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## Thinking Path > - Paperclip is the open source app people use to manage AI agents for work. > - The native runner must support project work, delegation, hiring, and service access. > - Browser tests exposed lost connection access, rejected helper events, and stalled recovery. > - Some eval failures also came from incorrect fixtures and decision controls. > - This pull request fixes those paths and adds eight everyday workflow stories. > - The tests retain observed failures and verify delivered files independently. > - The benefit is repeatable evidence for common user tasks and their remaining gaps. ## Linked Issues or Issue Description Related work: #13404 contains earlier workflow fixes. #13300 and #13470 changed the CI contracts used by the harness security tests. Merged companion: [paperclip-evals#22](https://github.com/paperclipai/paperclip-evals/pull/22). **What happened?** Native ACPX sessions did not receive the assigned connection gateway. Codex helper events could arrive before their spawn receipt and fail thread validation. A parent continuation could take a shared workspace before its child retried. A failed native continuation could leave the task status without a clear recovery blocker. The eval harness also confused tool approvals with new connection requests and could reject a valid delegated download. **Expected behavior** Keep assigned gateway access and its approval checks. Verify helper lineage before accepting helper progress. Let a waiting child proceed before automatic parent recovery. Preserve a failed task's recovery ownership. Grade the actual requested workflow and its delivered files. **Steps to reproduce** Run the everyday workflow suite with the native Codex and Claude profiles. Exercise service approval, connection refusal, delegated project work, and teammate reuse. The commands and case requirements are in `tests/runner-e2e/EVERYDAY-WORKFLOWS.md`. Use `pnpm test:runner-recovery` for controlled crash and replacement cases. ## What Changed - Pass the scoped connection gateway binding through the native ACPX host and sidecar. - Recognize Codex helper lineage from parent metadata and spawn receipts. Verify early helper events with `thread/read`. Keep helper events separate from root completion authority. - Guide agents to use persistent hiring, child tasks, dependency records, and a blocked handoff while waiting for a child. - Defer automatic parent recovery while a child has an active execution path in the same shared workspace. Allow parent recovery when the child needs review. - Record Blocked status and recovery evidence when a failed native continuation needs reconciliation, including existing active or escalated incidents. Preserve their owner and retry budget. - Add eight browser-driven workflow cases. Use real decision controls, explicit child feedback delivery, managed hiring credentials, and independent ZIP checks inside a bounded Docker sandbox. Verify sandbox availability before task creation. Record screenshot SHA-256 at capture. - Keep runner crash probes in controlled recovery tests. Preserve the original failure when cleanup also fails. - Display missing accounting and replay revisions as unavailable. Align harness security assertions with the approved CI changes. - Make the channel-rejection browser fixture bind its file after the send captures its payload. This prevents live refresh from removing the file before the simulated race. ## Verification - Full workspace `pnpm -r typecheck` passed after merging current master. - Runner E2E typecheck passed. Harness unit tests passed: 216/216. - Wake-queue database tests passed: 55/55. The two added existing-incident tests failed before the fix and pass after it. - Docker artifact calibration passed: 12/12. Host-file and host-loopback isolation tests failed before the fix and pass after it. Read-only delivery and output limits are also verified. - Full `pnpm build` passed. Targeted recovery tests passed: 83/83. - The channel-rejection browser test passed five consecutive runs after fixing the fixture race found in CI. - Local general-server (12,351 tests), UI (6,250), CLI (485), and workspace package groups passed. The monolithic run stopped at an unchanged lock-heartbeat fixture race; the isolated workspace group passed on rerun (shared: 747/747). A separate local serialized run passed 97 files before two socket errors in the unchanged issue-list route suite; that suite passed 15/15 on isolated rerun. These local full commands did not finish uninterrupted; the complete CI matrix below covers the remaining suites. - Final head `0fb293733fe307be7e6667ae8f1364077d0c6455`: **34 successful checks, 2 expected skips**, including every server/workspace shard, browser shard, native runner verification, build, and typecheck. [Final CI run](https://github.com/paperclipai/paperclip/actions/runs/34989136700). - Greptile reviewed this exact head at **5/5**; all review threads are resolved. Both Superagent security checks are successful. - ACPX credential-boundary tests passed: 118/118. Superagent accepted the runner/sidecar versus provider-environment trace and cleared its finding. - The latest paid local campaign on source `f6a2fdf7ac2af859826a2ae627ff4125a5478529` passed 22/24 cases: Sol 8/8, Claude 7/8, Mini 7/8. These results predate the merge with current master. - The two remaining failures are in `hire-reuse`: Claude exceeded the attempt deadline during final