Compare the current stack, claim, instance, origin and connector
identity before and after OAuth. An absent owner or namespace fails
closed.
- Mount the route in normal `createApp` after hostname, runtime-claim
and standby checks, before session/actor work. Do not add it to generic
board-control routing.
- Keep private request and response logs content-free, including raw
buffers, headers, query data and reflected errors.
- Add controlled HTTP/privacy tests and a real normal-App
OAuth/Cloud-signer integration case. Document the machine-only contract
and correct the existing `assistant-connections/client-use` access
entry. No new capability ID or agent API entry is added. No schema,
lockfile, workflow, Runner, Muse or useful-task fixture changes belong
to this PR.

## Verification

- Current `70c03593`: normal module-boundary policy and all seven App
compiler programs passed. The public module factory has an explicit
portable Express return contract. Whole HTTP/log controls passed again:
30/30. The existing real paired OAuth/Cloud-signer/private HTTP case
then passed again on a fresh PostgreSQL fixture: 1/1, zero skipped. All
known child processes and five database connections closed; the final
independent SQL audit was empty.
- The original remote policy failure rejected an App import of a
module-internal path; dependent E2E/verify gates stopped on that
failure. The fix delegates through the public module API. A first local
declaration run reported TS2883 for its inferred return type; the
explicit public type fixed it. Original logs remain preserved. No
checker, compiler option, test body or authority check was weakened.

- The normal full App graph passed on the integrated source. The later
fixture-only repairs each passed the complete affected owning
program:405 entries, including 403 source roots. The remaining programs
and own dependency outputs carried only where their source was exact.
- Whole private HTTP/log files passed:30 tests, zero failures or skips.
The HTTP controls use a controlled OAuth owner with real signatures. The
log controls use the actual HTTP logger.
- The paired Cloud source passed its normal strict build and whole 26
signer/client/namespace and credential-error controls. These are
controlled caller tests, not provider tests.
- One normal-App paired case passed with a dedicated PostgreSQL
database. It used real DCR 201, PKCE, consent, token exchange and a
persisted unpaired grant; actual signed metadata publication and a
committed Cloud receipt; the real Cloud signer/client and actual App
HTTP; exactly-once authentication; refresh; current namespace
restrictions; and revocation. The Cloud registry/provider were the
existing controlled in-memory/Fake fixtures. Recorded inbound Hosts
matched, with zero metadata overflow. No grant, readiness or mirror ACK
was fabricated.
- The original principal helper's 21 controlled tests and two real-OAuth
tests passed before the HTTP slice. Those three files remained unchanged
through integration. They are separate source-scoped evidence, not an
extra combined run.
- Preserved failures: a helper import and test typing error were
corrected before the passed checks. An earlier suite failure did not
serialize its hook error and remains unexplained. Later runs captured a
missing normal managed-config initialization and HTTP 404 from the
loopback mapper. The fixture now calls the normal initialization owners
and uses the existing Host-preserving canonical HTTP adapter. All
original authority assertions and deadlines remain.
- Reproduce the local files with `pnpm --filter @paperclipai/server exec
vitest run src/modules/external-agents/cloud-principal-http.test.ts
src/modules/external-agents/cloud-principal-log.test.ts --maxWorkers=1
--no-file-parallelism`. The real integration file is
`server/src/__tests__/cloud-principal-normal-app.postgres.test.ts`; it
requires its explicit dedicated test DB and an own compiled matching
Cloud checkout.
- The normal `node scripts/check-maps.mjs` check passed for 35 areas and
192 capability IDs. This validates map structure, not business
acceptance. The later edits are documentation/map only; all executed
business source and own outputs from the paired case remained exact.
- Current-head remote CI passes: 59 successful checks and three
intentional skips. Greptile reviewed this exact head at 5/5 with no
findings or review threads. The prior Ponytail review was Ship 5/5 at
the earlier head; no current-head Ponytail turn is present, which is
nonblocking under the authorized review policy. The three
full-repository commands were not repeated locally; the focused normal
App graph and affected tests above passed, and required remote CI
supplies the broad gates. No deployed, provider-capacity, cold-wake or
full hosted lifecycle result is claimed.

## Risks

- This is a security boundary. Signature, current namespace and original
OAuth restrictions must continue to fail closed. The response gives
identity only; callers still need normal operation authority.
- The request carries the original token. The reserved route uses a
closed log projection on both accepted and refused requests. Privacy
regressions remain a material risk.
- Both repositories must agree on the action and digest contract. Older
code rejects the unsupported action; no fallback creates authority.
- This is a prerequisite private boundary. The remaining hosted
discovery, wake, capability, operation, event, retry/reactivation and
revocation lifecycle work, plus Muse, remains open. No profile or
capability is enabled here.
- No migration is needed. Rollback removes the private boundary and
paired caller; normal OAuth and Personal MCP remain with their existing
owners.
- The engineering documentation describes this private machine boundary
and its access restriction. No operator-facing feature is enabled.
Documentation for full hosted enablement remains with that later work.

