## Thinking Path
> - Paperclip is the open source app people use to manage AI agents for
work.
> - A task page must show the instruction and current conversation
quickly.
> - The current page waits for related task data and historical run
transcripts.
> - These reads grow with task history, even when the reader only needs
the latest answer.
> - This pull request gives cold opens a small initial view and loads
older history on demand.
> - Messages and runs observed while the page stays open remain visible.
> - The benefit is a readable task before historical diagnostics finish
loading.
## Linked Issues or Issue Description
Related: #14667 and #16229. The first changes the reveal gate and scroll
anchors. The second adds general history pagination. This PR adds a core
task read and a folded recent-conversation view. It preserves the
default full-read API contracts. The shared files will need coordination
if either related PR lands first.
**What existing behavior does this improve?**
Cold opening an ordinary task with a long conversation or large run
logs.
**Current behavior**
Task enrichment and historical transcripts delay the readable
conversation. A cold open can fetch several megabytes of tool activity
before revealing saved messages.
**Proposed behavior**
Show the task instruction, recent saved replies, latest human input, and
the latest run's conversation data first. Fetch older messages and full
run activity when the reader chooses **More messages**. Retain new
messages while the page stays open.
## What Changed
- Add an authorized core issue view that skips related enrichment. Keep
enrichment on the existing detail read. Share task mutation, rollback
and invalidation updates with the core cache.
- Add a bounded recent-comment read. Preserve the first human
instruction when no description exists, including legacy rows with a
NULL author type. Keep company and task access checks and comment
redaction.
- Add optional recent activity and run-summary views. Fetch original
input receipts for visible comments separately so delivered messages
stay out of the queue. Reconcile watched unfinished runs after a
reconnect beyond the preview window, removing deleted runs after
reconciliation.
- Filter the latest native run's initial events to assistant messages,
request lifecycles and terminal results. Full event reads remain
available on expansion. Legacy fallback reads use a small tail extended
to the first complete record. HTTP cancellation aborts the storage read.
- Retain observed messages across cursor catch-up and new runs. Apply
local cancellation and deletion to both caches and their task aliases.
Refetch locally seeded history pages on expansion. Preserve expansion
across identifier and UUID links. Keep deep links, classic tasks and
Agent Chat on their existing full-history path.
- Update API documentation, design guidance, capability maps and
regression coverage.
## Verification
- Final acceptance on `9ea0b15ae44d9f6d2c9a9f824b4835f299f92979`: all CI
gates passed, including server/UI tests, all eight browser shards,
runner checks, full typecheck and build. [Final CI
run](https://github.com/paperclipai/paperclip/actions/runs/40326990328).
GitHub reports 55 successful checks, two intentionally skipped checks,
and one neutral Paperclip Review check described below. No checks are
pending or failed; Greptile is 5/5 and no review threads remain open.
- October 26 merge update: merged current `master`. The only conflict
was in task-page imports; both the compact-history hook and the new
live-update hooks remain. All CI tests and build jobs passed on
`044fd6733d`. Fresh review found canceled-comment cache drift, legacy
human-comment filtering, send-then-expand truncation, and partial legacy
log records. These defects were fixed in `af3d66a5bd`.
- Review-fix verification: 470 tests pass across ten affected suites,
including all six PostgreSQL cold-open tests without a helper override.
Cancellation/delete and send-then-expand regression tests failed before
the fixes and pass afterward. Coverage includes task identifier/UUID
reopen, stale in-flight reads, legacy NULL author types, local-file and
object-storage tails cut inside UTF-8 text, route forwarding, and
request cancellation. Full workspace typecheck and production build,
token gates, map validation and diff checks pass.
- Follow-up review found that a failed expanded legacy read lost its
record-alignment state on retry. `9ea0b15ae4` commits the expanded
window only after a successful read. The new regression fails before the
fix and passes afterward; all 19 transcript tests, UI typecheck, UI
build and token gates pass. Greptile reviewed this commit at 5/5 with no
actionable findings, and all review threads are resolved.
- The final Paperclip Review check ended neutral because its execution
did not complete; no passing Paperclip assessment is claimed. Its
earlier four concrete findings were fixed and regression-tested.
Greptile and the security scans completed successfully on the final
commit.
- The preceding `af3d66a5bd` CI run was canceled when superseded by the
retry fix. Its server shard 11 check briefly reported failure, but the
job API records cancellation and its test step passed all 1,750 tests.
This superseded run is not used as final CI acceptance.
