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Nicky LeachandPaperclip f8a888a072 feat(runner): define bounded startup lifetime contracts (#18490)
## Thinking Path

> - Paperclip manages AI agents and their work.
> - Native sessions and plugin workers have separate startup lifetimes.
> - A caller timeout does not prove that a worker or an accepted host
write has stopped.
> - Shared startup code needs an exact deadline and an actual settlement
contract.
> - This PR adds those contracts and tests them before any production
caller uses them.
> - The dependent integration in #18405 will use the contracts with
verified cleanup.
> - This split lets reviewers assess the lifetime rules separately from
runtime activation.

## Linked Issues or Issue Description

Refs #18405. This PR extracts the foundation from that change. The
integration will depend on this PR.

**Problem or motivation**

A bounded startup must distinguish the caller's wait from actual worker
completion. A late worker reply or an accepted host request can outlive
the original RPC promise. A shorter timeout must not discard that
responsibility or authorize a replacement run.

**Proposed solution**

Add one Core execution context, optional Runner startup deadlines, and
worker settlement and retirement APIs. Test the contracts with real
child-process IPC. Keep production context creation, transport
projection, capability negotiation, durable cleanup, and Stop/recovery
integration in #18405.

**Alternatives considered**

One combined PR mixed the lifetime contract with its activation and
cleanup policy. Activating a shorter deadline before the complete
transport and cleanup path is unsafe. Splitting only the SDK
declarations would not provide a useful behavioral review boundary.

**Roadmap alignment**

This supports the existing plugin, sandbox execution, and bounded
recovery capabilities. It adds no new product workflow, endpoint,
migration, provider or runtime dependency.

## What Changed

- Add `NativeExecutionContext`. It retains the selected input, binds one
transport target, rejects work after cancellation or expiry, and tracks
actual worker settlement. Expiry alone does not complete pending work.
- Add worker startup groups. A caller timeout retains the group's
responsibility. Retirement revokes obsolete invocation scopes, waits for
accepted host handlers, and retires only the verified group's
bookkeeping. Each cleanup wait is bounded; an unfinished handler remains
pending for a later retry.
- Add an optional Runner startup signal and absolute deadline for
session open and retained attachment. Clean up abort listeners after
synchronous failures. Existing callers keep their default timeout path.
- Expose the remaining confirmed controller-lease budget without a new
query or renewal timer.
- Add optional SDK context and preparation-retirement fields. No
production bridge sends or advertises them in this slice.
- Keep the required lease mock update with the new `remainingMs()`
contract so this foundation typechecks independently.

Production activation files, including the native executor and
environment task bridge, match the current master base. No production
caller constructs `NativeExecutionContext` or passes the new Runner
startup option. This PR adds no durable cleanup producer and claims **no
standalone TTFT improvement**. The dependent integration must enable the
context, transport and verified cleanup together.

## Verification

Initial split verification on
`8ebc8a2f9c6c02e90f920356138b3742a4067b28`, based on
`9a3f395737e7a92faf99971459979061d423531a`:

- From `server`: `../node_modules/.bin/vitest run
src/services/native-runtime/native-execution-context.test.ts
src/services/native-runtime/native-execution-context-worker.test.ts
src/services/native-runtime/native-execution-lease.test.ts` — **17
passed**. Includes real child IPC, caller timeout with late reply,
worker death, accepted host-handler draining, obsolete cleanup
invocation rejection, unrelated work preservation, context scope,
expiry, and confirmed lease budget.
- From `packages/paperclip-runner`: `../../node_modules/.bin/vitest run
src/native-session-runtime.test.ts` — **188 passed**. Includes existing
callers without the new option and new
synchronous-failure/expired-deadline cases for fresh and retained
sessions.
- Direct TypeScript checks for `packages/plugins/sdk/tsconfig.json` and
`packages/paperclip-runner/tsconfig.json` — passed. Built only their
shared/eval TypeScript prerequisites.
- From `server`: `../node_modules/.bin/tsc --noEmit` — passed.
- Checked the partition against the reviewed combined candidate. The
twelve selected files match exactly. The thirteenth file carries only
the required test-mock update. The production executor, bridge and
target wiring remain equal to the base.
- `git diff --check`, added-line secret/private-data scan, and
added-code-comment scan — passed. No generated files or run artifacts
are committed.
- The first old-base split passed its focused tests but failed server
typechecking because the unchanged executor test mock lacked
`remainingMs()`. The original failure is retained. Moving that one-line
mock update into this foundation resolved the split dependency; the
final current-master checks above pass.
- Full local CI suites, Rust builds, deployments and provider calls were
not run, as requested. GitHub CI will provide full regression coverage.
Current-head GitHub CI, standard review and Apex are complete; exact
acceptance is recorded below.

