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DottaandPaperclip f0e12c8519 Add managed Slack setup with an independent own-app path (#15679)
## Thinking Path

> - Paperclip is the open source app people use to manage AI agents for
work.
> - Slack connects a person to an agent through an installed app and a
verified identity.
> - Independent installations must remain usable without Paperclip Cloud
or manager credentials.
> - Approved Cloud deployments can use Slack manager grants to create
and install each agent's app.
> - Both paths should share credential storage, identity checks,
recovery, and the existing runtime.
> - This pull request adds gated managed setup and keeps independent app
setup under Advanced.
> - It also makes ongoing connection settings and personal test messages
easier to use.

## Linked Issues or Issue Description

**Subsystem affected**

Slack setup, connection settings, tenant credential storage, and the
Cloud connector handoff.

**Problem or motivation**

Approved deployments need an installation flow without pasted
configuration tokens. Open-source users must retain their independent
Slack app flow. A connection manager also needs a simple way to check a
bot from Settings.

**Proposed solution**

Use the managed path when the instance is configured to support it.
Choose agent and Connect are the two visible stops. Continue starts
authorization or installation. Use your own app remains under Advanced
before creation. Save personal manager grants by company, Paperclip
user, Slack user, workspace, and manager app. Reuse only verified
identities for test messages. Unknown identities must complete a private
Slack connection challenge before linking and receiving the test DM.

**Alternatives considered**

A shared bot would change each agent's Slack identity. Requiring Slack
CLI or a hosted service for self-hosted users would remove independent
installation.

**Roadmap alignment**

This maintainer-requested change improves Connected Apps and
experimental Agent Chat. It adds provisioning and management controls to
the existing Slack runtime.

**Additional context**

The companion Cloud broker profile is a separate deployment
prerequisite. Managed setup remains gated. Existing-app adoption is
deferred.

## What Changed

- Extract Slack registration, provider requests, completion,
customer-owned setup, managed setup, and personal manager grants into
focused services. Preserve the compatibility facade and independent
removal cleanup.
- Add company-scoped manager grants and a registration reference through
an additive, idempotent migration after current master. Keep runtime
credentials separate from app-registration secrets.
- Add authenticated manager authorization, sealed handoff, serialized
refresh and revocation, app creation, managed installation, and
installer-bound OAuth fallback.
- Preserve creation intent, block automatic uncertain recreation, save
credentials before downstream checks, and validate app, workspace, bot,
scopes, and installer identity.
- Add the two-stop production wizard and ordered stories. Keep the
own-app, manual, existing-app, and legacy-draft paths.
- Simplify Settings. Open Slack configuration targets the saved app. The
test-message action has its own row. Remove the old manual-avatar
section, channel-message section, and broken permissions link.
- Add paginated account discovery and a private connection challenge for
unknown accounts. Expired invitations stop waiting and offer a new
private invitation. Save send receipts before provider dispatch and
preserve confirmed delivery when activity logging fails.
- Reinstall the saved managed app on explicit reconnect, replace revoked
credentials, and resume completion. Persist reconnect intent and
duplicate-request receipts without creating another app.
- Update provider browser tests, recovery tests, secret redaction, setup
documentation, and the agent prompt. Preserve current master's durable
verification scheduling.

## Verification

- Full workspace typecheck and repository build passed on `56d389d47a`.
The subsequent reconnect retry fix in `288364eada` also passed UI
typecheck and UI build.
- 114 focused Slack registration cases and 13 production managed-wizard
cases passed, including fresh-token reconnect, retry after installation
failure, and duplicate reconnect requests.
- All nine affected Slack browser cases passed against the production UI
and a disposable fixture server. They cover managed setup, automatic
setup, own-app selection, refresh, recovery, mobile behavior, and
connection settings.
- Eight focused real-database test-message cases passed. They cover a
private ownership challenge, saved grant reuse, account pagination,
revoked and conflicting links, workspace mismatch, disabled DMs, revoked
membership, audit failure, ambiguous dispatch, and secret canaries.
- UI token gates and the production Storybook build passed.
- Greptile reviewed exact head
`288364eada5d9c114fad991ff634612639d06672` at 5/5 with no actionable
findings or unresolved review threads.
- The full repository test suite and current-head CI are running. Their
final results will replace this line before merge.
- Earlier live feature previews created two bots in the authorized
Paperclip Slack workspace and reused one personal manager grant. Local
managed Continue created and installed a bot without a configuration
token or a separate Add to Slack action. Avatars, welcome DMs, signed
callbacks, and direct replies were observed. A Settings test DM also
arrived in the signed-in user's Slack account.
- Earlier staging thread qualification required manual publication
recovery for one bot. Current-head live qualification remains required
before enabling the production default. Fixture results do not establish
Slack approval behavior in other workspaces.

## Risks

- Personal manager tokens can create apps. They stay in scoped vault
entries. The manager client secret stays at the broker. Company,
actor/session, origin, and app identity checks apply throughout setup.
- The additive migration must also work on qualification instances that
applied earlier branch migrations. Table, column, index, and constraint
creation is idempotent.
- Creation and message timeouts can leave uncertain outcomes. Saved
request IDs prevent automatic duplicate dispatch.
- Unknown Slack identities must receive and complete their private
challenge while signed in. Account selection alone does not grant
Paperclip permissions. Existing revoked or conflicting links are not
overwritten.
- A development-only manager transport uses an explicitly configured
private credential file for local qualification. Production ignores this
transport; no manager credentials are bundled with open source.
- Managed rollout requires Slack approval, the companion broker
deployment, configured secrets, and final live qualification. Removing a
connection does not delete its Slack app.

## Model Used

OpenAI Codex, GPT-6 family, with reasoning, code execution, and browser
tools. The session does not expose the exact 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
- [ ] 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
- [x] Greptile is 5/5 with no open P2s, recommendations, or follow-ups
- [x] I will address all Greptile and reviewer comments before
requesting merge

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Co-authored-by: Paperclip <noreply@paperclip.ing>
2026-10-12 15:34:02 -05:00
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