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Dotta af8439a70b feat(runner): restore direct live eval campaigns and reports (#12909)
## Thinking Path

> - Paperclip is the open source app people use to manage AI agents for
work.
> - The Runner executes agents through native and managed provider
drivers.
> - The direct live eval layer had drifted from the current Runner
contracts.
> - The old local workflow did not provide a complete parallel campaign
or durable report history.
> - The Runner also needed current native OpenCode and OpenRouter
qualification.
> - This pull request restores the direct campaign, corrects the runtime
gaps that the campaign found, and adds safe hosted Evalbook history.
> - The benefit is repeatable model comparison against an immutable
Runner and eval source revision.

## Linked Issues or Issue Description

Refs #11297
Refs #11634

**What existing behavior does this improve?**

This improves the direct live `paperclip-runner` eval workflow, provider
execution contract, and static Evalbook reporting path.

**Current behavior**

The direct evals do not have one maintained full campaign on current
`master`. OpenCode has no qualified multi-model OpenRouter roster.
Parallel provider bursts can compact committed events before the
transport observes them. Local reports do not have a separate safe S3
history index.

**Proposed behavior**

Run one immutable roster-plus-case matrix. Use the shared paid AWS
runner fleet. Keep raw artifacts access-controlled. Publish a sanitized
canonical Evalbook report under the separate `runner-protocol-evals` S3
prefix. Keep immutable campaign directories plus root history, latest,
and latest-green pointers.

**Reason and benefit**

Maintainers can compare native Codex, native OpenCode, ACPX, Claude
Managed, and AWS AgentCore behavior over time. They can inspect failures
without mixing this direct protocol layer with browser full-stack E2E.

**Breaking changes**

None. The new workflow and S3 prefix are additive. The existing Runner
full-stack E2E workflow and report remain separate.

## What Changed

- Added a trusted two-shard direct live workflow for up to 393
roster-plus-case cells.
- Reused the numeric actor allowlist, protected paid environment, and
RunsOn fleet controls from Runner full-stack E2E.
- Added immutable Runner and eval revision resolution, exact credential
boundaries, bounded retries, and cost ceilings.
- Added a public report projection that removes sessions, transcripts,
tool payloads, state, traces, raw failures, remote profile identities,
and credential-shaped values.
- Added additive S3 history under `runner-protocol-evals`, with
immutable campaigns and mutable root index pointers.
- Added native OpenCode model injection and current OpenRouter pricing
contracts.
- Fixed direct eval completion, workflow execution, semantic discovery,
warm-attach state reset, executable binding, and event-burst handling.
- Kept Runner browser full-stack E2E behavior and publication separate.
- Documented local and hosted direct eval operation.

## Verification

- `pnpm --filter @paperclipai/paperclip-runner
test:runner-protocol-eval-publish` — 15 passed.
- `pnpm --filter @paperclipai/paperclip-runner build:typescript` —
passed.
- `actionlint .github/workflows/runner-protocol-live-evals.yml
.github/workflows/runner-full-stack-e2e.yml` — passed.
- Local current matrix at the revision in
[paperclip-evals#17](https://github.com/paperclipai/paperclip-evals/pull/17)
— 323 cells across 10 enabled configurations completed.
- Final local current matrix — 269 passed, 11 behavior failures, and 43
expected macOS-only ACPX platform failures.
- Targeted Runner checks — 13/13 eval-session tests, 15/15
publisher/security tests, and package typecheck passed; complete PR CI
is green, including all browser E2E shards.

## Risks

- Paid live campaigns can consume provider budget. Actor authorization,
exact per-cell ceilings, protected environments, and explicit schedule
enablement bound this risk.
- Public reports can leak provider data. The workflow publishes only a
separately projected report and validates every file before upload.
- The new workflow cannot publish until it is present on the default
branch. This pull request does not change the existing
`runner-full-stack-e2e` publication path.
- The campaign is large. It uses two GitHub matrices and caps combined
concurrency at the shared fleet limit.

> 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

OpenAI Codex on GPT-5. The exact deployment ID and context-window size
are not exposed. The model used reasoning, code editing, browser
inspection, repository tools, and live provider 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
- [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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Stress-derived Runner workflow evals

The Runner workflow eval system turns the STRESS-001–STRESS-044 campaign into complementary deterministic, live, and chaos lanes. It is additive to the capability inventory, capability cases, and existing scoring/report readers.