Review follow-up `d7635f4d280dab757a3666703737bcda955c9361` fixes three
reproduced lifetime edge cases. A retiring startup group rejects new
calls and shares one retirement promise; failed bounded retirement
remains retryable. Transport identity uses a fixed field tuple rather
than object-property order. Finishing a context rejects pending lookup
waits without aborting an already-started backend or pretending the
worker completed. All three new regressions failed before the fix; the
updated foundation selection passes **20 tests**, including actual IPC
and failed-retirement retry. Server typechecking and added-line checks
pass. These replace the earlier 17-case selection, rather than adding 20
unique cases to it. The original failures and passing reruns are
retained.

Apex follow-up `cb8860bab5ab9d6357a352e11f276be0d0cdb26d` keeps removed
worker handles reachable while they own startup calls, accepted host
handlers or retirement work. Drain/retirement includes active and
retained handles; completion callbacks remove settled handles. Stop and
replacement remove only the exact handle they observed. This adds no
database/network operation, polling loop or generic shutdown wait. The
SDK, Runner, context and transport bridge are unchanged.

Seven additional IPC regressions failed on the prior manager and pass
after the fix, covering removal/replacement, Stop-all, host-handler
settlement, bounded retirement failure/retry, pruning, and replacement
ownership. The updated foundation selection passes **27 tests**, with
server typechecking passing; these supersede the earlier 20-case
selection. A separate real-PostgreSQL/child-IPC characterization uses
the integration's actual SDK host, storage registry and run-control path
with the exact corrected manager bytes. Before the fix, cleanup released
run ownership while an accepted host write was blocked, then the late
write restored obsolete metadata. After the fix, ownership and cleanup
remain pending until the write completes; cleanup then removes the stale
metadata before releasing ownership. The original failure, corrected
result and source snapshots are preserved. Final head
`cb8860bab5ab9d6357a352e11f276be0d0cdb26d` passes GitHub CI (53
successful checks, 2 expected skips, Snyk success), standard Greptile
**5/5** and fresh Apex **5/5**. All review threads are resolved and the
PR is conflict-free.

## Risks

The shared Runner helper now observes synchronous operation failures
through its asynchronous cleanup path. The affected runtime file's 188
tests pass, but full regression coverage still depends on CI.

The new lifetime APIs require honest settlement signals. A future caller
must not treat a deadline, worker crash or Stop intent as verified
retirement. Production activation remains dependent on the complete
integration and its cleanup tests in #18405. This foundation introduces
no shorter production startup budget or new cleanup policy by itself.

The context's transport projection is process-local. It must not be
persisted or used as a general authorization cache. No production caller
supplies it in this PR. There is no database migration, new dependency,
or deployment requirement for merging this foundation.

## Model Used

OpenAI Codex, based on GPT-6, assisted with repository inspection, the
split, tests and command execution. The exact serving model ID and
context-window size were not exposed in this session.