## Model Used

OpenAI `gpt-6.1-sol` (Sol6.1), through Codex, produced the source and
tests with tool use and local compiler/test execution. A GPT-6-based
Codex coordinator reviewed the work. Its exact model ID is unavailable.
Context window sizes are unavailable.

## 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
2026-11-07 08:02:42 -06:00
DottaandClaude Opus 5.5 b2af45f0f1 fix(runner): let OpenAI API-key Codex agents generate images with their existing key (#19654)
## Thinking Path

> - Paperclip is the open source app people use to manage AI agents for
work.
> - New users often connect a Codex agent with an OpenAI API key during
onboarding.
> - A user asked such an agent for a logo. The agent said that the
built-in image generator was not available and that its fallback needed
a separate API key. It then drew an SVG by hand.
> - #19516 removed `--disable image_generation`. That change is correct,
but it does not reach this path. The pinned Codex 0.160.0 shows its
`image_gen` tool only when Codex signs in with ChatGPT. The check is
`image_generation_available` in `codex-rs/core/src/tools/spec_plan.rs`.
An API key never gets the tool.
> - The runner keeps the provider key out of the agent's shell on
purpose, so the skill's `scripts/image_gen.py` fallback cannot run.
> - This pull request adds a Paperclip `generate_image` tool. The server
makes the image with the agent's existing OpenAI key. The key never goes
to the agent process or the shell.
> - The benefit is that API-key Codex agents can make images with no
second key. The spend goes to the agent's budget and the budget can stop
it.

## Linked Issues or Issue Description

Refs #19516

**What happened?**
An agent connected through onboarding with an OpenAI API key (Codex
harness, `gpt-5.6-sol`) could not generate images. The agent said: "The
image skill's built-in generator isn't available in this run, and its
fallback would require a separate API key." It then drew an SVG instead.

**Steps to reproduce**
1. Create a company with a Codex agent that uses an OpenAI API key.
2. Ask the agent for a raster image, for example a logo PNG.
3. The agent reports that image generation is not available. It does not
make the image.

**Expected behavior**
The agent makes the image with the OpenAI key that already powers it.

**Root cause**
The agent ran on the native runner's Codex app-server path, with
`auth.json = {"OPENAI_API_KEY": ...}`. Codex 0.160.0 removes
`image_gen.imagegen` from the model's tools unless
`current_auth_uses_codex_backend()` is true. That function is true only
for a ChatGPT sign-in.

I proved this with the real pinned binary. I gave it the runner's
isolated launch arguments and the API-key auth file, and pointed it at a
local Responses endpoint. The first model request offers only `exec`,
`wait`, `request_user_input` and the collaboration tools. #19516's test
checked only `codex features list`, so it could not see this gate.

## What Changed

- **New `server/src/services/native-runtime/generate-image-tool.ts`:**
  - The tool schema and definition.
- `imageGenerationBindingForRun`. It applies only to native Codex runs
on a direct OpenAI `api_key` connection with no router selection.
- The OpenAI Images API call (`gpt-image-2`, `b64_json`, PNG check, 180
s timeout). The reply is read as a stream with a byte cap before it is
parsed. A decoded image larger than 20 MiB is refused.
- A reviewed rate card for `gpt-image-2`: text input $5, image input $8
and image output $30 per 1M tokens, from
developers.openai.com/api/docs/pricing, retrieved 2026-11-06.
  - A create-only, symlink-confined local write.
- **`paperclip-runner-tool-authority.ts`:**
  - Adds the `imageGeneration` binding.
- Advertises the tool only for standard mode with a workspace. A remote
target must also have an installer. Dot, Muse, Grok and native review do
not get the tool.
- Adds the `#generateImage` handler. Before any spend, it checks again:
the run and task, budget authority, `issue:mutate`, case handoff, and
the connection.
- Stores a claim-before-spend per-call receipt in
`resultJson.imageToolReceipts`. A retry or recovery replays the receipt
and does not pay again.
- Saves a `charged` receipt (usage, price, request ID and charge time)
as soon as OpenAI returns. A failed save, failed accounting write or
crash can then still settle the spend. A retry or recovery records the
cost once and never buys again.
- Records one `cost_events` row through `createCostEventInTransaction`.
The row is `metered_api` with `costStatus: "estimated"`, and the budget
is evaluated. The row is recorded even if saving fails.
- Checks the task's project budget, as well as the company and agent
budgets, before spending.
- Writes content-free `runner.image_generate` activity entries: started,
completed, failed and unconfirmed.
- **`ai-connections.ts`:** adds `selectImageGeneration`. It checks again
that the connection is an active, healthy OpenAI `api_key` connection
with no custom routing. It also checks the responsible user's
membership, the grant audience and the agent or company installation.
These are the same rules that runtime selection uses.
- **`native-session-executor.ts`:** gets the binding from the run's
admitted `contextSnapshot.aiConnection`. The value comes only from the
server, never from tool input.
- **`native-session-resume.ts`:** the native tool contract changes from
`v18` to `v19` and now lists `generate_image`. A persisted provider
thread cannot add tools when it resumes, so older threads must rotate.
- **`doc/runner-api-tools.md`:** a new section about image generation
for OpenAI API-key Codex agents.
- **#19516: kept, not reverted.** Its changes have no effect on the
API-key path. They are still correct for Codex agents that sign in with
ChatGPT, because `image_gen` works there and saves to
`CODEX_HOME/generated_images`. Those agents need the read grant that
#19516 added. On the API-key path, the new tool replaces the built-in
tool. The tool's description tells the agent to use it instead of
`image_gen` or `scripts/image_gen.py`.