- 549 focused tests pass on the final implementation across nine task
UI, activity-route, OpenAPI and PostgreSQL suites. These cover pending
history, desktop/mobile visibility, expansion, retained runs, message
bursts, cancellation recovery and queued-comment removal in both views.
- Legacy expansion keeps the latest answer visible while fetching and
deduplicating older output.
- Five PostgreSQL tests pass for core access denial, recent comments,
missing-description instructions, event paging and bounded activity/run
reads. macOS could not start another PostgreSQL cluster because it
exhausted its semaphore limit. These tests used a separate disposable
database on an existing local server through a temporary test setup
override. The helper was restored afterward.
- Full workspace typecheck and build pass with the final state fixes, as
do token gates and capability-map validation.
- Token gates, capability-map validation and `git diff --check` pass.
- Browser proof used a disposable task with 80 comments and six large
run histories. The cold view showed the instruction and recent exchange.
**More messages** revealed older comments. Navigation away and back
preserved expansion.
- Local HTTP sample: core 50 ms, recent comments 24 ms, recent run
summaries 17 ms. The latest native conversation response was 839 JSON
characters / 8 ms; its full event response was 1,099,005 / 86 ms.
Browser content paint was 1.34 seconds with development assets cached.
These are local observations, not staging latency claims.
- The first CI run passed every job except four board-send browser cases
and the review threshold. Those browser fixtures only mocked the old
comments endpoint; they now serve both recent and full reads, retaining
all message and attachment assertions. Both initial review findings were
fixed with regression tests. The next CI run passed every job. The
deeper review identified core-cache mutation, older delivery receipt and
retained run-status gaps; those are now fixed with regression coverage.
Final review is 5/5 with zero unresolved findings. Final-head CI
initially failed one unchanged runner shutdown test
(`runnerd-codex-transport.test.ts`, timeout-attachment case) with
`NativeSessionCloseUnrecoverableError`; all other CI jobs passed. The
same runner code passed on 971a762f80. A targeted local reproduction
also failed during provider drain. The failure is outside the changed
task loading paths; its underlying cause remains unresolved. The single
failed-job retry passed on the same head; this demonstrates recovery,
not a root-cause fix. All CI gates passed on the previous implementation
head `9004f94f28`: [CI run and
retry](https://github.com/paperclipai/paperclip/actions/runs/40192334629).
- `pnpm test:run` was attempted and stopped after repeated embedded
PostgreSQL startup failures. The native session suite recorded 15
database-related failures; other database suites could not start. No
complete local suite pass is claimed.
## Risks
- The compact view intentionally omits older diagnostics until
expansion. Existing open questions and approvals still use the current
interaction and run paths.
- Previously observed comment and activity rows remain cached while
open. The newest preview and incoming cursor pages refresh; this does
not add a general historical-edit synchronization protocol.
- Recent views are optional. Existing full API callers retain their
response shape and behavior. No migration is required.
- A legacy tail can exceed the requested byte limit by the prefix of its
first log record. Backward reads stop at the preceding record boundary
and honor cancellation.
- Staging has not been deployed or qualified with this change. Instance
startup latency is separate from task history loading.
- The related open PRs touch the same task-history files.
## Model Used
OpenAI Codex, based on GPT-6, with reasoning, repository editing, shell
tools and browser testing. The exact serving model identifier and
context-window size 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
#` / `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 — 549 affected task tests;
the full local suite and unrelated runner failure 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
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Runs, harnesses, and model accounts — agent access
Product map: Runs, harnesses, and model accounts.
Feature ID: runs-adapters.
Review date: 2026-10-12. Source commit: 58e16dbddfc9c8d0cf60867f9d9847f0feda055b.
Native REST transport reconciled in this change; see the
shared transport contract.
This is a source-reviewed baseline of representative operations and known gaps. Each capability needs operation-level review before its entire scope can be qualified. No live agent execution is claimed. Follow the map contract for format, permission checks, evidence and maintenance.
Scoped runner-default source review: 2026-10-12 at
eee0534154eaf5d0d3f2bbc97c1e24d86f34a5a5, limited to runner discovery,
selected-runtime testing and saved execution/session preservation. The original
baseline source and review depth remain unchanged for unrelated operations.
Scoped native cancellation source review: 2026-10-12 at
ce23716503a2c9158b5a7ab74ab61571ff4ee7a3, limited to owned startup and
shutdown/readiness ordering. The original baseline and review depth remain for
unrelated operations; no live provider or agent authorization is claimed.
availability
Capability ID: runs-adapters/availability.