## Checklist

- [x] I have included a thinking path that traces from project context
to this change
- [x] I have specified the model used (with version and capability
details)
- [x] I have checked ROADMAP.md and confirmed this PR does not duplicate
planned core work
- [x] I have searched GitHub for duplicate or related PRs and linked
them above
- [x] I have either (a) linked existing issues with `Fixes: #` /
`Closes: #` / `Refs: #` OR (b) described the issue in-PR following the
relevant issue template
- [x] I have not referenced internal/instance-local Paperclip issues or
links (only public GitHub `#NNN` / `github.com/paperclipai/paperclip`
URLs)
- [x] My branch name describes the change and contains no internal issue
identifier
- [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 — this
description documents the inactive contracts; operational activation
documentation remains with #18405
- [x] I have considered and documented any risks above
- [x] All Paperclip CI gates are green on `cb8860bab5`
- [x] Current-head standard Greptile and Apex are 5/5 with no unresolved
findings
- [x] I will address all Greptile and reviewer comments before
requesting merge

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Co-authored-by: Paperclip <noreply@paperclip.ing>
2026-11-02 08:22:42 -08:00
DottaandPaperclip 9ca9af544a Drive remaining live run and resource recovery from durable work (#18419)
Reviewed and verified at 6a4c193906.

Co-Authored-By: Paperclip <noreply@paperclip.ing>
2026-10-31 16:00:35 -05:00
DottaandPaperclip 5e4cc01073 feat(workspaces): keep remote files off the webserver disk (#18403)
Keep native sandbox workspace files independent of the webserver disk. Use encrypted saved versions and Postgres ownership so a replacement server can recover files and continue work. Enable the path by default for new eligible workspaces when durable storage is configured.

Preserve explicit opt-outs and existing host workspaces. Include safe snapshot repair, Files access, import, migration and retention. Bound saved-Files resources, preserve imported Git recovery, reject unfinished Git operations, publish immutable concurrent captures, and verify permanent object-version deletion.

Validated 471 targeted local controls, build/typechecks, all 40 CI partitions, fresh Greptile 5/5 and security review. The PR records original failed attempts and scoped retries.

Co-Authored-By: Paperclip <noreply@paperclip.ing>
2026-10-31 14:54:01 -05:00
DottaandPaperclip 09ad9adce2 feat(server): adopt running remote agents through durable controller checkpoints (#17439)
## Thinking Path

> - Paperclip must keep admitted remote work alive while its main server
is replaced.
> - Runner owns recovery mechanics and exposes opaque checkpoints
through #17097.
> - The server owns company scope, encryption, Stop, tool authority and
execution ownership.
> - A successor must prove current ownership before it adopts the
original execution.
> - Checkpoint bursts must also leave capacity for normal requests and
lease renewal.
> - This PR persists and adopts that authority through the existing
runtime boundaries.

## Linked Issues or Issue Description

**What existing behavior does this improve?**

Remote agents retain the original execution during a bounded main-server
outage.

**Current behavior**

A server restart can lose the controller's local state and connection.
An unsafe replacement could repeat a turn or an uncertain mutation.
Checkpoint writes in the request pool can also delay ordinary requests
during an aligned burst.

**Proposed behavior**

Restore encrypted control records from Postgres and adopt the original
runner under a fenced lease. Recover known tool receipts through current
tool authority. Give control checkpoints a shared pool capped at two
connections per database owner.

Depends on #17097. Successors are #17455 and #17456. Qualification and
presentation remain separate review slices.

## What Changed

- Add company/run-bound encrypted checkpoint records and migration 0394.
Keep the SQL idempotent after renumbering against current master.
- Recover startup and expired ownership through native runtime and
heartbeat. Preserve the sandbox lease, admitted runner artifact, harness
configuration, native session and active turn.
- Keep Stop, finalization, preparation ownership and stale-writer
fencing transactional. Preserve graceful detach and natural crash
takeover.
- Recover committed tool receipts through the existing authority.
Reauthorize reads and hold uncertain mutations.
- Bound startup retention with the existing coordinator and preserve
zero idle scans.
- Share at most two checkpoint connections per database client. Keep
application and liveness capacity separate. Close the checkpoint pool
during shutdown; late writes cannot reopen it.
- Count SQL across both application and checkpoint clients. Prove
request/liveness progress, command recovery and failure after pool
shutdown with real Postgres.