review; Mini made invalid deliverable tool calls and remained Blocked. - Six Daytona cases were not run because the matching immutable runner image was unavailable. This PR does not claim new remote model results. ## Risks The changes affect connection admission, helper identity, and recovery scheduling. Assigned gateway grants and user approval still govern service calls. The workspace admission gate still exists; the broader folder-sync design is separate work. Provider behavior can still cause the two recorded hiring failures. No database migration is required. Paid cases are opt-in and have bounded attempt deadlines. Project stories now require Docker and the documented pinned Python image on the harness host. ## Model Used OpenAI `gpt-6-astra` performed implementation, diagnosis, and substantive review. OpenAI `gpt-5.6-luna` assisted with verification, PR preparation, and review tracking. Both used repository tools and code execution. Context-window sizes were not recorded. ## Checklist - [x] I have included a thinking path that traces from project context to this change - [x] I have specified the model used (with version and capability details) - [x] I have checked ROADMAP.md and confirmed this PR does not duplicate planned core work - [x] I have searched GitHub for duplicate or related PRs and linked them above - [x] I have either (a) linked existing issues with `Fixes: #` / `Closes #` / `Refs #` OR (b) described the issue in-PR following the relevant issue template - [x] I have not referenced internal/instance-local Paperclip issues or links (only public GitHub `#NNN` / `github.com/paperclipai/paperclip` URLs) - [x] My branch name describes the change (e.g. `docs/...`, `fix/...`) and contains no internal Paperclip ticket id or instance-derived details - [x] I have run tests locally and they pass (focused checks and isolated reruns; full-run limitations are documented above) - [x] I have added or updated tests where applicable - [x] I have updated relevant documentation to reflect my changes - [x] I have considered and documented any risks above - [x] All Paperclip CI gates are green - [x] Greptile is 5/5 with no open P2s, recommendations, or follow-ups - [x] I will address all Greptile and reviewer comments before requesting merge --------- Co-authored-by: OpenAI GPT-5.6 Luna <noreply@openai.com> Co-authored-by: Paperclip <noreply@paperclip.ing>
Controlled runner recovery tests
Run from the Paperclip repository after installing and building dependencies:
pnpm test:runner-recovery
This command runs provider-free tests with a disposable embedded Postgres database. It does not call a model, launch a paid browser campaign, or produce a model score. The database test must run rather than skip before claiming its coverage; consult its output for platform support. Run these tests when changing recovery policy, continuation delivery, or replacement admission.
Boundaries and checks
| Test owner | Established premise | Required outcome |
|---|---|---|
native-replacement-evidence.test.ts |
Explicit known/unknown process ownership, history, workspace, action receipts, and retry budget | Allow replacement only with complete safe evidence. Return a specific cause and next action otherwise. |
stopped-codex-turn.test.ts |
Precisely bound fixture transcripts with a closed text-only turn, partial output, wrong turn identity, or an unknown action | Accept the closed safe transcript; reject incomplete or uncertain current-turn effects. |
native-safe-replacement.test.ts |
Inject the stopped-session verifier result into the real database reconciler; record real saved file bytes and one user comment | Verified recovery schedules one successor whose continuation includes the comment once; missing proof or an unconfirmed action schedules none. All cases retain the saved file and user comment. |
native-safe-replacement.test.ts |
Concurrent reconciliation, transaction failpoints, changed ownership, exhausted budgets, and cancelled work | Preserve one successor lineage, roll back incomplete commits, respect user intent, and stop retries at the incident limit. |
The injected verifier is a test boundary. These tests do not prove that an operating-system process actually stopped or that a provider completes the successor. They establish controller decisions and persistence under known conditions. Real stop verification and a user-visible final result require separate integration/acceptance evidence.
Why the paid crash probes were retired
The former recover-runner and recover-runner-safe cases killed the daemon at
an arbitrary point and expected automatic completion. They did not establish
that every old process had stopped or that unfinished actions were safe to
repeat. A no-tools prompt did not establish those facts. Their failures therefore
do not establish a recovery correctness bug. recover-runner-uncertain exercised
a useful safety rule but did not measure model quality or a complete user journey.
Historical records remain in Evalbook, including failed grades and paid cost.
The main scorecard omits all three cases. Supported controller restart and
Stop/new-direction journeys remain in everyday-workflows.
Before adding another live crash-recovery story, specify the supported recovery path, prove its fault boundary, perform the recovery action, then independently verify saved work, pending input, and a usable final result. Until that journey is qualified, do not score arbitrary process termination as a model failure.