Review: baseline.
API: present — representative operation IDs:
GET /api/adapters.GET /api/companies/{companyId}/adapters/{type}/models.
Agent access: partial — Agent company-model REST / native call_api discovery and
bound runtime context; adapter/account inventories remain board-only.
Policy: Run/cost visibility and agent configuration policy; adapter installation/account login/session control require board/admin.
Evidence: source-only — implementation at
the reviewed commit above.
Verification: not-run — exercise a listed permitted operation with actual agent
credentials/run context; inspect its result and applicable persistence/attribution.
Assert the relevant denied actor, owner, company or mode from Policy. Review the
remaining operations before qualifying the whole capability.
Runner discovery exposes supportedRunners and defaultRunner; it describes
qualified selection, not successful authentication or task execution. Native
Claude retains existing account grants and company/responsible-user boundaries.
Source: adapter discovery.
Gaps: Raw instance adapter listing requires board, while company model discovery exists for eligible agents.
Scoped source-only evidence: adapter discovery
reports supported runners/effective default for the selected company/environment;
selection policy reads
server-owned immutable sandbox facts without provisioning. New Codex defaults
and explicit overrides follow the shared runner contract;
Claude follows its qualified rollout described above. The board inventory does not grant a
native agent an equivalent discovery binding. See
probe restrictions for acquiring qualification.
OpenCode now follows the qualified native default without the experimental
flag on macOS and GNU/Linux x64; Linux ARM64 retains Legacy. An explicit
provider/model is required for test/hire; only server-owned
inactive setup drafts may omit it. Saved runners and permission/lifecycle
policies remain authoritative. Actor/company checks and board-only discovery
remain unchanged. This is scoped source/control evidence for OpenCode selection,
not live provider execution or agent authorization proof.
Pi follows the same supported platform/default and model-free inactive-draft
boundary, with explicit pinned-runtime setup required on the execution host.
Native ACPX Pi is admitted with the generic flag off. Existing direct Pi agents
remain Legacy; saved native policies remain authoritative. Incompatible thinking,
launch, permission, or lifecycle settings return remediation on conversion.
Managed Pi accounts accept OpenRouter routing and matching OpenAI, Anthropic,
Google, or OpenRouter API-key models. Subscription methods and custom gateways
remain excluded for Pi. Selection keeps the existing company, user, grant, and
agent-install checks; runtime preparation clears alternate credentials and rejects
custom Pi provider overrides. This adds no cross-company access or runtime installation API.
An absent forced-Kubernetes environment is an unqualified sandbox target, never
a local target. Discovery and automatic creation keep the Legacy path without
provisioning it; explicit Paperclip selection returns qualification guidance.
The existing execution path owns lazy environment creation. Saved runners remain
unchanged. This is source/control evidence, not live Kubernetes qualification.
validation
Capability ID: runs-adapters/validation.
Review: baseline.
API: present — representative operation IDs:
POST /api/companies/{companyId}/adapters/{type}/test-environment.
Agent access: partial — Permitted agent-creation validation through REST / native
call_api / CLI; account login requires its operator.
Policy: Run/cost visibility and agent configuration policy; adapter installation/account login/session control require board/admin.
Evidence: source-only — implementation at
the reviewed commit above.
Verification: not-run — exercise a listed permitted operation with actual agent
credentials/run context; inspect its result and applicable persistence/attribution.
Assert the relevant denied actor, owner, company or mode from Policy. Review the
remaining operations before qualifying the whole capability.
Gaps: Environment test path checks creation/configuration policy; missing provider auth must use its owner setup flow.
Scoped source-only Claude CLI preparation: both the selected environment test
and normal CLI execution use
versioned sandbox preparation.
An outdated default sandbox command can use a private pinned compatible CLI;
local, SSH and custom commands are not replaced. The selected model, engine,
account and existing actor/company checks remain authoritative. Installer
failure cannot turn an incompatible CLI into a passing probe. Local subprocess
controls exercise version checks and installer outcomes; live agent and
subscription access are not-run for this change.
Scoped Legacy Codex shell delivery: resolved task configuration can explicitly
assign service-secret variables to shell tools through ACP or CLI execution.
The existing configuration and secret-access checks still authorize that binding;
the shell allowlist grants no extra company or vault access. Codex login keys,
observability credentials, private runtime transport credentials, and unassigned
host secrets retain their separate paths. Source/control evidence:
shared shell policy
and the adapter executor regressions. Live delivery remains a separate check
under runs-adapters/validation.