## Verification

Project creation recovery now uses the existing project activity receipt
owner. It retains authenticated input normalization, fingerprint checks
and current run authority after the receipt lock. An absent receipt
returns no result before mutation. The new lost-HTTP-response and
no-effect regression uses real API routes and Postgres. The seven
transport cases pass locally. This Mac skips all 20 database cases. On
current source `5de803c2cd`, Linux [job
122593415890](https://github.com/paperclipai/paperclip/actions/runs/40620576702/job/122593415890)
executes all 20 project-tool cases successfully (9.480 seconds),
including the committed-project lost-response regression. Its shard
passes 1,627 cases with three unrelated skips. Server typecheck passes.
The transport regression initially has two failures; a subsequent
incorrect expectation about schema defaults was corrected before the
final pass. Ordinary execution adds no checkpoint writes or recurring
work.

Current candidate `5de803c2cd` includes the project-creation receipt
recovery fix and master `2cd747d1b6`. Migration 0394 retains the prior
idempotent checkpoint DDL. Every master SQL file and journal entry is
preserved. Snapshots 0390–0394, migration checks and server typecheck
pass.

The ordinary warm-turn regression fails on its second turn before
`a219ab51ad`. After correction, three completed warm turns select the
correct prior checkpoint and preserve the original session. All 288
provider-wiring cases pass. The control plane, external persistence
callback, identity rotation and filesystem are real; the backend and
database-load seam are scripted. The 13 warm admission/configuration
variants also pass after final master integration. This does not qualify
an underlying harness.

At current source `5de803c2cd`, Linux [job
122593415907](https://github.com/paperclipai/paperclip/actions/runs/40620576702/job/122593415907)
passes all 940 native-session-executor cases (61.431 seconds), including
the warm external-checkpoint behavior; the shard passes 2,358 cases with
one skip. Current [Runner job
122593415475](https://github.com/paperclipai/paperclip/actions/runs/40620576702/job/122593415475)
passes the native recovery lane: 115 passes and five container-only
skips, including the encrypted restore guard, fresh preparation (63.189
seconds), blocked claim lock (1.226 seconds) and recovery beyond 101
blocked owners (3.897 seconds). The first lane passes 2,215 cases with
one skip. The SQL cost test reports zero idle and streaming SQL for both
output volumes; this is component evidence, not a production capacity
claim. At prior candidate `1ff7bb44f4`, Linux job 122549307215 passes
all 938 native-executor cases, including the three-turn
external-checkpoint regression. Job 122549306469 passes the native
recovery lane with 115 passes and five container-only skips, including
the encrypted-restore session guard, fresh preparation (63.664 seconds),
claim-lock contention (3.961 seconds), and 101-owner recovery (3.824
seconds). This Mac skips the real-Postgres suite. The earlier full local
executor attempt has 921 passes and 16 failures during embedded-Postgres
initialization before assertions. The original fixture collisions and
their corrections remain recorded.

At earlier candidate `8fbe62b41d`, server shard job 122535673841 has
3,876 passes, one failure and one skip in an unchanged expiry-worker
retry/drain timing test. The same server/database tree on qualification
source `b64cac6951` passes all 20 expiry cases and all 3,877 shard
cases. The single diagnostic retry, job 122541891915, passes all 20
expiry cases and all 3,877 shard cases (one skip). No assertion was
weakened. The original failure remains recorded and its exact timing
race is not proven. All Actions checks and legacy status passed on
`8fbe62b41d`, with completed Greptile 5/5 and no open feedback. The next
candidate `1ff7bb44f4` also passed all Actions checks and Greptile 5/5.
Its Paperclip Review remained queued before the new master conflict
required integration. The new candidate needs fresh exact-head CI and
reviews; old checks do not qualify it. Migration generation is
checkpoint-only, all master SQL and journal entries remain unchanged,
and migration checks, server typecheck and all 13 warm-owner variants
pass after integration. The first migration check was blocked by TSX
sandbox IPC; its permitted repeat passes. The first warm-test command
used an incorrect path and ran no tests; the corrected command supplies
the 13-case receipt.

