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DottaandClaude Opus 5.5 8479929f62 test(restart-chaos): add an RC-06 mask, wave spend and replay masks (#19559)
## Thinking Path

> - Paperclip is the open source app people use to manage AI agents for
work
> - The restart chaos harness (`tests/restart-chaos/`) restarts the
control plane during real agent tasks and grades each task on rules
R1–R6
> - One known product bug (RC-06) leaves a completed run "awaiting
accounting". The company hard stop then refuses all new work, so one
stuck row fails every later task in the wave
> - That masks every other restart bug in the wave. Waves also had no
record of what they spent
> - This pull request adds an opt-in RC-06 mask, records wave spend, and
lets a replay keep or add the mask
> - The benefit is that chaos waves can find new restart bugs while
RC-06 is open, and stay inside a known spend

## Linked Issues or Issue Description

Refs #19477 (the Phase 1 harness this extends).

**What existing behavior does this improve?**
Restart chaos waves. One stuck accounting row (RC-06) hard-stops the
isolated Chaos Lab company. All later tasks then rest blocked "over
budget", and a Retry is refused with "Company cannot start work while
completed runs await accounting". Two waves went 2/6 and 0/6 for this
one reason.

**Subsystem affected**
Test harness only: `tests/restart-chaos/` (config, seed, scheduler,
ledger, supervisor, main, README).

**Current behavior**
- No way to see past RC-06 without disabling the budget.
- Wave spend is not recorded.
- `--replay` rejected any mask flag, and it was not documented that the
saved plan carries the mask.

**Proposed behavior**
- `--rc06-masked` keeps the budget amount and turns off only the hard
stop on the isolated company. Masked tasks are labeled in the ledger and
summary.
- Each wave records its spend.
- A replay keeps the source plan's masks and may add the RC-06 mask.

## What Changed

- `--rc06-masked` (wave mode): after the company is created, the seed
upserts the company budget policy with the same amount and
`hardStopEnabled: false`. It writes `seed_mask_rc06` to the timeline.
The plan stores `options.masks = ["rc06"]`.
- The accounting gate in `budgets.ts` (`observedBlocks`) applies only
when `hardStopEnabled` is true, so the mask lifts it. No product code
changes.
- Ledger lines carry `masks`. `SUMMARY.md` labels the cell and the
latest-wave row `rc06-masked`.
- Wave spend: before the sweep, `main.ts` reads
`/api/companies/:id/costs/summary?period=all` (each wave owns its
company), writes `wave_spend` to the timeline and prints it. If the wave
stops early, cleanup records it once, best effort, before the server
stops.
- Load: #19513 already records `loadAvg1m` on each fault receipt. This
branch first added the same value under another name, and the rebase
removed it. The README now documents `loadAvg1m` and the load-suspect
threshold.
- Replay: `--replay <wave>/<task>` keeps the masks saved in the source
`plan.json`. `--replay … --rc06-masked` adds the RC-06 mask. A replay
never drops a mask.
- README documents the flag, spend, load and the replay rule.
- New unit tests: replay keeps saved masks and the replay flag adds the
mask; the masked seed posts the company policy with the same amount and
`hardStopEnabled: false` and records `seed_mask_rc06`, and an unmasked
seed makes no policy call.

## Verification

- `pnpm exec vitest run --config tests/restart-chaos/vitest.config.ts`:
71/71 pass (after rebase onto master with #19513).
- `node scripts/typecheck-test-projects.mjs tests/restart-chaos`: pass.
- Live: 4 masked local waves ran with this code (seeds 3307, 4409, 5501,
6619; Codex, ACPX Claude and OpenCode).
- `seed_mask_rc06` appeared and no task was blocked by the accounting
gate, even though `pendingRunCount` was 1–8 at wave end.
  - `wave_spend` was recorded each time (38¢–127¢ per wave).
  - The 1-minute load average was recorded on every fault (15–58).
- Before the mask, the same harness gave 2/6 and 0/6, every failure
RC-06. With the mask, the waves found other restart failures, all since
fixed on master: RC-14, RC-16, RC-20 and RC-21.

## Risks

- Low risk. Test harness only, and the mask is opt-in.
- A masked wave has no product hard stop. The harness still records
spend for each wave, and the operator must watch it. The mask applies
only to the isolated, temporary Chaos Lab company. It never touches
another instance.
- Masked results do not count as RC-06 coverage. The ledger labels them
so they are not mixed with unmasked cells.

## Model Used

- Claude Opus 5.5 (`claude-opus-5-5`), Anthropic, via Claude Code with
tool use (shell, file edit). Extended reasoning on.

## 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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Co-authored-by: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-11-06 15:27:12 -06:00
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