Scoped source review: test authorization and resolution
requires same-company agents:create, saved-agent update access when supplied,
allowed environment selection, and normal secret/responsible-user checks. An
unchanged saved runner avoids new-creation policy but still receives selected
runtime validation. Native readiness
tests native Codex startup/model/account and bounded teardown; an authentication
or Legacy CLI check cannot replace that runtime evidence. Missing dependencies,
credentials, invalid models and incompatible settings fail without silently
changing runners. Account login remains board/owner-bound.
Scoped artifact-preparation source evidence: native preparation can overlap runner and default image-harness work only when the selected command runner declares concurrent sync support. Current executable hash, metadata, transport, and final-path checks still precede dispatch. The caller waits for both operations on failure. Explicit harness uploads and npm installs remain serial. This changes no API or agent grant. The real-shell controls do not qualify the whole validation capability or a live response-time target.
Scoped backend-preparation source evidence: remote native Codex can prepare its managed GitHub transport during fresh assigned-MCP discovery. The session claim, wake binding, review assignment and complete gateway launch binding checks still precede that work. Provider startup waits for both results. Failures drain both operations before the existing run cleanup releases any created GitHub access. No grant, token, authority cache or provider dispatch bypass is added. The executor controls remain separate from live latency and permitted/denied agent acceptance.
For a linked Codex subscription with server-resolved managed credential provenance,
setup checks the resolved owner and stages a private probe copy before local or
remote isolation. Without a selected API key, an unbound linked CODEX_HOME is
rejected with explicit Legacy
or managed-account guidance. Caller configuration cannot supply that provenance. Selected CODEX_API_KEY and
OPENAI_API_KEY authentication skips unrelated subscription reads and refresh
bindings, matching task materialization. The fake-credential controls verify key
precedence without changing the account source or exposing either credential.
The general native
home materializer retains its no-follow symlink guard. Refresh still targets the
checked account source, and confirmed bounded retirement removes its private
copy. Unconfirmed retirement retains the existing cleanup block and owned state.
Failures before probe handoff remove only the owned temporary preparation root;
local daemon resolution occurs before credential staging. Once a probe is handed
off, unconfirmed retirement still retains its recovery state.
Existing fake-credential setup controls
exercise linked/regular sources and failure cleanup. This adds no credential-read
API, agent login authority or cross-company account access. Its source-only
evidence does not qualify a live permitted/denied agent operation.
Verification for this scope remains not-run: use an admitted agent REST/CLI
validation path, assert missing grants and cross-company targets/accounts are
denied, then prove the useful task/follow-up separately. hire_agent inherits its
caller's runtime; do not assume its binding accepts arbitrary runner or account
settings. See creation access.
runs
Capability ID: runs-adapters/runs.
Review: baseline.
Scoped source-only timing evidence: workspace preparation spans carry only the existing hashed run ID. Controller startup phase spans carry no custom attributes. Native controller setup and settlement phases use that same run hash, including assigned MCP discovery; neither tool definitions nor credentials are recorded. Both retain operator-controlled tracing; unconfigured clients stay silent. The native first-text span ends after text is committed for the existing run-events reader, including reasoning and completed responses. It exports only the bounded text kind and timing, with no text content or new agent access. This adds no agent API, credential access, run-log write, or recovery authority. See the tracing contract. Live latency verification remains separate from the existing access baseline.
API: present — representative operation IDs:
GET /api/heartbeat-runs/{runId}.GET /api/heartbeat-runs/{runId}/log(optionalalignStartToRecord=trueextends a tail backward to its first complete record; this can exceedlimitBytesby that record's prefix and retains the same access/redaction checks).GET /api/heartbeat-runs/{runId}/events(optionalview=conversationreturns assistant messages and request lifecycles through the same access/redaction checks;afterSeqremains a sequence cursor).GET /api/heartbeat-runs/{runId}/workspace-operations.GET /api/heartbeat-runs/{runId}/issues.GET /api/companies/{companyId}/heartbeat-runs.GET /api/companies/{companyId}/live-runs.GET /api/issues/{id}/runs.GET /api/issues/{id}/recovery-actions.
Agent access: available — REST / native call_api / CLI run, plus the listed
read-only paths through the default queue and HTTP/2 sandbox callback bridge.