The workspace-private @paperclipai/paperclip-eval-kernel package owns only structural scenario-by-candidate orchestration. Runner-specific cases, observations, scoring, and traceability remain package-local. The HTML matrix is rendered by the canonical paperclip-evals report program so live results use the same grid and drill-down pages as the direct Runner eval suite.

Lanes

  • pnpm --filter @paperclipai/paperclip-runner test:runner-workflow-evals runs the credential-free PR gate over sanitized Codex, OpenCode, and ACPX normalization fixtures.
  • pnpm --filter @paperclipai/paperclip-runner report:runner-workflow-evals validates the deterministic fail-closed fixture matrix and writes JSON, Markdown, JUnit, and GitHub-safe artifacts under .paperclip-local/evals/workflows/. It makes no network requests.
  • pnpm --filter @paperclipai/paperclip-runner report:runner-live-evals runs the balanced forty-execution schedule against real provider sessions. Live candidate failures are trend-only; missing credentials, qualification failures, and provider outages remain unscored.
  • pnpm --filter @paperclipai/paperclip-runner report:runner-chaos-evals writes the eight-scenario fault schedule consumed by weekly and pre-release restart, replay, trace, finalization, interaction, and wake-race suites.

The checked-in live manifest contains only adapter/model settings, qualification variable names, and budgets. Credentials remain in the environment. PAPERCLIP_EVAL_MAX_CAMPAIGN_COST_USD must be a positive finite number and defaults to 12 USD for scheduled runs.

Live executions export one immutable Evalbook attempt per workflow/candidate to .paperclip-local/evals/workflows/evalbook-runs/, then invoke evals/paperclip-runner/tools/eval_program.py report from a paperclip-evals checkout. That program writes the canonical matrix to .paperclip-local/evals/workflows/index.html, plus latest.html, test pages, and attempt pages. Set PAPERCLIP_EVALBOOK_PROGRAM to the program's absolute path or PAPERCLIP_EVALS_ROOT to its repository root. Conventional sibling worktree locations are discovered automatically. GitHub Actions checks out a pinned paperclip-evals revision, so every hosted run uses the same reviewed report implementation rather than a copied or package-local renderer. Filtered reports with only a few candidates expand their result columns to the available viewport, keeping the PASS, FAIL, and INFRA labels visible without a horizontal scroll. Full matrices retain the canonical scrollable grid and sticky test-name column.

The exported artifact contains only the safe workflow observation and scorecard. Prompts, credentials, raw provider frames, tool arguments, and reasoning remain excluded. evalbook-manifest.json records the generator path and SHA-256 digest used for the render.

Local and manual GitHub runs can bound paid execution with comma-separated --candidate and --case selectors plus --limit. For example, report:runner-live-evals -- --candidate codex-luna --limit 2 executes only the first two Codex entries in that week's validated schedule. Subsets receive a distinct bundle identity and do not contaminate full-campaign trend history.

The hosted live workflow is default-branch-only and requires an allowlisted numeric actor plus the protected runner-e2e-paid environment. Scheduled runs also remain disabled until RUNNER_LIVE_EVALS_NIGHTLY_ENABLED is explicitly set to true. The paid job uses the full-stack workflow's literal runner selection: RUNNER_E2E_AWS_ENABLED=true routes it to the RunsOn Fleet, and any other value uses ubuntu-latest.

Trace and reasoning safety

Live executions capture provider frames in a run-local mode-0600 sidecar. The evaluator verifies byte lengths, SHA-256 digests, order, dispositions, and lineage, retains only redacted observations plus a digest, and destroys the temporary trace after execution. Prompts, credentials, tool arguments, and reasoning text never enter reports or uploaded artifacts. Evals measure visible progress and activity; they do not inspect or grade hidden chain of thought.

Live bundle identity includes the Runner version/build, prompt policy, schedule seed, adapters, resolved models, and reasoning settings. Seven-day comparisons use only matching bundle IDs, and alerts stay disabled until seven compatible reports exist. Safe reports are retained for 30 days; raw traces are not uploaded.

The checked traceability manifest is spec/evals/stress-workflow-traceability.json; CI fails for missing findings, unknown workflow IDs, or missing regression-test anchors.