All 16 database pool-lifetime/options/teardown cases pass after granting
loopback permission; the first batch had two EPERM failures and 14
passes. Earlier semantic-tool/HTTP recovery, adoption, encryption-batch,
zero-streaming-write and idle-SQL receipts remain source-attributed in
the [qualification
record](https://github.com/paperclipai/paperclip/blob/2ff66f57da0da35bac1c19a2366ea4b84d87a986/doc/plans/2026-10-22-hot-upgrade-qualification.md).
That record retains earlier assertion, setup and cleanup failures and
their corrections. No failed gate is waived.

The historical 300-session component campaign passes four after phases:
steady read p99 is 107–108 ms at 500 reads/s and 100 writes/s;
aligned-burst read p99 is 103–105 ms after the bounded pool, versus
584–689 ms before. This comparison isolates the persistence corrections.
It does not measure the final stack's hosted active-agent capacity. The
hosted zero-agent API pair leaves SQL and CPU essentially unchanged, but
both arms fail absolute latency gates and candidate peak cgroup memory
fails its gate. The active-agent/viewer matrix, different-artifact
upgrade and rollback remain open.

Run `PAPERCLIP_TEST_DATABASE_URL=<owned-disposable-postgres> pnpm
--filter @paperclipai/server exec vitest run
src/services/native-runtime/native-runner-restart-recovery.integration.test.ts`.

Previous head `f2db8a6568` had one failed workspace setup gate: [job
122555672441](https://github.com/paperclipai/paperclip/actions/runs/40608984238/job/122555672441)
passes all 4,169 UI tests and 285 CLI cases (one skip), but the company
import/export suite reaches its 30-second health deadline during doctor
startup. Its output does not reach the server-start step. The CLI,
server, database, shared, adapter and plugin trees are identical on
qualification source `a866619d7b`, whose [job
122555886663](https://github.com/paperclipai/paperclip/actions/runs/40609057937/job/122555886663)
passes that fixture and all 286 CLI cases. The one diagnostic retry,
[job
122561057225](https://github.com/paperclipai/paperclip/actions/runs/40608984238/job/122561057225),
passes the formerly failing fixture and all 286 CLI cases. All Actions
checks and legacy status on `f2db8a6568` pass. Its exact-head Greptile
completed at 5/5 with no open feedback. The current integrated head
requires fresh checks and a completed Paperclip Review before merge. The
original failure remains recorded; its exact timing cause is unproven. A
repeated failure requires investigation and repair rather than another
retry.

All current-head CI, legacy status, exact-head completed Greptile 5/5,
resolved feedback and ordinary GitHub merge eligibility remain required
before merge.

The latest integration preserves master’s published Copilot v70 profiles
and every published migration. Checkpoint migration
`0394_conscious_whizzer.sql` was generated with `pnpm db:generate` and
retains the prior idempotent DDL. The Runner vendor rebuild and replay
parity checks pass. Server typecheck and all 13 warm-owner variants pass
after that rebuild. The imported report-lock patch is byte-identical to
master; its intentional patch-context whitespace is retained, and the
feature delta passes whitespace checks. No hosted experiment was run.

## Risks

The pool adds up to two active connections per instance, shared across
agents. Checkpoint delivery can wait behind that bound; it still
requires its commit. Steady component-test Postgres CPU rises by about
1.7 percentage points of a two-CPU allocation. These corrections do not
remove the stack's control and renewal writes. The migration and key
must survive replacement. Fresh-database tests and local load do not
establish different-artifact hosted upgrade or rollback continuity.

## Model Used

OpenAI GPT-6 through Codex, with reasoning, repository tools and code
execution. The runtime does not expose a more specific 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
- [ ] 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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Co-authored-by: Paperclip <noreply@paperclip.ing>
2026-10-27 21:39:23 -05:00