The sandbox uses its injected run credential. See
run diagnostics and the
activity access contract.
Policy: Same company, company-scope read authority and run/task visibility still apply. Task-bound history and recovery records require task read authority. Each run-linked task is filtered by the caller's task-read predicate; a readable company run cannot expose inaccessible private task titles. Existing content and credential redaction apply. Adapter installation, account login, session control, recovery writes and raw provider-trace administration retain their existing board/admin or dedicated-tool gates.
Evidence: source-only — diagnostic scope reviewed at
f10210990a3c9cad1a4359318388f237de3169dd in the
bridge route list,
run routes,
task-link route, and
private-run regression suite.
Verification: not-run for a live sandbox using the updated routes. Bridge and
controller fixtures cover permitted reads, denied writes, redaction and private
task-link filtering. After deployment, verify with an actual run identity and
assert foreign-company, private-task and restricted-mode denial. Source review,
board reads and skipped fixtures do not qualify that live path.
Gaps: Provider trace reveals/downloads require instance-admin and cannot be counted as ordinary run output access. The new bridge surface does not qualify retry, cancellation, workspace repair or session-control access. Deployed diagnostic usefulness remains unverified.
session
Capability ID: runs-adapters/session.
Review: baseline.
API: present — representative operation IDs:
POST /api/agents/{id}/runtime-state/reset-session.GET /api/agents/{id}/task-sessions.
Agent access: restricted — Board session controls; native server-owned session
continuation.
Policy: Run/cost visibility and agent configuration policy; adapter installation/account login/session control require board/admin.
Evidence: source-only — implementation at
the reviewed commit above.
Verification: not-run — assert the documented agent denial with an owned test fixture;
verify any listed agent request/result path separately. A delegated operation needs its
own policy and access review.
Gaps: Task-session listing and execution-context reset require board agent
management at their HTTP routes. Native call_api preserves these denials; native
continuation remains server-owned.
Scoped source evidence: replacement of a workspace may bootstrap a newly admitted provider session only with matching current run/runner/lease identity, no prior activity or backup, and an atomic claim of an absent remote session directory. Existing sessions retain verified restore. This adds no reset or cleanup authority. Follow the session recipe with a board-owned disposable fixture; live provider and actor-access evidence remain separate from the executor regressions.
Scoped source-only evidence: configuration changes and native execution/recovery retain existing execution on unrelated edits and use recorded run configuration for active/recovered runs. Explicit runner changes use revisions and session invalidation. Verify saved configuration, current versus historical run identity, restart and follow-up without granting session-reset authority to an agent.
Scoped source review: 2026-10-13, the recovery correction against
ea6c8eb5e16d61111968f633a66748b397b64a3e reuses
completed onboarding handoff validation
before applying the issue-terminal backstop. The company, parent origin/status,
assignee, completed child and remaining children must match. Only that backstop
is suppressed for the validated report; process-death and controller/native
ownership checks still apply. No agent gains session or recovery control.
PostgreSQL regressions cover valid native/Legacy callbacks and rejected bindings;
revised live execution and actor authorization remain not-run.
Scoped source-only evidence: configuration changes and native execution/recovery retain existing execution on unrelated edits and use recorded run configuration for active/recovered runs. Explicit runner changes use revisions and session invalidation. Verify saved configuration, current versus historical run identity, restart and follow-up without granting session-reset authority to an agent.
Scoped Evidence: source-only — the
native transport
joins owned startup before certifying cleanup. Rejected duplicates cannot replace
that owner or mutate recovery state. Unconfirmed preparation or registration
retains recovery state; late registration may release only its own route and
cannot launch after close. Shutdown interrupts readiness without granting
authority over an unauthenticated adopted process.
Scoped Verification: not-run — verify allowed/denied access using the actual
actor independently from the credential-free ownership controls. This correction
adds no account-setup, cleanup-override or session-reset authority. The real native
readiness/recovery fixtures and installed provider acceptance remain separate gates.
Scoped shutdown source review: 2026-10-14, against literal
651a3de64fc943216cc414b64b1443809f9499da. The suspension barrier bounds remote
state reads by its remaining deadline and rejects late proof. Intentional
provider ingress shutdown
joins physical socket closure and retires the connection owner before endpoint
release. Unconfirmed termination stays blocked. Existing fake-peer and delayed
read controls are source evidence; this changes no actor, company, account or
session-reset permission. Operation-level verification remains not-run and
the failed Test setup does not qualify successful live cleanup.