## Verification

**Red on `master` (e482f0f632).** Behavioural red with the first version
of the new test:

```
 FAIL  src/services/native-runtime/generate-image-tool.test.ts > generate_image for OpenAI API-key Codex agents (N-12) > lets an API-key Codex agent make an image with its existing OpenAI key, saved in its workspace and billed
AssertionError: expected [ 'connections_search', …(51) ] to include 'generate_image'
 ❯ src/services/native-runtime/generate-image-tool.test.ts:78:60
      Tests  1 failed | 3 passed (4)
```

The final test file on master's source also fails. The reason is that
the module does not exist: `Cannot find module
'./generate-image-tool.js'`.

**Real pinned Codex binary.** The new test is
`packages/paperclip-runner/src/drivers/codex/codex-api-key-image-tools.test.ts`.
It uses the runner's isolated launch, the API-key `auth.json` and a
local Responses endpoint. It shows that the model gets no `image_gen`,
`imagegen` or `image_generation` tool, and that a server-advertised
`generate_image` tool does reach the model:

```
 Test Files  1 passed (1)
      Tests  1 passed (1)
```

**Green after the fix:**
`server/src/services/native-runtime/generate-image-tool.test.ts` uses
embedded PostgreSQL and a stubbed OpenAI fetch.

```
 Test Files  1 passed (1)
      Tests  11 passed (11)
```

The 11 tests cover these behaviours:

- **Main path.** The tool is advertised. The request goes to
`api.openai.com/v1/images/generations` with the existing key. The PNG is
written to the workspace. The key does not appear in the result or in
activity. One `cost_events` row is written: 50 text tokens and 1000
output tokens, which is $0.03025, estimated, from the rate card. A retry
and `recover()` replay the receipt with no second fetch and no second
cost row.
- **No binding:** the tool is not offered and `execute` refuses.
- **Budget hard-stop.** The stop pauses the agent, so the call is
refused before any fetch and no file is written.
- **Bad grant:** the call is refused before any fetch.
- **Project budget stop.** The task's project is paused by its budget,
so the call is refused before any fetch.
- **Charge settlement.** A crash left a `charged` receipt. The retry and
`recover()` record the cost once, report the image path and do not buy
another image.
- **Oversized reply.** The read stops before the body is parsed.
- **Save failure.** The spend is still recorded. A same-call retry does
not pay again and reports the failure.
- **Binding gate.** Only Codex on a direct OpenAI API key gets the
binding. A subscription, ACPX, OpenRouter or a routed connection does
not.
- **Rate card math.**
- **Provider errors.** The error text does not contain the key, and
non-PNG data is rejected.

**Neighbouring suites:**

- `src/drivers/codex` in the runner package: 24 files, 350 tests passed.
- Server: `paperclip-runner-tool-authority.test.ts`,
`native-session-resume.test.ts`, `fast-responses.test.ts`,
`ai-connection-session.test.ts` and the new suite. 157 of 158 passed.
- The one failure is `native-session-resume.test.ts › archives a damaged
prior epoch … with real runnerd` (ENOENT on `authority-epochs`). It
fails the same way on unmodified `master` in this local environment, so
this change did not cause it.
- `tsc --noEmit -p server/tsconfig.json`: clean.
- `pnpm verify` exits 2 (broad). Required CI supplies the broad
coverage.

## Risks

- **New security surface: this needs maintainer sign-off.** The server
now sends the agent's OpenAI API key to `api.openai.com` on the agent's
request. The tool is limited in these ways:
  - The key stays in the server.
- Each call checks run, task, budget, mutation and connection authority
again.
- The destination name comes from the server and must match
`^[a-z0-9-]+-[0-9a-f]{8}\.png$`. The write is create-only and confined
to the workspace root. On macOS it uses `O_NOFOLLOW_ANY`. On Linux it
uses a `/proc` descriptor walk.
- **Spend.** Each call costs money. The tool description tells the agent
to make only what the task needs. The cost is an estimate from a rate
card (`costStatus: "estimated"`), not an invoice. The rate card applies
the image-output rate to all output tokens, so the estimate errs on the
high side.
- **Checkpoint rotation.** The tool-contract bump from v18 to v19 makes
existing native provider threads start fresh once at their next turn.
This is what the contract requires when the tool surface changes.
- **Pricing drift.** If OpenAI changes `gpt-image-2` prices, the rate
card must be updated.

## Model Used

- Claude Opus 5.5 (`claude-opus-5-5`), Anthropic, used through Claude
Code with tool use (shell, file edits, sub-agents) and extended
reasoning.

## Checklist

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

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2026-11-07 07:48:39 -06:00